The auction drew to a close.
Chen Lin put the Peach Spirit into the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant and followed the crowd out of the hall, keeping his guard up the entire time. No one attacked him, however.
He first wandered around for a while.
After failing to learn anything useful, he returned to his immortal cave.
"Where is that alien?"
The moment he saw Tianshu, Chen Lin asked.
Having failed to find a treasure that could heal the soul at the auction, he decided to treat the alien with Black-Gold Dew and see whether he could open the alien's Gem Bracelet in the process.
Since the alien could maintain his true body in the River of Destiny, he might possess something capable of resisting rule erosion.
"I hid him in the secret chamber."
Tianshu answered immediately.
Chen Lin nodded and headed inside. After activating a mechanism, he entered the secret chamber.
The Blue Alien lay flat in an open jade coffin.
The coffin was filled with spirit liquid, and a pitch-black cane rested horizontally across its top.
It was the Wizard Staff.
This item could conceal auras. Since the fellow's origins were unknown, Chen Lin had worried that he might suddenly awaken and release an aura that attracted powerful cultivators, so he had left the staff here.
Chen Lin glanced at it.
The crystal on the staff had grown much dimmer. It probably would not last much longer.
He did not understand the methods of wizards, and his main body could not control it with witch power. Once he activated the crystal with soul power, he could only let it discharge all its energy in one go.
That was why he had not put it away.
He thought for a moment.
Then he reached out and tried to put the