Hearing Ye Han's words, the Immortal-Thief Outsider agreed, "I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Looks like we might have fallen into a trap!"
Ye Han nodded. "Let's slow down and observe the situation first."
Indeed, when the two divided the spoils from the poison-aura evil spirit, Ye Han received its true wood spirit-the one they had first seen. It was an extraordinary thing, capable of purifying his wood-attribute spirit root and enhancing the power of his wood-attribute cultivation techniques.
That was why the Immortal-Thief Outsider had been so excited upon seeing the wood spirit.
For the Immortal-Thief Outsider, however, the evil spirits pouring out of the poison-aura evil spirit were immensely nourishing. Absorbing them for cultivation was far more effective than using the wood spirit...
That was why Ye Han had bargained with the Immortal-Thief Outsider. When dividing the spoils, each should take what he needed. They could hardly let such a small matter drive a wedge between them.
After dividing the treasures, neither knew where they were. They could only take things one step at a time and head for the mountain peak ahead first.
Judging from what they had seen earlier, heaven and earth spiritual energy flourished amid the mountain peaks over there, and multicolored radiance and treasure light seemed to surge within them...
Both Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider recognized how extraordinary that mountain peak was. They exchanged a glance, each seeing a trace of anticipation in the other's eyes. They had braved such great risks to enter the Central Star Palace Temple precisely to seek the many fortuitous opportunities that might allow them to ascend to the upper realm.
Cultivators were truly contradictory beings. On the one hand, to become immortals and attain the Dao, they had to venture into all manner