Han Yu requested access to another section of jade slips, this time focusing on bestiaries and monster records. It took longer than before, as many slips were incomplete or too ancient to read properly.
Wu Shuan stopped by during this time, bringing him a meal. "Still at it?" he asked, setting a small plate beside Han Yu.
"I found what the herb is," Han Yu said. "Now I'm looking into the beast we killed. Something about it doesn't add up."
Wu Shuan raised a brow. "You think it's rare?"
"Not just rare," Han Yu replied, eyes narrowing as he skimmed through another record. "It's not supposed to exist here."
An hour later, he found it—the reference he had been searching for.
The jade slip depicted a sketch of a large wolf-like creature covered in scales, with eyes that glowed blue and a flame that burned unnaturally hot.
Its name was written below in small, ancient script: Scaled Blue Flame Wolf.
Han Yu absorbed the description carefully.
