Chapter 23: Rich Storage Bag

Five days later, in a deep yellow maple forest, Song Qingming was on a dead tree, emitting a faint spiritual light.

After Song Qingming escaped from the pool that day, he found a clean open space not far away, took a few blood-replenishing elixirs and recovery elixirs to recover his injuries.

Then he chased after the traces of everyone fleeing. Unexpectedly, he hadn't walked a few miles when he saw the Black-Feathered Python returning to the pool in the sky from a distance, which scared him to lie in the wild grass in place, and he didn't dare to show his head until dark.

In order to catch up with everyone in a hurry, Song Qingming could only choose to continue on the road at night. Unexpectedly, he didn't see the way back clearly in the dark, and he went in the wrong direction, losing the traces of everyone.

Song Qingming was here for the first time in the Fuyun Mountain Range and was very unfamiliar with the mountain geography here. He didn't happen to carry a map on him, and he didn't find the way back after looking for a long time, so he was lost in the mountains.

Fortunately, he knew that to the north is the paradise of demon beasts in the depths of the Fuyun Mountain Range, and to the south is the territory of humans. He roughly knew that as long as he walked south, he would always walk out of this Fuyun Mountain Range.

Whether he reached Pingyang County where he came from or the surrounding markets to the south, as long as he reached there, he would naturally have a way to return to Qinghe County.

Song Qingming had been walking south for several days. He wanted to find someone to ask for directions, but unfortunately, he didn't see half a person along the way. This Fuyun Mountain Range is full of demon beasts and is a place full of crises. Two days ago, when he passed a grassland, he accidentally encountered a ferocious high-grade giant crocodile and was chased by this beast for a long time before escaping the danger, which still makes him feel a little panicked.

Half an hour later, Song Qingming, who had been meditating for a long time, felt that his spiritual power had recovered about seventy or eighty percent. He used the magic power in his body with both hands, and a cyan light instantly invested in a small red bag beside him, slowly wrapping it in his spiritual power.

In the past five days, Song Qingming had also tried to open the red storage bag he picked up at the bottom of the pool to see what treasures were inside. It's just that the restrictions set by this high-grade storage bag were indeed a bit troublesome. Song Qingming had been casting spells continuously for several days before he wiped out most of the restrictions on this storage bag.

Normal cultivators' storage bags will be set with restriction secret techniques that only they themselves know. If outsiders want to force them open, they have to use magic power to wipe out the restrictions on them.

Generally speaking, cultivators with profound cultivation will set more profound restrictions. If low-cultivation cultivators want to wipe out the magic power restrictions set by higher-cultivation cultivators, they have to rely on time to slowly grind. The length of time required depends entirely on the difference in magic power between the two and a little luck.

The magic power difference between cultivators of the same level will not be too big, and the restrictions can be wiped out in ten days or half a month at most. If Qi Refining cultivators want to break the restrictions set by Foundation Establishment cultivators across levels, it is hard to say, and it may take several years.

Three hours later, a light sound suddenly came. I saw a burst of spiritual power fluctuation on the red storage bag, and a purple light lit up. Song Qingming finally opened this storage bag today. This also has to thank the incomplete map for helping him accelerate the recovery of spiritual power, otherwise, he would have to spend a few more days.

Song Qingming poured everything in this storage bag out at once. Unexpectedly, just a rough look, the things in this storage bag had already shocked his eyes.

In this storage bag, there are nearly two hundred spirit stones alone, as well as a pile of magic tools, spirit talismans, elixirs, and other items.

Whose storage bag is this, so rich? Song Qingming passed through many cultivators who participated in the pool battle that day in his heart, but still couldn't determine the owner of the storage bag. He could only look for answers from the items in these storage bags.

A high-grade magic tool, two mid-grade magic tools, five high-grade spirit talismans, more than a dozen mid-grade and low-grade spirit talismans, and three bottles of elixirs that he didn't recognize for a while.

In addition, there are several technique jade slips, a black token, an ancient jade box, and several pieces of clothing.

Song Qingming picked up the black token and looked at it, and then he knew who the owner of this storage bag was.

The black token clearly printed the two small characters "Clan Leader". Combined with the fact that the clothes in the storage bag were exactly the black and white color unique to Liu family cultivators, Song Qingming could roughly guess that the owner of this storage bag was Liu Tianlong, the Liu clan leader.

I really didn't expect that the storage bag I picked up at the bottom of the pool was a hot potato. Song Qingming couldn't help but take a deep breath.

The storage bag of the Liu clan leader, it seems that he must be more careful in his actions in the future. If these techniques, magic tools, and items are recognized by others in the future, the Liu family will soon suspect him.

