Tushita Palace in an Uproar

Just as Qingping had guessed, Tushita Palace was extremely lively at this moment.

Golden Horn Boy carefully hid a gourdful of glittering, fragrant Nine-Revolutions Golden Elixirs in a secret realm while glancing at Silver Horn Boy. "Second Brother, do you think that monkey will really come?"

Silver Horn Boy stuffed another gourd of elixirs into his storage treasure without even looking up. "The master has already arranged everything. He'll definitely come. Besides, even if he doesn't, won't we..." He winked and left the rest unsaid, but the meaning was obvious—he had said in the Mystic Light Mirror that he would come, and they had recorded it all. Whether he came or not, he had come. The elixirs would all be eaten, and as for the ones missing from the secret realm... well, the monkey had secretly sneaked in.

Si, who had revealed his true form beside them, said, "Enough, hurry up and hide them. The three of us just need to pretend we aren't home. Oh, and leave two gourds for me. Don't hide them all. Remember, if the master asks, say the monkey came too quickly. We didn't have time to finish putting everything away, and the monkey got two gourds of the good stuff..."

Golden Horn Boy frowned in confusion. "Green Ox, quit messing with me. Will the master believe that? Stealing a few to eat now and then is one thing, but now we're eating some too? The master told us to hide these properly in the secret realm. He never said we could eat them..."

Si chuckled. "Does that even need saying? If he truly wanted to keep us from sneaking any, he would have had Young Master Xuandu handle it... Since he had the three of us deal with it, taking a little doesn't matter.