Zhang Ling looked at the Azure Fox Demon King and asked.
Tu Fei sighed and pointed to the black-haired fox lying on the table. "Alas, Senior Demon King suffered some injuries in Tianyuan and is now in seclusion, but the Demon King's clone is here."
Then, Tu Fei looked at Xi'er and said, "Girl, summon Senior Demon King."
The half-demon girl named Xi'er didn't talk much. Since Zhang Ling came in, she hadn't said anything except thanking him.
But hearing Tu Fei's words, Xi'er smiled. "Oh, Uncle Hei, Xi'er will summon the ancestor."
As Xi'er spoke, she picked up the black-haired fox on the table, put her head against the black-haired fox's head, and whispered something.
The girl's voice was not loud, and Zhang Ling heard it very clearly, but he didn't understand what it meant. The girl was not speaking a human language.
Could it be the language of the demon race?
Although he had obtained several jade slips recording the demon race's characters, which could be compared with ancient immortal texts, allowing him to decipher the demon race's characters recorded on the iron block and obtain the cultivation techniques and secret arts above, Zhang Ling did not know how the demon race's language was pronounced and expressed.
After a while, he saw the black-haired fox held by the girl flick its tail a few times, jump up, float in mid-air, and burst out a blue aura.
Zhang Ling had also seen this black-haired fox a few times. It seemed to be the fox that the Azure Fox King possessed in Tianyuan.
The black fox was also a high-level demon beast, but the fox looked listless, obviously having suffered a lot of injuries in Tianyuan.
After all, after collecting the Rootless Lotus, there was still a powerful ancient beast and a Nascent Soul cultivator in that spiritual vein land.
The Azure Fox King seemed to have other plans at the time, but he had already left, and he didn't know what happened afterwards.
At this time, the black fox floated in shape for a while, then turned into a blue light group. Once the light group dispersed, a faint human-shaped phantom appeared. It was exactly the appearance of the Azure Fox King, but the spiritual power fluctuations emitted were not strong, and it looked extremely weak.
It seemed that the Azure Fox King had really suffered some injuries in the Tianyuan Secret Realm.
"Greetings, Senior."
Seeing the Azure Fox King appear, Zhang Ling immediately bowed without questioning. Huang Ying and Tu Fei next to him also bowed in the same way.
After the Azure Fox King appeared, he glanced at everyone and directly asked Zhang Ling, "Little friend, you really came out of Tianyuan safely. Did you bring the Rootless Lotus?"
"Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my mission. Although this junior encountered some dangers, he escaped safely." Zhang Ling directly patted his storage bag and took out the purple-gold bottle.
This treasure was the magic weapon given to him by the Azure Fox King to collect the Rootless Lotus.
The Azure Fox King's eyes lit up, and a flash of blue light flashed in his hand. The purple-gold bottle was taken in front of him, and spiritual power was applied to it. The treasure bottle flashed with spiritual light, spraying out a cloud of purple-gold mist, covering a space of several feet in size.
In the mist, a colorful snake about ten feet long was swimming back and forth, but it could not escape the range of the mist.
The little snake hissed a few times silently, and instantly turned into a strange colorful big fish, constantly hitting the surrounding golden mist.
But the same had no effect.
The colorful fish swam around a few times, and its body suddenly burst and changed, turning into several translucent colorful flying fish.
This magical spiritual object actually transformed into various fish and beast shapes in just a few breaths.
Everyone present couldn't help but marvel, and even the Azure Fox King's illusory figure showed a smile on his face.
"Yes, it is indeed the Rootless Lotus, and it has already bred the eleventh lotus seed. The quality is already very high." The Azure Fox King said with a hearty laugh.
"Senior, does this kind of spiritual object also have grades?" Zhang Ling couldn't help but ask.
The Azure Fox King nodded slightly and said, "According to some ancient books, once the Rootless Lotus breeds thirty-six lotus seeds, it will give birth to a trace of immortal spiritual energy and become an immortal-grade spiritual root. However, these are just speculations by some ancient cultivators. Whether it is really like this is unverifiable."
Immortal spiritual energy!
Zhang Ling couldn't help but be shocked when he heard these words. The so-called immortal spiritual energy is said to be the spiritual energy of the True Immortal Realm. There is also a legend that once a cultivator transcends the tribulation and ascends to the Immortal Realm, the spiritual power in his body will also be transformed into immortal spiritual energy.
In addition, some spiritual objects will give birth to this immortal spiritual energy.
The current cultivation world roughly divides spiritual plants such as spiritual herbs into nine grades. It is said that above the ninth grade is this immortal-grade spiritual root that breeds immortal spiritual energy.
Heaven and earth spiritual roots such as the legendary Pan Peach, Bodhi Tree, and Moonflower Laurel Tree all contain spiritual roots with immortal spiritual energy.
Zhang Ling did not expect that the Rootless Lotus had this potential.
Immortal-grade spiritual roots are probably difficult to breed even in interfaces like the Ancient Demon Realm and the Spirit Realm.
At this time, the Azure Fox King waved his hand, and a giant claw about ten feet in size suddenly penetrated into the mist, grabbing those constantly swimming flying fish.
The flying fish transformed by the Rootless Lotus instantly disappeared, and only a black lotus the size of a palm was firmly held by the giant claw.
This is the main body of the Rootless Lotus.
The Azure Fox King flicked his single hand, and several blue spiritual powers were injected into the black lotus.
The Rootless Lotus flickered on and off, shaking violently. Colorful light flashed inside the lotus, and a thick cloud of colorful spiritual light emerged. Upon closer inspection, you could see eleven colorful small fish the size of fingernails swimming in it.
At this moment, seven colorful small fish inside were being wrapped in wisps of blue silk threads and pulled out in a flash.
At the same time, purple-gold spiritual light flashed next to it, and seven small fish were instantly put into the purple-gold bottle.
"Boy, this king will take seven lotus seeds, and you will take four. Do you have any objections?"
"Thank you, Senior. It is already a great opportunity for this junior to be favored by Senior and obtain a few Rootless Lotus seeds." Zhang Ling naturally had no objections. After all, the news of this Rootless Lotus also came from the Azure Fox King.
And what he did was very simple, just using treasures to collect this kind of spiritual object. Even if he only got one or two lotus seeds, it would be a great opportunity for him.
"Well, that's good."
The Azure Fox King also smiled and waved his hand again. A five-colored spiritual light flashed in his hand, and a white jade plate appeared, covered with a layer of five-colored spiritual light. The Azure Fox King pointed at the Rootless Lotus, and this illusory black lotus flashed and fell into the jade plate.
The jade plate then shook gently and flew to Zhang Ling's eyes. Zhang Ling's face lit up with joy and quickly took the jade plate with both hands.
The jade plate is round and one foot in size. It looks like a plate for holding dishes, and also like a compass. Several spiritual stones of different colors are embedded on its back.
Zhang Ling immediately felt that these spiritual stones were five-element spiritual stones, but the spiritual power emitted was extremely strong, and the entire jade plate was covered in five-colored spiritual light.
Each spiritual stone is not large, only half the size of a fist, smaller than a medium-grade spiritual stone. Seeing these spiritual stones, Zhang Ling said in surprise, "High-grade spiritual stones!"
