"If you don't want them, give them back." Li Yichen feigned displeasure and reached for the pearls in their hands.
"We do! Of course we do!" The two men clutched their pearls tightly, terrified that Li Yichen would snatch them away.
"What ability does mine have?" Elder Mo asked, gripping his pearl. "Is old man Wang's the same as mine?"
"Right, I wanted to ask that too. What ability does mine have?" Although Elder Wang disliked Elder Mo's way of addressing him, he clearly cared more about the Ability Pearl at that moment.
"They're both the same: X-ray vision," Li Yichen said casually, stealing a seemingly inadvertent glance at Elder Wu.
Hmm? Did they say X-ray vision? Elder Wu looked indifferent, but her ears had already pricked up.
"X-ray... vision..." The two men froze, then broke into ecstatic grins at the same time.
Clearly, neither had expected Li Yichen to give them such powerful abilities for free. Not a single one of the hundred pearls earlier had contained X-ray vision.
But that wasn't what excited them most.
X-ray vision! What man could resist its temptation?
"Put them away before Elder Wu sees them. These are the only two I have left, so don't let it slip," Li Yichen said, putting on a troubled expression.
"Yes, yes... not a word, even if it kills us." Both men nodded immediately, carefully put away their Ability Pearls, then turned and walked back as though nothing had happened.
The moment they turned away, a meaningful smile curved Li Yichen's lips.
"You're not plotting something nasty, are you?" Mo Yurou asked quietly, looking puzzled.
Li Yichen's expression immediately returned to normal. "What would I be plotting?" he asked innocently. "Don't accuse me unfairly."
"But your smile just now looked so sinister," Ouyang Xuanxuan whispered with