Chapter 727: Without a Hitch

“This jade voice transmission talisman indeed belongs to an old friend. This old monk hasn’t seen it in more than 10 years.” The old monk sighed emotionally before nodding at Qiao Mu and saying, “Benefactress, please wait a moment.”

Subsequently, he walked to one side of the room and took out a small, pitch-black box from a row of standing pomelo wood drawers.

Yet after wiping the small box with his sleeve, the old monk stared distractedly at it for a while.

Dressed in a small, gray monastic robe, the little monk kneeled on a small praying mat next to Qiao Mu and repeatedly sized up this visitor with his moist eyes.

The old monk carried the small black box towards Qiao Mu and sat down across from her, handing it over. “Benefactress, this is yours.”

“The Startled Swan?” Qiao Mu hadn’t expected this trip to go so smoothly.

After seeing that jade voice transmission talisman, the old monk just entrusted the Startled Swan to her, without requiring her to go through any transferral procedures?

This went way too shockingly smoothly!

The old monk nodded and let out a long sigh. “This old monk has waited here for a full 14 years. From today on, this old monk can finally settle this fixation, many thanks to this little benefactress’s assistance.”

Qiao Mu questioned curiously, “Why do you call it a fixation?”

The old monk became lost in thought as he looked dazedly at Qiao Mu while murmuring to himself, “Alike, alike…”

Even the question she asked was exactly the same.

Alike what?

The old monk didn’t say, so Qiao Mu was at a loss. She looked at the old monk and stated, “If you have experienced life and death and faced your very most unbearable past, perhaps you will understand that fixations or not, everything is all meaningless.”

“Only failing to acquire what you wish will spawn a fixation. Won’t it all be fine if you don’t wish for anything?” Yet Qiao Mu couldn’t resist laughing by herself as she spoke. “But this is only easy to say. How can a person wish for nothing?”

Just like her.

No matter how she didn’t wish for anything else, praying for her family to be safe and sound was also a wish.

Qiao Mu spoke softly, “People only need to conduct themselves with inte