My Synthesizer Has Talent

Chapter 285: Chapter 283: What Happened Over a Fragment

After the army of Demon Fiends passed, things grew much quieter.

...

Another week passed.

Su Qing finally understood why that Shopkeeper was willing to trade a Tier Two Spirit Fruit for him to stand guard here.

Tier Two Demon Fiends.

And they had specifically sought out Su Qing.

Two of them.

One was comparable to the Initial Tier of the Second Realm, and the other was comparable to the Mid Tier of the Second Realm.

Su Qing was still wearing Ye Shengliang’s face.

’I can’t expose myself.’

That meant he could only drag out the fight.

In the battlefield above, Su Qing wielded a Tier One Upper Grade Magic Sword, fighting against them.

The Cultivation he revealed was indeed that of the First-Layer Foundation Establishment.

But Su Qing also revealed his Sword Intent—an unexpected variable.

The intersecting sword lights in the sky made the two Second Realm Demon Fiends extremely cautious.

"Damn it, how is this Human Race member so strong?"

"I don’t know either. Every time he attacks, I feel like I’m about to die."

"But each time, I only end up with a minor injury."

"You feel that way too? I feel pretty much the same."

...

The two Demon Fiends communicated via voice transmission, finding the situation incredibly strange. Their opponent was clearly just a Sword Cultivator with Sword Intent, and his strength was laid bare for them to see—First-Layer Foundation Establishment.

This was simply too bizarre for two intelligent Second Realm Demon Fiends.

Su Qing maintained the stalemate. ’If I just killed them instantly, it would be really suspicious, right?’

’What kind of First-Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator could instantly kill two Demon Fiends?’

But he had to put on an act.

In the end, the two Second Realm Demon Fiends fled, and Su Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

’That was so much trouble. I almost killed those two little guys several times.’

’That was a close one.’

Thankfully, Su Qing’s superior skill allowed him to hold back enough to keep the two Demon Fiends alive.

But he still managed to injure them in several places.

’It’s finally over. That was so close. I almost exposed my true strength.’

Su Qing let out a breath of relief.

He sat on the fortress wall, pretending to recover his Magical Power.

Afterwards, Su Qing once again helped clear out the First Realm Demon Fiends below.

During this battle, while Su Qing was busy, many Loose Cultivators were injured, and quite a few died.

’At this rate, won’t both the Demon Realm and the Spirit Realm just wear each other down?’

’Especially the Cultivators.’

’Cultivators with Spirit Roots are already exceedingly rare, and their Cultivation is slow.’

’If too many Cultivators with Spirit Roots die, the number of Demon Cultivators will increase.’

’In a war of attrition like this,’ Su Qing felt, ’it would be truly difficult to outlast the Demon Realm.’

...

「The next morning.」

The air was still thick with the stench of blood.

Wisps of Demonic Qi also lingered.

...

"Lord Ye, here are your Spirit Stones from yesterday."

Su Qing took the Storage Ring and glanced inside. Over twenty thousand Spirit Stones.

Su Qing was satisfied with that.

After all, he had been tied up with the Second Realm members of the Demon Race all day yesterday.

"Mm," Su Qing nodded silently.

’Just over a week left, and this will be over.’

’Then I’ll just slip away.’

’The Demon Race must have some kind of arrangement with the families and Sects of this world.’

’Otherwise, a situation like this would be impossible.’

"Xu De, why don’t you purchase Magical Artifacts from the Zhengxuan Sect to deal with the Demon Fiends?" Su Qing couldn’t help but ask.

Yesterday, Su Qing hadn’t helped those Cultivators, leading to many deaths and injuries.

"Lord Ye, I don’t want to buy them. They cost too many Spirit Stones," Xu De said with a helpless smile.

"One or two Cultivators have bought such Magical Artifacts, but if they use them in a typical battle, their earnings are very low."

"Take yesterday’s battle, for example. If I had bought a Magical Artifact from the Zhengxuan Sect to fight, half of my earnings in Spirit Stones would have been spent just to power it."

"Unless you kill a huge number of Demon Fiends."

"But a Tier One Magical Artifact only has so much power. I’m definitely not willing to do that," Xu De explained.

Su Qing nodded in understanding.

"So, many Cultivators risk their lives, paying with their very Life, just for a few Spirit Stones?"

"Heh, Lord Ye, that’s because they’re stupid and greedy. Otherwise, nothing would happen to them!" Xu De disagreed, stating his opinion with a laugh.

