Chapter 95: Distributing Spiritual Items

After gathering all the spiritual items in the cave dwelling into one place and counting all the spiritual items, the three of them had to begin distributing the spiritual items they had obtained.

The three had an agreement beforehand. The old Daoist Chen was the initiator of this action to explore the predecessor's cave dwelling, and it was also thanks to him that the three of them found this place. After entering the cave dwelling, he was to take half of the spiritual items inside, and the remaining half would be split equally between Song Qingming and Zhou Jintang.

Zhou Jintang had the highest cultivation and also exerted the most effort when breaking the formation. Although Song Qingming's contribution in weakening the restriction was somewhat more important than his, the three had already agreed on this matter beforehand, so it was not easy for him to say much now.

Among the spiritual items obtained in the cave dwelling, the most valuable were those few second-tier magic tools. Among them, the quality of a green flying sword magic tool had already reached the second-tier mid-grade, and it could be sold for at least more than one thousand spirit stones in the market. According to the rule that the old Daoist Chen could choose first, this flying sword soon fell into his hands.

Looking at the green-glowing second-tier flying sword in his hand, the old Daoist Chen played with it a few times with a happy face before carefully putting it into his own storage bag.

Zhou Jintang had also wanted the mid-grade flying sword in the old Daoist Chen's hands, but helplessly, the old Daoist Chen had the priority to choose spiritual items, so he could only settle for the next best thing and chose to take the other two second-tier low-quality magic tools.

Song Qingming did not have much interest in second-tier magic tools and only obtained one of the four second-tier magic tools that was of relatively poor quality, which was the golden bronze mirror that the cave owner had used as the formation eye.

This bronze mirror's attack ability was relatively singular. After being refined, it could only emit a golden light divine ability to fight the enemy, which could be considered a relatively ordinary second-tier magic tool, worth about five or six hundred spirit stones on the market.

However, even so, second-tier magic tools were still very rare to see in a small market like Qinghefang.

In the cultivation world, no matter which cultivation skill it was, raising it to the second tier was a very difficult matter. Among the thousands of cultivators in the entire Qinghe County, there were at least one or two hundred artifact refiners, and only one person had been able to raise their artifact refining to the second tier.

Because of this, any second-tier magic tool appearing in Qinghefang would cause a sensation in the vicinity, and such things could even attract other Foundation Establishment cultivators from outside the area to the market.

To use a second-tier magic tool, a Qi Refining cultivator's cultivation had to be at least at the ninth layer of Qi Refining to barely be able to refine it. Song Qingming's cultivation was still some distance away from the ninth layer of Qi Refining, so wanting to use a second-tier magic tool was still a matter too early for him.

Compared to these second-tier high-tier magic tools that he could not yet use, Song Qingming still preferred the second-tier spiritual talismans that he could use now.

The usage requirements for second-tier spiritual talismans for Qi Refining cultivators were not as high as those for second-tier magic tools. As long as one's cultivation reached the late stage of Qi Refining, one could use second-tier spiritual talismans. However, how much power a second-tier spiritual talisman could exert depended on the level of the cultivator's own magic power.

These five spiritual talismans were all second-tier low-quality spiritual talismans, and the difference in value was not too great. Song Qingming took two of the more useful ones, the other two were obtained by the old Daoist Chen, and Zhou Jintang, because he had previously taken two good second-tier magic tools, eventually only received one second-tier spiritual talisman with somewhat weaker power.

The value of a second-tier low-quality spiritual talisman was at least two hundred spirit stones on the market. Song Qingming, relying on the convenience of collecting spiritual items in the shop in Qinghefang over the past few years, had also secretly obtained a second-tier low-quality spiritual talisman for self-defense.

Spiritual items above the second tier were not as easy to obtain as first-tier spiritual items. Even in Guiyunfang, most of the time, even if you had spirit stones, you might not be able to buy them at any time, let alone in a small market like Qinghefang.

