Fane's words boosted Rudy's confidence, so much so that he wanted to give him a round of applause. Fane's words were what the strong would say! Fane tied the key to a string and hung it on himself. After that, he took the piece of purple gold that was only about the size of a fingernail.

Rudy did not recognize it. He looked over curiously and pointed at the piece of gold. "What's that? Is it a valuable spirit crystal?"Original content from .

Fane shook his head. "This is a piece of purple gold that has a lot of spiritual energy in it. It's more or less the same as a spirit stone, but it's more valuable than one. A piece of gold the size of a fist is worth about ten million spirit crystals. This one here should be worth a million."

Rudy gaped at that. A piece of gold the size of a fist was worth 10 million spirit crystals! It was really hard to fathom.

Back then, Rudy lived a very ordinary life. Even though he thought that he was much better off than others and had a lot more potential than his fellow disciples, he realized how much of a joke his thoughts were after entering Phoenix Valley.

During that time, he thought that 10000 spirit crystals were already a huge sum, and a million spirit crystals was a number he would not even dare to think about. The purple gold was used in more or less the same way as spirit crystals. The spiritual energy could either be absorbed or used as currency.

Fane looked at Rudy and said, "Purple gold is considered a more luxurious form of currency in second-grade worlds. Normal clans still use spirit crystals as currency, but some larger clans use purple gold as their most common form of currency."

Rudy nodded, his eyes fixed on the purple gold. In truth, he had a lot of spirit crystals at that moment-about 10 million spirit crystals. However, it was at this moment he knew... 10 million spirit crystals were only able to get a piece of purple gold the size of a fist.

Rudy suddenly felt like he was poor again.

He shook his head, cursing himself for being greedy.

After Fane kept the purple gold, he burned the two corpses and looked to the distance.

It was a complete wasteland, and there was not even wild grass around them. There was a sinister aura everywhere as if cruel things had happened in the land.

Rudy followed Fane's gaze and

shuddered. "got the chills. I feel like there are horrors all around this place. I'm not a complete coward but I still feel a chill behind my neck. Where are we going next? Should we go look for the Stage of the Nine? We can just use the golden key to get treasures right away.

"I know you have bigger goals, and you'll want to collect more golden keys to get more valuable treasures. One golden key is nothing, but we can give it a try to see what kind of treasure we'll get."

Fane smiled and said, "We're walking targets now, and trouble will probably come find us in just a moment. We can wait to go to the Gate of the Nine."

Fane was the one who determined their destination.

There was nothing else in the sky other than the blood moon. There were not even trees around them. Rudy could not even tell what direction they were going in.

Fane did not explain it. He merely advanced behind Fane. Chaos Continent seemed isolated from the whole Whirling World. They had not even seen any city walls since they entered. It was like a complete wasteland in front of them.

After about four hours of walking, they finally saw people ahead of them.