Chapter 94 - 69: Substantial Fortune

Ye Zhaozhao stared at the menacing Golden-winged Eagle and felt absolutely awful.

’I was hoping to hang back and pick up the scraps, but who knows what’s gotten into this Golden-winged Eagle? It’s coming for me again!’

"Your opponents are us," Li Shuang said, making a show of blocking its path.

Yan Fan followed suit.

But the more Li Shuang obstructed it, the more the Golden-winged Eagle locked onto Ye Zhaozhao, stubbornly trying to charge toward her.

Ye Zhaozhao gritted her teeth. Without even a spare thought for Chang Le’an, she turned to run.

’I only have one last chance to unseal my power. If this Golden-winged Eagle forces me to use it, how am I supposed to kill Li Shuang?’

’If Li Shuang doesn’t die.’

’I took so many benefits in advance from the system this time. How will I ever pay it back?’

’That system never makes a losing deal!’

Just the thought of the system’s punishment was enough to make Ye Zhaozhao tremble.

Seeing Ye Zhaozhao about to run, Li Shuang didn’t seem anxious at all. Instead, she took the initiative to block the Golden-winged Eagle.

"Quick! We can’t let the Golden-winged Eagle get to her!" Li Shuang shouted.

Yan Fan nodded, and together with Li Shuang, he worked to contain the Golden-winged Eagle.

Watching Ye Zhaozhao run into the distance, the Golden-winged Eagle’s gaze grew colder and sharper.

He let out a sharp cry, his golden feathers raining down like arrows.

Then, while Li Shuang and Yan Fan were busy fending off the golden feathers, the Golden-winged Eagle’s body transformed into a streak of light. In that moment, its already astonishing speed increased again. It instantly broke through Li Shuang and Yan Fan’s encirclement, charging straight for Ye Zhaozhao’s back.

Feeling the terrifying might coming from behind, Ye Zhaozhao’s face instantly turned ashen.

Li Shuang shouted, "Junior Sister Ye, stop hiding your strength and fight back!"

The Golden-winged Eagle extended its talons, its gaze sinister and cold!

’Good, good! So be it!’

’Let’s see just what kind of power this woman is hiding!’

A gale erupted. The Golden-winged Eagle’s talons instantly became enormous, pressing down on Ye Zhaozhao like a descending mountain.

Before the talons even reached her, the gale had already torn numerous cuts into Ye Zhaozhao’s body.

A flicker of unprecedented fear flashed in her eyes.

’If those talons land...’

’I’ll die!’

’I’ll really, truly die!’

’I’m a transmigrator! I was born to crush these natives and stand at the very pinnacle of this world.’

’How can I possibly die here?!’

Utter despair filled Ye Zhaozhao’s eyes.

She screamed in her heart, ’Unseal!’

’My last chance to unseal my power... forced out of me just like that!’

’Li Shuang!’

’This is all Li Shuang’s fault.’

Ye Zhaozhao was incandescent with rage, but faced with a life-and-death crisis, she was out of options.

In an instant, Ye Zhaozhao’s power surged to its peak.

"Huh...?" The Golden-winged Eagle suddenly noticed something, its face showing shock and suspicion.

But it was too late.

With a cold expression, Ye Zhaozhao swung her sword.

There was no technique.

Nor could it be called any form of Swordsmanship.

In the face of absolute power, she simply swung her sword with all her might.

Both of the Golden-winged Eagle’s talons were instantly hacked off.

And that was only because the Golden-winged Eagle had managed to forcibly change its trajectory at the last possible second.

Otherwise, he would now be a corpse!

The Golden-winged Eagle looked at Ye Zhaozhao in terror. Unaware that she was now just a paper tiger, it feared she could strike again with such power and immediately turned to flee.

But how could Li Shuang and Yan Fan possibly let this opportunity go?

They moved in perfect concert, blocking the Golden-winged Eagle from the left and right.

"Red Flame Golden Fire."

A golden flame instantly landed on the Golden-winged Eagle.

It was followed by a bone-chilling cold.

