The three White Robe maiden divine envoys had remained silent the entire time.
One of them—the little round-faced girl—had even glanced Yue Yang's way with her bright eyes, effortlessly picking out Student Yue Yang from among the crowd.
That glance made Student Yue Yang, who had intended to pass by and merely mooch off the scene, feel dizzy. The three of them might look like delicate White Robe girls on the surface, but they were divine envoys after all. Sure enough, they were not so easily fooled. But an ancient relic that had already entered his pocket was like food already in his belly—how could he casually take it back out? He would keep playing dumb. In any case, they could not possibly come up and search him themselves!
The transmigrator remained utterly composed, raising his head at the legendary pure forty-five-degree angle. All he lacked was a sign in his hands reading: "I did not find an ancient relic beneath the sea."
Jin Qi's friends waited for quite a while without seeing any movement, and hurriedly added fuel to the fire.
Perhaps the divine envoys wanted to reward him privately, when no one was around, and keep things low-key.
But as nobles, what they fought for was honor.
What they wanted was a public reward, the envious gazes of everyone, the jealousy and resentment in people's hearts... How could they possibly keep a low profile? They had to claim the hefty reward for this commission before all these students! Ji Wuri, Zhong Hua, Captain Cook, and even countless elite students and Peerless geniuses had failed this commissioned task time and again. If Jin Qi managed it today, his prestige would surely soar wildly. It might not be impossible for him to catch up to—or even surpass—Ji Wuri, the man