Wu Di said, "Alright, take your Uncle Vajra down to rest. He has just recovered and is still very weak."
Xiao Nan was overjoyed and said, "Haha, okay Dad, thank you, Senior Dragon King, that's great!" Xiao Nan ran over and kissed Lin Qing's mask, then grabbed the Vajra Dharma King and ran away.
Seeing this, Wu Di quickly explained, "My daughter is unruly, I hope you will forgive her, senior." He was afraid that Lin Qing would be angry.
Lin Qing paused for a moment, then reached out and touched the mask that had been kissed, saying, "It's nothing. Is there anything I can do for you here?"
Although she appeared calm on the surface, she was inwardly quite agitated: "Girl, please kiss me slowly, wait until I take off my mask, sigh!"
"Mask, I hate you!" Lin Qing has been a virgin for over a hundred years.
Chapter 266 Side Quest 3 (Please subscribe, vote for monthly tickets, and recommend!)
Tianyun stepped forward and said, "We have already taken over the Sword Sect and brought the spirit stones with us."
Upon seeing this, Wu Di immediately took a ring out of his pocket and handed it to Lin Qing.
Wu Di: "Senior, this ring was taken from Jian Tian. He must have obtained it from an ancient ruin, which has a range of 3,333 zhang."
"This is unique in the entire Eastern Region. We've packed spirit stones inside: 30 million low-grade spirit stones, 2 million mid-grade spirit stones, and 100,000 high-grade spirit stones."
"As for the top-grade spirit stones, there are only five thousand. That is a bit too little, as resources are scarce in our Eastern Region. I hope you will forgive me, senior."
Lin Qing waved his hand, not caring, and took the ring, saying, "It doesn't matter, it's useless to me anyway."
Then, Lin Qing put all the spirit stones into his sleeve pocket universe, and tossed the ring over, saying:
"By the way, please make some more delicious food for me to fill this ring. Once it's ready, bring it over. I'll probably be staying here for about a year."
Wu Di accepted the ring, immediately nodded in agreement, then said goodbye and disappeared with the other three in a streak of light.
Lin Qing walked over to Xiao Hei's side, and seeing him still looking at him pitifully, Lin Qing delivered a critical hit to Xiao Hei, saying in an annoyed tone:
"What's the big deal about such a small thing? I'll give you a big gift in a year. I'm going to sleep now. You stay outside and wake me up when they come."
Lin Qing took out the chariot, then jumped into it. Ignoring the spirit stones, he immediately started looking at the system's previous prompts.
[Ding! Side Quest 3 has been issued. Please check it yourself.]
Side Quest 3 Released: Although the Sword Sect has been destroyed, the distant Southern Region has become a dead land, where all humans and demons have died from having their blood drained.
Their corpses have been corrupted by demonic energy and transformed into corpse demons, threatening the world. Please, host, slay the culprits and eliminate all corpse demons in the Southern Region.
Mission Reward: 10 million Evolution Points, Divine Power - Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.
"What? What's going on? The entire Southern Region has been drained of its blood essence and died? Demonic energy?" Lin Qing looked at the mission description thoughtfully.
"No wonder the Blood Fiend Sword turned into scrap metal when it was broken. After all, even if a magic weapon is broken, the material of the fragments is still there. How could it be inferior to ordinary iron?"
A wisp of black energy drifted out and disappeared. This wisp of black energy was different from the evil energy, but Lin Qing didn't care and thought it was a mutated evil energy.
Now that I think about it, it was definitely demonic energy. It seems that the cultivation method and sword embryo that the Sword Sect found in that ancient ruin may have been part of a much bigger conspiracy.
However, Lin Qing suddenly became extremely angry. In the entire Southern Region, there were countless lives lost. Lin Qing estimated that, including the demon race, there were approximately tens of billions.
There could be more, but Lin Qing didn't know. The completion of this side quest was going to be troublesome, as it involved clearing out the entire Southern Region.
Lin Qing didn't even know who the culprit was, but since the entire Southern Region had become a demonic realm, the culprit must be inside.
Lin Qing stroked his chin, making up his mind that he would set off for the Southern Region once Wu Di and the others delivered the ring.
Then, Lin Qing took out a low-grade spirit stone and put it in his mouth.
[Ding! Consumed a lower-level spirit stone and gained 0.5 evolution points.]
"??? Are you kidding me? Only 05?" Lin Qing looked incredulous, then immediately took out a mid-grade spirit stone and threw it into her mouth.
[Ding! Consumed a mid-level spirit stone and gained five evolution points.]
[Ding! Consumed a superior spirit stone and gained fifty evolution points.]
[Ding! Consuming a top-grade spirit stone has granted you 1000 evolution points.]
He initially thought it was a small amount, but suddenly realized it was a lot. He obtained tens of millions of spirit stones, which, when added up, amounted to a total of thirty-five million evolution points.
Lin Qing chuckled, not in a hurry to eat the spirit stones. Anyway, he was still far from 100 million evolution points, so there was no rush.
Then he lay down on the soft cushion and fell asleep instantly—it was terrifying how quickly he fell asleep.
Outside the chariot, Little Black was still waiting to digest his food. He vowed that if he ate this much again, he would never go looking for the tigress again.
Three days later, the four of them finally filled the entire ring with food and returned to the mountain peak once again.
Xiao Hei was lying listlessly next to the chariot, yawning, but immediately perked up when he saw the group arrive.
He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Quickly, quickly, bring up the food, I'm starving."
However, this time it wasn't the fairy delivering the food, but rather the four enemies.
"Ah, it's Lord Black Tiger. Um, we're here to deliver the ring." Wu Di said somewhat awkwardly.
Xiao Hei paused for a moment, then asked, "Are you ready?"
