"You won't need immortals from the Upper Realm. The few Buddhist and Daoist sects in your master's lineage could send them packing," Si Lingxi said lightly. "Besides, the Great Jing Dynasty's court is no pushover either. If they swarm together, even an ordinary Heavenly Demon Patriarch would find it hard to win."
"They're that fierce..." Lu Zheng was speechless.
"Didn't I kill him?" Si Lingxi raised a brow.
"That just proves how formidable my wife is!" Lu Zheng immediately said ingratiatingly.
Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying laughed at that, though Si Lingxi truly was formidable.
After chatting and laughing for a while, Shen Ying's eyes shifted. She took out the pearl Lu Zheng had obtained after killing that stone ghost several days ago. A faint Yin Qi still wafted from it.
"Big Sister Lingxi, take a look at this pearl. Lu Lang said it was extremely powerful, perhaps even no weaker than Profoundly Similar Divine Lord's Nascent Soul Poison Pearl. It should be a treasure with quite a reputation, but we don't recognize it. Do you know what it is?" Shen Ying asked.
"Oh?"
Si Lingxi took it curiously. When she probed it with her true qi and sensed the pearl's power, she could not help but be startled. Looking at Lu Zheng, she asked, "How could you possibly have obtained this pearl?"
Lu Zheng raised his brows with a grin. "Naturally, I killed someone and seized their treasure!"
Si Lingxi was even more astonished. "You could kill this pearl's owner? Even if a ghost creature as powerful as Snow Robe Lady held this pearl, you would absolutely be no match for her. Escaping safely would already be impressive."
Lu Zheng laughed. "That's why I was lucky. This pearl's owner had extremely weak Dao comprehension, only five or six hundred