Celestial Pivot Court's "Younger Brother" Status

"You're saying you left your bamboo shoot where it was, and it vanished?"

After hearing Wei Luo's account, Chang Bai looked puzzled, finding it rather hard to believe.

But when he went over to inspect the spot, he indeed discovered that the fine-quality Blood Bamboo Shoot Wei Luo had initially dug up was gone.

"Could someone else have stolen it while you were fighting Liang Chao earlier?"

Chang Bai glanced at the Celestial Pivot Court disciples gathered around the outskirts of their area.

Wei Luo had no reason to lie to him. Though he and Wang Yonghu were poor, they were not poor enough to steal Wei Luo's bamboo shoots.

Besides, such a large bamboo shoot would not have been easy to hide.

That left the surrounding disciples as the likeliest suspects.

Ninety percent of the Celestial Pivot Court's disciples were commoners. With barely any resources or benefits to speak of, they were all poor enough to make one's heart stir.

If someone bold enough had grown envious of Wei Luo, stealing was hardly surprising.

But after thinking for a moment, Wei Luo shook his head.

To steal his Blood Bamboo Shoot without a sound, someone would have needed to specifically cultivate a movement technique. Otherwise, it would have been absolutely impossible.

For a time, Wei Luo could not figure out what had happened either.

He asked Chang Bai about the sounds several meters underground, but the latter wore the same bewildered expression.

Seeing that there was no way to determine how the bamboo shoot had disappeared, Wei Luo could only put the remaining shoots into his pack and continue digging.

After that, no more Blood Bamboo Shoots went missing.

By the time dawn broke, the pack holding the bamboo shoots was stuffed to bursting.

Wei Luo alone had dug