Chapter 633: Gu Song Mountain

"Friend, rest assured!"

"You won't be going alone!"

"Our Shanghui will also send people—this token allows two persons; you can simply join our team when the time comes!"

"Of course, a small fee is required!"

After the Third Elder finished explaining, he looked at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng asked: "When and where will this Jiaoyi Society open?"

"In ten days!" the Third Elder said. "It will be held at Gu Song Mountain!"

"Fine!" He Pingsheng nodded, then began negotiating the price.

After the terms were settled, He Pingsheng returned to his small courtyard, and they agreed to meet at the Shanghui in ten days to depart together!

Back in the courtyard, He Pingsheng glanced around.

Qiao Huizhu was in seclusion, cultivating the Dao.

Hao Cang was also in seclusion, cultivating the Dao.

He Pingsheng entered the grand hall where Qiao Huizhu was meditating, found a safe spot, and placed down several fourth-rank arrays.

These ten days were impossible for Dao cultivation, but he could do other things.

For example, examine the 【Tai Xuan Immortal Artifact Method】 and the 【Western Extreme Puppet Art】.

He Pingsheng had already studied these two texts for nearly a hundred years, but since he was about to craft the death-substitution puppet, he needed to refresh his mastery.

At the same time, He Pingsheng used his mind for two tasks, pulling out two rings.

One red, one blue!

Both rings were exquisitely crafted.

They came from Bing Yi, the only items He Pingsheng had taken after slaying her, and he had yet to inspect their contents.

"Huh…" Looking at the rings, He Pingsheng took a deep breath: "A Void Refinement powerhouse—even if only first-layer Void Refinement—must have had plenty of good things."

He first took the red ring and gently erased its faint seals.

The ring's contents spilled out before him in a rush.

A small mountain.

Many spirit stones.

Hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit stones, hundreds of thousands of mid-grade, and only forty to fifty thousand high-grade.

Besides spirit stones, there were also some talismans, elixirs, and more!

But not many.

"Come…" He Pingsheng waved his hand, and the talismans flew over.

Each talisman hovered before him like a token.

Mostly fourth- and fifth-rank.

Sixth-rank ones weren't absent, but only one existed.

He Pingsheng reached out and took the sixth-rank talisman in hand.

It was an ice-blue jade plaque.

His spiritual sense probed inside, and the plaque's information appeared in his spiritual sense.

It was a sixth-rank defensive talisman called the 【Heavenly Ice Talisman】.

This is good!

He Pingsheng thought for a moment and directly placed the Heavenly Ice Talisman into the Treasure Basin.

In this Imperial City, the only Mahayana-level powerhouse was the Zhu Que Demon Emperor—but Zhu Que had already left the city for the Heavenly King Mountain Ascension Platform.

So He Pingsheng wasn't worried the Treasure Basin would leak any aura while in use.

After all, the Treasure Basin was still inside his ring, sealed under layers of defenses!

He Pingsheng continued inspecting.

Some jade slips!

All were ice-elemental cultivation methods and divine arts.

He Pingsheng glanced through them and finally selected one ice-elemental divine art: "I'll enhance this—maybe I can give it to Sister Qiao later!"

Qiao Huizhu was fine in cultivation, but her combat techniques were too limited.

She needed more offensive and defensive options.

Next! He Pingsheng put away the first red ring and opened the second blue ring.

The blue ring contained alchemical materials, mostly fifth-rank, with over twenty sixth-rank spirit herbs.

Keep them!

These might be useful for alchemy later.

The ring also held alchemical materials, array materials, and some talisman paper.

Besides these, there were a few magic treasures.

One white jade plaque!

A low-grade magic treasure with twenty-one seals.

It could defend against spiritual sense attacks.

He Pingsheng finally understood why Bing Yi hadn't been affected by his and Hao Cang's repeated spiritual sense assaults.

So that's why she had this treasure!

One blue-green sword, also a magic treasure, but mid-grade.

This is good!

He Pingsheng smiled and murmured: "I can enhance this sword and give it to Sister Qiao—or use it myself!"

Why?

Because although Qiao Huizhu possessed a Heaven-Connecting magic treasure, it was too conspicuous; this magic treasure was better for daily use, and she could save the Heaven-Connecting one for desperate moments.

Nothing else of great value remained.

The next phase: enhancement!

One Heavenly Ice Talisman was enhanced into two SSS-grade 【Ice Flower World】 talismans.

Name: Ice Flower World

Rank: Sixth-rank SSS-grade talisman.

Effect: When activated, it creates a hundred-zhang-wide Ice Flower World around the user, possessing unmatched defensive power—it can withstand a single strike from a peak Void Refinement cultivator and last two hours if unbroken.

Seeing the Ice Flower World's ability, He Pingsheng smiled.

Just too powerful!

In short: once deployed, even a peak Void Refinement cultivator couldn't break it—unless they were an extraordinary prodigy.

The white spiritual-sense-defending jade plaque was enhanced into two.

One black, one red!

Both were SSS-grade magic treasures.

The black one was named 【Spirit Soul】, the red one 【Spirit Hero】.

These required no activation—once assimilated and worn, they defended against enemy spiritual sense attacks.

They could resist the spiritual sense power of a peak Void Refinement cultivator.

He Pingsheng wore the black Spirit Soul himself and planned to give the red one to Qiao Huizhu.

The ice-elemental magic treasure sword was also enhanced into two.

One named 【Dragon Xiao Sword】, the other 【Flying Snow Sword】.

Both were SSS-grade magic treasures with twenty-four seals.

The ice-elemental divine art was likewise enhanced into two.

First: Heavenly Ice Sword Slash.

Second: Ten Thousand Ice Merged to Dust.

……

"Sister, take these!" He Pingsheng stood before Qiao Huizhu: "Earlier, Hao Cang and I teamed up to slay Bing Yi, and we got a lot of good things from her!"

"I think they're perfect for you!"

"Take a look!"

One Flying Snow Sword, one red 【Spirit Hero】 to defend against spiritual sense attacks, two jade slips recording the divine arts 【Ten Thousand Ice Merged to Dust】 and 【Heavenly Ice Sword Slash】—both stronger than Nine Sky Ice Dragon and Heavenly Snow Lock Realm.

Also one ice-elemental defensive talisman: 【Ice Flower World】.

After giving the items to Qiao Huizhu, He Pingsheng watched her return to seclusion, then left the courtyard.

A teleportation, and he appeared at the Shanghui 's entrance.

He had agreed with the Third Elder of Tianhuo Shanghui to attend the Jiaoyi Society at Gu Song Mountain.

The time had come.