The Thousand-Faced Thief had vanished along with the supreme treasure. No matter how one looked at it, it seemed that the Thousand-Faced Thief had taken it away.
But was that really what had happened?
At the time, Xue Fuyao had accepted a mission from the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to hunt Monster Beasts as a rogue cultivator to earn some Spirit Stones. On her way, she had happened to encounter disciples of the Blazing Sun Holy Land and traveled with them for a while.
On the surface, she had no dealings with the disciples of the Blazing Sun Holy Land. She barely spoke throughout the journey, like a block of wood, but in truth, she secretly eavesdropped on their conversations every night.
Life had been too oppressive and dull. Listening to gossip was one of her few hobbies, and it was also the motivation she desperately needed to keep living.
As she listened, she ended up overhearing something extraordinary.
The Thousand-Faced Thief had indeed disappeared, his fate unknown. However, before he vanished, they had actually recovered the supreme treasure. It had disappeared again while in the hands of the Blazing Sun Holy Land's own people.
The supreme treasure's true identity was the Heart-Guarding Scale of a Pureblood Fire Dragon.
Most dragons had a water attribute, though a tiny number mutated to possess other attributes. The fire attribute, however, was exceedingly rare. The Heart-Guarding Scale was also called the Reverse Scale. A dragon only ever had one in its lifetime, and it was the scale it valued most. As the saying went, touch a dragon's reverse scale, and death would follow.
Although she did not know how the Blazing Sun Holy Land had obtained it, the treasure seemed extremely important to them. While losing it had caused no immediate problems, signs of