A hundred miles away, on a desolate plain.
Cao Ying, dressed in a long black gown, her enchanting yet icy face creased with a frown, watched coldly as one alchemist after another closed in around her.
"Who would have thought that chasing a Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Essence would lead to the discovery of such a precious treasure as an Earth Heart Jade Mother? Miss Cao Ying, as the saying goes, unowned things belong to whoever sees them. It wouldn't be right for Miss Cao Ying to keep this Earth Heart Jade Mother all to herself!"
Staring greedily at the white jade stone in Cao Ying's hand, a tall, bald man edged closer to her as he spoke.
"Hmph! Whoever sees it gets a share? What kind of twisted logic is that? Since whoever sees it gets a share, why don't you share your Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Essence too? Medicinal herbs found in the wild belong to whoever finds them first. Everyone relies on their own abilities. If you want the Earth Heart Jade Mother in my hand, just say so. Stop beating around the bush!"
Cao Ying snorted, a trace of mockery flashing across her alluring face.
"Hehe! Of course I can share the Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Essence. But in that case, shouldn't Miss Cao Ying also share this Earth Heart Jade Mother?"
The bald man rubbed his hands together and chuckled shamelessly.
As a Dou Huang, he naturally would never want to provoke a Dou Zong expert like Cao Ying, whose background and strength were both astonishing, if he could avoid it. But he had never expected Cao Ying to discover a top-grade Earth Heart Jade Mother.
It stood over a meter tall, was more than two meters long, and nearly a meter wide. Such a massive Earth Heart