Chapter 162: We'll Just Say Your Interrogation Was a Success
The scorpion did not know what it had experienced.
It only felt a chill run down its spine, followed by a pressure as vast as the abyss descending upon it.
Its back felt cold, and even without any pain, its most relied-upon tail was silently severed.
While it was still in a daze, Old Lu's deer head was already rolling on the ground.
The spider had it worst; it had turned into a pool of dark green sludge covering the ground.
It was as if in the blink of an eye, in just an instant, like ants being crushed, two demon kings had silently passed away.
At this moment, the scorpion felt as if it were in a dream, with only the stinging pain starting from the base of its tail reminding it of the reality.
This was reality.
Bai Xuanling landed with Li Yingling, Cui Hao, and the others.
Cui Hao silently swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He hadn't even seen Bai Xuanling make a move, nor had he sensed any fluctuation of spiritual power.
In Cui Hao's eyes, it seemed as if Bai Xuanling hadn't even moved her body.
Below them, the three Golden Core Demon Kings were now two dead and one crippled.
This... is this what a true top cultivator is?
Bai Xuanling glanced sideways at Li Yingling, who seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and said: "You could have defeated these three demons. I merely made a move to fast-forward the process for you."
Bai Xuanling was being truthful. During the short period she had stayed at the sect, she had seen Li Yingling cultivating her divine abilities.
From Bai Xuanling's current perspective, that divine ability could be described as being of an excellent standard.
Moreover, Li Yingling was very talented, and her cultivation of that divine ability had already taken shape.
It was more than enough to deal with three unremarkable Golden Core little demons, and the fight should have been relatively easy, just more time-consuming.
Bai Xuanling pointed to the Scorpion Demon King, who was frozen in place with a look of terror in his eyes, and signaled: "I intentionally left a live one for you to ask for information. Once you've gotten the answers, we'll proceed to the next step."
Looking at Bai Xuanling's extremely practiced manner, Li Yingling felt as if Bai Xuanling's words were automatically translated in her mind—just get an address out of him, then we'll kill our way over and ask again.
Looking at Bai Xuanling, who seemed somewhat gentle in appearance...
Li Yingling felt a sense of dissonance, and this feeling of being intentionally left a live job... it was hard to comment on.
She slightly adjusted her emotions.
Li Yingling walked up to the Scorpion Demon King and asked: "What news did you come here for?"
The Scorpion Demon King suppressed the fear in his heart and forced out a single syllable from his mouth: "Heh..."
Based on that move alone, that human female cultivator was at least at the Nascent Soul Stage or above.
To destroy this Demon Kingdom would be a matter of a single thought.
He hadn't expected that for humans, the existence of the demon race was a sin. Even for causing trouble in a place like this, a great cultivator would personally descend to crush them...
They truly don't leave any path to survival for demons.
This interrogation was nothing more than a way to toy with him. Since death was inevitable either way, it would be better to show some backbone. To end up like that coward Niu, he would find his own death disgusting.
Hearing this "heh," Bai Xuanling, who was standing still, suddenly frowned, but she still suppressed the urge to make a move.
After all, this was a junior's practical training, so she should at least give them something to do.
"Not talking?"
Li Yingling also sneered and decisively chose to take out a Ten Great Tonic Pellet refined by her master.
The pills refined by Master have their maximum effect when given to enemies.
Just as she was about to give this stubborn Scorpion Demon King a taste of the pellet and let him understand what a Ten Great Tonic Pellet refined by Master was, a slender, jade-like hand reached out and took the pellet from Li Yingling's hand.
Li Yingling looked over in surprise, only to see Bai Xuanling place the Ten Great Tonic Pellet into her spatial jade ring.
Bai Xuanling's expression was calm, without a trace of embarrassment. Instead, she seemed to be explaining seriously: "I'm familiar with the effects of this pellet too. There's no need to waste it on a third-rate demon like this."
Then, under Li Yingling's gaze, Bai Xuanling directly raised her hand and blasted the scorpion spirit into the same state as the spider spirits all over the ground.
Bai Xuanling watched the scorpion spirit, who had uttered the word "heh," turn into sludge, and her heart immediately felt more comfortable.
She said: "We'll just say the interrogation just now was a success. We successfully found out the gathering place of the demon kings. Let's set off now!"
"Ah...?" Li Yingling asked in a small voice, "But... how do we know where the demon kings are gathered?"
Bai Xuanling answered with some confusion: "Hmm? Can't I just sweep through the area with my divine sense?"
Li Yingling: "..." Cui Hao: "..."
Cui Hao could only express one thing—the style of a major figure in the cultivation world is truly domineering and straightforward.
Yunzhou City.
In a teahouse, two pill furnaces were currently operating non-stop, refining pills.
One was Chu Xingchen's simple, broken pill furnace, and the other was Bai Xuanling's luxurious, top-grade pill furnace.
It had to be said, sometimes expensive was good.
Even if the pills and the alchemist were the same, a good pill furnace nearly doubled the refining speed.
Chu Xing尘 was lightly sipping tea and chatting idly with Chen Baiqing.
After all, he was refining the most basic Ten Great Tonic Pellets, which didn't require much attention; a simple extraction was more or less sufficient.
It didn't even matter if the medicinal effect was a little weaker.
Chu Xingchen did not believe that Bai Xuanling truly intended to buy them for others to supplement their bodies.
As long as... the side effects were reliable.
Before long, Ten Great Tonic Pellets personally refined by Chu Xingchen began to fall from the pill furnace.
During this money-making moment, even the somewhat dejected Lin Luoyu was called over to place the freshly refined pills into pill bottles.
In this way, the other two people in the tea room had their own tasks: Chen Baiqing was responsible for relieving boredom and brewing tea, while Lin Luoyu was responsible for bottling.
Everyone in the sect was performing their own duties.
Of course, Chu Xingchen understood that things are valued for their rarity.
Too large an output volume could easily suppress the price. Therefore, Chu Xingchen would only place one of the bottles on a nearby table after filling ten bottles in his own spatial ring.
The one placed on the table was meant for Bai Xuanling upon her return.
Afterward, he could use the excuse that alchemy was too tiring to get Bai Xuanling to raise his price.
However, just as the fifth bottle was placed on this table.
Three people suddenly appeared out of thin air in the tea room.
Chu Xingchen looked over, and the three of them had different expressions.
There was Cui Hao, who was silent and lost in thought, somewhat in Lin Luoyu's state.
There was Li Yingling, who seemed to want to say something but hesitated, with a strange expression, looking at him with some grievance.
And then there was...
Bai Xuanling, who looked fully satisfied, as if she had gained a great harvest...
Chu Xingchen suppressed his curiosity and asked a question that couldn't go wrong: "Why are you back so soon?"
Bai Xuanling naturally answered: "The matter is resolved, so of course I'm back."
Chu Xingchen thought about Bai Xingling's [Killing Intent Enters the Heart] attribute.
The meaning of this sentence was probably—The matter is resolved, I killed them all cleanly.
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