Thirty Years

After obtaining fifteen Golden Fire Patterns, Rice Bucket's purpose for this trip could be considered fulfilled.

Before leaving, he asked a question that left the two Pavilion Elders utterly baffled. "Had I come alone today, would you have been willing to trade these Golden Fire Patterns with me?"

The two elders of West Heaven Pavilion were completely bewildered, unable to understand what he meant by that question.

However, with the man in black mist standing nearby, they could only force out a trace of a smile. "Naturally, we would have been willing. These things hold little meaning for us; leaving them in the treasury would have been useless anyway."

Although Rice Bucket had not been transformed for long, he had experienced no few worldly affairs alongside Li Qing and knew that such a thing was impossible.

Perhaps the two Pavilion Elders would have been willing to trade the Golden Fire Patterns to him, but if he had come alone, they would certainly have opened their mouths like lions.

The man in black mist had already put away Five Elements Return to Origin Mountain. He had used an ingenious secret technique; although he had not refined it, taking it away posed no great problem.

"Since we have obtained the items, let us go."

After saying that, he rode the surging black mist, wrapping Rice Bucket within it as they departed West Heaven Pavilion's mountain gate. Before long, they vanished from sight.

As for the two West Heaven Pavilion elders, their backs were soaked in cold sweat, their faces filled with lingering fear.

"Too terrifying. Is this the might of a Spirit Transformation stage expert? Simply standing beside him, I felt an unbearably heavy pressure." Yin Nanhai wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Great Elder Gu Shun also let out a