"Wait, how did I become an intellectual again?" Jinlin muttered when he saw Mo Shang.
"Slow to act, full of hot air. If you're not an intellectual, who is?" Mo Shang shrugged.
"Uh, I just wanted to go through the motions, you know?"
Jinlin had figured he was alone here, with no one to steal his kills, so he might as well go through the motions. Who would have thought Mo Shang would walk up and immediately slap them down...
"Why bother with the motions? Just beat them up and be done with it. All right, I'm going to check elsewhere..."
Mo Shang waved a hand, then vanished in a blur, leaving a bewildered Jinlin behind.
"What's the rush? He didn't even take their stuff..."
Watching Mo Shang come and go in such a hurry, Jinlin muttered to himself, then turned toward the three unconscious cultivators and rubbed his hands together.
"Hehe, all the better for me..."
A moment later, Jinlin had stripped the three clean. Apart from their worthless clothes, he bundled up everything and took it all.
"Today's a lovely day, a lovely day~~~"
With that done, Jinlin hummed as he leisurely left.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Xiao Yan had also encountered several cultivators.
"I smell spirit flame on you. Hand it over!"
The lead cultivator wore red robes, fire attribute energy swirling around him as he stared greedily at Xiao Yan.
Facing them, Xiao Yan smiled faintly and raised his hand, revealing the palm hidden within his sleeve. A fire lotus radiating an aura of destruction appeared in it.
"Destruction Fire Lotus."
Without a moment's hesitation, Xiao Yan flicked his finger. The fire lotus instantly burned through space and appeared before the red-robed young man and his companions.
Sensing the terrifying aura coming from the fire lotus, the