The old monster Kong Rong stood alone amid the five great experts, a surging tide of fortune rising from him.
Lu Xiaotian, Yan Ji, the three-fingered severed hand, Ji Ting, and Bamboo Monk Lan Yun each drew that astonishing fortune into themselves.
The fortune split into four shares. Lu Xiaotian, Yan Ji, and the severed hand controlled by Kong Tianji each took one, while Ji Ting and Bamboo Monk Lan Yun divided the remaining quarter.
Once the fortune had been completely scraped away, the old monster Kong Rong's body began to weather. A breeze swept past, and his body crumbled into a cloud of sand that blew away on the wind, vanishing entirely into the void.
Lu Xiaotian finally breathed a sigh of relief. This half-step Demon Emperor expert had truly been formidable. Without the wild card Kong Tianji, he and Yan Ji's group would certainly have lost, even working together.
If he had been able to lead the dragon battle formation, and Yan Ji had brought the Golden-Threaded Bat King Guards, they might have been able to keep the old monster Kong Rong there. But the Green Fruit Barrier had been sealed, so that possibility had never existed.
The battle had been won by an absurd stroke of luck. Even now, thinking back on it sent a chill down his spine.
With the old monster Kong Rong no longer interfering, Lu Xiaotian used the Void Sky Sub-Cauldrons to extend his divine sense through the void at astonishing speed. He soon found the scattered crystal coffin.
The belongings of a half-step Demon Emperor—though it was only a coffin—were still incomparably precious to Lu Xiaotian.
Lu Xiaotian reached out. A huge hand crossed tens of thousands of miles of void, enveloping the separated coffin body and lid.
The crystal coffin had