Transmigrated into a book? A vicious female supporting character? A senior sister? Tsk tsk!

"I ate it... but I never expected... this thing... to be poisonous!"

Tang Xinyan took out another stack of explosive talismans, gave some to Yu Zechen, and said jokingly:

"You're not doing well. You're already out of breath after only a short while."

Yu Zechen choked, then viciously hurled the explosive talismans around him. He took a deep breath to calm himself, and said irritably:

"Kid, do you know how dangerous what you said is? If I weren't too busy, I would have given you a good beating."

Tang Xinyan pouted:

Are you sure it was you who hit me, and not me who hit you?

Yu Zechen remained silent. He wasn't really sure. Through the battle just now, he had a vague feeling that this girl seemed to be hiding her cultivation level.

Seeing that Yu Zechen remained silent, Tang Xinyan got back to the main point:

"Alright, let's get down to business. If we keep fighting like this, we'll eventually be killed by this old tree spirit after it exhausts its spiritual energy. As the saying goes, to catch the thief, you must first catch the king."

"I'll lead the attack, you stay behind. Use explosive talismans to clear a path, and once we get close to the old tree spirit, we'll figure out a way to kill it."

Yu Zechen took the explosive talisman that Tang Xinyan handed him again and stood behind her, shielding her from the attacks rushing up from behind.

The two bombed and dodged, gradually moving closer to the ancient tree in the middle. The tree, seeing that poisoning was ineffective and the two were getting even closer, continued to bombard the tree.

They pulled out more roots and branches, trying to string Tang Xinyan and the others together, but their attack was too fierce, and the two were injured again.

Seeing Tang Xinyan's shoulder pierced by the roots of an ancient tree, Yu Zechen felt somewhat worried.

"Junior Uncle, are you alright? How about we switch places?"

Looking at the ancient tree so close at hand, Tang Xinyan threw out five or six explosive talismans at once, swallowed a healing pill, and gritted her teeth, saying:

"It's nothing, this little injury is nothing."

However, she added in her mind, "Damn, that really hurts!" Fortunately, the target was right in front of her. Tang Xinyan took out a few more Thunderstorm Talismans.

He added his own lightning spiritual power and threw it all onto the trunk of the ancient tree. The ancient tree was instantly enveloped in a net of lightning. After a series of "booming and crackling" sounds, the bark of the ancient tree was torn and damaged by the electricity.

Thick, black liquid oozed from the tear, its foul stench making Tang Xinyan feel nauseous.

Suppressing the urge to vomit, Tang Xinyan took advantage of the ancient tree's injury and unpreparedness, leaping onto the center of the tree trunk and unleashing a Five Thunder Strike towards its center.

Five consecutive lightning strikes pierced a large hole in the center of the tree trunk. Inside the hole, a heart, enveloped in a viscous black liquid, beat like a human.

Yu Zechen's face turned grim: "This tree actually has a heart!"

Sensing its life was threatened, the ancient tree uprooted itself from the ground and shook itself, trying to shake Tang Xinyan and the other person off.

At the same time, Tang Xinyan continued to whip and attack the two with her own branches and roots, and continued to use the Thunderstorm Talisman to form a lightning net around them.

After successfully repelling the dense attacks, Tang Xinyan reminded Yu Zechen:

"Quickly, burn that heart with your fire."

Yu Zechen took out a stack of fire talismans, imbued them with his fire spirit power, and threw them into the cave one after another. At the same time, he used the fireball spell to continuously throw fireballs into the cave.

Protected by the black sap, the fire did not initially reach the heart of the ancient tree. However, as the fire grew, the sap was quickly evaporated.

Without protection, the heart was quickly engulfed in flames. At the moment the heart was consumed by the fire, a hideous face appeared on the trunk of the ancient tree.

The face let out a shrill roar, and the entire tree trunk trembled continuously until the heart was completely burned out, at which point the ancient tree collapsed with a crash.

The moment the ancient tree collapsed, the trees that had previously surrounded it seemed to be startled and quickly scattered and retreated.

With the crisis averted, Yu Zechen plopped down on a tree trunk, took a healing pill and a spirit-restoring pill, and sighed in relief:

"It's really not easy. I thought it would be dangerous before I came, but I didn't expect it to be this difficult."

Tang Xinyan arrived at the place where the Blood Ganoderma was growing, and said as she picked it:

"You should be glad that this old tree spirit's cultivation level was suppressed by the secret realm, otherwise, with just the two of us, hehe, we would basically be delivery animals."

Yu Zechen was startled, then understood:

"No wonder, my senior brother is at the Great Perfection of cultivation, and my master even told him to be careful."

Tang Xinyan stored the two blood spirit mushrooms, one large and one small, into her Fate Realm, and then handed the remaining two, one large and one small, to Yu Zechen:

"Hey, put the spoils away first."

Looking at the two blood-red Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms before him, Yu Zechen only kept the larger one and handed the smaller one back to Tang Xinyan:

“You put in more effort than me, so you should take the lion’s share. I’ll just keep one big one for my master.”

Tang Xinyan shook her head:

“Our cooperation is mutually beneficial, not a team where we distribute rewards based on work. The larger one is for your master, and you can keep the smaller one for when you have a Daoist partner in the future.”

Yu Zechen, seemingly lost in thought, stopped refusing and put away the small blood spirit mushroom. He then took out a black token and handed it to Tang Xinyan.

"This is for you, consider it a thank you gift for the Blood Spirit Mushroom."

Tang Xinyan took it and examined it. The metal token was engraved with a cloud, and below the cloud were the words "Elegant Style."

"Elegant style?"

Tang Xinyan murmured to herself. She remembered that in the original story, the largest auction house in the cultivation world was called Ya Feng.

According to the book, this Ya Feng Auction House is very mysterious. It has grown and expanded in just a few years, and has branches in almost all the larger towns.

Furthermore, the owner of the auction house was very mysterious. Liu Yinyin had tried to befriend him several times, but had been unable to find him. As a result, Liu Yinyin harbored resentment towards the auction house.

Later, after the female protagonist became powerful, she united various forces to suppress the auction house, but after all, it was the number one auction house, and its foundation was extraordinary.

The two sides engaged in a long and open struggle, with the owner of Ya Feng Auction House even creating numerous obstacles for the male and female protagonists. However, in the end, they were unable to defy their predetermined fate.

It seems that the owner of Ya Feng died from poisoning? Yu Zechen took out the auction house's token as a thank-you gift. Could it be that he has some connection with this auction house?

Thinking of this, Tang Xinyan looked at Yu Zechen and asked curiously:

"Is this a token from Ya Feng Auction House?"

Yu Zechen nodded:

"That's right, this token is the Black Gold Token of Ya Feng Auction House. There are only three in the entire cultivation world. Those who hold the Black Gold Token can enjoy the highest-level VIP treatment at Ya Feng Auction House."

If you consign items to an auction house, the auction house only charges a 10% handling fee. If you purchase items through an auction house, you can enjoy a 10% discount on the auction price.

Tang Xinyan's feelings were a bit complicated: "So, you're the owner of this auction house?"

Yu Zechen didn't hide anything and confessed:

"I would say I'm one of them. The other two are my close friends, and our meeting was just a spur-of-the-moment thing."

On a whim... Tang Xinyan was speechless and somewhat puzzled:

"It's obvious that your family background is not simple. Since you don't cultivate the dual cultivation path, why did you join the Joyful Union Sect?"