But very soon, Jade Qilin secretly shook his head and dismissed that possibility.
It was not because he trusted Chief Chai's character.
Rather, it was inseparably tied to Chief Chai's current predicament, precarious as a stack of eggs.
By seizing the Divine Phoenix Pill and offending the Ghost Phoenix Clan, he had already severed one path back to the Spirit Realm.
If he now dared to kill for treasure and lay hands on a Sky-Demon Realm cultivator... what faction would still dare accept him while risking the wrath of both the Spirit Realm and the Sky-Demon Realm?
By then, even if he soared to the heavens or burrowed into the earth, he likely would find no path to survival.
At this thought, Jade Qilin hesitated no longer. After narrowing his eyes, he nodded and agreed to the snake-scaled old woman's proposed terms.
Elsewhere.
After emerging from seclusion in the Lost Forest, Wei Tu did not return to the Sky-Demon Palace and wait idly for Chief Chai to descend to the lower realm.
As he looked at the silver-white stone stele before him, which he had obtained from the Hundred-Mound Yin Land and was now manipulating, eagerness flickered in the depths of his eyes.
Over these past hundred years, aside from cultivating in seclusion within his cave abode in the Lost Forest, he had spent his remaining time exploring this cross-realm teleportation array alongside Granny Tu, the grandmaster of arrays residing within Xue Qiongyu's sea of consciousness.
With the strength of the two of them, setting up a cross-realm teleportation array directly leading to the Spirit Realm was still beyond their abilities.
But constructing a teleportation passage leading to the Black Cloud Minor Realm was undoubtedly somewhat feasible.
After all, the Black Cloud Minor Realm lay extremely close to the