686- Yuan Returning Stone_ 1

In just a moment, the young man's head was entirely chopped off by Shangguan Rui.

"How ugly." Shangguan Rui lifted the young man's head in the air and inspected it clearly as though he was admiring a piece of art.

However, Shangguan Rui did not seem to be very satisfied with this artwork and tossed it on the ground disinterestedly. Then, he lifted his right leg and stepped on the young man's head.

The young man's head was crushed by Shangguan Rui, and red and white liquid spattered everywhere.

The onlookers exchanged a few looks when they saw it. Shangguan Rui was really ruthless...

"Arh!"

After witnessing Shangguan Rui's brutality, the girls in the cage shrieked.

"Clean it." After cleaning the dirt off his shoes, Shangguan Rui looked at the slave master.

"Yes, yes, yes. I'll clean it immediately." The slave master nodded repeatedly and ordered someone to clear the unbearable sight that was the young man's corpse.

For outsiders like them, provoking the other party without knowing their identity was mostly courting death.

...

Before long, the young man's corpse was cleared, and the remains on the ground were cleaned.

Ye Qingtang had already walked to the wooden stage with the little white tiger. Her eyes darkened slightly as she watched the bloody scene.

At that instant, the girls in the cages were filled with despair and trembled in fear.

"This one is not bad. I want it." Shangguan Rui regained interest and grinned at a girl with long, blue hair.

"Heh heh. Young Sir Shangguan, you really have a good eye. This girl is a supreme-grade slave. We caught her at the external frontiers of the sea outside Nine Nights Dynasty..."

Very quickly, the blue-haired girl was brought out from the cage by the slave master.

"Someone... Someone save me..." Expressions of despair filled the blue-haired girl's face as she looked at the crowd helplessly.

However, the place was silent, and people only looked at each other indifferently.

No one would offend people like Shangguan Rui over a slave, and the young man from before was a lesson learned. There were many beauties in the world, and there was no need to risk their lives to fight for one.

"I... I have a Yuan Returning Stone. Whoever can save me... I will gift him the Yuan Returning Stone... I'm begging you all! Please!"

The girl knelt on the ground with tears streaming down her face.

"Yuan Returning Stone?"

The onlookers looked at each other.

The Yuan Returning Stone was a rare stone that could refine weapons, but it was not a main material and could not increase a cultivator's skills. It was a type of energy stone that did not have many uses to a cultivator despite being extremely rare.

"Fudge. Yuan Returning Stone?!"

The little white tiger suddenly peeked its head out of Ye Qingtang's arms and scanned the surroundings. "Soul Returning Stone. Where's it? Where's it?!"

Many people near Ye Qingtang looked at the little white tiger immediately.

An orange-colored tiger cub appeared before everyone's eyes.

Ye Qingtang shot a look at the little white tiger. She clearly told it not to come out for nothing.

"Spirit animal?"

Several cultivators were amazed as they looked at the little orange tiger in Ye Qingtang's arm.

The supposed spirit animal was completely different from a demonic beast: Demonic beasts kill by nature and had a murderous air while spirit animals were humane, and some could even speak the human language, though such cases were extremely rare.

However, while spirit animals were rare, it was not to the extent that its appearance could shock one.

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687- Yuan Returning Stone_ 2

In the Nine Nights Dynasty, the number of forces which possessed spirit animals was not a small number either.

It was said that the Falling Sky Valley in the Nine Nights Dynasty had a big black dog that could speak, and it was also one of the few spirit animals that existed.

Another example was the Ouyang family clan, the number one family clan in the Nine Nights Dynasty, which possessed a Golden Crow that could speak.

"Brother, is this little yellow dragon a spirit animal... Where did you get it from? Are you interested to make a deal?" A rather skilled cultivator asked Ye Qingtang.

"I'm not selling," Ye Qingtang said.

After hearing that, that cultivator saw that Ye Qingtang was foreign-looking and did not seem to be someone from a big force from the Nine Nights Dynasty. "Little brother, I'm Zhou Fu, a member of the Zhou family clan in the Nine Nights Dynasty. Are you sure you're unwilling to make this deal with me?"

Ye Qingtang heard something about the Zhou family clan in her previous life as well.

It was a second-tier force in the Nine Nights Dynasty and was about the same as Xuanling Sect and Wind Moon Sect in the Formidable Heavens Dynasty.

"Fudge you. What do you treat me as? Am I someone you can buy just because you want to?!" The little white tiger glared at Zhou Fu and shouted angrily.

A trace of fury appeared on Zhou Fu's face when he heard the spirit animal scolding him. "I'm talking to your owner. Was it ever your turn to speak?"

...

Ye Qingtang looked at Zhou Fu coldly. "What my spirit animal said is what I want to say."

"What did you say?!" Zhou Fu's eyes flickered.

Ye Qingtang looked away from Zhou Fu, ignoring his desires, and spoke to her little white tiger. "You're interested in the Yuan Returning Stone?"

"Yes. The Yuan Returning Stone contains the Heaven and Earth energy. It is useless to human cultivators, but it's extremely useful to me!" The little white tiger nodded repeatedly as its big, round eyes were filled with longing.

"Since you have a request, I'll help you to obtain it." Ye Qingtang smiled faintly. Her eyes were icy as she swept a look at the arrogant Shangguan Rui discreetly.

