The white-robed man stopped the stocky man from rambling. "Brother Hu, enough of that. Even if we can't become friends, there's no need to make enemies of each other."
"What about the Lingxianzhi, then? We spent decades just finding out where it was. Now we haven't even gotten our hands on it, and we nearly got Old Lin killed in the process. If we miss this season, we'll probably have to wait decades before we can try to collect the Lingxianzhi again," the stocky man, Hu Chaosheng, said.
"If we don't have enough people, we should leave it for another time. There are a lot of green-hidden lizards in the Yingxi Marsh right now. They can hide inside trees, making them impossible to guard against. My wood-heart robe could sense the Lingxianzhi's exact location, but I still got ambushed by a green-hidden lizard when I let my guard down. If you hadn't received my distress signal and hurried over, you wouldn't have made it in time even to collect my body. And from what I could tell, those green-hidden lizards weren't focused entirely on me. It seemed they were also on guard against some other formidable presence. Otherwise, I doubt I could have held out until you arrived."
The lean man, drenched in blood, spoke hoarsely.
"Then all those decades we spent searching will have been for nothing?" Hu Chaosheng said, clearly struggling to accept it.
"No one wants their efforts to go to waste. But if there's no opportunity now, we'll find another way later. Plenty of people have lost their lives because they couldn't curb their greed. We haven't lost anyone yet, so what is there to complain about?" said the prettier, slightly fuller-figured of the twin sisters, the one on the left.
"How can we know how