Just now, in the embroidery workshop, Ai Hui had been totally immersed in the happiness that the money had brought him. As a result, as soon as he went back to the training hall, he bragged with Lou Lan for quite a while.
Lou Lan had been distraught these past few days since he had just been separated from Master Shao, and Ai Hui had been so engaged in training that had no time to think about Lou Lan. Therefore, Ai Hui seriously bragged with Lou Lan for a whole afternoon.
But Ai Hui soon realized that bragging for an afternoon was much more tiring than training, and he decided to replace “bragging with Lou Lan” with “training with Lou Lan.”
Fortunately, he still had the elemental soup prepared by Lou Lan—it was so delicious that Ai Hui nearly bit his own tongue.
Its delectable taste lessened the pain he was feeling for the one hundred thousand yuan for its ingredients.
In the evening, Lou Lan went back to Master Shao's former residence and busied himself in organizing the things that Master Shao had left behind.
Lou Lan had said that he wanted Master Shao to return to a tidy house in case he came back one day, and presently, he could only think of this way to help Master Shao.
On hearing this, Ai Hui had become silent for a long time. He had felt like telling Lou Lan that Master Shao would never return, but as an afterthought, he felt that Lou Lan also understood this. Lou Lan just desired to do something.
What if he were Lou Lan?
Chewing the grass in his mouth, Ai Hui stared at the sky for ages, lost in thought. The taste of the grass slowly pervaded his mouth, just like the sky that was gradually immersing into darkness.
His mind wandered to the owner of the swordsman school in the Old Territory.
How time flies!
Are you fine in heaven, Boss? I am. And I hope you are as happy as I am now. But if you are not...then find a way out yourself.
Ai Hui laughed out loud, the laughter washing away all his worries.
He picked himself up and began to study his hand palaces passionately. Anything else was left behind for the moment.
He himself hadn’t expected to activate both his hand palaces simultaneously.
The activation order of the eight palaces wasn’t fixed, but the hand palaces were usually the first to be activated simply because they were the easiest. However, the inheritance of the unique skills of many influential families usually had a particular requirement for the activation order. For example, the skill [Eyebrow Heart Knife] required the sky palace to be activated first, which was, in fact, the most difficult palace to activate.
Therefore, there were very few successors of [Eyebrow Heart Knife] in each generation, and its inheritance was faced with many interruptions.
Except for the four palaces in the hands and feet, the activation of the other four—the sky, gate, sea, and earth palaces—was incredibly difficult.
However, whether one opened an easier or more difficult palace first, the eight palaces were almost always activated individually. As such, he was surprised by the simultaneous activation of both his hand palaces, but the explosion during the activation had further confused him.
Why did it explode?
The explosion had taken place very abruptly, almost in an instant, and he himself didn’t know what happened either. He hadn’t realized that his hand palaces were activated until he had climbed out of the ruins and checked to see if he was injured.
Ai Hui’s gaze fell on his palms.
The Sword Rattan Gloves were already in pieces. Although the explosion had been very powerful, he was safe and sound, but he was clueless of the reason. Fortunately, the workshop was isolated because of the unpleasant smell of the various herbs used during extraction, and hence, although the whole workshop was razed to the ground, nobody else was affected by the explosion.
However, Ai Hui clearly remembered that the trigger of the explosion was the sword embryo!
At that time, he had been infusing his elemental energy into the Twilight Silk, and he remembered feeling an intense sensation from his right hand palace. Ai Hui had thought that the trembling of the right hand palace would break the Twilight Silk like it had done many times before.
But unexpectedly, the sword embryo, which had always been quiet and still, suddenly moved.
Yes. Ai Hui was sure that it wasn’t a figment his imagination. The movement was so obvious—it was like a strong and sudden heartbeat.
And then there was the explosion!
It had occurred all of a sudden and had caught Ai Hui totally off guard.
Everything had happened too fast for Ai Hui to react. All he could remember was the movement of the sword embryo, which he knew was the cause of the explosion. But as to how, he didn’t know anything either.
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