Then, Ye Qingtang walked towards the slave master in great strides.

At that instant, Shangguan Rui looked at the blue-haired girl with interest. "Truly a supreme-grade... How nice-smelling..."

Shangguan Rui lifted the girl's blue hair to near his nose and reveled in its smell.

"Quick... Give me the knife... Faster..." Shangguan Rui could not contain his excitement and said to that indifferent guard.

Very quickly, the guard took a long knife out and handed it to Shangguan Rui.

"I'm begging you... Let me go..." As though she felt death approaching her, fear was etched on the blue-haired girl's face when she saw Shangguan Rui walking towards her with a long knife in hand

The brutality and terror of Shangguan Rui skinning someone alive earlier on were still vivid in her mind.

"Haha..." Shangguan Rui laughed. "Don't fail to appreciate my favor. Being able to be hung in my Beauty Pavilion... is an honor of your many lifetimes..."

After saying that, the long knife in his hands moved, about to stab into the blue-haired girl's body.

"I want this woman."

At that moment, Ye Qingtang's indifferent voice echoed around the place.

Everyone was stunned to hear that and looked around the crowd instinctively.

A beautiful young man in white slowly walked out with a feather fan in his hand.

"Another person courting death?!"

"Tsk tsk. There are really quite a few people courting death today."

When they saw that a beautiful young man wanted to snatch the blue-haired girl with Shangguan Rui, everyone laughed coldly as they waited for a good show.

Zhou Fu scoffed. It seemed that he did not need to take any action anymore.

Then, Shangguan Rui placed the long knife down and inspected Ye Qingtang with interest.

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688- Yuan Returning Stone_ 3

"Brother... You aren't a citizen here, are you?" The slave master could not help but have a headache when he saw another person here to court death.

"That's right." Ye Qingtang nodded her head.

"Haha. Brother, do you know that this is Young Sir Shangguan Rui, the son of Nine Nights Dynasty's Dragon-Tiger General..." the slave master said.

"What... Dragon-Tiger General?" Shock filled Ye Qingtang's face after hearing the slave master.

Before everyone could mock Ye Qingtang after seeing her expression, she said disdainfully, "So what? This blue-haired girl is destined to belong to me."

Ye Qingtang walked up and stood in front of the blue-haired girl. Ignoring everyone's gaze, she smiled and asked, "Do you really have the Yuan Returning Stone?"

"I... have... have the Yuan Returning Stone!" The blue-haired girl nodded repeatedly.

"Good. Since that's the case, you are mine." Ye Qingtang's lips curled up into a smile.

The slave master waved a hand rather impatiently. "This slave is already confirmed by Young Sir Shangguan Rui."

"Confirmed by him?" Ye Qingtang scoffed. "This black market has its rules. That fellow has not paid, so it does not count."

"Young Sir Shangguan..." The slave master looked at Shangguan Rui.

"Haha. The black market, of course, has its rules." A sinister smile played on Shangguan Rui's lips. "Let's see what his financial capability is then."

After saying that, Ye Qingtang took out a yellow-grade longsword from her space ring and threw it on the ground directly. "Is this enough?"

"A yellow-grade weapon?"

Everyone at the scene exchanged a look.

A yellow-grade weapon was extremely precious. To ordinary sects, some elite disciples could not even obtain it after working hard for years.

Seeing that the slave master remained silent, Ye Qingtang took out a bundle of weapons from her space ring and tossed it on the ground nonchalantly. "Is this enough?"

There were ten weapons in that one bundle!

Too many sect disciples died in the Hell of Avicinaraka mystic realm, and Ye Qingtang picked up dozens of weapons on her way.

Currently, Yellow-grade weapons were not very useful to her anymore.

"Eleven Yellow-grade weapons..." The slave master looked at Ye Qingtang in surprise. What was this fellow's background for him to be able to throw eleven Yellow-grade weapons out so casually?

The onlookers were similarly astounded.

"Young Sir Shangguan, look..."

The slave master was extremely tempted after seeing Ye Qingtang's eleven Yellow-grade weapons.

Not mentioning one slave, even one hundred slaves were not worth these eleven Yellow-grade weapons!

"I'll give you one more. This slave is mine."

Then, the corner of Ye Qingtang's lips curled up slightly as she retrieved a supreme yellow-grade weapon from her space ring.

"Supreme-grade!"

The slave master's heart palpitated wildly. A supreme yellow-grade weapon!! A weapon that could weigh against dozens of ordinary yellow-grade weapon!

Ye Qingtang also had quite a few weapons of similar grade in her space ring which were all obtained from the Hell of Avicinaraka mystic realm.

There was no reluctance in throwing a few swords out.

"Young Sir Shangguan... How about..." The slave master looked at Shangguan Rui and laughed.

"Haha, let her to him then," Shangguan Rui said.

The slave master thanked him repeatedly and hurriedly kept all the weapons that Ye Qingtang threw on the ground.

"Brother, she is yours!" the slave master said to Ye Qingtang.

Ye Qingtang nodded and was about to leave with the blue-haired girl.

However, right at that instant, Shangguan Rui suddenly blocked Ye Qingtang's way with a menacing smile on his face.