Shocking! The female protagonist unlocked her powers by killing people!

Chapter 187 It Has Nothing to Do with Us

As they left the City Lord's Mansion, Ling asked Tianyan, "How many are there in the City Lord's Mansion combined?"

Tianyan said: [Combining yesterday's and today's total, there are 155 people, with 130 being valid participants, granting 13 unsealing attempts.]

After hearing what Tianyan said, Ling Yi was a little annoyed, because twenty-five of his malice points were not up to par.

Didn't she say that since they were going to kill her, couldn't they at least increase her malice level?

Just as Ling Yi remained silent, Tian Yan's voice rang out again: [The thirteen times, plus the thirty times accumulated on the way to Flower Dance City, currently bring the total number of unsealing attempts to forty-three.]

[01, these forty-three attempts can only unlock new skills. Unlocked skills cannot be upgraded without a source of spiritual energy.] Tianyan said: [The next time you unlock your body's strength, you need to reach the Spirit Saint level. You won't need these attempts for a while, so there's no need to save them up. You can try to find a source of spiritual energy or find a place to focus on cultivation.]

Focusing solely on cultivation isn't enough; she also needs to find fragments of the Spirit-Nourishing Pearl. However, she could keep an eye on the Otherworldly Spirit Source, since with it, fire-type skills could be upgraded once more.

"I understand," Ling Yi replied, then cut off the contact. Just then, Ye Qingshuang said, "Ling Yi, you're injured. I'll go rent a carriage to get somewhere."

It was inconvenient for Ling Yi to travel by herself.

Ling Yi shook his head: "My injury is fine. The carriage is too slow. Let's rent a flying beast and go directly to Lan Yue Imperial Capital?"

"Huh?" Ye Qingshuang was a little surprised to hear this: "You're not going to go to each city one by one?"

"Mm," Ling Yi replied.

Tianyan is right. You won't need too many attempts in a short time, and you can accumulate them during the search process, so there's no need to deliberately accumulate them for now.

Seeing that Ling Yi was certain, Ye Qingshuang was filled with curiosity. In the past, she would definitely have asked, but now... thinking of the big mess that Baijiu had recently been made of, Ye Qingshuang chose to just do as instructed and would definitely not ask out of curiosity!

The three went to the place to rent flying beasts, rented the best flying beasts, and then went to the capital of Lanyue.

...

Half a month later, the flying beast arrived in the capital, dropped off the three of them, and then left.

The three of them dismounted from the flying beast. Instead of rushing into the city, Ye Qingshuang looked at Ling Yi and said, "After we get to the capital, we need to gather information. Our appearances are likely to attract attention, so why don't we disguise ourselves?"

Ling Yi also wanted to save time looking for things, so she nodded: "Okay."

Seeing that Ling Yi agreed, Ye Qingshuang immediately took out her tools and began to apply the cream. When she finished, Ling Yi's originally beautiful appearance became ordinary. With this face, she could not be recognized at all when standing in a crowd.

After they had all disguised themselves, the three of them entered the capital. Once inside, they asked a vendor for directions to the busiest teahouse and went straight there. When they arrived, all the good seats in the main hall were taken, so they chose a table in the corner to sit down.

Because of the large number of guests, the teahouse lobby was extremely noisy. People came and went, chatting about the latest gossip in the capital, such as who got married to whom.

Where have spirit mines been discovered? Where have secret realms appeared? Or where has a disaster occurred?

It was quite lively.

Ling Yi picked up his teacup and took a sip, while Ye Qingshuang cracked melon seeds loudly. The three of them listened quietly without exchanging words, but after a while, they didn't hear anything useful. Ye Qingshuang put down her melon seeds and looked at the two of them: "Wait here for me for a moment."

After saying that, Ye Qingshuang got up and left without waiting for a response from the two of them.

Ling Yi looked up and saw Ye Qingshuang lingering here and there, going to whichever table had more people, and wandering around the lobby for quite a while before finally returning.

"Have you found out anything about the Otherworldly Spirit Source?" Bai Jiu asked impatiently as soon as Ye Qingshuang returned.

Ye Qingshuang shook her head, then looked at Ling Yi: "There's no news of the Otherworldly Spirit Source, and nothing strange has happened."

Ling Yi was not disappointed upon hearing this. Qizhou had six great empires, but the Spirit-Nourishing Pearl was only divided into four parts, so it was normal that there were empires but not all of them.

"Let's go." Ling Yi got up and walked outside.

Ye Qingshuang and Baijiu followed. As the three of them were about to leave the teahouse, they heard two men who had come in whisper, "This is really troublesome. Getting close to him is suicide."

"Yeah, several have died already, but the owner still won't give up. I don't know what he's thinking?"

“This is top-notch, I can understand the owner.” Another person replied, “There have been many good products in the past, but this is the first time I’ve seen something this good.”

“But it’s useless if we can’t get close to him.” The two walked past Ling Yi and the other two, saying as they went, “It would be better to just hand him over to the royal family and let them do what they want.”

"Giving it directly to the royal family would yield less..."

The two entered the teahouse, looked around the lobby, and when they saw an empty seat, one of them went over first, while the other ordered the waiter to serve tea.

Ye Qingshuang glanced at it, then looked away and said in a low voice, "On Lan Yue's side, those who say such things are all people, top-quality goods, extremely good-looking people."

Ling Yi wasn't interested and didn't respond, but Bai Jiu said, "Judging from their conversation, the person they captured is not someone to mess with."

"Even if he's not someone to be trifled with, he's been caught. I can't speak for other places, but Lan Yue is skilled at taming people. The person they're talking about probably won't last much longer." Ye Qingshuang sighed, "What a pity."

Ling glanced at her: "What's a pity?"

"It's a pity that such a beauty will soon be ruined." Ye Qingshuang said with a smile, "Ling Yi, you don't know, Lan Yue has very high aesthetic standards. For them, who are used to seeing beauties, to say that she is a top-notch beauty, she must be a stunning beauty who can topple kingdoms."

"Don't even mention being a beauty that could topple kingdoms or cities; even if she were the only one in heaven and earth, it wouldn't be relevant to us," Ling Yi said, walking towards a side alley.

Ye Qingshuang followed, asking, "What are you doing here?"

"Contact Lin Chengtian," Ling Yi said. "Ask him if anything strange has happened in the Yun Chuan Empire, so we don't make a wasted trip."

"I'll do it," Ye Qingshuang said, about to contact someone. Just then, a group of people ran past in the alley. Ye Qingshuang looked at the group and muttered, "What's going on?"

"Come and see! It's top-notch, absolutely top-notch!"

"Have the people at the Fengyue Auction House gone mad? How could they release such a rare find?"

"I heard that he was released because the young master was killed, and the master wanted to humiliate him so that he could avenge the young master!"

"I didn't expect it to be like this, but if even the people at the Fengyue Auction House can't do anything to him, can anyone else?"

"Who knows? Anyway, I can't go, so I'll just go and see what's going on."

"Me too."

There were quite a few such conversations. Ye Qingshuang put away the communication stone and looked at Ling Yi: "Why don't we go and join in the fun?"

Ling Yi looked at her: "Not in contact anymore?"

Ye Qingshuang grabbed Ling Yi's hand and shook it: "There's no rush, let's go."