Mo Hua raised an eyebrow slightly. "Business? With whom?"
Iron Mountain Tiger was grateful to Mo Hua, the big brother who had saved his life, and said:
"To be honest, Big Brother, there were no telling how many intermediaries in between. I don't know who the employer behind it all really was."
"By the rules, we were to rob tombs around Houtu City and find the corpse of an Earth Sect elder—an Elder Tian, supposedly. He had died not long ago and violated some taboo, so his death was unclean. They did not dare bury him in the Earth Sect Ancestral Mausoleum, so his clansmen secretly transported him out and chose another place for his burial..."
"If we could find his corpse and hand it over to those above, we would receive..."
Iron Mountain Tiger drew a deep breath. "...a full fifty million Spirit Stones."
Mo Hua froze, finding it somewhat hard to believe. "They would really give you fifty million?"
With those fifty million Spirit Stones, who knew how many more meridians his Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Remains Life-Bound Array could nurture.
"Well..." Iron Mountain Tiger had calmed down somewhat and slowly said:
"That was what they said, but whether they would actually pay, and how much they would pay, we had no idea. Since word had been put out, they should... at least give something..."
"Then..." Mo Hua's gaze flickered as he asked again, "did you find that corpse?"
Iron Mountain Tiger only felt muddled in the head, with faint prickling pain as well. Frowning, he said:
"To be honest, Big Brother Black-Faced Fiend, down underground just now—in this very tomb—I felt... I seemed to have seen Elder Tian's corpse."
Mo Hua asked, "You really saw it?"
Iron Mountain Tiger frowned and shook his head. "But... after thinking