"Brother Hu, your methods are truly impressive." The several bear demons accompanying Second Hu had long since grown accustomed to it, but the team of ghost worms was quite dazzled. The ghost worm leader said with heartfelt admiration,
"Just a little trick, nothing more." Though Second Hu said this, his face was clearly smug. He split half the spoils with the ghost worm leader. Their two teams were stationed here for precisely this reason. Aside from the required portion they had to turn over, however much they could scrape together was theirs to keep.
While Second Hu was feeling pleased with himself, Lu Xiaotian had already swiftly passed through the narrow waterway. The rich, pure spiritual energy outside washed over him. With the overwhelming ghostly aura gone, Lu Xiaotian couldn't help feeling refreshed.
He put away the dozen or so Sumeru rings in his hand, each containing quite a few spiritual items. It could be said that Second Hu and his companions were lucky to have escaped with their lives. If they had noticed anything amiss, Lu Xiaotian would have had no choice but to ruthlessly kill them. Now that he had enough magnetite stones, the murderous intent that Wu Changlian had kept hanging over his head no longer felt quite so oppressive.
As for Pig Seven, the wild boar demon, he had actually managed to secretly obtain a magnetite stone. Yet in that moment of crisis, he had handed it to Lu Xiaotian without the slightest hesitation. That had truly been beyond Lu Xiaotian's expectations. Though the magnetite stone would not have been of much use to Pig Seven—he lacked the ability to refine magnetite gold liquid and did not know the secret art of magnetite body infusion—selling it through the Abyssal Hall's channels would have earned the wild