With Lu Ye's keen eyesight, he couldn't tell whether this strange girl was human or ghost, but from her behavior just now, it was highly unlikely that she was human. 520 Official Website
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Standing at the entrance of the classroom, Lu Ye took a deep breath and firmly gripped the letter containing the secret that his mother had given him.
This girl could appear behind him without a sound and launch a surprise attack, and her body seemed both real and illusory, allowing her to move freely through the rock walls. This was clearly not something an ordinary person could do.
Lu Ye had never encountered such a strange entity before, so he became even more cautious, especially since she was clearly on the same side as the big tiger.
Although he had the advantage of terrain, any carelessness could lead to his downfall.
In his mind, the best course of action would be to use a spirit talisman to kill the big tiger, but he was at a loss about how to deal with this elusive girl.
Lu Ye's dilemma seemed to trouble the girl. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "My name is Yi Yi..."
"I didn't ask for your name," Lu Ye said, waving the spirit talisman in his hand, the threat evident. This action made the big tiger crouch and growl softly.
Yi Yi quickly calmed the tiger, knowing that in this situation, they were at the mercy of their captor and had to cooperate to survive.
"Have you heard of 'aiding a tiger in its evil deeds?'" Yi Yi asked.
Lu Ye nodded.
Yi Yi explained, "Some tiger-type demon cultivators can awaken a special ability during their growth, which allows them to transform the souls of recently deceased people into ghostly assistants."
"So... you are a ghostly assistant?" Lu Ye frowned, having heard of 'aiding a tiger in its evil deeds' before, but never realizing that this idiom had such a peculiar interpretation in the world of cultivation.
"No," Yi Yi shook her head, her black hair fluttering.
"Are you kidding me?"
"Really, I'm not," Yi Yi said anxiously, "Generally, ghostly assistants are controlled by the tiger-type demon cultivators who transformed them and lack intelligence and independent thought. But I'm different. Look at me; except for not having a physical body, I'm just like a living person."
"Then what are you?"
"A ghostly spirit?" Yi Yi tilted her head.
Lu Ye said nothing, his gaze shifting between Yi Yi and the big tiger, his eyes narrowing. "If I kill this big tiger, will you also disappear?"
"Yes... no!" Yi Yi shouted, sensing Lu Ye's murderous intent. "Don't kill us, we know we were wrong... we'll pay for our lives with money!"
The light on the spirit talisman in Lu Ye's hand gradually dimmed. He had almost activated it. In a real fight, he was confident he could eliminate the big tiger. As for the girl named Yi Yi, he had some reservations, but since he had determined that she and the tiger were symbiotic, there was no need to be overly concerned.
Her strength was probably not high; her previous sneak attack on him only involved some minor tricks to disrupt his movements, not to harm him.
But this would definitely require several spirit talismans, and he would inevitably be injured in the battle.
If the cost was too high, the fight would not be worth it, especially since he was just one step away from reaching the first level of the Spirit Stream. If he consumed too much spiritual energy, it would undoubtedly delay his progress.
Yi Yi's last words made Lu Ye suppress his murderous intent. He raised an eyebrow and said, "Pay for your lives with money? What do you have?" A demon beast living in the Spirit Stream battlefield and its companion ghostly spirit, what could they possibly have?
"Wait! I'll go get it!" Yi Yi shouted, darting into the rock wall.
However, she soon poked her head out of the rock wall: "You can't kill Amber! I'll be back soon!"
Amber... Lu Ye glanced at the majestic tiger before him, whose presence was as imposing as a mountain, and his face twitched.
Yi Yi left, leaving Lu Ye and Amber facing each other from a distance. He was also on guard against Yi Yi, though she seemed sincere, one could never be too careful. Who knew if she would hide in the shadows and attack him?
His cultivation was still low, and he lacked the means to track the girl's movements.
Yi Yi indeed returned quickly. Lu Ye had only waited for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea when the girl reappeared, this time from behind him.
Lu Ye leaned against the rock wall, letting the girl enter the cave. She held something in her hand and raised it: "We'll use these things to buy our lives, don't kill us!"
When Lu Ye saw what the girl was holding, he was startled. It was several storage bags!
Storage bags were items for cultivators, and it was suspicious for the girl to have them, especially more than one. The girl held at least four or five in her hand.
This ghostly spirit and the tiger were clearly not good entities; they had probably committed many robberies and murders.
"You misunderstood!" The girl saw Lu Ye's expression and knew what he was thinking. "Amber's strength is not high; you should have felt it when you fought him. The cultivators who appear in the Spirit Stream battlefield are at least at the first level of the Spirit Stream, and Amber can't kill them."
"Where did these storage bags come from then?" Lu Ye certainly didn't believe her easily.
Yi Yi was a bit embarrassed: "We tricked them... those cultivators are very timid. A little scare and they drop their storage bags."
Lu Ye recalled his own experience. If he hadn't noticed something was wrong with the big tiger and if he hadn't had any spirit pills or spirit stones, he might have chosen to pay to avoid trouble.
Compared to these external possessions, one's life was naturally more important.
Of course, the big tiger's soul-stealing aura was indeed terrifying. Most low-level cultivators would lose their nerve when the tiger's amber eyes stared at them, and a few threats would leave them without any fighting spirit.
Little did they know, the one scaring them from behind was just a petite girl.
"Throw them over," Lu Ye ordered.
Yi Yi grunted and threw the storage bags to Lu Ye. Lu Ye kicked one up and checked it, his face darkening.
The storage bag was locked...
The second one was the same...
The third one was still...
After checking all the storage bags, Lu Ye looked up: "Are you playing me?"
Locked storage bags weren't impossible to open, but Lu Ye didn't have the ability to do so.
Yi Yi looked a bit wronged: "Some of them ran so fast that they dropped the storage bags without unlocking them. Some followed orders and opened them, but we had already used the useful things inside..."
This was the truth. Yi Yi and the big tiger had gained more than just these few storage bags over the years in the forest, but the contents of the other storage bags had mostly been used up, leaving only empty bags, which Yi Yi didn't bring over.
Lu Ye's eyes lowered: "If this is all the sincerity you have, there's no need to talk. These things are not enough to buy your lives."
"How can you be like this..." Yi Yi was on the verge of tears, deeply regretting provoking Lu Ye. She hadn't expected this guy to be different from the cultivators she had encountered before.
The cultivators who appeared in this area were not very high in cultivation, mostly being independent cultivators or disciples of small sects. This area was on the fringes of the Spirit Stream battlefield, and any cultivator who encountered a demon beast that could speak would be terrified, as such a demon beast was not something they could provoke.
But Lu Ye was different. He didn't know what it meant for a demon beast to speak and didn't have the preconceived notion that it was something to be feared. He only trusted his own judgment.