In fact, Zhou Hong was right. Before the Soul Locking Grass became a spirit, it was already a very rare spiritual medicine. After it became a spirit, its abilities were even more formidable, truly surpassing most demonic artifacts.
Zhou Hong felt that he absolutely had to subdue her. Moreover, after she transformed into human form, she was so beautiful. Zhou Hong saw no reason to leave her in the mountains to fend for herself.
"Do you have a name?" Zhou Hong asked, unable to keep calling her the Soul Locking Spirit forever.
"Si Teng and the others call me Suo Suo."
Zhou Hong immediately clapped his hands and praised, "What a good name! It's the best name I've ever heard. From now on, I'll call you Suo Suo. I didn't expect you to be so beautiful, and your name is so lovely."
Suo Suo snorted and said, "You humans are so good at saying things that please us. But I always feel like you're trying to trick me."
"Heh heh!" Zhou Hong chuckled sheepishly. This Soul Locking Spirit really said whatever came to mind.
"But I like it. You make me feel very comfortable looking at you," the spirit confessed her liking for Zhou Hong without reservation. Su Dan Fiction Network
"Of course. In our human world, many women like me," Zhou Hong said with a proud expression.
"Really?"
"Of course. Many women even fought over me."
"Oh, oh, no wonder I feel so comfortable looking at you."
"By the way, you mentioned Grandma Black Vine and her granddaughter Si Teng. Are they here too?"
"Of course not. They are quite far from me, thousands of kilometers away."
"So far away."
"What's that? It's just a little bit."
Zhou Hong nodded and said, "Then what level of spirit are they? Are they spirits that have existed for thousands of years?"
"Of course not. Si Teng, like me, just recently became a spirit. She also spent millions of years. Her grandmother, Black Vine, is the same. They are rare ancient Black Vines in the world. In the past, many human powerhouses came here looking for them, but unfortunately, no one found them. I heard that one of their ancestors, a spirit, once became a god, someone all of us plants greatly desired. Later, for some unknown reason, that spirit perished."
"Wow, I didn't expect the world of plants to be so exciting!"
"If you want to meet them, I can guide you. However, I'm afraid Grandma Black Vine will be angry because she dislikes all humans. She always says that humans are all bad, especially men, and you are a man."
Zhou Hong was speechless for a moment. He chuckled and said, "Could this Grandma Black Vine have been hurt by a man before?"
"I don't know about that, but she did travel to the human world when she was young."
"Then it must be. She was definitely hurt by some man. But it's a shame, not every man is like that. At least I'm not."
"Really!"
"Of course. I will protect the girls I like with my life, including female spirits!" Zhou Hong deliberately added "female spirits," though his intentions were unclear. Fortunately, this Soul Locking Spirit was simple-minded and didn't understand anything.
"Then I'm relieved. I'll take you to see Si Teng another day. She'll probably feel comfortable seeing you too."
"Heh heh." Zhou Hong secretly wondered how beautiful this Si Teng was.
"Alright, open your hands."
Zhou Hong quickly opened his hands, and the Soul Locking Spirit poured out small green pills from her palm, one by one.
"What is this?"
"This is the essence of our Soul Locking Grass. You said you had a use for it, so I'm giving it to you. One of these pills is equivalent to at least ten thousand years of Soul Locking Grass."
Zhou Hong looked at the twenty to thirty pills in his palm. With these, he could refine countless puppets.
"Thank you, thank you so much."
"You're welcome."
"However, will this harm your body?" Zhou Hong asked with some reluctance.
"Don't worry, such a small amount won't harm my main body."
"Then I'm relieved." Zhou Hong chuckled.
"Someone's coming!" Just then, the Soul Locking Spirit suddenly tensed up, as if sensing something.
"Zhou Hong, I can't talk to you anymore. Someone's coming."
After saying that, the Soul Locking Spirit immediately burrowed into the ground and disappeared.
Zhou Hong immediately sensed the surroundings. Indeed, tens of kilometers away, there were traces of human activity.
In less than ten seconds, four humans arrived not far in front of Zhou Hong. Their speed was so fast that their strength seemed considerable.
Seeing Zhou Hong, the four immediately looked at him with extreme vigilance.
Zhou Hong also observed the four. Three of them were fifth-grade Demon Kings, and the strongest was a sixth-grade Demon King. Of course, they could also be Immortal Kings, as the titles "Demon King" and "Immortal King" were merely different appellations.
"Are you a spirit?" one of the Demon Kings asked Zhou Hong, mistaking him for a spirit.
"No, I'm a cultivator. Who are you?" Zhou Hong quickly denied it. He would be quite frustrated if they killed him thinking he was a spirit.
"Kid, you're not also here to find spirits, are you!"
"What spirits?" Zhou Hong feigned ignorance, but he already suspected that the Soul Locking Spirit might have been exposed.
"Kid, don't think you can hide from our eyes. In this area, someone has seen a spirit who transformed into human form. That's not all; this spirit is said to be a spirit of millions of years. If you weren't looking for this spirit, how could someone with such weak strength appear here?"
"Oh, I came here with my master to pick immortal herbs," Zhou Hong immediately lied. His current cultivation level was fourth-grade Demon Master. Normally, such a weak Demon Master wouldn't dare to come alone to such a deep part of the Immortal-Demonic Mountain Range, so Zhou Hong's lie was perfectly fitting.
"Master?" As expected, the group's eyebrows furrowed slightly. Hearing that Zhou Hong had a master, they were hesitant to act rashly.
"Yes, my master told me to wait for him here. He'll be back soon."
"What's your master's strength? What is he doing here?"
"My master is a ninth-grade Immortal King. He brought me here, saying he was looking for some spiritual medicine. Whether he's specifically looking for spiritual medicine, I can't guarantee."
"Ninth-grade Immortal King?" The group was half-skeptical, but seeing Zhou Hong's calm and unruffled demeanor, it didn't seem like he was lying.
If there really was a master at the ninth-grade Immortal King level, they wouldn't dare to do anything to Zhou Hong.
"Big brother, is this kid telling the truth?" asked one of the fifth-grade Demon Kings.
"I don't know, but he doesn't seem to be lying. After all, a fourth-grade Demon Master like him wouldn't have come this deep alone. Anyone who dares to enter this depth must be at least at the Demon King level. Moreover, a spirit of millions of years has appeared here before. It's likely that people from the Immortal Realm also know about it, so it's not surprising they'd come here to search."