Yang Wudi stared at the Jade Thumb Ring on the table, his brows tightly knitted.
"The Immortal Alliance in Central Province tossed this our way?"
"Yes."
Zhou Xuan did not rush to explain. He raised his hand and put the Jade Thumb Ring back into his Storage Ring.
"Let's set that aside for now."
Yang Wudi opened his mouth, then closed it again.
He had lived for nearly two hundred years and knew how to read people. That expression on Zhou Xuan's face did not mean he was unwilling to talk. The timing was wrong.
"Let's settle the accounts in front of us first."
Zhou Xuan turned to Lin Qingzhu.
"Report our losses."
Lin Qingzhu had long since prepared everything.
She drew a thin ledger from her sleeve, opened it to the first page, and spoke rapidly. "Twenty-seven Hideous Demons were eliminated within the city. Another forty-three were pursued and destroyed outside it."
"Six of our cultivators were killed, eleven were seriously injured, and over thirty suffered minor injuries. As for mortal casualties, nine died and twenty-six were injured in the residential area in the north of the city."
When Yang Wudi heard “six killed,” his fingers tightened around the Tea Cup.
Six lives.
What had they bought?
Lin Qingzhu turned to the second page. "As for spoils, the bodies of the forty-three Demonic Beasts outside the city contained large quantities of high-tier Demon Beast bones and mineral crystals steeped in resentful qi."
"I had people perform a preliminary sorting. There are roughly seven hundred usable materials of tier three or higher that can go straight into storage."
“Seven hundred?” Yang Wudi nearly crushed his Tea Cup.
"That's not all."
Lin Qingzhu tapped the Ledger.
"Yang Mie took a team to search the supplies Zhao Ji stockpiled in the Extreme