"Ready, the entire ring is made of top-quality delicacies."
Xiao Hei nodded immediately, then flew onto the chariot and came to Lin Qing's side, cautiously saying:
"Master, Wu Di and the other three have arrived, and the delicacies in the ring are ready."
At this moment, Lin Qing slowly opened her eyes, nodded to Xiao Hei, and then slowly stepped off the chariot.
"Senior, the food is ready, please take a look."
Lin Qing reached out and the ring flew into his hand. After examining it, Lin Qing was quite satisfied and said:
"Thank you for your hard work, here's a small gift for you!"
The four hundred-year-old orbs of light appeared and were delivered to the four people. Upon examining them, the four people were overjoyed and extremely happy.
"Thank you, senior. We won't bother you any longer. If you need anything, please feel free to ask. The communication talisman is with Lord Black Tiger."
Lin Qing: "Okay, go ahead and refine it to improve your cultivation. The cultivation world has been quite turbulent lately."
The four then left with the ball of light. They had emptied the coffers of the four major sects in order to obtain such a ring of spiritual food.
These four hundred-year-old orbs of light instantly dispelled all their dissatisfaction. A hundred years of cultivation was far more precious than any spiritual food.
Lin Qing turned to look at Xiao Hei, who looked pitiful again because of the appearance of the light sphere.
He shook his head and said, "Alright, stop looking at me like that. Now I'm going to give you a task."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei immediately became serious and listened attentively to the task Lin Qing assigned him.
Lin Qing: "I received news that the Southern Region has become a dead land, and all the dead have become corpse demons. The entire Southern Region has become a demon realm."
"I'm going to wipe out the Demon Realm and kill the culprit."
Before Lin Qing could continue, Xiao Hei immediately spoke up: "What? The Southern Region has actually become the Demon Realm? Has the Demon Race made a comeback?"
"But weren't the demons already wiped out?"
Chapter 267 Arriving in the Southern Region (Please subscribe, vote for monthly tickets, and recommend!)
Lin Qing asked in surprise, "Demons? How come there's another demon?"
Xiao Hei: "Yes, tens of thousands of years ago, the demons invaded, and I learned about the demons by chance."
Tens of thousands of years ago, a sect in the Southern Region found an ancient ruin in a deep abyss, and they also discovered an array.
After hundreds of years of research, the sect finally activated the formation, and then the demons appeared in the Southern Region.
The demons are not from this continent, but from another dimension. That formation connects to the demon dimension.
Finally, the demons launched a massive invasion. They were unstoppable from the start, and the cultivators of our world were completely unable to resist them.
Fortunately, there was a peerless expert who single-handedly suppressed the demons and destroyed the formation, thus preventing a demonic rampage.
Xiao Hei: "I don't know if what happened in the Southern Region was caused by remnants of the Demon Clan or if they opened another passage."
Lin Qing: "With me here, there won't be any problems. You don't need to come to the Southern Region with me this time. I have a mission for you."
Xiao Hei: "A mission? What mission?"
Lin Qing: "I promised to attend the banquet hosted by Fei Hu and his wife a year later, but with this incident in the Southern Region, I can only ask you to attend in my place."
Little Black: "Ah, you want me to go to their place, Master? I want to go to the Southern Region with you."
Lin Qing smiled slightly: "If you go to the banquet, I will give you a big gift; if you don't go, you won't get one."
Xiao Hei immediately patted his chest and said, "I will definitely do whatever Master asks me to do. It's definitely not for any grand gift or anything like that."
Seeing that Xiao Hei had agreed, Lin Qing didn't hesitate and directly spent 1.1 million evolution points to exchange for a thousand-year-old light orb.
Before Xiao Hei could react, the ball of light was shot into Xiao Hei's body, and Xiao Hei's body immediately swelled up like an inflated balloon.
At the same time, Lin Qing cut his finger, and a drop of dragon blood dripped out, which Lin Qing sent into Xiao Hei's body.
In just a few seconds, it grew to a size of hundreds of meters. The little black creature looked incredibly terrifying, as if it were about to explode at any moment.
"Ah, what, what's going on? It hurts so much! It's going to explode! It's going to explode! Master, save me!" Little Black roared.
Then Lin Qing opened his mouth and spat out a small golden flame, which slowly flew out. Lin Qing flicked his finger and sent it directly into Xiao Hei's body.
Then, Xiao Hei's entire body burst into fierce flames, instantly engulfing its entire body.
Lin Qing immediately flew forward and gently patted Xiao Hei's head. As Lin Qing's spiritual power entered, the flames instantly shrank back into Xiao Hei's body.
Afterwards, Lin Qing began to help Xiao Hei refine the dragon blood and the thousand-year-old light sphere, and Lin Qing also helped Xiao Hei suppress the dragon blood.
The part that mutated towards the dragon shape was suppressed, only allowing Xiao Hei to enhance its bloodline, strength, and defense. Lin Qing didn't want Xiao Hei to become a strange creature.
Then, Lin Qing withdrew his arm, and Xiao Hei gradually returned to its original size, curling up into a ball, slowly adapting to the bloodline.
Seeing that it would be a long time before Xiao Hei woke up, Lin Qing set up a series of restrictions around Xiao Hei and threw a hundred-year-old light sphere.
He left a message: "Little Black, not a bad gift, right? And this ball of light is for Flying Tiger's child. Remember, don't steal any, or you won't want to know what will happen to you."
With this restriction in place, absolutely no one in the entire Eastern Region can break it, and there is indeed no hindrance at all in coming out from inside.
Lin Qing took out Jian Tian's trapped soul and, without waiting for Jian Tian to beg for mercy, began searching his soul. Ten seconds later, Lin Qing crushed Jian Tian's soul.