Shocking! The female protagonist unlocked her powers by killing people!

Mu Shengyuan asked, "What do you want?"

"What do you want?" Ling Yi chuckled lightly. "Let me think."

Spiritual stone?

Even the empire only provides ordinary spirit stones.

She needs no weapons at all.

Cultivation techniques? There's another book with cultivation techniques and special abilities that haven't been unlocked, so I don't need it.

Thinking about it this way...

Ling Yi looked at Mu Shengyuan: "Thinking about it carefully, it seems you don't have anything to give me."

Mu Shengyuan was somewhat surprised: "Have you really thought this through?"

"Hmm." Ling nodded, then said, "If you think I haven't thought it through, you can add to it."

Before Mu Shengyuan could speak, Ling Yi said first, "I don't need the spirit stone weapon and cultivation technique."

This change of heart completely extinguished all the most common forms of compensation.

Mu Shengyuan was silent for a moment before speaking: "Pills?"

Ling Yi: "If there are elixirs that can bring the dead back to life, that would be helpful. If not, the others are not very useful."

Mu Shengyuan: "..."

"Do you need money?" Mu Shengyuan asked.

Ling Yi looked at her: "What are you going to do with the money?"

Mu Shengyuan: "...buy what you need for cultivation."

Ling Yi chuckled softly and said nothing more.

Mu Shengyuan sighed and exchanged a glance with Yan Wuxin, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

“If that’s the case, then there’s really nothing I can give you.” Mu Shengyuan looked at Ling Yi: “Little sister Yi, can’t you have some worldly desires?”

“Yes, it is.” Ling Yi looked at Mu Shengyuan: “Is gossip considered a worldly desire?”

Mu Shengyuan countered, "What do you mean?"

Ling Yi said, "Not only are you curious about the matter of 'descendants of the gods,' but I am too. It's fine if you don't know, but now that you do, you'll definitely investigate. Why don't you tell me what you find out, and I'll consider it your reward?"

"This is the reward?" Mu Shengyuan looked incredulous. "Isn't it too easy?"

"It's not easy." Finding clues about the descendants of the gods is not easy when the princesses of the two great empires are completely unaware of the situation.

Seeing that Ling Yi had made up her mind, Mu Shengyuan no longer refused: "Okay."

"If I find anything relevant, I'll let you know as soon as possible."

"Alright," Ling Yi said. "This matter is now considered closed."

The implication was that the two of them could leave now that they had nothing else to do.

Mu Shengyuan stood up, preparing to say goodbye to Ling Yi, when he saw the tent flap being lifted and Wen Xiaoxiao walked in, followed by three other men.

When Ling Yi saw them, a cryptic smile appeared on his face, and then he removed the soundproof barrier.

After the soundproof barrier was removed, Wen Xiaoxiao couldn't wait to speak: "Ling Yi, I heard you got the Ghost Vine Source?" After speaking, her gaze fell on the bead in Ling Yi's hand.

While the Ghost Vine Source Pearl is indeed icy and cold, it is of the wood element and possesses powerful wood spirit energy. Refining and absorbing it is a great tonic for those with wood-attribute spiritual roots.

Mu Shengyuan wanted it because she had a wood-attribute spiritual root, and Wen Xiaoxiao also had a wood-attribute spiritual root, so she wanted it too.

Ling Yi had no idea how these four idiots knew she possessed the Ghost Vine Source Pearl, but...

"Want it?" Ling Yi looked at Wen Xiaoxiao and asked with a half-smile.

Wen Xiaoxiao glanced at Mu Shengyuan and Yan Wuxin and nodded: "I have a wood-attribute spiritual root and have been stuck at level six for a long time. If I can obtain the Ghost Vine Source Pearl, I will definitely be able to break through."

Before Ling Yi could speak, Ji Baiyu, who was standing to Wen Xiaoxiao's right, said, "Ling Yi, we can pay for it."

