"Listening to you, Brother Zhu, it seems you're quite dissatisfied with the Dragon Palace?" Shen Luo asked with a chuckle.
"You really aren't from the South Sea Dragon Palace?" Zhu Mangqi hesitated again upon hearing that.
"No. I only came to buy Water-Fire Resonance Pills." Shen Luo shook his head.
"Hmph, where would I get any Water-Fire Resonance Pills now? Those bastards from the South Sea Dragon Palace snatched them all away." Zhu Mangqi sounded both sorrowful and indignant.
Shen Luo frowned deeply at that.
"Why are they collecting so many Water-Fire Resonance Pills?" Shen Luo refilled his cup and asked.
Zhu Mangqi said nothing, merely staring straight at Shen Luo.
"I really am not from the South Sea Dragon Palace. Think about it—they already robbed you of your Water-Fire Resonance Pills, so why would they go through the trouble of sending me here to deceive you?" Shen Luo said helplessly.
"That's true..." Zhu Mangqi nodded.
With that, he told Shen Luo everything he knew about the matter.
Only then did Shen Luo learn that a treasure was suspected to have emerged beneath the waters of the Great Chasm. The South Sea Dragon Palace wanted to claim it for itself, so it had sealed off the Great Chasm and forbidden other cultivators from entering.
However, a Flame-Spark Fire Vein lay beneath the Great Chasm, blocking the Dragon Palace's path. To cross it, they needed a dragon boat refined using Water-Fire Resonance Pills.
"The Dragon Palace's treasure dragon boat is enormous, and it requires a tremendous number of Water-Fire Resonance Pills. That's why they swept clean all the pills across the Great Chasm Ten Isles. Relying on their power—bah, what a bunch of scum!" Zhu Mangqi grew angrier as he spoke, draining cup after cup of wine.
"So, there aren't even