Chapter 459 - Beyond Expectation

In the ears of the few people surrounding the pill stall, the noisy conversations on the street seemed to disappear after Ye Anping's joke.

The air was almost stagnant.

Elder Cao grasped the horsetail whisk in her left hand, and her eyes were like sharp swords as she sized up the two people in front of her. However, seeing that there were many pedestrians around them, her heart was troubled.

Among the two people, the older one was calm, but the younger male cultivator's face turned pale and his feet were shaky.

Calm down!

The demonic cultivator uncle threw a warning glare at his follower and then laughed at Ye Anping. "Young man, please don't talk nonsense. My nephew and I were born in Snow Gate City in the Northern Region. We traveled to the Southern Region to sell some pills in exchange for spirit stones. How could we be demonic cultivators..."

To be able to sneak into the Southern Region stealthily and lie so calmly to a Bright Star Sect Nascent Soul Elder, this person was definitely not some low-ranking demonic cultivator.

Ye Anping glanced at the slightly panicked young demonic cultivator on the side. He raised his hand and a golden spiritual light flew out of his storage bag.

He took out a copper coin that circulated among ordinary people that did not have any special spiritual energy. He held it in his palm and reached out to the young demonic cultivator. Narrowing his eyes, he said, "This is the 'Spiritual Ingot', a magical instrument given to me by the Grand Elder Lei of the Black Star Sect. Demonic cultivators below the Deification stage will expose their true level in front of this item no matter what magic tool they use to hide their cultivation."

"Spiritual Ingot..."

When 'Uncle' heard that this was given by a Deification-stage cultivator, his heart skipped a beat. However, when he turned to look, he realized that there was no spiritual energy on the copper coin in Ye Anping's hand...

Right now, the Nascent Soul-stage Elder of the Bright Star Sect was already checking them with her spiritual sense.

Their method of hiding their aura was also their Elder's Parasite Energy Concealing. As long as they did not use spiritual energy, it would not be a problem to hide it, but since one of them was only in Core Formation and the other was only in Foundation Building, the pressure would be extraordinary if they were investigated by the spiritual sense of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The demonic cultivator uncle's eyebrows trembled slightly. He stared at the copper coin for two breaths and immediately realized that this was a trick.

However, just as he was about to remind his nephew, Ye Anping suddenly raised his voice. "Come on! You can tell if it's an immortal or a demonic cultivator at a touch."

The younger demonic cultivator trembled, then immediately threw a poisonous insect at Cao Yan'er's face before turning around and trying to escape.

"Ahhhhhh---!"

"Damn! This idiot!!"

Seeing this, the older demonic cultivator quickly cast a spell, preparing to take the pedestrians on this street as hostages. After all, they were facing a Nascent Soul Elder of the Bright Star Sect.

Pei Lianxue narrowed her eyes and was about to pull out her sword to stop them, but before she could do so, Elder Cao waved her horsetail whisk. Before the two of them could cast their spells, she used the whisk to bind them into two white fur balls.

Seeing that the two of them could not hurt the pedestrians on the road, Elder Cao heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "How did you figure it out, Young Master Ye?"

Ye Anping smiled faintly. "I didn't expect it to be true either. It seems that I guessed it right?"

Guessed it? This kid...

Elder Cao raised his eyebrows slightly and did not intend to continue asking. After all, the previous incident in the Water Dragon River was already confusing enough.

She actually saw Ye Anping's secretiveness, but he was also an immortal cultivator, so it wasn't a big deal.

Elder Cao was glad that she had brought Zu Lingzhi with her, who was considered a prodigy in the Bright Star Sect. Be it her aptitudes or cultivation speed, she far surpassed cultivators of the same age. However, she had not had many opportunities to gain experience in the past.

She glanced at Zu Lingzhi and found that she also seemed to have noticed that Ye Anping was playing dumb, and her face did not look very good.

On the way, Zu Lingzhi didn't think much of Ye Anping, thinking that he was just a womanizer...

"How did you know? Even Elder Cao didn't realize that these two people were demonic cultivators."

"..."

"Hey, I'm asking you a question?!"

