Seven or eight Golden Core Cultivators hurried along, reaching the location in the Underworld corresponding to the Round-Faced Daoist Nun's Lineage in just a few short hours.
At this point, if they wished, they needed only to employ a minor trick to enter the Present World from the Underworld.
Yet now that the moment had come, unease surfaced in the Golden Core Cultivators' hearts.
One Golden Core Cultivator's hair stood on end. "My heart is uneasy. I keep feeling that this journey bodes terrible ill!"
The other Golden Core Cultivators nodded in turn. "We feel the same."
"But... our Magic Treasure is right up there. Are we really going to abandon it for nothing? Just give it up?"
They could not bear to.
Magic Treasures were precious.
Even the shoddiest first-tier Magic Treasure required immense resources and over a hundred years to refine.
They had been refining Magic Treasures on and off since Foundation Establishment.
Over thousands of years of toil, they had refined many Magic Treasures.
Yet those Magic Treasures had all been taken by their Lineages' prodigies for protection.
Meanwhile, they, the refiners, did not have a single Magic Treasure.
It was precisely because they had refined so many Magic Treasures that they knew how important a Magic Treasure was to a cultivator.
Thus, they all wanted a Magic Treasure of their own.
Now their chance had come:
A Foundation Establishment Cultivator had obtained a Magic Treasure.
"If we don't take it, Heaven surely won't forgive us."
One Golden Core Cultivator rose and growled, "The danger we sense probably comes from that Magic Treasure."
"As long as we strike fast enough, we can kill him before he activates it."
"Then we'll take back our Magic Treasure and use it to temper our golden cores and improve their quality."