Chapter 198, 70,000th Place... (2/2)

He lowered his eyes, his gaze unfathomable, surging with a killing intent forged in the crucible of countless corpses and seas of blood, which he forcefully suppressed, not revealing a trace, lest he startle the little girl in his arms.

More than 70,000 array points!

Like more than 70,000 greedy needles, they were densely packed into the body of the sleeping dragon of Yan Kingdom, sucking its blood, flesh and fortune day and night.

How insane! How vicious!

No wonder...

No wonder the Yan Kingdom later faced such difficulties and hardships.

So that's where it all started!

She forced herself to calm down, her mind racing.

Ruan Tang raised her head and looked at An Sanchuan, her voice soft but clear: "So, they're developing very quickly now, right?"

An Sanchuan was stunned for a moment before he realized what he meant and nodded subconsciously: "Yes. It's only been twenty years since the war, and their economic recovery has been frighteningly fast."

really.

Stealing the nation's fortune to enrich oneself.

Ruan Tang had a better understanding of the situation, but there were more pressing matters at hand.

She peeked her head out from Yan Yu's arms, resting her pointed chin naturally on his strong forearm, feeling the firm contours of his muscles and his burning body temperature under his clothes, before looking at An Sanchuan on the ground.

"Take out all the items you've prepared to replace."

An Sanchuan was like a tattered sack with its spine removed. Hearing this, he just nodded numbly, dragged the large black sack at his feet, and laboriously untied the rope.

“This is only part of it… I only brought eight items tonight: three bronzes and five jades.”

As he spoke, he took the contents out of the container.

"Clang."

Several strangely shaped objects were placed on the ground.

One was a bronze dagger, the same one we'd used before. The other two were a twisted wine goblet and a palm-sized ghost mask covered in blood-red runes.

A stench, a mixture of rust, old blood, and rotting earth, instantly wafted out.

The smell was so strong it made your throat itch, like being stuffed into an ancient tomb that hadn't been opened for hundreds of years.

"squeak!"

Little White, who had been dozing on the kang with his little paws tucked in, twitched his nose twice and suddenly jumped up!

Its white fur stood on end, its two black and purple beady eyes were wide open, and it let out a hostile scream from its throat.

[Squeak! Smell! It stinks! It stinks so bad! It's a million times worse than those broken cans of food last time! Little master, throw it away right now! The mouse is going to faint from the stench!]

It exaggeratedly covered its nose tightly with its two shiny mithril paws, gagged twice, and then disgustedly fanned its large, shimmering tail in the direction of those things, as if driving away some unseen filth.

The other five items are black jade weights of varying sizes.

There are jade bi discs, jade cong tubes, and even pieces carved into ferocious beast heads.

These jade stones are of excellent quality, gleaming with a deep, lustrous light under the oil lamp, and are a pure black.

Ruan Tang's gaze was instantly drawn to these pieces of black jade.

In her consciousness, the three bronze artifacts were purely inanimate objects, evil objects, filled with resentment and filth.

But these five pieces of black jade... are different.

Their evil aura is only on the surface, like a layer of filth forcibly smeared on.

And deep within that pitch-black jade core, there was a trace of extremely faint, yet incredibly pure... spiritual energy!

Although it was pitifully small, like a candle flickering in the wind, it was truly spiritual energy!

Ruan Tang's heart skipped a beat, and she asked, "Where did these jade stones come from?"

An Sanchuan glanced down at the black jade, his eyes vacant.

"It's said to be... an ancient jade artifact unearthed from an old mine, very rare. The organization spent a fortune acquiring it through various channels." (This chapter has been read. Please click to continue reading the next chapter!)