Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit Chapter 187 – General Whale, General Shark

Following the traces left by Lu Qin, Lu Ping made his way to the seventh monster general's quarters. There, he found Lu Qin drinking with the general from two long-necked bottles filled with wine. A monster servant was busily refilling the bottles on the table whenever they were empty.

When Lu Qin received Lu Ping's signal, she quietly waited for the general to lower its head to drink from the bottle. With his attention diverted, she pecked at the seventh monster general's eye.

Furious at her audacity, it was about to strike back at Lu Qin when a sword light unexpectedly pierced through its heart from the back.

Lu Ping glared at Lu Qin, who shrank her head back and said weakly, "Big Brother Dabao said drinking will lower its guard."

As they were in enemy territory now, Lu Ping didn't have time for such trivialities and let the matter go.

He followed Dagui and headed for the Golden Scale Palace's armory. After removing all traces of his tracks, he stealthily trailed behind Lu Qin. Since Lu Qin was the second-in-command under the seventh monster general, the monster soldiers patrolling the area naturally wouldn’t stop her.

With Dagui’s help, Lu Ping easily got his hands on the armory key. Even though Dagui had told him of its contents, he was still a little disappointed when he actually entered the armory.

The room mostly consisted of mid and low-grade spirit materials, with hardly any ranging in the high-grade and top-grade. Even then, the top-grade spirit materials were commonly found and nothing actually precious.

There were also several roughly-crafted mystic instruments, but most of them had been distributed among the newly recruited monster soldiers during the recent expansion.

Lastly, he found some spirit herbs that were losing their medicinal properties, most likely due to inadequate harvesting and storage.

It seemed that Enlightened Master Jin Li had kept all the good stuff and brought them along in his interspatial storage.

Although the items in the armory lacked quality, they would still suffice for an ord

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