Chapter 94: Making a Fortune

Although there were spiritual veins outside this mountain, Song Qingming had felt all along the way that the level of the spiritual veins here was not high. He had not expected that it was because the owner of this cave dwelling had set up a top-grade Spirit-Gathering Formation here, concentrating most of the spiritual power of this mountain into this cave dwelling, which resulted in the spiritual energy in other locations on the mountain being scarce and very thin.

As soon as the stone door fell, a burst of dust from inside the cave dwelling rushed toward the three of them. A lot of dust had accumulated inside the cave, and it was feared it had not been cleaned for at least several decades.

The old Daoist Chen released a protective light shield to block the dust and was the first to walk into the cave dwelling. Seeing that the cave was pitch black and the full view could not be seen clearly, he took out a night-luminescent pearl the size of a fist from his person, and the dim cave instantly became as bright as the outside.

Borrowing the light of the night-luminescent pearl, the three of them finally saw the full view of the cave dwelling.

"This is, a second-tier magic tool."

Hearing Zhou Jintang's voice of surprise, Song Qingming followed the direction he was moving and looked up, and a golden bronze mirror floating on the right side of the cave dwelling came into his view.

The three walked closer and saw that this golden bronze mirror was wrapped in a yellow light shield, and it was emitting bursts of spiritual power fluctuations from within. Judging from the spiritual power on it, the grade of this bronze mirror had already far exceeded the first-tier magic tools in their hands; it should be a second-tier low-quality magic tool.

Zhou Jintang raised his magic power, and a blue spiritual light quickly passed through the yellow light shield and covered the bronze mirror. He wanted to use the object-controlling technique to take this bronze mirror into his hands.

Unexpectedly, after his object-controlling technique was used, the golden bronze mirror only moved slightly toward his direction, and just as it touched the yellow light shield outside, it immediately returned to its original position.

Zhou Jintang increased his magic power and tried several more times, but the result was still the same, and his face could not help but show some anger.

"This magic tool is the eye of the spiritual power formation in the cave dwelling. It will take some effort to take it down. Let's go look at other things first and deal with this magic tool last."

Seeing that Zhou Jintang wanted to use brute force to open the light shield, Song Qingming hurriedly reminded him.

As soon as he saw the golden bronze mirror, Song Qingming had already determined that this magic tool was the spiritual eye of a formation. It was just that at first, he was not sure what kind of formation it was, and it was not until Zhou Jintang triggered the formation that he recognized the origin of the formation before him.

This set of formations was of a very high level, at least not one that he could set up now. Song Qingming opening his mouth to stop Zhou Jintang was also to prevent him from destroying this set of formations.

He wanted to dismantle the formation intact. Among the three, only he, this formation master, knew that even without the second-tier magic tool in the formation eye, this set of Spirit-Gathering Formations was of no low value.

Upon hearing Song Qingming say that this was another formation restriction, Zhou Jintang shook his head helplessly and put away his magic power. The three bypassed this place and walked toward the inside of the cave dwelling.

After bypassing this place, Song Qingming and the others searched separately inside the cave dwelling and soon found the seclusion room in the cave.

Fortunately, there was no restriction set here, and the three pushed the door lightly and walked in smoothly.

The seclusion room was not large, and there were no extra items inside, only a small stone bed, on which sat a decaying corpse that had been dead for many years.

Although this corpse had rotted to the point where its features could not be seen clearly, from the spiritual sense pressure reflected from its body, one could still feel that this person was a Foundation Establishment predecessor during their lifetime, and their cultivation was feared to have reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Upon seeing the golden storage bag hanging from the corpse's waist, the eyes of the three of them erupted with surprise.

The three had just searched this cave dwelling, and except for the second-tier magic tool discovered at the beginning, they had only found a few low-grade spiritual herbs on one side of the cave. There was no need to think to know that other spiritual items must be hidden in this predecessor's storage bag.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, wait. The so-called cause and effect are cyclical. We have received the favor of this predecessor today; it is better not to be too casual and defile the predecessor's corpse, otherwise, one's own hidden virtue will be damaged, which is unfavorable for future cultivation."

