Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian immediately grew solemn.
This was the closest anyone on their side had come to the Yin God Su Yan since imprisoning him in the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
Originally, Xu Taiping had intended to leave the Yin God Su Yan in the Dragon-Trapping Tower for the time being and ignore him.
But the hall on the tower's first floor was piled with large quantities of gold essence stone that he and Dongfang Yuejian had collected from the mountain valley. Without determining the Yin God Su Yan's true condition, they had no way to retrieve it.
Xu Taiping looked at the mountain of gold essence stone in the hall, then touched the Lotus Eye in his left eye and thought:
If not for you, I wouldn't have to take such a risk ahead of time.
The main reason he needed gold essence stone was the Lotus Eye.
Soon, the Lotus Eye chuckled in his mind and said:
"Xu Taiping, you can set all ten thousand of your worries aside."
"As long as you let me eat my fill this time and stabilize my Divine Intent First Stage, I won't disappoint you afterward, whether you go find that Yin God to retrieve the main beam of Jiaye's main hall or head to Vulture Peak!"
Hearing this, Xu Taiping watched Venerable Jiaye and Xuanzhi below in silence, then said expressionlessly:
"I only hope you keep your word and really prove useful at a critical moment."
After Dao Integration, he and the Lotus Eye counted as one, so he did not need to worry that the Lotus Eye would refuse to exert itself in a crisis.
Just then, Venerable Jiaye, who had been studying the enormous golden silkworm cocoon for a long time, suddenly turned toward Xu Taiping upstairs and said,