Su Qing shook his head helplessly and said no more.

He turned and left.

He was going to take a look around the fortress.

To see if there was anything inside worth his attention.

...

[Demon Blood Flower: A low-quality Tier One Spirit Medicine. A flower irrigated with Demon Blood. Can soothe the mind-corroding effects of Demonic Qi.]

[Desire Demon Saliva Plant: A plant cultivated with the saliva of a female Desire Demon. Consuming it has an effect comparable to an Aphrodisiac Pill...]

...

[Pure Demon Jade Fragment: A naturally occurring product of the Demon Realm. It possesses the ability to purify Demonic Qi, removing its mind-polluting properties.]

Su Qing stopped when he saw this fragment.

It was a stall where a Loose Cultivator was selling stones.

Nothing but stones.

The Pure Demon Jade, however, looked like a transparent stone.

It was even purer than glass.

"How much for this stone?" Su Qing asked.

The Loose Cultivator looked up, saw Su Qing, and said with a smile, "Ah, it’s Lord Ye."

"This stone... I’ll give you a discount, Lord Ye. Just 10 Spirit Stones."

"I found them all in the Demon Race’s territory,"

the Loose Cultivator said with a cheerful laugh.

"I’ll take it," Su Qing said.

But then, a youthful voice spoke up from behind Su Qing. "Wait, I want that stone too! I’ll offer twenty Spirit Stones."

Su Qing didn’t even turn his head.

He tossed 20 Spirit Stones to the stall owner, and his Magical Power enveloped the Pure Demon Jade Fragment.

He turned to look. It was a short person whose Cultivation was only in the First Realm.

They also had Demonic Qi on them.

He couldn’t tell if they were a Demon Cultivator or a member of the Demon Race, as they were wearing a Black Cloak.

About 1.7 meters tall.

The youthful voice from before let Su Qing know that this person was female.

He couldn’t even be bothered to use his soul to probe them.

’Do you know what first come, first served means?’ Su Qing’s brow furrowed, but he didn’t say anything.

He turned and walked away.

He had no desire to deal with a mere First Realm cultivator.

Su Qing really couldn’t be bothered.

The fact that Su Qing didn’t just eliminate this person was a testament to his magnanimity as a Second Realm Cultivator.

"Take care, Lord Ye." The stall owner pocketed the Spirit Stones and said no more. After all, the man had paid extra.

The person in the Black Cloak wanted to follow Su Qing.

But the stall owner stopped them.

"Fellow cultivator, you’d best not provoke that lord. He already chose not to press the matter with you just now."

"If you follow him now, aren’t you just looking for death?!"

"Don’t get yourself in trouble with a lord over a useless stone."

Beneath the black hood, a shy face showed a moment of hesitation, but she still followed him.

This was the first time she had ever seen such a treasure for the Demon Race.

If she could obtain it, she would no longer be affected by Demonic Qi.

She followed.

Su Qing walked on.

Suddenly, he turned into a dark alley.

The cloaked figure didn’t hesitate at all.

She rounded the corner and followed him inside.

THUD!

The soft sound of a body hitting the wall.

The cloaked figure’s neck was grabbed by Su Qing’s hand and pressed against the wall.

On Su Qing’s plain, unremarkable face, his eyes held a trace of killing intent.

The black cloak was pinned back, revealing the woman’s fine figure.

"You’re following me. Don’t tell me you know what this thing I bought does?"

Su Qing’s tone was incredibly calm, yet in the woman’s eyes, it was utterly terrifying.

She struggled to shake her head.

"I don’t!"

"Heh!"

Su Qing directly took this person with him.

Back to the fortress.

And into his room.

Outside, several Qi Cultivation Realm Cultivators stared at each other, wide-eyed.

At first, their lord seemed uninterested in women.

Now, he had suddenly brought a woman with such a nice figure into his room.

"Ahem, let’s go outside and stand watch. See if there’s anything unusual."

"How about it?" Xu De coughed lightly a few times, then was the first to leave.

Lei Qing also said, "Brother Xu, wait for me! I’ll go with you."

"I’m going too, wait for me!"

...

Inside Su Qing’s room.

He flipped back the hood of her Black Cloak.

Revealed was a woman with soft, silver hair. The woman had a pair of alluring, almond-shaped eyes, and on her incomparably beautiful face were several purple scales.

Su Qing suddenly knew what this was.

...

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