Chapter three hundred and ninety-ninth: the temptation of human spirits
"The king is also interested in these human monks?"
The hippopotamus demon, who didn't notice Lin Mo's strangeness, saw Lin Mo staring at the human monk next to him and said with interest.
"Yes, but at your price I'm afraid it's hard for me to afford it."
Lin Mo suppressed his anger to prevent himself from showing any signs of abnormality. He lowered his head and looked at the hippopotamus calmly.
He had already seen the introduction to human monks on the list just now. Even the cheapest human monks need one purple wood, and the sky-high price of fifty yellow wood.
With his current value, even if he could buy back one or two of them, it would be a drop in the bucket.
"Then I can't make the decision. After all, it is difficult for our Demon Court to obtain extremely scarce flesh and blood resources like human monks on a large scale."
The hippo demon whispered regretfully and helplessly.
These humans, who once occupied more than 70% of the space of Blue Star and were at the top of the biological chain, still guarded many areas with their solid city walls and those powerful strange demon soldiers after the rise of the spiritual retrospect demon soul.
Even powerful demon courts like Zhaoshui Demon Court, which is among the top ten demon courts, can only ambush and hunt human monks who go to the wild.
"The Zhaoshui Demon Court must have its own unique method for capturing so many human monks."
Following the hippopotamus demon's words, Lin Mo looked at it with deep eyes and chuckled.
"It seems that your Majesty has been concentrating on practicing deep in the mountains. This method of seducing human monks has long been a well-known secret among some big forces."
Hearing Lin Mo's inquiry, the hippo demon glanced at the blond tiger demon in surprise.
Unexpectedly, this tiger demon, as a king of an upper-class and medium-sized force, did not understand these things.
"Our king has been concentrating on digesting the first gain of bloodline before, and does not understand these things."
Hu Ao, who was behind Lin Mo, stepped out to explain to Lin Mo.
"I see. I didn't expect that just in the initial gain of bloodline, the king would be able to raise his realm to the middle stage of Nine Truths."
The hippo demon looked at Lin Mo in surprise. You must know that after every demon soul awakens its bloodline, its power will soar for a period of time.
This is the additional training gain obtained by awakening the bloodline for the first time. During this period, the demon soul devouring flesh and blood, and the spiritual plant cultivating demonic energy will be improved several times.
The length of this period of time depends on the bloodline awakened by the demon soul itself.
Generally, ordinary demon souls only have a short period of one week, and most of their strength can only be improved to around the third or fourth level of spiritual enlightenment.
The spirit-level bloodline will give the demon soul a one-month improvement period, allowing the demon soul's strength to be generally raised to the fifth or sixth level.
The time provided by the famous bloodline is as long as half a year. The great spirit realm demon of the Mountain Demon Court, the Spirit King of Hatoyama, raised his strength to the peak of Nine Truths in one fell swoop during the bloodline promotion period.
It took another half a year to finally break through the shackles between Qi Ling and the spirit body.
If this monster hadn't said anything nonsense, the tiger monster in front of it had only cultivated to the level of the middle stage of the Nine Truths during the bloodline promotion period.
According to this speculation, the blood quality of this tiger demon will be at least mid-grade.
Thinking of this, most of the arrogance on the hippo demon's face had melted away like the white snow in spring, and was replaced by a look of respect.
"If the king doesn't mind, I can explain it to the king."
"That would be troublesome."
Although he didn't understand why the hippopotamus demon's attitude changed again, Lin Mo was very interested in this method that all the big forces knew about.
"It has been more than a year and a half since the demon soul consciously started recording the spiritual power back date."
"During this period, the demon soul also gained a preliminary understanding of human activities and purposes."
"In the so-called Eastern Province of mankind, humans and demon souls have already had a frictional war. Although we demon souls were narrowly defeated due to the machinations of humans and the targeting of those strange demon soldiers."
"But we also discovered some patterns in human activity."
The hippo demon spoke impassionedly, with a generous, pitted hippo face that was sometimes serious and sometimes indignant.
"Even if those humans have strong cities, they will take the initiative to leave the city and enter the wild forest."
"And most of their targets are the natural treasures growing in the forest and the strange monster spirits in the wild."
Seeing Lin Mo thoughtfully, the hippopotamus demon once again poured out all the inside information he knew and what he had heard from hearsay.
It turns out that after the first frictional war between the demon spirits and humans in the Eastern Province failed, the demonic forces in the major mountains, lakes, ice fields, deserts and other places in the Eastern Province began to contact each other.
Gradually, a rudimentary power territory was formed, among which the powerful demon soul forces that could lead a party even had the right to open a Ten Thousand Demon Gathering.
The Xulong Mountain Monster Clan is one of them.
After that, many demon soul forces used natural resources, materials, and rare demon souls to set up ambushes and hunt down the demon hunting teams that went into the wild to experience, thus forming dozens of simple and effective seduction methods.
"Lure, set up an ambush..."
Lin Mo felt sad but helpless. This method seemed simple and clear, but those demon hunting teams just did the same thing.
After all, for these demon hunting teams who are out hunting, no one can tolerate precious spiritual plants and demon souls slipping away from them.
What's more, these demon spirits have extended this simple method of seduction and evolved dozens of different methods of seduction.
Let the tree demon with spiritual fruit appear on the road that the human team must pass, and use two high-quality spiritual-level bloodline demon souls to fight with each other, etc., so that the demon hunting team that goes out for hunting will be hard to guard against.
After briefly learning about some of the seduction techniques among demon souls from the hippopotamus demon, Lin Mo's eyes flickered, and he secretly decided to ask Hu Ao to write down all these techniques to form a booklet.
Then large-scale printing was carried out in the name of Yu Zhenxuan, and of course he would not be so holy.
You don’t need to pay too much for each booklet, just one hundred spiritual power is enough.
"Your Majesty, the cell ahead is where your goods are stored."
Leading Lin Mo towards a tunnel in the middle of the area, the hippo demon waved away the little guard demon who was guarding the door, and then opened the iron lock with his own hands.
In the empty prison, a chain engraved with ritual inscriptions extending to the pool on the left side of the prison.
In the center of the pool, a giant blue-purple conch swayed gently in the water. Sensing the vibration of the iron door opening, the conch subconsciously rolled to the corner at the end of the chain and couldn't help but tremble.
"Hmph, you mean thing dares to hide."
The hippopotamus snorted coldly and stared at the water with a fierce face. Then he strode to the stone pillar where the chains were tied, picked up the chain next to it and pulled hard. The sacrificial demon inscriptions glowed dazzlingly red under the stimulation of the demon's energy.