Wilbur frowned upon hearing those words. A hundred gold coins was definitely a lot, but how was Felix so sure that the man had earned them through less-than- savory methods? "How do you know he earned the coins through doing bad deeds? He''s a member of the Albert family, after all. Couldn''t that be the money they paid him, or bonuses he got forpleting tasks for them?"


    "No."


    Felix shook his head. "I know Buck Town too well, Master. Any regr cultivator here, even if they were a ve of the Eight Great Families, can only make two gold coins each year at most. After deducting all the necessary expenses, which would amount to no more than two hundred silver coins. One gold coin is worth a thousand silver coins, and a regr cultivator would have to work for five years to make one gold coin. A hundred gold coins would require five hundred years of work, and that''s without stopping or resting. It''s just simply impossible."


    Wilbur snorted. "Really, now? Well, how did you make five hundred gold coins in just a few months then, Senior Horne?"


    "Oh... well, I''m a different story! I''ve been in Buck Town for thousands of years and made a good deal of connections. I did very well for myself here and managed to connect with the higher-ups that regr cultivators would never even see. As long as you don''t get recognition, you''re stuck being a regr cultivator."


    Wilbur said, "Well, I guess that makes us regr cultivators for now, too."


    Felix summoned a ball of light in his hands that he struck the man''s corpse with, reducing it to dust. "That reminds me, Master. This guy''s incredibly powerful. He''s sure to have received special attention from the people managing the Albert family. Now that he''s dead, it won''t be long before the Alberts find out what happened. It''s best we get out of here as soon as possible and make our way to the Azure Dragon Lake."


    "Alright."


    Wilbur nodded, and the pair retracted their auras before heading over to the area around theke. Wilbur had cultivated in the mirror dimension for almost a thousand years now and no longer feared smaller challenges or obstacles.


    Thus, Wilbur and Felix did not conceal their auras, instead releasing them. This would ward other weaker cultivators away, which would in turn save them a lot of trouble.


    They concealed their auras when they got closer to the Azure Dragon Lake, walking toward it quickly. They had thought that the security here would have gotten stricter because of how things were at the ck Tortoise Lake, but that was not the case at all.


    Wilbur and Felix exchanged nces, and Felix said, "It seems that Conrad hasn''t told the other Great Families about the energy aura leak yet."


    "Well, let''s start looking, then."


    "Yes, Master."


    Over the next few days, Wilbur and Felix looked for otherkes near the Azure Dragon Lake. Just like the ck Tortoise Lake, the energy aura here had been sealed off and the only way for there to be a leak was in the form of an underground stream.