Chapter 332: The Right to a Share of the Loot

Chapter 332: The Right to a Share of the Loot

Lu Jie truly could not tell who was right and who was wrong.

Next to her, Fu Wangchen knitted his brows and appeared lost in thought.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Streams of radiant light flowed into the survivors' seas of consciousness, restoring their memories and making clear the sights they had seen while their consciousnesses were hazy.

The image of Pang Jian battling the Outer God on the Thunder Pool stood out vividly in their minds.

"Pang Jian..." Chen Lushi softly murmured as the light returned to her eyes.

His lofty, imposing figure filled her with endless shame and regret.

The survivors were still covered in the Ice Armor Eel Dragon's sticky saliva as they scrambled out of the pit on all fours, eager to escape to safety.

They feared the Ice Armor Eel Dragon would decide to swallow them again and subject them to more torment on its dark, foul-smelling tongue.

However, the Ice Armor Eel Dragon paid them no mind as it gazed up at the sky motionlessly.

"I need to return to Absolute Heaven to heal my wounds," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon hinted, eyeing Pang Jian uneasily.

With his divine artifact and command of the nine glaciers, Pang Jian established himself as an extraordinarily fearsome presence.

When he did not respond, it quietly reminded, "I saved you when you were being chased."

Pang Jian was taken aback.

"The Golden-Winged Giant Roc, that warship!" The Ice Armor Eel Dragon growled.

Pang Jian nodded. "You're right, that did happen."

Sensing a strange aura growing in the depths of Fu Wangchen's mind, he frowned.

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon panicked at the sight.

"I have something for you!"

Crash!

It spat out a series of broken stone statues, wooden carvings, bone vessels, and ruined altars of Outer Gods.

"These strange objects contain a peculiar energy. I don't know how to absorb or refine it, but I wiped clean the evil consciousness within that tried to infect my soul.

"It's yours, all of it! I saw your people scavenging for these things everywhere. Maybe they'll be useful to you," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon rambled anxiously.

Pang Jian's eyes lit up.

Qi Qingsong, Dong Tianze, and the others had since flown over from the Frozen Land and were also visibly excited.

They, too, sensed that the stone statues, wooden carvings, and broken altars contained pure divine essence.

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon had already purged the will of those Outer Gods.

Lu Jie's eyes also flashed with intense desire.

The Forsaken Expanse Sect had come to Absolute Heaven in search of such objects, only for the Ice Armor Eel Dragon to spit them out like garbage.

Despite this, none of the members of the Forsaken Expanse Sect scrambling out of the pit dared to turn back to retrieve the items piled up behind them.

"Senior Brother Qi! Big Brother Zhou! Dong Tianze" Pang Jian called out.

"We're here!" The three shouted in unison, voices filled with delight.

"Gather them up," Pang Jian commanded.

"Pang Jian, be wary of the fiery fragmented land. There are still rampant foreign races and Outer God Puppets there," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon warned.

After leaving behind those parting words, it streaked across the void toward Absolute Heaven at lightning speed, seeking to return to its lake as quickly as possible to recover its strength.

"Sir!"

Bing Yuan and Bing Ying approached Pang Jian with a group of Ice Race warriors, bowing respectfully atop their Spirit Avians.

"I need items or materials infused with solar, lunar, stellar, life, and earthflame energy. Get me as much of those as you can—I need to recover my strength," Pang Jian instructed.

"We found some earlier!"

"Sir! I have some stones infused with solar energy!"

The members of the Ice Race eagerly offered their treasures.

"Bring them to me as fast as possible." Pang Jian landed on top of one of the glaciers, sat cross-legged, and took out some spirit jades to refill his spiritual sea.

"We're on it!"

***

The Spider God, Yang Luo, had returned to the fiery fragmented land.

The invading foreign races had since slaughtered all of the Flame Race, and the fire crystals and crimson fruits in the blazing sea of magma had already been plundered clean.

"Yang Luo, did the Thunderveil Godbeast kill that foolish Ice Armor Eel Dragon?" You Kui asked, hovering aboard the Ghost Race's warship. He watched as the Ghost Race warriors carefully placed the fire crystals, crimson fruits, and Scarlet Flame Divine Iron into storage.

These fire-attribute treasures were priceless in the outside world, and the Ghost Race had gained a considerable harvest.

"Take a guess," Yang Luo responded coldly.

Several of the Outer Gods stared at her curiously in their puppet bodies.

"Yang Luo, did something unexpected happen?"

"That Thunderveil Godbeast has coveted the Duke of Thunder's artifact for tens of thousands of years. It's said that he even received help from an Observer. There's no way he couldn't kill a Rank Eight Spirit Beast, right?"

Whoosh!

The massive Ice Armor Eel Dragon flew past the fiery fragmented land.

"Uh..." The deer-like Outer God who had last spoken stared in astonishment as the Ice Armor Eel Dragon flew past the edge of the fiery fragmented land. "Are Spirit Beasts from the Abyss always this terrifying?"

The other Outer Gods were also baffled.

"Impossible!"

"The Thunderveil Godbeast should've been practically invincible with the Duke of Thunder's artifact in that fragmented land! That's why I didn't bother going there to humiliate myself!"

"Me too!"

"It was defeated? That makes no sense!"

The Outer Gods knew they—with their puppet bodies—stood no chance against the Thunderveil Godbeast once it had gained control of the Thunder Pool.

Thus, they avoided the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God.

"A human from the Abyss named Pang Jian seized the Heart of Winter, the divine artifact the Ice Demon sealed in the Frozen Land," Yang Luo explained, suppressing the turmoil in her heart and maintaining her outwardly calm expression. "He then used it to merge the Frozen Land and the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God.

"After the two fragmented lands merged, he became like a reborn Ice Demon. In the end, he cleaved the puppet body of the Thunderveil Godbeast forged from a branch of the Nine Heavens Thunder Divine Tree into two.

"The Thunderveil Godbeast, Lei Meng, was wiped out instantly, and the Ice Armor Eel Dragon escaped.

"Pang Jian now controls the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God and the Frozen Land. Not to mention, the Thunder Pool and the Heart of Winter rest in his hands.

"And you all"—Yang Luo looked at the Outer God Puppets and the foreign races that worshiped them—"want to charge in?"