At this moment, Xiao Hua took out the token the Empress had given him again and examined it from every angle. "The Empress said back then that once I established my foundation, I could help her with something. Now that I've established my foundation, I should repay her kindness. But bringing Xue Xue along and helping her establish her foundation is inconvenient at the moment, so I'd better wait until after this trial. And there's also the space behind my head—it differs from a storage pouch. It actually blocks the messages from tokens, communication talismans, command plaques, and the like. Even if I run into the Empress nearby, the token and such will not react at all. I should put these useful things separately into a storage pouch. If we truly meet, that will be fate."
Afterward, Xiao Hua sorted through all his belongings and placed them into a storage pouch, which he tied at his waist. Only then did he decide to first practice the two spells, then study the writings of the Confucian cultivators. The other spells would have to wait until later.
Once he had made his arrangements, Xiao Hua calmed his mind, shut his eyes tightly, and immersed his divine sense in the jade slip, silently studying the Earth Condensing Technique's incantation word by word, sentence by sentence... More than ten days later, Xiao Hua flew out of the cave. His divine sense swept over the surrounding area, and after lifting his head to determine the direction, he used Bright Thunder Evasion and flew toward a certain place. He flew for another ten days. When a place blooming like a brocade entered his divine sense, he could not help frowning slightly and stopping. Then he flicked his hand and took out a jade slip. He immersed