Half a month later, Qintian Pavilion in the mirror world.

"Have you found any clues to Xuan Jue?"

Quietly sticking her head out of her collar, Xiaoqing asked in a low voice while spitting out the snake letter.

It was rare that Xiaoqing didn't go out to drink today, but stayed quietly with Pei Wende in this exquisite pagoda for a whole day.

This is of course not that Xiaoqing suddenly changed her gender, but that Pei Wende's half-month-long search finally came to fruition.

After half a month of searching, Pei Wende finally learned from a dark figure on the third floor relevant information about children born near Chang'an in recent years.

"In the sixth year of Huichang and the year of Bingyin, a total of 316,856 newborns were born in the Tang Dynasty."

"In the same year, 104,356 people died due to various reasons, and only 212,500 newborns survived."

Looking solemnly across the pages of the book in his hand, Pei Wende had never felt so directly the difficult living conditions of ancient children.

This is just less than a year after birth, and nearly one-third of newborns die in infancy.

As for the remaining two-thirds of newborns?

If half of them survive to adulthood, it's God's blessing.

"Among them, there are about 17,362 people who were born in Chang'an and have survived to this day."

"Among these 17,362 people, there are 9,841 boys and 7,521 girls."

Compared with other areas, the birth rate and survival rate of newborns near Chang'an are much higher than the average.

Even so, looking at the shocking rows of numbers, Pei Wende's mind was still filled with images of young faces disappearing one after another.

Pei Wende has no doubts about the data recorded on these pages.

Even the details of these data are more accurate than the census of the 21st century.

Because after half a month of observation and exploration, Pei Wende had already noticed that the books in this exquisite pagoda were indeed updated in real time as Ling Xiaozi said.

Every time a child is born or dies, there will be an extra page recording the relevant data.

Just like the legendary Book of Life and Death, as long as there is life in this world, the names in the Book of Life and Death will never disappear.

But unlike the Book of Life and Death, the books in this exquisite pagoda record not only the blessings and misfortunes of people's life and death.

The vast world is filled with myriad things...

It seems you can find any information you want here.

Of course, Pei Wende knew that this "seem" was just a seeming after all.

Because if all the information could really be found here, there would be no need for Zen Master Lingyou to break into Zhongnan Mountain and plunder the Dao Zang.

The feeling here to Pei Wende is more like the Internet search engine of later generations.

Any information you want can be found through Internet search engines, just more or less.

The only difference between this and the Internet is that all information recorded in Linglong Pagoda is relatively "accurate" in most cases.

Or to be more precise, the existence behind the scenes recording all this has not yet learned to adulterate this information.

"In other words, you want to find the reincarnation of Xuan Jue among these 9,841 people?"

I don't know what Pei Wende was thinking, but Xiaoqing's snake face showed human distress.

Although compared with 17,362 people, the number of 9,841 people has been reduced by nearly half.

But with such a huge base, finding one specific person is not much more difficult than climbing to the sky.

"It doesn't need to be that troublesome. Gui Gushen has already left me enough clues."

Pei Wende shook his head gently. Naturally, Pei Wende would not be stupid enough to find one person among more than 9,000 people. That was simply not something a normal person could do.

Just like what he did before, Pei Wende will now screen the remaining 9,000 people again based on the clues left by Gui Gushen.

Every time I think about this, I have to admire Gui Gushen's amazing wisdom and insight.

At first, he easily accepted the settings set by Pei Wende and Mo Laosan from seventeen years later, and maintained a calmness far beyond ordinary people throughout the whole process.

Then after learning Pei Wende's identity, he immediately thought about what "he" should leave to the future Pei Wende from the appearance of the Prajna Mask.

Regardless of the fact that Gui Gushen saw the Prajna mask first and then decided to leave resentment behind.

It was because of the resentment that the ghost goddess in the past saw the Prajna Mask.

In short, the final result is that Gui Gushen left a crucial "gift" to Pei Wende seventeen years later before she completely died.

By wearing the big Prajna ghost mask, Pei Wende almost immersed himself in the major and minor events that happened in the land of Chang'an during the past seventeen years.

In fact, Pei Wende is not unfamiliar with this feeling.

When he broke through the bottleneck and became a Yin Shen, Pei Wende successfully used the Mohuluojia and Zhongnan ancestral veins to replace the two souls of heaven and earth, and built a unique clawless black dragon.

In comparison, whether it is the ancient memories from the Snake God of the Western Regions or the eternal records of the Zhongnan Dragon Veins, they are much more magnificent than the memories of these short seventeen years.

The most important thing is that the Prajna Ghost Mask firmly remembers Xuan Jue's aura.

As long as Xuan Jue's reincarnated body appears around the Prajna Ghost Mask, it will actively remind Pei Wende and help him find the other party's whereabouts.

"Speaking of which, how are you sure that Xuan Jue's reincarnation must be a man?"

"And he is so sure that he must have joined the Taoist sects in Zhongnan Mountain now?"

In fact, this problem has been bothering Xiaoqing for half a month.

After all, even if Gui Gushen left Pei Wende a huge number of databases with his "earth god" ability, how could he accurately find the characteristics of Xuan Jue's reincarnation?

"If we really do the math, you actually told me these clues."

Hearing this, Xiaoqing's eyes suddenly widened in surprise.

"I told you? How come I don't remember knowing these clues?"

Facing Xiaoqing's rebuttal, Pei Wende smiled and continued.

"Do you remember the Weide we met not long ago?"

"It can be known from his memory that Xuan Jue has indeed been reincarnated successfully and was born near Chang'an."

"In addition, Hu Rui'er went to Jinshan Temple specially to ask you to tell me the secrets about the 'Eight Immortals of Shangdong'."

"Combining the two, Xuan Jue's ultimate goal of reincarnation without giving up his 'Xuanwu body' becomes obvious."
Chapter completed!