Where does that wicked woman get her conscience?

Chapter 225 Bai Ze

The clear, melodious voice, like shattered jade falling into a spring, reached Bai Ze's ears without missing a single word, carrying a hint of schadenfreude.

Bai Ze's tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open, incredulous that someone had recognized it! The voice even sounded somewhat familiar…

Its breathing suddenly became more labored, but its severely injured body could not support its excited heart at this moment. It could only weakly move its head and look in the direction of the sound.

When my gaze met those eyes, which held a faint, fleeting smile that didn't reach their depths, a hint of confusion flashed across their pupils. The next second, that confusion vanished completely, and a piercing light suddenly burst forth from their eyes, like a parched wasteland suddenly filled with hope after a long drought.

"Guan Xun? It's you! You're actually here?" Bai Ze excitedly tried to stand up, but he was too weak to do so.

In order not to be blamed for not keeping an eye on people, it followed the clues given by Hao Aman and headed north to find Guan Xun and then to Zhongtan Holy City.

Unexpectedly, they couldn't find anyone at all, and instead bumped into an eight-headed serpent that was searching for something.

It was not good at fighting to begin with, and it was seriously injured in the fight. If it hadn't escaped quickly, it would have been captured long ago.

It was precisely because of the battle with the Eight-Headed Serpent that it was captured by these ordinary people and imprisoned for sale!

Outrageous!

Fortunately, these people didn't recognize its value and mistook it for a ghostly white deer, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to see a single hair of it now.

Bai Ze never expected to encounter the person he was looking for here, someone whose strength had grown to such a terrifying level. It seemed that the powerful divine sense he had been spying on earlier was her.

Guan Xun did not answer, but instead casually glanced at the scabs on his snow-white fur and said, "This injury... you're really lucky to be alive."

As fellow divine beasts, Bai Ze was at a disadvantage in their battle and was seriously injured. Naturally, he refused to reveal the reason for such a shameful incident.

It wearily drooped its eyelids: "Stop mocking me, you might as well rescue me."

"Save you?" Guan Xun clicked his tongue twice. "I don't seem to have any reason to save you, but I have a million reasons not to."

This statement makes perfect sense, but Bai Ze is unwilling to admit it: "We've known each other for a while now, you can't just stand by and watch me die, can you?"

"I'd be happy to watch you die like this."

Bai Ze was speechless. This person was as annoying as ever. However, given the current situation, if no one saved its life, it would really die.

"Grandma, please save me! At worst..." It thought carefully about what it had that the other party wanted, and after a moment of contemplation, it gritted its teeth as if it were going to do anything, "At worst, I'll cut off a piece of flesh from my thigh and give it to you!"

"Haven't you always wanted to eat me?!"

"..." Now it was Guan Xun's turn to be speechless. That's what she said, but that was because she was weak and frail in the past. Now, the beast meat was of little use.

To improve one's strength, one still needs some rare items, unless one can obtain Bai Ze's beast core, but removing it will surely kill the opponent.

She was all alone here, and Chi Rong had been captured. If she wanted to rescue him, she would need to find a helper, and Bai Ze was a good choice right now.

It still has a use.

Guan Xun's eyes flickered, revealing a deeper meaning: "Saving you is not impossible, but I have a condition. If you agree, I will rescue you and heal your injuries."

"What are the conditions?" Bai Ze asked.

“Acknowledge me as Lord.”

Bai Ze held his breath and said decisively, "That won't do. My master is the Imperial Tutor."

Imperial Tutor...

Speaking of this, Guan Xun was somewhat dazed. That person must have already perished, right?

She shook her head, bringing her thoughts back to reality: "I've already explained the conditions. Whether you choose to acknowledge a master or wait to die is up to you."

"By the way, you didn't know? These vendors, when faced with useless, dying monsters, will skin them, pull out their tendons, and sell them piece by piece. They can't even leave a whole corpse after they die, how pitiful."

"You should think about it carefully yourself. I'm leaving now."

The human and the beast used their spiritual power to transmit their voices, which the others could not hear at all. They could only see the two staring at each other in confusion.

When the stall owner saw Guan Xun stand up with little interest, his heart sank. Sure enough, he still didn't like it.

He cursed under his breath and kicked the cage a few more times: "Useless!"

The cage jolted a few times, causing Bai Ze's injuries to throb with pain. Seeing that Guan Xun was indeed turning to leave, he could no longer contain himself.

"I accept! I accept you as my master, isn't that enough? From this day forward, you are my master, my only master!"

Upon hearing this, Guan Xun paused, then turned around with a smile on his lips: "It should have been done a long time ago, what a waste of time."

The stall owner, who had been looking dejected, rubbed his hands together in delight when he saw Guan Xun turn back: "Hehe, has the master changed his mind?"

"Hmm, how do you plan to exchange for this demonic beast?"

"A nine-aperture white jade ginseng." The stall owner chuckled, his destined item was finally coming.

The Nine-Aperture White Jade Ginseng is a top-grade spiritual material for spiritual masters to break through the bottleneck of their current realm.

Zhao Gui was displeased upon hearing this.

"Such spiritual materials are extremely rare. Even if they exist, exchanging them for a dying demon beast is like exchanging a sesame seed for a pill—not worth it."

"Didn't you say you would accept gold coins in exchange? How much? I'll exchange gold coins for it."

The stall owner was somewhat disappointed. Well, gold coins it is then. After all, he had asked for them: "Three hundred and fifty gold coins will do."

Zhao Gui: ...

"Too expensive." Zhao Gui gasped and shook his head; he couldn't afford it...

Guan Xun raised his hand, signaling them to be quiet.

He slowly opened his palm, and a golden-black sunflower appeared in his hand.

"I don't have the Nine-Aperture White Jade Ginseng, but I do have a ten-thousand-year-old Dragon Sunflower. I observe that your lips are bluish-purple, your skin is sallow like withered wood, and your eyes are full of red veins, indicating that your meridians are blocked and your qi is not flowing smoothly. I suppose you have suffered internal organ damage due to fighting or cultivation going astray, which has prevented you from breaking through your cultivation bottleneck. That's why you want to use the Nine-Aperture White Jade Ginseng to give it a push."

"Dragon sunflower is an excellent elixir for healing internal injuries. It can quickly repair damage in a cultivator's body, making a breakthrough in cultivation just around the corner. I'm sure you know which one is best for you without me having to say more."

The stall owner's face quickly showed a look of astonishment, then he leaned closer to examine the black nightshade flower carefully, and his eyes immediately lit up: "It really is a black nightshade flower!"

If it weren't for the scarcity of black nightshade flowers, he wouldn't have thought of using the Nine-Aperture White Jade Ginseng as a substitute. Unexpectedly, he ended up obtaining the black nightshade flowers that would be of the greatest help to him!

The moment Guan Xun took out the Dragon Sunflower, not far behind, the man in the blue robe who had come to watch the show subconsciously touched his collar, and then his expression gradually turned ugly...

The servant standing nearby looked puzzled: "Young master, I didn't expect that rude person would also have a black nightshade flower."

As she spoke, she glanced at her young master and saw that his face was dark and his lips were tightly pursed, showing signs of anger.

He was stunned, then quickly looked at the sunflower in the black-robed figure's hand, and was immediately shocked!

Could that be the sunflower flower they just exchanged for in that person's hand?!