An Ice Lotus bloomed in its wake.

From extreme heat to extreme cold, the Golden-winged Eagle shrieked in agony.

Its body was instantly encased in ice.

Then, with a BANG, it shattered completely.

The Super Demon Clan’s Golden-winged Eagle.

Was dead.

The Golden-winged Eagle may have had other trump cards, but Li Shuang and Yan Fan’s timing was too perfect. It was dead beyond dead before it even had a chance to use any other abilities.

All that remained on the ground were some fragments of flesh.

"This Golden-winged Eagle’s actual strength was probably at the Foundation Establishment Stage. It hadn’t even formed a Demon Core," said Li Shuang.

Yan Fan nodded. "The bloodline of the Super Demon Clan is truly extraordinary among those of the same rank. If it weren’t for Junior Sister Ye, the two of us combined might not have won."

As Yan Fan spoke, he shot a probing glance at Ye Zhaozhao.

To have grievously wounded the Golden-winged Eagle in a single strike... The attack power Ye Zhaozhao had displayed in that moment was definitely not something someone in the Foundation Establishment Stage could achieve. It was a level of power almost on par with the Nascent Soul Stage.

Ye Zhaozhao grew flustered under his gaze. She tried her best to look calm. "I... I just used a Fifth-rank Talisman."

Li Shuang said, "Junior Sister Ye is very wealthy. A Fifth-rank Talisman is nothing to her."

Yan Fan was startled. "Junior Sister Ye is that wealthy? A Fifth-rank Talisman truly has the power of the Nascent Soul Stage, and for one that a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator can activate, its value is more than double. A single talisman like that must be worth at least a hundred top-grade spirit stones! And that’s nothing to Junior Sister Ye?"

Yan Fan was truly a little shocked.

He considered himself to be quite wealthy.

However, spending the same amount of Spirit Stones on Cultivation or purchasing Magic Treasures would lead to a much more significant increase in one’s own power.

Spending a fortune on single-use talismans like that would inevitably slow down one’s own Cultivation progress.

Most people would not make such a choice.

"Junior Sister Ye is a skilled merchant. This amount of Spirit Stones really is nothing to her. And she has more than one Fifth-rank Talisman," Li Shuang said.

The look Yan Fan gave Ye Zhaozhao was one of even greater astonishment.

’Wealth, companions, technique, and location.’

Spirit Stones were of paramount importance to any Cultivator.

’For Ye Zhaozhao to have such an ability... if she uses it wisely, her future accomplishments are bound to be impressive.’

Ye Zhaozhao found Yan Fan’s astonished expression rather satisfying.

She was just about to say something.

Chang Le’an’s odd-sounding voice cut in. "Zhaozhao, it seems you’re not lacking for Spirit Stones."

Ye Zhaozhao’s expression instantly stiffened.

’She’d completely forgotten Chang Le’an was there!’

’Previously, several people from Lingxu Peak had nearly bankrupted themselves helping her pay back a debt of Spirit Stones, yet now Li Shuang was pointing out that she wasn’t short on them.’

’What would Sheng Yuan and the others think?’

Ye Zhaozhao felt a wave of indignation she couldn’t possibly explain!

’Other than the Fifth-rank Talisman, she had no way to explain her repeated narrow escapes from death.’

’If anyone found out that she could unseal Nascent Soul Stage power within this Secret Realm, it would likely cause a stir among the upper echelons of the Human Clan.’

’At that point, the existence of her system would surely be discovered.’

’For her, that was a far more serious problem than being misunderstood as wealthy!’

Looking at Chang Le’an’s searching gaze, Ye Zhaozhao could only force a pained expression. "Third Senior Brother, I was thinking that if I had these talismans, we could gain more in the Secret Realm, and it wouldn’t be a loss. But now... I’ve really used up all my talismans."

Ye Zhaozhao couldn’t help but shoot a venomous glare at Li Shuang.

’It’s all because of this woman!’

’Otherwise, why would a simp like Chang Le’an dare to question her?’