"I accomplished the mission!" Yan Zhong said with a smile. "But there are still some things I don't understand. I've served the Princess for quite some time. Although I can't set up formations, I do know a little about them. A lot of these things aren't used in Formation Setup, are they? For instance, these ten thousand finely crafted steel needles—what do they have to do with formations? Strange!"
In fact, Huang Xiao shared Yan Zhong's puzzlement. After all, he knew something about formations.
When he had seen the items to be purchased on the list earlier, he had already been puzzled. But when he asked Zhao Xin'er, she had merely said that she had requested some of them and did not know what the others were for.
"That's right. Quite a few of them aren't things I need, but things Xin'er requested," Zhao Yunhui said with a smile.
"The Fourth Princess?" Yan Zhong glanced at Zhao Xin'er in surprise, not knowing what she wanted these things for either.
"Don't underestimate Xin'er. She's proficient in the Mechanism Arts," Zhao Yunhui said with a smile. "With my formations combined with Xin'er's Mechanism Arts, if anyone still dares to enter, I'd like to see just how powerful the combination is myself."
"The Mechanism Arts?" Huang Xiao naturally had not known that Zhao Xin'er understood these things too, and he was astonished.
"Brother Huang, you don't believe me?" Zhao Xin'er asked. "I'll give you a big surprise in a moment!"
"No, it's not that I don't believe you. I just didn't expect it. Among the people I know, only Miss Yan, the Tang Sect's young mistress, is proficient in hidden weapons and mechanisms. I never imagined it, truly," Huang Xiao hurriedly said.
After hearing Huang Xiao's explanation, Zhao Xin'er's little face darkened. "That