Cultivation through Skin Making

The one known as the mute started to speak.

And the one who could speak became mute.

Song Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and stopped talking.

In his mind, thoughts flashed like lightning as he quickly connected several key pieces of information.

Raising cultivators to feed secret realm demon beasts, mysterious cultivator, the time when Hua Linglong was asked to find Profound Root at Snake Corpse Market after leaving Celestial Cloud City, and so on...

An inexplicable thought surfaced, perhaps this mysterious female cultivator was "nurturing that Snake Corpse Market for decades to feed that hidden old demon in the Demon Swamp Secret Realm," and this visit here had other objectives, just happened to meet him, and then developed other schemes.

As he was thinking, the voice of Granny Fox came: "Master, be careful of traps."

To increase fault tolerance, Song Yan had already activated "Granny Fox's external perception" before the fight started, so when he was interacting and confronting others, it was actually "he and Granny Fox" countering together.

Granny Fox naturally heard this as well.

She continued, "This sentence carries a preset information trap. If you answer it, you'll unwittingly confirm many things for her. How does she know you need essence blood? And why does she want to give you the essence blood? Where did the essence blood she gives you come from?

People outside should know that I have fought with you and also know you broke through the Crimson Palace Realm.

Therefore, needing essence blood can barely be explained...

But why give you essence blood is very intriguing.

This female cultivator certainly knows a lot.

Round and round, I'm worried it revolves back to the bloodline of the Changwang Tiger Race.

Back then, I accidentally got an opportunity and hastily stole the blood out, but I don't know if this blood is also linked to something deeper."

Song Yan remained silent.

The Changwang Tiger Race is a ruler-level demon in the Divine Soul World and an advanced race of the Mountain and Sea Demon Country, with only one single descendant left, making this essence blood extremely precious.

However, no matter how precious the essence blood is, once consumed by someone, it loses its significance. If they're just rehashing old issues, what are these people after?

"If we make a move..."

"Master, the other party knows you are in the Crimson Palace Realm and survived a fight with me, so they're clearly not benevolent.

This type of cultivator should be the Secret Realm Cultivator I mentioned before, and this is the secret realm, her home ground, her abilities... I'm not sure either. But they must be related to the secret realm itself.

Master, be cautious."

"This secret realm is called Candle Land, where night candle insects are dormant during the day and active at night, but there must be something they're holding back, though what is being held back is unknown..."

The strange female cultivator named Zhu'Er barely asked a question, yet in Song Yan and Granny Fox's minds, layers of thoughts flashed rapidly as they began to uncover her intentions.

The thoughts exchanged rapidly between the man and the fox, outwardly only a moment had passed.

Song Yan lifted his eyes, looked at the wooden female cultivator opposite, and clasped his fists politely: "If there's essence blood suitable for me, I... naturally would want it."

The wooden female cultivator smiled charmingly and said, "It must be suitable for you."

Song Yan did not bring up what his Central Palace Blood was, but curiously asked, "How exactly is it suitable?"

This time, it was the wooden female cultivator's turn to fall silent, tilting her head to glance at the sky.

The secret realm's sky was the same as the outside weather, with the sun and moon bringing dusk or dawn. At this moment... the sky was becoming dark, with gray clouds already obscuring the glow of the horizon, and perhaps in the next breath, the entire world would suddenly fall into darkness.

This timing seemed quite satisfactory to the female cultivator.

She said, "The demon beasts here are called night candle soul insects. Once night falls, they wake up and are drawn to living souls, which they see as light, rushing towards them like moths to flame, until they dissipate the living soul.

A single night candle soul insect is not frightening, and they're simply categorized as 'weak in body but possessing special power' as advanced demon beasts. However, the terror is... there are many, many night candle soul insects here.

This many night candle soul insects together, even a Crimson Palace Cultivator would have to take a detour.

The human soul is protected by the body, and wanting to break the body to dissipate the soul is very difficult...

However, the characteristic of these night candle soul insects is their extremely strong divine soul regenerating ability. As long as it's nighttime, even if their bodies are scorched while impacting the target's soul, they recover swiftly and continue their assault.

I wonder... whether the blood of such a soul-benefiting demon beast would suit you?"

After saying this, she added, "The insect blood is very, very rare, and perhaps it takes several night candle soul insects to squeeze out even one drop, so... gathering a portion that a Crimson Palace Realm cultivator can absorb is quite difficult.

Junior, do you want it?"

The night candle insect suddenly transformed into the soul-attacking night candle soul insect, and its level of peril skyrocketed.

If those few loose cultivators knew this information, they probably wouldn't dare enter this secret realm even if their lives depended on it.

Just because an attacking soul demon beast, this method... truly seems unsolvable.

...

On the other side, Granny Fox immediately said, "She inadvertently exposed herself; indeed, she's here for the Changwang Tiger Blood.

She's testing whether I was the one who stole out the Changwang Tiger Blood, and also testing if you stole the Changwang Tiger Blood, and even testing whether you've digested it."

In fact, Song Yan realized this himself without needing Granny Fox to say it.

He raised his head, thought for a moment, and said, "The blood of the night candle soul insect is indeed very rare, but it's not quite suitable for me. To be truthful to the senior, I have entered the Crimson Palace Realm, but my Central Palace Blood is that of a mutated nine-eyed harp python's essence blood."

"Nine-eyed harp python? That demon beast that bewitches with skin and sound? However... isn't this demon beast merely an intermediate level demon beast?"