I want to save face.
Given their nature, if they handed the item over, they would all die. The other side would leave no grass growing after the roots were pulled.
If they did not hand it over and left behind a secret and suspense, then as long as the other side wanted it, they would not kill Hexi.
After all, she was at an age where a high fever could leave her unconscious and unable to tell one person from another. She posed no threat at all.
The Swallowing Heaven Alliance had also examined the bodies and confirmed that there was indeed nothing on them.
Only then did they bury them casually and take Hexi away.
This matter had been completely sealed away. No one else knew of it.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.
After Shen Wuxiao understood everything, he sighed inwardly.
No wonder Grandpa had told him, "There is also a secret on her. Hong Fei adopted her with ulterior motives. Go ahead and sow discord."
According to the information provided by the system, the Dragon Marrow Spirit Pearl was inside the wild boar's belly back then.
Because it had been wrapped in human skin, concealing the leakage of its aura, the other party had failed to discover it.
That wild boar had surely croaked long ago. If he wanted to retrieve it, he would have to search the forest outside Salt City from back then.
As time passed and circumstances changed, the terrain had long since transformed.
The only lead was indeed the token Hexi wore.
Only that token could sense the other token that had been wrapped together with the Dragon Marrow Spirit Pearl.
Only then could he search with precision.
This secret was now known only to him.