He arrived at Heavenly Dao City and met Shen Yu again.
While instructing a steward to invite the cultivators who wanted pills refined, Shen Yu smiled and invited Li Ping to sit.
Li Ping sat cross-legged and looked curiously at Shen Yu. "You seem to be in a good mood, Fellow Daoist Shen. Has something good happened?"
"Hahaha-something good has indeed happened, but not to me. You're the one who's come into a great stroke of luck, Fellow Daoist Yan." Shen Yu laughed heartily.
Rather than speak in riddles and make Li Ping guess, he explained directly, "Didn't you ask our establishment to help collect production treasures used by master craftsmen, Fellow Daoist Yan?
"Over the past eight years, we've mobilized all our channels to search for such treasures for you.
"Fortunately, we finally fulfilled your request. Some time ago, through our internal connections, we acquired this Beast Taming Banner from a Beast Taming Immortal Family."
"A Beast Taming Banner?" Li Ping was taken aback.
Shen Yu nodded with a smile. "Yes. This Beast Taming Banner was a treasure used by a fourth-tier Beast Tamer during his lifetime. If war hadn't broken out between the Eastern Sea Demon Race and the Immortal Alliance, and the alliance hadn't decided to offer several Nascent Soul Formation Treasures at this auction to raise morale, giving that lineage a glimpse of opportunity, they would never have agreed to exchange this treasure for resources."
With Shen Yu's detailed explanation, Li Ping understood the whole story.
The Beast Taming Banner belonged to the Beast Taming Lin Household of Emerald Plume Commandery.
The founding ancestor of the Beast Taming Lin Household had been a fourth-tier Beast Tamer. Although his cultivation had only reached the late stage of Core Formation, he had relied on a fourth-tier spirit beast