"Heh heh..." Xiao Hua stepped out of the pill chamber, looked over the empty cave dwelling, and said with a smile to Fu Zhiwen, "Senior Canglangzi is truly interesting. He left all his treasures within the illusion array and kept nothing in his own cave dwelling, making one feel disappointed the moment one enters. Could this also be a test?"
"Who knows? Perhaps he feared that if too many cultivators came in, they would grow suspicious of one another!" Fu Zhiwen blinked and said, "Master, since there is nothing left in the cave dwelling, should we be going out now? If Senior Daoran and the others came up empty-handed, they are either still wandering inside the illusion array or waiting outside it..."
"Don't be in such a hurry!" Xiao Hua's gaze fell once more on the jade ruyi atop the cloud bed and the jade shelves around them. Smiling, he said, "We likely will not return to Senior Canglangzi's cave dwelling in the future, and I doubt anyone else can get in either. It would be wasteful to leave these furnishings here. We might as well take them all. When I establish my own residence someday, I can put them in my cave dwelling for display!"
"Ah? Surely not, Master..." Fu Zhiwen finally understood just how miserly Xiao Hua was.
"Go. Take that jade shelf over there, and take everything from that cave dwelling that can be taken!" Xiao Hua ordered without another word. He himself turned and went straight back into the pill chamber, presumably to see whether there was anything else worth taking.
Fu Zhiwen had no choice but to hurry into the other cave chamber, collecting jade tables, jade stands, and the like. When he emerged again, all the jade shelves and jade chairs on Xiao Hua's