"Why Black Cloud Great Sage insisted on obtaining Hu Qingtong, I do not know either! I only occasionally heard Black Cloud Great Sage mention that Hu Qingtong's bloodline seemed to concern a Primordial Treasure!" Hu Zi Bo said through his wind-leaking, toothless mouth.
"A Primordial Treasure?"
Ye Zhen looked at Hu Zi Bo and suddenly sneered. "Hu Zi Bo, you have quite the nerve, don't you?"
"Little Demon!"
With Ye Zhen's sharp rebuke, terror suddenly flooded Hu Zi Bo's eyes. He cried out, "My lord, I was wrong, I'll immediately..."
"Too late!"
Ye Zhen's spear-like fingers had already plunged into Hu Zi Bo's crown. The instant his spiritual will penetrated within, the soul-searching secret technique was activated!
No matter how cautiously Hu Zi Bo had acted, Ye Zhen, in his Clear Heart Sword Intent state, had still sensed an exceedingly slight shift in Hu Zi Bo's mind and an almost imperceptible tension when he answered that question.
In this state, it meant nine times out of ten that Hu Zi Bo might have concealed something from Ye Zhen.
Thus, without another word, Ye Zhen used the soul-searching secret technique on Hu Zi Bo.
At the same instant, countless thorn-covered vines resembling bloodsucking creepers stabbed into Hu Zi Bo's body, and Little Demon's Devouring Divine Ability suddenly activated.
The spiritual power and blood essence within Hu Zi Bo's body were continuously drained away by those countless vines in an instant, then transformed into incomparably pure spiritual power and injected into Ye Zhen's body.
Ye Zhen's cultivation began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Hu Zi Bo cultivated Water Spiritual Power. With the power of Little Demon's Devouring Divine Ability, forty percent of Hu Zi Bo's spiritual power and blood essence could be converted into the purest spiritual