"Should I... give it a try?" Xiao Hua had previously sent soul threads into where Jiang Liuer's soul resided, but he had not dared rashly probe those mysterious dark clouds with them, fearing he might harm Jiang Liuer. Yet Xiao Mao's abnormality clearly lay within those mysterious dark clouds, and this was Xiao Mao's private secret. Xiao Hua hesitated.
"Forget it!" After thinking it over and over, Xiao Hua felt he had no reason to interfere with Xiao Mao's secrets, even if he had already come to regard himself as Xiao Mao's elder brother.
Then Xiao Hua decisively withdrew his soul threads, opened his eyes, and said, "All right!"
"Does Big Brother have something to say?" Xiao Mao asked strangely.
Xiao Hua hesitated for a moment, then smiled. "It's nothing. I just saw something strange and wanted to find out why. But... it's all just speculation. If I find any clues, Big Brother will tell you."
"All right!" Seeing that Xiao Hua would not speak, Xiao Mao naturally did not press him. He only said, "Big Brother should think about how to refine an artifact for me instead!"
"What kind of magic treasure do you like?" Xiao Hua asked with a smile.
"This..." When the moment truly came, Xiao Mao himself hesitated first. After thinking for a while, he said, "A magic treasure like Brother Li's Immortal-Piercing Whip would be best!"
"You think too highly of Big Brother!" Xiao Hua said irritably. "That Immortal-Piercing Whip is a famous magic treasure of the Joyful Sect. How could Big Brother possibly refine it?"
"Big Brother can think about it, and I'll think about it too!" Xiao Mao had run out of ideas and said with a smile.
"All right! Big Brother will take a look first!" Xiao Hua nodded, then said to