"That was close!" Seeing this, Xiao Hua knew that the space, roughly a zhang across, had been completely annihilated. Had he not encountered the Lizard Beast, chased it here, and then luckily discovered the spatial crack and retrieved this scholar's robe, tortoise shell, and red heart-shaped object, these things would likely have turned to flying ash along with that corpse, never to exist between heaven and earth again.
Then Xiao Hua turned his gaze to the scholar's robe in his hand. It had now returned to its original spotless white, without a trace of red light. The red light from before must have come from the red heart-shaped object. Since even the scholar's corpse had turned to ash while this robe remained unchanged, it had to be some sort of rare treasure. Though neither his Buddhist consciousness nor divine sense could discern anything unusual about it, Xiao Hua still carefully stored the scholar's robe within his space.
Looking again at the tortoise shell, he saw that it was incomplete, perhaps only two-tenths of a whole shell. Under the crimson radiance of the heart-shaped object, it appeared translucent. Faintly, within that transparency, were shadows that seemed to be writing, yet did not seem to be writing.
Xiao Hua studied it for a long while but could make neither head nor tail of it. With a sigh, he stored both the heart-shaped object and tortoise shell in his space, placing them separately together with the scholar's robe.
Afterward, Xiao Hua escaped from the giant tree and took out the map Gen Qing had given him. He examined it carefully. Though the Lizard Beast had fled for a long time, it had not strayed too far from the proper direction. Once Xiao Hua got his bearings, he once more used the Wood Evasion