The passage through Jinhua Mountain was quite spacious. It looked exceedingly perilous, but Xiao Hua gathered his wits and proceeded with the same meticulous caution he had used at Hundred Zhang Peak. Even after turning several corners and entering an enormous hall, he encountered no danger at all!
Standing at one side of the hall, Xiao Hua first released his perception and confirmed that no one else was present. Only then did he take several moonlight stones from his storage bag and embed them into the hall's four walls. Afterward, he narrowed his eyes and examined the place carefully.
The hall was extremely empty, containing only some broken jade tables, chairs, and the like, all lying crookedly about. Thick spiderwebs and dust blanketed these dilapidated objects. In the center of the hall stood a raised platform, ten zhang across and several people high, making it impossible to see what lay atop it.
Xiao Hua was in no hurry to climb onto the platform. Channeling his spiritual power, he rose into the air and circled the hall. After seeing that there was no entrance leading up from any side, he finally landed atop the platform!
Once he landed there and saw the objects on the platform by the light of the moonlight stones, his brows rose with delight. At the center of the platform was an earth fire exactly like the one in Shang Hua Ming's alchemy room, though this one seemed somewhat larger. Besides the earth fire, jade bottles for alchemy, jade racks, and many other miscellaneous objects were scattered around the platform. Though they lay in disarray, they were all intact—and every one of them was something Xiao Hua needed.
Needless to say, Xiao Hua showed no courtesy as he swept every usable item from the platform clean! The