"Many thanks, Senior Shen!"

Ma Guangshan had no standing to play the generous host before Senior Shen; since the other had given, then naturally he'd accept.

Moved to tears, he tucked the treasure-pills into his storage treasure.

This senior truly was unlike most cultivators. Though he couldn't be called warm and approachable, when dealing with a minor cultivator like himself, he didn't give one that feeling of bestowing charity, nor did he bully with force.

Whatever a thing was worth, that was what it was.

So simple a matter, and yet among cultivators it was already precious and rare.

"Senior Shen, let me tell you something."

Ma Guangshan patted his storage pouch. "The truth is I'm not really that timid; the reason I didn't dare go in is that the place we're headed has some other senior over there raising hell."

"What senior?"

Shen Yi stepped off toward the tea-house door.

"Now that I don't know... in any case someone's provoking the Crimson-Heart Serpent Emperor all day long. That demon emperor most loves its slumber, yet lately it's been disturbed without cease, leaving its cave now and then — no small number of people have been frightened off."

Ma Guangshan sighed, helpless. "You tell me — for a minor cultivator like me, I can't dodge those demons fast enough, wishing they'd sleep forever so I could scavenge a few more treasures. That crowd of senior experts, neither slaying demons nor seizing treasures, idling about teasing a demon emperor for sport — truly, the drought-stricken die of drought while..."

At that, Shen Yi pondered a moment.

He suddenly recalled the Dark-Tail Demon Emperor last time.

That's right... how had he forgotten this angle.

Wutong Mountain's experts were drawing the Thousand Demon Den's attention — wasn't this the perfect chance to scavenge? Even if the other demon emperors' cave estates held no divine object like the Dark-Tail Spear, at the least they'd have to have some rare treasures and materials.

Shen Yi had only just broken through to Spirit-Transformation now, and had no plan at all for the road ahead.

But it…