Chapter 400: Blood Ganoderma (1/2)

“Life Glyphs?” Lu Yun and Qing Han looked at each other.

They had indeed heard of that item. The Sovereign Meet was to be held in an unknown ruin from the ancient times, and one had to possess a specialized Life Glyph if they wished to enter the ruins.

Originally, all one had needed to do was to enter Destiny City and obtain a glyph from the city lord. However, the city currently strained at the seams with people. There was no opportunity for the two to enter and make their requests.

“That’s right.” Yi Tianling smiled amiably. “I just so happen to have two of them that I can gift to my two young friends!”

“Really??” Qing Han’s eyes lit up and desire floated across his face.

“Naturally! But the Life Glyphs are too precious to carry on my person. Even if we were in the city proper, we’d have to fight a qualification round to obtain one. Therefore, please come with me, my young friends.” Yi Tianling gestured with one hand.

Awestruck and dazed, like two country bumpkins entering the city for the first time, Lu Yun and Qing Han followed dumbly in the old man’s wake.

“Ah… those two young’uns are in for it!” A golden immortal sighed to see the two youths follow the elder.

“Why?” Someone else asked curiously when they heard the golden immortal.

“That Yi Tianling… heh. He’s a fiend who won’t bat an eye when killing someone. Those brutes from the Star Demon Sect can’t even begin to compare to his ruthlessness!” The golden immortal quickly stopped talking when Yi Tianling turned around and glared at him.

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Plenty of structures had risen outside of Destiny City, forming numerous satellite cities of their own. The monster spirit’s dwelling was in one of these.

Creak.

A burgundy door creaked open to an inner room, sending a faint, pungent smell of blood and gore wafting into Lu Yun and Qing Han’s noses.

“My little sweetheart, I’ve found two more bags of good food for you. You should be able to take form after eating the two of them, hmm?” Yi Tianling waved a hand as soon as he set foot inside the room, activating the burgundy light of a formation that sealed off the premises.

Gurgle.

A strange noise sounded, like the sound of a hungry stomach rumbling loudly.

“This is…” Wide-eyed, Lu Yun’s eyes shot to the center of the room.

It was an enormous, scarlet ganoderma the size of a grinding stone—the kind used for soybeans and rice. Crisscrossing lines of dark gold patterned its surface.

“A Blood Ganoderma, it’s a Blood Ganoderma! Do such things still exist in the world of immortals??” Lu Yun shrieked with surprise, agitation coloring his eyes. Qing Han would be able to reach the void realm with this spirit herb!

Yi Tianling started, looking somewhat incredulously at Lu Yun. This spirit herb had gone extinct back in the ancient times, and even records unearthed from ancient ruins made no mention of it.

His specimen was grown from a seed he’d found in some ruins in a patch of sky outside the world of immortals. He’d killed countless youths with great potential over all these years, watering the Blood Ganoderma with their blood to nurture it to its current size.

Who would’ve thought that his latest victims would recognize it as soon as they’d set foot in the room?

“Die!” Uncommonly decisive on this day, Yi Tianling pointed at Lu Yun. A single point from a peerless immortal would be enough to destroy any cultivator’s nascent spirit and reduce him to a pile of ground meat.

Bam!

A delicate little fist poked out from the air in front of Lu Yun, smashing right into the finger pointing at the youth.