After Master Hu Jiu finished speaking, he saw his father, Master Hu Ba, fall silent.
He knew then that his father was considering whether to go treasure hunting in that place for the sake of a Foundation Establishment Pill. He knew his grandfather had died in that region, which had been an extremely heavy blow to his father, and his father had always treated that place as something too taboo to speak of.
"Father, why don't we just turn down that man from Spirit Mountain Sect? Our Hu Family can slowly earn a Foundation Establishment Pill in the future," Master Hu Jiu said when he saw that his father, Master Hu Ba, still had not spoken.
Master Hu Ba did not answer his son right away. He remained silent for a while longer before saying, "Let's gamble on it."
"My Hu Family has been treasure hunters in Western Wasteland City for nine generations. I'll use my life to gamble this once—if I win, I'll obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill. As long as Foundation Establishment succeeds, we can head to the West Divine Domain and establish ourselves there. In the future, when I try to obtain more Foundation Establishment Pills, it will certainly be much easier than it is now."
"Even if I do not fight for myself, I must at least fight for a path to Foundation Establishment for you, mustn't I?"
The reason Master Hu Ba did not say that the Foundation Establishment Pill they were striving for this time would be given to his son, Hu Jiu, was that a single Foundation Establishment Pill would draw the covetous eyes of many people in Western Wasteland City. The most correct course was to consume it as quickly as possible and break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
And just