"Kid, why didn't you let me keep fighting for it just now?" As they left Treasure Mountain, Mu Xinyuan was still upset over what had happened.
As a Dou Zun elder of the Heavenly Luan Clan, Mu Xinyuan had confidently assured Xiao Yan that obtaining the Magic Core of an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast would not be a problem. Yet he had suffered setback after setback and, in the end, failed to secure even a single Magic Core. Thinking of how he had embarrassed himself before two juniors, Mu Xinyuan felt both furious and ashamed.
Xiao Yan was not overly agitated. Instead, he frankly said to Mu Xinyuan, "Elder Yuan, since the Heavenly Luan Clan invited those five alchemists here, there must be something important requiring their help."
Mu Xinyuan nodded. Inviting five seventh-tier alchemists to act together came at no small cost, even for the Heavenly Luan Clan. Since they had paid such a price, it naturally meant that the clan truly needed the strength of those five.
"Since that is the case, offending those five for my sake would not be good news for the Heavenly Luan Clan."
Hearing that Xiao Yan was genuinely thinking of him, Mu Xinyuan felt warmth in his heart. For someone as young as Xiao Yan to put himself in his shoes like this, Mu Xinyuan found himself liking the young man more and more.
"Kid, do you know that if we did not fight for it today, we have no idea when another Magic Core like that will appear? In that situation, we only needed to offend Lan Gao. The others might not necessarily have stepped forward for him."
Lan Gao was the seventh-tier alchemist who had deliberately provoked Mu Xinyuan that day. Afterward, both Xiao Yan and Mu Xinyuan