Beauty and the Bodyguard

"Don\'t think about all this nonsense. Tell me first, are you going to release her or not?" Lin Yi asked.

"Release him?" After saying these two words, the ghostly thing suddenly stopped talking.

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Yi frowned at the silence.

"Let me ask you something ..." The ghastly thing suddenly said.

"What?" Lin Yi asked.

"It\'s nothing ... Never mind. " That damn thing stopped asking.

"What do you mean?" Lin Yi asked, confused.

"I can let you go, but you have to agree to one condition." That damned thing suddenly stated its conditions.

"Why should I agree to your conditions?" Lin Yi asked.

"Just like you said, even if you want to fight to the death, you can\'t kill me in a short time, and I can\'t kill you. Although you can keep recovering your strength and true Qi, it will take you some time to kill me." The demonic thing said slowly,"although I\'m afraid of your alchemy fire, which will consume the energy of my primordial spirit, you can\'t kill me in a short time. In any case, I only have a few more decades to live and die. A few years won\'t make a difference. If you don\'t agree to my conditions, we\'ll fight to the death!" I believe that you can recover your strength and true Qi, but your friends and this one in front of you won\'t live long if they don\'t eat. By the time you win, you\'ll have to leave by yourself, and your friends will all be dead. "

"..." Lin Yi was speechless, but he didn\'t doubt the thing\'s words. There was no need for the thing to lie to Lin Yi, and the fact that it was honest with Lin Yi proved that it wanted to negotiate with him.

"Moreover, if you agree to my conditions, I will give you some good things as a reward." Lin Yi didn\'t say anything, so the thing started trying to lure him in. Those things were basically trash to it anyway, so it might as well take them out to do him a favor.

"What is it?" Lin Yi asked after some thought.

"Come with me, I\'ll take you to see." The ghastly thing said.

"Alright!" Lin Yi nodded in agreement. He was able to form a refinement fire now, so he wasn\'t afraid of this thing lying to him. Plus, it seemed like this thing needed his help, so he couldn\'t joke about this.

With that, the thing floated forward, with Lin Yi and Xinyan following closely behind. Xinyan\'s eyes were still empty, as if she was possessed, but Lin Yi was relieved-the thing probably didn\'t mean her any harm for now.

He walked for about four to five hundred meters-it wasn\'t very far, but the scene before him was completely different. In theory, he should\'ve been able to see what was going on here from where he was, but Lin Yi couldn \'t. It was obvious that the environment here was under the control of the ghostly thing, and it used some sort of camouflage spell.

"It\'s here. " The ghastly thing said calmly.

Lin Yi walked over and lowered his head to find a skeleton on the ground. The body had rotted a long time ago, and there was a small bag next to the skeleton. He didn\'t know what material the bag was made of, but it wasn\'t rotten at all.

"Is this it?" Lin Yi pointed at the bag on the floor.

"That\'s right, this was a cultivator who accidentally barged into this place to steal something. I killed him, and this is his relic. " The ghastly thing said.

"Oh? A relic?" Lin Yi bent down and opened the bag. Inside, he saw two things. One was a huge spirit beast core. He could feel the huge amount of energy in the core the moment he touched it!

The amount of energy contained in this was simply unbelievable. It was much, much more than the spirit beast cores Lin Yi had obtained before. This made Lin Yi extremely surprised,"Spirit beast inner core?"

"Not bad!" The ghastly thing said proudly,""This is what he stole from me. This inner core ... Oh, you just need to know that it\'s not an ordinary inner core. Keep it, it\'s of great use. Don\'t waste it so easily!"

"Oh?" Lin Yi wanted to collect them and make an Essence Necklace with the cores of the other spirit beasts, but this thing seemed to be a great treasure-Lin Yi hesitated!

"Is it a waste to use it to make an Essence Necklace?" Lin Yi asked.

"What a waste!" The ghostly thing seemed to be very angry after hearing this.""The essence Necklace only needs five inner cores of heaven rank spiritual beasts!"

Lin Yi took in a cold breath- "Only" five inner cores of heaven rank spiritual beasts? Why did it sound like the inner core of a heaven rank spiritual beast was not worth much? This also indirectly reflected a problem-the beast core in Lin Yi\'s hands was definitely above Sky Class. What level was the beast?

"Alright, don\'t ask so much. You don\'t need it for the time being, just keep it." The ghostly thing didn\'t seem to want to explain too much to Lin Yi.

"Alright ..." Lin Yi nodded.

"This Sky Class late phase peak is a pauper, and there\'s only a map fragment in his bag-I don\'t know if it\'s valuable to you." The ghostly thing pointed at the small bag on the ground and continued.

"Ah? Sky Class late phase peak? You killed him?" Lin Yi looked at the bones on the ground, his heart in pain. If he didn\'t use his fire to suppress this thing, he really wouldn\'t be worth much in its eyes.

"Yes, he\'s dead, but he\'s a pauper," "This is it," the ghostly thing said."Take a look and see if it\'s okay. If it\'s okay, then promise me one thing!"

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment before quietly looking for a map fragment in the bag. He was surprised when he saw it! Lin Yi was very familiar with this map fragment-he even had two of them in his house!

This map fragment should be the same type as the one he got from the common house Yu auction and the one he got from the shark\'s belly! He didn\'t expect to find another one here!

It was just that Lin Yi didn\'t know what use the map had, but since the common house Yu valued it so much, it must have some value. (