"Fine, dig!"
Unable to withstand the greed and resolve in the disciples' eyes, Fire Phoenix Woman gritted her teeth and finally relented.
Though she remained wary, she understood the enormous temptation of the Ice Flame Emperor Fruit. Even she could not help being moved. One more Emperor Fruit meant one more chance to comprehend a Great Dao Technique. For the entire Heavenly Palace, it was also an immense opportunity.
At her command, several Body Cultivator disciples immediately stepped forward, circulated their blood and qi, and cautiously began digging into the ground.
Layers of heavy earth were overturned, revealing the skeletal remains of Beast Palace disciples buried beneath the plains. Some had long fused with the soil, while others still retained the posture they had held before death.
The group divided up the work, clearing away the remains while searching for any Storage Space artifacts that might be present.
Before long, they found twelve damaged Storage Space items in total: jade bottles, beast-hide pouches, and metal boxes.
Six of them were too ancient, their spatial restrictions having long since collapsed. No matter how the disciples activated their spiritual power, they could not open them, leaving them useless.
The remaining six could barely be opened, but most of the treasures inside had lost all spiritual essence. Pills had turned to ash, Spirit Herbs had withered black, and only a few Spirit Artifacts retained a trace of weak spiritual power, disappointing the disciples.
"Could we have guessed wrong? Is there no Ice Flame Emperor Fruit here at all?" one disciple complained.
Just then, a Formation Palace Disciple clearing the earth beneath a giant beast's corpse suddenly cried out, "Come look! There's a box here!"
Everyone hurried over. In his hands was a palm-sized Brass Iron Box, its surface engraved with intricate formation restrictions.