"Do you still have anything to do?"
"If not, I'm going to get back to it."
Before everyone had even come to their senses, Chen Changan had already resumed his hunt.
"What... is something wrong with that kid?"
"He's getting all worked up over something nobody's ever heard of?"
"He's got his priorities backward. Why waste time on this useless stuff instead of looking for Intermediate Promotion Beads?"
"He doesn't seem like an idiot to me. Maybe he figures his strength is only average, so even if he finds a Promotion Bead, it won't be his. He might as well hunt a few Earth Eater Beasts and make sure the trip wasn't a waste."
"Fair point."
"Enough. Leave him be. Let's keep moving."
Chen Changan's behavior was strange and set him apart from everyone else, but all he did was pick fights with Earth Eater Beasts. He wasn't bothering anyone.
If anything, his antics spared the others plenty of trouble, so they couldn't be bothered to interfere.
There was no denying that this palace was enormous, and it was teeming with Earth Eater Beasts. But they were all rather weak, only at the Lesser Thousand Realm, and posed no threat to Chen Changan.
By his reckoning, he had already been in this palace for over half a month.
He had hunted nearly a thousand Earth Eater Beasts.
But because Chen Changan had been so absorbed in hunting them, he was still wandering around the palace.
"This... Elder Chen?"
"What are you doing?"
Chen Changan suddenly ran into people from the Fang family. They looked at him in confusion.
"You made it?"
"Nothing much. I've just been hunting some Earth Eater Beasts."
"By the way, have any of you seen this before?"
Chen Changan took out the pitch-black stone again, but