On the verdant spirit mountain, dust had piled up in every hall, and even a few chairs had begun to rot.
They stood before the main hall, in a place Ye Xuecang and the others had not searched.
The two men discovered another spring.
It was small, only about a foot across, but the spiritual water within was exceptionally clear and gushed out at a steady pace.
As the spring gradually overflowed, clouds of spiritual radiance appeared above it. Clearly, this was a mid-grade third-tier Spirit Eye Spring.
It seemed to have come alive with the death of the fourth-tier locust tree Wood Demon.
"We'll award this spring to the Li Family," Ye Xuecang said.
The two men then headed into the main hall. A dust-cleansing spell swept through its interior, and in the blink of an eye, it became spotless, even gleaming faintly.
The main hall had been built on a magnificent scale. Once cleaned, it exuded a measure of majesty even without any furnishings.
Li Shangwu and several members of the Li Family were summoned there as well.
All of them felt somewhat uneasy.
Still, seeing that they had been called to this palace put Li Shangwu more at ease.
If the Ye Family truly intended to deal with them, why go to the trouble of summoning them before the palace? They could simply kill them.
After all, inside the Grotto-Heaven, they were no match for Ye Xuecang and Ye Xuefan. Outside it, they still could not escape Ye Jingcheng's grasp.
Li Shangwu therefore saw the situation with perfect clarity.
"We've finished taking stock of the gains from this secret realm."
"In total, we obtained one shape-transformed spirit herb, one piece of fourth-tier Wood Demon spirit wood, one high-grade third-tier spirit spring, three third-tier Spirit Herb Gardens, one