Chapter 220: Seal

"Giving everything to Daoist Lin might be improper, right?" another voice raised doubts.

Xiao She Bilu immediately retorted: "What's improper? If Master Lin doesn't return it to me, I can hold Jiang Yu responsible; if you take it and don't return it, who should I go after?"

It can tell who is near and who is far, and knows that a single seventh‑rank can handle Jiang Yu, but probably can't deal with late‑stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

Although it doesn't want to admit it, the facts show that against cultivators of the same rank, the Yao Race's techniques fall short.

"Thanks, Daoist Bilu," Master Lin took everything into his hands, turned and headed back to the camp to look for his senior brothers and sisters.

The demon soul also injured two direct disciples of the Grand Void Sect; their own sect must go all out to retrieve them.

At the gate, a few Nascent Soul cultivators exchanged glances, then ordered the Foundation Establishment cultivators to pause and inspect their divine souls; they too chased after Master Lin back to the camp.

Jokingly, the text on the maple leaf already explained that the Demon Race possesses spiritual treasures and prime spirit stones, and since spiritual treasures are rare, how could one be satisfied without seizing them?

And Jiang Yu deliberately highlighted these two items, intending to lure more Nascent Soul teams.

As for the prime spirit stone, it truly exists; she never imagined that after Jiang Tu moved the ice crystal jade bed and the soul‑nurturing tree roots into the Dragon Pearl, he would discover a stone cavity beneath the jade bed.

It then crawled inside and saw that the cavity was an entrance to a prime spirit stone mine; oddly, the demon soul seemed always willing to reside underground.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yu and Jiang Tu tried many methods, none could lift the seal beneath the mine, leaving the prime spirit stone unobtainable.

So she simply posted news of the prime spirit stone on the maple leaf.

She focused solely on maintaining a fire attack against the demon soul, preventing it from escaping the Great Bell.

In fact, Jiang Yu considered sending a message to Xuantang Xingjun, but because two senior brothers were present and she feared that the Transcendent God might take the spirit stone and change the plan, she ultimately reported to Master Lin.

"A treasure mountain exists, yet we cannot enter.

Feeding two cultivators the Great Reviving Pill for free still didn't revive them; the medicine was clearly the wrong prescription, a waste." Dragon Soul began making sarcastic remarks again.

Annoyed, Jiang Tu entered the Dragon Pearl to seal it again into the ice cavity, saying, "Earlier, when you said you'd help us find the spirit stone mine, you meant this, right?"

Where is Geng Jin? Is it also nearby?

Dragon Soul immediately flew away: "If you seal me again, I won't tell you."

Jiang Tu unleashed spirit fire in intimidation: "Hmph, then stop the chatter; you're everywhere yet can't help at all.

You don't even know how to break the formation of the spirit stone mine, what about the Geng Jin mine?"

Dragon Soul, not wanting to be chased by fire any longer, straightforwardly gave the location: "The Geng Jin mine is in the Poor Spirit Land where ordinary mortals dwell in the Cave Heaven."

Jiang Tu immediately thought: "Heavenly King Temple?"

"Correct," Dragon Soul nodded, watching it leave the Dragon Pearl, then muttered to itself, "Mining over there relies solely on brute force; it won't kill you."

Hearing Jiang Tu transmit the location of the Geng Jin mine, Jiang Yu asked, "Should we go back? We only know the exit, not the entrance."

Jiang Tu said, "We'll ask the Great Demon to escort us."

"We'll see how it goes; Yuan Zhenren hasn't been found yet," Jiang Yu said, insisting that she must be killed for her thoughts to become clear.

"Only by harvesting more Geng Jin as reward will the Nascent Soul cultivators be willing to act," Jiang Tu had a different view.

Then he took out the maple leaf and said, "Forgot to ask Bilu, have we heard any Demon Race soul extraction today?"

As a result, as soon as this news was sent, the reply's header became Master Lin, stating that over twenty late‑stage cultivators in the camp were all coming to exterminate the demons.

It immediately showed Jiang Yu: "Jiang Yu, a prime spirit stone mine can attract many Nascent Soul cultivators to slay demons."

