The external situation had settled down.
Inside his cave abode, Wei Tu began sorting through the gains from his journey through the Lesser Spirit Realm.
His greatest haul was naturally the batch of Holy Spirit Stones he and Dayuan Shuang had plundered in the Holy Spirit Kingdom, along with several sixth-tier spirit medicines sufficient to advance him to the late stage of Void Refinement.
Second were the Life-Locking Stakes he had obtained in the Holy Spirit Kingdom.
Much like in the Earth Spirit Kingdom, the dark underbelly of the Holy Spirit Kingdom's cultivation world had also begun practicing the secret art of Life-Locking Stakes.
This was clearly Lou Boyang's handiwork.
But it had also greatly benefited him.
When they breached a demonic cultivator clan, Dayuan Shuang had seized a considerable number of Life-Locking Stakes from the collection of its ancestor.
The two split them fifty-fifty.
Taking the opportunity, Wei Tu traded away several other spirit items and obtained the sole high-grade Life-Locking Stake among them.
"A Life-Locking Stake refined from a late-stage Void Refinement cultivator is exceedingly rare even amid the chaos of Dingyuan Immortal City. More importantly, this high-grade Life-Locking Stake... is a wind-attribute stake needed by the Sky-Rending Eagle..."
A smile appeared on Wei Tu's face. He opened the jade box in his palm and gazed at the spirit-energy-rich bone rod within.
It was only three inches long, like a section of human spine cut from a body. It was ghastly white, yet owing to its former owner's formidable cultivation, its texture resembled jade. Wrapped in spiritual power, it gleamed brilliantly.
"You got lucky." After examining it for a moment, Wei Tu withdrew his gaze. Without the slightest reluctance, he formed an incantation gesture and drove it into the Sky-Rending Eagle's body.
If one disregarded the innate wickedness