For a moment, the two of them fell into a strange standoff.
A gravely wounded Grandmaster and a slippery little ant.
Between them lay a treasure capable of driving countless people mad.
Neither dared to make the first move.
The atmosphere froze to the breaking point.
In the end, Lu Yuan was the one who broke the silence.
"Fairy, look."
He pointed toward the formation in the middle of the lake.
"You've seen it yourself. Neither of us could break it safely in a short time on our own. Not in a place like this."
His tone was full of temptation.
"How about... we work together this once?"
Yun Chan raised an eyebrow, as if she'd heard the biggest joke in the world.
"Work together? With you?"
"I know how to break the formation at the lowest possible cost."
Lu Yuan sounded utterly confident.
"And I'm the only one who can do it."
He wasn't bluffing.
His understanding of formations surpassed that of the vast majority of people in this world.
Yun Chan stared hard at him, as if trying to spot the slightest trace of guilt on his face.
But she failed.
Lu Yuan's gaze was so open and honest that even she began to doubt herself.
Could this rat really have some trump card she didn't know about?
"How do we work together?"
Yun Chan finally relented.
She planned to use him to break the formation and get the pearl first.
Once her injuries had healed, killing him would be easy.
"It's simple."
Lu Yuan smiled like a fox that had just stolen a chicken.
"The formation draws its energy from the earth veins, and that energy is intensely cold. But it has two core nodes, one yin and one yang, positioned opposite each other. We have to