The Jade Spore Skyworm did not take long to return, carrying back a stone the size of a tennis ball.
The stone was utterly unremarkable, covered in countless pores and somewhat resembling the Maifan Stone of the Blue Star Realm. However, it was actually the high-grade material known as Void Qi Stone.
When the thirty-foot tree trunk had shattered earlier, thousands of stones this large had shot swiftly into the distance. Everyone had been too busy dodging to notice such a tiny anomaly.
Yi Jue stepped forward and swept it with her Divine Sense, immediately understanding everything. She said disdainfully, "I never thought the dignified Iron Bone Elder would end up like this. Hiding inside a stone and playing dead—is that interesting?"
"This guy is terrible at talking," the Big Shot said indignantly. "Feng Jun, you need to say something to her!"
Iron Bone really did play dead. There was no response whatsoever from within the Void Qi Stone.
Qingji's perception was no worse. After sweeping it with her Divine Sense, she asked, "Yi Jue, how do you plan to deal with his Remnant Soul?"
Of course, she intended to kill him! Yi Jue was just about to answer when Feng Jun spoke first. "What does Elder Qingji think?"
Qingji indeed had plans of her own. "I want to take him back and make Wanqing happy."
She had no intention of killing him. A Nascent Soul was good enough. The Spirit Wood Dao had given the Golden Crow Sect a pure Nascent Soul, and the Golden Crow Sect would not mind returning a pure Nascent Soul in turn.
"That seems inappropriate," Yi Jue disagreed, saying solemnly, "I was the one who fought him to the death. If the Golden Crow Sect takes away the Nascent Soul, the Spirit Wood Dao