These people hadn't searched the place much before they caught up to them.
The contents of all five backpacks amounted to only two Qi-Recovery Pills, a small bronze mirror, an ancient beast's tooth, and a few other odds and ends worth less than two hundred points in total. After putting everything into Qi Dian's backpack, the three set out to change locations. This valley had only been chosen because it was far from the fighting and made a good gathering spot; it wasn't a carefully planned crime scene.
Their first battle plan was to fish for victims.
Everyone competing for points was cautious. If they had valuable immortal items in their backpacks, they wouldn't risk fighting others lightly. And if someone was determined to run, even overwhelming strength might not be enough to stop them.
That was when they needed tricks to lure people in.
Yue Wen had bought a piece of Blood Spirit Ore elsewhere. It had formed by exactly the same process as Dragon Blood Crystal Stone: in ancient times, blood imbued with spiritual energy had dripped into a spirit-stone vein, where it was stored and transformed over many years into ore.
The difference was that one had evolved from spirit-beast blood, while the other had evolved from True Dragon blood, so their spiritual properties were vastly different.
After obtaining the Blood Spirit Ore, Yue Wen infused it with a wisp of dragon breath, giving it a faint aura of a True Dragon. As long as nobody picked it up and examined it closely, they shouldn't be able to tell it apart from Dragon Blood Crystal Stone.
Dragon breath was rare in the world, but not entirely unobtainable, so Yue Wen wasn't worried that this would expose his True Dragon wondrous art. Normally, though, the ore couldn't be