On the Three Lights Immortal Island of the East Sea, Bai Jin held a Treasure Bead up to the Sun, seeing within it an ice and snow world under the shimmer of the cold Sunlight, where snow and ice formed mountains, glittering and translucent.
Putting the Treasure Bead down, Bai Jin thought it a fine treasure; alas, there was only one. If there were a pair, two necklaces could have been made – one to offer to Nuwa and another to Ping Xin. Now with only one, it could only be a collectible. Wait, it seems I still have the Four Symbols Pearl; it's not impossible to make something work!
Bai Jin stored the Treasure Bead away. Gifting could wait; both his female disciples, the maiden Shi Ji, had calmly passed their tribulations. Zhao Gongming would be the next.
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