"The aura of the Great Dao?" Feng Jun was startled at first, then his expression changed slightly as he asked thoughtfully, "What kind of aura is that?"
"The evolution of the Great Dao," the Big Shot answered quickly. She seemed to hold Qu Jianlei in rather low regard. She had been exceptionally cautious around Xia Nishang, but with True Adept Qu standing right beside them, she transmitted her thoughts without the slightest restraint.
"In this plane, it may be called a Celestial Mechanism Stone... or perhaps something else."
Huh? Feng Jun frowned. Right, there was that possibility too.
Just then, Elder Liao arrived with five Qi Refining Stage cultivators. "There were seven in total. Two tried to run and were killed... by the True Adept, not me."
Qu Jianlei snorted softly, making it clear that he took responsibility for it—he had told them not to run, yet they still did. Were they looking down on a True Adept?
Feng Jun frowned. "What were they doing in Pacify Arms Mountain?"
"Digging tunnels," Elder Liao said angrily. "I warned them several times not to operate in Pacify Arms Mountain, but they insisted they were mining jade. Jade prices have risen quite a bit lately, but they can't just dig wherever they want, can they?"
The jade market in Donghua Kingdom had been driven up entirely by Feng Jun. Silver dollars for jade, gold for jade—everything had been paid in hard currency. No matter how much jade Pacify Arms Mountain produced, he bought it all. There were also quite a few jade merchants from elsewhere, and as long as the price was right, he bought from them too.
Before leaving Pacify Arms Mountain, he had left behind five million silver dollars. There was no shortage of money to purchase jade.
Especially lately, many