“Aaaaaah!” Qing Qishu wailed, “My Dragon God blessed treasure!”

He completely forgot how he had just criticized Qing Jiuye for being fragile…

The simultaneous loss of their weapons was no accident.

Qing Bazhi realized the gravity of the situation, directly grabbing the vine with his left hand and tightening his grip on the javelin with his right.

Jiang Wang watched from the side, his eyes twitching. This javelin was pulled from a special part of the Forest Bear. Although he didn’t see any strange colors, directly touching it with his bare hand was a bit…

“Think carefully, where did we lose our weapons?” Qing Bazhi asked.

At this moment, Jiang Wang was using one hand to help support Wu Quji’s severed arm, while his other hand hovered, ready to grasp his sword hilt at any moment.

The lessons of the Hidden Serpent Land were not far behind. In the Forest Sea Source Realm, he would never let his guard down.

Meanwhile, Wu Quji used his intact left hand to weave his bones together with golden needles. Golden light solidified into threads, weaving through the broken bones. Cold sweat poured from his forehead, but his hand was extraordinarily steady.

Solely from the perspective of a medical cultivator, he was very reliable.

He could use secret techniques to temporarily block the sensation of pain, but “pain” was the body’s true feedback to the “bone weaving.” Missing this feedback could lead to imperfect bone repair.

Qing Jiuye shook his head, “I felt nothing.”

Given his strength, even a single arrow missing from his quiver would be obvious, but this time, he truly didn’t notice anything. He didn’t realize his arrow was gone until he reached for it.

Qing Qishu roared, “I refuse to believe it! Where could my Dragon God blessed treasure possibly go? Protect me, I’ll offer a prayer!”

His Qingmu Shield and Qing Jiuye’s bow and arrows were both made of Divine Dragon Wood. But the difference was that his shield had received the Dragon God’s blessing.

It was precisely because he could use this shield that he was considered more favored by the gods, and could even use “Ah lie” as an interjection. He even had the opportunity to become a priest in the future.

Qing Bazhi and Qing Jiuye stood on either side of him, not without intending to guard against Jiang Wang and the others.

Although they were Dragon God Envoys, they were still outsiders.

Jiang Wang understood and didn’t do anything that would cause misunderstanding, simply circulating his Dao essence silently.

Qing Qishu chanted a prayer in a low voice, and the wooden patterns on his forehead suddenly emitted a green light.

His eyes snapped open, already connected to his “Dragon God blessed treasure.”

He ran straight ahead. After a few breaths, he leaped up and plucked the Qingmu Shield, which was also emitting a bright green light, from the branch of a giant tree.

“Strange, how could it be here?” Qing Qishu wondered.

He even began to suspect, “Did I really drop it here carelessly? Did I hide over here just now?”

Jiang Wang glanced at Su Qi with slight suspicion. He hadn’t relaxed his observation of the surroundings. Just now, when Qing Qishu was praying, he noticed Su Qi’s hands behind his back, and his shoulders were shaking slightly, indicating that his hands were moving behind his back.

This inevitably led him to connect it with Qing Qishu’s recovered Qingmu Shield.

Frankly speaking, even directly severing the divine connection or appearing far away would be more reasonable than being lost nearby.

Catching Jiang Wang’s gaze, Su Qi’s expression didn’t change. He simply gestured with his hand behind his back, facing Jiang Wang, first making a three, then a seven.

The meaning was obvious: a three-seven split.

Jiang Wang was initially only slightly suspicious, but now he was certain.

Previously, he represented the Dragon God Envoys in negotiations with the priest, but the results were terrible, and the gains were minimal. Wu Quji was straightforward and let it go. At the time, Su Qi seemed not to mind at all, which surprised Jiang Wang somewhat.

Now he realized that Su Qi certainly didn’t care about those gains. His gains might have already been “taken” into his possession!

With such a masterful sleight of hand, what “gains” did he need? Being able to pluck arrows from Qing Bazhi’s quiver and take Qing Qishu’s shield, his skills were truly miraculous. If Qing Qishu hadn’t prayed and been able to cause a reaction with the shield, this Qingmu Shield probably wouldn’t have reappeared.

