Inside the cave, a little boy who looked five or six years old hung in midair, bound with a golden rope.
His violent struggles sent his body spinning in the air. His eyes, which should have held a child's innocence, now blazed with boundless hatred as he stared at the person responsible for all this.
"You despicable wretch! If you have any guts, release me!"
Not far away, Xue Fuyao sat on a flat rock, munching on a Spirit Fruit. Before her lay the Storage Bag she had searched out from the little boy's belongings.
The incessant curses overhead were getting annoying, so she simply picked up a stone from the ground and stuffed it straight into his mouth. Without even raising her head, she said, "You're too noisy."
"Mmph, mmph, mmph!!"
Though his mouth was blocked, his struggles grew even more violent.
"Don't waste your effort. What's binding you is the Immortal-Binding Rope, a Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Treasure. With your current strength, you can dream on if you think you can break free."
With that, Xue Fuyao tightened the Immortal-Binding Rope a little more, until sections of it nearly sank into his flesh.
She emptied everything out of the Storage Bag. There were plenty of good things inside, with Spirit Stones making up the bulk of them. Most were Upper-Grade Spirit Stones, and there were even Top-Grade Spirit Stones, while the mid-grade Spirit Stones and Low-grade Spirit Stones were too numerous to count.
Aside from these Spirit Stones, there were various ores used to forge spirit artifacts, Monster Beast bones, corpses, inner cores, and large quantities of shed snakeskin and cloth.
Cloth?
Xue Fuyao looked at the hundred-odd bolts of brightly colored, fine-quality cloth she had taken out. Her instincts told her they were no ordinary goods. On closer inspection,