Plotting for a Nine-Thousand-Year Earth Demon Bull!

Days and nights flew by, and they savored their fleeting joy!

Before long, it was time for the Xia Family to move into their new home. Early that morning, Dugu Xin had already begun making preparations.

"Brother Xia!"

"Congratulations on moving into your new home!"

The two families did not live far apart. In less than the time it took to burn an incense stick, Dugu Xin and his wife arrived at the Xia Family's doorstep.

As soon as they reached the gate, Dugu Xin and Feng Yansha saw Xia Feng and Liu Yuer busily at work.

"Brother Dugu?"

"Your honored presence truly brings glory to this humble home. Please come in! Yuer, brew a pot of good tea!"

Xia Feng turned and called out to Liu Yuer.

"Shasha!"

"You go lend a hand too!"

Dugu Xin genuinely wanted to befriend Xia Feng. Seeing Liu Yuer rushing about, he called to Feng Yansha.

"Alright!"

Feng Yansha nodded.

"Brother Xia, thank you for this!"

"If not for the thousand-year Dragon Lingzhi you gave me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have broken through to the four-ring Soul Ancestor realm so quickly!"

Dugu Xin came right to the point. After absorbing Dragon Lingzhi's soul ring, he had broken through to level forty-two.

"This isn't my doing!"

"I only obtained that thousand-year Dragon Lingzhi by chance, and it just so happened to coincide with your joyous occasion!"

"It was all fate!"

Xia Feng waved his hand and replied heartily.

"Indeed, fate had brought us together!"

"If Brother Xia does not mind, how about the Xia Family and the Dugu Clan forge a close family friendship from now on?"

Dugu Xin openly showed his goodwill.

"Then we'll be troubling you in the future!"

Xia Feng smiled. With the Dugu Clan as an ally, the Xia Family would have someone to rely on in Heaven Dou City from now on.

Meanwhile, in the backyard.

"Sister Yuer, I'll help you!"

Feng Yansha had put her hair up in a bun, the mark and symbol of a newly married woman.

"You've only just married in, so you should rest!"

Liu Yuer spoke with a light laugh. Her teasing words made Feng Yansha blush bright red.

"By the way!"

"Sister Shasha!"

"I've just arrived in Heaven Dou and don't know the area well. Is there any way to get an Earth Demon Bull?"

"My Xia has a very unusual martial soul and eats a great deal, and we also have a half-grown brat who's still growing!"

"So I want to buy an Earth Demon Bull, slaughter it for meat, and nourish the father and son properly!"

"Do you have any way to get one?"

Liu Yuer asked Feng Yansha.

Earth Demon Bulls were extremely rare in the wild and very difficult to hunt. Their meat was also considered a high-grade ingredient.

"An Earth Demon Bull?"

"That kind of soul beast is strictly regulated by the military!"

Feng Yansha did not think much of it. Though slaughtering Earth Demon Bulls was prohibited on the market, the demand for them was simply too high, and many people still sold them in secret.

"If Sister wants to buy one, I do have a way!"

"Earth Demon Bulls may be rare, but several forces in Heaven Dou City deal in this business!"

"However, they usually only sell the meat and rarely sell entire Earth Demon Bulls. I can ask around!"

"What age does Sister Yuer want?"

Feng Yansha looked at Liu Yuer and asked.

"To be honest, Sister!"

"Ten-thousand-year Earth Demon Bulls are far too rare, while beef from younger ones provides no nourishing benefit to us!"

"So I want a nine-thousand-year Earth Demon Bull. Do you think you could help me?"

After pondering for a moment, Liu Yuer asked.

"A nine-thousand-year Earth Demon Bull?"

Feng Yansha fell into thought. That age was not low, yet it was still within the thousand-year soul beast category.

Nine thousand years was an awkward age.

For someone seeking an Earth Demon Bull's soul ring, it was too high for a fourth ring and too low for a fifth ring—extremely awkward!

The mainstream soul ring configuration in the soul master world was now two yellow, two purple, and five black, eliminating the possibility of a thousand-year fifth ring.

The soul master world valued strength above all else!

Any ambitious person would generally not choose a thousand-year fifth ring, so Feng Yansha did not suspect anything.

