Cracked Open (Thanks to Zhuang Sheng Xiaomeng Mi Hudie a for the Alliance Leader Reward)

Elsewhere, after Chen Xuanhai and Wu Qimo learned of this, the stone hanging over their hearts finally dropped. Both sent messages to Su Yuqing, praising her for handling matters properly.

Su Yuqing replied with a few simple words, but she could not help feeling somewhat wronged. Those two old men only knew that she had handled things properly, but they had no idea how great a sacrifice she had made.

That bead was not something she could casually give to someone else. If Lu Ye had not been so impervious to persuasion, why would she have resorted to such a method?

She could only hope everything went smoothly.

Inside the secret chamber, Lu Ye finished communicating with Nian Yuexian and focused his senses on the bead he had swallowed.

This item had to be immensely important to Su Yuqing. Otherwise, for a Great Sun Realm cultivator like her to give it away only to demand it back later would make no sense. Yet Lu Ye was curious—how exactly could this thing allow him to enter the Black Abyss?

The Black Abyss was an extraordinarily special place. Only cultivators of the Little People Race itself, or those carrying the aura of the Little People Race, could enter. Lu Ye was Human Race, and he had not cultivated jointly with any member of the Little People Race. In other words, could refining this bead give him the aura of the Little People Race?

As he carefully examined it, Lu Ye keenly detected a trace of Su Yuqing's aura within the bead.

Originally, this was nothing worth paying attention to. Su Yuqing herself had handed him the bead, so naturally it would be tainted with her aura.

But the more he investigated, the more Lu Ye felt that something was off.

This aura