Xiao Hua did not look back. Wearing a calm yet slightly anxious expression, he left the Yellow Talisman shop and hurried off in one direction, as though many fellow disciples truly were waiting for him ahead. But after turning down a street, Xiao Hua slightly turned his body and saw that there was no one troublesome behind him. He immediately spun around and headed in another direction, then, after a short while, swiftly ducked into what appeared to be a rather secluded alley.
"Ha ha ha!" Xiao Hua immediately leaped into the air, releasing all the joy and worry he had suppressed for so long. Though he had appeared calm and composed just now, he had truly been nervous inside. In the Artifact Refining Gate's shop, his hand had scarcely left his storage pouch. Inside was a flying talisman. Xiao Hua had constantly worried that Tian Haoguang might make some move beyond his expectations. He was confident that before Tian Haoguang developed any malicious intentions, he could use the flying talisman to escape the shop. But when testing the fireball talismans in that Secret Chamber, his life had truly been in Tian Haoguang's hands!
Fortunately, everything had gone smoothly. Tian Haoguang truly was as Fan Yueguan had said—he conducted himself with great principles, and his reputation had not come from nothing. Not only had he not developed any extra covetousness toward Xiao Hua's high-grade fireball talismans, he had even given him quite a few things!
He squeezed the storage pouch at his waist. Inside were one hundred and twenty mid-grade spirit stones—a truly enormous... fortune. How could Xiao Hua not be delighted? But when he looked up, he was dumbfounded. In his haste to leave just now, he had... gotten lost! Left with no choice, he could only find someone