If Red Cloud and the other two had been far away, there would have been no need for them to contend over this treasure, and they certainly would not have arrived so quickly. But given their current positions, they had a chance to fight for it.
Seeing this scene, you understood all of this in an instant. Yet whether Qian was trustworthy, whether he would stab you in the back for the treasure and leave with it... those were matters you still needed to guard against. Perhaps Qian was thinking the same way. Judging by the changes this treasure had caused, it far surpassed the entire portion of Red Qi you had obtained before. No matter how one looked at it, it was no ordinary object—something worth breaking an alliance over.
After all, the terms of your alliance had broadly only required both sides to provide support, while both of you had tacitly avoided the question of treasure ownership. That question had never been easy to explain; give it directly to either person, and the other would have objections. Such an agreement was at its most fragile when encountering a treasure valuable enough to make both people abandon the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region and leave. The treasure before you might have reached that value...
Eight days later, although Qian had been closer to the treasure when the change appeared, you still arrived faster. Yet once you drew near, this treasure—which even your Void Golden Eye could not clearly make out from slightly farther away—left you silent.
It was a diamond-shaped, semi-pure-white barrier. Within it, white mist curled and coiled around two items.
However, when you arrived, you subconsciously did not look at the item in front. Instead, you looked toward the treasure farther back.
The aura emitted by that