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At the other end of the Black Snake River, in the outer section of Thousand Miao Village.
The three of them stopped briefly to rest in a stilt house.
Bai Guanli still had not woken up. He lay flat on the Bamboo Sofa.
Bai Xian tended to him at his side.
Bai Su, meanwhile, had been standing at the doorway to the main hall of the stilt house.
He kept looking back, his eyes full of resentment.
"Senior Brother, let it go. Someone did say that Tree Heart belonged to Luo Bin. I reminded you to return it to him, too. You said you would return it later, but you hid it from Master and kept it."
"I meant to persuade you afterward, but then you demanded it from Luo Bin outright. If Master had been conscious, he would probably have flown into a rage."
Bai Xian looked up, trying to reason with him.
"The Abbey Master... gave Master more than just a talisman capable of calling down heavenly lightning through an altar ritual. He also gave me a set of Five Thunder Divine Incantation Talismans."
"They weren't as powerful as the one he gave Master, but he said Grandmaster drew them on thunder bamboo paper and empowered them with his own blood essence."
"I stuck that set of talismans onto the Tree Heart."
"Grandmaster's talismans!"
Bai Su was not merely resentful. His heart was bleeding.
"Fine. He took the Tree Heart. It belonged to him. I admit that."
"But could he really have missed the talismans on it?"
"He clearly saw them, yet pretended he hadn't."
"He wanted to pocket my talismans!"
"It was only a piece of the Tree Heart to begin with. Valuable, yes, but not to that extent."
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