Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 418 A Delightful Harvest [Please Subscribe]

As a third-tier dragon, Bai Bai possesses exceptional perception abilities in water.

The perception of demonic beasts and the divine sense of cultivators are not the same thing.

Taking the Bai Bai dragon as an example, its perception in the water is formed by a combination of various pheromones such as smell, breath, and vibration in the water.

If it's just about detecting smells, it can even detect the smell of blood from hundreds of miles away!

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to evade the senses of a dragon in the water.

Zhou Chun couldn't be sure that no one was secretly watching the storage bag she had thrown away.

Therefore, for safety's sake, he certainly wouldn't pick it up himself.

If you let Bai Bai pick it up, it will not only make it easier to spot potential enemies, but also allow him to escape in time if something happens.

Lightning Release Technique is the best life-saving escape technique in the world. Except for underground, it can be easily used in the air and water.

Even if there are enemies lying in wait, as long as they are not Nascent Soul cultivators or those exceptionally powerful late-stage Golden Core cultivators, they can escape on their own.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun's worries did not come true.

The storage bag and magical artifact were not found.

Muli Lake covers a vast area. The place where Zhou Chun threw away the storage bag was three or four hundred miles away from his place of seclusion, and five or six hundred miles away from the place where he abandoned his body.

These two objects themselves do not emit any magical energy fluctuations, and they were buried in the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake. Without any special sensory markers for location, it is indeed very difficult to find them.

After Bai Bai brought the items back, Zhou Chun began to carefully examine them.

There are two magical artifacts among them. One is a silver bell covered with cracks, which is a rare high-grade third-tier magical artifact.

The other magical artifact was a slightly damaged pale golden jade bead, also a mid-grade third-tier magical artifact.

Both of these items are defensive magical artifacts. When that person came out through the teleportation array, he was carrying these two magical artifacts in his hand, which is why he was able to use them to protect himself immediately.

Unfortunately, despite taking protective measures, he was still unable to withstand the power of the "Heavenly Divine Thunder" and was severely injured on the spot.

"These two magical artifacts are quite good. After returning to Jingguo, we can try to find Senior Zhu to see if he can repair them."

After briefly examining the two magical artifacts, Zhou Chun put them away without looking at them any further.

He wasn't familiar with any of the four cultivation techniques: alchemy, artifact crafting, talismanic arrays, or other methods. No matter how much he looked, he wouldn't be able to figure it out. It would be better to let a professional take a look later.

Jingguo and Dazhouguo are tens of thousands of miles apart, so he doesn't need to worry that Zhu Wuyai, the master weapon refiner of Jingguo, will recognize the origin of these two items.

Zhou Chun then took the storage bag back into his hand and casually wiped away the remaining trace of divine consciousness inside.

The reason he threw away the storage bag a year ago was because its owner was still alive at the time, and it would be difficult to open the storage bag and check its contents in a hurry.

However, if there is something in the storage bag that can provide directions to one's elders, carrying it on one's person would undoubtedly invite disaster.

At this moment, Zhou Chun erased the previous owner's divine consciousness imprint from the storage bag, shook the bag, and all the contents fell out.

There were quite a few items, including magical artifacts, elixirs, talismans, and various spiritual materials.

First, regarding magical artifacts, in addition to the two third-tier magical artifacts used by human cultivators, Zhou Chun also discovered several magical artifacts used by "multi-winged race" mages. They appeared to be of a high grade and were likely items belonging to grand mages.

The two magical artifacts used by human cultivators were a silver axe and a black iron box.

The silver axe is a high-grade third-tier magic weapon, no less valuable than Zhou Chun's "Golden Rainbow Sword." The black iron box is a mid-grade third-tier magic weapon, containing thirty-six pale gold flying needles, making it a very suitable magic weapon for scheming.

In addition, although Yan Qiyang's body had been reduced to ashes, his ruler magic weapon and giant seal magic weapon were preserved intact. Both of these magic weapons were top-grade third-tier magic weapons, and each of them incorporated a certain amount of magical treasure materials.

The earthen-yellow shield magic weapon he had used before, although it was hit by the aftershocks of the "Heavenly Divine Thunder" and developed many cracks, still had the potential to be repaired, making it a very good magic weapon.

Including these magical artifacts, Zhou Chun now possesses more than ten third-tier magical artifacts, and only one of them is a low-grade third-tier magical artifact.

The other magical artifacts of the "Multi-Winged Clan" mages include staffs, orbs, and flying swords, but cultivators must have them modified by a master craftsman before they can activate them.

Generally speaking, it's better to re-refine than to modify it.

