"Lord of Youlan Mansion... Xu Yue, you really have a knack for winning over locals. Though with how much we've grown over the years, a mere mansion lord is no longer worth our attention, it's still quite impressive..."
Barton was also stunned when he heard Xu Yue's words. Though his face showed an expression of 'nothing special,' his heart was already overflowing with jealousy.
What kind of joke was this?!
They had endured countless hardships, crossed mountains and rivers, fought battle after battle, slaying gods whenever they met them, just to make it here.
Yet one casual sentence from him—that he had a good relationship with the Lord of Youlan Mansion—had wiped all that away?
Although Barton spoke lightly, they really did possess the strength to contend with a mansion lord-level expert now.
As a Higher God wielding a Main God artifact, Barton only needed an Advanced Military Formation to possess enough power to rival such an expert.
It was not as if they had never fought one on the way here. They simply had not even received reduced rewards for it.
But an expert like that was absolutely not as simple as he made it sound!
What a joke!
Even after obtaining a Main God artifact, he still had to activate the military formation to fight one head-on.
Yet Xu Yue had so easily forged a connection with one?
It was truly envi... Damn it, how infuriating!
"Did you come here to gather information on the Four Divine Beasts Family?"
After speaking, Xu Yue asked them this as well.
Although he had already sold them some intelligence back on the Yulan Plane, they naturally would not pass up a chance to verify such important information.
So, as if he had prepared for this long ago, Xu Yue handed them