The Soul-Searching Notes truly are a collection of various information excerpts with no relevance between paragraphs.
Flipping casually to the last two pages, Jiang Yuan even saw some meaningless garbled text, likely information that the Soul Searching Technique couldn't "translate."
The benefit is keeping this notebook handy allows for searching anytime when needed;
The downside is its truthfulness is uncertain, needing personal discernment.
Take for example the information about the hidden passage deep within Golden Chicken River; the first entry promisingly claims to keep it secret, even from his wife and children. Yet, a few pages later, the second entry depicts only mud with nothing discovered in the depths of the Golden Chicken Seal.
Putting it together, Jiang Yuan suspects Zhao Yongxiang truly discovered something but couldn't enter, subsequently fabricating false information in his mind to deceive his wife and children.