Therefore, these exotic magical artifacts can basically only be regarded as medals to demonstrate merits, with symbolic significance outweighing their practical use.

Zhou Chun studied it for a while and then lost interest.

The remaining pills and talismans were all for healing and self-defense, and Zhou Chun had prepared them himself, which only deepened his accumulation.

What truly interested Zhou Chun were those spiritual materials.

There are many spiritual materials in the storage bag; some are stored in jade boxes, and some are stored directly in the bag.

Zhou Chun was interested in these spiritual materials because they were stored in his storage bag without any packaging. These included a large amount of fourth-order spiritual wood and unpackaged, high-aged medicinal herbs.

Fourth-grade spirit wood is not a common item in the cultivation world. It can be said to be the lowest-grade magic weapon material, and relatively speaking, it is probably the easiest magic weapon material to find.

But even the lowest-grade magical materials are still magical materials, and their value is extraordinary.

But now Zhou Chun discovered a large number of fourth-order spirit woods in that person's storage bag, and they were different varieties of fourth-order spirit woods!

Upon seeing these fourth-tier spirit trees, and recalling that the person had appeared in the ruins at the bottom of Muli Lake via a teleportation array, Zhou Chun couldn't help but have a guess.

"Could the appearance of those colorful clouds be an anomaly caused by the emergence of some ancient ruin?"

If that's the case, then it makes sense.

After all, the ancient ruins are rich in spiritual energy and have never been harvested by cultivators. It is entirely possible that the trees inside have evolved into fourth-order spiritual trees over the years.

In the past, every time the cultivation world discovered such ancient ruins, it would produce a large amount of fourth-order spirit wood, or even fifth-order spirit wood!

Thinking of this, Zhou Chun immediately turned his gaze to the jade boxes, his eyes instantly becoming eager.

He couldn't wait to take a jade box and open it. Inside were five three-foot-long purple spiritual herbs. Their leaves resembled bamboo leaves, but were slightly longer. The tops of the stems had sprouted spikes, and on the spikes grew fruits that looked like bamboo berries.

The fruit was as clear and translucent as amethyst, containing pure spiritual energy.

"The Seven-Leaf Purple Bamboo Grass blooms every thousand years, and the bamboo food it produces is also known as 'Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice,' a delicacy that only Nascent Soul cultivators can enjoy. Long-term consumption can enhance cultivation and prolong life..."

Looking at the purple spiritual herb inside the jade box, Zhou Chun couldn't help but mutter to himself about its origins.

This thing isn't a true thousand-year-old elixir, but its value is far greater than that of ordinary thousand-year-old elixirs.

This is because it's a valuable gift that would be accepted even by a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Ordinary thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are not even worth a glance from a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

As far as Zhou Chun knew, in the cultivation world today, only those powerful forces with unbroken lineages would specifically cultivate spiritual fields in places rich in spiritual energy within their mountain gates to grow this spiritual herb as food for their Nascent Soul stage ancestors.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator cannot eat this "purple crystal bamboo rice" every day.

The discovery of these "purple crystal bamboo rice" undoubtedly confirms Zhou Chun's conjecture.

The cultivator he killed had been teleported out from an ancient ruin.

Next, Zhou Chun excitedly opened all the other jade boxes one by one.

As he expected, the contents of these jade boxes were either thousand-year-old medicinal herbs or items of equivalent value.

There were 33 "purple crystal bamboo rice" plants alone, which were packed in seven jade boxes.

The remaining nineteen medicinal herbs are of various kinds, including five ancient herbs that are over three thousand years old.

This ancient and precious medicine is the main ingredient in pills used to refine the magical power of cultivators at the Golden Core stage, and it is also the main ingredient in some special elixirs with powerful medicinal effects.

These are items that are rarely seen at auctions, because owners usually only use them to exchange for certain scarce items, and do not use spirit coins to measure their value.

When Zhou Chun had previously communicated with Luo Qingni, she mentioned that the alchemy masters and weapon crafting masters of Tianyuan Immortal City would hold an exchange meeting every few years to exchange the things they needed.

This exchange is by invitation only; each alchemy master or weapon crafting master can invite some friends to join.

However, they must guarantee that the people they invite will bring enough treasures to join the exchange as a form of exchange, which is a very high bar.

Besides the thousand-year-old elixir and the thousand-year-old precious medicine, Zhou Chun also obtained three items in the jade box whose value was difficult to assess.

Inside the jade box were seven spiritual fruits, each only the size of an egg, resembling oranges, pure green in color, yet dotted with purple spots, containing rich and pure spiritual energy.

