A day later, a golden giant sword several dozen feet long crashed down on the restriction's glowing doorway.
Boom! With a thunderous explosion, the restriction flickered several times before shattering into specks of azure light, revealing a stone door in the wall.
Xiao Yu flew up to the stone door, placed his hand against it, and pushed gently. It opened without a sound.
Once inside, he took in the room's layout at a glance.
It was a woman's bedchamber, fifty or sixty feet across. A table and chairs stood in the middle, while a bed rested farther inside, separated from them by a translucent screen. To the left stood a dressing table with a cabinet beside it. All the furniture was made from fine spirit wood.
"This must have been somewhere for people to stay temporarily," Yuan Yao said as she approached Xiao Yu.
"Mm. Let's search carefully and see whether there's anything here." Xiao Yu swept his gaze over the room but found nothing useful, so he made the suggestion.
The two of them began rummaging through the cabinets and drawers.
"There was only this jade box. I didn't find anything else," Yuan Yao said softly, setting a jade box several inches wide on the table.
They had searched every corner of the room and found no hidden compartments or anything of the sort. Their only discovery was this jade box, which Yuan Yao had found in a drawer of the dressing table.
Xiao Yu swept his hand over it. Azure light flashed, and the jade box opened silently. Inside lay two jade slips, one yellow and one white.
He casually picked up the milky-white jade slip and sent his divine sense into it. Before long, surprise crossed his face, followed by delight, then contemplation.
"What did you find?