Looking at this weak, pitiful, helpless fledgling.
Jiang Yuechu rarely felt a flicker of guilt in her heart.
"Cough, cough..."
She cleared her throat. "Now that the person has been rescued, it is time to do some proper work."
Niu Ben froze. "Your Highness, what proper work is left?"
Jiang Yuechu looked at him as if he were an idiot.
"Formless Mountain was one of the twenty-five lineages of the Dao Orthodoxy, after all. It stood in the Eastern Region for so many years; it must have some assets, right?"
She raised a slender finger and pointed at the enormous basin of ruins beneath their feet.
"That old thing fled in such a hurry, and Formless Mountain was smashed apart by my punch. There must be plenty of good stuff buried under these ruins."
On this trip, she had hemorrhaged Dao Cultivation like crazy.
The Great Tang happened to have a weak foundation... If she did not dig three feet into the ground and strip a layer of skin from the ruins of such a Dao Orthodoxy, she would be letting down the more than two million years of Dao Cultivation she had squandered.
"Go. Turn these ruins inside out for me."
Jiang Yuechu gave the order. "If it has even a trace of spiritual energy, dig it out for me—even if it is a broken brick."
Upon hearing that, Niu Ben carefully set Big Sis Baldy down on the ground.
Then he revealed his true form.
His enormous demonic body crashed through the ruins, his thick hooves sending earth flying as they dug.
Hu Cuihua refused to fall behind, terrified that this baleful star would casually destroy her if she appeared worthless.
She hastily transformed into a striped tiger and stuck her rear in the air, sniffing wildly through