Before Huang Xiao could react, Huo Lian walked forward and pulled a box out of a hollow at the base of a tree so thick it would take three people to encircle it with their arms.
Then he walked several more zhang, overturned a large rock, and took another box from beneath it.
"Huh?" Huang Xiao exclaimed in surprise. "Patriarch, you weren't carrying the other Supreme Treasures just now?"
"Of course I couldn't carry them," Huo Lian said. "Although that box of yours can completely seal off the Supreme Treasures' auras, I still didn't dare be careless. Who knows whether something unexpected might happen once all Seven Treasures are gathered? If this box failed to seal off their auras then, wouldn't ours be exposed?"
Thinking it over, Huang Xiao agreed. No one could guarantee anything of the sort.
Of the two boxes here, one was the box he had obtained, which could completely seal off the Supreme Treasures' auras.
The other was one the Patriarch had made himself, and the Supreme Treasure's aura could still leak out.
Since the aura it gave off was extremely faint, he had not noticed it earlier. Even within several zhang of it, he had not sensed it.
The Patriarch had hidden the two separately, clearly fearing that someone might discover the Supreme Treasure in his box.
If someone really did discover it, they would only lose that one.
The Supreme Treasures in Huang Xiao's own box would certainly not be discovered, even with the two boxes so close together.
"All right, it seems there's no problem. I was overthinking things earlier." After retrieving the other Three Treasures, Huo Lian waited a moment but saw no unusual changes in the Seven Treasures.
"You were being cautious, Patriarch," Huang Xiao said.
No one could have guaranteed