“En en!” Mo Xiao Qi nodded happily as she took out a piece of animal skin from her Space Ring and said, “I bought this treasure map today, and the person who sold it to me said it leads to the hidden treasury of Heaven Devouring Great Emperor! There might even be a record of the Heaven Devouring Battle Law in it!”
“Why does this thing… look so familiar?” Yang Kai wore a suspicious look as he picked up the animal skin and observed it carefully, the next moment his face turning black.
“How many Source Crystals did you buy this for?” Yang Kai looked up at Mo Xiao Qi.
“Seven thousand!” Mo Xiao Qi triumphantly, “Not expensive, right? If we can really find the Heaven Devouring Battle Law, we’ll have struck it rich!”
“That damn swindler!” Yang Kai couldn’t help cursing in a low voice.
“Big Brother Yang, what did you say?”
“It’s nothing,” Yang Kai lightly coughed, pondered for a moment before saying earnestly. “Xiao Qi, when you go out, you need to remember that people can be sinister and not everyone you meet is as honest and kind as you. You need to be careful around others.”
“I know, Aunty Feng used to tell me that.”
“In the Star Boundary, there is much intrigue, so not all people can be believed.”
“I know that too.”
“En, since you know, then… this treasure map, it’s fake,” Yang Kai sighed softly, having no way other than to state it bluntly as expecting this little girl to realize on her own was just asking to embarrass himself.
“What? How can that be? That old man vowed that this was really a map to Heaven Devouring Great Emperor’s treasury and was handed down in his family by a Great Emperor himself!” Mo Xiao Qi looked at Yang Kai with an incredulous expression and asked, “Could it be that a Great Emperor would lie?”
“I don’t know if a Great Emperor would lie, but the person who sold you this thing definitely lied to you.”
Mo Xiao Qi was taken aback, but after thinking about it for a while, she vaguely began to understand and cursed, “That hateful swindler, he dares to trick me! I have to go find him!”
“Forget it, that person must be long gone, where would you even start looking for him?” Yang Kai hurriedly stopped her.
Mo Xiao Qi suddenly pursed her lips and stomped her feet as she waved her small fists, “So vexing! That old swindler better not let me see him again or I’ll make him pay.”
After putting out a few ruthless words, her mood seemed to be much calmer. After pausing for a moment though, Mo Xiao Qi began taking out a bunch of animal skin maps from her Space Ring and asked, “Then Big Brother Yang, take a look at these things, are any of them fake?”
Yang Kai swept his eyes over these ‘treasure maps’ and couldn’t stop his face from twitching.
“Then what about this one?” Mo Xiao Qi took out another thing, a pitch-black stone.
“Haha…” Yang Kai gave a dry laugh.
“What about this peerless Secret Art?” Mo Xiao Qi threw something out again.
Yang Kai swept his eyes over it and his body shook.
This booklet indeed had old, yellowed pages, and on its front, the three words ‘Peerless Secret Art’ were written in a fanciful font!
It was as if the seller was afraid others wouldn’t know this was a ‘Peerless Secret Art’.
A single innocent girl had strolled through the black market and purchased so many useless things! If everyone in the world was as naïve as Mo Xiao Qi, wouldn’t all swindlers be wealthy by now?
Yang Kai’s silence made Mo Xiao Qi extremely depressed as she buried her head in her chest, a dark shadow seemingly looming over her.
Seeing her look like she had taken a devastating blow, Yang Kai sighed slightly and was just about to comfort her while also letting her take this as a lesson to not be swindled so easily in the future when suddenly, Mo Xiao Qi lifted her head again, giggled, and said, “This thing is definitely not fake!”
Saying so, she carefully took out a pale, oval stone and placed it on the table.
Seeing the look of confidence on her face, Yang Kai couldn’t help feeling a bit interested and released his Divine Sense to inspect this stone, but try as he might, he couldn’t perceive even the slightest fluctuations from it, like it was a real stone.
However, while this thing looked like a stone, and Yang Kai couldn’t sense anything inside of it, he did notice an inexplicable force on its surface which was blocking the probing of his Divine Sense.
“What is this?” Yang Kai frowned and asked.
Mo Xiao Qi smiled mysteriously and said, “A beast egg!”