Chapter 159

Chapter 159: Gains

Zhou Luo sat cross-legged on the giant rock, first pulling out Liu Fu Chen’s storage ring from his backpack.

"I hope there are good items inside," he thought privately.

To kill this opponent, he had exhausted all his spiritual symbols, and the amount of potion and spiritual stones consumed was truly unknown.

If he couldn’t recoup the losses, he really would have died of anger.

He extended his mental strength, beginning to inspect the storage ring.

The items inside dazzled the eye, a feast for the senses.

Zhou Luo first discovered over eighty ordinary spiritual stones, plus ten medium-quality spiritual stones.

No wonder he was at the ninth level of Qi Refinement—this guy carried quite a lot of stones.

Just these ten medium-quality spiritual stones were enough to cover the consumption of those spiritual symbols.

But this still fell far short, considering the losses in potions and treasure.

Zhou Luo continued his search.

Aside from the short blue flag magical artifact Liu Fu Chen had used, Zhou Luo found several flying swords, three broadswords, and a handful of other magical artifacts.

These artifacts emitted relatively weak energy fluctuations; at best, they seemed to be mid-grade magical artifacts.

Seeing so many magical artifacts puzzled Zhou Luo.

Was this guy selling weapons?

After all, what normal person would carry so many magical artifacts?

Loading up on talismans and potions would make more sense.

Something like magical artifacts—a few for self-defense should be enough.

Other than artifacts, there was also a pile of potions.

Most of these were medium-grade potions—some replenished spiritual energy, others enhanced combat ability.

A shame that under the treasure’s might, he kicked the bucket before having a chance to use them.

Besides medium-grade potions, Zhou Luo also discovered five bottles of upper-level pills and one bottle of top-quality potion.

"It’s actually the Gathering Spirit Potion!"

Zhou Luo’s eyes brightened as he gazed at the bottle of top-quality potion.

This was a true treasure for breaking through cultivation barriers.

Likely, he was saving this for his Foundation Establishment breakthrough. But now—it was mine.

With this bottle of Gathering Spirit Potion, he might advance to the sixth layer of Qi Refinement before returning home.

This pile of potions already ensured he recouped all his losses.

Delight spread through him as he examined the remaining items.

Other than the Gathering Spirit Potion, the old man also carried fifteen medium-quality talismans, five upper-level symbols, and one top-quality symbol named the "Vajra Pestle."

Though this talisman bore a magical artifact’s name.

But it was not a treasure.

Generally, treasures required the assistance of magical artifacts to be drawn.

And this Vajra Pestle was at most a high-grade magical artifact, whose explosive power could not be compared with treasures at all.

Presumably, Liu Fu Chen also saw that it was not something to fear, so he did not use these talismans.

This actually allowed Zhou Luo to gain a huge profit.

The only regret was that there were no items related to arrays.

Instead, Zhou Luo found several ancient jade slips on weapon refining.

Upon seeing these, Zhou Luo only then realized that the other party was actually a weapon refiner.

No wonder there were so many magical artifacts in the storage bag.

Zhou Luo gathered all those ancient books into his possession.

Among the four major skills of cultivation, he had only weapon refining left unmastered.

Although he could rely on the system lottery, in his free time, he could also study it himself.

Who knew? Perhaps he might enter its threshold someday?

Apart from these, Zhou Luo also discovered a pile of natural treasures.

Most of these were used for weapon refining, but among them, Zhou Luo found one extremely important treasure.

"Sky Spiritual Fruit!"

Zhou Luo’s expression changed dramatically.

Wasn’t this one of the three main ingredients for refining Foundation Establishment Dan?

Refining Foundation Establishment Dan required the three main ingredients and thirty-one auxiliary herbs.

The three main ingredients were Dragon Blood Grass, Sky Spiritual Fruit, and Jade Spirit Mushroom.

These three main ingredients had always been extremely scarce in the market.

Many cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refinement were delayed in making a breakthrough precisely due to the lack of main ingredients.