Standing to Wen Xiaoxiao's left, Zheng Xinzhu also spoke up: "Name your price."

After listening, Ling Yi looked up and her gaze fell on Zhou Wenyu's face behind Wen Xiaoxiao: "They've both spoken up, aren't you going to do something?"

Zhou Wenyu frowned, feeling that Ling Yi's words were a bit strange, but since Ling Yi had already said that, wouldn't it be embarrassing for Xiao Xiao if he didn't speak up?

Thinking this through, Zhou Wenyu said, "Name your price."

"Name your price?" Mu Shengyuan chuckled lightly. "Can the four of you outbid me?"

The moment Mu Shengyuan spoke, the expressions of the four men changed.

Seeing this, Yan Wuxin joined in: "Me too."

Wen Xiaoxiao's face paled slightly as she looked at Yan Wuxin and said, "Princess Wuxin, you do not have a wood-attribute spiritual root, so this Ghost Vine Source Pearl is useless to you."

Yan Wuxin smiled and said, "But Xiaoyuan wants it, and I want to buy it for her too. Why can't I?"

Knowing she couldn't win the argument, Wen Xiaoxiao ignored Yan Wuxin and turned to Ling Yi: "Ling Yi, the Ghost Vine Source Pearl has a cold and yin energy. If you can't refine it before absorbing it, you're very likely to suffer a backlash. My cultivation is two levels higher than Mu Shengyuan's, so I can withstand it better. It would be better if you sold it to me."

"Ling Yi, don't forget, we are all from the Dongyang Empire," Ji Baiyu said. "And we're all students of the Imperial Academy. Are you going to help an outsider instead of your classmate?"

Yan Wuxin and Mu Shengyuan were so angry at these words that they laughed. Just as they were about to speak, Ling Yi's voice rang out: "No matter how much you talk, I will not sell you the Ghost Vine Source Pearl."

Upon hearing this, Wen Xiaoxiao became anxious: "Why?"

She had been stuck at level six for a long time and could not advance. Although there was a risk of backlash if she directly absorbed the Ghost Vine Source Pearl, as long as she succeeded, she would be able to advance.

Moreover, this Ghost Vine Source Pearl is full of power; once fully absorbed, it will allow her to advance to the next level.

She must obtain the Ghost Vine Source Pearl!

While calculating in her mind, Wen Xiaoxiao looked at Ling Yi with teary eyes: "Ling Yi, we haven't offended you, why are you targeting us?"

"What a joke," Ling Yi said coldly. "I can sell my things to whomever I want. Does refusing to sell to you mean I'm targeting you?"

Wen Xiaoxiao looked at Ling Yi, about to ask why he wouldn't sell to us if he wasn't targeting us, but before she could speak, Ling Yi smiled and said, "That's exactly what you're thinking."

"I'm targeting you all."

Wen Xiaoxiao's face paled. She had probably never met someone as unyielding and direct as Ling Yi before. For a moment, she didn't know how to respond, so she could only look pitifully at Ji Baiyu: "Brother Baiyu, Sister Ling Yi doesn't want to sell to us. Let's go."

When Ji Baiyu saw Wen Xiaoxiao like this, he felt heartbroken. Then, when he looked at Ling Yi, his eyes blazed with anger: "Ling Yi, you have to sell this today, whether you like it or not!"

Mu Shengyuan's gaze turned cold, and just as she was about to say something, she saw Ling Yi stand up and walk in front of her and Yan Wuxin.

"Ling Yi?" Mu Shengyuan called out.

Ling Yi said, "This is between me and them, you don't need to interfere."

This is the territory of the Spring Kingdom, the Southern Kite Empire. Mu Shengyuan's status here is comparable to that of the Spring Kingdom's king. If she speaks, it is very likely that the four of them will back down, which is not what she wants.

Ling Yi looked at Ji Baiyu: "So, you're going to rob me?"

Ji Baiyu said coldly, "It's your own fault for not knowing what's good for you, don't blame us."