"Forget it!" Ao Sheng waved a hand. "He has never met you before. Why would he kick you when you're down? Besides, you... did fight Ao Zheng, didn't you? It isn't wrong for him to make deductions based on that!"
Xiao Hua and Xuan Cheng both knew the truth perfectly well. Neither dared reveal the secret between them! Naturally, Xiao Hua could not say anything to Ao Sheng now. He could only insist, "No. This Xiao cannot be slandered for nothing!"
"If you had come out three days earlier, naturally you could have!" Ao Sheng shrugged, extending a dragon claw helplessly. "Unfortunately, you only came out now. The Four Seas Dragon Palace suffered tremendous losses in the Diecui Relic Realm, and they had already hurriedly left Dragon Island. Where are you supposed to look for them?"
"Three days?" Xiao Hua froze. "I clearly only stayed in the Diecui Relic Realm for the time it takes to eat a meal!"
"The time within the Diecui Relic Realm has already begun to change..." Ao Sheng explained. "One meal's time inside naturally equals three days on Dragon Island. Just as one day in the Immortal Palace equals one year on Cangxian Continent!"
As he spoke, a thoughtful look appeared on Ao Sheng's face. He said softly, "What did True Person do in there during that meal's time? Aiyaa, damn it, my poor Dragon Pouch! Those were treasures I had scraped together over who knew how many years, and in one stroke... they were all gone!"
"You knew what was inside, right?" Xiao Hua hurriedly pressed. "What treasure could be so useful? You must have come to some conclusion over these three days, no?"
Ao Sheng answered with a mournful face, "Indeed! I thought about it for three days and came to a rough