"Have you found the second part over there?" Huo Lian asked.
"Not yet," the three replied.
"Surely it isn't missing?" Huo Lian's expression darkened. "I went to all this trouble, only for you to reap all the benefits in the end?"
"Senior, there are still quite a few manuals here. The second part might be among them. Let us finish looking before we say anything," Fan Xiu said.
Fan Xiu understood what Huo Lian was thinking. If the second part was not here, they would indeed have gained the most.
"Don't try to fool this old man by claiming you haven't seen the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art when you clearly have," Huo Lian said coldly.
"We wouldn't dare."
It took the three of them six hours to memorize the contents of all the manuals here.
With their abilities, memorizing these contents posed no problem.
All the manuals here disintegrated. By using Heaven and Earth Momentum, they could have preserved some of them, but there was no point in doing so. The next time someone touched them, they would still disintegrate.
They had memorized all the contents here, so there was no need to bother with the manuals anymore. After returning, they could write the contents down, naturally creating new manuals.
"Senior, we haven't found the second part here. You seemed to be looking at the manuals in the stone boxes earlier. Did you find nothing either?" Zhu Fanjiang asked.
"Who said the stone boxes contained manuals? Most held rare treasures, but unfortunately, this old man has no interest in them." Huo Lian shook his head. "This old man will look again. There may be hidden compartments here. Surely the second part can't be missing?"
Zhu Fanjiang and the other two also felt some regret. Of course they wanted to obtain