Cultivation of Immortality: Start by Improving Spiritual Root Qualifications

Chapter 910 Inventorying Treasures, the Life and Fortune of a Nascent Soul Transformation cultivator!
Three days later, in a deserted valley,
A ray of light descended from the sky, transforming into a handsome young man dressed in a blue robe.

This person was Zhou Xun.

That day, after killing Leng Wuyai, Zhou Xun quickly left the place.

After all, such a big commotion would attract countless people.

In addition, news of Starfall Valley had already spread.
If too many people gather around, even if he grasps a sliver of the meaning, he'll likely be in big trouble.

So he immediately set off at full speed, and after three days, he had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles away from the scene of the incident before he finally stopped.

He glanced around.
The valley was deep and secluded, surrounded by ancient trees and vines, creating an extremely tranquil atmosphere. The distant sound of a babbling brook added to the serenity.

Zhou Xun nodded slightly, quite satisfied with the place.

He raised his hand and waved, sending out several array flags that instantly set up a concealment array that enveloped the entire valley.

In this way, even a Nascent Soul Peak cultivator passing by would find it difficult to detect his presence.

"Next, it's time to take stock of the harvest."

Zhou Xun sat cross-legged and first took out the black bead.

These were his spoils after killing Leng Wuyai.
To be honest, this thing did cause him quite a bit of trouble back then.

Zhou Xun sat cross-legged and first took out the black bead. The surface of the bead was covered with fine ice patterns, and it was icy cold to the touch, with a faint chill emanating from it.

"This should be Leng Wuyai's natal magic weapon," Zhou Xun murmured to himself, a wisp of lightning flickering at his fingertips as he gently touched the round bead.

"Om-"

The bead suddenly trembled violently, and the ice patterns on its surface lit up with a ghostly blue light. A force of resistance came and actually repelled Zhou Xun's spiritual power.

"Interesting." Zhou Xun raised an eyebrow, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. He increased his spiritual power output, his divine sense surging into the bead like a tidal wave.

The instant the divine sense touched the core of the bead, a chilling divine thought suddenly erupted:

"Get out!"

Zhou Xun's mind was shaken, and a blurry phantom appeared inside the bead, which was none other than Leng Wuyai's appearance!
"A remnant soul?" Zhou Xun sneered.
"No wonder the refining process was hindered; it turns out they had this trick up their sleeve."

The original master fell at his hands, let alone a mere remnant soul.

The illusory figure had a ferocious expression and said in a stern voice:
"Zhou Xun! You killed my physical body and now you want to take my natal magic weapon? Wishful thinking!"

"A mere remnant soul dares to be so presumptuous?" Zhou Xun was unconcerned, his divine sense transforming into a sharp sword, piercing straight at the illusory figure.

"Ah—" the phantom screamed in agony, but still held on to the core of the bead, refusing to give in.

A white arc of lightning flashed from Zhou Xun's fingertips; it was his Yin Lightning, the nemesis of Yin spirits.

But after a moment's thought, he gave up.

He immediately reached for his waist, and a flash of black light transformed it into a small, foot-long banner that landed in his palm.

Then, he made a hand seal and pointed it towards the banner.
"Wake up and get to work!"

"Hoohoo!"

As soon as the words were spoken, an excited shout came from inside the banner.

Then a beam of azure light flew out, landed on the ground, and transformed into a monkey over ten feet in size.

It was the soul-devouring beast, the Azure Ape!
The ape's fur was extremely glossy, emitting a faint golden light.
As soon as the blue ape appeared, it showed an extremely excited expression.

Several years have passed since Zhou Xun last released him, and he has become somewhat impatient staying inside the banner.

As soon as it emerged, it set its gaze on the black bead opposite it.

When the remnant soul was seen by the green ape, a shiver and fear rose from the depths of its soul!

This is the innate fear brought about by a natural nemesis.
Just then, Zhou Xun's voice rang out.
"Xiaoqing, go, this person is yours!"

Upon hearing this, the blue ape was overjoyed, like a cat seeing a fish, and excitedly punched its nose a few times.
Then a faint light flashed on the tip of the nose.
A bluish-green light shot out from within, enveloping the bead opposite.

Bathed in this light, the black phantom was drawn out.
They kept pulling and tugging, and then
"Whoosh-"

The phantom formed from the remnant soul was enveloped in azure light and was instantly pulled into the belly of the azure ape without any resistance.

The ape patted its belly with satisfaction, then nuzzled Zhou Xun's arm affectionately with its head, indicating its great contentment!
After all, it was the remnant soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and this was the first time it had ever eaten such a thing.

Then Zhou Xun handed over the remaining storage rings to Xiao Qing.
Then he inhaled through his nose, and all the remaining souls were swallowed into his stomach.

It's important to understand that once one's cultivation reaches the Nascent Soul stage, their soul contains a certain spirituality. Even for someone like him, obliterating their remnant souls is no easy task.

He estimated that it would take at least a month to erase the divine consciousness imprint inside a storage ring.

