Charm Bone Essence

Xue Fuyao shook her head like a rattle-drum. "I don't want Supreme Charm Bones at all. I want the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet. I heard this is a treasure comparable to an Innate Spiritual Treasure."

Looking at Xue Fuyao's expression of almost "drooling", Xie Yichu chuckled lightly and couldn't help saying, "Then you haven't thought that if it's true, the sect couldn't possibly give a treasure like the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet to a single disciple. At most, they'd give you some rewards."

Hearing this, Xue Fuyao's little face crumpled into a ball, but soon smoothed out again. She said, "Rewards are fine too. Anyway, Master won't let me suffer a loss."

"You certainly take things lightly."

Xue Fuyao chuckled secretly. This mindset of hers was forged in her past life.

Yet she said aloud, "Anyway, I only spent ten Low-grade Spirit Stones. No matter what, I won't lose out."

Xue Yichu put the bracelet away, stood up, and walked outward. "I'll go find the Sect Master Senior Brother to take a look. Rest assured, your master will definitely not let you suffer a loss."

Xue Fuyao smiled and waved at Xie Yichu. "Have a safe journey, Master."

After sending off her master, Xue Fuyao returned to her cave abode to cultivate as relaxedly as if she had finally shaken off a burden.

Yet what she didn't expect was that her master's trip would actually last for half a year.

Not only her master, but the peak masters of the remaining main peaks were urgently summoned over by the Sect Master on the very next day after her master brought the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet.

Following that, these main peak masters successively announced secluded cultivation. Only personal disciples like Xue Fuyao knew that it was not secluded cultivation at all; these main peak masters had all gone to the Back Mountain Forbidden Land. That was the place where successive generations of sect masters and elders cultivated in seclusion.

During this half-year period, Xue Fuyao also gradually revealed her cultivation to the outside world. Now she was already at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Yet her actual cultivation had already reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

For cultivators, once their cultivation reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, the path of cultivation could be considered to truly begin, and one possessed a bit of self-preservation ability in this world where the strong prey upon the weak.

Xue Fuyao was summoned to Qianyuan Peak.

As the residence of successive generations of sect masters, Qianyuan Peak was understated, luxurious, grandiose, and magnificent. Every brick and tile here exuded the extraordinary, far beyond what Green Bamboo Peak could compare to.

Walking into the main hall, Xue Fuyao saw her master whom she hadn't seen in half a year and the Sect Master sitting inside playing chess.

Noticing Xue Fuyao enter, Sect Master Xiao Fansheng put down the chess piece in his hand and revealed a gentle smile toward her.

"Back then, this seat really didn't misjudge you."

Xue Fuyao stopped a few steps away from the two of them and respectfully saluted, saying, "Fuyao greets Master, Sect Master Senior Uncle."

Xiao Fansheng looked at Xue Fuyao at his leisure and slowly began, "The bracelet you handed in earlier has indeed been verified by the sect to be the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet without a doubt. The two pieces of Supreme Charm Bones sealed inside have also been separated. You have rendered a great service to the sect; what reward do you want?"

Hearing this, Xue Fuyao looked toward the master beside her, while Xie Yichu smiled slightly at her and then gently nodded.

What did this mean?

Could it mean she was free to name whatever she wanted?

Thinking of this, Xue Fuyao tentatively asked, "Any reward is fine?"

Xiao Fansheng nodded. "Anything is fine. This seat will satisfy you as much as possible. Don't stand on ceremony-after all, this is a right your master personally argued and fought for you to secure."

Saying this, Xiao Fansheng cast a somewhat teasing glance at the expressionless junior brother drinking tea beside him.

"Then can I have the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet?" Xue Fuyao asked with a lion's roar.

However, despite saying that, she actually hadn't held out much hope, since a treasure like the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet...

Xue Fuyao looked at the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet in her hand and couldn't help looking somewhat dumbfounded. No, they were really giving it to her.

Seeming to perceive the shock in her gaze, Xiao Fansheng explained, "Although this Demon-Suppressing Bracelet is precious, it possesses no offensive power in itself. It is merely a sealing Dharma Treasure. By comparison, the Supreme Charm Bones inside are instead even more precious.

So, Disciple-niece Fuyao, it is still not too late for you to regret it."

Detecting the coaxing tone in Xiao Fansheng's voice, Xie Yichu looked disapprovingly at his senior brother, but Xiao Fansheng turned a blind eye to this. Fearing that Xue Fuyao might not understand the difference between the two, he thoughtfully explained:

"Those two pieces of Supreme Charm Bones also count as a kind of supreme talent. If a female cultivator fuses with them, not only will she possess peerless looks, but she will also be able to progress much more easily on the path of cultivation.

You used less than a year to reach Foundation Establishment, but if you were to fuse with the Supreme Charm Bones, you could successfully establish your foundation in less than a month."

After listening to Xiao Fansheng's words, Xue Fuyao's gaze did not fluctuate much.

If it were her past life, she might have been tempted, but in this life, the talent she possessed was countless times better than these Supreme Charm Bones.

Moreover, although the Hehuan Sect was also a cultivation sect, the disciples walking out from it had always been called demonic maidens by people in the Cultivation Realm, precisely because the Cultivation Method they practiced was absorbing the strong to replenish the weak.

Although this cultivation method could rapidly elevate cultivation, it was fundamentally different from orthodox cultivation methods, especially since these two pieces of Supreme Charm Bones came from a succubus.

Xue Fuyao had no need to ruin her own future for the sake of a minor benefit.

Xue Fuyao shook her head. "Sect Master, I still prefer the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet. As for the Supreme Charm Bones, please give them to someone who needs them more."

Besides, who said a sealing Dharma Treasure had no offensive power? The Sect Master being able to say such words showed that they hadn't deeply studied it, or perhaps they had studied it but hadn't figured out the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet.

Yet it was fortunate it was this way; otherwise, this Demon-Suppressing Bracelet might not have truly fallen into her hands.

Xiao Fansheng seemed extremely satisfied with Xue Fuyao's answer. After giving her the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet, he let Xie Yichu take her away.

On the way back, Xue Fuyao curiously asked, "Master, how were those two pieces of Supreme Charm Bones inside the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet ultimately handled?"

"Didn't you just refuse the Sect Master? Do you regret it now?" Xie Yichu said jokingly.

"No, I'm just curious," Xue Fuyao stated truthfully.

Xue Yichu didn't conceal it either, saying, "The demonic nature contained within those two pieces of Supreme Charm Bones was excised, and they were refined into hundreds of drops of Charm Bone Essence. Taking them can accelerate cultivation speed, but this Charm Bone Essence is useless to male cultivators and only useful to female cultivators."

What Xie Yichu didn't say was that when those two pieces of Supreme Charm Bones were taken out, several female grand supreme elders in the Back Mountain Forbidden Land almost fought over them, all wanting to fuse with the charm bones.

Yet thinking about it, they had once been figures who dominated the Cultivation Realm and were pursued by countless male cultivators, yet now they were trapped in the Back Mountain Forbidden Land and lingering at their last gasp because their lifespans were ending and their beauty was gone.

Now that there was a way to leave, how could they possibly let it go?