After Yang Dingtian left, Yanyan looked at the sky outside the window and said, "Father, I've already tried my best."
Then, her gaze fell on the Black Dispersing Pill in her hand. She had exchanged it for the world famous sword, Phoenix Flames.
She gritted her teeth and clenched her small hand.
Suddenly, the incomparably precious Xuan Dispersing Pill was directly crushed into pieces. Countless rays of light shot out from the broken pieces of the pill, and then the entire pill turned into ashes little by little. Finally, Yanyan's little hand was completely empty.
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There were less than six days until the Yin Yang Festival. Yang Dingtian had to personally hunt for the five types of demon cores and find a place where Yin and Yang intersected to set up the array.
The five types of demon cores were: Fire, Wind, Metal, Ice, and Lightning!
There were many Fire and Metal type demon beasts near Cloud Sky City.
The Wind type was relatively rare.
However, the Ice type was troublesome because the entire Northwest Continent floated above magma. It was definitely a Fire type continent, so there was absolutely no space for Ice type demon beasts to live.
As for the Lightning type, it was completely rare because almost all of the Lightning type demon beasts were half-energy creatures.
Therefore, hunting for Lightning type demon cores was the most difficult task.
Easy at first, then hard. First, hunt for Fire and Metal type demon beasts.
These two types of demon beasts could be found everywhere in the training wilderness a hundred miles away from Cloud Sky City. It was completely within Cloud Sky City's territory, so it was very safe.
However, here came the problem!
The demon beast training wilderness a hundred miles away had to be ridden on flying beasts because there were deep magma ravines all the way there. War horses couldn't pass through them.
Moreover, a large amount of medicine and pills had to be prepared.
Yang Dingtian didn't have any of these, and he couldn't look for Yanyan anymore.
That's right. Although the two of them didn't say anything unpleasant, and Yang Dingtian's heart was filled with tenderness and pity for Yanyan, he couldn't look for Yanyan before he successfully broke through because Yanyan was completely disappointed in him.
According to normal channels, he should look for Tang Xin because she was a beginner warrior instructor. She was the one who led the low-level training in the wilderness.
Otherwise, he could go and find Ximen Ju because he was in charge of all internal affairs in Cloud Heaven City.
However, if Yang Dingtian went to look for these two people, he would only be humiliating himself.
In Cloud Sky City, Yang Dingtian could be said to have no one to rely on. He was alone and weak, so he couldn't even go to the Beginner's Wilderness Trials.
Then, there was only one person left that Yang Dingtian could find, Ximen Ningning.
That's right, she was the gentle and virtuous sister that Yanyan had mentioned.
Yanyan wanted to marry her to Yang Dingtian's Ximen Ningning, Ximen Wuya's only adopted daughter.
Ximen Ningning's position in Cloud Sky City was very special. It was almost irreplaceable because she was a Beast Speaker, and a genius at that.
Beast Speakers were able to understand the language of demonic beasts. They were able to control and summon demonic beasts and communicate with demonic beasts.
Beast Whisperers were extremely rare in the entire Primal Chaos Continent, less than one in a hundred thousand.
Therefore, Beast Whisperers had an extremely high status in the Primal Chaos Continent. They were treated like treasures by every sect.
As for Ximen Ningning, she was a genius among Beast Speakers.
Therefore, she had a high status in Cloud Sky City. No matter which side was in power, they would try to win her over.
If it wasn't for her weak temperament and poor communication skills, she would have been one of the nine elders of Cloud Sky City.
Even so, she was still an honorary elder of Cloud Sky City. However, she never cared about anything in Cloud Sky City. She basically stayed in her valley and didn't take a step out. She was only in charge of Cloud Sky City's combat demonic beasts and mounts.
Originally, Yang Dingtian was the most suitable person to look for her.
Not only could she lend Yang Dingtian a mount to go to the Beginner's Wilderness Trials, but she was also very familiar with the demonic beasts within a thousand miles. If he wanted to hunt for demonic cores, she was the most suitable person to look for.
However, Yanyan Ximen had once said that she wanted Ximen Ningning to become Yang Dingtian's second wife. Therefore, Yang Dingtian was a little embarrassed to look for her.
Moreover, he heard that this girl was very antisocial and almost never communicated with others. Yang Dingtian also felt that he would be met with a big setback if he went.
…
However, Yang Dingtian had no other choice. If he didn't look for Ximen Ningning to borrow a mount, he couldn't even go to the Beginner's Wilderness Trials.
"I'm a man. I'm very thick-skinned. What's there to be embarrassed about?" Yang Dingtian gritted his teeth and decided to look for Ximen Ningning.
Ximen Ningning lived in the quietest and most remote place in Cloud Sky City. It was a small valley.
A few hundred meters away from the valley, he felt a tranquil aura and couldn't see anyone.
Only a few people could enter this valley.
Just as he stepped into the valley, Yang Dingtian suddenly felt a dangerous aura.
"Swoosh swoosh …" Immediately after, two white shadows rushed in front of Yang Dingtian like lightning.
They were two lions about a meter long. One was snow-white while the other was fiery red. They both had a pair of sharp wings and looked very beautiful and mighty. There were six horizontal lines on their foreheads, which meant that they were sixth-grade monsters.
