"Shares based on contribution. How much you get depends on your own ability. Believe it or not!" Pei Xi folded her arms.
Lin Shuguang pulled out a tissue and wiped the corner of his mouth. "Are you sure you really found a Martial Arts Treasure?" he asked flatly.
"We stayed in the Secret Realm for three days. It opens again tomorrow." Pei Xi nodded, unusually in no mood to joke, and revealed a silver bracelet on her wrist. She let its aura show for only an instant, and Lin Shuguang immediately sensed a strange, almost hypnotic energy.
"Interesting."
He looked at Pei Xi-or, more precisely, stared intently at the bracelet on her wrist.
Pei Xi immediately tugged her sleeve down to cover it. Though she leaned considerably farther away, she glared at him like she was guarding her food and put on a fierce voice. "What are you trying to do?"
Lin Shuguang unhurriedly withdrew his gaze, picked up a piece of meat, and put it in his mouth before asking casually, "Why come to me? With something this good, shouldn't fewer people knowing be better?"
Pei Xi stared at him for a while before relenting and lowering her voice. "True, the fewer people who know, the more I stand to gain. But I don't trust those people. I only teamed up with them in the first place because there was something to gain. Now the stakes are too high. I can't be sure I'll make it out alive if I go back alone."
That reason was plausible enough.
Lin Shuguang considered it for a moment, then asked, "Tell me about this treasure-filled Secret Realm."
Pei Xi was in no hurry to explain. She raised her chin and shot him a sidelong look. "Swear first that you won't attack me!