Rong Shi still shook his head. "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't even know who Xiang Shancong was."
Hu Xiaotian said, "Your master asked him to help save you. Xiang Shancong belongs to Wuji Monastery. Have you ever heard of it?"
"Never!"
Hu Xiaotian said, "Are your parents still alive, Brother Rong?"
Rong Shi said, "You seem very interested in my private affairs, Prince."
Hu Xiaotian said, "That's because I happened to hear a few things about your origins."
Rong Shi's eyes suddenly lit up. Anyone would be interested in his own origins. His master had raised him from childhood, and he had asked about his parentage before, only to be mercilessly punished every time. Once he realized his questions would yield no answers, he had stopped asking.
Hu Xiaotian said, "Back then, Daoist Tian Can handed you over to Lady Meizhuang, but he had received you from Xiang Shancong."
Rong Shi murmured, "But I don't know either of them."
Hu Xiaotian said, "Brother Rong, do these match your birth date and hour?" He drew a sheet of paper from his pocket and handed it over.
Rong Shi took the paper and looked closely. When he saw the date and hour written on it, he was dumbstruck. "You... how did you know?"
Hu Xiaotian had actually only been guessing. Ever since overhearing Xiang Shancong and Meizhuang's conversation at the Cloud Music House, he had realized that Rong Shi's identity must be anything but ordinary. The name Daoist Tian Can, which Xiang Shancong had mentioned, sounded familiar. Only after racking his brains did he remember that it had appeared in the final letter Jian Xihe had left Jian Rongxin. In that letter, Jian Xihe had said that once she gathered both Heavenly Man Myriad Images Diagrams, she could take them