Sixth-grade monsters were super strong among monsters.
Who knew how many years they had cultivated and how many lives they had taken!
At least, most people in Cloud Sky City weren't a match for these two lions.
However, such powerful monsters were kept as gatekeepers by Ximen Ningning. It showed how powerful Ximen Ningning was.
Yang Dingtian could clearly feel that these two lions possessed great strength. At least, if they were to face him now, they would be able to kill him in an instant.
After they rushed in front of Yang Dingtian, they didn't pounce forward to bite him. Instead, they stared coldly at Yang Dingtian. They raised their heads and looked at him with disdain.
That's right. Although they were monsters, they were proud of their strength and looked down on weaklings like Yang Dingtian.
They used their eyes to tell Yang Dingtian to retreat and leave immediately. Otherwise, they wouldn't be polite.
"I want to see your master." Yang Dingtian didn't retreat. He didn't care if the two monsters could understand him and said.
"Roar …" One of the white lions roared and spat out a blue light from its mouth. It hit a huge rock beside Yang Dingtian.
Suddenly, Yang Dingtian felt a bone-piercing cold. The ground dozens of meters around him was covered in frost.
The huge rock that weighed more than ten thousand kilograms was instantly frozen and wrapped in a layer of blue ice.
"Roar!"
The fiery red lion roared and spat out a ball of flame from its mouth. It hit the frozen rock.
"Boom …" With a loud noise, the huge rock was instantly smashed into pieces. The grass and trees on the ground dozens of meters around were all turned into charcoal.
Yang Dingtian suddenly gasped. The Sixth Stage monsters were actually so powerful. That huge rock that weighed more than ten thousand kilograms was easily destroyed by them.
If Yang Dingtian was the one being sprayed, then …
"I'm not in a good mood and don't want to see anyone. Please leave."
A cold and gentle voice came from the valley. It was like flowing water, but the rejection was very firm.
"I'm Yang Dingtian. I'm here to see Miss Yang Dingtian," Yang Dingtian said.
"Ah …" Yang Dingtian vaguely heard a low cry. He could even feel the panic of the owner of the voice.
After a while, a voice came from inside, "Then, then come in …"
The two lions glanced at Yang Dingtian and actually shot him a warning look. Then, they quickly disappeared into the trees and made way.
Yang Dingtian stepped into the valley. This was another Peach Blossom Spring in Cloud Sky City.
There were small beasts everywhere. There were powerful beasts as well as ordinary animals. Yang Dingtian couldn't take it all in.
In the grass on the left, a beautiful white fox was tilting its head and acting cute to him.
On the tree on the right, a squirrel was fighting with a fiery red mink for a big nut. They were fighting so hard that they were grimacing.
Taking a closer look, the fiery red mink was actually a Fifth Stage monster, and the squirrel was just an ordinary squirrel.
The fiery red mink could tear the squirrel to pieces with just a breath, but it was still fighting with its claws.
Here, Yang Dingtian felt a very comfortable aura.
Here, the weak animals could actually live in harmony with the powerful monsters. One had to know that monsters were very cruel and easy to kill.
While he was praising, Yang Dingtian suddenly heard a miserable cry. Then, a monkey rushed out from the road. Its entire body was wrapped around by a blood-red snake.
The snake's head also had five veins and was about four to five meters long. It opened its bloody mouth and was about to bite and eat the pitiful monkey.
The snake was a Fifth Stage monster, and the monkey was just an ordinary monkey.
Yang Dingtian was shocked and instinctively wanted to pull out his sword to save the monkey.
Unexpectedly, just as the snake was about to bite, the monkey stretched out its two hands and grabbed the upper and lower jaws of the snake. Then, it suddenly flipped over and rode on the snake.
Then, the monkey and the snake made faces at Yang Dingtian at the same time. Then, they slithered into the grass and rolled into a ball.
So, they were just playing around. Yang Dingtian was speechless.
…
"Why did you come to see me?" Suddenly, a gentle and cold voice came from the front.
There was a natural sense of isolation in the voice. It was as if talking to an outsider was very unnatural.
Yang Dingtian raised his head and saw a beautiful woman standing under a tree not far away.
Her figure was not inferior to Dongfang Bingling. It was as soft as flowing water and as graceful as a willow.
Yang Dingtian was sure that everyone would look at her figure at first glance. They might even forget to look at her face.
He raised his head and saw her face.
Her eyes were like water, her eyebrows were like distant mountains, her hair was like black satin, and her skin was as white as snow.
However, this face was not beautiful. It was just delicate.
It was not charming, not delicate, not enchanting, but very gentle. It was like the wind of nature, like the water of nature.
There was a completely different kind of beauty, a different kind of lovely and moving.
Yang Dingtian only took a few glances at her, and the expression on her face was very unnatural. Her face was completely red.
In fact, Yang Dingtian was also a little unnatural. This was because Yanyan had mentioned many times that she wanted Ximen Ningning to marry him and use the Yin-Yang Mystic Absorption Technique to give her Xuan Qi to him.
"I came to ask Miss for help. I want to go to the wilderness to hunt for demon cores …"