[Gold Devouring]'s Miraculous Power, Killing and Shifting the Blame; [Miasma Insects] Hijack Vision, Gathering Monster Blood (Monthly Votes, Please)

Atop a lone peak.

"Mm-later, during the middle stages of the Song-Jin War, this Senior Brother Gu made his breakthrough within the sect. And as coincidence would have it, he was precisely the False Core True Person from the second question you just asked, my lord-"

Ye Qingwu nodded in confirmation.

Lin Changheng looked at Ye Qingwu, thoughts racing through his mind. Everything suddenly made sense.

There truly was something wrong with that man's character.

Back then, Mo Zhaoli and Lin Changheng had nearly concluded their purchase of the [Red-Eyed Fire Ogre] several times, only for that man to repeatedly go back on his word, deceiving and even toying with them.

At the time, the bastard had only been a Foundation Establishment cultivator. In the end, he had sold the mountain and marsh spirit to the Huang Household.

Although Lin Changheng had eventually gathered all the essence blood after a circuitous series of twists and turns, he had already resolved to demand an accounting from him someday.

And he had remembered it to this very day.

Now that the man had broken through to False Core, his taking advantage of Mo Zhaoli's misfortune on the Song-Jin Battlefield to strip Xu Yongzhen, who was under her care, of his Foundation Establishment Pill allocation seemed entirely in character.

I'll find an opportunity to settle both accounts with you-the new one and the old.

Lin Changheng's gaze gradually deepened, becoming like a fathomless pool as he thought to himself.

Ye Qingwu sat atop a massive boulder on the summit, her spread skirts resembling a colorful lotus. Considerately refraining from interrupting him, she tipped back her fine, snow-white neck and took another swig of spirit wine. This time, prepared for its bite, she found it fiercely spicy before a sweet aftertaste gradually emerged.

Then