No matter what he said, Zhao Xiongge plainly refused to admit it even unto death. He said leisurely, "That was merely something I heard. I can't confirm whether it can truly be broken."
Niu Youdao laughed. With a flip of his sleeve, he presented something on his palm. "Take a look."
It was a round stone, with nothing particularly remarkable about it. Zhao Xiongge eyed it suspiciously. "What is it?"
Crack! Niu Youdao simply crushed it himself. The round stone shattered across his palm, revealing a heart-shaped object that gleamed with lively red light. Red radiance enveloped the hollow in the rocks where the two stood, while a refreshing fragrance wafted from the object.
Zhao Xiongge was stunned. "What?" He still had no idea what it was.
"You really are ignorant." Niu Youdao casually tossed it over. "I brought it out of the Sacred Realm. Take a good look."
Zhao Xiongge caught it, turned it over and examined it, sniffing it again and again. When his gaze fell on the fruit stem, his eyes suddenly widened. "Th-this could it be... from Boundless Garden..."
Niu Youdao sneered. "I have your Crow General Refinement Method to thank for this. Otherwise, there really would've been no way to get it."
Zhao Xiongge was speechless. He had not heard that Boundless Garden had been robbed. Moreover, Niu Youdao had escaped through a faked death, so Zhao Xiongge had assumed Niu Youdao had not yet successfully used the method to break it and had therefore denied it. Who would have thought he had already succeeded? The words with which he had stubbornly refused to admit it earlier now seemed impossible to keep spinning.
But that was no longer important. Faced with such a thing, he could not remain entirely composed either. "When Yuan Gang contacted