Zhou Chun didn't recognize this spiritual fruit, but judging from the pure spiritual energy it emitted, it was definitely a much rarer spiritual fruit than the "Foundation Building Fruit".

The second jade box contained a section of tree root, less than two feet long and about the thickness of a human wrist. It was reddish-purple and exuded a rich vitality.

When Zhou Chun opened the jade box, the wood spirit inside the spirit beast bag seemed to sense it and conveyed an extremely strong desire to him.

Zhou Chun could only appease it first and did not readily agree.

Zhou Chun suspected that these were the roots of a fifth-order spirit tree, but he couldn't identify which type of fifth-order spirit tree they were.

The third jade box contained a piece of emerald green tree heart. It was not an ordinary tree heart, but a spiritual wood core condensed from some kind of fourth-order spiritual wood.

This section of the tree heart is about five feet long, cylindrical in shape, and one foot and three inches in diameter. It is emerald green like beautiful jade and contains extremely pure wood spirit energy.

The wood spirit didn't react to this thing; it seemed to offer it no great benefit.

But Zhou Chun knew that this item was a magical material of extremely high value.

If ordinary fourth-order spirit wood is the lowest-grade material for magical artifacts, then this kind of spirit wood core is the highest-grade material for magical artifacts, and it is the most desired material for refining natal magical artifacts by cultivators of wood-element techniques.

"Luo Qingni should be in seclusion forming her core right now. If I present this as a congratulatory gift after she successfully forms her core, she will surely be very happy!"

Looking at the spirit wood core in front of him, Zhou Chun immediately had an idea of ​​how to use it.

There's no way anyone in the Zhou family would need this. Instead of exchanging it for spirit coins, it's better to give it to a Golden Core cultivator who needs it to curry favor.

Once Luo Qingni reaches the Core Formation stage, her favors will be extremely valuable.

Putting everything else aside, if Zhou Chun and the Zhou family ever ask her to refine pills again, she will definitely give them special treatment.

Besides these elixirs and spirit wood, there were also many broken weapons and puppet fragments among the pile of things on the ground.

These items are all made from rare spirit gold ore. If a master craftsman were to refine them, a considerable amount of rare spirit gold could be extracted, making them quite valuable.

However, those spiritual herbs that were less than a thousand years old had lost a lot of their spiritual power because they were not sealed in jade boxes, which greatly reduced their efficacy and was a great pity.

After completing the inventory of the numerous treasures, Zhou Chun felt extremely satisfied with his gains.

Although he didn't get to venture into that ancient ruin, he has indirectly benefited from it.

But then Zhou Chun seemed to suddenly realize something and exclaimed, "Wait a minute, why aren't there any other treasures? This person was able to get here via the teleportation array, so he must have entered some important place within the ancient ruins!"

Even in ancient times, teleportation arrays were not commonplace and could be found everywhere.

That person was able to reach the bottom of Muli Lake through the teleportation array. Even if they didn't enter the core area of ​​the ancient ruins, they should have entered some important place!

Zhou Chun's eyes flickered, and based on this, he quickly came up with two guesses.

Alternatively, the teleportation array itself might just be a short-distance teleportation array used for travel between two places, and the ruins at the bottom of Muli Lake are not far from the location of the ancient ruins. This possibility is not low.

Such teleportation arrays are indeed not placed in any important locations.

Either the person he killed was merely a pawn sent by his sect elders to scout ahead, and all the treasures around the teleportation array in the ancient ruins were taken away by his sect elders.

This possibility is not small. If it were Zhou Chun, he wouldn't easily teleport to a teleportation array whose destination he didn't know.

However, regardless of the possibility, it seems to be irrelevant to him now.

With this in mind, Zhou Chun stopped worrying unnecessarily.

He spent some time putting all the items back into his own storage bag, and then put the storage bag away as well.

Once everything was packed, Zhou Chun set off on his journey back to the Great Zhou Kingdom.

He followed the same route he had taken before, only this time he switched from flying to walking.

Although their walking speed is slow, their advantage lies in their stealth and inconspicuousness.

Especially those Golden Core cultivators and Grand Masters, when they fly high in the sky, they generally don't pay attention to people and animals on the ground.

In this way, Zhou Chun spent nearly a month walking more than 7,000 miles to cross the most dangerous part of the journey.

Only after leaving the danger zone did he take off and fly, eventually returning to the Great Zhou Kingdom a month and a half after his departure.

Not long after returning to the Great Zhou Kingdom, Zhou Chun learned of the emergence of the ancient ruins and all sorts of rumors that were spreading like wildfire.

I ate something bad and had diarrhea several times last night. I feel completely exhausted. I'll have to write less today, but I can't help it!

(End of this chapter)