Mortal: I have a gathering technique

Yue Kingdom, Jingzhou.

In the territory of the barbarians, inside a hidden cave.

Fang Qing stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the dwarf on the ground, a smile appearing on his lips.

The dwarf was only three or four feet tall, with an old face like a dried orange peel, yet he wore a bright red robe with gold embroidery, making him look utterly ridiculous.

This dwarf is none other than the renowned immortal master of the barbarian lands, nicknamed "Golden Light Master"!

However, the current condition of this Venerable Jin Guang is clearly not very good.

His short body was bound tightly with iron chains as thick as a thumb, and his mouth was also gagged. He was completely unconscious.

His miserable state was undoubtedly caused by Fang Qing.

Fang Qing was originally an ordinary disciple of the Jingjiao Society in Jiayuan City. Four years ago, due to an injury, he unexpectedly awakened his innate wisdom and realized that he had transmigrated to the world of mortal cultivation.

It's said that time travelers always have a cheat code, and Fang Qing is no exception.

His cheat ability is called "Gathering Technique"!

According to this technique, everything can be gathered!

At the same time, this collection technique is divided into two types: "random" and "directed".

As the name suggests, "random" means uncertain, and what you get depends on luck, while "targeted" means a specific target.

Among them, "Targeted Collection" can only be used once a day, while "Random Collection" has no limit on the number of times it can be used, but the more times it is used on the same day, the lower the success rate.

Fang Qing had conducted experiments and found that, under normal circumstances, after three to five attempts, the probability of successful collection was approximately zero.

At this moment, Fang Qing squatted down and placed his right hand above the forehead of the Golden Light Master.

A silent whisper in my heart:

"Memory Collection!"

As he gently cupped his fingers, a fist-sized golden ball of light floated out from between the eyebrows of the Golden Light Master and landed in Fang Qing's palm.

This golden ball of light is none other than the memories of Master Jin Guang's entire life.

This is targeted collection, with a 100% success rate.

After acquiring the memory, Fang Qing's heart stirred, and the golden light immediately receded, transforming into a black bead the size of an egg.

According to the principles of the gathering technique, the collected items can be transformed into whatever form Fang Qing desires.

In the past, when Fang Qing collected other people's memories, he would transform them into black beads and name them "Memory Beads".

This recording bead is like a personal documentary of his past life; Fang Qing can take it out and view it anytime, anywhere, as long as he wants.

The reason Fang Qing traveled all the way from Lanzhou to the barbarian territory of Jingzhou to kidnap Jin Guang Shangren and collect his memories was for the purpose of cultivating immortality techniques.

Now that he has transmigrated to the world of mortal cultivation, how could Fang Qing be content to just mingle in the secular martial arts world?

If you want to enter the world of cultivation, the Golden Light Master is the best beginner's gift.

This treasure-delivering boy's cultivation level was only at the third level of Qi Refining. He not only did not know any magic, but he also needed to chant incantations to activate talismans.

Any martial arts master could easily capture him without taking any damage by launching a sneak attack.

That's how Fang Qing succeeded!

"Unfortunately, I don't have a control panel and can't collect data on myself, so I can't determine the state of my spiritual root."

Seeing that the golden light would not awaken anytime soon, Fang Qing shook his head and sighed, walked to the side, picked up the recording bead and watched silently.

Jin Guang's first half of life was very monotonous.

More than forty years ago, he was born into a Qin family of cultivators in Qinye Ridge.

The Qin family was once very prominent, with some of their ancestors even being Core Formation cultivators.

However, when Jin Guang was born, the Qin family had already completely fallen into ruin, and only he and his father, two spiritual root cultivators, remained in the entire family.

When Jin Guang was eighteen, his father went out to visit a friend and never returned.

At that time, there was also a family of cultivators surnamed Ye stationed at Qinye Ridge.

Seeing that Jin Guang was all alone and only had the cultivation level of the third level of Qi Refining, the Ye family decided to take advantage of him.

