Wu Tao's pupils contracted as he witnessed this.
In the eyes of demonic cultivators, the value of this thousand-year-old Seven-Orifice Exquisite Demon Flower was not much less than that of a Longevity Fruit, which could increase one's lifespan.
A hundred-year-old Seven-Orifice Exquisite Demon Flower, when refined into the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Pill, could give demonic cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage a more than fifty percent chance to break through their bottlenecks.
A thousand-year-old Seven-Orifice Exquisite Flower, on the other hand, could give demonic cultivators at the Core Formation stage a ten percent chance to break through their bottlenecks.
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Later, disciples from the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect also presented their findings. Although their items were far inferior to this, they still numbered thirty to forty.
Among them were some rare and precious spiritual herbs, such as the eight-hundred-year-old Star Dew Immortal Flower Grass, the nine-hundred-year-old Fiery Yin Blood Marrow Spirit Ganoderma, the thousand-year-old Blood Red Yin Jujube, and the thirteen-hundred-year-old Yang Treasure Purple Ginseng...
The outer disciples of both sects who managed to survive the secret realm were all exceptionally skilled.
After this expedition into the secret realm, their wealth was naturally immeasurable.
However, this was only obtained after facing mortal danger and risking their lives.
The outer disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect were naturally not interested in the wealth of these outer disciples.
Even if this wealth was accumulated through murder, robbery, and all sorts of wicked deeds, no one would pursue it.
Of course, all precious spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines brought out from the Yellow Extreme Taiyi Secret Realm had to be handed over to their respective sects.
This was an ironclad rule in the sect regulations.
Once a disciple dared to violate it, they would undoubtedly face extremely brutal punishment: their physical body would be destroyed, their souls extracted, and they would never be able to reincarnate.
However, in return, the higher-ups of both sects would not let their disciples risk their lives for nothing.
Moreover, even if they thought so, the disciples would only outwardly comply, while still engaging in various underhanded tactics in secret.
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The sects also offered generous rewards to their disciples, ensuring that their efforts were not in vain.
Each spiritual herb and spiritual medicine would be awarded a certain number of sect contribution points based on its value.
These sect contribution points were valuable. Not only could they be exchanged for spirit stones, magical artifacts, powerful treasures, and resources, but they could also be exchanged for extremely rare unique secret arts, inherited cultivation techniques, and so on.
However, up to this point, there had been no shortage of disciples attempting to conceal spiritual herbs and medicines, but they were always discovered.
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The reason why disciples were caught concealing spiritual herbs and medicines was because the four elders leading the expedition each had a Dream-Eating Beast with them.
These peculiar fox-like beasts could detect any hidden spiritual medicine over a hundred years old within a thousand meters, even if it was stored in a spatial ring.
As for other secret techniques that could block the scent, they were not something that outer disciples at the Qi Refining stage could master.
Every time disciples emerged from the secret realm, after voluntarily handing over their spiritual herbs and medicines, they would be sniffed by these small beasts before they were allowed to leave.
This was to prevent any disciples with ulterior motives from smuggling spiritual herbs and medicines!
Next came the elite disciples of the two sects: Gu Yuemingzhi, Qiu Qianren, Long Ao Potian, Ying Feiyang, Nangong Tuohai, Zhang Wan'er, and six others.
They each took out the precious spiritual herbs and medicines they had obtained from their spatial rings, one by one.
"Look there!"
"What is this?"
"Could it be the legendary...?"
"I can't believe it."
Suddenly, these rare and precious Longevity Fruits appeared on the ground, and a few sharp-eyed individuals exclaimed!
These exclamations immediately drew everyone's attention, and then everyone began to cry out in astonishment.
This was truly earth-shattering, leaving those around them dumbfounded. Even the four outer elders felt a surge of greed, and a thought of killing them to silence them flashed through their minds.
After all, the existence of Longevity Fruits was of great use to these old fellows.
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Following this, the six of them took out a large number of spiritual herbs and medicines from their spatial rings.
At this point, the total gains of the outer disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect were very close.
Anyone could potentially win this bet.
This also made the atmosphere between the four outer elders even more tense.
Just then, it was Wu Tao's turn.
