Lu Changfeng's eyes lit up. "What mural?"
Luo Qingge nestled closer into his arms and carefully recalled it. "In Senior Yang Xuan's burial chamber on Mount Yangluo, where the Heavenly Bird Ring was kept, there was a mural."
She raised a finger and traced shapes in the air. "It depicted a gathering at the Queen Mother of the West's Jade Pool. Beside the pool, an Azure Luan spread its wings, its feathers like clouds, its bearing exquisitely graceful. Mingxiao and I even admired it at the time. We said the sculptor's craftsmanship was superb-that Azure Luan was so lifelike, it looked as though it might fly off the wall at any moment."
Lu Changfeng looked thoughtful after hearing this.
A moment later, he said slowly, "There was something unusual about that mural."
Luo Qingge blinked. "What?"
"It was probably some kind of barrier."
Lu Changfeng looked at her. "With the cultivation of someone like Yang Xuan, anything he arranged that way had to be extraordinary. He might have woven spellcraft into it and hidden some treasure there. Didn't you take a closer look?"
Luo Qingge blinked, a little puzzled. "But... we already had the Heavenly Bird Ring. Besides, it was a burial chamber. Disturbing the dead was wrong enough. How could we go around tampering with things inside?"
Lu Changfeng could not help laughing at her righteous expression.
He reached out and pinched her cheek. "Qingge, oh, Qingge. Hearing you say that suddenly makes me worry about letting you wander the Jianghu. The kindhearted get bullied."
Luo Qingge burst out laughing. "Don't worry, Mr. Lu. I'm not some little girl who knows nothing of the world." She sat up straight, a glint of mischief in her eyes. "I've spent years tempering my heart in the Moon-Gathering Tower and met all