The three from the Haoran Sect nodded and began searching through their storage equipment, clearly taking it well. Tianyun did the same.
The three from the Spirit Sword Gate exchanged glances and began sorting through their Storage Rings as well. This time, everyone tacitly sped up, afraid the attendant Immortal Official might see them.
Half an hour later, everyone had sorted out a Storage Ring containing the treasures they intended to temporarily leave with Yunxi.
Only then did Yunxi summon Lili from the Spirit Beast Bag—though in truth, from her space. After giving him a brief explanation, Lili rolled his grape-black eyes, nodded obediently, then, before everyone's eyes, swallowed the storage equipment of the other seven in one gulp. With a flick of his tail, he dove back into the Spirit Beast Bag.
With a movement of her divine sense, Yunxi sent Lili back into her space and placed the sleeping Cong Shan into the Spirit Beast Bag, pulling a trick of stealing beams and replacing pillars. Cong Shan was only Fifth Order, though he had cultivated an internal space as well. Still, it contained nothing but his own little private stash, things those Immortal Practitioners surely would not care for.
Afterward, everyone tacitly kept one piece of storage equipment on their person, filled with things they could abandon at any moment. If they had nothing valuable on them at all, those Immortal Practitioners probably would not believe it. They were all seasoned cultivators; they possessed that much common sense.
However, Hao Yan raised an important question:
"If we go mine immortal stones in the mineral vein, how will the three years of free residence in the Immortal City be counted?"
Haohui stroked his chin and said:
"Most likely, it'll go down the drain. We can ask the attendant Immortal