Are Your Standards Not Quite Flexible?

Aromatic Silk Beauty dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak.

She had lived in Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for over ten thousand years, and basically no soul beasts or humans had ever come here. She was used to being the boss, and aside from that lord, she didn't take anyone seriously.

Today, she had been beaten into obedience with a single sword strike by Snow Empress.

Infernal Delicate Apricot didn't make a sound anymore either. Frost still hung on her leaves, and the entire plant was shivering slightly.

Cold and terrified!

Lin Yaoyang walked out from behind Snow Empress and stood in front of Aromatic Silk Beauty. His gaze swept over the surrounding Immortal Herbs, his tone calm and direct.

"We need Immortal Herbs of the ice, fire, and light attributes. Hand them over."

Aromatic Silk Beauty froze for a moment, then subconsciously looked at Infernal Delicate Apricot and another Immortal Herb.

That was a plant pristine white all over, its leaves octagonal in shape, each one looking like it was carved from crystal ice and emitting an aura of extreme cold.

Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

"!!!"

The expressions of Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass changed simultaneously.

They hadn't expected Aromatic Silk Beauty to sell them out so quickly.

Infernal Delicate Apricot steeled herself and spoke, "Don't even think about us! If you dare to touch us, that lord won't let you off!"

Lin Yaoyang looked at Infernal Delicate Apricot, his gaze lingering on her plant body for a few seconds as he began to calculate in his heart.

Infernal Delicate Apricot with a hundred thousand years of cultivation.

An Immortal Herb of the ultimate fire attribute.

If he killed her, her spirit ring, spirit bone, essence, and physical body could be divided into four parts for use.

The hundred-thousand-year spirit ring could be attached to him, the hundred-thousand-year spirit bone could be fused, the essence could be refined and ingested, and her body could even be used as medicine.

One flower eaten four ways, completely without waste.

Of course, the best method was sacrifice.

A sacrificed spirit ring would be more powerful than one from a hunted beast, and no essence would be lost.

Lin Yaoyang spoke.

"You, sacrifice to me."

Infernal Delicate Apricot's fiery red leaves trembled violently.

"Impossible! Don't even dream of it!"

Her voice was rushed and angry.

How many years had it taken her to accumulate one hundred thousand years of cultivation?

Sacrifice meant giving up everything: her body, her cultivation, her tens of thousands of years of cultivation achievements, all transformed into nourishment for someone else.

How could she possibly agree?

Lin Yaoyang's tone carried no fluctuation, sounding like he was stating an unchangeable fact.

"You don't want your companions to die because of you, do you?"

Infernal Delicate Apricot froze.

Lin Yaoyang continued, "When the time comes, I'll have Sister Xue'er kill all the Immortal Herbs here. Even if we can't use them, we won't leave them for anyone else. By then, you can just watch their corpses rot in front of you."

His voice wasn't loud, but every word was like a knife stabbing into Infernal Delicate Apricot's heart.

Infernal Delicate Apricot fell silent.

Plant-type soul beasts were different from animal-type soul beasts. They rooted themselves in one place and could neither move nor escape. For tens of thousands of years, these Immortal Herbs had lived together day and night, long since becoming each other's only companionship.

If only she were left alone...

She couldn't imagine that kind of loneliness.

Seeing that she wasn't speaking, Lin Yaoyang knew her psychological defenses were loosening.

His tone softened a bit as he began casting out bait.

"Rest assured, sacrificing to me isn't a loss."

He continued, "My Martial Soul is Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light. In the future, I have a very high probability of becoming a god. If you sacrifice to me now, consider it an early investment."

Infernal Delicate Apricot's leaves moved slightly.

Ultimate Fire? Ultimate Light?

She was a fire-attribute Immortal Herb, and her perception of these two attributes was sharper than anyone's.

She truly felt an extremely pure fire-attribute energy radiating from Lin Yaoyang, a degree of purity she had never felt in any living creature.

Perhaps... what he said was true?

Lin Yaoyang added another sentence.

"Besides, even if you don't sacrifice to me now, when I break through and return after some time, I can still kill you directly and absorb your spirit ring. I refuse to believe a flower like you can run anywhere."

His tone was very calm, but beneath that calmness lay absolute confidence.

"Sacrifice yourself, or wait for me to kill you? Choose for yourself."

Snow Empress silently rested her ice sword back against Infernal Delicate Apricot's flower stem.

The chill of the ice sword penetrated through the flower stem into Infernal Delicate Apricot's body, causing her to shudder.

Silence.

A long silence.

Infernal Delicate Apricot's fiery red leaves slowly drooped, as if making a final struggle.

Then, she spoke.

"Actually... I think... you guys must have been sent by that lord."

Her voice was very small, so small it was almost inaudible.

"I can sacrifice to you."

Snow Empress put away the ice sword.

Look, weren't your standards quite flexible after all?

Ice Empress watched this scene from the side, the corners of her mouth twitching, but she didn't say anything.

She suddenly thought of a question and turned to look at Lin Yaoyang.

"Yao Yang, aren't you only rank forty-five? You haven't even reached rank fifty yet, right? How can it sacrifice?"

Lin Yaoyang had already thought it through.

"Sister Bing'er, aren't there many Immortal Herbs here? If I eat one or two, won't that raise my soul power?"

He pointed at the colorful Immortal Herbs in the canyon.

"Even if there's still a gap, the energy released when a hundred-thousand-year soul beast sacrifices will be enough to make up for that little bit of difference."

Ice Empress thought about it and felt it made sense.

"That's true too." She nodded, then looked at the Immortal Herbs, light welling up in her eyes. "Then which one do we eat?"

Aromatic Silk Beauty and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass shivered simultaneously.

Lin Yaoyang smiled, his gaze sweeping around the canyon before finally landing on the large pink flower.

"Let's start with you."

Aromatic Silk Beauty: "...?"

She had an ominous premonition.

"Hand it over."

Lin Yaoyang turned around and held out his hand toward Aromatic Silk Beauty.

Aromatic Silk Beauty looked at that hand, her petals trembling uncontrollably.

"You... what do you want?" Her voice was shaking.

"You are Aromatic Silk Beauty, at the hundred-thousand-year level, so you should have an Aromatic Silk Beauty Pill." Lin Yaoyang's tone was as casual as if he were discussing today's nice weather. "Hand it over."

Aromatic Silk Beauty originally wanted to say no.

But out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of Snow Empress gently stroking the blade of her ice sword with her slender, jade-like fingers, her movements as tender as caressing a lover's cheek.

The ice sword emitted a faint hum in her hand, pale blue cold light flowing along the blade.

That look, that movement, that posture clearly conveyed that she had better think carefully before answering.

Aromatic Silk Beauty's petals shook even more violently.

She was silent for a moment, and ultimately obediently spat out the Aromatic Silk Beauty Pill.

A dark purple spherical object slowly flew out from the center of her stamen, about the size of an adult's thumb, round all over with a faint purple halo flowing across its surface.

The moment the medicinal pill flew out, a strange fragrance diffused through the air, invigorating the spirit just to smell it.

Lin Yaoyang grabbed it in his palm and tucked it into his bosom.

Aromatic Silk Beauty Pill.

This was no ordinary item. As long as he held it, within a radius of thirty zhang, all virulent poisons would become ineffective.

Even if one's body were poisoned and the toxin had entered the bloodstream, simply holding it in the mouth could cure a hundred poisons.

You might not need to use it, but you couldn't afford to be without it!