Azure Abyss Prefecture.
Inside Qin Chen's palace.
Looking at the mountain of deep-sea treasures and the hundred-plus medicinal herbs, all thousands of years old and radiating rich spiritual energy, Qin Chen nodded in satisfaction.
"Xiaobai, come out. Time to work."
With a thought from Qin Chen, ripples like water spread through the void above his shoulder, and Xiaobai appeared on it. The cat affectionately rubbed against his cheek before those eyes, like a silver starry sky, immediately locked onto a pile of top-grade water-attribute spirit stones in a corner of the treasury.
"Meow!" Xiaobai cheered, darted over in a streak of white light, and opened that little mouth. Crunch, crunch-several incomparably hard top-grade spirit stones were chewed up and swallowed like candy, followed by a contented burp.
Standing nearby, the Azure Abyss Prefecture Lord watched with the corners of his eyes twitching. Those were top-grade spirit stones!
Even a Dongxu-stage greater demon would not dare swallow them raw like that. Just what kind of monster was this?
"Enough, stop stuffing your face. Business comes first." Qin Chen stepped forward and packed all the deep-sea medicinal herbs over five thousand years old, the top-grade artifact-refining materials, and the heaps of spirit stones in the treasury into a Storage Ring of the highest grade.
He hung the ring around Xiaobai's neck, rubbed that furry head, and instructed, "Take this back to Yanjing City and give it to my father, Qin De. Remember, no sneaking any of the herbs inside on the way, or I'll dock a month's worth of your food."
Xiaobai rolled those eyes in a humanlike manner, seemingly protesting this lack of trust.
Then powerful spatial fluctuations rose around the cat, and a little paw lightly swiped through the void ahead.
Riiip-
The sturdy space of the deep sea was