On a hillside over a thousand miles from Ten Directions Platform, an Emergence from Dust Adept from Heavenheart Platform asked with great interest, "Uncle-Master Busheng, if Qianshan hadn't run, would Uncle-Master Guyue definitely have gone easy on him?"
"Who could know?" Ji Busheng sat on a rock, took a sip of wine, and replied casually, "In any case, there's no doubt that Qianshan handled this matter dishonorably."
It was already the third day since they had slain the High-Grade Golden Core. The three Golden Cores had not left, instead finding a place to lie low.
After killing Qianshan the day before yesterday, Guyue had given the head to Xia Nishang, saying that Qianshan had been an old acquaintance and that it would not be right for him to use his head to kill one person and save another. He would first help her settle one head.
Guyue had kept Qianshan's Storage Pouch for himself, saying he would return its contents to Guyue's family. In any case, he knew Qianshan's origins.
However, Ji Busheng had suffered several internal and external injuries, but it was not as though he had gained nothing—Qianshan's Storage Pouch contained over twenty thousand Spirit Stones, more than a hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and several bottles of healing medicine. Guyue had left them all to Ji Busheng.
Xia Nishang's gain was not limited to the head of a High-Grade Golden Core. She had also acquired something good—the Yellow Springs Gourd.
Since the battle had not lasted long, she immediately went looking for the gourd once it ended, and she actually found it. Before everyone's eyes, she drew out two miniature Karmic Fire Red Lotuses, then contentedly stoppered the gourd. "It really is good stuff."
The Heavenheart Platform disciples had also gained something. Of the other side's eight Emergence