Chapter 114: Heart-to-Heart

After Great-Grandmother bid farewell to the various Golden Core True Persons, she released the treasure ship that Lin Zhangqing and the others had taken when they came. The Qingyun Sect disciples did not need to be reminded and boarded the ship very consciously. Lin Zhangqing and the other three were the last to board.

After going up, the few found four rooms that were relatively close, which was convenient for communication. Hu Yunna also invited everyone to her place early tomorrow morning, saying that there were some spirit materials that she hadn't had time to distribute yet.

Lin Zhangqing then remembered that there was indeed such a thing. At that time, time was tight, so he left her in the room where artifact refining materials were kept to pack up some usable spirit materials. He didn't know how the harvest was! However, these were things for tomorrow; now it was time to have a good rest. Lin Zhangqing's nerves had not truly relaxed for these ten days and nine nights.

He was always worried about some sudden situation, failing the entrustment of Great-Grandmother and Senior Chen. Now he could finally be completely relaxed! Now on the treasure ship, he definitely dared not enter the space. In the room, he could only rest or cultivate.

He opened the spirit insect bag and fed the Purple Crystal Scorpion swarm some demon beast meat, and also put more than a hundred spirit stones inside, one for each Purple Crystal Scorpion to gnaw on slowly.

He released The First from the spirit beast bag, fed it some demon beast meat and a Spirit Nurturing Pill, and then began to groom its fur. This trip to the secret realm, The First and the Purple Crystal Scorpions had made great contributions.

Originally, they should be rewarded, but in terms of time, they hadn't advanced for long, so he wouldn't let them improve their rank in a short time, so the reward would be reserved for now! He would give it to them when the time was right.

After grooming, he didn't recall Chuyi back into the spirit beast bag, but let it stay in the room. The spirit beast bag Chuyi stayed in was still too small.

This time they captured quite a few spirit beast bags from the Yuling Sect, but unfortunately, he didn't dare to use them. There were a few with large spaces, but they were all thrown into the deep pit and absorbed and digested by Lin Zhangliu.

After finishing these, the sky outside darkened, and Lin Zhangqing packed up and rested.

Soon a night passed. The next morning, Lin Zhangqing first completed his basic cultivation tasks.

Only then did he go out to Hu Yunna's place. When Lin Zhangqing arrived, the three of them were busy copying the contents of the two golden jade slips!

No one needed to greet him; Lin Zhangqing found a seat himself and didn't disturb them. After waiting for a while, the three Junior Sisters completed the copying one after another.

Hu Yunna handed the two golden jade slips to Lin Zhangqing and said, "Senior Brother Gao, we have already copied the jade slips. You can have these two original jade slips!"

Lin Zhangqing accepted them happily and thanked the three Junior Sisters. These two jade slips, like the one already in Lin Zhangqing's storage bag, were spirit materials of at least third-tier, and should be about the same as the Shuowen Jiezi with golden seal script in the clan.

All four people were present. Hu Yunna poured out more than a dozen spirit materials from her storage bag, all of which were earth-attribute and metal-attribute spirit materials.

Hu Yunna explained, "Looking at that room, it should be specifically for storing low-to-mid-tier artifact refining spirit materials. Unfortunately, the wood, water, and fire attribute spirit materials, as well as some low-tier spirit materials, were useless because too much time had passed.

Only some mid-tier earth-attribute and metal-attribute spirit materials were relatively well-preserved. I picked out the usable ones, and they are all here."

Zhao Mingxia said, "We don't understand these spirit materials either. Why don't you introduce them roughly so we can recognize them."

Hu Yunna nodded, "There are a total of seventeen artifact refining spirit materials here, totaling five types.

These three golden spirit materials are second-tier mid-grade spirit material Gold Spirit Steel, which is most suitable for refining Gold Spirit Shields. Adding some auxiliary materials to these three spirit materials should be enough to refine two second-tier mid-grade Gold Spirit Shields.

These four black metals are second-tier upper-grade spirit material Black Gold. This metal is very hard and can be used to refine Black Gold flying swords or armor.

These four pieces of Black Gold, plus some auxiliary materials, are enough to refine four second-tier upper-grade Black Gold flying swords or two second-tier upper-grade Black Gold shields.

These three pale yellow ones are second-tier mid-grade, earth-attribute spirit material Mystic Crystal Rock. This spirit material is suitable for refining heavy spiritual tools like mountain-shaped or seal-shaped ones. These three pieces together are barely enough to refine one seal-shaped spiritual tool.

Next are these three pieces of third-tier mid-grade Spirit Rhinoceros Gold. This metal can only be used as an auxiliary material, added to magic treasures, to make magic treasures more spiritual.

And the connection with the owner is tighter, making it more handy to control, as if they were heart-to-heart, hence the name Spirit Rhinoceros Gold. It is considered a relatively rare spirit object.

