One thing still left you somewhat vexed: on your way here, you had seen that nearly one-third of the Exotic Gold Crystals had already fallen into the Stone Monkey's hands. Otherwise, the amount of Exotic Gold Crystal Raw Stone you obtained this time could have been even greater. And from the Stone Monkey's actions—still thinking of taking the Exotic Gold Crystals away even after his physical body had been cut down—it was not hard to see that he knew this item's true value...
Over the rest of those thirty-seven years, the only other passable spoils you had gained were Time Soul Pearls, all of the same kind. There were quite a few of them, more than ten in total. Some people had yet to fully refine theirs before either dying at the Stone Monkey's hands, allowing you to seize part of them amid battle, or simply dying directly by your hand.
The quality of these people's Time Soul Pearls, however, could only be called ordinary. More than ten Time Soul Pearls provided only slightly more Time Luck Number than the Huo Huo who had fought "Long Jian."
By now, after more than thirty years, you had finally refined Huo Huo's Time Soul Pearl. This son had brought you no small surprise—not merely through the Time Number he provided, but also because of his fragmented memories.
Although many of those memory fragments were extremely blurred for unknown reasons, the information that remained meant that Upper Court Heaven was no longer a complete mystery to you.
Perhaps Huo Huo had lived in a very distant era. In his time, the Promised Land where he lived was still ruled by a force known as the Promised Court of Arbitration. The "Heaven Listener" force, dissatisfied with its tyranny, was still wavering in the wind,