Chapter 376: Confirming the Guess

There were no cultivation manuals, but he did find quite a few cultivation notes, as well as two or three hundred jade boxes of varying sizes.

However, he was not prepared to open them now; it would be too much of a waste of time. He would open these jade boxes slowly when he had some leisure time! The rest were just clothes, sundries, and the like, along with twenty identity jade tokens covered in cracks. Lin Zhangqing picked up two at random to examine them.

It was just as he had guessed; they were all from the same family.

The names on the jade tokens in his hand were Jin Fubin and Jin Fuding. It seemed they were all cultivators from a family with the surname Jin.

He put these identity jade tokens and the other sundries together into the storage bag where he kept the magical artifacts.

When the time came, he would throw them all into the deep pit and leave them for Lin Zhangliu to recycle as waste!

Furthermore, that spirit beast bag was empty; it looked like it should have been used to carry that eagle-type demon beast. With that, the spoils of war from those twenty Qi Refining cultivators were all handled.

The next part was the main event: the storage bags of the five Foundation Establishment cultivators, including the harvest from that cave abode, which should all be in these five storage bags.

The storage bags of several Foundation Establishment cultivators were a bit harder to refine, but that still couldn't stump Lin Zhangqing. He spent some time and successfully refined them.

He poured everything out as well, but he didn't pile them together; he did this so as not to mix things up.

First, he needed to find something to verify the guess in his heart.

That was the identity jade tokens of the five people. He soon found them; five higher-grade identity jade tokens, also covered in cracks.

After looking through them one by one, he finally found what he wanted. The name engraved on this jade token was Jin Shicheng, and his position was the Clan Leader of the Jin family.

Moreover, the names on the other four identity jade tokens were also surnamed Jin, and their positions were all Elders.

In other words, Lin Zhangqing might have wiped out all of the Jin family's high-end combat power in one fell swoop.

Although there was a high possibility that one or two Foundation Establishment cultivators were still guarding the Jin family's ancestral land.

But even so, it was estimated that they had no ability to continue investigating now.

At this time, the most important thing for the Jin family should be to strive to maintain the family's inheritance; everything else was secondary.

Even if the Jin family really had the heart to continue investigating, it should only be a private and cautious probe; they would definitely not dare to publicize it widely.

If their background were known by enemies, they might really be wiped out while taking advantage of the situation.

Moreover, this kind of existence that could silently wipe out their family's high-end combat power in one pot was definitely not something they could afford to provoke now.

So if he were in the position of the Jin family's top brass, he would definitely act as if nothing had happened, and then do his best to appease the clansmen.

And he would have all the clansmen who participated in the operation unify their stories; anyway, no matter what, they must maintain the family's inheritance.

However, this was just Lin Zhangqing's own thought; how the Jin family specifically handled the aftermath was not something he should consider.

The only thing that could be certain now was that the Jin family's high-end combat power had been wiped out, and no one should be chasing after him later.

After verifying the guess in his heart, Lin Zhangqing was in a great mood, and then he began to organize the five piles of spoils on the ground.

First was the spirit stones; this thing was the easiest to identify. There were about eighty thousand lower-grade spirit stones; he found over fifty thousand lower-grade spirit stones just from the Jin family's Clan Leader. These were enough to directly buy a Foundation Establishment Pill. The middle-grade spirit stones added up to over eight hundred, and most of them were also provided by the Jin family's Clan Leader.

These were all collected by Lin Zhangqing and put into the storage bag he specifically used for spirit stones.

Next were the spiritual artifacts. Including the five piles of spoils and what Lin Zhangqing collected on the battlefield, there were as many as twenty-three spiritual artifacts in total.

Among them were six lower-grade spiritual artifacts, eight middle-grade spiritual artifacts, six upper-grade spiritual artifacts, and three top-grade spiritual artifacts. Among them, two were top-grade defensive spiritual artifacts, and one was a top-grade flying sword spiritual artifact.

And at the Jin family's Clan Leader's place, he also found twenty or thirty magical artifacts; middle-grade, upper-grade, and even top-grade magical artifacts, which were estimated to be used by their Clan Leader to reward the clansmen.

There was also good news, that is, except for a small portion of middle and lower-grade spiritual artifacts that had the Jin family's special mark.

All the upper-grade and top-grade spiritual artifacts had no Jin family mark on them, which meant that the Jin family's artifact refiner could only refine middle and lower-grade spiritual artifacts.

Now they still couldn't refine upper-grade spiritual artifacts; Lin Zhangqing could safely use these captured spiritual artifacts without marks.

But after thinking about it, he gave up. After all, if these spiritual artifacts were left to his family, there would still be a slight danger of exposure.

There was absolutely no need to drag the family into danger for these few spiritual artifacts, so he thought it was better to forget it!

Let these stay in the inner space; he would give them to Xu Meiniang or Zhao Liyu to use when the time came. They didn't have any decent spiritual artifacts in their hands yet! Of course, he would definitely use some himself; at least those two top-grade defensive spiritual artifacts were not bad, and Lin Zhangqing also found the top-grade wood-attribute flying sword pleasing to the eye.

He would find a time to refine these three spiritual artifacts and keep them for his own use. After all, he liked this kind of top-grade spiritual artifact that could defend automatically the most.

When the time came, whoever fought and killed with Lin Zhangqing, seeing his endless stream of a dozen defensive shields cast instantly, would probably be so angry that they would vomit blood.

He collected all the visible pills again; there were as many as forty or fifty bottles in total, and he opened them one by one to check.

Basically, they were pills used by Foundation Establishment cultivators. The most common ones inside were pills that increased cultivation, which accounted for at least more than half.

The remaining pills were for healing injuries, recovering magical power, and there were also a few red pills stored separately with a very violent aura, which were estimated to be Violent Spirit Pills used when desperate.

Lin Zhangqing had a slight impression of this kind of pill. After thinking about it, he knew how to arrange it.

These pills that increased cultivation would all be taken to the inner space for Xu Meiniang and Zhao Liyu to use! As for the pills for healing and recovering magical power, he would keep them in the storage bag for his own use.

As for the remaining few red Violent Spirit Pills used for desperate situations, he would put them away for now.

After using this kind of Violent Spirit Pill, it would greatly consume the cultivator's physical potential.

And it would cause huge obstacles to future breakthroughs. Anyway, he would rather die than use them casually.

The next three things were estimated to be their harvest in the cave abode.

A black but very exquisite hairpin, a three-inch-long blue flying sword, and an antique alchemy furnace.

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