After all, those thirty-one auxiliary herbs could be bought on the market, but only these three main ingredients were too precious, unable to be cultivated, making them difficult to purchase.

Liu Fu Chen had probably sought this main ingredient just for Foundation Establishment Dan.

With Sky Spiritual Fruit, if he could just find Dragon Blood Grass, then for Foundation Establishment Dan, only the final Jade Spirit Mushroom remained.

Zhou Luo felt immensely encouraged.

Though he was only at the fifth layer of Qi Refinement now, he would break through someday.

If he could gather the potions before the breakthrough, once he became a second level Pill Master, he could step into Foundation Establishment.

Worth it!

So worth it!

Just finding this Sky Spiritual Fruit made Zhou Luo feel all previous losses were worthwhile.

Gathering his thoughts, Zhou Luo continued to investigate.

He found several more cultivation manuals, all about collecting yin to supplement yang and collecting yang to supplement yin.

These dark arts manuals were not what Zhou Luo needed.

Because while this dark art did not cause much harm to oneself, it would drain the vitality of the dual cultivation partner.

Zhou Luo was on a path of having many descendants, not of gaining strength by draining the vitality of dual cultivation partners.

What he wanted was the legitimate dual cultivation technique of the Hehuan Sect.

Only that way, when engaging in intimate relations, it would not damage his Pure Yang essence, and could even promote his partner’s cultivation, achieving mutual benefit.

However, Zhou Luo did not destroy these manuals.

Because besides the dark arts of collecting yin to supplement yang and collecting yang to supplement yin, they also recorded ways to enhance combat power and restore essence and Pure Yang.

This problem had troubled him for a long time.

Now, he finally had a solution.

Putting away the manuals, Zhou Luo looked at the last item in the storage ring.

It was an envelope letter, emitting a hazy glow; he could not clearly make out what was written on it.

Even when Zhou Luo extended his mental strength, it was of no use.

It seemed as if the entire envelope letter was blocked by an unknown force.

Though unknown what it was, he instinctively felt it was definitely extraordinary!

He put it away without hesitation.

Liu Fu Chen’s storage ring had been basically fully searched.

One could say it was a rewarding haul!

In a cheerful mood, Zhou Luo turned his gaze to the storage bags of the other Hehuan Sect disciples.

Compared to Liu Fu Chen, the things on these guys were obviously much worse.

Whether potions or spiritual symbols, they were all of the low-level kind.

Zhou Luo roughly estimated that with more than twenty storage bags altogether, they were worth only about fifteen medium-quality spiritual stones.

The only thing that comforted Zhou Luo was Wang Tong’s storage bag.

This guy, after being entangled by the vines, had still not escaped the ice-snow domain of the Cold Ice Spear.

In his storage bag, Zhou Luo plundered a pile of good items, including his top-grade sword and a top-grade robe.

The Moon-white Robe that Wang Xian had gifted him was already ruined, so Zhou Luo simply changed into this green top-grade robe.

As for that top-grade sword, he intended to sell it all at the market later.

Indeed, this successful escape was an opportunity for Zhou Luo.

He did not plan to return directly to Jiang City, but decided to go to the market in the Longfeng Mountain range to dispose of the stolen goods, and meanwhile continue alone to search for clues of the Dragon Blood Grass and the dual cultivation technique.

Previously, the reason he had traveled with Wang Yu Wei and Lin Xin was mainly because he lacked a reason to leave the Lin Family.

After all, he knew his own capabilities; even though the two women’s cultivation was higher, it wasn’t sufficient for him to rely on their aid.

Now with fewer burdens, it suited him perfectly.

Just as Zhou Luo finished storing everything into the storage ring and prepared to leave,

his mind suddenly stirred, and he snapped his gaze towards the dense forest east of him.

He saw a thin figure emerge, glancing around as if searching for something.

Zhou Luo immediately recognized the Law Enforcement Hall uniform worn by the figure.

In that instant, his eyes turned icy cold, and a chill ran through him.

"Why is someone from the Law Enforcement Hall here?"