The entire inn was filled with the furious roars of the Monk and the Daoist. From the sound of their voices, it was clear how enraged they were. The stolen items must have been very important.

Sitting in his room, Lin Yun chuckled to himself. He had pocketed the pair’s entire fortune, along with two Earth Level Upper Tier Body Technique Martial Skills. With all that gone, it would be a wonder if the Monk and Daoist *didn’t* go insane.

The roars continued unabated as the Monk and the Daoist successively emerged from their rooms. Any trace of benevolence was gone from their faces. Looking like a pair of savage fiends, they went straight to the inn’s Shopkeeper.

"Speak! Who took this humble monk’s things?" the Monk demanded furiously of the Shopkeeper. The Shopkeeper, only at the Ninth Layer of Body Refining Realm, was terrified by the aura of the two men, who were both at the Fifth Layer of Opening Realm.

"I... I don’t know..." the Shopkeeper stammered. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After questioning him for a long time and getting nowhere, the Monk and the Daoist simply blocked the inn’s main entrance. They insisted on searching anyone who tried to enter or leave.

"Monk, Daoist, are you insane? By what right do you search us?" Some of the Martial Artists grumbled, unhappy about being searched for no reason.

However, the Monk and the Daoist responded with their fists. They had already descended into a frenzy and couldn’t care less about such things.

"Cut the crap! Take out everything you have on you! Our things are missing, and now we’re searching the entire inn!" the Monk and Daoist roared.

There was nothing to be done. The two had completely lost their minds. The Martial Artists coming and going had no choice but to let themselves be searched. Fortunately, after searching them, the pair didn’t make things difficult for them.

Just then, Lin Yun also stepped out of his room. Today was the day the Blood Refining Ancestor was supposed to make his move. He was, of course, heading to the Yunlu Mountain Range to try his luck. If he managed to get an Essence-Raising Fruit, he would be rich.

"Kid, take out everything you have on you!" As Lin Yun reached the inn’s entrance, the Monk stopped him. His face contorted with rage, the Monk was like a mad dog, ready to bite anyone who crossed his path.

"I don’t have any money on me. If you want to search, go ahead." Lin Yun appeared very calm, spreading his hands to indicate the Monk could search him himself.

After searching him once over, the Monk found only a few dozen Gold Coins on Lin Yun. Irritably, he let Lin Yun leave the inn.

After leaving the inn, Lin Yun deliberately took a long detour before heading into a small alley. From a stone in the corner of a wall, Lin Yun retrieved two Space Rings. He had, of course, hidden them there beforehand. Now, even the Monk and Daoist would never guess that the Space Rings were in his possession.

A faint smile on his face, Lin Yun ambled unhurriedly toward the city gates. ’The Yunlu Mountain Range should be quite lively today,’ he thought. ’After all, the allure of the Essence-Raising Fruit is just too great.’

"Damn it! Who was it?! This humble monk will not let you get away!" Back at the inn’s entrance, they had searched everyone but had still failed to find their Space Rings. The Monk and the Daoist were now certain that the thief had long since fled.

Their entire fortune! It was the wealth they had painstakingly accumulated over the last six months through cheating and swindling, and now it had vanished overnight.

More importantly, there were the two Secret Manuals. Those had been gifts from their respective masters. If their masters found out, the two of them would be skinned alive, if not killed outright.

"Damn it, damn it! If this poor Daoist finds out who it was, I’ll make them kneel before the Boundless Celestial Venerable for ten years! To think someone would even steal from men of the cloth! Despicable!" With no leads, the two also headed for the Yunlu Mountain Range. Today, over eighty percent of the Opening Realm experts in Mysterious City had gathered there.

The location of the Essence-Raising Fruit had already been made public in Mysterious City. At this moment, many people had already gathered deep within the Yunlu Mountain Range, in the territory of a Tier Three Demon Beast.

They were all waiting for the Blood Refining Ancestor to appear. Although the Blood Refining Ancestor had said he would take two of the Essence-Raising Fruits, the one that would be left was enough to make the crowd very excited.

"It’s an Iron Armor Beast..." No one had entered the Tier Three Demon Beast’s territory; the crowd was simply waiting on the outskirts. However, some had risked venturing inside, and the news that came back confirmed that the three Essence-Raising Fruits were being guarded by a Tier Three Demon Beast, an Iron Armor Beast.

The Iron Armor Beast’s entire body was covered in hard plates, giving it extremely high Defense Power. Even a Primordial Ocean Realm expert would have a hard time breaking through its defenses. This made the surrounding Martial Artists anxious, wondering if the Blood Refining Ancestor could successfully kill this Iron Armor Beast.

Blending into the crowd, Lin Yun kept a low profile, quietly waiting for the Blood Refining Ancestor’s arrival. Only after getting here did Lin Yun realize that obtaining the Essence-Raising Fruit this time would not be so easy.

There were several hundred Opening Realm Martial Artists. Among them, twenty to thirty were at the Seventh Layer of Opening Realm or above, and over a hundred were at the Fifth Layer of Opening Realm or above. The majority of the rest were between the Second and Fourth Layers of the Opening Realm.

’I’ll see how things go. If it’s really not possible, I’ll have to give up,’ Lin Yun thought. He could imagine that the competition for the Essence-Raising Fruit would be absolutely fierce.

As the crowd was waiting for the Blood Refining Ancestor, two figures slowly approached from the distance. They had not yet arrived, but the Evil Qi emanating from them had already reached the crowd.

"The Monk and Daoist... why do they look so angry?"

"You don’t know? I heard everything they owned was stolen last night. They were in a blind rage at the inn early this morning, searching everyone. Looks like they still haven’t found it."

The pair, who usually wore benevolent expressions, were now exuding a palpable "stay away" aura. At the same time, their faces were as dark as could be.

"Damn it! If I find out who stole this humble monk’s things, I’ll exterminate that scum in the name of the Buddha!" the Monk was still cursing as he walked into the crowd.

Noticing everyone around him staring, the Monk lashed out, "What are you looking at? The world has truly gone to hell! I can’t believe people are even stealing from men of the cloth these days!"

Hearing the Monk’s tirade, the crowd held back their laughter. These two scoundrels spent their days in Mysterious City cheating and swindling; more than half the people present had been duped by them at some point. Now, seeing the duo in a bind, everyone was naturally delighted.

’Serves you right. You call yourselves men of the cloth? I’d say even hooligans are kinder than the two of you,’ many people thought to themselves.

With the arrival of the Monk and Daoist, the surrounding atmosphere grew somewhat tense. The aura emanating from the two was just too oppressive. Standing at the front of the crowd with grim faces, their silence spoke volumes about the fury in their hearts.

About an hour later, it was now noon. Just then, a figure came soaring through the sky from the horizon.

"Look, the Blood Refining Ancestor is here! It seems he was telling the truth!"

someone shouted. Hearing this, Lin Yun also looked up to see an old man in a blood-red robe hovering in the air above the crowd.

The old man’s skin was dry and shriveled, and his face was a mass of wrinkles. At first glance, he looked like an old man on the verge of death. However, no one in Mysterious City would dare to underestimate this old man; he was one of Mysterious City’s three great Primordial Ocean Realm experts.