The desert is vast, and the surrounding landscape is quite similar.
Sheng Ning flew on his sword for a long time but still couldn't reach the border, and almost couldn't find the location of his senior brothers.
When she returned to her senior brothers, she discovered several uninvited guests among them.
Dingtian Sect was very famous in its early years, even surpassing Taixu Sect in popularity.
Unfortunately, the Dingtian Sect was full of straight men who lacked the cunning of the Taixu Sect disciples, and soon the Dingtian Sect became the last of the four major sects.
It's estimated that a new sect will soon replace the Dingtian Sect.
The disciples of Dingtian Sect showed no sign of urgency; instead, they adopted a relaxed and unhurried posture.
"...You mean the Taixu Sect is planning to merge with the Feihua Sect, and the Feihua Sect is willing?"
Yu Ye's surprised tone rang in his ears.
As soon as Sheng Ning sheathed her sword, the former sensed her and beckoned to her, "Junior Sister, come quick, there's some juicy gossip to share!"
Spending a lot of time with Sheng Ning, Yu Ye has changed from having a bad temper to being someone who enjoys listening to gossip.
The disciples of Dingtian Sect who were chatting with Su Daiyuan and the others immediately recognized Sheng Ning as the person who had stolen their demon beast's inner core that day.
"It's you!"
Sheng Ning touched her nose. "Didn't you recognize me during the first round of the competition?"
During the first round of the competition, each sect only focused on the performance of its own disciples and had no time to pay attention to others.
Most of the cultivators in the Dingtian Sect are sword cultivators, and they are straightforward in character.
Xie Wenxuan, as the eldest disciple, immediately stepped forward and opened his palm to Sheng Ning, asking, "Where are our inner cores?"
"It's been refined." Sheng Ning said this as if it were the most natural thing in the world, which made Xie Wenxuan and the others' temples throb with anger.
Seeing that the men were about to draw their swords and attack her, she immediately raised her hand and made a gesture as if she were picking her ear.
Seeing this, Lu Qingan curiously stepped forward and asked, "Junior Sister, is your action a sign of disdain for them?"
Despite Xie Wenxuan and the others' bulging veins from such a slow and deliberate movement, she remained calm and composed.
Upon hearing this, Sheng Ning looked up at him, frowned, and said, "Ear cleaning? In my hometown, there's a saying that you shouldn't move when you're cleaning your ears."
Lu Qingan, “...Huh?”
Sheng Ning immediately nodded seriously, "It's a written rule that when someone is cleaning their ears, no one else can touch them."
Not only Lu Qing'an, but also Yu Ye and the other six members of the Dingtian Sect had never heard of such a claim.
Feeling that he had been tricked, Xie Wenxuan drew his sword on the spot, saying, "I thought you were different from those scumbags of the Taixu Sect, but now it seems that you are not much different from the Taixu Sect."
"The demon beast's inner core has been refined. Since that's the case, don't blame us for taking your spoils!"
Although fighting is not allowed in the secret realm, one can still steal the achievements of others.
As the reputation of the Taixu Sect has grown, the Dingtian Sect has become increasingly decadent.
In the past few sect competitions, they have just casually participated, achieved a fourth-place finish, and then returned with the spirit beasts and plants they found in the secret realm, as well as the inner cores of mutated demon beasts.
Today they found the instigator who stole the inner core of the demon beast that they almost obtained back then. The instigator said that the inner core had been refined.
Then they can't blame them for taking away all the spirit beasts and plants they've acquired over the past three days!
When Sheng Ning saw them draw their swords and point the tips at her, her little face scrunched up.
She pulled Lu Jingshen aside and whispered to him what the function of a Nascent Soul stage demon beast's inner core was.
Lu Jingshen was stunned for a moment, then immediately said, "It probably allows a cultivator in the early stage of Golden Core to ascend to the peak of Golden Core, and a cultivator in the middle or late stage of Golden Core to ascend to the Integration stage."
So, the effect of such an inner elixir is indeed very significant.
"However, Fellow Daoist, you obtained the inner core, surely it wasn't just for one person to consume, right?"
Sheng Ning's sudden words startled Xie Wenxuan and the others.
Xie Wenxuan held a longsword, its blade gleaming coldly. "What do you mean? Even if you try to make amends with pills, it won't be as good as a Nascent Soul stage inner core."
Truly skilled alchemists can refine top-grade pills that can reshape bones and blood.
The Invincible Sect only has one alchemist, Lu Jingshen. As a Golden Core stage alchemist, he can only refine high-grade spiritual pills.
The Heaven-Stabilizing Sect has plenty of those elixirs, so they're useless to them.
Sheng Ning nodded, "Indeed, what if I trade you fifty high-grade spirit fruits?"
Xie Wenxuan's fingers tightened around the hilt of the longsword. "How much?"
Sheng Ning thought he thought it was too few, so she gritted her teeth and held up three fingers, "Add thirty more, that's the most I can do."
Like demon beast cores, top-grade spiritual fruits are priceless and unavailable for purchase.
The reason why demon beasts have inner cores is because their level is too high; many cultivators cannot defeat demon beasts at the Integration stage or above.
Top-grade spiritual fruits require extremely harsh growing conditions. A large sect might only be able to find a dozen or twenty top-grade spiritual fruits a year, which is already considered quite remarkable.
Sheng Ning immediately offered eighty spirit fruits.
Xie Wenxuan gritted his teeth, "Do you think we're the kind of people who can be bought off with spirit fruits so easily...?"
"Add twenty more!"
Xie Wenxuan's eyes widened suddenly, "One hundred...one hundred?"
You should know that Xie Wenxuan was only rewarded with a top-grade spiritual fruit by his master when he performed well.
The high-grade spiritual fruits in the secret realm seem to be more plentiful than those in the outside world, but the methods of obtaining them are also far more brutal.
Xie Wenxuan cultivated for a hundred years, but he ate no more than ten spiritual fruits.
Sheng Ning, however, directly raised the price to one hundred pieces.
Swallowing hard, Xie Wenxuan finally found his voice after a long while, "I don't believe it."
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