When the group left the Demon Lair, they took the little wolf's den with them.
It should carry the scent of its parents or relatives. Xian Shiyu hoped that the little wolf could have a familiar smell in the unfamiliar place, which would make it feel more at ease.
Shen Qing and Li Xian headed to the Beast Taming Sect as previously agreed.
But none of them noticed that there was a person trailing them all the way when they left.
After their figures completely disappeared from sight, the person who had been following them emerged from the shadows.
Thick demonic qi lingered around him, blending perfectly with the environment, making it impossible for others to detect even a trace of his aura.
The man wiped his face, enduring the pain on his body. He took out a small bottle from his storage pouch and swallowed the pills inside whole.
After waiting for a while, the pain on his body subsided a bit, and the spiritual qi in his body began to circulate again.
This man was Nan Zhijin.
After Shen Qing left, he also sensed that the people in the team didn't welcome him. But his real goal of this trip was not the spiritual spring, so Nan Zhijin found an excuse to leave first and had been following Shen Qing ever since.
Since Shen Qing met with Xian Shiyu and the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect, he had been hiding in the shadows observing them. He even followed them into the Demon Lair when the four of them entered.
He remembered a word that Immortal Huiyan said to him after they went to the main shrine.
"Shen Qing is not an ordinary person. She has grown so fast in such a short time. Don't you have any doubts?"
This hint sounded very strange to Nan Zhijin.
His acupoints had been sealed by Shen Qing with a special method, so it was extremely difficult for him to circulate his spiritual power. Moreover, the cold wind at the bottom of Siguo Cliff was bone-chilling, causing intense pain all over his body.
But somehow, although he should have resented Shen Qing, he couldn't generate the slightest bit of resentment towards her.
At that time, in the Coral City of the Sea, he clearly felt deep sorrow in Shen Qing's eyes, which was only seen on his mother.
So Nan Zhijin's heart wavered for a moment. Even though in his heart, he still believed that Lin Yibai was his only junior sister, and Shen Qing was just an ordinary disciple brought back by Real Person Hengling from outside.
But that heavy sorrow still affected his heart.
So he pretended not to understand Immortal Huiyan's hint and just said that he was not as talented as Shen Qing.
Hearing this, Immortal Huiyan didn't say anything. But to relieve the pain on his body, Immortal Huiyan gave him a bottle of pills.
These pills were a bit similar to the ones Junior Sister Xiaobai gave him before, but the taste was stronger.
He once asked Immortal Huiyan what it was, but Immortal Huiyan just smiled enigmatically and said it was a good thing, even better than the ones Lin Yibai gave him before.
Nan Zhijin was greatly surprised. He didn't know how Immortal Huiyan knew that Lin Yibai had given him pills. Except for a few senior brothers on Worry-Free Peak, no one else knew about this.
So Nan Zhijin was more in awe of Immortal Huiyan than in respect.
He followed the main shrine only because his father used to be a guard of the shrine, and he wanted to accomplish what his father failed to do.
What his father wanted most was to eliminate all the demonic qi in the world that harmed people.
It was a pity that his father died on an out - of - town mission, so he had to inherit his father's legacy.
Immortal Huiyan also assigned him a task, which was to follow Shen Qing and report her movements in time.
So he had been silently following Shen Qing and sending messages back to the main shrine.
When he saw the ghost wolf transform into a human form, he was shocked.
It turned out that the little wolf cub always by Shen Qing's side was actually the extinct Nether White Wolf.
This rare spiritual beast staying by Shen Qing's side made Nan Zhijin a bit envious.
But somehow, he subconsciously concealed this fact in the message sent back to the main shrine.
When Shen Qing and Li Xian climbed up the mountain gate of the Beast Taming Sect, the incident of the change in the Spiritual Spring Secret Realm spread throughout the Nine Desolate Continent.
The cultivators who still had spiritual springs took the opportunity to raise the price and sold a drop of spiritual spring at a price hundreds of times higher.
Coupled with the main shrine's intentional publicity that the demons and demonic beasts were running amok and the demonic qi was about to erode the Nine Desolate Continent, the spiritual spring became a rare treasure on the market with a high price but no supply.
When the news reached the Demon Realm, Lin Yibai was looking at herself in the mirror, caressing her smooth face.
The system in her body helped her reshape a more beautiful face, which was changed according to her appearance in the real world.
In the real world, she had an oval face, big eyes, and a high nose bridge, with a kind of discordant sense of technology. But after the system's improvement, every facial feature on her face was full of natural temptation.
Lin Yibai believed that as long as a man saw her, he would never forget her.
Those women captured from the mortal world died a worthy death. After eating their flesh and blood, she could have such a perfect face.
She also ordered their skins to be stuffed into the spring eye.
Just thinking that Shen Qing would see what she left in the spiritual spring made Lin Yibai extremely happy.
Shen Qing probably never thought that she, Lin Yibai, was not dead and had come back stronger than before.
Moreover, there were more things that could be exchanged in the system in her body.
But relatively, the price was higher, so she had to work harder to earn points than before.
The way the system let her earn points was a bit similar to before, but it was no longer limited to absorbing the luck of only a few specified people. Instead, she could absorb the luck of anyone around her.
Just like Ji Chongming. He had powerful luck on him, and she would extract a little from it every day and exchange it for points to get beauty - enhancing pills.
Now Ji Chongming was more dependent on her. He wouldn't visit his main wife for ten days or half a month. The whole Demon Realm knew that now, she, Lin Yibai, was the most noble woman in the Demon Race.
"Let me in! I'm the Demon Lord's wife!"
Lin Yibai was interrupted from her daydream. She frowned irritably and gave a disdainful look at the maid beside her.
The maid beside her trembled in fear and quickly ran out.
"What are you guards doing? Letting a stranger in to disturb the lady's rest!"
The maid scolded the guards loudly, completely different from her timid appearance beside Lin Yibai.
Hearing this, the woman at the door got even angrier: "Lady? What kind of lady is she? She's just a concubine of the Demon Lord. I'm the legitimate wife. How dare you, a little maid?"
After being scolded a few times, the maid didn't dare to say anything more.
Lin Yibai secretly cursed the maid as useless, stood up, and slowly walked out.
There was no sunlight in the Demon Realm. The surrounding was filled with dark - colored crystals. The light reflected by the crystals made Lin Yibai's skin as white as day.
Seeing Lin Yibai, the Demon Lord's wife angrily shook off the guard's hand.
"Good for you. Hiding here for so long. Are you afraid that I'll take you to task?"
Lin Yibai sneered and said fearlessly: "You? Who do you think you are?"