Seeing these questions, the Demon Cultivators either wore troubled expressions or shook their heads in deep thought. Only the man and woman brought by Zheng the Third silently calculated the answers, already beginning to carve them onto their jade tablets.
I took the answers from the two of them and discovered that none of the other Demon Cultivators had solved it. I was not too disappointed; after all, this question was no ordinary one, and not just anyone could crack it. So I focused my thoughts on the jade tablets.
Just as expected. The man and woman had already solved the previous question. This one had not stumped them either, and they had actually gotten both answers right. By rights, after hiring them with a salary worth five taels of Heavenly Dao Powder, I should have given them the next question to tackle.
However, at that moment, a female immortal who had been standing in the crowd without solving the question suddenly raised her hand, indicating that she wanted to say something.
Zheng the Third frowned at her and said, "Where are your manners? If you have something to say, tell me first. Don't bother Boss Ao over every little thing."
"Human Immortal?" I looked the female immortal up and down. Her clothing and appearance both had an exotic, extraterritorial style, but they could not conceal her identity as a Human Immortal. Zheng the Third's hostility toward her was probably because, in the end, this was still the Demon Cultivators' territory.
"Boss Ao, you know that although there are plenty of Demon Cultivators in this Sacred City, many of them have their eyes set higher than their heads. They would rather gnaw on the wild vegetables provided by the government than eat the meat we offer. So I turned my