"We struck pay dirt."
Zhou Mo, Crippled Monkey, and the others stood beside the Deep Pit, staring excitedly at the eerie stones mixed into the Soil below.
"Station Master, we really found them! There are so many eerie stones here!"
"But this doesn't look like a dung pit. It looks like someone deliberately hid the eerie stones here."
"I know what happened." Understanding suddenly dawned on Zhou Mo. "I should've thought of this ages ago. Didn't I just say it? That big shot must've had lots of Attendants. Before leaving, he had them dig all the eerie stones out of the dung pits for him, right?"
"But people always have selfish desires. Those Attendants must've gotten greedy. Instead of handing over all the eerie stones, they dug a Deep Pit and hid some here, planning to come back for them later."
"But for some reason, they couldn't come back right away."
Chen Fan stood there with a complicated expression, looking at the eerie stones mixed into the Soil at the bottom of the Deep Pit.
Then he looked at Zhou Mo and Crocodile beside him, both wearing expressions of sudden understanding.
Yes, it wasn't just Zhou Mo who had suddenly figured things out. Even Crocodile seemed to have realized something.
Too much time had passed since the dung pits they'd just excavated were used. Even Crocodile couldn't smell anything at the bottom. The dung had fossilized, leaving not a trace of its stench.
Zhou Mo's guess was wrong.
If that were what had happened, 180 years had already passed. Since that big shot had a high Cultivation level, he should have been able to extend his Attendants' lives too. They wouldn't have waited this long to retrieve the eerie stones they'd buried.
If their lives couldn't be extended, they would