"Senior." Su Qian cupped his hands in greeting when he saw them come up.
He had not expected one person to go down and three to come back up, with even the weakest among them being a Dou Zun.
Li Chen casually took out a wisp of Fallen Heart Flame and returned it to him. This newly transformed flame had no intelligence, and although its power was weaker than the original's, that actually suited Su Qian better.
"Go on. I'll wait for you outside."
Zhu Kun had sensed Zi Yan's presence as soon as he came up. Li Chen simply waved him off to reunite with his daughter.
He nodded without saying much, then turned and headed toward the mountains behind the academy.
Next, Li Chen led the others toward the Dou Zun ruins whose location he had obtained from Han Feng. They contained only things left behind by a Dou Zun.
But as long as there was even one item he had not collected before, whether medicinal herbs, magical beast materials, cultivation methods, pills, or pill recipes, it would be worthwhile.
Even if he had no use for it, it would still be a gain, and he could keep a sample in the Transformation Table.
The ruins Han Feng had told him about lay in the northwestern corner of the Black-Corner Region. They had all sorts of traps and trials, but to him, those might as well not have existed.
After all, the Dou Zun who had left these ruins behind could never have imagined that a Dou Di-level figure would take an interest in his meager belongings.
Li Chen took the others inside for a look around. In less than half an incense stick's worth of time, he found that, apart from a few scrolls of earth-tier Dou