Li Ergou accepted it, overwhelmed by the favor, and cautiously took a bite. At once, a surge of pure spiritual power flooded his dantian! This was countless times better than the green jade spirit melon he had been gnawing on!
As he absorbed the spiritual energy, he secretly sized up the people around Wang Hu. A closer look left him even more alarmed.
Their cultivation levels varied, and their clothing came in every style imaginable, but they shared one thing: every one of them had a ranking mark on their forehead! A scattered few even had black ones!
Li Ergou stammered, "Young master, what are you...?"
"Enough with the respectful address. It sounds awkward!" Wang Hu waved a hand, seemingly quite pleased with his own kingly swagger. "I'm Wang Hu, young master of the Wang family in Heavenly Phenomenon City, Central Continent! Back home, I'm one of the very best! Just call me Brother Hu!"
Wang Hu pointed toward a clearly demarcated stretch of open ground in the distance. "See the south side? That's the most mysterious of the Three Sects, the Heavenly Secrets Primordial Divination Pavilion! What you usually call the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion."
Li Ergou looked up and saw a massive magical artifact resembling an Eight Trigrams Formation Disc floating to the south. Its central formation disc was unfathomably profound; just a few glances made him dizzy, and he hurriedly looked away.
"And over to the east, look." Wang Hu pointed again, toward a stretch of ground ten miles outside Heaven-Cracking Gorge that had clearly been leveled and reinforced.
Li Ergou followed his gaze again, and his eyes widened.
Several "marketplaces" of wildly different styles had actually sprung up there!
At the very center stood a towering mountain of treasures, the huge gilded words "Ten Thousand Treasures Mountain"