Chapter 218: The System Wakes Up Again
Xie Yanning began to cough up blood again.
Ming Zhaoshuang gently patted her back and said to herself, “It’s fine if I can’t reach the client. I’ve already gotten 150,000 demon stones from Wen Ye, and the Huan Bird sold for 50,000, which is more than enough to get the Nine-Orifice Lotus Root Silk.”
Xie Yanning smiled a little, “I’m fine, I just like coughing up blood.”
Saying that, she raised her head, leading Ming Zhaoshuang and the others to the end of the road. It was a private room with a blood-red and black color scheme, exactly like the private room where she had the transaction with Tan Zhu.
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “Let’s wait here for now. If we’re really running out of time, we can go and verify our funds.”
The two nodded, found a spot to sit down, and began to cultivate by cross-legged meditation.
Ming Zhaoshuang: “……”
Why is it so competitive, not even letting this little bit of time pass!
Immediately, Ming Zhaoshuang sat down and also started to be competitive.
Of course, before getting competitive, she didn’t forget to sprinkle the Yellow Springs Water that Tan Zhu gave her into her sea of consciousness.
Then there was no reaction.
Ming Zhaoshuang didn’t believe it and sprinkled two more bottles.
Still no reaction.
Ming Zhaoshuang frowned, picked up the remaining seven or eight bottles, and prepared to pour them all into her sea of consciousness.
Then, she heard the System whisper, “Stop! Stop! Host! This Yellow Springs Water is very bitter, don’t pour it anymore, I can’t stand it.”
Her voice was weak, but the sound she made made Ming Zhaoshuang’s hand tremble.
Then, another bottle of Yellow Springs Water was poured into her sea of consciousness.
System: “……”
Then my life is truly bitter.
Ming Zhaoshuang heard the System’s reaction, and her guess was confirmed a bit more. She raised her lips slightly and asked, “Is it very bitter? Is it as bitter as your life?”
The System coughed twice, as if it had choked, “My life is the bitterest.”
Ming Zhaoshuang retorted, “Weren’t you in slumber? How did you wake up again?”
The System hesitated for a long time, unsure if Ming Zhaoshuang was asking casually or knowingly. Finally, it coughed and said, “This… it’s all thanks to you, Host. Your Yellow Springs Water stimulated me awake. It’s too bitter, too bitter.”
Although she knew her disguise was probably almost exposed, the System still decided to hide it well and not let Ming Zhaoshuang see anything.
“By the way, Host, Yellow Springs Water is from the Underworld, how do you have it?”
Ming Zhaoshuang sneered, “Then you should ask properly, when did I get a Honored Master with the surname Feng?”
She understood Feng Budu’s attitude towards her to some extent.
However, she still dared not casually handle the Di Shi Qing Bracelet in her hand, for fear of causing more trouble for the System.
As a result, the System is still pretending! Pretending for what!
The System said dejectedly, “Who knows? I can’t find any Honored Master for you either.”
Ming Zhaoshuang pouted, “I can’t be bothered with you. Let’s eat all the Yellow Springs Water first. There’s a tough battle ahead.”
The System submissively replied, “…Oh.”
After Ming Zhaoshuang said this, she began to feel the thunder power in her meridians.
After making the thunder submit, she didn’t have time to completely deal with it and hurried to draw the Ten Thousand Miles of Ice Formation. Now it was rampaging within her body.
Ming Zhaoshuang felt it, guided it, and when it was unruly and attempted to impact her spirit veins, she used her Ice Spirit Root to suppress it fiercely.
When the ice and thunder collided again, Ming Zhaoshuang suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
But a trace of surprise appeared on her face.
She saw that her Lightning Spiritual Root seemed to have grown exponentially.
Snow melted into ice, and spring thunder arrived.
The symbiosis between the two was indeed like this.
Looking at it this way, it would take at most one or two years for her Lightning Spiritual Root to be like her Ice Spirit Root!
Ming Zhaoshuang started laughing.
She said no more, and again felt the destruction and vitality, the mutual generation and mutual restraint hidden within the Ice Spirit Root and the Lightning Spiritual Root.
