Zhou Yu breathed a huge sigh of relief when he heard this. He knew Lu Xiaotian was exceptionally powerful, and he really had worried that Lu Xiaotian might object. But as things stood, Lu Xiaotian seemed like a good partner after all.
"Brother Lu, you're truly generous! Once we return to Yuanling City, I, Zhou Yu, will follow your lead without question!" Zhou Yu burst into laughter.
"There's no time to waste. Let's deal with these two monsters now and extract the Shadow Monster Cores from their bodies." Lu Xiaotian paid no mind to Zhou Yu's flattery and immediately got to work.
Extracting a Shadow Monster Core from a phantom octopus shadow demon was an extremely tedious process. The slightest mistake could cause the demonic power inside to leak away, so they had to proceed with utmost care. Once they had obtained two intact Shadow Monster Cores, they began fishing—or, more accurately, demon-fishing.
But fishing was a gamble: they might catch what they wanted, or the fish might swallow the bait. The first Shadow Monster Core was swallowed by an exceedingly crafty black-horned shark. They didn't even get so much as a hair in return.
Guo Jingyu didn't dare let Lu Xiaotian put out their last remaining Shadow Monster Core as bait, too. Though Yu Zimo and the others were seething inside, when they saw Lu Xiaotian's dark expression, none of them tried to talk him out of it. Despite his scowl, however, Lu Xiaotian was still like a gambler, bringing out the one Shadow Monster Core he had left to lure in demons.
The Shadow Monster Core was useful not only to human cultivators. The phantom octopus shadow demon was an exceptionally unusual sea-demon tribe, and by devouring the core of one of its own kind, it could greatly