The stars twinkled.
After Ruan Tang fell asleep, Xu Lai stepped out of the Gilded Palanquin to face his senior sister, who greeted him with a smile that was more mocking than cheerful.
"I know where Father has two jars of medicinal wine hidden. After one hundred thousand years, their effects should be incredible by now."
Xu Lai pretended not to understand. "Senior Sister, we should go to the Mass Burial Mound."
Yu Guiwan asked, sounding somewhat disinterested, "Do you have a plan?"
"Investigate the origin of the heartbeat, find the reason our Divine Sense is being shielded, and locate the seventh key," he replied solemnly. "The key might be related to the Nine Kings' Palace, and also to that old man in the Netherworld."
Xu Lai always had a feeling that Jing Ke's search for the key wasn't for a purpose as simple as entering the Nine Kings' Palace.
