They scrutinized the masked A Yao clone, all thinking to themselves: This green-clad female cultivator is only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, yet she dares to openly snatch treasures from a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. Could she have some kind of backing?
Seeing that the man in black had no intention of raising the price, the dark-faced man said, "Since no one else is willing to offer a higher price, then this Soul-Nourishing Flower belongs to this fellow Daoist."
With a flick of his hand, the box containing the Soul-Nourishing Flower flew towards A Yao.
Ayao put away the Soul-Nourishing Flower and tossed a storage bag to the dark-faced man. The bag contained fifteen high-grade spirit stones and a seventh-grade Spirit Marrow Pill. After verifying the contents with his divine sense, the dark-faced man put the bag away and continued presiding over the auction.
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One hour later.
Outside White Sand City, rolling mountains stretched out, and a long, azure rainbow streaked across the sky. This azure rainbow passed through a valley between the mountains, its speed slowing slightly. Within this azure rainbow was a veiled girl dressed in a light green dress.
Suddenly, a red light attacked from behind the girl. The girl frowned slightly, dodged in mid-air, and the red light struck the rocks in front of her, shattering the boulder on the peak into pieces.
The girl spun in mid-air and landed on the ground below. Holding a jade flute, she watched as a red light flashed out from the dense forest. After the red light subsided, she saw a cold-faced man in black.
"You don't seem surprised." The man in black looked coldly at A Yao.
After Ah Yao's clone purchased the Soul-Nourishing Flower, she stayed at Baoyu Tower for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea before leaving. The man in black followed her immediately after she left. He left the city with her.
Although A Yao's clone was only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, her divine sense was already at the Void Refinement stage. How could she not detect the man in black? She let him follow her.
Although A Yao's clone had her face covered, the man in black could still see her composure. However, the man in black was very confident in his own strength, and he snorted coldly:
"I already warned you, you asked for it." His clothes fluttered without wind, and a large number of demonic shadows appeared behind him. At that moment, the sky was filled with turbulent winds and clouds, and the light dimmed as dark clouds covered the sky.
A strong wind was blowing, swirling Ayao's hair and her light green gauze dress.
Countless black skulls surged from the demonic shadows behind the man in black. These black skulls were densely packed and about to pounce on A Yao when they heard the sound of cicadas. It was unknown when, but many cicadas had appeared in the world. These cicadas had bodies like gold and jade and transparent wings, and there were thousands of them.
The chirping of these thousands of golden cicadas sounded like the clash of swords and the thunder of horses, creating waves of sound.
The man in black trembled, and his body developed numerous cracks amidst the cicadas' chirping. Even his primordial spirit suffered numerous cracks. He coughed up blood, staring in shock and horror at the girl standing a dozen steps away from him, before collapsing to the ground and dying in despair.
The Golden Jade Cicada possesses three great supernatural abilities: invisibility, healing, and sonic attack. Because of its invisibility ability, the man in black could not see when the Golden Jade Cicada was released by A Yao. It appeared suddenly, giving him no time to react, and used sonic attack to kill the man in black along with his primordial spirit.
With the death of the man in black, the demonic shadows he created vanished like bubbles.
Ayao gently raised her hand, and a storage bag flew into her hand.
After taking the storage bag, she looked around at the hidden places.
Several Nascent Soul cultivators were hidden around here; these were the same people who had bid against A Yao at the Baoyu Tower before.
These people had been watching A Yao's clone and the man in black's movements. Seeing the man in black following A Yao, they followed as well. They all harbored malicious intentions. They had seen A Yao, a Nascent Soul cultivator at the early stage, show no fear of the man in black, a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and guessed that she must have something to rely on.
These two might end up severely injured in a fight. They followed to see how things went and decide whether to intervene. If they really did end up severely injured, then they would kill them both and divide their spoils equally.
But no one could have imagined that the masked girl would kill the man in black in a single encounter.
What exactly are those cicadas?
What kind of strange insect is this, that it's so terrifying?
A charming woman dressed in peach pink stood on a giant tree, her body hidden by the branches, her forehead covered in cold sweat.
The young man with tattoos on his face stood behind a boulder, feeling a chill run down his spine.
The others were the same; they all looked extremely grim.
Ayao looked around and smiled, "Since you fellow Daoists have come, why don't you show yourselves?"
Upon hearing this, the expressions on those people's faces turned even uglier.
The alluring woman in the peach-colored dress suddenly opened her eyes wide. Her beautiful eyes reflected the golden cicada perched on the branch in front of her. This beautiful golden cicada had appeared at some point and was gently spreading its wings on the branch.
She was horrified to see that after the golden cicada appeared, golden cicadas were everywhere around her, in all directions, within a ten-foot radius.
When was that?!
Not only her, but all the Nascent Soul stage cultivators with ill intentions were now showing the same fear as her. They were shocked to find that golden jade cicadas were hovering all around them.
A chill seeped from my bones.
Escape! We must escape!
But as soon as they had the idea, all the golden cicadas began to chirp.
"Cicadas—cicadas—"
The cicadas' chirping was like a summer carnival. The moment the golden sound waves spread, the bodies of the four Nascent Soul stage cultivators hidden in the shadows shattered like porcelain, and they all died instantly, their primordial spirits unable to escape.
These people had such malicious intentions that they deserved to die at A Yao's hands.
Tens of thousands of golden cicadas flew from all over the mountains and forests toward A Yao's clone, and four of them even brought back the storage bags of the Nascent Soul stage cultivators to A Yao.
Ayao collected all the storage bags and then put two-thirds of the tens of thousands of Golden Jade Cicadas into her spirit beast bag. After more than ten years of cultivation, the eight Golden Jade Cicada eggs obtained from the Demon Spirit Abyss have now grown to more than 300,000.
These 300,000+ gold cicadas were distributed among A Yao's various clones.
These golden jade cicadas are not yet adults. If they were to become the Golden Jade Cicada King, they would be among the top ten rare insects in the Seven Primordial Realms. The simultaneous chirping of tens of thousands of golden jade cicadas would be enough to kill a cultivator in the early stage of the Void Refinement Realm, and killing several cultivators in the Nascent Soul Realm would be even easier.
Three years ago, when she fought Lou Munan, A Yao did not use these spirit insects because she knew that these golden cicadas posed no threat to Lou Munan and were merely a waste of resources.
The golden cicadas that were not collected by A Yao's clone flew into the sky, heading in all directions and far away, collecting all sorts of useful information for A Yao's Nascent Soul stage clone.
Three days later, A Yao's clone obtained Feng Chu's whereabouts from one of the golden cicadas.
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