Dugu Bo stopped in a cave on a barren mountain.
The moment he slipped into the cave, he yanked open the Wishful Treasure Pouch and reached inside.
He searched frantically, his fingers rummaging through the pouch's internal space as he counted the plants one by one.
The Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid was there.
The Ninth-Grade Purple Ganoderma was there.
The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew was there.
The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower was there.
The Snowy Swan Kiss was there too.
His hand continued probing deeper, growing more frantic the farther it went.
It was gone.
The Aromatic Silk Beauty was gone.
Dugu Bo's hand suddenly clenched inside the pouch, then loosened, then clenched again, then loosened again.
Then he turned the entire Wishful Treasure Pouch upside down and shook it twice, dumping all the Immortal Herbs onto the ground. More than a dozen Immortal Herbs spread across the floor, their radiance flowing as spiritual energy spilled forth. Yet no matter how he counted them, three times over, one plant was missing.
The Aromatic Silk Beauty.
"Sky Screen! You fucking bastard!" Dugu Bo abruptly looked up and cursed at the cave ceiling. "I guarded these things painstakingly for half my life! It wasn't enough that you exposed my entire fortune—you even stole something from my pouch!"
Spittle flew as he cursed, his aged face flushing crimson. Green Soul Power burst uncontrollably from his body, shaking loose fragments of stone from the cave walls.
"That Aromatic Silk Beauty belongs to me! I dug it out of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with my own hands! What right do you have to take it? What right?!"
The more he cursed, the angrier he became. He kicked the cave wall, leaving behind a deep crater.
But the Sky Screen hung high in the sky