"Your Holiness, since you're back, I don't think there's any need to look..."
Meng Yiran spoke bashfully.
"Yiran's right. There really isn't anything worth seeing."
Zhu Zhuqing hurriedly chimed in.
"Could there be some secret here?"
Qin Xiao's eyes flashed as a few possibilities dimly occurred to him.
His gaze swept over their faces. Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Liu Erlong all avoided his eyes.
"Hahaha, the more you act like this, the more I want to see what secret you're hiding."
Qin Xiao laughed heartily, anticipation filling his heart.
At the same time, he stamped his foot, splitting a crack in the earth.
The cloak-and-cap tomb broke apart, revealing the objects inside.
Qin Xiao looked through them one by one, inwardly exclaiming, Well, damn!
Then he swept a teasing gaze over them. "So you carefully prepared all these gifts for me. You really have my little hobbies pinned down."
Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Liu Erlong blushed as red as clouds blazing at sunset.
They were so embarrassed they wished they could find a hole to crawl into.
"Haha, take back whatever belongs to you. I'm someone who's rather attached to old things. Understand...?"
Qin Xiao smiled. "I won't interrupt you while you sort them out. I'm going to check on Dugu Bo."
As his words faded, Qin Xiao had already vanished.
Only Meng Yiran, Zhu Zhuqing, and Liu Erlong remained, left utterly disheveled in the wind.
Elsewhere.
Inside the cave above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Grandpa, what's wrong?"
Dugu Yan looked at Dugu Bo struggling to sit up on the stone bed, her face full of concern.
"Yanyan, help Grandpa up. I sensed a powerful surge of soul power erupting below. A powerful enemy has come."
Anger appeared on Dugu Bo's face as