Spreading his hands, Arushiman did not spare Dark Blood and the others so much as a glance. He merely watched Lin Qi racing back and forth with extreme apprehension. Lin Qi had already swept nearly half the divine-grade crystals in the hidden vault into his possession. He was simply too fast, filling Arushiman with such bladder-tightening urgency that he practically wanted to piss himself. He trembled all over, praying only that his armor would store enough energy soon so it could carry him out of this damned place at top speed.
Dark Blood and his group were all dumbfounded. That terrifying sacred artifact, said to possess infinite power and able to break even a Main God-level powerhouse thrown inside it down into the most fundamental elemental particles, was actually... actually a scam? If Arushiman had not used that sacred artifact as collateral back then, how could he possibly have left the Alliance's secret base under the watchful eyes of so many guards to gather raw materials?
No wonder he had vanished without a word. No wonder it had taken the Alliance so many years to finally uncover the faintest trace he had left behind and find this place! This bastard, this bastard had deceived everyone. He had deceived every major figure in the Hidden World Alliance. That so-called sacred artifact had merely been a prop he used to swindle them!
"With your intelligence, you cannot comprehend the wisdom of our Celestial Sprite Clan. That Chaos Furnace truly is a fine thing, but even an apprentice in our clan can build one of those in under three hundred years! Only primitive savages like you would regard that thing as so precious. To me, it is nothing but a piece of junk!"
Arushiman mercilessly battered Dark Blood and the others' confidence with