Xu Yi chuckled. "Brother Tao, you're awfully confident. I could hollow out the entire mountain range, and I still wouldn't believe there were no treasures to be found."
Tao Jingshan said, "My father was cautious by nature. How could he have buried the treasure so hastily without a great formation to protect it? Without the means to break the formation, you can forget about getting inside."
Xu Yi's brows knit into a tight knot. "Don't try to fool me. Just because you say there's a formation protecting it doesn't mean there is."
Tao Jingshan sneered. "My father mentioned this too, on another page of the letter. There's no harm in telling you, Brother Xu. The formation protecting the treasure is called the Myriad Stars Primordial Blood Formation. It can only be broken with a secret method, and only the blood of someone from the Tao Family can break it. Brother Xu, this is a matter where we both win if we cooperate, and both lose if we don't. So, what'll it be? Make your choice."
Xu Yi cursed inwardly. If I believed you, I'd probably end up celebrating New Year's on the wrong day.
Ever since he obtained the incomplete Seven Aversion Palace Locking Formation from Zhu Shisan's effects, Xu Yi had immediately searched his vast sea of texts for information about it and studied it thoroughly.
Then, when he went up Sanyang Mountain to pay his respects to Ming Liding, he had already spotted the Seven Aversion Palace Locking Formation.
Now, Tao Jingshan had invented some Myriad Stars Primordial Blood Formation just to get Xu Yi to cooperate. It was downright laughable.
Still, that was exactly the response Xu Yi wanted from Tao Jingshan. He stamped his foot hard and grunted, "Fine. I'll take a bit of a loss