With a soft pop, like a needle piercing a water bubble, Zhang Xiaohua jolted awake, drenched in sweat. What was wrong with him? He had so easily lost his patience and punctured this little box. How was he supposed to explain that to the Misty Sect?
After examining it carefully, he finally put his heart back in his belly. Zhang Xiaohua had not poked any great hole in the little box. Instead, a seam had appeared along its middle. What had originally been a completely sealed box with nowhere to get a grip had now become a little box with a lid!
Still, its material remained utterly ordinary, with nothing remarkable about it.
Zhang Xiaohua put the little sword back into his clothes, calmed himself, and gently opened the lid. It opened at his touch, without the slightest difficulty.
When Zhang Xiaohua looked closely, he saw a small booklet inside the box. He reached in and took it out. Four large words were written on its sky-blue cover: "Carefree Heart Sutra." Zhang Xiaohua could not help but freeze. That name sounded familiar. After giving it some thought, he remembered that it was the name of an Internal Energy Cultivation Method he had just seen in some corner among the books on the second floor. Why was there another copy here? Zhang Xiaohua immediately grew angry. The ancients had spoken well: curiosity killed the cat. If the book was already on the second floor, why put it on the third floor? Even if they had to put it here, why use such a strange box? It had stirred up his curiosity and nearly made him poke a huge hole through it!
Zhang Xiaohua resentfully tucked away his curiosity and casually tossed the booklet back into the box, just about to close