Three Burning Sky Talismans exploded in an instant unleashing an intense heat and a wave of fire. The attack was equal to three Xuanyuan’s attacking at the same time.
Since gold was weak to fire, Nu Long’s gold based armour would be weakened and unable to withstand the full power of the attack. Since the majority of his Qi was already consumed during his fight with the Yakshas and from attacking Xuanyuan, the attack would be lethal. Nu Long had used all of his strength-replenishing pills beforehand, leaving him no way out. His armour continued to drain his Qi until the last of his Qi was used, then the protective spell on the armour faded, allowing the wave of fire to engulf Nu Long.
Nu Long only screamed for a few seconds before his body was reduced to ashes. Only his instruments and ring escaped the intense heat unharmed, which Xuanyuan happily added to his wealth.
From their rings, Xuanyuan had extracted their inner tokens and transferred all their merit points over to himself. Eight merit dragons flew from the tokens and disappeared inside Xuanyuan’s token. That meant they had a combined total of eight hundred million merit points. Xuanyuan was thankful that Nu Long and Lie Sha had worked so hard to save so many merit points, it was a great gift to him. Afterwards Xuanyuan casually threw their tokens away.
“I need to find a safe place where I can cut open these stones. Haha, how great! I received so much with such little effort!” Xuanyuan grinned. He really felt good after robbing his enemies.
“Work harder, boy! I’ll take those instruments you’ve just collected. They should do. I am able to devour the power of upper rank earth instruments and above, so get me some of those!” Greed added.
“How come you’re always so greedy? You have already devoured so many of my jades and my crystals, you want to take away my instruments now too?” Inside his ring, the instruments of Lie Sha and Nu Long were already gone. Xuanyuan felt like his heart had been ripped from his chest.
“When I regain my powers, you will be dealing with Xian instruments. You understand nothing!” Greed said impatiently, “The spells I devour from those instruments can still be used to protect you so stop your whining.”
Xuanyuan smiled. It wasn’t a bad deal after all. Xuanyuan started to daydream, when would he be able to obtain a Xian instrument?
Xuanyuan avoided some demons and headed to a direction with less creatures. Finally, he arrived at an abandoned cave which was overflowing with glowing grass. There wasn’t a single trace of demon aura inside.
He immediately took out a human-head sized stone from his ring and cut through it with his dagger. He learned from the Book of Acquisition, stones needed to be cut like you’re peeling an apple. Slowly, he was surrounded by thin layers of stone. The stone in his hands was becoming smaller as he continued to peel layer after layer. The stone was already half the size it was previously.
“There can’t be nothing of value inside such a large fighting stone! I refuse to believe it.”