Having ventured several thousand li deeper into the Mystic Magnet Mountain Range and nearly reached its inner region, Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and the couple Bei Shan and Bei Yan came face-to-face with a Gold Devouring Ape at the Golden Core Initial Stage. It stood dozens of zhang tall, as though it could hold up the heavens, and led a full hundred Foundation Establishment Gold Devouring Apes aboard a flying boat. They looked about in every direction, seemingly patrolling this territory and overlooking no place at all.
Ling Pengyun swept his gaze over the flying boat, and his eyes brightened slightly.
"A medium-sized flying boat at the Magic Treasure Prototype level? Its refinement is somewhat crude, but judging by its aura, the person who forged it must have fused no shortage of fine materials into it. Once this flying boat reaches the Third Rank, it will likely be as natural as water flowing into a channel, and it will not take long. It is quite a treasure."
At that moment, Bei Shan Zhenren's eyes lit up.
"It is exceedingly rare for a Golden Core Gold Devouring Ape to lead a patrol. It seems the matter of treasure soon being born in that place is true."
"Ling Daoyou, Madam Ling, the Gold Devouring Ape Race excels at artifact refinement. Their patrol teams generally carry magic treasures capable of seeing through Illusion Arrays, concealment techniques, and other disguises. Let us find somewhere to hide. If we are discovered here, it will be troublesome."
Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi stirred at his words and nodded in turn. They followed Bei Shan Zhenren and his wife, Bei Yan Zhenren, into an abandoned mine tunnel on a nearby barren mountain, one that appeared to have once been mined for ore.
The mine tunnel had both