A total of eight years had passed since Lin Mu and the group had started the expedition now.
This was the longest ti Lin Mu had spent together with people whom he could consider companions. Even in the Xiaofan world, the ti Lin Mu had spent with his companions there was less than this, most of whom he had only known for a three years or less.
Still, it didn't feel like a long ti to him. Instead, he felt like it was rely months since they had been here, allowing him to finally ease into the ti scale of an Immortal.
In this ti, he had grown close to his companions, and could now call them as 'friends'. After all, there was nothing that could bring people more closer than fighting together and killing foes they all deed as enemies.
They learned more about each other, about their lives as well as their pasts. They grew stronger, improved their cultivation and enhanced their skills.
They suffered injuries, endured pain and sorrow.
All of it brought them closer and improved their collective strength.
Several of their goals had also been fulfilled, for their years of hunting down Chiric Beasts, Chira plants, and Black Fin Island mbers had granted them a lot of credits. Though it had not co all at once as there were several obstacles in their way.
Just as they had hypothesize earlier, the number of Chiric Beasts actually were decreasing as the ti went by. This was confird to have been caused due to the Yin Nascent Soul Maggots as well as the hunting of the Black Fin Island mbers.
Lin Mu and the others also noticed more and more items disappearing from the lists in the Offering Hall.
So of these items were very valuable, costing four hundred to five hundred million credits, showing just how much the Black Fin Island mbers were hunting. Plus, their numbers were far greater than Lin Mu had ever thought.
Considering the scale at which the numbers of the Chiric Beasts were reduced, it wasn't just the work of the Yin Nascent Soul Maggots but at least a thousand or more Black Fin Island mbers!
As such, their speed of obtaining credits decreased considerably until they were forced to seek out stronger targets like the Chira Plants or the Black Fin Island mbers themselves. They ca across the Black Fin Island mbers several tis during their search and always ended up in fights, though in so cases the Black Fin Island mbers ran away. By that ti, the group was already sure their presence was well known by their enemies.
Especially when they encountered their third Chira Plant in the north, they not only did find it, but also three Yin Nascent Soul Maggots there that were feeding off the Chiric beasts being produced. But these three maggots were a lot smaller and were clearly not at the level as the ones before.
Of course, the group spent no ti in eliminating all three, which was when the Black Fin Island mbers who tried to ambush the group. Of course, they didn't get to do much since Lin Mu eliminated the Chira Plant with a Mortal Reminder Arrow.
The resultant explosion was not sothing the Black Fin Island mbers knew about thus they were swept away by it almost instantly while Lin Mu's group retreat atop Little Shrubby's back.
Chances were, even if the Black Fin Island mbers knew about the Death Qi explosion, they probably would not have been able to outrun the explosion as it was simply too fast. Only Little Shrubby was able to do so without an issue.
But from that point onwards, the Black Fin Island mbers beca a lot more aggressive as well as stealthy.
Every ti they encountered Lin Mu and his group, they retreated and attacked again as an ambush. If not that, they would ambush the group when they were doing their searches. Of course as payback, Lin Mu and group also wiped out any of their camps that they encountered and tried to obtain anymore clues about how they were entering the Bridge Plane or what their true goals were. Unfortunately, that didn't yield much more than before.
All they got were a few reports about the progress of the experints, and even interrogating the Black Fin Island mbers was useless as they would simply explode upon being restrained. What did yield a few results was Lin Mu checking their destroyed spatial storage ring by fishing in the void.
This allowed them to find more communication tokens as well as a few intact jade slips that revealed plans of bringing more Black Fin Island mbers for 'harvesting'.
It was then that Lin Mu discovered just how they were gathering so many credits at once. They were simply using their numbers to hunt as many chiric beasts as possible, then so designated mbers would kill these 'harvesters', obtaining the credits for themselves.
This way of 'concentrating' credits was fast, but insane.
Crown Prince Feng Shun and the others were shocked at this and couldn't understand how the Black Fin Island mbers were letting themselves be sacrificed. They could only co to the conclusion that they were brainwashed to an extre degree, where they would listen to each and every command.
Lin Mu was only thankful that they didn't target the Heaven Silencing Seal and instead obtained the lower ranked items, because the collective credits the Black Fin Island mbers could get through their 'sacrificial' thod had already hit over two billion by this point.
If they wanted to, they could have already gotten it.
But this also worked in Lin Mu's favor, as so of the Black Fin Island mbers they killed provided a massive amount of credits.
"HAHA! THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH!" Lin Mu rejoiced as he looked at the green band on his wrist that lit up.
"You really reached it… HAHA!" Daoist Chu cheered.
"Congratulations!" Crown Prince Feng Shun and the others cheered as well.
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