(Didn't the author say there'd be an extra update today?)
Liu Shengzhi clearly wasn't the kind of boss in a movie who would let them turn the tables, and they didn't exactly look like protagonists either...
So the three of them could only answer honestly, "We came to Three-Course Dam to look for the Wind-Settling Pearl..."
The Wind-Settling Pearl? Tang Changsheng frowned slightly. Then something occurred to him, and he fixed his gaze on the white-haired man who had cast a spell earlier and destroyed one of his Yin Soldiers.
He smiled. "If I'm not mistaken, what you used just now was the Chaos-Cavern Mighty Grasping Technique..."
"Yes." The Evil Virtue Daoist dared not lie to someone who had seen right through his background. He could only answer honestly.
"So you found a Wind-Settling Pearl here before, and that's how you mastered the Chaos-Cavern Mighty Grasping Technique?"
"Yes!" the Evil Virtue Daoist answered.
Tang Changsheng nodded slightly and studied him. It was hard to tell how old the man was. His hair was white, and his face was so pale he could have passed for a vampire. Not that Tang Changsheng had ever seen a vampire.
But Tang Changsheng knew of this so-called Chaos-Cavern Mighty Grasping Technique. It came from an unorthodox branch of cultivation and could be used without much cultivation of one's own.
All one needed was a precious pearl to refine with blood. The resulting supernatural ability depended entirely on the treasure's power.
The Evil Virtue Daoist must have found a Wind-Settling Pearl before and used it to create that giant hand of wind...
And there was no need to ask why the fellow had gone pale and white-haired. The blood-refining method had damaged his vital essence, leaving him like this.
That was how such unorthodox arts