But from this, Ji Yuan could already guess the spirit effect of the Level 5 [Chicken Cage]. One of the spirit effects was most likely the Five-Colored Spirit Egg.

There's three-colored and four-colored already, so there has to be a five-colored, right?

The effect should be to upgrade the quality of the Nascent Soul.

How are Nascent Souls graded in terms of quality, anyway?

Ji Yuan was a bit curious about that too.

As for Spirit Effect 1, that was kind of a standard upgrade, but at the same time, a little different—because the Spiritual Bird even got a mutation effect. It just didn't spell out the mutation direction like the [Fish Pond] did.

Otherwise Ji Yuan could've still dreamed about getting a true dragon from the [Fish Pond].

And a phoenix from the [Chicken Cage].

The good part was, the Level 4 [Chicken Cage] could also stack the effect of the current Level 3 [Chicken Cage]—breed a King of Birds, available for command. So even if the mutated Spiritual Birds couldn't fully recognize an owner, he should still be able to control them.

The upgrade requirements were a bit tough—a rigid requirement too: cultivation had to reach Golden Core. The Spirit Stones were actually fine.

The last one—the Soul-Eroding Ghost Willow—just sounded like a demon dao thing, probably just as hard to find as the Rotten Fire Yin Locust. All he could do was keep an eye out for it in the future.

[Chicken Cage] upgrade complete.

Ji Yuan had finally settled a major issue.

From now on, all he had to do was eat eggs in peace, then his strength would naturally go up on its own.

With that done, as Ji Yuan was about to head back to the [Enlightenment Room] to study his newly acquired divine skill, he suddenly heard a wail coming from the direction of Cloud Rain Marsh.

Immediately after, a frost-blue serpent burst out of the water, leaped up from the surface, whipped its tail a few times, and shot back onto Mist Island.

Ji Yuan eyed the Frost Serpent, whose scales were missing in patches all over. For a moment he was pretty surprised—was that Big Toad really so heavy-handed?

Even dragon-on-dragon fighting, and it swung that hard?

But he quickly realized it wasn't Big Toad's fault at all.

Because the guy was bruised blue and red all over, with a bleeding wound right on top of its head.

Big Toad was late Tier Two, but still got smacked like this by a Frost Serpent at early Tier Two?

Ji Yuan never thought Big Toad would hold back—demon beasts weren't that subtle-minded anyway. Frost Serpent went hard; Big Toad definitely went hard too.

So, once Frost Serpent broke through to mid-tier two, it should be able to go toe to toe with Big Toad.

As for now, Frost Serpent seemed to only be mid-tier two in terms of power.

Not bad at all though.

"Here, if you're injured, then eat a little extra."

Ji Yuan handed Frost Serpent a short ten drops of Ice Soul Cold Dew, then tossed ten Spirit Pigs to Big Toad.

Just like that, the freshly wounded duo perked right up again.

Big Toad snacked on the Spirit Pigs, eyeballs rolling non-stop; Ji Yuan waved his hand and said straight up, "Don't try to scam extra food off me. If you fight again, neither of you gets anything to eat."

Big Toad could only drop its head in disappointment.

Frost Serpent, on the other hand, scuttled off using all four limbs and finally burrowed straight into the [Fish Pond].

Ji Yuan warned it again—absolutely no sneaking snacks from the Spirit Fish inside.

The Spirit Fish in there were all Frost Serpent's reserves, after all.

Once their affairs were dealt with, Ji Yuan headed to the western forest, first releasing the bee swarm he'd taken out last time, letting them return to the [Beehive].

Ji Yuan swept through with divine sense and found that after his trip out, the Spirit-Devouring Bees had grown by several thousand.

At this breeding rate, these Spirit-Devouring Bees might end up really impressive.

After rewarding the swarm with 100 mid-grade Spirit Stones, Ji Yuan went over to the [Chaotic Burial Mound], dug a pit, and buried the Thousand Souls Banner and Yin Ghost Banner inside to let them soak up the yin energy.

He then took out Yin Tongzi's corpse, dug a nearby hole, and buried it.

Ji Yuan checked his current batch of corpse puppets.

Found that the number had grown from one to six—still, not a single Foundation Establishment Stage puppet, all of them just Qi Cultivation Stage. Not much use, really—just laborers.

After inspecting all the Mist Island buildings, Ji Yuan went back into the [Cave Mansion].

With all chores done, it was time to properly sort through the storage bag.

Ji Yuan wasn't into killing, but he did enjoy sorting through other people's storage bags.

That was a challenge in and of itself.

"Here, this one's my Senior Brother Ma's, and this is Yin Tongzi's."

Ji Yuan looked around and finally decided to check Yin Tongzi's storage bag first—the good stuff had to be saved for later enjoyment, after all.

Shang Dong's demon cultivators all lived with their heads hanging at their waists, so the Spirit Stones they had were all few. Whatever they managed to get, they immediately spent on boosting their power.

So even though Yin Tongzi was mid-stage Foundation Establishment demon cultivator—

He still didn't have much on him, just 176 mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Not even enough for Ji Yuan to feed the Spirit-Devouring Bees twice. Trash.

The remaining valuables were spiritual artifacts. Ji Yuan was rather interested in that bell he had.

The stun effect on that thing was pretty strong—even Ji Yuan had gotten caught off guard by it.

The bell was a mid-grade spiritual artifact. Looked like it was made from a baby's skull, bound with bronze chains.

Just holding it, Ji Yuan could feel powerful resentment radiating from the bell.

Refine, got to refine.

"Seven Calamities Infant Cry Bell. When rung, it emits a piercing baby's wail, can disrupt cultivators below late-stage Foundation Establishment for three breaths."

After detecting it carefully, Ji Yuan realized it really was a good item.

So with this, his demon cultivator toolkit just got even more stacked, and the best part—he could even use it while in righteous mode if he wanted, right?

All he'd have to do was silence witnesses afterward.

Ji Yuan pulled out Yin Tongzi's flying spiritual artifact next—a skull-head, spewing thick smoke wherever it flew.

That left a pretty deep impression.

Didn't expect it to also be a mid-grade spiritual artifact—the nice part was its near-instant short-range burst speed.

For regular flying, it was actually weaker than average mid-grade artifacts.

Ji Yuan planned to compare it with Senior Brother Ma's flying spiritual artifact later; if that was better, this one could just be sold off.

The rest, just a low-grade spiritual artifact level protective magical robe.

Got torn open by Ji Yuan's sword embryo in the last fight, so it was slightly damaged—another one for the vendor pile.

When it came to spiritual artifacts, demon cultivators really did have way more stuff than righteous cultivators. A normal mid-stage Foundation Establishment guy couldn't afford three spiritual artifacts, not to mention two of them being mid-grade.

No talisman treasures, just a few ordinary talismans.

Same story with elixirs—not even a Foundation Establishment Pill. Ji Yuan muttered "broke ass!" at least several times in annoyance.

Finally, there was a secret technique.

Ji Yuan rummaged around some more, and actually dug up something nice.

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