Faced with Baha's demand for more money, Bishop Cooper expressed his indignation before tactfully probing how much extra he wanted.
After some haggling, Bishop Cooper ultimately paid the price of a ward key and two Soul Crystals, and the two sides reached a deal.
The wealth of Bishop Cooper was beyond Su Xiao's expectations. Soul Crystals were an advanced and rare resource, extremely scarce in Rank Eight worlds, and essential for him to improve his Swordsmanship Grandmaster ability.
"No need to recount what happened. Did you bring the pottery fragment?"
"I did."
Bishop Cooper took a silver-coin-sized pottery fragment from his robes. The fragment was pitch-black overall, with wisps of black smoke rising from it. At a glance, it was clearly no ordinary object. No wonder Bishop Cooper had picked it up.
Bishop Cooper had been extremely cautious when he picked up the pottery fragment. Without touching it directly, he had placed it in a sealed container. From then until now, Bishop Cooper had never directly touched the fragment.
Actually, that wasn't important. As long as someone harbored covetous thoughts toward this sinister thing, they couldn't escape it.
What about the demon race? Even now, they still worshipped it like their own father. They had gone all out this time, only to have Wood enter the world of paintings notarized by the Void Tree and try to rid themselves of this cursed thing.
And what about the Gambler's Skeleton? That skeleton had won more than a million years of someone else's lifespan, yet after the Abyss Pot was restored to completeness, it could only act like a grandson as well, sending the old master away at the cost of—no, at the cost of its entire fortune.
Don't be fooled by the fact that this was only a fragment of the