"To be honest, Sister Yuer!"

"Although there is a way, a nine-thousand-year Earth Demon Bull does not come cheaply on the market!"

"It would cost at least several hundred thousand gold soul coins!"

As a protected soul beast and a top-tier high-grade ingredient, thousand-year Earth Demon Bulls were extremely expensive.

Even without factoring in the value of its soul ring, the market price of a dead hundred-year Earth Demon Bull was as high as a thousand gold soul coins.

A living thousand-year Earth Demon Bull cost even more, let alone one at the fixed age of nine thousand years!

As for Earth Demon Bulls around ten thousand years old, even the Heaven Dou Royal Ranch did not have many of them.

Across the entire Heaven Dou Royal Ranch, there were only a handful of ten-thousand-year Earth Demon Bulls, and every one of them was a bull king of its herd!

"Haha, the price is negotiable!"

Liu Yuer spoke casually. With tens of millions of gold soul coins on hand, everything besides soul bones was negotiable.

A few days later!

Through the Dugu Clan's connections, Liu Yuer bought an Earth Demon Bull from the Heaven Dou Royal Ranch.

"This Earth Demon Bull has already had its movements restricted by the ranch and is now formally being handed over to you!"

"There is no issue with this soul beast's age!"

"According to the Heaven Dou Royal Ranch's appraisal, this soul beast is as old as nine thousand nine hundred years!"

"Coincidentally, because of its age, it had recently been provoking a ten-thousand-year bull king!"

"Earth Demon Bulls become kings at ten thousand years!"

"This fellow overestimated itself and repeatedly provoked a thirty-thousand-year Earth Demon Bull King. It was beaten so badly that it was seriously injured and on the verge of death."

"And we happened to buy it at just that time!"

Feng Yansha explained. They had gotten lucky this time, just in time to encounter the royal ranch clearing out its stock.

"Thank you for this!"

"Old Xia!"

"Hurry up and prepare this bull!"

Liu Yuer called Xia Feng over and had him personally slaughter the soul beast so that he could absorb its fourth soul ring.

"Sister Shasha!"

"Go inside and sit for a while. Once Old Xia finishes preparing it, take some beef home and give it a try!"

"Xia Mu, go brew a pot of tea for your aunt!"

"I'll head to the backyard and give your father a hand!"

After settling Feng Yansha in and signaling Xia Mu to keep her company, Liu Yuer went to stand guard for Xia Feng.

An hour later, Xia Feng and Liu Yuer arrived together, carrying a huge slab of Earth Demon Bull meat!

"Thousand-year Earth Demon Bull meat!"

"This is one of the finest ingredients on the continent!"

"Thanks to you two this time, I can finally taste what Earth Demon Bull meat is like!"

Feng Yansha accepted the soul beast meat. It was costly, and whether one could eat it even when they wanted to depended on luck.

That was why Feng Yansha did not decline!

She truly craved this beef. Otherwise, she would not have gone to such lengths to make this trip.

"Sister Yuer!"

"Then I'll be heading back first!"

"Thank you for your gift this time. Come over for tea another day—we've just received a batch of excellent tea leaves at home!"

Since the two families had forged a close family friendship, they had been visiting each other frequently recently, and their relationship was rapidly growing closer.

"Take care, Sister!"

Liu Yuer saw Feng Yansha out.

Once everything had settled, she and Xia Feng finally let out long breaths. None of this had come easily!

"Dad, how did it go?"

Xia Mu looked at Xia Feng and asked.

"Who do you think your father is?"

"I handled a nine-thousand-nine-hundred-year Earth Demon Bull with ease. I'm even tempted to try a ten-thousand-year Earth Demon Bull."

Xia Feng answered casually, his tone full of pride.

"Stop bragging!"

"Whose face was flushed red while absorbing the soul ring just now? Luckily, there was no danger this time. Otherwise..."

Liu Yuer could not help shooting Xia Feng a sidelong glance, ruthlessly exposing his true state.

"What do you know?"

"That was the glow of vigorous health!"

After saying that, Xia Feng began spouting something about circulating his blood and qi, normal procedures, and the like.

For a time, the house was filled with cheerful laughter.