At night, everyone rested within Li Xiaowen's warning talismans. Xiao Hua was not far from the others, but the Exotic Starlight drawn by his nightly cultivation could not be seen with either the naked eye or divine sense, so it attracted no one's attention.
At dawn, the birds in the forest began chirping. Xiao Hua and the others also stopped cultivating. Li Xiaowen walked over to where the warning talismans had been placed and pointed a finger. Wherever his magic power reached, a somewhat dim fireball rose from the ground. When it landed in his palm, the equally dim nets of fire around them flew out from the earth at the same time and gathered together. Li Xiaowen slapped the fireball in his hand, and it changed back into the form of a yellow talisman. Several yellow talismans from the surroundings then flew back into his hand as well.
"Mother-and-child talismans!!!" Seeing this, Xiao Hua suddenly recalled a kind of high-grade yellow talisman he had heard about at the market fair.
Holding the mother-and-child warning talismans, Li Xiaowen looked at the slightly blurred runes upon them without any surprise. With a pat of his hand, he stored them in his storage pouch. Raising his eyes toward the eastern sky, which was gradually brightening, he smiled. "Fellow Daoists, have you rested well? We must reach Nancai Ping today, and there is not much spare time in between!"
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Li, as long as you have rested well, then naturally so have we. It seems those words should have been directed at Fellow Daoist Xiao!" Fan Daomao said with a grin as he straightened his robe.
"This humble Daoist has already rested well and may set out at any time!" Xiao Hua stood quietly to one side, a smile on his