"He struck it rich, hehe..."
Sha LiFei was drenched in sweat as he carried the chest, his face wreathed in a foolish grin.
Li Yan helplessly turned his head. "Uncle Sha, we can bury the chest and retrieve it when we come back. Why wear yourself out?"
The chest was not large, but it was filled with fine-quality gold bars, and it was quite heavy. Even Sha LiFei struggled to carry it.
"How could we do that?"
At once, Sha LiFei's eyes widened. "I, Old Sha, have never seen this much money in my life. What if something went wrong and it got lost?"
"From now on, I'm sleeping with it in my arms. No one's stopping me!"
"All right, all right..."
Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan exchanged a smile.
No one had expected to gain so much from climbing the mountain tonight.
Even split four ways, they had enough money to build the Tower.
Heaven-sent windfall money could not be stopped, even if they tried.
Of course, retrieving the Thunderstruck Jujube Wood remained their main task.
Knowing that the bandit stronghold had been destroyed, everyone relaxed considerably. They continued along the mountain path toward West Mountain Leopard Gully.
That did not mean no wild beasts coveted them along the way.
The power of the Three Talents Demon Suppressing Coin was revealed at this moment. Li Yan merely urged it slightly, and the wolves hiding in the dark forest were frightened away.
He secretly sized up Zhao the Donkey and found that the other man was not surprised at all.
Li Yan knew that Treasure Hunters of the mountain-ranging lineage traveled through forests year-round and surely possessed arts for evading ferocious beasts.
For instance, this fellow had no scent on him whatsoever. Li Yan had no idea how he