Chapter 381: A Harvest Delivered to the Door

After handing over the somewhat troublesome jade pendant he had on him to Huo Feng, Song Qingming retreated from the cavern not long after. He turned and, with practiced ease, made his way to a dark red stone grotto within the underground cave system.

This place was already somewhat familiar to him. When Song Qingming was first captured by Qingluan years ago, the place where he had first woken up and been imprisoned was this very grotto. Although several decades had passed, it remained the same, with nothing changed.

Song Qingming had once been imprisoned here for several months, and later, he had even slightly renovated the grotto. Although it could not compare to his cave dwelling on Mount Funiu, it was still quite suitable for resting and meditating compared to the temporary spots he had carved out while resting on the road.

The massive cave at the base of the mountain where Huo Feng and the others were hiding was extremely rich in spiritual energy, not losing out to spiritual mountains like the Merit Pavilion or the Law Enforcement Hall of Mount Guyang. Song Qingming estimated that there must be a third-tier or higher spiritual vein beneath it, making it actually more suitable for his daily cultivation than his own home on Mount Funiu.

The spiritual vein of Mount Funiu was only first-grade low-quality. Ever since Song Qingming broke through to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment, he had begun to feel that the spiritual energy he absorbed during his usual cultivation was somewhat insufficient. However, the Song family currently did not have many spirit stones that could be used to upgrade the spiritual vein, so Song Qingming could only let the matter rest for the time being.

Once the family's Treasury Pavilion became more affluent in the future, the matter of upgrading the Mount Funiu spiritual vein would have to be put on the agenda. This was also an important item in Song Qingming's future plans.

After arriving at the place where he was temporarily resting, Song Qingming did not choose to set up any restrictions at the entrance this time. After finding a cleaner spot, he took out several storage bags of different colors from his person.

These storage bags were all obtained from the red-clad man and his companions. As for why they fell into Song Qingming's hands, it was naturally because Long Feng had yielded them to him. To Song Qingming, it could be considered a harvest delivered to his door.

The vast majority of the items on these Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators were tainted with demonic Qi. Long Feng, being a demon king, naturally looked down on them, so it couldn't be bothered to spend time researching how to open these storage bags and simply threw them to Song Qingming.

In any case, what it wanted most were the rare artifact-refining materials that Song Qingming had given it. Even if there were any in these storage bags, Song Qingming would certainly take them out and proactively hand them to Long Feng; after all, he was not a high-tier artifact refiner and would have no use for them if he kept them.

Song Qingming was now a second-tier formation master, and the restrictions on these few storage bags were not formidable, so he naturally opened them without much effort. Very quickly, a pile of messy, scattered items was gathered by Song Qingming into one place, forming a small hill.

On demonic cultivators, there was naturally no shortage of those harmful demonic cultivation techniques, as well as those magic tools and talismans already tainted with demonic Qi. If it were in the past, Song Qingming would generally destroy them directly after obtaining them, lest they be obtained by those greedy Qi Refining stage cultivators and harm others.

But ever since Lei Guang had instructed him on some demonic path techniques last time, Song Qingming had also begun to have some interest in the items on these demonic cultivators. He directly used a box to pack them all together and temporarily sealed them away, intending to take them to show that old fellow Lei Guang when he returned to Qinghe County to see if there was anything that could be utilized.

Especially those magic tools that were deeply tainted with demonic Qi, Song Qingming carefully picked them out individually, and only put the remaining few second-tier magic tools that looked relatively normal into his own storage bag.

There were five such magic tools that had not yet been tainted by demonic Qi, all of which were magic tools that had reached the second tier in quality. Among them, two low-grade flying swords with average attributes looked very ordinary and should have been seized by these demonic cultivators from other cultivators.

The best magic tool was a small white shield, the quality of which had already reached second-tier mid-quality, making it the one that looked the most valuable among these magic tools. Song Qingming directly put it aside, intending to refine and use it himself in the future; after all, high-quality defensive magic tools were not common on the market.

The remaining two were a golden longbow and a jade-green round bead.

Among them, the golden longbow had decent attack power when used, but its quality was not high, only second-tier low-quality, making it not very suitable for the current Song Qingming. He could only take it back and put it in the family's Treasury Pavilion to see if any juniors in the family needed it, or selling it directly at a shop in the market would also be fine.

As for that jade-green round bead, it looked like a defensive magic tool on the surface, but after Song Qingming tried injecting his magic power into it, he found that it seemed to have little use, only able to form a defensive barrier that didn't look very formidable, not even as good as the Profound Light Armor he had cultivated for many years. Song Qingming felt it had little effect and, without bothering with it, threw it directly into his storage bag.

Besides these, the rest were a few thousand spirit stones and some miscellaneous elixirs and spiritual items. Apart from the spirit stones, which had no problems, Song Qingming naturally dared not want the elixirs taken by demonic cultivators. As for the remaining few items, Song Qingming could not figure out what use they had in the short term.

After tidying these things up slightly, Song Qingming put them all into a sealed wooden box, intending to take them to Lei Guang to study when he returned, to see if there were still any useful items.

The fact that the three red-clad men had delivered so many good things to him at once really surprised Song Qingming. He thought that when he returned, he must find some good high-tier artifact-refining materials for Long Feng; after all, it was the greatest contributor to his ability to profit this time.

Early the next morning, just as Song Qingming finished a night of meditation, the always somewhat cold Bai Yu came directly to his residence and brought him to Huo Feng again.

Seeing that quite a few items had already piled up on the ground beside Huo Feng, Song Qingming's eyes widened in surprise, and he asked with a face full of astonishment: "Your Highness! Have you already broken the restriction on the jade pendant and taken out the things inside?"

"Not bad! These things you see are what I just took out from inside. They are all here. Come forward and take a look together!" Huo Feng said while carefully observing the pile of items on the ground one by one.

Song Qingming walked forward and took a look, his eyes immediately becoming dazzled.

"Good fellow, the quality of these things looks much better than the messy things obtained last night."

That Huo Feng could break this spatial magic tool so quickly was also somewhat beyond Song Qingming's expectations. When he begged her for help yesterday, she had a face full of reluctance at first, and Song Qingming had thought that this matter might really not be that easy. He didn't expect that he had thought too much; breaking the restriction on the jade pendant was simply not a difficult task for Huo Feng at all.

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