I tamed beasts and achieved immortality in the world of cultivation.

Chapter 142 Murder and Arson: The Golden Belt [Please Subscribe!]

On the other side...

Chen Qing had already left the Blood Spirit Abyss area.

He flew five or six hundred miles in one breath until the faint aura of bloodlust completely dissipated from the tip of his nose, and then found a secluded little mountain hollow to land.

Looking back, the direction of Jueyuan County was already obscured by layers of mountains, and nothing could be seen, but Chen Qing still stared at that direction for a long time.

"That Master Ma is probably so angry he's tearing down mountains right now," Chen Qing thought with a slight smirk.

How could I not be happy?

That is the Origin Core of All Things.

This is something that even Golden Core cultivators covet. Back when Lu Chenxing was in the Golden Core stage, he went to great lengths to acquire it.

The greatest use of the Myriad Manifestations Origin Core is as an auxiliary spiritual object when a cultivator breaks through a realm. Of course, just one first-level core is definitely not enough. To break through to the Nascent Soul stage, one needs to gather at least a variety of spiritual objects, but Chen Qing did not know exactly what those objects were.

In short, this thing is awesome, but Chen Qing, a Qi Refining cultivator, doesn't fully understand why it's awesome.

Chen Qing withdrew his gaze, but his eyes involuntarily fell towards the direction of the Qian Kingdom in the north.

Qian Kingdom, a realm of demonic forces.

Five years ago, he and Xiao Chunan finished dividing the spoils in the drizzle. One of them went south and the other went north, still teasing each other as they left.

Who would have thought that what was just an ordinary farewell would turn into five years of separation?

A year ago, after Xiao Chunu broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, she specially asked her Golden Core master, True Lord Lingyun, to explore the "Spirit Abyss Secret Realm" from back then.

As a result, True Monarch Lingyun discovered that Xiao Chunan had not returned to Lingyun Sect for some reason, but instead headed north and entered the territory of Qian Kingdom.

That's the territory of the demonic path. Although the Blood Soul Sect's power has shrunk considerably in recent years, the five kingdoms under its jurisdiction have become even more chaotic due to the lack of a leader. Murder and robbery, sect mergers, and feuds among rogue cultivators have created a complete mess.

Although Lingyun Zhenjun was a Golden Core stage cultivator, he could only retreat in the face of that situation.

Chen Qing was silent for a moment, then muttered to himself, "In the demonic realm, even Golden Core cultivators who enter can't guarantee a safe return. Brother Chu Nan, you better not die. If you do, who will be competing with me for fish?"

He then turned around and summoned the Azure Wind Boat, flying south.

Two days later, at Qinghe Lake.

Chen Qing sat cross-legged on a futon on the second floor of the bamboo building, with a row of things in front of him.

He first picked up a golden bead the size of an apple and examined it in his palm.

Although it's called a bead, it actually feels more like something between a solid and a liquid, with fine golden lines flowing throughout, each line slowly wriggling as if it were alive.

This is the Origin Core of All Things.

After the snow demon died, it solidified into this golden bead.

Chen Qing held it up to his eyes, looked at it against the sunlight outside the window for a while, and then reluctantly put it into the jade box, and then put it into the most secret corner of the beast taming space.

"Whether I can achieve the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stage in the future depends on you," he muttered to himself, then chuckled.

Then, Chen Qing took out the Ice Soul Crystal from his storage bag.

As soon as the head-sized crystal was taken out, the temperature in the entire bamboo building dropped, and a thin layer of white frost condensed on the corner of the table.

Chen Qing reached out and rubbed his hand on the surface of the crystal. It was icy cold to the touch, but he was thick-skinned and didn't even flinch.

"With this Ice Soul Crystal, there's no need for the Ice Heart Lotus anymore. One crystal can be exchanged for a Foundation Establishment Pill."

A smile appeared on Chen Qing's lips as he examined the Ice Soul Crystal several times before finally putting it into his storage bag.

Then, Chen Qing turned his gaze to the large bunch of colorful storage bags in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

There was a time when he couldn't even afford the most basic storage bag.

Fifty spirit stones was an astronomical sum for him at the time.

Looking back now, he had filled one storage bag after another, and these lowest-level storage bags had become his least valuable possessions.

One by one, the storage bags were opened, and Chen Qing arranged the contents of each bag on the low table in a categorized manner.

The ritual implements were piled up in a small heap.

He didn't even bother to look at the low-grade and mid-grade first-tier items, casually tossing them aside—he'd take them to the black market later to sell them for whatever spirit stones he could get.

There are four pieces of Tier 1 superior quality, and they are all in pretty good condition.

The most valuable items were two top-grade magical artifacts. One was Senior Brother Ma's blood-red flying sword, its blade gleaming with a dark, blood-red light and exuding a chilling aura. The other was a bronze mirror, belonging to an unknown cultivator, its surface covered with intricate runes. When infused with spiritual energy, it emitted a golden light screen, possessing considerable defensive power.

The sheer number of spirit stones made him beam with joy.

There were thirteen mid-grade spirit stones and over eighteen hundred low-grade spirit stones, with the spirit stones alone worth over three thousand one hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Zhao Tu and his group of five also had a large number of pills, cultivation techniques, and secret arts on them. Chen Qing flipped through them and found that most of them were for cultivation by cultivators from the Blood Spirit Abyss. After flipping through a few pages, he threw them aside.

"Zhao Tu's 'Burning Blood Escape' is quite good; it's very similar to the 'Burning Blood Escape Technique' I obtained before, and it's worth learning from."

"The other Qi Refining stage techniques and secret arts don't appeal to me much. I already have plenty of techniques, spells, and magical artifacts at the Qi Refining stage. I'll sell these things at Wangji Dark Market later."

Chen Qing piled the spirit stones together and began to make plans in his mind.

Four first-grade high-quality magic artifacts can sell for three to four hundred spirit stones each if the market is good; two top-grade magic artifacts can sell for eight hundred to one thousand spirit stones each; and the rest of miscellaneous low-grade magic artifacts, pills, cultivation techniques and secret arts can be sold together for at least eight or nine hundred spirit stones.

Including the thirteen mid-grade spirit stones and more than 1,800 low-grade spirit stones, the things he scraped off Zhao Tu and his companions during his trip to the Abyss Secret Realm amounted to at least 5,000 low-grade spirit stones.

That's equivalent to him raising fish for two years.

The Ice Soul Crystal and the Myriad Manifestations Origin Core are even more priceless and unavailable.

Chen Qing carefully collected the spirit stones and the items he wanted to keep, then sorted and packed the miscellaneous items he planned to sell back into his storage bag. Only then did he straighten up, stretch, and sigh, "Murderers and arsonists wear golden belts, while those who build bridges and roads leave no trace. This saying is absolutely true."

His tone was calm, without pride or self-deprecation, only a faint sigh.

He never kills people on his own initiative, but he is by no means a soft-hearted person. The cultivators of Blood Spirit Abyss are all bloodthirsty people, and he feels no psychological burden in killing them.

Moreover, on the path of cultivation, if you don't kill, others will kill you.

Survival is the only true asset.

Although he took the "Origin Core of All Things", the Abyss Secret Realm will collapse within a day, and some cultivators will inevitably be unable to escape for various reasons.

But that's how cultivation is, especially entering secret realms, which are inherently fraught with danger.

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