"What are you still doing here?" the old man asked. Yan Jin hesitated, standing in the old man's space, clearly torn between leaving and asking something that had been troubling him. Finally, after a moment, he turned back and asked, "What do you know about the broken chair…?"
The old man's eyebrow rose in surprise. "Broken chair? Are you talking about the Throne of Pride? Be careful when you speak—thunder might strike you for cursing something like that."
"So, what is it then?" Yan Jin pressed.
The old man shook his head slightly, continuing to arrange his tools as he began to explain. "Do you know what the Resonance Realm is?" he asked, looking at Yan Jin out of the corner of his eye.
Yan Jin shook his head. He had only the barest understanding of resonance and how it worked, though what he had seen from Nie Li earlier had stirred his curiosity.