The Grand Ceremony of the Descending World only lasts for one year.

After doing this,

Zhou Xun patted the blue ape's head, then pointed at the little flag!
Although the ape was reluctant, it obediently transformed into a streak of azure light and flew inside.
Then Zhou Xun took out the round bead.

Mana infusion,

The bead immediately emitted a deep blue light, and the ice patterns on its surface began to move as if they were alive.

Zhou Xun felt a chill in his palm as an extremely pure and icy power surged into his body through his meridians.

"Such pure ice-attribute spiritual power!" Zhou Xun exclaimed inwardly.

This bead can autonomously extract the essence of ice from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; no wonder Leng Wuyai was able to unleash such fierce ice-based spells.

He tried to sink his consciousness into the core of the bead, and this time there was no obstacle. The internal structure of the bead was complex and mysterious, and three simple characters were engraved at the core: "Mystic Ice Bead".

"Mystic Ice Pearl?"

Zhou Xun frowned slightly, feeling as if he had heard the name somewhere before.

Suddenly his pupils contracted as he recalled reading in ancient books that the Xuanming Pearl was the treasure of the ancient Xuanbing Sect, capable of freezing everything, even sealing off countless worlds!
"It seems this is a replica of that treasure!"

Zhou Xun carefully sensed it and found that although the bead contained astonishing cold energy, it was still far from the legendary power.

Even so, it is still a rare treasure.

"Even if I don't really need it, I can just exchange it!"

Zhou Xun then carefully put it away.

Then he picked up the storage ring, opened it, and examined it.

Sure enough, the storage ring contained an astonishingly large amount of space, almost like a small world.
It was many times larger than his storage bag.

"Putting everything else aside, this storage ring alone is a rare treasure, and it's mine!"

Zhou Xun then formed hand seals and pointed them towards himself.
He activated the 'Spiritual Azure Light Eye'.
Then it scanned the ring.
"There's hardly any residue left!"

Zhou Xun nodded. This eye technique is specifically designed to inscribe restrictions; if there's any backdoor, it definitely won't escape his detection.
If one could escape, how could Leng Wuyai possibly come into contact with them?

Zhou Xun guessed that only a cultivator at the peak of the Void Refinement stage, or even higher, could set up such a restriction to escape his eye technique's detection. "Next, let's see what treasures you have!"

"This is spirit crystals, a large quantity of spirit crystals!"

Zhou Xun held in his hand a piece of jade the size of an egg, crystal clear and radiating a strong spiritual energy.
Isn't this a spirit crystal, which is a hundred times more precious than a top-grade spirit stone?
Zhou Xun was overjoyed and immediately began counting them one by one.

"A full one hundred and forty-three!"

Zhou Xun was stunned.

You should know that, being from the human realm, he wasn't well-off.
Although their strength is no less than that of those Nascent Soul cultivators, their wealth is nowhere near as great.

Even some peak Nascent Soul cultivators are richer than him.

For example, the Pavilion Master Su of the 'Tianque Pavilion' is much wealthier than him.

Zhou Xun continued to inventory the treasures in his storage ring. When his divine sense swept over several jade boxes in the corner, which were covered with heavy restrictions, his breath caught in his throat.

"This is."

He carefully took out one of the pure white jade boxes, and the moment he broke the seal, a refreshing fragrance wafted out.

Inside the box lay a crimson spirit herb shaped like a phoenix spreading its wings, with naturally formed flame patterns on its leaves, and the clear, melodious cry of a phoenix could be faintly heard.

"A fifth-grade, low-level 'Crimson Phoenix Grass'!" Zhou Xun's pupils constricted slightly.

This herb is a legendary healing elixir. It is said that as long as one has a breath left, consuming it will allow one to be reborn from the ashes and fully recover from injuries. Even more remarkably, this herb also has miraculous effects on the primordial spirit damage of Nascent Soul cultivators.

Then he took out a dark green jade box, and as soon as he opened it, a beam of silver light shot into the sky.

Zhou Xun reacted swiftly, instantly enveloping the silver light in a net of lightning. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a completely silver-white fruit, its surface covered with fine star patterns, radiating a rich stellar power.

"A fifth-grade low-level 'Starlight Dao Fruit'!" Zhou Xun's voice trembled slightly. This fruit needs to be nurtured for a thousand years in a place rich in stellar power to mature. After consuming it, it can help cultivators comprehend the Great Dao of the Stars. It is a treasure for cultivators who cultivate stellar-related divine abilities.

"As expected of a Nascent Soul cultivator, he can even collect such rare spiritual herbs." Zhou Xun sighed softly, carefully resealing and storing the two spiritual herbs.

Besides these two fifth-tier spiritual medicines,

As for the fourth-grade superior and fourth-grade top-quality items, there are even more, reaching double digits!

"This"

"With so many spiritual herbs, why bother nurturing my natal spiritual plants? I'll just condense them directly."

"That's enough to raise his spiritual root to one hundred points!"

