After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 512 The Stargazing Boat

"Ling Shuang, the decorations and layout of your room seem quite unusual. May I ask who was responsible for this?"

As soon as Bai Lu entered Guiyun Pavilion, she discovered something unusual, with almost every part revealing profound mysteries.

The layout of the room also matched the constellations, which led her to believe that the person who built this flower boat was likely an astrologer.

"Guiyun Pavilion was built by our ancestor a hundred years ago, and the decorations here were also arranged by her personally. Our ancestor valued the details of Guiyun Pavilion very much, so she did not allow us to move any of the large decorations inside the pavilion without permission."

After our ancestor passed away, I followed her customs, which is why the layout of Guiyun Pavilion that you see now is not much different from what it was a hundred years ago.

"Built a hundred years ago? May I ask, what level of cultivation did the old man attain?" Bai Lu asked thoughtfully.

"To be honest, our ancestor was the only Transcendent Realm cultivator in Hundred Flowers City. When she was alive, Hundred Flowers City still had a certain degree of independence, but after her death, Hundred Flowers City completely sided with the Crimson Origin Sect."

However, with Lord Aoki's sudden emergence, some members of the Hundred Flowers Alliance and the four major families still wanted to pledge allegiance to Lord Aoki, who had a natural affinity with Hundred Flowers City.

"Which family is closer to Lord Aoki?" Guan Bi asked.

“The Guan family, I suppose! They had a very unpleasant falling out with other forces in Hundred Flowers City and the Crimson Origin Sect because of something that happened twenty years ago. It was only after our ancestor intervened that the matter was resolved,” Ji Ling Shuang said thoughtfully.

Upon hearing this, both Bai Lu and Guan Bi's expressions changed slightly.

"Ling Shuang, do you have the blueprints for the Guiyun Pavilion here? I think the design of this ship is very charming, so I would like to see the overall layout. I wonder if it is suitable?" Bai Lu asked.

"Blueprints? I don't know about those."

However, I can take the two of them to the patriarch's study. All the documents he left behind are there, most of which I can't understand. Perhaps Miss Bai will find what she's looking for among them.”

Bai Lu's face lit up with joy. Being a stargazer is not a profession that can be pursued in isolation. Exchanging ideas with different stargazers and learning from their strengths is also a way to grow.

Unfortunately, according to the lineage of her mother, there are fewer than one person who has a systematic lineage of stargazing masters in the entire Ningzhou region, and most of them are in a situation where no one is passing on the tradition.

Ranked stargazers are even rarer, which is why the mother went to Zhongzhou to seek a way to save the father.

I wonder which lineage of star-gazing tradition Ji Ling Shuang mentioned belongs to? To what extent has she cultivated it, and has she ever met her mother?

"Thank you, Miss Ji. I am indeed very curious about what Senior Guo left behind."

“Miss Bai, you’re too kind. If you see anything you like, please feel free to take it. I can present it to you on behalf of the ancestor.”

"How can this be done?"

"It's alright. If I were forced to marry into the Song family, those things would probably belong to the Song family anyway. It's better to give them to Miss Bai!" Ji Ling Shuang chuckled.

Bai Lu could naturally understand Ji Ling Shuang's implied meaning, but she couldn't make any guarantees to Ji Ling Shuang. In the end, she could only say, "Miss Ji, although Shen Xu is not a trustworthy person in many ways."

But he's always been very reliable when it comes to important matters. I believe he must have his reasons for asking us to accompany you, so don't worry too much.

Hearing Bai Lu's answer, Ji Ling Shuang wasn't too disappointed. Instead, she smiled and said, "Well! I'll take you both to the Ancestor's study!"

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Miss Ji!"

Following Ji Ling Shuang, Bai Lu led Guan Bi gradually into the Guiyun Pavilion, and the further they went, the more alarmed Bai Lu became.

She could sense that the 'star marks' here were unusually active, and she could easily perceive them without even activating her 'star sense'.

While it cannot yet rival Chunlu Pavilion, its strength is unbelievable for a medium-sized pleasure boat.

It should be noted that Chunlu Pavilion occupies a large area in the very heart of Tianhe and was built using a great deal of rare resources from the Tianhe Sword Sect.

Guiyunfang is only a medium-sized pleasure boat, and it is located on a tributary of the Jade Belt River. How can it still create such a good 'stargazing site'?

This made her even more curious about the construction blueprints of Guiyun Pavilion. If she could find the secrets of Guiyun Pavilion from them, it might be able to take Chunlu Pavilion to the next level.

If she wasn't mistaken, the place Ji Ling Shuang was taking them to was that senior's observatory.

More importantly, she could use the star-gazing platform inside the Guiyun Pavilion to see Shen Xu's star trail.

She didn't believe that Shen Xu would suddenly be destined to spend his life with a woman he had only known for a few days, even though with her current stargazing skills, she couldn't fully see the star lines around Shen Xu.

However, because part of her and his destiny's star line was forcibly intertwined by her mother, she is extremely sensitive to the star line representing Shen Xu's destiny.

Since Shen Xu's fate has changed so drastically, it will definitely be reflected in the star line, and she can use this to figure out what Shen Xu is up to!

"This is the old ancestor's study. I've rarely come here since he passed away. Seeing these things always reminds me of him, and it always makes me very sad," Ji Ling Shuang said with a touch of melancholy.

"The dead cannot be brought back to life, please accept my condolences!" Bai Lu said, offering words of comfort.

"Our ancestor has been gone for several years now, and I have already shed all the tears I could. Please come in, both of you!" Ji Ling Shuang opened the door with the key in her hand.

Bai Lu could clearly sense a special stellar energy emanating from the key, connected to the door in front of her. If anyone tried to force their way in, the consequences would likely be severe.

As the door slowly opened, the scene inside the room came into full view of the group.

Towering bookshelves occupied most of the walls, crammed with heavy books, and the study was filled with the mixed scents of old paper, dried flowers and plants and faint ink.

This is a typical scholar's study, at least that's what Bailu thinks, because there is a similar room in Chunlu Pavilion.

"You two can look for it yourselves, after all, I don't know much about it either." Ji Ling Shuang walked into the study and looked at the densely packed books around her, and couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Thank you, Miss Ji. I will be very careful," Bai Lu said, bowing.

"Miss Bai, you're too kind. The Ancestor must be very pleased to see that someone is interested in what she left behind."

To be honest, my ancestors tried to teach me these things when I was little, but I probably just didn't have the talent, and they always said I was slow to grasp them.

“Reading is indeed a painful thing, so I’ll try to find something,” Bai Lu said with a smile.

After saying that, Bai Lu walked into one of the bookshelves. At a glance, she saw that the books there were of a wide variety of types, mostly secular history, novels, and poetry collections.

There are also some basic stellar theory and astrological charts, as well as notes recording strange and unusual events from various places.

The varying degrees of wear on the spines indicate that the owner had a wide range of interests and frequently read the books.

Beside a comfortable soft chair on the desk stood a dim lamp. The desk was slightly messy, with several open books, an intricate and precise star chart, and a delicate small star track instrument spread out on it.

Several shade-tolerant Cymbidium goeringii plants were placed on the windowsill, their leaves seemingly shimmering with tiny stars.

Before Bai Lu's eyes, a scene seemed to appear: an old man with white hair, dragging his weary body, painstakingly interpreting celestial phenomena under the dim light of a lamp.