Within the secret realm, silver lotuses bloomed across a jade-green pool, their beauty particularly elegant and splendid.
As an Amethyst Scorpion flew toward the lotuses, a scarlet tongue suddenly shot out of the tranquil water.
Before the tongue could strike the Amethyst Scorpion, however, a beam of mirror light descended from afar, instantly turning the pool into ice.
The scarlet tongue froze in midair as well, while the emerald-green spirit toad attached to it was trapped within the frozen pool.
"Sure enough, after so much time, some formidable demonic beasts have appeared. This is actually a peak third-stage green spring toad!" The cultivator was Ye Yunzhen of the Ye Family's Formation Hall. He was now at the early Golden Core stage, and with the upper-grade fourth-stage magical treasure in his hand, he had no fear of ordinary middle Golden Core cultivators.
Moreover, this magical treasure happened to counter water-attribute spirit beasts, allowing him to succeed with little effort.
Of course, his success also had something to do with his switch to cultivating the Heaven-Divining Nine Stars Spirit Canon, which had already given him some divination ability.
After a brief divination, he had sensed that a demonic beast was hiding in the pool.
"Unfortunately, this toad is already rather old and has little potential left. Otherwise, I could have tried taming it." After examining it briefly, Ye Yunzhen formed a hand seal. The profound ice shattered, and the green spring toad within died on the spot.
A hand of spiritual light carried its flesh, corpse, and demonic beast core over to Ye Yunzhen.
He then gathered all the fourth-stage silver snow lotuses into his storage bag.
He left the silver snow water lilies untouched, however.
The Ye Family intended to bring this secret realm back to the Desert Sea, so naturally,