Fire Lizardman

Yao Chen looked at the small mountain of glowing, energy-dense Monster Cores on the floor, his soul form flickering with agitation. He nodded repeatedly, his voice trembling, "Enough! Enough! More than enough! Your Excellency! Never mind refining those Grade 6 pills, even opening the furnace to refine a few Grade 7 pills would be more than sufficient! The quality of these Monster Cores is exceptionally high!"

Xiao Yan was even more wide-eyed, his throat dry.

Although he did not know exactly how powerful the monsters corresponding to these cores were, the terrifying energy pressure radiating from them could not be faked, especially those two most dazzling ones, which made his very soul tremble.

What on earth did Uncle do during his night out?!

Lin Hai nodded expressionlessly upon hearing this, as if he had merely confirmed a trivial matter.

His gaze swept over the three soul-restoring herbs on the table and the high-grade herbs scattered across the floor, and he said indifferently, "Fine, then I leave this to you. Recover as quickly as possible, then start the furnace. Refine the Grade 5 and Grade 6 pills first."

Yao Chen immediately guaranteed, "Your Excellency, rest assured! With the Seven Illusion Clear Spirit Saliva and the Iron Thread Soul-Restoring Flower, at most in two days, this old man's soul will recover to seventy percent, and within three days, I will certainly return to my peak! I will surely present the pills on schedule!"

"Mm." Lin Hai responded. Seemingly thinking of his upcoming itinerary, his tone remained flat, "Once you refine the first batch of pills, I will set off for the Central Plains. Using these pills, I should be able to trade for some of the main materials needed to refine Grade 8 pills."

"Grade 8 pills..." A brilliant light erupted in Yao Chen's eyes.

If he truly had sufficient Grade 8 medicinal materials to practice with, he might actually have a chance to glimpse that legendary Grade 9 realm!

"However, before that, I still need to go to another place to pick up some 'pocket money'." Lin Hai said, as if talking to himself.

"Pocket money?" Both Yao Chen and Xiao Yan were stunned. What kind of pocket money required this Excellency to go and fetch it personally?

Lin Hai's gaze seemed to pierce through the roof, looking toward the extremely distant south, in the direction of the place called Jia Nan Academy.

"Beneath the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy, in that subterranean world of magma, dwells a creature known as the 'Fire Lizardman'." Lin Hai's voice was calm and waveless, yet he spoke of something hair-raising, "The 'Fire Beads' condensed within their bodies contain pure fire-attribute energy. They are a great tonic for fire-attribute cultivators and have miraculous effects for alchemists in controlling fire. In the Central Plains, they are hard currency and worth a fortune."

He paused and added, "The key is that there are enough of them. Sweeping through the area once should yield quite a harvest, enough to trade for a dozen Grade 8 Monster Cores."

"Fire Lizardmen? Subterranean magma? Sweeping through?" Yao Chen listened, dumbfounded. He naturally knew of Jia Nan Academy; it was a renowned institution on the continent, and the Inner Academy was even more mysterious. He had heard of the magma world beneath it, rumored to be extremely dangerous, with temperatures high enough to melt a Spirit King expert. The Fire Lizardmen living within were exceptionally fierce, moving in packs, and it was even rumored that Fire Lizardmen comparable to Spirit Venerables existed!

This Excellency actually called going there to hunt Fire Lizardmen and collect Fire Beads... picking up some "pocket money"? And he wanted to sweep through the area?!

Grade 8 Monster Cores! Those were treasures produced only by peerless ferocious beasts equivalent to human Spirit Venerables!

In his mouth, it sounded as if he were just going to the market to buy a few heads of cabbage!

Yao Chen felt his soul's perception being violently subverted once again.

He opened his mouth, but found he could not utter a single word, left only with speechless shock.

Xiao Yan was even more confused, but the combination of the words "Jia Nan Academy," "subterranean magma," and "sweeping through" was enough for him to imagine what a terrifying scene that would be.

He looked at his uncle's calm profile, with only one thought in his heart: Uncle... is unreasonably strong...

"Little Yan," Lin Hai's gaze turned to Xiao Yan, "Cultivate well and listen to your teacher. Uncle will be back shortly."

Having said that, without waiting for any reaction from the two, his figure rippled like water and vanished completely from the room, without causing the slightest spatial fluctuation, as if he had never appeared at all.

In the room, only a table and floor full of rare herbs, a small mountain of high-grade Monster Cores radiating terrifying energy, and an old man and a youth remained, both dumbfounded and unable to recover for a long time.

Yao Chen struggled to swallow a non-existent lump in his throat, looked at the pile of Monster Cores, then thought of Lin Hai's parting words, and finally, all his emotions transformed into a long sigh filled with endless sentiment.

"Little Xiao Yan... hurry up and cultivate... your uncle... he is paving a path to the heavens for you..."

The monsters of the Hengduan Mountain Range had just suffered, and next, it was the turn of those Fire Lizardmen beneath Jia Nan Academy to be unlucky.

As for Lin Hai, he had already crossed endless mountains and rivers, heading toward the Black Corner Region, covering a thousand miles with every step.

To him, this was indeed just a simple "pocket money" collection mission.