Duke of Dai's Residence · Bedroom
When Su Ziji opened his eyes, he had already returned to his body and was lying on the bed.
The instant he woke, faint, fragmented sounds reached his ears. Su Ziji rose and swept his gaze around, but there was no suspicious person, nor any unfamiliar aura. If there had been, even with his soul absent, he would surely have been startled awake.
"Did I hear wrong?" Su Ziji did not take it too much to heart, his gaze falling on his hand.
The feather he had held in the Water Palace's Dragon Palace was still clenched in his hand. It glimmered with golden light in the dim room, clearly looking like a treasure.
"Good. With this, my plan can be carried out." Su Ziji placed the feather into a Blackwood box he had prepared long ago. The moment he shut the box, its aura vanished.
This Blackwood box was something Su Ziji had later tried to refine. It could hold objects with fluctuations and likewise served to isolate them.
Outside the bedroom, the two foxes that had darted out the instant Su Ziji woke were staring at each other.
Their eyesight was excellent, and they had been watching the person lying there all along. Naturally, the moment Su Ziji awoke, they saw the golden, glittering feather appear in his hand.
"Chitter." Big Fox pointed inside with a paw, confusion written across her fox face.
She meant: What was with that feather? Why had no Golden Olive appeared this time, but a feather had? And judging by Su Ziji's expression, he did not seem surprised by the feather at all. Could it be that Su Ziji had always known about the Golden Olives?
"Chitter." Probably not. If he knew, he should not have reacted