The raiders had been vicious. Not a single living soul remained on the planet. They had even driven the Lineage's slaves into a valley and blasted them with indiscriminate spells, leaving the valley strewn with mangled corpses. Every one of the Lineage's outposts they passed was a sight too gruesome to bear.
Nangong Jue hurried ahead, urging them on. "Quick! This planet's owner is dead, but the Saint Court hasn't yet designated this planet as a Main Planet. If we take a few things, there's no owner to blame us, and the Saint Court won't pursue it. This is our chance!" His nose twitched. He crouched, dug into the ground with both hands, and brought up a stone no bigger than a thumbnail. Luo Qian laughed. "That Saint Soul Stone is so small it hardly counts as a piece."
Even as he spoke, Luo Qian snatched it without mercy. "Oh, well. Li Shu... why does that name feel so awkward? Whatever the size, it ought to be enough to lodge between his teeth." Nangong Jue kept running northwest. "Come on! I found it!"
Among the rocky mountains near the sea stood a kneeling Stone Statue. In its hands rested a Stone Orb covered in strange markings. "That's it?" Luo Qian asked, puzzled. Only Nangong Jue could have found a statue like this in such a vast stretch of mountains without knowing where to look.
Luo Qian had no idea what made the Stone Statue valuable, but he had always trusted Nangong Jue's nose. "I was wondering why those Bandits targeted a Lineage that was still developing. There wouldn't be much for them to plunder. Looks like they had something else in mind—they probably came for this."
Nangong Jue said, "But they killed everyone in the Lineage. Now there's no one