This allowed them to further locate the treasure that Clan Leader Jing had buried deep underground.
"Ah! Ah!!" Elder Jing Gu truly regretted it now.
He was currently hanging in mid-air, and the whips in the Purple Forest Guards' hands lashed mercilessly at his body. If he had known how terrifying this black-hearted young couple was, he wouldn't have been so greedy and run into such bad luck. Jing Gu secretly lamented in his heart: My life is over...
"Dig three feet deep! Push away all the sand walls here!"
"Everyone, start digging here!"
Jing Gu was shoved to the ground, disheveled, his old eyes filled with anger and despair. "You bandits! You'll all come to a bad end! You won't have a good outcome!"
"Bandits?" Peach Blossom Immortal Venerable looked at him amusedly and kicked him. "Weren't you also coveting the treasure Clan Leader Jing buried underground?"
A clan leader, naturally, would be as rich as a nation. The small treasure room Mo Lian took Qiao Qiao to that day was clearly just a small part of it, exposed on the surface. Elder Jing Gu was truly cunning. Whether he initially feigned loyalty or later flattered them about wanting to be clan leader, it was all to mislead the little Crown Princess and Crown Prince, making them believe he was a simple-minded villain whose goal was merely to become clan leader.
He was trying to divert the young couple's attention. In reality, his true target was the vault key hidden within the Soul Gathering Bell. With this wealth, being the Pangu Clan leader wouldn't even matter. He also didn't want to eat dirt and dust in this vast desert every day. With the treasure, he could naturally fly far away and settle anywhere; then Jing Gu would be a man of wealth, with everything he desired.
"Boom! Boom!" Large excavation tools forcefully dug open the areas buried under layers of sand, revealing a flat, elongated, roughly several-meter-wide underground staircase in the center.
Qiao Mu handed dozens of storage talismans to Peach Blossom Immortal Venerable, instructing him to take Little Taisui, Liang Qingqing, and the others down to retrieve the items.
They remained busy until nightfall.
After they came up, Qi Xuanxuan's face was flushed with excitement. She pulled Qiao Mu, chattering incessantly, "You don't know, that Clan Leader Jing is truly a master at accumulating wealth! I feel like your small organization, Tianfu Hall and Tiandan Bank, no matter how much money it burns—even if it burns thirty million spirit coins a day—it could still burn for decades..."
Qiao Mu's eyes lit up. She took the pile of storage talismans handed to her by Peach Blossom Immortal Venerable and examined them one by one, her eyes growing even brighter.
We're rich!
Everyone found her expression amusing and couldn't help but secretly want to laugh. Clan Leader Jing Tou of the Pangu Clan was indeed a hidden tycoon, just as Xuanxuan had said!
"What do you all want?" Qiao Mu asked her companions.
Everyone shook their heads in unison. They usually ate and lived in Peach Blossom Paradise Star, so they didn't really have any other needs... Besides, Qiao Qiao had thrown all those treasures into the Peach Blossom Paradise Star's treasury, so if they needed anything, they could just say so and go get it.
Qiao Mu blinked and nodded to Qi Xuanxuan, saying, "I won the Mu family's martial arts competition this time! I'll be able to go play in their Chaoyang Tower later, and I'll take you all with me!"
The implication was that it would be better to "scam" the Mu family again!
Everyone: "..."
The Mu family was truly unlucky to have provoked this little demon star.