Jin Guang was quite perceptive; after realizing the Ye family's scheme, he immediately fled with the family's treasures.

After that, he fled east and west until he arrived in this barbarian territory, where he finally felt at ease and settled down.

Fang Qing wasn't interested in Jin Guang's life of pleasure in his later years; he was mainly interested in the cultivation techniques in Jin Guang's memories.

However, after searching through Jin Guang's memories of more than forty years, he only found a cultivation technique called "Mysterious Gold Sword Art".

Moreover, it only contains the contents of the first six levels of Qi Refining.

"That lazybones!"

Fang Qing's expression was very unpleasant.

Originally, he thought that with his golden five spiritual roots, he would definitely try all five cultivation methods when he first started cultivating to see which one suited him best before choosing which system to cultivate.

But Jin Guang was different. After determining his five elemental roots, he directly chose the Profound Gold Sword Technique, without even glancing at the other four elemental techniques.

This completely thwarted Fang Qing's plan to "test his own spiritual root with cultivation techniques".

Actually, this is not Jin Guang's fault, since his family's main martial arts technique is the "Mysterious Gold Sword Technique".

Moreover, according to Jin Guang's memory, this Xuanjin Sword Technique was the method practiced by the Qin family's old ancestor who had reached the Core Formation stage, and the inherited technique reached the late Core Formation stage.

In that case, how could Jin Guang possibly choose a cultivation technique of other attributes?

"Fine, one path it is then. At least I can test if I have a metal spiritual root."

Fang Qing shook his head. He held the image-recording bead in his hand, comparing it with Jin Guang's cultivation experience while pondering the text of the first level of the Xuanjin Sword Technique.

……

Time flies like an arrow, and a new day soon arrives.

Because Fang Qing administered a sufficient amount of sleeping pills, Jin Guang remained unconscious throughout the ordeal.

Once the gathering technique refreshed, Fang Qing cast it on the golden light again.

This time, he will collect the golden spiritual root.

"Spiritual Root - Gathering!"

As Fang Qing silently shouted, another golden ball of light emerged from Jin Guang's body.

Fang Qing held up the ball of light and brought it close to his eyes. Inside the ball of light, five wisps of clouds—blue, red, yellow, white, and black—were intertwined, churning and swirling.

"Is this what a spiritual root is?"

Fang Qing stared at it for a while, then transformed the ball of light into a five-colored pill and put it away.

Immediately afterwards, he reached out and rummaged through Jin Guang's arms, and soon found a small golden bag about the size of a palm.

According to Jin Guang's memory, this small golden bag was the Qin family's heirloom storage bag.

There wasn't much in the bag.

A Qin family genealogy, an Ascension Token, a jade slip for inheriting cultivation techniques, a Vajra Talisman, and a Xuanjin Sword Talisman Treasure.

In addition, there were two low-grade spirit stones, one for fire and one for earth, and six thousand taels of gold.

Fang Qing was still a mortal and unable to open the storage bag. He played with it in his hand for a while before putting it into his pocket.

Then, he looked down at the unconscious Jin Guang, his brows furrowing slightly.

Originally, he was thinking about whether to let Jin Guang go after he got the item.

But after reviewing Jin Guang's memories, he discovered that this person was not a good person at all.

The Taoist temple where he currently resides was seized by him through a scheme after he murdered the previous abbot.

During his seclusion, he became obsessed with money, often accepting gold from others and secretly helping them murder innocent people.

Fang Qing felt no guilt about killing such a shameless scoundrel.

He grabbed the chain, lifted the golden light outside the cave, and placed it in the sunlight.

He then walked to a distance, took out a throwing knife, and threw it from afar.

The throwing knife flashed and precisely pierced Jin Guang's neck.

Then, Fang Qing vaguely saw a white ball of light, about the size of a thumb, fly out from between Jin Guang's eyebrows. However, under the blazing sun, the ball of light flickered a few times and then vanished.