After nearly four days of searching, the few toolmen excitedly found Bai Nianchen, who was meditating and cultivating.
"Daoist Bai, Daoist Bai! That token, we found a total of ten!"
"Inner disciples are too rare, we've been looking for days and can't find any!"
"Right, I've noticed others are also looking for this thing, it seems others have thought of it too!"
Bai Nianchen opened his eyes. He looked at the four excited people in front of him, coughed twice, and said, "Cough cough, good, good. This humble Daoist had long predicted that many people would know this way to enter the inner sect. However, we have more people and greater strength, so we will definitely be a big step ahead of them!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Daoist Bai must be more amazing than them!"
"What Li Qingyun, Wang Teng, and the like, they are all just worthless trash!"
"We just need to follow Daoist Bai and get some scraps! Hehe!"
"......"
Bai Nianchen felt a little ashamed by their praise. He extended his hand and said, "This humble Daoist has been studying the formations within this token these past few days, and I have just attained enlightenment. Take out the tokens you have collected, and this humble Daoist will try to restore it."
These people were also simple-minded and threw all the tokens at Bai Nianchen in one go.
Bai Nianchen took these tokens in his hands and then walked towards the direction of the barrier.
The few people also followed excitedly. There were no good resources in the outer sect; those things had been eroded by time. The inner sect was protected by this barrier, and it was clear there were many good things.
Moreover, the people in the inner sect were the big shots of the sect, and they surely had more resources!
Bai Nianchen held these ten tokens in his hand, and a strange spiritual power began to stack up.
Bai Nianchen felt something and, under the watchful eyes of the few toolmen, lifted his foot and stepped directly into the barrier.
After entering, Bai Nianchen's eyes lit up. He took a deep breath.
The spiritual energy concentration in this inner sect world was on a completely different level compared to the outside! It was even slightly more concentrated than the spiritual energy in the square during the immortal cultivation era. Cultivating here for two years, even without seeking any opportunities, would be incredibly comfortable!
So, he looked at the magnificent yet slightly dilapidated buildings in the inner sect, and a surge of ambition arose in his heart.
This humble Daoist has finally managed to get one over that young man!
The few toolmen saw Bai Nianchen go in and were also extremely excited.
"Daoist Bai is too strong!"
"Quick! Let us in too!"
"Right, right! We'll follow Daoist Bai. If Daoist Bai eats meat, we'll drink the soup!"
"......"
However, Bai Nianchen turned around and said to them guiltily, "Everyone, I am truly sorry. Actually, there was something this humble Daoist misjudged. This token does not contain any formation. It's just that the spiritual energy within is thin. Originally, one would suffice to enter, but now it takes about ten."
"Ah? What do you mean?"
Bai Nianchen sighed, "What I mean is, you must remember that in this ruin, not everyone is trustworthy! You must have the ability to distinguish right from wrong and not just follow whatever others say! Also, do not judge a person by first impressions. Just like now, in order to teach you this lesson, this humble Daoist had to go against his conscience, alas..."
With a melancholic expression, the Daoist Bai waved his sleeve, his feet seemed to catch the wind, and he quickly rushed towards the main hall of the Li Huo Palace, leaving only a dust-filled receding figure.
The few toolmen were dumbfounded, their minds went blank!
After about a few minutes, they finally reacted. They seemed to have been tricked!
This Daoist Bai, who looked so ethereal and had a kind smile like a grandfather, had actually used them as tools!
Then came a few piercing wails!
"No!!!"
"The tokens we worked so hard to find for four days, Daoist Bai! You can't do this!"
"How could you be like this! Your character will collapse!"
"Damn it! Daoist Bai! Daoist Bai! Stop joking like this!!!"
"......"
Yes, the four toolmen had been tricked by Bai Nianchen.
The story about the token containing a small formation was all fabricated by Bai Nianchen.
Moreover, his previous impression was that he wouldn't be the type to trick people!
What was even more deadly was that even if they went out later and said that Daoist Bai had tricked them, everyone would just think they were slandering him.
The four toolmen had nowhere to voice their grievances!
Recalling how they had diligently searched for the tokens these past few days, it was as if they had been sold and were helping count the money!
However, one thing Bai Nianchen said was true: after this incident, they would no longer trust anyone.
What Li Qingyun, Wang Teng, Luo Xiaowei – none of these people were good!
In fact, it was true. Since Chu Yang had allowed them to develop freely, they would naturally resort to any means necessary!
Everyone was striving for their own interests through any means, and snatching others' resources was also a normal thing.
Treating this place as a brutal immortal cultivation world was the correct way to approach it. The law of the jungle was the most correct principle.
As long as no lives were lost... In fact, even if lives were lost, it was okay, because this was within Chu Yang's limited rules.
It was just that these people had never killed anyone before, so they probably wouldn't be able to overcome that psychological hurdle.
......
"Beast Taming Hall... Damn it! There's nothing!"
Zhang Xiaohu rummaged through the Beast Taming Hall in the outer sect but couldn't find anything. Not to mention methods for contracting spirit beasts, there wasn't even a strand of beast fur.
Perhaps when the Li Huo Palace was annihilated, all the spirit beasts here had already died, or they had disappeared into the long river of history.
Zhang Xiaohu was a little anxious. Although two years had passed, he hadn't made much progress in the past few days. He hadn't found any clues to completing his two goals.
"It seems I still need to find a way to enter the inner sect!"
He searched the corpse of someone wearing elder's attire from this outer sect's Beast Taming Hall and found another token on him.
Everyone was looking for this thing recently, and Zhang Xiaohu naturally knew that it was a token to enter the inner sect.
As he was searching, on the edge of the wall outside, three people were staring intently at the token in Zhang Xiaohu's hand.
"That's Zhang Xiaohu, are we really going to rob him? He's the fierce competitor who got tenth place in the trial!"
"What are you afraid of? He's just one person, and his cultivation is only at the late stage of Qi Condensation. We are also at the late stage of Qi Condensation, he's no match for us!"
"That's right. He was able to kill so many demonic beasts in the Demonic Spirit Realm just because we weren't ruthless enough at the time. Otherwise, with his low-grade aptitude, how could he possibly get tenth place?"
"But... is it really okay to snatch things? And aren't we ganging up on him?"
"You don't understand anything! Haven't you heard? Someone had all their wealth snatched by Meng Zibin and Chen Xiaohan, and their legs were broken! Brother Xian is encouraging us to fight by any means necessary here!"
"He's in the top ten, so one person is equivalent to three, right? How can that be considered ganging up on someone?"