Until noon the next day, when daylight was bright.
Xie Yanning was jolted awake from her cultivation, and the communication talisman in her hand began to burn.
She turned her head and said to Ming Zhaoshuang and Qin Feilong, “The client is already on their way. They’ll be here in at most half an hour.”
Ming Zhaoshuang, however, felt a sense of unease, “Did something happen to this client? They’re not far, yet we couldn’t get through to them.”
Qin Feilong let out a hearty laugh, “Who cares? At least we have a chance to verify our funds.”
The last day to verify funds was today at midnight, and the auction would begin the next day.
Half an hour later, Ming Zhaoshuang finally understood what the client had encountered.
They encountered the three of them…
The client was none other than Wen Ye and Yan Ao, whom they had met above Jingyan Ridge.
Looking at Wen Ye standing before them with a half-smile and Yan Ao who was still recovering from his serious injuries and needed Wen Ye’s support, Ming Zhaoshuang suddenly felt that her life was even more bitter than Yellow Springs Water.
Wen Ye raised his eyebrows, “I say, the three of you, do you have anything else to say?”
Wen Ye found it both amusing and exasperating that he and Yan Ao had risked their lives to do free work for the three of Ming Zhaoshuang, only to discover later that the ones accepting the commission were these three.
Ming Zhaoshuang put her hand to her forehead, “Hear my plea.”
Wen Ye snorted, “Speak, and I’ll remind you first that this merchant guild has eighty-one formations set up. Even someone crossing tribulation would lose a layer of skin here. Don’t even think about playing any tricks.”
Ming Zhaoshuang hesitated for a long time before deciding to tell the truth, “We came to Jingyan Ridge precisely for this commission. Later, we found the Huan Bird too strong and couldn’t defeat it, so we asked you for help. Deceiving you was indeed wrong, but we had no choice, after all…”
Yan Ao’s voice was weak and hoarse, “After all, you killed my Fifth Imperial Uncle, so you couldn’t expose your whereabouts. The tracking on the commission letter would be very dangerous for you.”
Huh?
The next moment, Fushuang and Qingyan both drew their swords. Qingyan even drew its sword and went straight for Yan Ao.
Yan Ao’s eyes widened, “Don’t attack!”
Wen Ye calmly threw out a defense talisman and looked up at Xie Yanning, only to see that she had already spat out another mouthful of blood due to the Gui Xuan Merchant Guild’s formation.
Xie Yanning had gotten so used to spitting blood these past few days that she wiped it away nonchalantly.
She looked at Yan Ao and asked, “You are from the Demon Royal Family.”
No wonder he had the Great Wind bloodline; he was originally from the Phoenix and Xuan Niao clan.
The only one in the whole place who didn’t understand was Qin Feilong, “No, we are in the wrong. Xie Yanning, why are you suddenly acting so unreasonably and aggressively? It’s truly lamentable.”
Xie Yanning said unceremoniously to Qin Feilong, “If you can’t see the situation clearly, then scram!”
When Xie Yanning and Ming Zhaoshuang came to the Demon Realm, besides the Huan Bird, they had only killed one demon, and that was the Fifth Prince of the Demon Royal Family.
It was obvious that the Fifth Imperial Uncle Yan Ao mentioned was the Fifth Prince of the Demon Royal Family. Yan Ao also had the Great Wind bloodline and could casually hand out Heavenly Grade Mid-Rank pills, which made it very clear.
He was also from the Demon Royal Family.
Yan Ao quickly waved his hands, “I am from the royal family, but I have no relationship with my Fifth Imperial Uncle. Don’t hit me, this formation will reflect your spiritual power, and you will be the one to suffer.”
Wen Ye also said, “There are formations here, let’s try not to fight.”
Xie Yanning sneered, “If you call him Fifth Imperial Uncle, how can you have no relationship?”
Ming Zhaoshuang saw the fighting spirit in Xie Yanning’s eyes being reignited and knew that she probably hated the Demon Royal Family deeply. She quickly reminded her, “A Ning, let’s calm down first. These two don’t seem like they came to capture us.”
