Si Ma Family Head stayed alone in his bedroom. After everyone outside had left, he closed the bedroom door and pushed aside the floor screen standing against the west wall.
Behind the screen stood an entire wall of black ebony standing cabinets.
Si Ma Family Head opened one of the cabinet doors, revealing a passageway.
He stepped inside, stopped before a door set into the wall, and placed his hand over it.
Before long, the door clicked softly as the code lock disengaged.
The Door opened.
Still in Stealth Mode, Xia Chujian had been following behind him all along.
She had already slipped inside when Si Ma Family Head closed the bedroom door.
Now, she had followed him all the way into his secret chamber.
Like the secret chamber of the Shen Tu Family, this square small room was bare. Apart from an altar table against the wall, there was no other furnishing.
But the moment Xia Chujian saw what was on that altar table, her heart stirred.
She saw a suit of armor.
More precisely, it was only the body portion of the armor.
There was no Helmet, no limbs—only the Armor Torso.
It was made of exactly the same material as the Khaki Helmet she had taken from the Shen Tu Family, and even the design clearly belonged to the same set! If Xia Chujian was right, this Armor Torso and that Helmet were part of a single suit!
Moreover, that Helmet had initially appeared khaki-colored. After being burned by her Mecha's Heavenly Fire, it had turned pale gold and swiftly shrunk to the size of a pendant.
Xia Chujian's gaze flickered as she looked at the Armor Torso.
If she remembered correctly, there had been a small piece of Maze Yellow Springs beneath the Helmet in the