Previously, Huang Ying only had a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, but in just a few decades, she had reached the mid-stage Core Formation cultivation, which made Zhang Ling feel a little ashamed.
The other person sitting next to her also slightly surprised Zhang Ling; it was actually the young Confucian scholar. This young man was the one who brought them from the Wan Yao City, a member of the demon race.
Why would this young demon race man be here?
The demon race's Confucian scholar also had a golden glint in his eyes at this moment, and after looking him up and down, he revealed a smile. The young man's gaze made Zhang Ling feel a little uncomfortable.
"Fellow Daoist, please sit down quickly. This is Fellow Daoist Bai, who serves under the Scarlet Fire King," Huang Ying introduced the Confucian scholar at the same time.
Zhang Ling cupped his fist towards this person and sat down beside him. However, the Confucian scholar did not show any expression. But Zhang Ling naturally wouldn't care about these things.
He heard Huang Ying say to the Confucian scholar, "Fellow Daoist Bai, I will truthfully inform Senior Qinghu about your King's invitation. As for Senior Qinghu's intentions, that is beyond my knowledge."
"It doesn't matter. My King asked me to inform Qinghu Wang (King Qinghu), and the rest is none of Bai's business," the Confucian scholar smiled indifferently, and looked at Zhang Ling again, seeming more interested in him.
It was not a good thing to be watched by a young man with peak Core Formation strength.
Suddenly, the Confucian scholar stood up, chuckled, and said, "Since the message has been delivered, then I will take my leave." As he spoke, he walked straight towards the door. Huang Ying did not try to keep him, but instead breathed a sigh of relief.
But as the young man opened the door, he suddenly turned his head and said to Huang Ying, "Fairy Huang, the Spirit Offering Palace will be opened tomorrow. I wonder if the fairy is interested in participating. Oh, right, if this Fellow Daoist Zhang is interested, he can also come and see it."
As he spoke, the young man raised his hand and two beams of light shot out, circling in the air before landing on the table.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but take a closer look. They were two black spirit talismans, with two demon beasts fighting each other outlined with streaks of blood-colored lines, looking a bit strange.
And the Confucian scholar at the door had already disappeared.
"Hmph, the Spirit Offering Palace's invitation talisman," Huang Ying glanced at the two black spirit talismans on the table and sneered.
Zhang Ling asked with some interest, "The Spirit Offering Palace, what kind of place is that?" He had heard of this place, but he knew nothing about its specific purpose.
Huang Ying waved her hand towards the door, and with a snap, the door closed again. Then she explained.
"The Spirit Offering Palace is not a good place. It is a special place in Wan Yao City, used for half-demons and demon beasts to fight. There are also a small number of human cultivators who participate. But it is extremely bloody. It is a life-and-death battle. The loser will lose their life, and the winner will receive some rewards."
"There's such a place."
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment, then shook his head.
Huang Ying raised her hand, and a box appeared in her palm. After being opened, a yellow spirit talisman lay inside. It was the Beast Soul Talisman.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling stopped talking and a two-zhang-long jade box appeared in his hand. With a gentle flick of his finger, he opened the jade box, and a layer of cyan light flashed out. Inside lay a two-zhang-long, arm-thick emerald green bamboo.
"This is a two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Emerald Spirit Bamboo. Fairy, see if it meets the exchange requirements."
Seeing the Emerald Spirit Bamboo, Huang Ying's face lit up and she quickly examined it carefully.
At the same time, Zhang Ling also took the Beast Soul Talisman and studied it. It was engraved with a majestic white bird. As the spiritual light flickered, the white bird moved vividly on the talisman paper, like a real spirit bird.
This kind of Beast Soul Talisman, like a high-level spirit talisman, can be used multiple times, as long as the soul power on it has not completely dissipated.
Under Zhang Ling's careful examination, this Beast Soul Talisman was still very complete. He could faintly sense the powerful soul of a seventh-order demon beast from the white bird on the Beast Soul Talisman.
Before, when he was hunting wild beasts in the desolate region, he had also hunted two seventh-order wild beasts, but the battles were extremely fierce, and it took a lot of effort to kill them by chance. As for the demon souls, he did not collect them and they were directly destroyed.
The refining of soul talismans requires the demon beast's soul to be basically intact, which is extremely difficult.
This kind of special spirit talisman actually refines the soul power of the demon beast through secret methods, which can act on the human body. Cultivators absorb the demon beast's soul power to greatly increase their cultivation in a short period of time.
Beast Soul Talismans can only be refined with demon beast souls; wild beast souls cannot be refined.
Due to the erosion of turbid Qi, wild beast demon souls are turbid and unbearable. Even if they can be refined into Beast Soul Talismans, no one dares to use them.
There were cultivators who refined wild beast souls into Beast Soul Talismans and used them on their bodies. Although their cultivation increased, their own souls were greatly affected, becoming somewhat chaotic. Some people even turned into bloodthirsty monsters, with the risk of transforming into wild beasts.
So no one dared to use wild beast souls to refine Beast Soul Talismans anymore.
The turbid Qi in the desolate region mostly corrodes the souls of living beings, causing them to lose consciousness and become wild beasts driven by instinct to kill. The most serious turbid Qi on a wild beast is its own soul.
And the Soul Breaking Bead he refined is also a special attack refined with the souls of living beings, but there is no such concern.
In his experiments, the Soul Breaking Bead refined with wild beast souls was actually more powerful than the demon beast soul power of the same level. Zhang Ling guessed that turbid Qi was also a major reason.
Huang Ying also looked at the spirit bamboo he took out very carefully.
Zhang Ling could confirm that this spirit bamboo was a two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Emerald Spirit Bamboo that he had cultivated with a mysterious liquid. It belonged to a third-grade spirit wood and could be used to refine a good wood-attribute magic weapon.
But it was introduced during the auction that this Beast Soul Talisman seemed to be an item of a certain senior, and it did not seem to belong to Huang Ying.
Zhang Ling began to guess the woman's identity. Through the words of the demon race youth just now, there seemed to be a demon king behind this woman, but this woman was obviously a human cultivator. Why would she be related to a transformed demon beast? He was thinking wildly in his heart for a while.
In this way, a full quarter of an hour passed before Huang Ying finished reading the Emerald Spirit Bamboo and nodded in satisfaction, agreeing to the transaction.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang, the age of this Emerald Spirit Bamboo is sufficient to meet the requirements of this transaction."
"Fairy is too polite. It's just that we each get what we need," Zhang Ling smiled slightly and put away the Beast Soul Talisman.
Then Huang Ying glanced at him and smiled strangely, asking a question that surprised Zhang Ling a bit. "I heard Fellow Daoist Tu say that a few years ago, you saved his life. I wonder if this is true."
"Fairy is talking about Tu Fei. I did meet Fellow Daoist Tu once a few years ago. At that time, I was just trying to save my own life. It's not a matter of…"
"Hehe, that guy relies on his inheritance. I didn't expect him to have a time when he suffered a loss," Huang Ying heard Zhang Ling's words and couldn't help but smile with a sense of schadenfreude.
During the previous battle against Elder Chen, this woman had a close relationship with Tu Fei. Now she mentioned Tu Fei again, Zhang Ling couldn't help but feel strange, feeling that this woman's identity was becoming more and more complicated.
