Sharing a Cup of the Spoils

A reader in the review section made a very valid point: it should be the Fiery Kirin Robe, not the Fire Cloud Treasure Robe. The Fiery Kirin Robe was the true Spirit Grade Magic Treasure. I remembered it wrong myself and have corrected it.

Outside the cave, everything was completely different from when Wei Suo had first entered.

Thirty-two white banners had been erected throughout the valley outside the cave. Each banner stood over a person tall and was covered in twisted, blood-red rune patterns, making it seem as though streams of fresh blood were dripping down them.

Old Monster Mo, dressed in a bone robe, sat cross-legged beneath the central white banner. The rune patterns on the banner floating above his head were far more intricate than those on the other thirty-one banners. A mass of green light lingered above it, forming a green skull as large as a bucket. Amid the pitch-black, thickly foggy valley, it looked incomparably savage and terrifying.

Granny Jin, Old Monster Feng, and Iron Spirit Child stood not far from Old Monster Mo's side, staring fixedly at the cave entrance as if facing a formidable enemy.

Iron Spirit Child held an egg-sized violet-gold pellet bead in his hand. Granny Jin gripped a small golden hammer with a pointed horn, faint lightning flickering over it. Old Monster Feng, meanwhile, kept both hands hanging inside his wide sleeves, revealing nothing of his true capabilities.

"Everyone, be careful!"

Suddenly, a cold gleam flashed through Old Monster Mo's eyes. He brushed his right index finger across his lips, swiftly biting it open, then flicked several droplets of blood onto the white banner above his head.

In an instant, the green skull above the white banner blazed with light. White flames also surged across the other thirty-one banners, rolling