Such spiritual items, which could easily change the situation of a battle between cultivators, were mostly bought by cultivators as soon as they appeared in the market, especially those Qi Refining families, who all liked to treasure a few second-tier spiritual talismans as the family's foundation inheritance.

The Song family had been inherited for two hundred years, and Mount Funiu also collected two second-tier spiritual talismans. Such family treasures could not be easily used unless the family was in a crisis of survival.

Even though Song Qingming had served as a family elder in recent years and knew some important matters in the family, he only knew that these two spiritual talismans were always controlled by the patriarch, and he did not even know what kind of spiritual talismans they were.

For other spiritual items like cultivation techniques and classics whose value was difficult to judge, the three of them each obtained what they wanted. When they encountered cultivation techniques that everyone wanted, the few of them even spent some time copying a copy for each other.

According to the agreement with the old Daoist Feng beforehand, Song Qingming also successfully obtained the spiritual sense cultivation technique he wanted most. After simply checking it with his spiritual sense, he threw the bamboo slip of this cultivation technique into his storage bag. Now that he was busy distributing spiritual items, he had no time to open it and look at it carefully, so he could only wait until he went back to study it slowly.

After distributing the spiritual items obtained in the cave dwelling, the three brought the predecessor's corpse outside the cave dwelling, intending to find a place with beautiful scenery on the top of the mountain, dig a pit, and let the owner of this cave dwelling be buried in peace.

The old Daoist Chen took out a Feng Shui compass magic tool, turned around a large circle on the top of the mountain, found a place with good Feng Shui where birds sang and flowers smelled, and decided to bury this predecessor's corpse here.

I don't know if it was because they had obtained too many spiritual items this time, but Zhou Jintang, who had always been impatient, was very unexpectedly not saying much this time, and even happily took the initiative to take on the arduous task of digging the pit.

Zhou Jintang took out a wide giant sword and slashed hard at the ground. A burst of dust flew up on the ground, and a not-so-small pit appeared.

Zhou Jintang gave a loud shout, and the giant sword in his hand continued to dance in the pit. Soon he dug a deep pit deep enough to bury a person, and then placed this Foundation Establishment predecessor, who had once been majestic, into this pit.

When moving the corpse, seeing that the quality of the magic robe worn by this predecessor seemed to be quite good, Zhou Jintang said with some heart-moving:

"This magic robe is of good quality. It is estimated that it can be sold for a hundred spirit stones if taken to the market. It is really a waste to bury it in the ground. Should we take it off and distribute it among ourselves?"

Even though he had just received so many good things, Zhou Jintang actually had ideas about the magic robe on the cave owner's body. Song Qingming on the side thought, this guy is too greedy.

"Eh, when we took down the predecessor's storage bag, we had already promised to properly bury the predecessor's corpse. Fellow Daoist Zhou, please do not create extra trouble." Seeing Zhou Jintang so greedy, the old Daoist Chen also could not stand it anymore and opened his mouth with displeasure to stop Zhou Jintang.

Seeing that the old Daoist Feng and Song Qingming both had somewhat ugly expressions, Zhou Jintang smiled awkwardly and said: "Hehe, I just mentioned it. If Brother Chen is unwilling, then forget it. Do not take it to heart."

After Zhou Jintang finished speaking, he jumped up from the pit and patted Song Qingming on the shoulder.

"Fellow Daoist Song, seeing you cast spells in the cave just now, you must be practicing an earth-attribute cultivation technique, right? Next, please do me a favor and help me cover the mound."

Song Qingming did not want to say much to him and nodded in agreement. After all, the most important thing now was to help this predecessor be buried in peace.

After a burst of rumbling loud noises, a mound of earth about a zhang wide completely buried the deep pit that Zhou Jintang had just dug.

Under the leadership of the old Daoist Chen, the three of them stepped forward one after another to pay their respects to this predecessor, and only then did they set off to leave this place.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 96 =====