Night was as black as ink, dyeing the entire mountain forest in deep silence.
The four of them sat around Lin Yi in a deep valley. A bonfire slowly rose, its flickering light casting their faces in alternating brightness and shadow.
Roasting over the fire was an entirely black pig-like exotic beast. It was a four-star exotic beast, a Black Jade Pig, which Gu Chengan had hunted along the way. Its meat was tender and rich in pure life force.
As it roasted over the flames, it sizzled loudly. Golden oil continuously dripped down, and the fragrant scent of meat, carrying a dense Spirit Rhyme, spread through the air and whetted everyone's appetite.
Ming Yao held a thick wooden branch in one hand and a skewer piled high with roasted meat in the other, tearing into it with huge bites. As he chewed until his mouth watered, he indignantly complained to Lin Yi, "Brother Lin, you didn't see the faces those senior students made! They were absolutely disgraceful!"
"When we first entered the stronghold, they kept calling us 'junior brothers' so warmly. But the moment Old Fu accidentally revealed the Emperor Heart Rock, their eyes practically popped out of their heads, and they immediately changed their tune! When resources were distributed, they openly and secretly withheld our share. The moment we argued back, they said we were young and hot-blooded and didn't know gratitude. In the end, they even wanted to take back the resources we'd already been given! Some of those resources included spirit fruit I'd risked my life to snatch from beside exotic beast nests!"
"We're all disciples of Starfall Academy. We should have been watching out for one another. But those people saw a treasure and went red-eyed, their minds full of dividing up Old Fu's Emperor