My ancestors were spiritual plant growers, so it's not surprising that I hunt demons every day,

Cui Ying frowned, and then saw Madam Gongsun take out a handkerchief to wipe the corner of her eye, and say with a sob in her voice:

"To be honest, my father died in the jaws of a demon tiger. For so long, my siblings and I have hired many demon hunters to help us kill that demon tiger."

"But we searched for several months without finding a trace."

“Now that you’ve killed a demon tiger, my brother and I are thinking of buying it to offer as a sacrifice to our father in heaven.”

Cui Ying shook her head and said with a sigh, "But I heard that it was a golden-winged tiger that killed your father."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's a demon tiger."

Lady Gongsun waved her hand magnanimously and took out a bag of spirit stones from her storage pouch and placed it on the table.

"Here are five hundred spirit stones. All you need is for you, young friend Cui, to sell the demon tiger to my brother and me. We don't want the tiger's pelt."

Don't want fur?

Cui Ying raised an eyebrow in surprise when she heard that the tiger's pelt should be kept.

Because the most precious items on tiger-type demon beasts are the demon tiger whip, demon tiger bone, and demon tiger skin.

Five hundred spirit stones is a bit much to ask for a whole Gale Tiger that is about to reach the sixth level of Qi Refining, but if you don't want the fur, it's more than enough.

Seeing the expression on Cui Ying's face, Lady Gongsun knew that something was going to happen.

Sure enough, Cui Ying nodded and replied, "If it is to commemorate the elders in the family, then it is certainly permissible."

"It's a word."

As Cui Ying accepted the skin and was about to peel off the demon tiger's skin, Lei Hao stopped her, saying, "Seeing that young friend Cui's magic power has not yet recovered, let me do it."

Since someone was offering to help skin the demon tiger, Cui Ying naturally wouldn't refuse: "Thank you for your help, Senior Lei."

Lei Hao pulled out a dagger covered in runes from his waist, swiftly sliced ​​off the skin of the Gale Tiger, exchanged a glance with Lady Gongsun, and then knelt down in the direction of Phoenix Mountain Range.

"Father, we have avenged you. Now you can rest in peace and be reincarnated."

After they finished speaking, the two took the demon tiger meat and left without saying anything more.

At this moment, Wang Rong, who had followed them out, also looked at the two departing figures and sighed, "I heard that after Old Master Lei fell, Madam Gongsun often dreamed that her father was trapped in a dark and narrow space, screaming in pain with all his might."

Cui Ying neither confirmed nor denied the matter of nightmares.

Because the people she killed in her previous life were not only reduced to ashes but also their souls were not left behind, she naturally had no such worries.

Therefore, she didn't reply, but directly handed the five hundred spirit stones to Wang Rong and said, "Mother, you keep these spirit stones."

"Oh dear, you earned this yourself, Mother doesn't want it."

Wang Rong said she was refusing, but her smile grew wider and wider. She didn't stop what she was doing. She took the bag of spirit stones and ran into the main room to count them.

Cui Ying shook her head and chuckled. After she carried the Gale Tiger skin into the main room, Wang Rong had already hidden the spirit stones and asked expectantly, "Third girl, this tiger skin should be worth a lot of spirit stones, right?"

"Um."

Cui Ying nodded and looked at Cui Zhengming, who was sitting on the other side cleaning his pipe, and said, "Father, go and hire someone to discuss how to build the house."

Looking at the rain that had started falling again outside and the large section of the collapsed blue brick wall outside, Cui Ying had already decided that she should first rebuild her own house so that her family could have a better living environment.

Cui Zhengming thought that Cui Ying wanted to renovate the courtyard and build a new room next to it.

Thinking that their daughter and the Gu family's son would definitely live together after their marriage, they nodded without hesitation.

“It is indeed time to build another room. No problem, I will go and hire someone in a moment.”

“Father, it’s not about building another side room, it’s about building a three-courtyard house.”

Cui Ying knew her father had misunderstood, so she shook her head, walked to the table, picked up a spirit peach, and wiped it clean.

"What? A three-courtyard house? Where did your family get so many spirit stones to build this house?"

Upon hearing his daughter's words, Cui Zhengming's eyes widened immediately, and he almost dropped the pipe in his hand.

Cui Ying broke the spirit peach in half, ate one half herself, and then placed the other half in front of Cui Yan. She took a bite of the peach flesh and chewed it, saying:

"Wait a minute, I'll get you some more spirit stones."

Cui Ying turned around and went back into the house. She found the hundred or so spirit stones she had left over from buying the Yao Guang Sword last time. After keeping some spare change for herself, she took the hundred spirit stones and went into the main room.

"I still have one hundred spirit stones here. Adding the five hundred spirit stones I gave to my mother today, and the ones I gave her before, I have about eight hundred spirit stones in total."

She placed the spirit stones on the table and continued, "Once I sell the five-colored deer and the demon tiger skin, I should get at least five or six hundred spirit stones. I can also sell the spirit herbs I've planted in the backyard later; with these small amounts, I should be able to gather two thousand spirit stones quickly."

Cui Ying had asked her father a few days ago that building a house with a defensive magic array would require at least two thousand spirit stones.

Moreover, building a house is a long-term project that cannot be completed in a day or two.

There are still several months left. Even if Cui Ying is incompetent, she can still gather enough spirit stones.

The key is to finalize the construction of the house as soon as possible so that construction can begin sooner.

She hopes to finish building it before the Lunar New Year so that the whole family can have their own room during the holiday, and she can fulfill her promise to Shi Yin.

"This~"

Cui Zhengming was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, while silently calculating the costs in his mind.

He estimated that if he could take out a thousand spirit stones, it would indeed be enough to build a three-courtyard house without any defensive formations.

After all, no matter how luxurious an ordinary mansion is, most of the materials used are still ordinary things. These things don't cost much spirit stone. The most spirit stone-consuming things are the hiring fees and the various control arrays that need to be set up later.

Just as Cui Zhengming was about to agree, Wang Rong, who was standing next to him, wiped the peach juice off Cui Yan's cheek and suddenly asked:

"Third Sister, why don't we use these spirit stones to buy back the things the Gu family wants?"

"It doesn't matter."

Cui Ying shook her head and insisted, "Build the courtyard first. There's no rush for the things the Gu family wants."

Instead of using the family's spirit stones to satisfy Gu's mother's outrageous demands, it would be better to let the family live in a better house first.

After all, Cui Ying, who had enjoyed life in her previous life, simply could not bear to live in such a dilapidated environment.

Moreover, after the courtyard is built, she plans to install a spirit-gathering array, which will make it much more convenient for her family members to cultivate.

She didn't believe that once they built their house and their cultivation improved, the Gu family would still dare to ask for those outrageous dowries.

Wang Rong lowered her head and thought about it for a while, then gritted her teeth and agreed to build the house first.

"If our family really builds a big mansion, with Third Sister's amazing abilities, I think she could even marry the young master of the Gongsun family!"

After she finished speaking with a haughty expression, she immediately stood up and greeted Cui Zhengming:

"What are you all standing there for? Didn't you hear my daughter say she wants to build a house? Go to the village and talk to someone about it!"

"Row!"

Cui Zhengming tapped his pipe and went out in high spirits.

Even the light rain outside couldn't dampen his burning passion.