Qian Earth Hall, Chen Yueying sat in the seat of honor, while Wang Changsheng sat to one side.
"To be honest, Junior Brother Wang, I snatched a Nine-Brilliance Stone from the Essence Fire Race's treasury. Yan Zheng and Luo Xiao must have come looking for trouble because they wanted to take the Nine-Brilliance Stone back."
Chen Yueying spoke frankly.
The Essence Fire Race had been slow to spread the news, so Chen Yueying naturally had not told anyone else. Now that Yan Zheng and Luo Xiao had attacked Floating Cloud Island, continuing to keep the matter sealed was obviously impossible.
She believed that it would not be long before word of her obtaining the Nine-Brilliance Stone spread. By then, let alone the alien Great Ascension cultivators, even the Human Race's Great Ascension cultivators would probably be tempted.
There was little point in continuing to hide it. She might as well tell Wang Changsheng the truth.
"What? A Nine-Brilliance Stone!"
Wang Changsheng exclaimed. If it were refined into an Upper-Grade Heavenly Treasure, its effects would be excellent when used by a Great Ascension Cultivator to undergo the Grand Heavenly Tribulation.
"I originally wanted you to refine an Upper-Grade Heavenly Treasure. I hoped to refine the Nine-Brilliance Stone into one, but you weren't able to produce an Upper-Grade Heavenly Treasure. I planned to wait until you could refine one and had a higher success rate before asking you to help. Who could have expected Yan Zheng to come killing his way here so quickly?"
Chen Yueying spoke slowly, then her tone shifted. She said meaningfully, "Junior Brother Wang, I didn't expect you to have such powerful divine abilities despite having advanced to the Great Ascension Stage so recently. That divine ability you used resembles the signature divine ability of the Void Sky