"A bunch of cowardly rats."
"How could you ever amount to anything?"
"Know that fate lies in my hands; I draw my sword and cut down all challengers."
"Watch me slaughter these evil spirits!"
The outrageously arrogant voice continued to ring out, shaking the mountains and even drowning out the rumble of the avalanche.
"Who the hell is that cocky?"
Jiang Qiao's toes involuntarily curled, and his scalp prickled.
Fucking hell.
Whoever was shouting sounded young.
Where did this edgelord kid come from?
This was so fucking cringe.
"They're still some distance away..." Shen Boxia's eyelids were twitching wildly too. He couldn't help saying, "Strange. Hardly anyone comes here all year round. Could it have something to do with those supernatural phenomena?"
"Maybe some treasure I don't know about has emerged, causing all these strange occurrences."
"Are these people here to fight over it?"
He couldn't be blamed for thinking that.
It really was a little too coincidental.
"What treasure could there be here?" Jiang Qiao asked curiously.
Treasure, of course, meant supernatural items.
But supernatural items didn't appear out of thin air. There had to be a reason for them to manifest somewhere. The things he had just acquired, for example, had been brought out of some mysterious place by vicious ghosts.
"That, I don't know."
"Even people in the northern supernatural circle don't necessarily know all the north's secrets."
Shen Boxia said.
"What about the south?" Jiang Qiao suddenly asked. "Are there places in the south where treasures turn up?"
"Yes."
Shen Boxia made no attempt to hide anything and explained everything plainly. "Strange items have been found around southern Hunan and in the Ailao Mountains of Yunnan."
"Those places are common knowledge in the circle."
"They aren't secrets."
"Even now, people go there looking for opportunities, only