"Yes, this flower was precisely her personal magic treasure back then," Zhao Qian said.
I nodded and said, "Then I'll give it to you. I can't use it anyway. Since it belonged to your previous self, I can't very well keep it for myself."
Zhao Qian shook her head, then leaned close to my ear and whispered, "I'm not her, and she isn't me. Tian-ge can't remember her, so she and Tian-ge have no past at all. What connection do I have with her? I'm still me, and I belong only to you."
My whole body shuddered, and the tingling sensation made me feel somewhat embarrassed. I could only fall silent, then glance over the treasures and say, "Someone has to control it. Whether you are her or not, you're more suited to using it than I am, aren't you? You should take it. If I, a grown man, carried a flower around, wouldn't people start calling me Xia Immortal instead of Old Devil Xia?"
Zhao Qian giggled and said, "All right, I'll reluctantly help Tian-ge look after it. But there's a strand of innate essence hidden inside, and it's redundant and useless to me, so Tian-ge should keep that. After all, innate qi is meant exclusively for you."
"That works. I was thinking the same thing." I smiled. When I looked toward Chen Jixue and Zou Ruojin, I found that while Zhao Qian and I had been talking, they had both been eyeing the countless treasures. By the time our conversation ended, their gazes had already locked onto the treasures they fancied.
Looking over the groups of treasures they had each chosen, I saw that they were not the best ones, but they were certainly the most suitable. I said, "You were both meritorious contributors to the Heaven's Dominion,