After watching You Mu leave, Xu Anchang glanced around and began fretting over gains and losses again.
First, he worried that You Mu might fail. If he did, the consequences were all too clear: Xu Anchang would be driven into a dead end. It would actually have been safer for both of them to go, but someone had to stay here.
Second, he wondered whether he had been too impulsive. After all, they had yet to confirm whether those extraordinary treasures were even here. What if it all came to nothing?
But regret was useless. In truth, even as he made the decision, he had known perfectly well that it was an impulsive one.
Yet once they discovered that the people here could not withstand a single blow, the thrill that set their hearts pounding was something outsiders could hardly understand. After all, so many legends had ended here.
To spend a lifetime under another's thumb, or leap into the ranks of those who stood above others-this was a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity that made the heart tremble. Even suffering some hardship for it would be worthwhile. Was being controlled by others for years on end not a hardship in itself? Otherwise, why would he have risked coming to the Divine Fire Domain?
He had no idea how long he had spent fretting. In any case, he failed to notice Shi Chun coming out. Only when footsteps approached did he snap back to his senses and turn around.
Shi Chun came up from the cave entrance and looked around. Noticing that one person was missing, he asked with some puzzlement, "Where did You Mu go?"
Xu Anchang was also a little puzzled that Shi Chun had come out alone, but he hastened to explain, "I was worried Li Hongjiu and his group