Xu Lingyin shuddered and stiffly turned her head. The sight of Zhang Yuan's gentle smile plunged her into an ice cellar.
"M-my lord, what brings you here?" Xu Lingyin asked softly.
Zhang Yuan left the Golden Carriage hovering in midair, glanced at Xu Lingyin's haul, and shook his head slightly.
"One [soul-losing sha], one [karmic bond sha]-two earthly sha. A rather ordinary haul."
In truth, for Xu Lingyin, who had yet to complete even her first turn, obtaining two earthly sha with her Nascent Soul Realm cultivation was already a considerable haul. Compared with Zhang Yuan, who had secured two six yin-yang essences and two five aggregates and ten natures in one go, however, her gains were quite ordinary.
Moreover, in Zhang Yuan's eyes, two earthly sha, even with the [canopy heavenly gang] she had previously obtained in the East Sea, would only bring Xu Lingyin to a three-turn Qi Refining Perfected Person. She still had a very long road ahead before becoming a nine-turn Qi Refining Perfected Person.
That would never do.
His time was tight, and hers was correspondingly tight as well. Unless she cultivated to a nine-turn Qi Refining Perfected Person and attained Foundation Establishment Celestial status, how could she draw the demon lords' attention for him?
Xu Lingyin blinked, not having expected Zhang Yuan's demands of her to be so high.
Those two earthly sha were already the fruit of her utmost effort. With her current attainment in the sha ingestion gang devoration path, she could sense no more than two heavenly gang and earthly sha anyway. Besides, many Eight-Turn Qi Refining Perfected Persons who had entered the Buddha Kingdom had failed to obtain any at all.
"I have failed your expectations, my lord. Please punish me..." Xu Lingyin lowered her head, presenting herself as completely