The sage was determined to die.

After the previous attempt to burn everything to the ground without producing anything, the group hadn't had high expectations.

However, Yan Ming still rubbed his hands together, watching everything with anticipation. He looked at Ji Baizhi, hesitant to speak, but finally asked, "Do you think we can burn something this time?"

Ji Bai did not answer his question, but instead stared intently at Wang Zhixuan.

After a long pause, the man uttered something utterly inhuman: "Ah, so you didn't run away?"

Yan Ming: "???"

He looked at Ji Bai with a somewhat incredulous gaze, but the other party was much more vigilant than he had imagined, exuding a slightly tense state, before relaxing after a long while.

……

Wang Zhixuan plopped down on the ground, the pain spreading throughout his body like cracks. He sat there half-dead, clutching his chest and coughing uncontrollably.

Ji Bai walked beside him, reaching out to touch the pile of flames in front of him. He seemed oblivious to the pain. After a while, when he pulled his hand back, there was actually a lump of something in his hand.

Yan Ming, who was standing nearby, came closer and looked at the transparent, wriggling thing in Ji Bai's hand. He frowned slightly and asked in a puzzled voice, "What exactly is this thing?"

Ji Bai felt the subtle texture in his hand, pinched it with his fingers, then raised his eyebrows and asked uncertainly, "The organization?"

"Stop?" The other person clearly didn't understand what he meant. "What are you trying to stop?"

"It's nothing, I just thought of some familiar things."

He tossed the object to Yan Ming as if it were a random stone picked up from the roadside. Yan Ming almost missed it, tossing it back and forth between his hands before finally managing to hold the small object in his hand.

Then he took a closer look at the thing and whispered, "This thing is transparent, but why does it look so much like a lump of meat?"

After saying that, he was startled by his own thought, "Wait a minute, it doesn't seem like that's impossible."

Unfortunately, he spoke too softly at the end, and Ji Bai had already strode away, so he didn't hear it.

However, if they heard it, they might agree and say that he was right.

……

When Wang Zhixuan regained consciousness, he almost instinctively looked up at the man in front of him.

Having lost two fragments in succession, he seemed to have gained a bit more of a living presence. He silently took the water Ji Bai handed him, drank a couple of sips, and then panted, saying, "I really don't have any more."

Perhaps fearing he might be too blunt, he added somewhat tactfully after saying that, "You should be able to guess what's going on, right? If it happened again, I might really die even without you killing me."

After reciting such a long speech in one breath, he looked even more battered and bruised.

Ji Bai shook his head slightly and said to him, "You've misunderstood. That's not what I meant."

The other person looked at him with some confusion and didn't say anything for a moment.

Ji Bai, like a late-stage riddle-maker, pretended to be serious and said to him, "If what you want really appears, have you considered how much you'd have to pay to buy it from me?"

"you?"

Wang Zhixuan then realized that he had probably really encountered a madman.

He almost instinctively wanted to laugh at the other person, but when he thought about his own situation, he could only say, "I... I'm afraid I don't have that much money right now."