Guan Liang looked embarrassed.
"Hua, I left the 'Reignbow Arbiter' at the Alchemy Commission."
Hua frowned at his words.
She knew nothing about this.
Seeing her reaction, Guan Liang explained:
"It happened last night."
Hua understood.
She had been busy arguing with her father then. How could she have spared any attention for the "Reignbow Arbiter"?
After learning what had happened, Hua fell silent.
The "Lord of Eternal Joy" was to blame.
Once the public noticed Aha, the Aeon immediately introduced Lan's true identity to everyone.
Both Aeons should have been hauled straight to the Ten-Lords Commission by the Cloud Knights.
Fortunately, Guan Liang had made preparations beforehand. When the Cloud Knights learned of this, they reported it at once, sparing the two Aeons a stint in prison and sending them to the Alchemy Commission instead.
The corner of Hua's mouth twitched. "Take some people to the Alchemy Commission yourself."
She could not make sense of it.
There were reasons for it, admittedly... but why did their own Aeon's allegiance keep getting questioned?
Hua watched Guan Liang leave, then picked up her Jade Abacus.
A voice call? Or a message?
Father should be with Jingliu right now... shouldn't he?
Better not disturb them.
Hua lowered her head and tapped the screen.
[Hua: Do you have time?]
After sending the message, she opened a folder and looked through dossiers that had long been sealed away within the Xianzhou.
The dossiers had been written thousands of years ago. Only repeated restoration work by her predecessors had allowed them to reach Hua's desk.
From the dates recorded by the writer, she learned that the surviving pages in her hands came from the Luofu thousands of years ago.
Back then, her father had still been the Yaoqing General.
Hua leafed through them carefully, piecing