That night, the imperial capital received a light snowfall.
Han Shuangjiang and Xu Ziqing both went to sleep very late.
It was not because they were too nervous to sleep over tomorrow's preliminary round.
To them, tomorrow's match was merely a formality, far too easy and simple.
The reason was purely that they both felt Chu Huai Xu could return at any moment.
They were both waiting for him to come back.
According to what their elders and Qin Xuanxiao had said, Chu Huai Xu should have been able to leave Emperor's Pool after only a few hours.
This made them keep thinking, He might be back after a little while.
With that thought in mind, they waited and waited. Before long, the night had grown deep.
Big Ice Block looked at the snow outside the window, wondering whether such a light snowfall would pile up on the ground by morning.
If it piles up, he'll probably go scribbling and drawing all over the snow, Han Shuangjiang thought.
"Why has he been gone so long?"
However, both she and Little Xu had already grown accustomed to Chu Huai Xu creating all sorts of miracles.
As everyone knew, the people of Mirror Kingdom would not gain much inside Emperor's Pool.
But since he still had not come out after so long, perhaps he would accomplish something extraordinary again this time?
Outside that coffin-like stone building, Jiang Zhi sat cross-legged beneath an ancient tree. The snow falling from the sky veered around him as it approached, never landing on his body.
Why hasn't that boy come out yet? his grand-disciple wondered.
Yet the divine sense mark he had left on Chu Huai Xu had not detected anything unusual.
He could not help thinking of the bet Li Chunsong had proposed while they