"If the Jade Bottle Mini-Secret Realm could speak, it would definitely be crying injustice right now." A perfectly good planting secret realm had become a temporary prison.
Wen Xu smiled, but his hands did not stop moving. "Come to think of it, did we just defeat a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator?"
"Yes, but he should have been an artifact refiner." Having suffered at Zheng Jin's hands once, Chen Zui had thoroughly learned his lesson and resolutely refused to give artifact refiners a chance to attack his blade. "And their spiritual power was not particularly abundant. They were only barely maintaining enough to use."
Chen Zui's perception was the sharpest when it came to enemies. "I think that Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator could at most display the strength of a Late Golden Core cultivator. The same went for the others—their cultivation had all been weakened to varying degrees." He had barely needed to use any spiritual power to deal with them easily.
Wen Xu understood. This formation might have been taking a cut—what Chunchou called middlemen profiting from the price difference.
"Come on, let's check the other parts of the city." The longer they remained in the city, the greater the drain on them. The good news was that Wen Xu had Jade Banyan Fruits gifted by No Spring in his storage ring. These fruits could increase the spiritual power within one's body when eaten directly, without refinement. In Rongyuan City at this moment, they were as precious as water in a desert.
Rongyuan City was now utterly buried beneath a vast expanse of white snow. If cultivators did not possess a clear sense of direction, they might not have found the right place even with a map. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but