In the end, it was the artifact spirit who reminded Su Jiu, and only then did she notice the Heavenly Demon-Subduing Pestle discarded in a corner. Since it had not acknowledged her as its master, it naturally would not throw itself straight at her as her own magic treasures had.
Its artifact spirit hid timidly behind the Heavenly Demon-Subduing Pestle, showing only a head as bright as a light bulb as it secretly watched Su Jiu and her spirits. Still, Su Jiu noticed the unmistakable envy in its eyes.
In the end, Su Jiu walked over herself, picked it up, and put it back into her Storage Ring.
Su Jiu glanced at Yun Huanling, who stood a short distance behind her. "It's time we left, too."
Yun Huanling nodded, and the two solemnly bowed toward the direction Little Green had been looking earlier.
Sand City stood in the Savage Wilderness, a peripheral city under the Succubus Sect's jurisdiction. Its remote location left it sparsely populated, however, and the vast city had fewer than five thousand residents.
With few resources to be unearthed nearby, it did not even have any demonic cultivators of a slightly higher rank. Most demonic cultivators who came to this city were merely passing through, looking for somewhere to rest.
After all, there was no second city within a thousand li of Sand City, which showed just how remote it was.
Sand City owed its name to the windblown sand season that occupied half of every year.
Whenever the windblown sand season arrived, the streets grew even emptier. Demonic cultivators did not particularly mind, but ordinary merchants absolutely refused to come.
Sand City relied on outside deliveries for practically all its supplies. Without those deliveries, its people could only search for resources themselves, and many who