Wu Ya Zi knew full well that
Nie Li, for his part, was deliberately provoking Wu Ya Zi.
One treasure chest after another was opened. Each person had opened five chests. Nie Li and
Wu Ya Zi wanted to cry but had no tears.
Nie Li hadn't left him a single treasure!
It was practically inhumane!
If he had known, he would have demanded they split things by head count — he would have gotten at least a third!
Nie Li navigated the traps and walked over to Xiao Yu's side. "Hand me whatever you've collected for safekeeping first. I'll return it to you when we get back!"
"Sure." Xiao Yu nodded without hesitation and handed everything over to Nie Li. Without him, she wouldn't have been able to get anything anyway.
Nie Li stuffed all of Xiao Yu's haul into the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map as well.
Even if Wu Ya Zi killed them, neither Nie Li nor Xiao Yu had to worry about him seizing their loot.
Nie Li turned to Wu Ya Zi and said, "Your luck was terrible just now — you didn't get a thing. Why don't you open the remaining ten chests?"
Wu Ya Zi shot Nie Li a resentful look. Did Nie Li actually have a conscience, or had he already determined that the next ten chests held nothing good? Either way, the remaining ten chests still needed to be opened.
Under Nie Li's direction, Wu Ya Zi walked up to a chest and opened it. A golden puppet sprang out.
Boom!
The golden puppet was blasted to pieces by Wu Ya Zi.
The second. The third. The fourth. The fifth…
All chests containing puppets.
Wu Ya Zi felt like he was on the verge of a breakdown.
After six chests in a row, the sixth one finally wasn't a puppet. He saw that the chest was empty except for a single piece of Spirit Essence Gold resting at the bottom.
A single piece of Spirit Essence Gold…
Tears streamed down Wu Ya Zi's face. Why did the chests Nie Li and Xiao Yu opened each contain at least a dozen pieces?
All ten chests were opened by Wu Ya Zi, and all he got was a single piece of Spirit Essence Gold and two pieces of Scarlet Blood Divine Stone. These materials would indeed be quite valuable on the outside, but compared to what Nie Li and Xiao Yu had obtained, they were sorely lacking.
"Not a bad haul. Wu Ya Zi, Xiao Yu — I'll direct you, and you two go close all the treasure chests!" Nie Li said after a moment's thought.
"Why close the treasure chests?"
"It won't be long before the Phantom Divine Palace draws in a great many people. These chests can help us thin out some of the competition!" Nie Li replied. While it wasn't exactly honorable, everyone who entered the Phantom Divine Palace included both humans and demonfolk alike. If they managed to trap some powerful demonfolk in the process, that would count as a merit.
Hearing Nie Li's words, Wu Ya Zi and Xiao Yu both understood. Under Nie Li's direction, they shut all the treasure chests.
The three of them left the side hall together and flew off toward other areas.
As they searched through the side halls along the way, they found a fair number of additional treasures, including a full fifty to sixty thousand pieces of Spirit Stone Essence — a truly staggering fortune.