Deep within a dark, secluded mountain cave, a pair of eyes gleamed brightly. At the same time, a transparent bead the size of a thumb floated in the pitch-black cavern, its surface rippling with waves of magical energy.
"An arcane bead!" The person in the cave was Lu Xiaotian, who had cast Spirit Eye Technique. The various Lineage cultivators who had sealed off the small lake had found nothing at all, leaving them utterly baffled. They concluded that a member of one of the Lineages had secretly taken the arcane bead and thus managed to evade the search.
After all, the ordinary Rogue Cultivators had already been checked, and the arcane bead could not be refined in a short time. If someone had swallowed it, they would certainly have been discovered during the inspection. Thus, the various Lineages grew suspicious of one another, and tempers flared so badly that they nearly came to blows. Yet no one could determine who had secretly taken the arcane bead, and the dispute ultimately came to nothing.
The Rogue Cultivators around the small lake also dispersed one after another. There was still some time before the various immortal sects began recruiting disciples, so they had to continue searching all over the mountains for spirit herbs, spirit ores, and the like, just as before. To them, the Crystal Toad and the arcane bead were merely topics of idle conversation.
No one could have imagined that Lu Xiaotian possessed a hidden world within his body and had brought the bead out without anyone noticing. At that moment, he gazed excitedly at the little bead that was enough to drive countless people mad. It was undoubtedly priceless. If it appeared in the markets of Moonwatch City, it would likely cause an immediate sensation and sell for an