"How... how could that work?" Jiu Xia asked in astonishment.
"Whether I tell you or not is my business. Whether you go or not... is yours!" Xiao Hua laughed. Lightning flickered around his body as he truly prepared to leave this time. His voice still drifted through the air. "This Xiao will now help you accomplish the first thing! Oh, right, and this..."
As he spoke, another storage bag floated over from afar, landing directly before Jiu Xia.
"Hee hee~" Once Xiao Hua had flown far away, the dazed desolation on Jiu Xia's face abruptly vanished, replaced by a smiling expression. "True Person Xiao, True Person Xiao! Haven't you heard that there is a saying in this world—strong on the outside, hollow within? Did you think this concubine did not know you were forcing yourself to struggle? If you truly could withstand this concubine, how could this concubine possibly make such a tremendous sacrifice for you??? I only hope... that this concubine's greatest wager in this life... will not come to nothing!!!"
Yet when she caught the storage bag before her and opened it, a baffled expression, neither laughter nor tears, appeared on her face. Naturally, the storage bag contained another great quantity of fine rice seeds. Clearly, Xiao Hua wanted Jiu Xia to deliver the good seeds to the ordinary people of Huan Kingdom.
"Forget it. Since it is True Person Xiao's instruction, this concubine naturally must do it! But if I do this, there will be far too many problems..." Jiu Xia put away the storage bag, then looked again at the communication talisman in her hand, giving an inexplicable bitter smile. She then carefully tucked it into her robes and transformed into a rainbow, flying toward Lian Kingdom...
With lightning swirling around him, Xiao Hua shot swiftly