Seeing the faint golden light flowing through Bi Fan's blood and sensing the powerful fluctuations within it, the white-robed man narrowed his eyes and smiled slowly. "It seems you really did merge them together. Now I'm one bargaining chip short. What should I do? How about you choose one of the two?"
He sounded utterly confident, as if certain Bi Fan would agree to his terms. Smiling, he posed the question.
Bi Fan's face darkened. His gaze was as deep and shadowy as a dark blue night sky. "I'll save them both."
"Then it depends on whether you can offer me something I'm interested in." The white-robed man chuckled. "At the very least, it can't be worth less than that Twelve Beast Spirit Diagram, can it?"
"What do you want?" Bi Fan asked, his tone somewhat stiff.
"How about having that little girl beside you give me a strand of her life source? That would work too." His gaze fell on the silent Ling Xiaoxiao, and he spoke with a faint, teasing smile.
"Dream on!" Bi Fan refused without a moment's hesitation. How important was a life source to an Ancestor Spirit Bird? Even the one inside his own body—he'd been planning to ask that elder from the Phoenix Clan to find a way to remove it once he met her.
And this guy actually had the nerve to ask for it outright!
"You won't agree? Fine, forget it." The white-robed man didn't seem to have expected him to accept in the first place. He smiled casually. "In that case, let's kill one of them first."
As he spoke, a dazzling silver light rippled through the river valley. The surging silver radiance transformed into the shape of an ancient beast spirit, like a giant eagle with its wings spread. A