Hu Xiaotian changed the subject, pointing at the skull Ji Feihua had brought. "What about this one?"
"Genuine!" Ji Feihua said.
"Then all the skulls they stole back then have been recovered," Hu Xiaotian said. Recalling what Liu Yuzhang had told him, he added, "No, these two aren't the two Liu Yuzhang mentioned. There should still be a skull with Hu Buwei."
"Liu Yuzhang will recover that skull himself," Ji Feihua said.
Hu Xiaotian nodded. Liu Yuzhang had given that skull to Hu Buwei to smuggle out of the palace in the first place, so getting it back should not be difficult. That meant every condition for opening the underground palace had been met. Everything was ready; all that remained was to wait until tonight, when they would open the Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda Underground Palace.
"Do you know Huo Xiaoru's background?" Ji Feihua asked.
Hu Xiaotian shook his head. "Not really!" Although he had known Huo Xiaoru for a long time, and she was the first girl to make his heart stir after he came to this world, she remained shrouded in cloud and mist in his mind, mysterious and unfathomable. Her various actions were equally difficult to make sense of.
"Her martial arts are no less formidable than mine!" Ji Feihua said.
Hu Xiaotian stared, dumbstruck. Ji Feihua's martial arts were extraordinarily powerful, while the Huo Xiaoru he remembered had seemed too weak to truss a chicken. But Ji Feihua would not deceive him; if he said so, it should be true. "You fought her?" he asked quietly. The answer was obvious, really. Ji Feihua would not have said that without fighting Huo Xiaoru.
Ji Feihua nodded. "Don't worry. She's fine!"
"I'm more concerned about whether you're all right!" Hu Xiaotian said.
Ji Feihua chuckled, regarding Hu Xiaotian with