The old Daoist Chen reached out and stopped Zhou Tangjin, who wanted to step forward, and slowly spoke out the theory of cause and effect hidden in his belly.

"You are really troublesome."

Zhou Tangjin turned around with some displeasure and looked at Song Qingming. Seeing that he also had no objections to the old Daoist Chen's words, after muttering a sentence, he retreated a few steps with some unwillingness, giving up his position to the old Daoist Chen.

The old Daoist Chen stepped forward, knelt down, and bowed three times to the predecessor's corpse, saying: "Today, the three of us juniors have the fate to enter the predecessor's cave dwelling. We will definitely properly bury the predecessor's corpse. As for the spiritual items in the predecessor's hands, they have been covered in dust here for many years, so let it be a stroke of fortune given by the predecessor to us juniors."

After the old Daoist Chen finished speaking, he bowed again, then stood up, stepped forward, and carefully took down the storage bag from the corpse's waist.

The storage bag on a Foundation Establishment cultivator's body must not be of a low grade. Although the restriction on this storage bag had loosened a lot after so many years, it still took the three of them two days to break the restriction.

During this period, the three of them took turns using their magic power to break the restriction, and Song Qingming also took the time to put away the Spirit-Gathering Formation in the cave dwelling.

This predecessor cultivator's cultivation was not low during his lifetime, having already reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Judging from the fact that he could use a second-tier magic tool as a formation spiritual tool, even before they had opened the storage bag, Song Qingming had roughly guessed that there would certainly be many good things inside.

Not to mention anything else, just this golden second-tier storage bag, which had a space of at least one zhang in circumference, could be exchanged for hundreds of spirit stones easily on the market.

Added to the second-tier magic tool, the golden bronze mirror, they had obtained earlier, the value of just these two items alone had already made the three of them make a small fortune this time.

After opening the golden storage bag, it was indeed as the three had expected; there were quite a lot of spiritual items in this predecessor's storage bag.

In the storage bag, the three also found three second-tier magic tools, five second-tier spiritual talismans, and more than two thousand spirit stones, among which there were three mid-grade spirit stones. Added to the cultivation techniques, classics, and other spiritual items inside, the total value was nearly seven thousand spirit stones.

Inside, there were also some elixirs, spiritual herbs, and other spiritual items that were easily damaged because they had been placed for too long. Most of these things could no longer be used, and the remaining value was not high.

What surprised Song Qingming was that he did not find the follow-up cultivation technique for the Wind Abyss Soul-Forging Art, which was his main purpose for this trip, in the cave dwelling. Instead, he discovered another relatively complete spiritual sense cultivation technique.

This result made Song Qingming feel somewhat dumbfounded. On the matter of cultivating spiritual sense techniques, it seemed that Heaven liked to play jokes on him.

At first, he had searched for several years in Guiyunfang without obtaining a spiritual sense cultivation technique. After returning to a small place like Qinghe County, the old Daoist Chen had instead delivered the cultivation technique to his door. Now that the cultivation technique he had practiced for several years had been confirmed to have no follow-up, he had to start all over again. Thinking of this, a bitter smile could not help but appear on Song Qingming's face.

Seeing so many spirit stones and spiritual items before them, the eyes of the three, who had just been working together, now also had a trace of defensiveness when looking at each other.

So many spirit stones were really too many for a Qi Refining cultivator. Song Qingming had also accumulated thousands of spirit stones over the years. Seeing this pile of spiritual items worth thousands of spirit stones, Song Qingming's expression was about the same as that of the old Daoist Feng and the other. They were so excited that they did not know what to say, and their minds had already begun to plan how to use this large sum of spirit stones in their hands next.

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