Obtained

Li Xiao paused, his gaze sweeping over everyone present, and his tone grew several degrees more resolute.

"I came to Mu Province this time precisely for the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Yellow Stone Marrow and the Mountain Earth Core Qi.

I must obtain these two things.

As for everything else, each of you may rely on your own luck. I will not interfere.

But if either of these two things is inside, anyone who dares to stop me will receive no mercy."

His words were polite, but the weight behind them made several people present tense up involuntarily.

Although the Sect Master of Hatred-Severing Palace looked displeased, he did not object.

The Sect Master of Golden Blade Sect, Wang Yuanqiao, was deeply unwilling. He had originally hoped to use Li Xiao to monopolize this ruin, but the Saintess had already yielded. If he jumped out to object now, he would only look utterly unreasonable.

He could only swallow the words that had reached his lips and reluctantly accept the arrangement.

The group soon dispersed, searching in various directions across the ruins.

The disciples of Golden Blade Sect rummaged through the ruins for broken stone slabs and tiles. The people from Hatred-Severing Palace headed toward several relatively intact building remnants, while Shen Qinghe walked alone toward one side of the ruins. Her figure was light and soundless, as though she had merged with the darkness.

As the excavation beneath the ruins deepened, the ground slowly revealed a pyramid-like structure.

The entire tower was pitch-black, its surface smooth as a mirror. Under the dim light, it reflected a cold, eerie sheen. It had been preserved almost perfectly, as though the erosion of time had left no mark upon it.

The pyramid was covered in densely packed runes. Layer upon layer, they intertwined into some