I exhaled in relief. “That’s good.”

Li Mazi asked the villagers to head back as it wasn’t safe to stay by the lake. Of course, I knew what he was up to. He was worried that the villagers would compete with him and steal the valuable corpse crystals. If that happened, we would suffer a big loss.

Although we couldn’t take the Corpse Scattered Essence, we could still collect some corpse crystals.

The situation seemed to have calmed down. The Corpse Scattered Essence had whip marks all over its body, and it slowly sank back into the water. The bearded man wore a proud face and threw a mocking look at Senior Shu.

Senior Shu smiled awkwardly. He wanted to say goodbye and leave.

However, I wasn’t satisfied. “Senior Shu, aren’t we going to collect some corpse...