"Damn!"
When he saw the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation activate and shroud the entire inner sect of the Supreme Clarity Sect, Bai Xiaowen let out a curse.
Was there really a need to make such a huge fuss?
However, this also confirmed from another angle how precious Bai Xiaowen's Thousand-Soul Jade was. Even the Supreme Clarity Sect was willing to throw away its dignity and ignore their past favors to seize it by force.
As expected, Epic Tier items were not so easy to obtain. Under the true rules of the Evolver Plane, Bai Xiaowen could indeed directly take the Thousand-Soul Jade without meeting conditions such as picking up loot, but that also meant he had to endure the covetous gazes of powerful forces from the Spirit Realm.
When Elder Tang Ren had taken the initiative to mention the Thousand-Soul Jade, Bai Xiaowen had already sensed that something was wrong.
At that moment, Bai Xiaowen had another option: he could have flatly denied possessing the Thousand-Soul Jade.
That would not actually have been wise, because what the other side already knew was that Kitz, who had destroyed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, was a puppet controlled by Bai Xiaowen.
Moreover, when the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was destroyed, many righteous cultivators had seen Kitz pick up the Thousand-Soul Jade with their own eyes.
In other words, denying it outright would not make Tang Ren or the other Supreme Clarity Sect elders believe him. Tang Ren might then turn hostile ahead of time in order to seize the Thousand-Soul Jade.
Therefore, Bai Xiaowen had chosen to admit it readily. He had followed Tang Ren's words and expressed his willingness to hand over the Thousand-Soul Jade, even hinting that he wanted to exchange it for some benefits.
Everything he had done was meant