When Yan Chihuo saw it, he immediately understood. This piece of bluestone was a treasure used to check whether demons entering the valley were abnormal. Major sects all knew how to refine such treasures, but they were enormously costly to make, and a single misstep could leave them with poor results. Thus, major sects rarely used them. Only Cultivators at the Spirit Cultivation Stage or even the Ascension Stage would incidentally add such an effect when refining their life-bound Magic Treasures.
The demons of Bear Tiger Ridge only knew that human Cultivators possessed such treasures. Since they could not refine them themselves, they captured human pets to refine them. Yet human Cultivators at the Dao Integration Stage were exceedingly difficult to capture alive. Most human pets were at the Origin Core Stage, and these human pets were full of bitter hatred—how could they possibly refine anything in earnest? The results were easy to imagine.
Yan Chihuo merely concealed his aura. When the streak of azure light swept over him, there was no reaction whatsoever. At this point, one tiger demon said, "You two may enter." The two tiger demons turned into the valley.
The deeper they went into the valley, the denser the spiritual energy became. The dwelling of these two tiger demons happened to lie halfway between the valley entrance and its deepest center. Yan Chihuo saw this and thought to himself, Though these two tiger demons have already reached the Origin Core Stage, their standing in the Fierce Tiger Clan seems to be no more than middling. Otherwise, their residence would be closer in. But where are those human pets?
Yan Chihuo grew even more troubled. Even if he found Ying Pangui's parents, how could he bring them out? Bear Tiger Ridge had as many as seven demons