Chapter 609

The Fire Rain Agate that Lady Hu spoke of was not the token of love that Li Kai had given her back then. Although the item Li Kai gave her in those years was also Fire Rain Agate, that was only because the Fire Rain Manor produced agate, and Li Kai, being at the Fire Rain Manor at the time, had no way to seek out other items to use as a token, so he requested the craftsmen of the Fire Rain Manor at that time to carve a pair of Fire Rain Agates, which he gave to Lady Hu as a token.

Although the Fire Rain Agate Li Kai gave to Lady Hu was of decent quality, it was merely ordinary Fire Rain Agate, and it was carved into the shape of a pendant, whereas the Fire Rain Agate that Lady Hu's father, the Duke of Fire Rain, gave her was a bracelet.

After her father's death, this item became the only object Lady Hu had to remember the Fire Rain Manor by, so she never wore it on her wrist again, but instead carefully tucked it away.

At this moment, when facing Su Xuan, Lady Hu quickly went to retrieve this item.

Su Xuan picked up the Fire Rain Agate handed over by Lady Hu and carefully examined it.

"The quality of this piece of Fire Rain Agate is indeed very good. As expected, you people who do business all like to keep the best things for yourselves."

Su Xuan offered a critique of the Duke of Fire Rain's behavior back then.

However, there was nothing to criticize.

The Fire Rain Manor was rich in agate, and it was perfectly reasonable for the Duke of Fire Rain to keep the best agate for his daughter.

"Mr. Su, is there a problem with this piece of agate?" Lady Hu asked Su Xuan with hesitation.

Nongyu stood to the side, quietly listening to the conversation between her mother and Su Xuan, and at this moment, she also looked at Su Xuan, waiting for his answer.

"There is no problem with the agate. Although the quality is not bad, when all is said and done, it is still just agate. However, there are indeed some secrets hidden upon this piece of agate..."

This statement from Su Xuan left Lady Hu and her daughter Nongyu confused.

What did this mean?

Su Xuan was saying on one hand that this was just an ordinary piece of agate, while on the other hand saying there were secrets hidden on it?

Soon, they understood.

"For an agate of such superior quality, yet you didn't use precious silk thread like gold thread to string it up, but instead used the cheapest hemp thread. Don't you think this combination is strange?"

Upon hearing this, Nongyu and Lady Hu were instantly stunned.

Indeed, this combination was truly quite peculiar.

As Su Xuan spoke, he easily snapped the hemp rope stringing the Fire Rain Agate, took the agate off the rope, and handed it to Lady Hu, while he himself carefully untwisted the broken hemp rope.

As the hemp rope was untwisted, a small piece of cloth, thin to the extreme, fell out from the middle of the rope.

"This is..."

Seeing this object, Lady Hu and Nongyu were shocked once more.

There really was a secret hidden within this piece of Fire Rain Agate; the secret was hidden on the very thread that strung this Fire Rain Agate.

Su Xuan looked at the small piece of cloth in his hand; the entire piece of cloth was not even a palm's width wide, and its length was only as long as a finger, yet it gave him a sense of peculiarity.

So, those people all like to hide secrets on threads this much?

He couldn't help but recall the scroll of the *I Ching* he found at the Little Sage Manor; the secret of the Qi State's Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon was hidden in the silk thread binding the bamboo slips.

If someone thought that the books or the Fire Rain Agate were the main bodies carrying the secrets and studied them in every possible way, they would not know that the things they overlooked were the ones truly hiding the secrets.

After returning to reality, Su Xuan carefully looked at the small piece of cloth in his hand again. There were a few lines on it. Su Xuan compared it with the map in his mind, and it could indeed fill in a portion of the map that Tian Ze had given him, though it was only a portion, and some parts were still missing.

Fortunately, because of Lady Hu's words, Su Xuan also knew where the remaining piece was hidden, so he was not in a hurry.

With the help of the relationship between Lady Hu and Nongyu, Su Xuan soon found Lady Hu Meiren as well, obtained the other piece of Fire Rain Agate from her, and by following the same method, he easily extracted the small piece of cloth hidden inside the other Fire Rain Agate.

Next, he only needed to return to the Yin-Yang School and fill these two small pieces of cloth onto that map, and that map related to the Zheng State's Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon would basically be considered pieced together.

Su Xuan prepared to return.

But before he could return, Lady Hu suddenly called out to him.

"Mr. Su..."

Lady Hu's expression was somewhat complex.

"Does the Lady have anything else?"

Su Xuan glanced at Lady Hu; even though he was incomparably intelligent, there were some things he could not guess, especially since the person before him was a woman.

A woman's heart is a needle at the bottom of the sea.

"I hope Mr. Su can treat Nongyu well. Nongyu is my daughter, yet I have not raised her for a single day; she has truly suffered every hardship..." Lady Hu said softly.

The more he listened, the more strange Su Xuan's expression became.

It was only because Lady Hu's tone was that of entrusting Nongyu to him.

Since when did he vaguely develop a trend of being a paragon of loyalty?

Han Fei entrusted his sister to him, Lord Changping Jun entrusted his daughter to him, and now, Lady Hu also entrusted Nongyu to him.

He had some silent complaints in his heart, but Su Xuan did not say them, instead responding to Lady Hu in a deep voice, "I will."

After returning to the Yin-Yang School.

Even though Su Xuan had already completed the map in his mind by combining the lines on these two small pieces of cloth, he still found the original map and pasted these two pieces on.

It must be said that the cartographer back then indeed had some skill.

When the two small pieces of cloth were missing, the entire map became incomplete, making it difficult to determine where it was a map of. Even with just one small piece of cloth, it was not enough to complete the map, but when both pieces were present, the entire map became completely different.

After completing the map, Su Xuan did not have the thought of following the map to find the items hidden by it.

This was mainly because he did not know how much time it would take to personally go and find the things on it.

At the same time, as the Sect Master of the Yin-Yang School, it was not worth it for him to do everything himself.

And so, Su Xuan began to summon his tools.

"Dongjun Yanfei, I have a task I want to entrust to you!"

Earlier, after Su Xuan revealed his intention to go to the Daoist School to observe the Heaven-Man Sword Debate, Dongjun Yanfei deeply felt her own weakness and had originally made up her mind to go into seclusion, but upon receiving Su Xuan's summons, she still rushed over at the first opportunity.

"I wonder what Master Xuantian wants me to do?" Dongjun Yanfei asked softly.

No matter what Su Xuan entrusted to her, she would do it.

She also began to speculate in her heart about the task Su Xuan had entrusted to her.

Could it be related to the Daoist Heaven-Man Sword Debate?

Immediately after, she realized she had guessed wrong.