Thick smoke and a mist of blood mingled with the dust of corpses and the remnants of chaos.2

In the ruins of the Nine Thunders Arena, where all the officials had been decimated, Yun Xiao found no one to disrupt his scavenging. He commanded Blue Star and Red Moon to transform into a fierce beast with black scales, which devoured clouds and spewed fog, and craft a dense maze around him. 0

This allowed him ample time to sift through the treasures at his leisure, gathering as many True Immortal Jades, celestial fruits, and pills as he could carry—items that were easy to absorb and digest were always preferable.0

As for the cumbersome celestial weapons that could stick between teeth or pierce stomachs, Yun Xiao avoided those. Such items were hard to fence and risky to hold, likely to give him away.0

"The Crown Prince's order to the Thunder Department to execute Cao Shuo with the Thunder Immortal Formation gave me the opportunity to maneuver in unnoticed,"...0