Keep in mind, this is just one of the storage rings.

He killed a total of three Nascent Soul cultivators!
Continue reading below——

"Hey, this shield..."

Zhou Xun took out a pure white shield from Leng Wuyai's storage ring. It was about the size of a palm, with a silvery sheen like stars flowing across its surface. It was cool to the touch like jade, yet it exuded a profound spiritual aura.

"This is……"

He channeled a wisp of magic into his fingertip, and the shield instantly swelled to over ten feet in size, hovering in front of him. Intricate runes appeared on its surface, faintly forming a tortoise-shell-like phantom that exuded an aura of indestructibility.

"A semi-spiritual treasure!" A hint of surprise flashed in Zhou Xun's eyes.

Although this shield has not reached the level of a true spiritual treasure, it already possesses spirituality. With long-term nurturing, it will surely advance further in time.

On a sudden impulse, he bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of...

In fact, all semi-spiritual treasures are like this; they already possess the foundation to be upgraded to spiritual treasures, but they simply need a long period of nurturing.

Of course, obtaining some naturally occurring spiritual creatures can shorten this process.

"Let's test the defense!" Zhou Xun raised his hand and made a hand seal, and seventy-two lightning seeds transformed into sword light and slashed at the light shield.

"Qiang! Qiang! Qiang!"

The sword light struck the shield, like metal clashing, sparks flying everywhere, but the shield remained completely still, without even a ripple.

"Such strong defense!" Zhou Xun was secretly shocked.

Although he didn't use his full strength in that attack, it was enough to threaten a Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak, yet it couldn't even shake the shield's autonomous defense.

He pondered for a moment, then suddenly drew his fingers together like a sword, and a purplish-black lightning grass sword materialized in his palm, its blade crackling with destructive lightning, before he thrust it fiercely towards the shield—

"boom!"

The lightning crackled and the ground trembled violently, yet nothing changed; the spiritual light remained undiminished.

"Truly extraordinary!" Zhou Xun sheathed his sword and stood there, overjoyed.

If this shield is fully activated, it could probably withstand even the attacks of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stages. If it can be nurtured into a true spiritual treasure, it might become one of his trump cards against powerful enemies in the future.

If it weren't for the grand ceremony of descending to the realm, which prevented Leng Wuyai from activating this treasure, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to deal with him.

Of course, one cannot motivate oneself.
As for the black bead, it was Leng Wuyai's natal magic weapon, almost equivalent to another body of his.
Nature can drive it, but it cannot exert its original power.

"This haul has been truly substantial!"

Zhou Xun put away the shield and continued searching for other treasures in his storage ring. Soon, his divine sense locked onto an ancient jade slip with a few small characters engraved on it—"The True Explanation of Profound Ice".

"This is... Leng Wuyai's cultivation technique?"

He probed with his divine sense and indeed found that this was an ice-type technique that pointed directly to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. It also recorded several powerful ice-type divine abilities, including the "Mysterious Ice Sealing Heaven Seal" that Leng Wuyai had once used.

“Unfortunately, I specialize in thunder magic, so this technique isn’t very useful to me.” Zhou Xun shook his head, but then thought, “However, some of the concepts behind the cultivation of supernatural powers can be integrated into my thunder magic.”

"As for this technique, I will give it to Xueying in the future!"

He put away the jade slip and continued tapping lightly.
The rest are all common treasures.

This common thing is relative to previous gains. If judged by Zhou Xun's previous perspective in the human world, it would all be a treasure that would cause a sensation.

After Zhou Xun finished thoroughly checking Leng Wuyai's storage ring, he took out two more storage rings belonging to Nascent Soul cultivators.

First, there was the storage ring of the Heavenly Profound Ancestor. A quick scan with his divine sense revealed its contents.

This old monster truly lives up to his reputation as a long-established Nascent Soul cultivator; his wealth far surpasses that of Leng Wuya.

There were over two hundred spirit crystals alone, and various fifth-tier spirit materials were piled up like mountains. The most eye-catching item was a jade slip that was entirely crimson, inscribed with the "Crimson Sun Burning Heaven Technique," which was clearly a fire-based cultivation method aimed directly at the Void Refinement stage.

"This old monster has quite a collection of good things." Zhou Xun chuckled and continued examining the items.

In the corner of the storage ring, a crimson-gold gourd lay quietly, its surface engraved with intricate runes, with faint flame patterns flowing around it.

Zhou Xun took it out, and as soon as he opened it, a scorching heat rushed out, revealing a wisp of "true fire" hidden inside the gourd!
"A good thing!" A hint of joy flashed in Zhou Xun's eyes. Judging from its aura, this fire was the most yang fire in the world.

In his youth, he practiced using a one-time-use artifact called the 'Thunderfire Pearl'.
Its power is extraordinary.

If this true fire and his divine thunder were to be fused together, I wonder what a sight it would be!
It might be able to threaten the late-stage Nascent Soul realm!
(End of this chapter)