Hu Qi was still muttering to herself, "Something's not right! Didn't that guy's wife keep male lovers at home? Can any self-respecting man put up with that?"
Tang Wen quickly coughed a couple of times to interrupt her. "I said *if*, *if*! I wasn't saying he was actually a Half-Step Fourth Grade!"
Hu Qi shot him a hostile glare.
Tang Wen ducked his head and cried out in feigned surprise, "Why won't this light? Sister Qi, your method is useless!"
"Hah! I told you to burn the words. Who told you to set fire to the beast skin?"
"Hm? Burn the words?" He paused. Moving the flint and steel in his hand, he gently let the flame lick at the writing on the beast skin.
In just a moment, wisps of green smoke began to rise.
The green smoke coalesced without dispersing, swirling three feet above their heads.
The writing on the beast skin was scorched away, crackling as it turned into black smoke and vanished.
