Understood, thoroughly understood.
His previous muddled understanding of the primal spirit had, at this moment, finally become completely clear.
“Good, this deal is done!”
Obtaining the Primordial Spirit Fragment and releasing the Lizard Ancestor would cost him nothing.
With the Eye of Light, the Lizard Ancestor in his current state could not harm him at all.
“You truly are a clever one.”
The Lizard Ancestor chuckled darkly, and a stream of memory instantly flowed into Ling Xiao’s mind.
“Is this the Primordial Spirit Fragment?”
Ling Xiao carefully examined every word, every sentence.
He had never seen the real Primordial Spirit Fragment, but his Mountain River Martial Spirit could analyse whether the text was logical or harmful.
If the Lizard Ancestor tried to trick him, he naturally would show no mercy.
The Lizard Ancestor smirked inwardly: Kid, no matter how clever you are, I slightly altered a few key terms, and you have no way of detecting it, especially since the script comes from beyond the heavens, you could never know there was a problem.
His plan was flawless, if Ling Xiao dared to cultivate this flawed Primordial Spirit Fragment, his soul would undoubtedly be damaged, and then he could seize the chance to take Ling Xiao’s body.
There was one thing he had never admitted, his current Primordial Spirit Fragment was not merely cultivated to the Primordial Soul stage, but to the Possession stage!
In other words, as long as Ling Xiao’s soul was injured, he could possess him, suppress Ling Xiao’s soul, and gain control of the body.
This was somewhat different from soul seizure.
In soul seizure, the opponent’s soul would be destroyed.
Possession, however, could not achieve that, it required constant suppression of the opponent’s soul.
But the Lizard Ancestor was not worried.
In his view, his soul was far stronger than Ling Xiao’s, and with this opportunity, he would surely succeed.
“Feeling pleased?”
Ling Xiao suddenly asked with a smile.
“Of course, I am about to regain my freedom, am I not?”
The Lizard Ancestor replied with a laugh.
“Still pretending? Although most of your Primordial Spirit Fragment is genuine, several key points are clearly wrong, do you take me for a fool, I was sincere about this trade, but since you do not appreciate it, do not blame me!”
Ling Xiao could no longer be bothered with this old creature, he could refine the old thing’s soul to obtain the Primordial Spirit Fragment, and even his martial knowledge, but that would waste too much time and be difficult in the short term.
That was why he wanted this trade.
Who knew the old creature would play tricks and even try to harm him, how could he tolerate that?
Within the Mountain River World, the blazing sunlight completely enveloped the Lizard Ancestor, here, the Lizard Ancestor could not move freely, he could only let the scorching light slowly strip away his soul.
“I will give you the real one, the true Primordial Spirit Fragment!”
Only now did the Lizard Ancestor truly feel fear.
“Regretting it now? Too late!”
Ling Xiao said no more, his soul withdrew from the Mountain River World.
Cultivating the Primordial Spirit Fragment could not be done overnight, nor could refining the Lizard Ancestor’s soul.
Since his injuries were healed, he should hurry back to North Desert City.
He had not forgotten that tens of thousands of brothers and over a hundred thousand civilians were eagerly awaiting him there.
The imperial family of the Divine Phoenix Empire had ambushed him from behind, the Righteous Alliance had schemed against him, but those civilians and the North Desert Army had fought alongside him to the end.
He could still distinguish between good and bad.
Xie Li had by now awakened from her cultivation.
She looked excitedly at her body, hardly believing it.
“Breakthrough?”
Ling Xiao asked.
“Yes, Yin-Yang Realm!”
Xie Li nodded.
It felt like a dream, leaping directly from the Tenth Cave Heaven to the first level of the Yin-Yang Realm, skipping the Half-Step Yin-Yang Realm that most warriors had to endure.
This meant she had received an extremely powerful force, so much so that she needed no accumulation and broke through directly to a higher realm.
“Congratulations, Sister Xie Li, although the Scorpion Tribe lost a Scorpion King in battle, another Yin-Yang Realm expert has emerged, at least for now, there should be no danger.”
Ling Xiao smiled.
“You jest, young master, we Scorpions cannot break our blood oath, since I have sworn to become your servant, I cannot go back on it.”
Xie Li said seriously.
She was saved by Ling Xiao, without him, she would have been violated by that blind scorpion.
The Scorpion Tribe was also saved by Ling Xiao, without him, it would have been completely destroyed by Temur Mutu.
Even her current breakthrough was thanks to Ling Xiao.
Xie Li was no saint, but she absolutely honoured her blood oath, once sworn, she would never betray it.
“Fine, as you wish, we will discuss this later, let us go, I believe your people are anxious by now.”
Ling Xiao did not insist further.
Having a Yin-Yang Realm servant, what was there to be dissatisfied about?
“Yes, young master!”
Xie Li nodded and followed Ling Xiao out of the forbidden area.
Outside the Blood Mirror Pool, the Dark Thorn team members were eating.
The delicious roasted meat and vegetables had been gathered and prepared by warriors of the Scorpion Tribe.
Yue Nu did not eat, she stood quietly, her body always surrounded by strange moonlight, like a moonlit fairy.
Yet no one knew what kind of pain Yue Nu was enduring.
Long ago, she had taken a female disciple named Yi Hua.
This disciple was exceptionally gifted, originally trained by Yue Nu to inherit the position of Moonflower Sect leader.
However, at sixteen, Yi Hua fell in love with a man.
This man had a mysterious background, but he was extremely powerful, and within days, Yi Hua was utterly infatuated with him.
For this man, Yi Hua even betrayed Yue Nu’s trust and stole her most precious “Heart of Moonlight”.
The Heart of Moonlight was Yue Nu’s heart.
A heart that looked like a beautiful jade.
This heart had formed over countless years and was the key to her taking human form.
Once lost, not only would her cultivation drop drastically and her body become extremely weak, but the most terrifying part was that without seeing the moon, her body would suffer immense pain, a pain she had never told anyone.
Only she knew it was worse than having tens of thousands of steel needles stabbed into her chest.
Later, she found a way to suppress this pain, by staying in her palace, where light very similar to moonlight could be released to ease her suffering.
Since the palace was built, she had rarely left the Moonflower Sect.
The first time she left was to deal with the Evil Beast Demon King.
That was to fulfil a promise she made nearly a hundred thousand years ago to the Moonflower Immortal Venerable.
The second time was to protect Ling Xiao at the Martial Arts Festival in the Holy City.
And this time, it was also for Ling Xiao.
