At the end of Floating Life Lane stands an unnamed bookshop. Its master, dressed in blue and possessed of a graceful, jade-like bearing, has held his brush for a thousand years without aging. His work, The Covenant of All Spirits, contains three thousand volumes on strange beasts, from the primordial age to the Starhan era:
To treat the Candle Dragon’s failing eyesight, use the essence of Kunlun snow as a catalyst.
To cure the mechanical Qilin’s heartfire, seek the lost star core.
To ease the painted crane immortal’s lingering obsession, complete the remnants of an ancient dynasty’s score.
Any beast’s affliction can be recorded in the book, whether it has restless scales, a scattered spirit, or is trapped by obsession... When the master dips his brush and writes, the pages themselves whisper with the cries of beasts.
