"Little monk, put one on too!" Xinxin said somewhat irritably as she handed another leaf to Xiao Hua. From the look of it, not only was she ungrateful for Xiao Hua's help, she was even displeased that he had not explained things to her beforehand.
Xiao Hua did not explain himself. He accepted the golden leaf and, like Guzhen, stuck it onto his monk's robe. Watching the leaf vanish as well, Xiao Hua carefully examined himself for a moment. Just as he had seen, he could not sense any special effect from the golden leaf.
As Xinxin and Ci Hui each attached a Jialuo Golden Leaf, Xiao Hua took the opportunity to survey the surroundings once more. This was an enormous-looking space. The water passage through which the four of them had rushed in earlier had already disappeared, and beneath them lay nothing but a smooth mirror-like surface! In the phosphorescent glow, the mirror reflected the four figures—one upright, one inverted—so detailed down to the finest hair that it was nearly impossible to tell which was real and which was false.
Within the space, aside from the smooth mirrored walls all around and the inverted triangular palace in the distance, there was nothing else. It was unnaturally clean. Needless to say, that palace ought to be the core of the formation.
Xiao Hua cautiously released his Buddhist sense. Like Guzhen, his divine sense could not leave his body at all. He then released his soul sense instead. Fortunately, though it was suppressed, it could still leave his body. Since Xinxin and the others were beside him, Xiao Hua did not test it further. Even so, he secretly felt pleased with himself. In the end, he still had one more method than the others.
"Benefactor Xin..." After attaching her golden leaf,