"Oh? Is Big Sis calling me? My surname is Ye, my name is Anping, and I am the Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect."

Zu Lingzhi's expression was a little ugly, but she understood what he meant. She took a deep breath, cupped her hands, and asked again, "Then, Young Master Ye, can you tell me how you figured out their identities?"

"Heavenly Dao told me."

"Huh?"

Elder Cao looked at them, shook her head slightly, and raised her horsetail whisk, interrupting them. "Alright, let's find a place to stay in first. I'll bring these two along later..."

The words came to an abrupt end here, and Elder Cao frowned slightly. She immediately waved the whisk again, dispersing the horsetail that was wrapped around the two demonic cultivators.

Pei Lianxue nodded, took the sword, and walked toward the door.

However, when she reached the wooden door of the room, she suddenly heard hurried footsteps from the stairs outside.

Tap-tap-tap--

"Report!!!"

The guard's voice came from outside the door. Elder Cao and the others who were at the innermost end of the room heard it and turned to look at the door.

"Come in!"

After receiving the City Lord's response, the guard pushed open the door and entered.

But it wasn't just the city guard who came in.

Two girls painted with blood instead of rouge and whose clothes were stained with blood and disgusting slime followed.

Pei Lianxue, who was near the door, did not recognize them for a moment, but seeing the hornet's nest wrapped around the head of one of them, she called out tentatively. "Yunluo?"

Xiao Yunluo nodded with a resentful expression. "...Yes, it's me."

Because when the two first entered the room, Ye Anping saw Xiao Tian holding her nose while floating above their heads, he immediately recognized their identity.

However, seeing Feng Yu Die's black hair and the blood stains on both of them, he was a little uncertain for a moment, so he didn't say anything.

Feng Yu Die looked at Pei Lianxue, then raised her chest and looked up at Ye Anping with a smug face, like a dog wanting to be praised.

"Hehe~~"

Ye Anping had no idea what they could have done to end up like this.

At this moment, the four Nascent Soul cultivators got up from the sand table and came over as well.

Elder Cao sized them up and asked, "Well, what can I do for you?"

"Hmm~ hehe."

Feng Yu Die raised her hand with a smile and threw a storage bag with an embroidered scorpion from her sleeve. She wiped her nose with her right thumb, replying, "We just killed a mid-stage Nascent Soul demonic cultivator hiding in the city."

"..."

The City Lord hurriedly lifted the storage bag that Feng Yu Die had thrown to the ground with spiritual energy, then used his spiritual sense to check the inside.

This was a high-grade storage bag. The embroidery was also the symbol of the Magical Poison Sect, but it was empty inside. There was only a seal and a jade token engraved with identity and cultivation level.

He took out the jade token and looked up.

---Grand Master of the Magical Poison Sect, "Head Insect".

Ye Anping glanced at the jade token in the City Lord's hand and raised his eyebrows slightly.

To be honest, he did not expect this. Just as he was thinking about what to do, these two had already found that Toxic parasite cultivator and finished him off.

The City Lord frowned. "Where are the other things inside?"

"In my storage bag." Feng Yu Die replied with a nod. "We killed the man, so his things belong to us! Young Master Ye? Don't you think that's right?"

Hearing this, all eyes shifted to Ye Anping, who was drinking tea.

Feeling a little helpless, Ye Anping put down his teacup, stood up, cupped his hands, and made the introductions. "Elders, these two are my cultivation partners, Feng Yunluo and Xiao Yu Die... They were probably worried about my safety, so they followed me from the Black Star Sect."

Elder Cao raised her eyebrows and looked at Pei Lianxue, but before they could ask, Ye Anping quickly added, "Miss Pei is also my cultivation partner. I have many cultivation partners."

"..."

Seeing Ye Anping say these words casually, Elder Cao and the three Nascent Soul cultivators had mixed feelings. Zu Lingzhi rolled her eyes and smacked her tongue.

"Tsk---"

Ye Anping saw them, but he didn't care. He sat down calmly, picked up the teacup again as if it had nothing to do with him, and continued drinking tea...

"Slurp..."

However, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.