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Chapter 718 How Was The Qin Clan Eliminated (Part Two)
She was confused. No matter how many pages she turned, all those were left blank. Even though thismade her feel frustrated, she didn't want to give up. She kept on turning the pages, finding one blankpage after another. Finally, on the last page, she found a strange picture. "This is…" she murmured inhesitation.
"It may be how the Sacred Seal looks. Based on this information, it wouldn't be that difficult for you tofind what you want," Matthew said in a firm tone. "But, it's never that easy to find such a small object."
Harper gave a bitter smile. It would be difficult to search for such a small thing in the world. It was likesearching for a needle in a haystack. The two parts of the Sacred Seal must have been kept in hidingin the secret and vital places of the South Kingdom and the Wonder Kingdom, just like where theHeavenly Books had been kept.
"I'm afraid that'd be all for today. Let's leave now," Harper said as she put the book back to the shelfand took her hand back. Suddenly, something rolled down from the shelf and fell into her hand. Shelooked at the dark thing in her hand, brought it closer to her eye, and observed it carefully. "What's it?"she asked in confusion.
"It looks to be a tripod…" Matthew said, with doubt in his voice. It was covered with verdigris, and didn'tseem like something precious. But why was it kept here? "It might be something related to the QinClan," he added suspiciously.
Harper inspected it, but couldn't find anything of interest. She was about to put it back, but Matthewstopped her. "Don't put it back. Take it with you. If it's something from the Qin Clan, we may find ituseful at some point of time."
Harper hesitated for a moment, and then took it into her pocket. Matthew was right. Although it lookedtattered and didn't worth much, it must be something of importance since it was kept here. Besides,
everyone cherished one or the other things from the Qin Clan. Probably, it might turn out to be of greatuse in the future.
Outside the gate of the Secret Pavilion, Lucas and the chief guard of the pavilion were standing oneither side of the door, but they didn't talk with each other. The door opened, and Harper and Matthewwalked out. Then, Lucas and the guard turned to look at the two, eagerly wanting to know whether theyhad found something useful.
"Uncle, Aunt, what's the result? Did you find something useful?" Lucas asked eagerly.
Harper shook her head and answered, "No. Actually, I'm even more confused after reading the book.My puzzles still remain unsolved, and the mysteries have added up. I don't know."
Scratching his head, Lucas said, "I guess there is nothing I can do to help, or is there?"
"You can say that. Let's leave now," Harper said. Then she intended to move forward, but the guardstopped her abruptly.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Harper asked in confusion.
"Lady Harper, what are you trying to take away from the Secret Pavilion?" the guard asked as shefurrowed her eyebrows. She had a smell and found that there was a distinct aroma emitting fromHarper. It belonged to something in the Secret Pavilion. Every object in the Secret Pavilion had its ownunique aroma.
Harper was quite surprised that she discerned this. She admitted honestly, "Yes, I brought somethingout."
"Please hand it over, Lady Harper. No one is allowed to take anything from the Secret Pavilion," theguard demanded politely, yet her voice was forcible.
"What a joke!" Harper sneered with a cold smile. "It belonged to me from the very beginning and it stillbelongs to me now. Why can't I take it away?"
"It belongs to you?" the guard repeated in confusion. "That's impossible! Nothing inside the SecretPavilion belongs to you."
"May I know if the property of the Qin Clan is mine, or does it belong to you?" Harper asked slowly asshe took out the ugly tripod from her pocket and showed it to the guard.
The guard had thought that Harper might have brought out something of great value from the SecretPavilion. When she saw the ugly tripod in her hand, she twisted the corners of her mouth. She indeedthought that this object was unimportant. But no matter how unimportant it might be, she couldn't allowanyone to take anything from the Secret Pavilion. That was her duty.
"Lady Harper, with all due respect, let me remind you that no matter whom it belonged to originally, youcan't take it away as long as it belongs to the Secret Pavilion." After she finished speaking, shereached out and tried to take the little tripod away from Harper. However, Harper moved her wrist andthe tripod in her hand was thrown out. The guard leaped, intending to grab it. But Harper suddenlyswept her leg and kicked her away. Then, she quickly caught the falling tripod.
"To be honest, I wasn't that enthusiastic to take it away with me. But now that you are so desperate tostop me from keeping it, I must take it away now!" Harper said with a stern face.
Hearing that, the guard trembled with anger. Now she too was determined to stop Harper! She evenignored the fact that she was no match for Matthew and approached Harper to take the tripod forcibly.Harper, on the other hand, resisted her attacks elegantly and stopped her from taking the tripod away.It made the guard even more furious. In the ensuing confusion, her weapon scratched Harper's hand.
Matthew squinted his eyes upon seeing that. He immediately moved to stand beside Harper. He threwout his palm, pushing the guard away. Suddenly, Harper witnessed something surprising. The smalltripod which she had held in her hand had absorbed the beads of blood that came out of her hand. Outof amazement, she threw away the tripod, but it couldn't be thrown out. The tripod seemed as it wasstuck in her palm and was absorbing her blood!novelbin
"What's happening?" Harper murmured in surprise. She then activated her spiritual power to heal thewound, and the mysterious little tripod stopped absorbing her blood as the wound healed. Everythingwas back to normal, but the only difference was that the tripod looked much uglier than before.
With a disgusted expression, Harper threw the tripod to the guard and said, "Keep it. I am not taking itwith me now."
But there was an unbelievable spectacle that was about to happen. When the tripod was about to landin the guard's hand, it suddenly stopped in midair unexpectedly. Then it flew back to Harper's hand.
Everyone was taken aback at the sight of this. "I did nothing to it. It just flew back to my hand by itself,"Harper said in awe.
The woman found it hard to believe her. She stepped forward, snatched it from her, and demanded in astern voice, "Prince Matthew, Lady Harper, please leave now!"
Harper shrugged helplessly and walked out with Matthew. However, as soon as they left, the tripod gotrid of the guard's custody and chased after Harper. The guard got flabbergasted and rushed forward,trying to get it back. It had intelligence, and she couldn't allow it to go with Harper.