The biggest harvest this time should be these four pieces, third-tier upper-grade Spirit-Absorbing Stones, which can be refined into magic treasures specifically for trapping people—Spirit-Absorbing Rings.

As long as one is accidentally trapped by this Spirit-Absorbing Ring, except for high-level body cultivators, ordinary magic cultivators absolutely cannot escape and can only be slaughtered! These four Spirit-Absorbing Stones should be enough to refine a set of four to five Spirit-Absorbing Rings. If the Spirit Rhinoceros Gold is also added, it would be even better. That's about it. What are everyone's plans?"

After speaking, she looked at Lin Zhangqing, and the other two Junior Sisters were also looking at him. It seemed that the three Junior Sisters were waiting for him to make the decision.

Lin Zhangqing thought for a while and said, "How about this: entrust the second-tier spirit materials to Junior Sister Hu to refine into spiritual tools, and we will distribute them later.

As for the remaining third-tier spirit materials, we are still too far from using magic treasures, and they can't be used even if refined. Why don't we divide them!"

The three Junior Sisters thought about it and felt that Lin Zhangqing's words made sense, so they agreed to Lin Zhangqing's proposal. Hu Yunna put away the second-tier spirit materials.

Now there were only three pieces of Spirit Rhinoceros Gold and four pieces of Spirit-Absorbing Stones left on the table. Seven pieces were not enough for four people to divide. Lin Zhangqing took the initiative and said, "I'll just choose one piece of Spirit Rhinoceros Gold, and the rest will be two pieces for each of you, just enough to divide."

"No!" "How can this be!" "I don't agree!" The three Junior Sisters spoke with three voices, all disagreeing.

Zhao Mingxia said, "Just give me one piece of Spirit Rhinoceros Gold, and the others will be two pieces for each of you, just enough to divide."

Hu Yunna said, "We have plenty of artifact refining spirit materials there. I'll just take one Spirit-Absorbing Stone."

Chen Zi Ya also said, "Don't push them to each other anymore. I'll just choose one Spirit-Absorbing Stone. The remaining Spirit Rhinoceros Gold and Spirit-Absorbing Stones are just one of each for each of you.

I am not good at fighting. Giving me Spirit Rhinoceros Gold is a waste. Junior Sister Hu refines artifacts, Junior Sister Zhao refines pills, and Senior Brother Gao needs Spirit Rhinoceros Gold for fighting. Don't push them to each other anymore! If you really feel bad, then give me those three pieces of second-tier mid-grade Mystic Crystal Rock! That should be about right, right?"

Lin Zhangqing thought for a while and nodded, "Since Junior Sister Chen said so, let's do it according to her wishes!"

Seeing that Lin Zhangqing agreed, Zhao Mingxia and Hu Yunna couldn't insist anymore.

But Hu Yunna still couldn't help but ask, "Senior Sister Chen, what do you want these three pieces of Mystic Crystal Rock for? Do you want me to help you refine them into spiritual tools?"

Chen Zi Ya shook her head and refused, "Many thanks, Junior Sister, but not for now. I have other uses for these Mystic Crystal Rocks."

Hu Yunna saw that she wouldn't say, so she didn't force it. Then she divided the six third-tier spirit materials on the table into three portions and handed the largest portion to Lin Zhangqing.

Lin Zhangqing wanted to refuse, but Hu Yunna stuffed the things into his hands without giving him a chance to refuse. Then she and Zhao Mingxia each took a portion and put away the spirit materials on the table, which made it impossible for Lin Zhangqing not to accept! After the artifact refining spirit materials were divided, there was also the Jade Spring Heart Tea collected by the Junior Sisters in the cave abode hall, and each person also got a little bit.

Because they didn't know how long the spirit tea tree hadn't been picked, the tea leaves collected this time were a little bit more, and each person should have about two or three qian.

After dividing the things, Hu Yunna, as the host, took out spirit tea and brewed it, and the four sat together talking about everything.

Lin Zhangqing had just come out of the highly tense place of the secret realm and also wanted to relax, so he chatted with them.

Moreover, Hu Yunna and Zhao Mingxia had good character, and the three had a natural life-and-death friendship after the secret realm trip.

Most importantly, one was good at artifact refining, one was good at alchemy, and both had high-level cultivators as backers. Lin Zhangqing also wanted to maintain this friendship, and perhaps there would be times when he would need their help in the future.

Although he hid his true identity, the friendship with them was real and would not disappear because Senior Brother Gao disappeared one day, but would transition smoothly.

Of course, now was not the time to let them re-recognize Lin Zhangqing.

Now that the Ziyang Secret Realm had just ended, it was still too dangerous to reveal his identity at this time. Let's wait for a while! Wait until the influence of the secret realm subsided before considering whether to let them know! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 115 =====