As soon as those words were spoken, before Jiang Yu could reply, from the Great Bell under fire attack came the demon soul's hoarse voice: "Wait, I am willing to forge a Heavenly Demon Covenant with you, just for a sliver of survival.

Otherwise, if the demon soul self‑detonates, each of you will vanish like smoke and clouds.

Jiang Tu couldn't help but stare at the Great Bell: "You can speak human language? That's odd; does the spirit realm use the Heavenly Origin language?"

Jiang Yu thought for a moment and agreed, "Perhaps. Look at Qian Zhenren and Dragon Soul; when they first spoke to us, it was all in the native Heavenly Origin language."

"Do you agree? If so, I will lift the seal on the spirit stone mine for you," the demon soul inside the Great Bell said, somewhat impatient.

Jiang Yu shook her head: "I don't understand the Heavenly Demon Covenant.

and your divine soul's self‑detonation cannot harm me."

The demon soul remained silent for a long while; the two Jiangs silently adjusted their formations and retreated outside the array.

At this moment, Dragon Soul transmitted from within the Dragon Pearl: "Actually, the covenant can be made; the Heavenly Demon Covenant is equivalent to the Heavenly Dao Covenant.

Among cultivators, those who command ghost cultivators or the Demon Race have it; just avoid wanton killing."

"I'm afraid I can't keep my bottom line," Jiang Yu said, fully aware that human nature can't endure testing, especially her own Dao heart; having walked the orthodox path of the mysterious sect, she didn't want to stray.

Having said that, she waved the formation banner, sending the violet‑golden thunder bamboo back into the array, hoping to intimidate the demon soul.

"Jiang Tu, you said the demon soul on Yuan Zhenren, without a physical body to support it, is it the same as this demon?"

"Hard to say; the demon soul and the Dragon Soul seem to be suppressed by this Great Lake.

Yuan Zhenren, on the other hand, came from the Wild Beast region, nourished by wild beast divine souls and flesh, so his strength must be far greater," Jiang Tu analyzed deeply.

The Yuan Zhenren they mentioned, after a night's rest, was indeed very eager to find a host for the Demon Race to possess.

She divined well; by evening she welcomed a group of cultivators from Dragon Emperor Island, and together they opened a cave dwelling, forming a temporary team.

If Jiang Yu were here, she would surely recognize that the leading cultivator is the one she met on Snow‑cut Mountain.

At this point, he believed Yuan Zhenren's words and prepared to go to the medicinal garden the female cultivator mentioned, but he couldn't go alone.

Thus Yuan Zhenren kept coaxing: "Daoist Fang, though the seal on that medicinal garden is hard to break,

but if you and I, together with a group, go, how shall we divide the tenth‑rank spirit herbs?"

Fang Zhenren smiled, "Those with strength will get them. Yuan Daoist, in such a vast Cave Heaven, there are always all kinds of unexpected events; having more people is safer.

Of course, the information came from you; then we can allocate more eighth‑rank spirit herbs."

Yuan Zhenren left with a look of discontent, yet quietly left the Demon Race on his body inside Fang Zhenren's stone chamber.

After Fang Zhenren saw Yuan Zhenren off and returned to seal the array gate before meditating, the Demon Race suddenly launched a surprise attack, immobilizing a person with a binding talisman.

A moment later, it replaced Fang Zhenren, unaware that all of this had been observed by Fang Zhenren through the ice phoenix egg stored in the spirit beast bag.

And this turn of events, Jiang Yu was naturally unaware; she received a message from Master Lin saying he had already reached the lakeside.

Jiang Tu was quite surprised: "They arrived so quickly! It must be the Yao King who sent them."

What it said was correct; the ninth-rank great demon received Jiang Yu's news, learned that the ghost cultivator had no intention to exert effort, and now another demon has appeared. The great demon thought a little and decided it would be more cost-effective to send cultivators to exterminate the demon.

"I'll go up to meet Elder Lin; you hold the grand formation." As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, the demon spirit trapped in the formation suddenly erupted, a clump of dark fire flying out from beneath the great bell.

Boom—boom—boom!

Black flames exploded, stirring up huge waves at the lake bottom, and vast sheets of water surged up to the sky in an instant.

The Golden Core cultivators who were still observing quickly retreated.