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Chapter 552: Nail-headed Arrow
Chapter 552: Nail-headed Arrow
Half a day later, Lu Chen paused in his tracks and casually disposed of a meddlesome demon beast.
By now, he was quite far from where he had slain Chen Luo and the other man.
He swept his spiritual sense over the surrounding area to confirm that nothing was amiss before retrieving the two storage bags he had obtained.
Forcing his way through the simple restrictions on the bags' surfaces, he took out their contents one by one.
"'Annotations of a Hundred Beasts'..."
From Chen Luo's storage bag, a pale yellow ancient tome slowly floated out and presented itself before him.
Lu Chen flipped through a few pages casually. The book contained detailed information on hundreds of high-ranking and rare demon beasts.
It included information on breeding methods, precautions, innate talents, and defects of the beasts.
"This is much more detailed and informative than the demon beast manuals I've seen in the Scripture Pavilion before."
Lu Chen was delighted. As someone who had tamed quite a few spirit beasts, he found the knowledge in the "Annotations of a Hundred Beasts" immensely beneficial.
"That Chen senior brother wanted to take that fake beast-taming manual from me, but who would've thought that I'd end up with this instead?"
Lu Chen couldn't help but smirk at the irony.
He continued inspecting the contents of the storage bag.
There was a fourth-grade flying sword, which, although not cultivated from the Sword Grass in the Sword Hall, bore the unmistakable style of the sect. Lu Chen recognized it immediately.
There were also numerous records of demon beast experiments, indicating that Chen Luo had been attempting to induce mutations in demon beast bloodlines to create new, high-grade beasts.
Additionally, there were over two hundred medium-grade spirit stones, several low-grade spirit stones, and several bottles of pills for restoring spiritual energy and healing wounds, all of which Lu Chen happily accepted.
Lastly, there was a round and pitch-black demon beast egg. Lu Chen probed it with his spiritual sense and roughly determined that it belonged to a common fourth-grade demon beast.
"These guys were like arsonists and murderers with golden belts. Killing a single cultivator nets you so many cultivation resources. No wonder there are so many people in the cultivation world who enjoy killing and looting."
Lu Chen mused to himself.
"However, aside from the spirit stones and pills, the rest of Chen Luo's possessions bear his personal mark to some extent. I can keep the 'Annotations of a Hundred Beasts' and the demon beast experiment records, but I must be careful not to let my fellow sect members see them."
"As for the flying sword and other artifacts, as well as the demon beast egg, I can sell them off at the black market."
He then turned his attention to the body cultivator's storage bag.
There was an array disc inside. With Lu Chen's rudimentary knowledge of arrays, he could only vaguely identify it as a fourth-grade array.
There were also a large number of body-tempering balms, spiritual liquids, and several pills.
A huge pile of demon beast materials, all of which were high-grade and could be exchanged for a substantial amount of spirit stones.
Over three hundred medium-grade spirit stones and several low-grade ones.
"With just the spirit stones, these two guys have brought me more than sixty thousand. Truly, good fellow sect members, good fellow cultivators."
Lu Chen thought to himself.
The other artifacts, materials, and pills were also worth a significant amount, befitting of a cultivator at the perfect Foundation Establishment stage.
He consolidated the contents of the two storage bags and then focused on patrolling the surrounding area.
During his flight, he kept Black Star City as his center of activity, staying in the outer regions and refraining from entering the Black Devil Abyss.
Half a month later, estimating that the task deadline was approaching, Lu Chen returned to Black Star City.
In the following days, he had ample opportunity to rest. He stayed in the small courtyard, peacefully cultivating his spirit plants and practicing his cultivation techniques.
During this time, when the black market opened again, he took advantage of the Thousand Soul Mask and the Clearwing Feather Robe to disguise his appearance and aura, successfully selling off a large batch of confiscated treasures and obtaining hundreds of medium-grade spirit stones, greatly increasing his wealth.
On the streets of Black Star City.
A slender middle-aged cultivator with a sharp aura slowly walked out of the Golden Battle Pavilion.
He had only come to clear out his excess demonic beast materials and replenish his supply of pills. With his business concluded, he made his way back to his residence.
Unbeknownst to him, high in the sky above, a slender fissure would occasionally appear, revealing a grayish-white eye that darted about swiftly before vanishing into the void.
The appearance of the Void Nightmare Eye was exceedingly subtle, and being a fifth-grade artifact, it could enter the void in an instant, leaving no one aware of its presence.
The grayish-white eye followed Zhou Qi all the way back to his abode, its gaze devoid of emotion as it seemed to see through everything below.
"I've been tailing him for so long, and there's been no sign of anything amiss. I can afford to relax my guard against this Brother Zhou Qi."
In the small courtyard, Lu Xuan gazed at the tiny scene projected by the eye in his palm, a scene reduced countless times in size. He clenched his fist and sighed.
Ever since he had returned, Lu Xuan had suspected that Zhou Qi might have leaked his task details to Chen Luo. So, he had secretly kept an eye on Zhou Qi using the Void Nightmare Eye, but even after a month, he had found nothing amiss.
"It seems Brother Zhou didn't expect Chen Luo to turn on his fellow sect members, so he told him about my task."
"Makes sense. I'm just a mid-tier Foundation Establishment spiritual herbologist. One peak Foundation Establishment senior brother would be more than enough to deal with me, let alone two. That would be overkill."
Lu Xuan mused aloud.
He discreetly retracted the Void Nightmare Eye and made his way into the small courtyard to check on the various spiritual herbs in his little spirit field.
The over two hundred water sprite grass plants were thriving, their deep blue, slender leaves intertwined and dotted with flickering lights, like countless stars twinkling in the night sky.
Lu Xuan's spiritual power stirred, and the clouds above the water cattail shifted, sending down a gentle rain that silently merged with the plants.
Then, a verdant spell descended upon a large patch of aquatic grass, and under the influence of the Wood Birth Technique, a peak-tier technique, the grass became even more vibrant.
"One of the arrow vines has matured."
Lu Xuan's consciousness focused on one of the arrow vines, and he noticed that the translucent progress bar below it was fully filled.
Among the four arrow vines, one was a seedling brought back from the new blessed land by a sect member and acquired by Lu Xuan, while the other three were spiritual seeds dug up by the Ghost Vine during their exploration of the new blessed land. Now, the seedling had fully matured.
Lu Xuan plucked the spiritual herb and focused his consciousness on it.
[Fourth-grade mutated arrow vine. Affected by unknown flesh and blood power, it has mutated and absorbed a large amount of arrow spirit energy during its growth. It can be used like a magic weapon, instantly releasing arrows of different shapes and functions. When faced with a strong enemy, it can trigger a barrage of arrows, capable of injuring or even killing mid-to-late Foundation Establishment cultivators.]
[After the arrows are released, they can be replenished with wood spirit energy and condensed again.]
"An offensive spiritual herb with a simple activation method. It can be used to guard the spirit field and can be taught to the Grass Puppet and the Cave Spirit Beast."
Lu Xuan mused, his gaze falling on the white light group that had quietly appeared.
He gently touched the surface of the light group, and it turned into countless tiny light spots that flowed into his body.
A thought emerged.
[Harvested a fourth-grade mutated arrow vine and obtained a fifth-grade treasure, the Nail-headed Arrow.]
(End of Chapter)
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