Watching Song Jian leave, the shopkeeper took out a stack of parchment from his bosom. Carefully examining it, each sheet was imprinted with the map depicted by the skeletal figure, with the location of the "Sword Control Hall" specifically marked in red ink.
"How can I only sell each map once?" The shopkeeper selected a sheet from the pile and placed it on the counter. He stashed the remaining papers back into his robe, muttering to himself, "At least I sold you the original. You didn't suffer a loss. Still, I don't know if anyone will want these maps without the skeleton's performance..."
The skeletal remains and the coffin were real. Every sunset, the skeleton would creep out of the coffin to depict the fragmented map. The shopkeeper then made several identical copies of the map.
However, without the performing skeleton, many people might doubt the map's authenticity, considering it contained locations unexplored even by the Qingyun Sword Sect or the Red-sun Sect.
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