He tiptoed over to stand opposite Great-Grandfather, leaving the two luminous fish between them, and said, "Help! Of course I'll help!"
"Calm down, Great-Grandfather, calm down. Tell me, where do I start?"
Only then did Cui Chengshou's expression ease slightly. He said gravely, "See the strands of spiritual energy hanging from these two fish?"
"Do what I'm doing. Keep winding strands around them until the strands completely envelop them, forming cocoons."
"Then use the Treasure-Collecting Art from The Eight Extremes, and you can take both the treasures' true spirits and their physical forms."
He paused, then warned solemnly, "Remember! Before they're completely wrapped in cocoons and you use the Treasure-Collecting Art, you must not wake these two treasures' true spirits!"
"Otherwise, we'll end up just like these dead men's bones on the ground!"
Cui Jiuyang glanced at the heaps of white bones, then at Great-Grandfather's grave expression, and asked seriously, "Are the consequences really that serious? Think this through. If we both die here, that's the end of the Cui Family."
Cui Chengshou said impatiently, "Oh, we can still escape. At worst, we'll get hurt."
"I only said that to make you careful. Don't take this lightly!"
"You talk too much! If I hadn't been injured earlier and lost cultivation, would I need to wait here for you to help?"
Only after speaking did he seem to notice Li Mingyue standing nearby. He looked up at her, frowned, and said, "Stand guard."
"Kill anyone who breaks in, no exceptions!"
Li Mingyue's heart tightened, and she hurriedly nodded.
She summoned all the shell magical artifacts on her bracelet above her head. They gave off a faint, clear glow as she stood ready nearby, serving as their protector.
A person's reputation was like a tree's shadow.
Even after facing so many brushes