Suddenly, several cracks appeared at the front end of the vine, flashing with green and red light. It shot out strands of gray-green threads that pierced into the jade bottle, intertwining with the contained Wood Qi.
The gray-green threads were the vine's root system, the most crucial part. As long as these root systems weren't completely destroyed, the vine could grow indefinitely.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling closed his eyes without expression and began to sense carefully.
This lasted for nearly half an hour, and his face turned flushed, as if he were seriously ill. But at this time, the vine on his left hand had grown several times thicker, and the green and red spiritual light flashing on it became brighter and brighter.
After another half cup of tea's time, Zhang Ling exhaled and opened his eyes. The vine instantly shrank back into his body.
He stretched out his left arm and swung it a few times. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he finally felt relieved. The jade bottle in his hand was now empty, and the Wood Qi had been completely devoured by the vine.
A finger-thick, two-inch-long cyan-red scar appeared on his left arm, looking like a newly scabbed wound.
This was because the vine had just devoured the Wood Qi but hadn't fully refined it yet. It could only be temporarily sealed on his left arm. In two or three years, it would be able to completely digest this spiritual energy, and the vine's power would definitely increase greatly.
Zhang Ling then looked at the last rhombus-shaped jade tablet. This object was only the size of a palm, but it was covered with dense flame patterns. It was a jade talisman, a rare treasure.
Jade talismans were a very profound talisman secret technique, rarely seen even in ancient times. Few cultivators mastered it, and refining a jade talisman was even more difficult than refining a cultivator's natal magic weapon.
This treasure was also one of the ten treasures, previously obtained by Huang Ying.
Several hours ago, when Huang Ying was talking with him, she used this treasure to exchange for a seven-colored gem from his hands.
The seven-colored gem was originally found by Zhang Ling when he was still in the Northern Yuan cultivation world, inside the silver giant clam he killed in the sea. At that time, he also obtained the mysterious ancient lamp that increased the strength of his divine sense from the silver giant clam.
After coming to Liuyun Sea, he had been busy with the matter of forming his core, and his refining skills were not good, so he didn't touch the seven-colored gem.
After forming his core, he was busy refining his natal magic weapon, and the gem was forgotten and kept in his storage bag.
Unexpectedly, Huang Ying asked him if he had any three-colored or higher gems on him, and Zhang Ling remembered that he had this seven-colored gem.
From Zhang Ling's current perspective, although this gem was a bit peculiar, it was roughly equivalent to a fifth-order demon core and was of no great use to him.
But Huang Ying was overjoyed when she saw the seven-colored gem and even took out this crimson jade talisman to trade with him. Zhang Ling was a little puzzled but agreed after thinking about it.
Looking at the crimson jade talisman in front of him, he activated a magic seal in his hand, and several yellow lights struck it. Immediately, the flame patterns on the jade talisman lit up one by one, and streams of translucent firelight shot out from it, quickly condensing into a two-inch-long short thorn.
The short thorn looked light and translucent, with only faint red light flowing on it. Both ends were sharp, like a flying needle.
Zhang Ling was also stunned, not expecting this jade talisman to release a flying needle. A wisp of divine sense entered the jade talisman, and he immediately felt a connection established between himself and the jade talisman, allowing him to control the flying needle.
With a thought, the red light flashed, and the flying needle disappeared. The next moment, the flying needle was a dozen feet away, piercing into the wall in front.
Immediately, a layer of white light curtain appeared on the wall, blocking the flying needle, but the white light flickered, seeming to be unable to hold on.
The formation in the room had taken effect.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling's eyes lit up. The speed of this flying needle was extremely fast, and its power was not bad. It almost broke through the formation in the room, although the formation was not activated to its full power.
But the flying needle was also not fully activated. It was conceivable that if this treasure attacked with full power, its speed would be faster, and its power would be stronger.
Flying needles were rare treasures, whether they were magic tools or magic weapons, because the materials used to refine flying needles had to be extremely hard and also had to be able to cooperate with auxiliary materials that hid spiritual power.
Refining them placed high demands on the refiner. After all, the flying needle itself was not large, and engraving spiritual patterns on it was much more difficult than ordinary treasures.
Flying needles were often used to sneak attack enemies. This kind of treasure required hardness, concealment, and strong penetrating ability.
Unexpectedly, someone could use talisman secret techniques to condense a flying needle completely composed of spiritual power.
Zhang Ling commanded the flying needle to fly around the room a few times. Once the flying needle was released, it was easy to overlook if one didn't carefully check with their divine sense.
This was the best treasure for sneak attacks and killing enemies. With this thing, it was very likely to kill an enemy with one blow when sneak attacking cultivators of the same rank during a battle.
However, this was a jade talisman, and like a talisman treasure, it had a limited number of uses. But Zhang Ling was still very satisfied. If used well, using it ten times or more would not be a problem.
The flying needle itself was meant to kill the enemy with one blow, so the consumption would not be too great.
He was very satisfied with all three treasures.
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Time passed quickly, and another five or six days passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Wan Yao City was still the same as before. There wasn't a trace of anything unusual heard outside, as if the changes in Bai Ling Tan hadn't happened.
The only thing people were discussing was that Wan Yao City seemed to have an earthquake on the day they participated in Bai Ling Tan. However, most cultivators didn't care about it.
The time for Zhang Ling and the other human cultivators to stay in Wan Yao City was only three or four days left.
During these times, Zhang Ling went in and out of some large and small shops every day, collecting some of the special resources of Wan Yao City. He was fortunate enough to collect three or four kinds of fourth-grade spiritual medicine seeds.
In addition to this, there were some ores and other things. He also collected most of the spiritual medicines and spiritual fruits needed to brew the Ice Flame Wine that he exchanged from Yun Feng Shangren.
Soon after, everyone welcomed the last auction.
Zhang Ling did not miss the third auction when it started. Compared to the first two auctions, most of the items in the third auction were treasures useful to the half-demon.
Most of them were elixirs, magic tools, and other items. Half-demons were born with demon power, and their physical bodies were much stronger than human cultivators. The magic tools and magic weapons they used were all large weapons, which were very different from the swords and other magic tools commonly used by human cultivators.
This also gave Zhang Ling a deeper understanding of this kind of alien.
Of course, he also made a few bids in this auction, but he didn't gain much. The only thing worth mentioning was that he was fortunate enough to encounter a piece of Gold Essence Stone that was not too big or too small, and he spent a lot of spiritual stones to get it.
Adding the small piece of Gold Essence Stone he exchanged from Yun Feng Shangren not long ago, it was enough to condense the remaining flying swords.
After the auction, there were fewer human cultivators on the streets, and they were all waiting to leave this place in a few days.
