Zhao Layue was somewhat surprised and held out her palm.
Qing'er fluttered her wings and landed in her palm. "Hello, Little Twelfth Month. Long time no see."
Having said this, she changed back into human form.
She was still so small that she could easily dance on Zhao Layue's palm, but her spirit body had grown more solid. Clearly, she had taken quite a few steps forward along that path.
Zhao Layue looked at Jing Jiu and asked, "How could she be inside?"
Qing'er was a Heavenly Treasure True Spirit, but as she gradually became corporeal, she would certainly occupy some space. How could she hide inside a sword scabbard?
After all, the Heaven-Bearing Sword Scabbard was not the Azure Sky Mirror.
"This scabbard can conceal all things," Jing Jiu said.
Zhao Layue thought that even the highest-grade spatial law artifact could not conceal all things. Then she suddenly remembered the sword's name and understood what he meant.
Somewhat uncertain, she asked, "If it can conceal all things, then it can conceal anything. Wouldn't that be Concealing Heaven and Earth?"
"The meaning is roughly the same, but they aren't the same thing."
As Jing Jiu spoke, he put the scabbard away inside that heaven and earth, then finally, truly relaxed.
During the three years Liu Ci had been away from the Chaotian Continent, he had appeared calm, but his mind had actually remained taut. What would he do if this scabbard fell into someone else's hands?
Qing'er had been watching him the whole time. When she saw the Heaven-Bearing Sword Scabbard disappear, the corners of her lips lifted into a somewhat peculiar smile. "The True Person was right. You really are afraid of death."
Jing Jiu was indeed afraid of death, and he felt no shame in it.
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