Chapter 37: These Are All My Toys.
“Heh, truly interesting. With just a few words, Young Master Ye has turned my hard-earned possessions into stolen goods.”
Su Lingxi put away the spiritual artifacts. “If I were really a member of a treasure-robbing group, I wouldn’t have taken everything out to show you. I’m not that stupid.”
“You want to know the origin, right? I can tell you. I obtained these from the Ice Eagle Beast King’s cave.”
As soon as Su Lingxi finished speaking, someone immediately objected, “The Ice Eagle Beast King can be considered a hegemon. Its strength is said to have reached the peak of the sixth tier.”
“Let alone a Golden Core realm cultivator like you, even a Nascent Soul realm cultivator like me would be crushed into a pulp just by getting close.”
“Young Master Su, it’s not that we don’t believe you. It’s because your reason is even more ridiculous than the one I just gave.”
Ye Changsheng almost burst out laughing. The Ice Eagle Beast King’s cave was no less than a dragon’s den or a tiger’s lair.
And she was saying she went to its cave? Did she think its cave was her backyard?
Seeing the even more disdainful gazes of the crowd, Su Lingxi was also prepared to play her trump card. “I knew you wouldn’t believe me. Everyone, make way. I’ll show you the evidence.”
With a few gestures, Su Lingxi dispersed the crowd, and an empty space was quickly cleared.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what Su Lingxi was up to. Ye Changsheng also sneered. If Su Lingxi couldn’t produce anything, he would see how she would clean up the mess.
“Everyone, look carefully. This is something that some of you might not see in your entire lives!”
With that, Su Lingxi took a step back and directly took out the Ice Eagle Beast King’s corpse.
The moment the Ice Eagle Beast King’s corpse appeared, the crowd immediately panicked. Some inexperienced disciples’ legs went weak, and they fell to the ground.
The scene was once in chaos.
Ye Changsheng’s legs also felt a little weak, and he gasped.
To maintain his image, he still pretended to be calm. After a few moments of panic, he finally realized that this Ice Eagle Beast King was a corpse.
He immediately shouted, “Everyone, don’t panic. It’s just a corpse.”
Even as a corpse, the Ice Eagle Beast King still had the pressure of its former peak sixth-tier strength.
“Looking at these bone wings, I’m afraid this Ice Eagle Beast King would have broken through to the seventh tier in less than three months.”
As soon as these words were spoken, many people looked at Su Lingxi with strange eyes.
Su Lingxi spread her hands. “This should be enough to prove that I obtained the treasures from its cave, right?”
The surrounding people were instantly silent, and Ye Changsheng’s expression was also constantly changing.
The things Su Lingxi took out had broken his perception time and time again. But he was Ye Changsheng. What kind of scene hadn’t he seen?
He forced a smile. “Not bad. With the corpse as ironclad evidence, the origin of the items is not false. But there’s something to be said about this corpse.”
“This Ice Eagle Beast King was half a step into the seventh tier. From the fatal wound, it was clearly killed in one blow. This is obviously not the work of a Golden Core realm cultivator like you.”
“Furthermore, this Ice Eagle Beast King’s corpse has been dead for at least a month. A month ago, Young Master Su was only at the peak of Foundation Establishment.”
“Young Master Su, don’t tell me you were the one who killed the Ice Eagle Beast King.”
Seeing Ye Changsheng’s incessant chatter, even Su Lingxi, with her good temper, was a little angry. “Of course I wasn’t the one who killed it. But you!”
“Ye Changsheng, you like to get to the bottom of things, don’t you? It’s a pity you didn’t become a gold miner.”
Su Lingxi took a step forward, and the aura of the Golden Core realm was instantly released. She pointed a finger at Ye Changsheng.
“Ye Changsheng, you’ve tried to humiliate me time and time again. I couldn’t be bothered to argue with you.”
“But now, I don’t want to endure it anymore!”
“Heh, how does Young Master Su not want to endure it?” Ye Changsheng sneered, looking at Su Lingxi as if she were a clown.
In his eyes, no matter how Su Lingxi performed, she could only make him laugh. In the end, she was just a clown who could bring him surprises.
“Don’t think that only you have a background. A mere son of a Canglan Nation city lord, relying on your connections to bark here time and time again.”
“In this world, there are countless people with a greater background than a city lord’s son like you.”
Seeing Ye Changsheng stunned, Su Lingxi continued, “That’s right, a Golden Core realm cultivator could never kill the Ice Eagle Beast King. I never said I was the one who killed it.”
“But use your pig brains and think about it. Why wasn’t I the one who killed it, yet the corpse is in my hands, completely intact?”
Hearing this, Ye Changsheng’s expression changed drastically. He thought of a possibility.
That was, Su Lingxi also had a background, and it was far beyond his imagination. As for the Ice Eagle Beast King’s death, it was probably a powerful expert sent by her family to protect her from harm.
And someone who could kill the Ice Eagle Beast King so easily had to be at least at the Soul Splitting realm, or even higher.
Ye Changsheng’s family could never have such a powerful expert. He was a smart person, otherwise he wouldn’t have reached his current position.
He could already imagine that he had offended someone that even his family couldn’t afford to provoke.
Seeing Ye Changsheng lost in thought, Su Lingxi’s goal was achieved. She asked nonchalantly, “I’m sure Young Master Ye has already investigated and found out that I’m just a rogue cultivator who fell from the sky in the Glacial Snow Domain.”
“To deal with a rogue cultivator, you still address me as ‘Young Master’ every time. You’re really too polite.”
Faced with Su Lingxi’s sarcasm, Ye Changsheng’s expression was extremely ugly. He wanted to flare up several times but still held back.
A small impatience can spoil a great plan. He took a deep breath and ultimately didn’t dare to gamble.
He took out the Illusory Moon Soaring Sky. The moment the weapon appeared, it was filled with a shimmering light, attracting everyone’s attention.
He let out a long sigh. This precious sword was left to him by his father, and he had always been reluctant to use it.
He had once fantasized that he would only be worthy of this sword when he was strong enough. Now, his dream was shattered.
He had to pay the price for his stupidity.
Of course, he hadn’t completely given up hope. If Su Lingxi really had a powerful background, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to use a sword to turn hostility into friendship.
In the future, Su Lingxi might even be worth currying favor with.
But if Su Lingxi was just bluffing, and he found out something in the future…
Then Su Lingxi could disappear from this world, and this precious item would have a chance to be returned to its original owner.
Ye Changsheng frowned tightly and finally gritted his teeth and threw the sword to Su Lingxi. “I, Ye Changsheng, am a man of my word. Since everything has been cleared up, then I have no complaints about losing.”
“Everyone, farewell!”
With that, Ye Changsheng waved his hand and disappeared on the spot. He couldn’t stay for another second. This scene had not only cost him a precious item but also his face.
But compared to provoking someone with a potentially powerful background, none of this mattered.
After receiving the precious sword, Su Lingxi couldn’t help but wave it twice on the spot. Just two simple swings had exhausted a quarter of her spiritual energy.
Of course, Su Lingxi could clearly feel that these three swings were extraordinary. They could severely injure someone of the same level, and it might even be possible to fight against an enemy at the late stage of the Golden Core realm.
Her eyes lit up. “This is a good thing. It wasn’t a waste of my breath.”
At the same time, the mission completion notification also appeared, and two thousand points were credited to her account.
Su Lingxi was ecstatic. She put away the corpse and the precious sword and slowly walked to the disciple in charge.
“This junk of mine, do you still want it?”
The disciple in charge: “…”
