"Smack!..."
Inside a cave at the bottom of a cliff near the Heavenly Frost Pavilion on the Mysterious Wasteland Tower's Sixth Layer, Xu Taiping lifted the treasure chest he had dug out of the ground.
This chest contained the second set of treasures Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland had hidden inside the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
Xu Taiping and the others had obtained the map to these treasures back on the Fourth Layer, but because they were buried on the Sixth Layer, they had only come to retrieve them today.
"Elder Zhang, how long has it been since we parted with Nanxing and the others?"
Xu Taiping lifted the chest onto a rock, then turned to ask Elder Zhang, who stood guard at the cave entrance.
"Half an incense stick. No more, no less."
Elder Zhang replied.
"Good."
Xu Taiping nodded, then continued as he examined the chest before him:
"As long as we reach the Seventh Layer's entrance within one incense stick, we can catch up and enter the Mysterious Wasteland Tower's Seventh Layer with them."
Originally, Xu Taiping, Elder Zhang, Nanxing, and Zhai Mo had planned to leave the tower immediately after rescuing Gu Qingcheng, then rest and recuperate outside for at least half a month before heading to the Mysterious Wasteland Tower's Seventh Layer.
But after Gu Qingcheng's repeated pleas, Xu Taiping had finally agreed to take a look at the Seventh Layer first.
With time running short and the treasures left by Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland still to retrieve, they had ultimately decided to split up. Gongshu Nanxing and Zhai Mo would take Gu Qingcheng into the entrance to the Mysterious Wasteland Tower's Seventh Layer first, while Xu Taiping and Elder Zhang came here for the treasures.
They had done this because, with the Azure Dragon Token, Gongshu