Huang Xiao had not noticed Zhao Yunhui's tone. He was thinking that this princess had, in fact, shown him kindness, and had even given him the Eight Trigrams Annotations, her own insights into formations. Having received kindness, he ought to repay it. Originally, he had entertained no thoughts about the Scripture of Great Peace. As the Valley Master and Zhao Yunhui had said, so much time had passed without anyone comprehending its meaning. Besides, he had little time left to live and had no inclination to search for and investigate the Scripture of Great Peace. Yet now that it had been mentioned again, he felt somewhat unwilling to let it go.
"Princess, I think the four characters 'Heaven and Earth’s Destiny' refer to three essays!" Huang Xiao still decided to voice his conjecture. If he was wrong, the princess would lose nothing; if he was right, then he could count it as repaying Zhao Yunhui's kindness. After all, the Scripture of Great Peace was an extraordinary book on formations, quite suited to her. He had little time left to live and would have no time to repay her kindness later.
"Oh? Three essays?" Zhao Yunhui was somewhat surprised. Her thinking had been much the same as that of others in the Jianghu: she had been wondering which scripture or secret manual it referred to.
"'Heaven and Earth,' 'The Revolution of Heaven,' and 'The Way of Heaven'!" Huang Xiao said.
After repeating the titles once, Zhao Yunhui looked at Huang Xiao with a somewhat peculiar expression.
"Princess, you're right. I mean the three essays in Zhuangzi," Huang Xiao said with a smile.
"That certainly is an unexpected conjecture. It seems I should reread those three essays sometime after I return. Perhaps I really will comprehend something," Zhao Yunhui said with a