Master of Strange Dao

A few days later, New No. Ten also reported the same news.

After Yu Ziqing figured out the ins and outs of these matters, he found it a bit laughably absurd.

It seems that the blue sapphire is indeed critically important, and these people appear to have disregarded everything else, focusing solely on finding the sapphire first.

Such an important item, lost due to a Great Demon's moment of showboating.

Yu Ziqing was particularly puzzled; if it was so important, why did it end up in the belly of the giant shark demon?

And it was extracted from the intestines of the giant shark demon.

According to Yu Ziqing's guess, the giant shark demon itself probably didn't know about this item eighty percent of the time.

Moreover, Yu Ziqing noticed that the Minions went to great lengths to search through the giant shark demon's most valuable skin membranes, bones, blood, viscera, down to the least valuable meat.

Based on past experience, one could say they paid attention to absolutely everything.

Yet, no one paid any attention to the giant shark demon's excrement.

Indeed, usually, this thing is of no value and highly contaminating.

Only in the vast and boundless ocean can this pollution be dissolved, spreading out over a large area, and taking a long time before various other living beings would deal with it.

On land, there's no place that can withstand such contamination.

Such a massive Giant Beast living on land for ten years could devastate a wide area.

And the resources on land couldn't support such a Giant Beast's dietary needs.

Thus, Yu Ziqing speculated that those Minions spread the news of Immortal Herbs heading toward the East Sea.

They secretly spread the news that the skin-peeling overlord wasn't around.

Attracting Great Demons from the East Sea to the nearby land, just to lure this giant shark demon.

They probably only confirmed, or confirmed halfway through, that the item was inside the giant shark demon.

Otherwise, there was no reason they wouldn't retrieve it themselves.

If Yu Ziqing were to retrieve such a vital item, he would have gone to the deep sea to bring it back himself, even if it took several years or more, despite the risks.

Borrowing a Sea Clan Great Demon to transport the goods was indeed safe in the interim.

This level of Giant Beast Great Demons rarely dies in the sea; even if they meet other strong enemy demons, at most, they would only be defeated.

The survival rule among sea strongmen is that even if you win a battle, if you're seriously injured, there's still a high chance of dying later.

Ordinary sea living beings, when injured and bleeding, would attract distant enemies, and so do these powerful Sea Clan beings.

Being severely injured would attract covetous intentions.

Just like the corpse of the giant shark demon, it's an excellent top resource on the human side, and the same in the sea.

When the risk of fighting is far less than the benefit, many strong Great Demons can't suppress their greed.

This survival method has already seeped into their blood.

Yu Ziqing just felt that this uncontrollable risk was even greater.

The Minions probably wouldn't deliberately do this.

He still leaned toward the fact that the Minions had only known this for a short time.

But there lies another problem: how did they know?

How did they possess such powerful Divine Skills to know that the giant shark demon had the blue sapphire while it was still alive, and the giant shark demon itself didn't know?

Ordinary Minions certainly don't have this ability, so it could only be that Wig White Water Egg.

Let's continue deducing.

Since it's such an important item, and Wig White Water Egg can sense its whereabouts.

Why didn't they retrieve it sooner?

Yu Ziqing doesn't believe that the Minions couldn't handle a giant shark demon if they were determined to retrieve it at any cost.

Even if they went to the deep sea, the chances of success would not be small if prepared.

So, Wig White Water Egg should have only sensed it not long ago.

The reason he only sensed it must have been due to some change, allowing it to be detected.

On the giant shark demon's side, there's probably no change; the item has likely been in the giant shark demon's body for a long time.

And it's probably not something that can be expelled; otherwise, it would've been expelled long ago.

It might be because it was always soaked in the giant shark demon's intestines, shielding all sensing.

The change could be in the blue sapphire or in Wig White Water Egg.

Yu Ziqing thought that merely observing shouldn't count as a change, as observation alone couldn't activate any magic of the blue sapphire.

The only way to invoke the mysteriousness of the blue sapphire was when Wu Shuangge's Mixed Yuan Gold Bowl was used to extract filth and toxins, triggering the sapphire's resistance.

This was a relatively apparent shift.

If the change was in Wig White Water Egg, the biggest change was the clash of Dao, a change far more intense than the collapse of the heavens and earth.

Last time on New No. Ten, they said they were going to buy the giant shark demon's hard bones, and at that time, Yu Ziqing hadn't seen the giant shark demon yet.

In hindsight, he realized that the hard bones of the giant shark demon and its excrement had a common trait.

Both were places in the giant shark demon's body with the strongest shielding.

It's just that the mode of shielding was different.

One relied on sheer hard power, isolating all vibrations and such.

One relied on dense filth characteristics to contaminate and interfere and being hidden was the result.

The accumulated old excrement of a Ninth Tier Great Demon indeed held significant power.

Clearly, everyone overlooked this item.

Directly purchasing the only suspect hard bones was indeed reasonable.