Wu Tao strode to the spot and unceremoniously flipped open his spatial ring. After a flash of golden light, a pile of spiritual herbs and medicines, seventy to eighty in number, along with over a hundred jade fruits and other items, filled the ground.
There was also the Longevity Fruit that had caused such a stir earlier.
Upon seeing the spiritual medicines at Wu Tao's feet, Elder Sun and Elder Han could not help but burst into laughter.
When Elder Sun and Elder Han realized their lapse in composure, they stopped laughing.
They looked at Wu Tao with smiling eyes, scrutinizing him from head to toe, finding him more and more pleasing to the eye.
Meanwhile, Wu Ku, the Poisonous Old Demon, had a dark expression, still unable to believe that he had lost like this.
His gaze towards Wu Tao was naturally filled with ill will.
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It turned out that at this very moment, the spiritual herbs and medicines Wu Tao had finally brought out...
Seemed to be the last straw that would win the bet in everyone's eyes.
Elder Sun and Elder Han naturally felt favorably towards Wu Tao, while Elder Wu and Elder Liu harbored a killing intent towards him.
Especially Wu Ku, known for his stinginess and ruthlessness, who was also the one who had placed the bet!
Wu Ku's cloudy eyes, filled with immense sharpness, stared at Wu Tao for a long time.
Finally, his expression turned cold, as if angered by Wu Tao's impudence in provoking him at this time.
Wu Ku waved his sleeve, and a stream of green poisonous mist shot towards Wu Tao.
He simply felt that Wu Tao had ruined his good deed and immediately desired to take Wu Tao's life.
He acted like a demonic cultivator, who believed that those who obeyed him prospered and those who defied him perished.
Because Wu Ku's actions were not subtle, Elder Sun immediately noticed Wu Ku's subtle movements. His expression darkened, and sword light flickered between his fingers.
A sword qi shot out, slicing the poisonous mist in half.
Elder Sun then chanted an incantation and used a wind-controlling spell to blow away the remaining poisonous mist completely.
Elder Han, standing beside him, also had an ashen face, his eyes burning with rage as he glared at Wu Ku.
Seeing this, Wu Ku turned his head and hummed a tune, acting as if nothing had happened.
His thick skin was simply unimaginable.
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Meanwhile, on Wu Tao's side.
At first, when Wu Tao saw the demonic cultivator at the Core Formation stage making a move against him, his heart instantly chilled.
He then instinctively reached into his spatial ring. Although he knew very well that the two elders nearby would not stand idly by, he would never entrust his life to others.
Having narrowly escaped death, Wu Tao naturally had a grim expression.
He stared intently at Wu Ku's old face for a long time, clenched his fists, and then returned to the ranks of the Taiyi Immortal Sect's outer disciples without a word.
Seeing that the junior seemed to harbor resentment, Wu Ku's eyes flashed with ferocity, and he prepared to bully the weak again and directly eliminate Wu Tao.
"Old Demon Wu, what are you doing! Are you going to attack a junior again and again?"
"When did you become so shameless?"
Elder Sun saw that Wu Ku's aura was fierce and clearly had no intention of stopping. He snorted coldly!
He took a step forward and stood in front of Wu Tao, saying with a stern face.
Now that Wu Tao had just rendered him a great service, he naturally could not let this junior be killed by the old demon Wu Ku in front of so many people.
Otherwise, wouldn't he lose all face?
Being spoken to by Elder Sun, Wu Ku realized that given his status, making repeated attempts to kill an outer disciple at the Qi Refining stage and failing to do so was already a serious misstep.
His fellow disciples might think he was soft-hearted and indecisive.
In the extremely brutal and ruthless world of demonic cultivation, this was not a good reputation.
"Heh heh, my Great Hypocrite Sun, don't change the subject. The disciples' spiritual herbs and medicines have all been inspected. Let's see who won this bet?"
Wu Ku chuckled and turned to speak.
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"Hmph hmph!" "Hmph hmph!"
Elder Sun snorted twice and no longer pursued the matter.
After all, it was not worth offending a cultivator of the same level for a disciple at the Qi Refining stage.
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Moreover, the outcome of the bet could now be determined.
There was no point in prolonging this farce.
It turned out that at this time, the outer disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Taiyi Immortal Sect had all taken out their harvests from the secret realm and piled them up on their respective sides.
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