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Lin Yuanmiao began to examine the corpse.
When assisting Zhang Yuelu in sorting through the case files, he had skimmed through them as well. His claim of a photographic memory was no exaggeration. In terms of knowledge of Fenglin, even Qi Xuansu might not be able to match him.
Soon, Lin Yuanmiao spotted a crest on the partially decayed clothing. This was a family emblem, or a kamon.
In fact, outside the Central Plains, many noble houses favored the use of heraldic crests. Western nobility often chose animals as their symbols. Famed examples of this were the double-headed eagle and the lionheart. However, in Fenglin, crests more often took the form of plants, such as the Toyotomi clan’s hollyhock crest or the royal family’s chrysanthemum crest. When animals appeared, they were rarely tigers, lions, or eagles, but instead butterflies or birds, often in relation to flora.
From this, a discipline known as “heraldry” arose, devoted to the study of crests and emblems.
The Daoist Order had ruled Fenglin for nearly a century, and they had conducted...
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