Jiang Wang thought for a moment.

Exposing this now would only intensify the conflict and undermine the hard-earned trust, without any benefit.

The Holy Clan warriors didn’t warn them about the Forest Bear’s strength beforehand, so giving them a small lesson was fine.

Moreover, he had witnessed the power of Qing Jiuye’s arrows. Although they were useless to him, giving them to Li Fengyao seemed like a good idea…

So, he flipped his hand and gestured a seven.

A three-seven split was fine, but he wanted the “seven.”

Su Qi gestured back with a five.

Jiang Wang spoke directly, “Qishu!”

Su Qi clicked his tongue, but he was at a disadvantage, so he nodded quickly and discreetly.

Qing Qishu looked over, “What is it?”

“Does the Holy Clan have any good medicines? Wu Quji’s current condition is detrimental to what we have to do later.”

Qing Qishu nodded, indicating that he understood, “I’ll go back and think of a way.”

Having experienced the loss of his Qingmu Shield, he now kept the shield in his hand at all times.

Qing Jiuye seemed to have accepted it as well. He pulled out a dark-colored dagger from his calf, walked to the tree that had been knocked down by the Forest Bear, and began to whittle branches into arrows.

At this time, Wu Quji’s “bone weaving” was complete.

Jiang Wang was a little embarrassed, having just “embezzled” someone’s arrows, so he stepped forward to help, “Are these arrows suitable?”

Qing Jiuye glanced at him and said, “The sharpest and toughest things in the Forest Sea Source Realm are wood. The dagger in my hand is also made of Divine Dragon Wood. You can’t cut it…”

He stopped halfway through his sentence.

Because Jiang Wang had already slashed off a pile of appropriately sized wooden branches with a few quick sword strokes, neatly stacking them together.

Although Chang Xiangsi was still in the nurturing stage, it was still a named weapon. Cutting a few arrows was no problem.

Qing Jiuye changed his tone, “Just for temporary use. We can’t go back to get arrows now anyway.”

While helping Qing Jiuye whittle arrows, Jiang Wang pondered.

Qing Jiuye’s words, “The sharpest and toughest things in the Forest Sea Source Realm are wood,” made him suddenly realize something.

The “world rules” of the Forest Sea Source Realm were probably different from those of the real world.

This was the first time he had truly become aware of the “rules of the world.”

Like the tacit rule of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, like the laws established by Legalist disciples, like the military regulations set by Military Strategist cultivators… everything that was tacitly accepted, customary, and had to be obeyed was actually a manifestation of “rules.”

From a small town to a large country, or even a world… everything was shrouded in rules.

In the real world, Jiang Wang rarely thought about these things because they were all commonplace to him.

But the Forest Sea Source Realm had been constantly challenging his perceptions.

He had always been puzzled as to why his Eight Tone Flame Sparrow didn’t harm the giant trees. Yet, Qing Jiuye’s wooden arrows could easily penetrate them… Now he had all the answers.

The rules of the world!

The trees of the Forest Sea Source Realm were immune to fire and extremely resilient.

And what level of strength would a cultivator need to change these rules?

“I have a question.” Perhaps to distract himself and alleviate his pain, Wu Quji suddenly spoke, “If the sharpest and toughest things in the Forest Sea Source Realm are wood, then if you use the sharpest wooden spear to attack the toughest wooden shield, will the former break or the latter be pierced?”

Qing Bazhi and Qing Jiuye looked at each other, seeing the bewilderment in each other’s eyes.

This question… indeed had no answer.

This group from the Land of Divine Shade had obviously not developed profound philosophical speculation. They were just confused.

Qing Qishu even started pulling at his hair, “I’m a little confused… Otherwise, I’ll stab you and see?”

“Don’t bully the injured.”

Wu Quji continued, “I have another question. Qing Jiuye, you’re using a Divine Dragon Wood dagger to whittle arrows and weapons. So, where did the first Divine Dragon Wood dagger come from?”

This question was equivalent to asking which came first, the chicken or the egg.

Qing Jiuye looked at his dagger, stunned.

“I still want to ask…”

“Shut up!” The pitiful Holy Clan warriors shouted in unison.