Watching the expressions of Lei Zhen, Baleful Intent, and the others, Qin Fengming seemed to see traces of tightly suppressed mocking laughter flickering across their faces.
These cultivators were surely laughing at him inwardly.
Qin Fengming, however, was not discouraged. His original intention had merely been to collect ten billion demon cores from each prefecture and then let everyone enter that area fairly to collect the Chaos Tokens.
Even if he collected all the demon cores from every prefecture, there would only be sixty or seventy billion in total.
Of that amount, he would truly retain perhaps twenty billion. That was because he had to go to Tianji Land to rescue the Second Soul Spirit.
From Fairy Hua's voice transmission, he had learned that if he wanted to open that forbidden area midway, the foremost condition was to use several tens of billions of demon cores as its energy source.
Now that Zhong Miao had agreed that Qin Fengming would not be responsible for the demon cores, this was absolutely advantageous to him.
"Fairy Ying, matters here are settled. We need to return as quickly as possible to complete the tasks assigned by our seniors. If you have nothing else to do, we shall take our leave."
The five Youfu Palace cultivators rose and bowed respectfully toward Fairy Ying Yi in the distance, speaking courteously.
"I wish the five senior brothers an early completion of your tasks." Fairy Ying Yi nodded repeatedly and replied with equal courtesy. Deep in her eyes, strange glimmers flickered without pause.
Watching the five men race away without even turning their heads to look at him, a faint smile appeared on Qin Fengming's face. Though he considered himself not to have deliberately targeted them, the five had clearly come to hate him.
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