With Lu Ye's discernnt, he could not tell if this strange girl was human or ghost, but based on her behavior just now, the likelihood of her being human was extrely low.
This person had managed to appear behind him unnoticed and launch an ambush; her body seed both insubstantial and substantial, and she could freely move through the rock walls, sothing no ordinary person could do.
This was the first ti Lu Ye had encountered such a strange entity, making him all the more cautious, especially since she was clearly in league with the big tiger.
Although he currently held a geographical advantage, any complacency could lead to irreversible disaster.
According to his thinking, since he had the initiative, it would be best to directly use a Spirit Talisman to kill the big tiger, but he was unsure how to deal with this ghostly girl appearing and vanishing unpredictably, which made him uncertain.
The question seed to trouble the girl, who hesitated for a while before opening her mouth and saying, "My na is Yiyi..."
"I didn't ask your na." Lu Ye raised the Spirit Talisman in his hand, the threat unmistaken, causing the big tiger to crouch lower and growl softly.
The girl nad Yiyi quickly soothed the big tiger, knowing very well that in the current situation they were at his rcy, and must cooperate to save their lives.
"Have you ever heard of 'becoming a minion for a tiger'?" Yiyi countered.
Lu Ye nodded.
Yiyi said, "So tiger demon cultivators awaken a Divine Skill during their growth that can transform the soul of a recently deceased person into a minion specter."
"So... you are a minion specter?" Lu Ye frowned for he had heard of the idiom 'becoming a tiger's minion,' but he had never imagined that in this world of cultivation it would have such a peculiar explanation.
"No." Yiyi shook her head, her black hair flying.
"Are you joking with ?"
"Really, I'm not." Yiyi was sowhat anxious, "Normally, minion specters are controlled by the tiger demon cultivator that transford them and lack spiritual intelligence and independent thought, but I am different. Look at , except for not having a flesh and blood body, I am just like a living person."
"Then what exactly are you?"
"A minion spirit?" Yiyi tilted her head.
Lu Ye fell silent, his gaze shifting between Yiyi and the big tiger, his eyes slightly narrowing, "So if I kill this big tiger, will you also vanish?"
"Yes... No!" Yiyi shouted, sensing Lu Ye's murderous intent, "Don't kill us, we realize our mistake... We'll pay money for our lives!"
The light from the Spirit Talisman in Lu Ye's hand gradually dimd; he was about to activate it. He was confident that he could eliminate the big tiger, and as for the girl nad Yiyi, he had been wary of her, but now that he was sure of her symbiotic relationship with the big tiger, there was no need to worry too much.
Her strength was likely not high; her previous attack was only to use so minor tricks to impede his actions and could not actually harm him.
But this would certainly cost him several Spirit Talismans, and he would definitely get injured in the fight.
If the cost was too great, then the battle would not be worth it, especially since he was now only one step away from reaching Spirit Stream Level 1. If he exhausted too much spirit force, it would undoubtedly increase the ti it would take to achieve Spirit Stream.
Yiyi's last statent quelled Lu Ye's killing intent as he raised an eyebrow, "Pay money for your lives? What do you have?" A demon beast living on the Spirit Stream battlefield and a corresponding minion spirit, what good could they have?
"Wait here! I'll go get it!" Yiyi exclaid, her figure dashed away and then disappeared into the rock wall.
However, she soon poked her head out from the rock wall, "You can't kill Amber! I'll be back soon!"
Amber... Lu Ye glanced at the majestic big tiger in front of him, whose presence was as formidable as a mountain, and his face twitched.
With Yiyi gone, Lu Ye was left facing Amber from afar, also staying on guard against Yiyi, who, despite seeming sincere, might be hiding in the shadows ready to ambush him.
His cultivation was still low and he had no effective ans to track the girl's whereabouts.
Yiyi indeed returned quickly, Lu Ye had only waited a re tea's ti before the girl's figure reappeared, this ti erging from behind Lu Ye.
With his back against the rock wall, Lu Ye let the girl walk into the cave. She was holding sothing in her hand, raising it up, "We will use these things to buy our lives; do not kill us!"
When Lu Ye got a clear look at what was in the girl's hand, he was imdiately startled—it was several storage sacks!
Storage sacks were possessions of cultivators and it was problematic that they appeared in the girl's hands, especially since there was more than one; she held at least four or five in her hands.
This spirit and tiger duo indeed were up to no good; they had probably engaged in killing and looting quite often.
"You misunderstand!" Seeing the expression on Lu Ye's face, the girl realized what he was thinking, "Amber's strength is not high, you should have felt it when you fought with it. The cultivators operating in the Spirit Stream battlefield are at least at Spirit Stream Level 1; Amber couldn't have killed them."
"Then where did these storage sacks co from?" Lu Ye, of course, did not easily believe her.
Yiyi shuffled uncomfortably, "Fooled them... Those cultivators are very cowardly; a little scare and they dropped their storage sacks."
Lu Ye reflected on his own earlier encounters, realizing that if he hadn't sensed sothing off about Big Tiger and indeed didn't have any elixir pills and Spirit Stones, he might have chosen to pay off the threat to avoid further disaster.
Certainly, compared to these extraneous possessions, his own life was naturally more important.
Of course, Big Tiger's soul-stirring aura was indeed frightening; ordinary cultivators with low cultivation, faced with the amber gaze of its tiger eyes, would lose heart by a third, and after being threatened a few tis, who would still have the will to fight?
Little did they know, the one who hid behind and spooked them was just a delicately built girl.
"Throw them over," Lu Ye instructed.
Yiyi yelped softly, throwing the several storage sacks in front of Lu Ye, who picked up one with his foot, giving it a brief check, his face darkening imdiately.
The storage sack was locked...
He looked at the second one, which was the sa.
The third was still…
After checking all the storage sacks, Lu Ye looked up, "Are you playing ?"
The locked storage sacks weren't impossible to open, but Lu Ye didn't have the ability to do so.
Yiyi looked sowhat aggrieved, "So of them ran fast, dropping the storage sacks even with the restriction locks unopened. There were also those who followed commands to open them, but we used up the useful things inside a long ti ago..."
This was indeed the truth; over the years in this forest, Yiyi and Big Tiger had obtained more than just these few storage sacks, but the contents of the other sacks had been used up, only empty bags remained, which Yiyi did not bring along.
Lu Ye's eyebrows drooped, "If this is all the sincerity you show, then there's no need to negotiate further. These items are not enough to buy your lives."
"How can it be like this..." Yiyi was close to crying, regretting provoking Lu Ye deeply, mainly because she hadn't expected him to be different from the cultivators she had encountered before.
In this area, the cultivators were not of high cultivation, mostly independent cultivators or disciples of minor sects because this was the border of the Spirit Stream battlefield. To these cultivators, encountering a demon beast that could speak human language, any who had common sense were utterly horrified.
Because a demon beast capable of human speech was definitely not sothing they could provoke.
Ironically, Lu Ye was lacking in common sense; he didn't know what a speaking demon beast represented, with no such preconceived notions, he only believed in his own judgnt.
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