Si Beihan failed to grasp the predicament in Yu Ling's words. With his current high cultivation level and having not been in contact with someone of Yu Ling's low cultivation level for so long, it was truly difficult for him to understand the unavoidable suffering of the weak.

He thought Yu Ling was worried that the sect leader would blame him for trespassing into the forbidden area. He originally wanted to say something to Yu Ling, telling her not to be afraid, as she could go to the sect's forbidden area with his permission.

However, Si Beihan spent a long time organizing his thoughts, but when he finally managed to say something, he felt that something was wrong. So he simply used a spell to teleport Yu Ling directly into the forbidden area.

...It's hard to judge, but it also inadvertently saved him the trouble of breaking the restrictions. Cheating with his soul every time is very tiring.

Her eyes lit up and her head spun. When she looked again, Si Beihan had already disappeared. When Yu Ling arrived at the place, she was still in a daze. Looking at the desolate scenery around her, the cold wind in the air was like a knife cutting her face. For a moment, she was still a little confused.

Who is he? Where is he? And what is this place for?

When people/demons are confused, especially when they are alone, they are prone to blurting out their innermost thoughts. Yu Ling was no exception; he subconsciously muttered to himself, "Where is this?"

The Demon Lord, thinking he was being questioned, looked around and said, "It's a place similar to the Demon-Subduing Tower, but it seems like it's holding some kind of murder weapon."

The system's reply also sounded at the same time: [Host, it seems to be a place where some unwanted magical artifacts have been discarded.]

"knew."

Based on the above two points, and after Yu Ling herself used her divine sense to perceive them, she was finally able to confirm that what was imprisoned here by the restriction was indeed a bunch of 'demon artifacts' that had already gained sentience and were filled with malevolent energy.

That's strange. Why did Si Beihan throw him in here? He couldn't possibly be going to give him a demonic sword, could he? Hahahaha... No way, right?

Although it sounded unbelievable, the more Yu Ling thought about it, the more likely it seemed. His new master really did seem like the kind of person who could do such a thing.

—In fact, that's exactly what Si Beihan thought. Taming a demonic sword would help with the cultivation of the Jade Diamond Sword Technique. Whether a spell is evil or not depends on whether the user uses it for good, and he has always been very open-minded about this.

However, these sentient beings are not so easy to control, and Yu Ling probably won't be able to get out anytime soon. Fearing that the sect leader would find out he hadn't gone into seclusion, Si Beihan quickly returned, leaving Yu Ling alone in the forbidden area.

Inside the forbidden area, Yu Ling looked at the buzzing magical weapons in the distance and began to wonder. In just a short while, more than ten weapons had already 'greeted' her in a friendly manner through telepathy.

Some claimed that possessing it would allow them to dominate the world, others that it would win the hearts of female cultivators, still others that it was extremely poisonous and threatened to poison the entire world, still others that were evil and chaotic and wanted to make Yu Ling submit to it, and still others that couldn't speak clearly and just wanted to get rid of this uninvited guest.

It has everything, is rich and diverse, is powerful and formidable, but in conclusion—Yu Ling doesn't want to touch any of them.

If he gets involved, he'll have to fight other nearby trees while taming one, which is both time-consuming and laborious. He's not a traditional sword cultivator; being a tree demon is his true nature, okay?

"Sigh, this Immortal Lord Si is a ruthless person. He just threw me in here without explaining anything. The forbidden area is full of vicious and evil weapons. What if there is danger? He has made my perfectly smooth path to survival complicated!"

Yu Ling stood there slacking off and chose to complain to the system, since there were some things that the Demon Lord in the wristband couldn't hear.

The system simply cheered Yu Ling on as always: "Don't worry~ If all else fails, you can buy teleportation talismans from the shop... Wait, huh? Oh my god, the system shop has refreshed???"

"It's refreshed?"

[Yes! Sorry, host, I didn't know that the world change after ascension was a condition for the system shop to refresh. I'm so sorry, sob sob sob!!! Um, host, would you like to open the shop and take a look?]

Yu Ling sat cross-legged, pretending to regulate her breathing, and after blocking out the noisy magical artifact transmissions outside, she said to the system, "Open it and take a look."

A semi-transparent panel unfolded before Yu Ling's eyes.

The newly updated system shop was filled with many treasures that tempted Yu Ling. For example—various immortal techniques created by true immortals, elixirs that could revive the dead and heal the wounded, breakthrough medicines that could rapidly increase cultivation levels, multi-functional puppets that looked exactly like real cultivators, and so on—a dazzling array that was overwhelming.

They are all good items, and the prices are also very reasonable. Even someone as wealthy as Yu Ling can't afford many of them, making it a dilemma where buying them would hurt her wallet, but not buying them would leave her feeling tempted.

With the hope of finding something even better on the next page, Yu Ling turned the page again, but then he froze, his eyes bloodshot, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked, and his breathing became unsteady, causing his chest to rise and fall.

On the semi-transparent panel, in the weapon category, a sword-shaped immortal weapon made of ice jade marrow was clearly visible. However, he had already absorbed all the ice jade marrow from the extreme cold region, so there couldn't possibly be a second source.

So... my... original body... was refined by someone? And even... was made into a celestial sword with ice attributes?

Yu Ling couldn't accept this fact. Without his original body, no matter how many resurrection techniques he possessed, he couldn't use them. So what was the point of all his hard work in cultivating and struggling desperately to find his original body?

【Host, this sword is indeed beautiful, but it's a bit expensive~】

The system noticed Yu Ling's strange behavior, but it had always thought of Yu Ling as a little tree spirit and assumed that its host was staring at the sword for so long because she liked it.

[The price for survival points is indeed a bit high, it's not worth it.]

"purchase."

【--ah???】

I said, buy it!

This was the first time Yu Ling had spoken to it so fiercely, which terrified the system. Were the demonic artifacts in this forbidden area really that powerful? Did it require an incredibly expensive immortal artifact to deal with them?

[Host received!!!]

The system placed the order. The claws were trembling as it clicked the button. Fifty thousand survival points! It had never spent so much money since it was manufactured!

The immortal sword made of icy jade marrow was named "Jade Frost" in the system display, which coincidentally shared the same surname as Yu Ling. Only after the weapon was put into the system inventory did Yu Ling realize that she had spent all the survival points she had accumulated over almost ten worlds.

Despite the enormous expense, Yu Ling's anger still burned fiercely. He decided to abandon his initial plan to give up and simply wanted to find a magical artifact and have a friendly exchange with it!