Chapter 658: Divine Soul Out of Body

Therefore, he only spent half a day to find all four magic treasures!

Now, the family assets of two of the three assassins were in Lin Zhangqing's hands, but by this time,

Lin Zhangqing was instead not in a hurry, because according to the regulations of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion, they would return the spirit stones of this bounty to the person who issued the mission.

And within a short period of time, they wouldn't accept bounty missions regarding him again.

If the person who issued the mission still wanted to continue to put a bounty on him, then he must first compensate for the loss of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion.

Only then would it be possible to continue issuing missions in the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion!

Lin Zhangqing believed that even if Wei Zhanggeng's father was a fourth-tier alchemist and could earn some cheap money usually! But Wei Zhanggeng couldn't easily take out the large amount of spirit stones to compensate for the loss of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion.

So Lin Zhangqing felt that even if he returned to the sect a bit late, there shouldn't be any big problems, so he spent another two days searching the nearby sea area again, and found the corpse of the first assassin, as well as the three magic treasure flying swords he had lost.

By this time, Lin Zhangqing was finally satisfied; he embarked on the return journey to the sect.

However, on this journey, he had been thinking about two things.

The first thing was how he was exposed? Finally, thinking back and forth, he thought of a possibility: that he controlled the Yi Wood Yin Thunder Sword, and the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion definitely knew he had a thunder spirit root.

And cultivators with thunder spirit roots in the cultivation world were so rare, plus Lin Zhangqing happened to appear in the mission area during this time period.

So it was basically eight or nine out of ten; that was why he was directly locked onto by the Black Lotus people! After thinking it through, he knew that he was truly too clever for his own good this time! Fortunately, his luck and strength were not bad, and now these things could be considered to have passed temporarily!

Following that, his main goal was to try every possible means to kill that scum Wei Zhanggeng.

The second thing was about the last assassin.

This time he suddenly had his divine soul out of body and wanted to possess Lin Zhangqing; fortunately, he had the Heaven-Defending Soul Shield, but this also gave him a reminder!

Why are Purple Mansion cultivators called Purple Mansion? It's because they have already begun to cultivate and nourish their divine souls!

That is to say, Purple Mansion cultivators have already initially possessed the ability of divine soul out of body, plus their divine soul strength is already capable of possessing others!

Or rather, it's possible that the enemy's physical body is destroyed, but his divine soul still has a chance to escape a disaster.

So Lin Zhangqing must pay attention to this matter in the future!

Killing third-tier demon beasts is fine; if the divine soul runs away, it runs away!

But if it's a cultivator, then it's possible that it's equivalent to letting a tiger return to the mountain! Of course, overall, the divine soul of a Purple Mansion stage cultivator is still relatively fragile.

If it is left exposed to the natural world for a long time, especially in places with sunlight, it will soon perish.

So even if the divine soul escapes, it must find a suitable target for possession within a short period of time.

Otherwise, what it faces is the fate of gradually perishing.

But it's best not to gamble on this probability, so Lin Zhangqing warned himself that he must pay attention to this aspect in the future.

Since he knew it was the Yi Wood Yin Thunder Sword that exposed his identity, he definitely wouldn't use it again! So he changed to a top-grade spiritual artifact flying sword under his feet; although the speed was three or four times slower, he had already completed the missions, so there was no need to be in such a rush! And on this return journey, as long as he encountered relatively large islands, he would go down to take a look.

Unfortunately, not every island had a market, and some even didn't allow strange cultivators to approach casually.

So on this journey, besides finding two types of spirit wine for the Old Drunkard, there were no other major gains! Of course, it might also be because he stayed for too short a time, so he didn't encounter any good things!

However, Lin Zhangqing had already counted the spoils of this time.

He harvested a total of 1,500 mid-grade spirit stones and one water-attribute upper-grade spirit stone that had already been used.

But fortunately, it wasn't used much; this was found by Lin Zhangqing on the assassin in the sea, which just happened to be cheap for him.

In the future, when fighting and killing, when he needs to recover mana, he will have upper-grade spirit stones to use again! And in terms of pills, the harvest wasn't much either, totaling less than twenty bottles, among which nine bottles were pills used to improve cultivation base.

The rest were all pills for recovering mana and treating injuries; in short, he might use these things in the future.

So he specifically collected them by category!

After all, the Vermilion Fruits on his body were not many, so in the future, it was very likely that he could only use these ordinary pills for cultivation! Next were the magic treasures; it could be said to be a bumper harvest, with a total of ten third-tier flying swords of various attributes harvested! Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—the five elements were all complete; in the future, he would use whichever attribute flying sword he wanted!

Unfortunately, his Five Elements Chaos Sutra was still at the Foundation Establishment stage level, so using third-tier magic treasures was still too forced! So these things could only be temporarily sealed away!

Of course, after he went back, he still had to carefully check these things again, and only after confirming there were no problems would he dare to take them out to use.

Besides the ten flying swords, there were also two third-tier lower-grade defensive magic treasures; one was a turtle shell magic treasure of earth attribute, and one was a shield magic treasure of metal attribute.

These two magic treasures were precisely what Lin Zhangqing needed now.

So he checked them several times, and after finding no problems, he had already begun to refine them!

Of course, defensive magic treasures and offensive magic treasures are different; using offensive magic treasures, he felt it was a waste of mana.

But using defensive magic treasures, he didn't have this thought; after all, his own safety was the most important, so if it's a waste of mana, then let it be a waste of mana! The remaining things were just some messy miscellaneous items, as well as three identity jade tokens of the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion; there was nothing else!

Just like that, walking and stopping along the way, occasionally taking a detour to go to nearby islands to stroll around! Finally, after more than a month, he returned to the Shenshui Island of the Tianshui Sect! After registering at the mountain gate, he successfully entered the Inner Sect, but he didn't go anywhere! Instead, he flew directly to the Inner Sect's Affairs Hall; it took nearly two hours to get there.

Familiar with the path, he came to the Old Drunkard's courtyard; after the guiding disciple took his leave,

Lin Zhangqing directly took out eight bottles of second-tier spirit wine from his storage bag and placed them on the table.

And he said with a grin: "Junior Uncle Ran Ming, I have completed the missions and returned!

This time I brought you four kinds of spirit wine with different flavors; you can taste them when you have time!"

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