Chapter 94: Making a Fortune

Although there were spiritual veins outside this mountain, Song Qingming had felt all along the way that the grade of the spiritual veins here was not high. He did not expect that the owner of this cave dwelling had set up a high-grade Spirit-Gathering Array here, concentrating most of the spiritual power of this mountain into this cave dwelling, which caused the spiritual energy in other parts of the mountain to be scarce and very thin.

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

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 picture could not be seen, he took out a night-luminescent pearl the size of a fist from his body, and the dim cave instantly became as bright as the outside.

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

"This is a second-level magic tool."

Hearing Zhou Tangjin's surprised voice, Song Qingming looked up in the direction he was heading, and a golden bronze mirror floating on the right side of the cave dwelling caught his eye.

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

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

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

Zhou Tangjin increased his spiritual power and tried several more times, but the result was still the same, and he could not help but feel a bit angry on his face.

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

Seeing Zhou Tangjin wanting 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 tool of an array eye. It was just that at first, he was not sure what kind of array it was, but until Zhou Tangjin triggered the array, he recognized the origin of the array before him.

This set of arrays was of a very high level, at least not one that he could set up now. Song Qingming stopped Zhou Tangjin also to prevent him from destroying this set of arrays.

He wanted to dismantle the array completely. Among the three, only he, the array master, knew that even without the second-level magic tool in the array eye, this set of Spirit-Gathering Arrays was of considerable value.

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

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

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

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

Although this corpse had decayed to the point where its face could not be seen clearly, from the spiritual sense pressure reflected from its body, it could still be felt that this person was a Foundation Establishment senior during his lifetime, and his cultivation was likely already at the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

As soon as they saw the golden storage bag hanging from the corpse's waist, surprise appeared in the eyes of the three of them.

The three of them had just searched the cave dwelling, and except for the second-level magic tool discovered at the beginning, they only found a few low-grade spiritual herbs on one side of the cave. It was obvious without thinking that other spiritual objects must be hidden in this senior's storage bag.

"Daoist Zhou, wait a moment. The so-called cause and effect cycle, we have received the grace of this senior today, so we should not tarnish the senior's corpse too casually, otherwise, our own hidden virtue will be lost, which will be unfavorable for future cultivation."

Old Daoist Chen reached out to stop Zhou Tangjin, who wanted to step forward, and slowly stated the theory of cause and effect he had hidden in his belly.

"You guys are really troublesome."

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

Old Daoist Chen stepped forward and knelt down to the senior's corpse, bowing three times, and said: "Today, the three juniors have the fortune to enter the senior's cave dwelling. We will definitely properly bury the senior's corpse. As for the spiritual objects in the senior's hands, they have been covered in dust here for many years, so let it be a chance given by the senior to us juniors."

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

The storage bag on a Foundation Establishment cultivator must be of a high 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 open the restriction.

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

This senior cultivator had a high cultivation level during his lifetime, having reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Judging from the fact that he could use a second-level magic tool as a spiritual tool for an array, even if they had not opened the storage bag before, Song Qingming had roughly guessed that there would be quite a few good things inside.

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

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

After opening the golden storage bag, as the three of them expected, there were indeed quite a few spiritual objects in this senior's storage bag.

The three of them also found three second-level magic tools, five second-level talismans, and more than two thousand spirit stones in the storage bag, including three middle-grade spirit stones. Added to the cultivation techniques and other spiritual objects inside, the total value was nearly seven thousand spirit stones.

Inside, there were also some elixirs, spiritual herbs, and other easily damaged spiritual objects that had been damaged due to being 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 of the Wind Abyss Soul-Forging Art, which was his biggest goal for this trip, in the cave dwelling. Instead, he discovered another relatively complete spiritual sense cultivation technique.

This result made Song Qingming feel both amused and annoyed. In the matter of cultivating spiritual sense techniques, it seemed that God liked to play jokes on him.

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

Seeing so many spirit stones and spiritual objects before them, the three who had just worked together now had a hint of precaution in their eyes 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 objects worth thousands of spirit stones, Song Qingming's performance was about the same as Old Daoist Feng's, so excited that he did not know what to say, and his mind had already begun to plan how to use this large sum of spirit stones next.

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