By now, a full two years and six months had passed since everyone entered the Flowing Fire Grand Transformation Grotto-Heaven.
During that time, even if the disciples had not scraped every inch of ground bare,
at least most of its opportunities and fortunes had been uncovered, with few overlooked.
And as early as three months ago, that temporary palace of the Huo Xia Patriarch
had had its restrictions worn away by the Cavern Mystery Refiners Xiao Xiujing, Sima Mingye, Liu Guan, and Shen Cheng, who divided everything inside among themselves.
Since Xiao Xiujing was generous, even someone like the purple-robed man, who cherished his own skin and never willingly entered battle, had received considerable benefits, taking plenty of Talisman Coins and pills.
But the opportunities and fortunes in the temporary palace did not end there. Beneath its many towers and halls lay a vast underground palace.
Xiao Xiujing and the other Refinement Masters suspected that the true fortune of the Flowing Fire Grand Transformation Grotto-Heaven remained undiscovered within that underground palace.
Over the past few months,
they had been gathering manpower and throwing their full strength into attacking it, with no attention to spare.
As for the purple-robed man's earlier boast, it was half true and half false.
He was indeed a third-level Purple Mansion cultivator with a life-saving trump card, but how could such a means be squandered lightly?
And whether it could contend with Chen Heng was difficult to say.
That young cultivator had wanted to drag him into the mire by force.
He had truly overestimated him.
And overestimated himself...
"Ignorant brat, throwing his life away! Before Chen Heng even entered this grotto-heaven, he could withstand a bolt of lightning from Liu Guan head-on. Someone like that is no easy opponent, even without his Sword Talisman!"