Song Qingming threw the token and clothes in the storage bag directly into a stream not far away. He didn't dare to keep the three magic tools for his own use. He planned to put them in the storage bag first and wait for a period of time to go to a farther market, and then think of a way to deal with them together with this high-grade storage bag.

Several jade slips were ordinary Qi Refining techniques inherited by the Liu family, and their value was not high, so Song Qingming chose to discard them all. Only a set of array classics inherited from that Foundation Establishment ancestor of the Liu family was somewhat useful to Song Qingming, so he kept it.

The classics not only recorded more than a dozen first-tier arrays but also two second-tier arrays. He could just use them when he wanted to improve his array Dao in the future.

Other spirit stones and spirit talismans were common items on the market. He was not afraid of being recognized by others, so he put them into his own storage bag with peace of mind. He didn't recognize the few bottles of elixirs now and didn't dare to take them. He still needed to take them to the market to find an alchemist to identify them. If they were useful to him, he would keep them; if they were useless, he would sell them directly.

Song Qingming opened the last jade box and was shocked again.

"This is... Water Spirit Fruit. How could there be such a spirit object in Liu Tianlong's storage bag? What is going on?"

As soon as Song Qingming saw the items in this jade box, he recognized them. "Water Spirit Fruit, one inch and three points in circumference, completely transparent after ripening, emitting blue light..."

He really didn't see it wrong. The item in this box was a ripe Water Spirit Fruit. This kind of second-tier spirit object, as early as when Song Qingming first entered the Dao, the Great Elder in the family school had repeatedly explained these various spirit fruits and spirit herbs in the cultivation world to him, and the family spirit herb classics distributed to each of them also recorded this item.

Although this was the first time Song Qingming had seen the real thing, the memory of a cultivator is several times that of an ordinary commoner, and he had long been very familiar with most of the spirit herbs recorded in the spirit herb classics. Taking out the spirit herb classics in the storage bag, Song Qingming confirmed it again before he was completely sure of this item.

This Water Spirit Fruit is a spirit object whose value is equivalent to a Foundation Establishment Pill. How could the Liu family have such a spirit object? Looking at this Water Spirit Fruit, it seems that it was picked not long ago. Could it be that this is a spirit object that Liu Tianlong just found in the pool? This Liu family's luck is too good, and they can find such a priceless spirit object in a pool at will.

Song Qingming thought about it. Although these were just his personal guesses, it could only be so to barely explain the origin of this Water Spirit Fruit in Liu Tianlong's storage bag.

If the things found in Liu Tianlong's storage bag earlier made Song Qingming a fortune, then this Water Spirit Fruit gave him the hope of Foundation Establishment for the rest of his life. This kind of spirit object will definitely be able to easily exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill when it is taken to the Xiaoyao Sect in the future.

Song Qingming stared at this Water Spirit Fruit for a long time before coming back to his senses, carefully packed it with a jade box, and put it into the storage bag. He couldn't use this item now. Fortunately, this Water Spirit Fruit was placed in this emerald jade box and could be preserved for at least twenty years, so he didn't have to worry about this spirit object being damaged for the time being.

Speaking of that day, Liu Tianlong was also unlucky. He finally picked the Water Spirit Fruit smoothly, but he didn't want a second-tier Black-Feathered Python to suddenly appear in the cave. Although he escaped dangerously under the desperate protection of the two Liu elders, he was still scraped by a breath sprayed by the Black-Feathered Python from a distance when he escaped from the cave, which not only hurt his dantian but also caused the storage bag at his waist to fall to the bottom of the pool. He wanted to go back to look for it, but the Black-Feathered Python had already chased him out, so he could only save his life first.

After Liu Tianlong led the Liu family cultivators to escape the pursuit of the Black-Feathered Python, although he was unwilling, he dared not go back to risk looking for his lost storage bag. The second-tier Black-Feathered Python in the pool was not something they could deal with now, so he could only lead the remaining clansmen on the return journey.

After returning to Qinghe County, Liu Tianlong had not been home for long before he vomited a mouthful of essence blood due to his serious injuries and lay on the sickbed.

This old clan leader who had guarded the Liu family for many years was pale and listless, as if he had suddenly aged several years compared to when he left Qinghe County two months ago.

This trip to Fuyun Mountain by the Liu family can be described as heavy losses. Only half of the more than twenty family backbones who participated in this mission returned, and two elders were lost. This time, it was already a hurt to the Liu family, and it would take at least twenty or thirty years to recover their vitality.

Even Liu Tianlong, the peak Qi Refining cultivator who had traversed Qinghe County for decades, also hurt his dantian this time. Even if he can heal his injuries in the future, I am afraid it will be difficult to act easily with others again.

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