The young girl's skirt flared like newly blossomed lotus petals, cutting a streak of bright color through the murky curtain of rain.
Her singing was clear and melodious too, as though it had truly carried away a patch of gloom.
She had not even turned back to see what ripples her good deed would stir.
Perhaps, in her innocent mind, that Superior Immortal Crystal, gleaming with shifting radiance, was enough to let the old man live out his remaining years in peace, with food on his table and no worries.
After all, a Superior Immortal Crystal was equivalent to...
An Immortalization Fruit!
And in this world, immortality was even easier to attain. Its value would only be higher!!
The laughter and conversation in the tavern came to an abrupt halt.
The men and women who had been elegantly raising their cups and chatting merrily a moment ago all fixed their gazes on the old man's bowl.
The pure spiritual light emitted by the Immortal Crystal blazed in this dim world like a scorching sun.
"Superior... Immortal Crystal!" A richly dressed man's Adam's apple bobbed. His voice was dry, and a terrifying gleam erupted from his eyes, without a trace of his former composure.
"I saw it first!" A seductive woman beside him shrieked, a ghostly glow already flickering over her fingers.
"Bullshit! Whoever gets it owns it!" Another short, sturdy man slapped the table and sprang to his feet, rattling the cups and plates into a chaotic clatter.
The false peace was torn apart in an instant.
There was no negotiation, no hesitation, not even time to throw out a complete threat.
Because everyone knew that a moment's delay could make them miss this enormous fortune capable of changing Fate!
Boom!
The light of erupting spiritual energy instantly illuminated the