Chapter 185: Mission Accomplished

Just as Song Qingming's hands were about to touch the ball of flame, he suddenly felt a stinging scorching sensation from his hands, making him quickly retract his hands.

"This Fire Scale Fruit is really not an ordinary spirit object. Unexpectedly, just the layer of flame covering the spirit fruit can hurt a Foundation Establishment cultivator." This also made Song Qingming mutter to himself in wonder.

A moment later, Song Qingming took out a red jade box from his storage bag and placed it directly under the ball of flame. Immediately after, a blue small knife appeared in his hand, and he used his magic power to cut directly toward the root of the flame.

Only hearing a crisp sound of "clang", after a burst of sparks, the small knife in Song Qingming's hand was actually bounced away, and he failed to successfully take down the Fire Scale Fruit.

What level of spirit object is this, that even magic tools can't cut it? Looking at the shaking ball of fire, Song Qingming was stunned on the spot.

After shaking his head, Song Qingming took out the Level 2 magic tool, the Taoguang Sword, on his body.

No matter what, he had already arrived here, so there was really no reason to return empty-handed.

Injecting his own magic power into the Taoguang Sword in his hand, Song Qingming used ten percent of his magic power and slashed hard. The entire fireball also shook violently.

This thing is so hard and can't be touched directly by hand, so Song Qingming can only use this bad strategy.

Following a series of crisp sounds, after Song Qingming slashed more than ten times in a row, the fireball finally fell and fell into the jade box he had prepared earlier.

Not long after, the ball of fire in the jade box slowly extinguished, revealing a red spirit fruit only the size of an egg. The red spiritual light in the air that had been shining all along also slowly disappeared.

Song Qingming looked at the spirit fruit in the jade box, stepped forward carefully, covered the jade box, and put it into his storage bag.

After putting away the Fire Scale Fruit, Song Qingming calculated the time. There were still two hours before the time stipulated by Fire Phoenix, so he wandered around in this valley.

There were too many medicinal herbs in this Bailin Valley. Just taking out any spirit herb above Level 2 would have a value exceeding the sum of all spirit herbs planted in the Song family's spirit herb garden on Funiu Mountain. Since he was here, it would be a pity not to have a good look.

Two hours later, Song Qingming walked out of Bailin Valley with a satisfied face.

At this time, a golden scratch had just appeared in the sky, and the golden space crack coming to meet Song Qingming was slowly forming.

After the crack cut by Fire Phoenix stabilized, Song Qingming jumped out of the secret realm with confidence.

Just after landing on the ground, Song Qingming saw Fire Phoenix in red clothes walking to his front.

Looking at the fiery look in her eyes when she looked at his storage bag, Song Qingming only felt a bit of hair on his back, and hurriedly took out the jade box containing the Fire Scale Fruit from the storage bag and handed it to her directly.

"Your Highness, see if this is what you want."

Fire Phoenix didn't say much, quickly took the jade box and opened it to see.

Immediately after, a satisfied smile appeared on her somewhat immature face, and she looked at the Fire Scale Fruit in her hand happily.

Since knowing this woman, Song Qingming had never seen her look so happy. He couldn't help but be a bit distracted.

To tell the truth, Fire Phoenix's cold personality in the past, combined with her beautiful appearance, gave people a feeling of being very distant.

Now seeing her suddenly show the appearance that a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl should have, it made people let down their guard against her, as if the red-clothed woman in front of them was an ordinary human little girl.

Long Feng on the side, seeing that Song Qingming really brought back the Fire Scale Fruit, was also very surprised and couldn't help but look at him highly, secretly thinking in his heart:

"It seems that Her Highness was right. This kid really has something. Only the second time he entered the secret realm, he successfully brought back the spirit object that so many powerful Demon Kings had returned empty-handed several times in the past."

Seeing Fire Phoenix so happy, Song Qingming gradually relaxed in his heart and wanted to wait for their return trip on the side.

Just after taking a step, a familiar cold voice behind him reached his ears again.

"This time, you seem to have brought out quite a few spirit herbs. Take them out and let me see first!"

Upon hearing this voice, Song Qingming's face instantly turned ugly, and he secretly thought: "Sigh! What kind of demon beast is this guy? How can her nose be so sensitive."

Song Qingming then reluctantly took out more than ten spirit herbs from the storage bag. These spirit herbs were all above Level 2, and two of them were already Level 3 spirit herbs. They were all mature spirit herbs that Song Qingming had carefully selected from Bailin Valley and were more useful to him.

Although there were spirit herbs all over the mountains and plains in Bailin Valley, most of the spirit herbs were low-level and of little use to Song Qingming. The remaining spirit herbs above Level 2, although there were hundreds of them, most of them were of little use to Song Qingming's cultivation improvement. He didn't even recognize some of them, so naturally, he wouldn't move them at random. The remaining useful and mature ones were all brought out by Song Qingming at once.

The reason why he only brought out these ten spirit herbs was partly because he was afraid that if he brought too many out, it would be easily discovered by the two Demon Kings outside. After all, once such a spirit object falls into the hands of these high-level cultivators, it is naturally difficult to share it with him.

Although demon beasts swallow spirit herbs directly and will not make the best use of them like human cultivators, a Level 3 spirit herb is somewhat helpful for their demon cultivation. There is no reason to give it to others.

Secondly, Song Qingming also kept a mind. He thought that if Fire Phoenix went back on her word after getting the Fire Scale Fruit and didn't intend to let him go back, he could use the spirit herbs inside to fight for some value of being used, so he wouldn't be slapped to death by them immediately.

"Good kid, really amazing. Where did you find so many spirit herbs in the secret realm?" Long Feng on the side had a more direct personality. It couldn't see what Song Qingming was thinking at the moment, and after seeing the spirit herbs, it instinctively stepped forward and praised a few words.

Song Qingming smiled awkwardly and said: "Senior Long Feng, don't misunderstand. These were actually brought out from Bailin Valley. There are still many spirit herbs in there. Some I don't know the names of and are not yet mature, so I really didn't dare to pick them at will, so I only brought these."

Fire Phoenix squinted and looked at Song Qingming, but didn't say much. She took the happy Long Feng and stepped forward to check the spirit herbs Song Qingming brought out. Then the two picked and chose seven or eight of them and left about half of the spirit herbs for Song Qingming.

This made Song Qingming a bit surprised. Unexpectedly, Fire Phoenix not only didn't blame him for not taking them out at first, but actually left him so many spirit objects. If he had known, he would have brought more spirit herbs out in the secret realm just now.