Battle Through the Heavens: The Inner Struggle of Cultivation Brings Xiao Yan to Tears

After refining the bear blood into a dozen drops of essence blood, he stored all the materials in his storage ring.

Then, he began to sit cross-legged on the ground to recover his soul power.

The two puppets stood dutifully not far from Xiao Yang, guarding the cave from two different directions.

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Soon, as time passed, Xiao Yang's soul power and battle qi finally recovered.

He opened his eyes, got up, and led the two puppets into the cave.

The newly acquired puppet scouts ahead, while the half-crippled puppet follows fifty meters behind.

After going about 100 meters deeper, Xiao Yang discovered a fork in the road.

The road on the left, illuminated by the firelight, stretched as far as the eye could see.

This side road is not deep, only about ten meters long.

At the end of the fork in the road were some dry grass and leaves.

There is also a stone.

There is a small dent on the stone.

The dent is very smooth.

Judging from the shape, these marks are likely from the Blazing Bear leaning against the rock for a long time.

This is clearly the lair of the Blazing Bear.

There was a foul smell inside the den, and many bear footprints on the ground.

When he arrived here, he also noticed that the fire-attribute energy of heaven and earth was somewhat active.

No wonder the Blazing Bear likes to stay here.

This place is very likely the location of the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire.

He intended to immediately head to another fork in the road and continue exploring.

However, he discovered that there seemed to be a small space behind the stone.

He went over and saw that there were some weeds and leaves behind it.

However, this is clearly just a cover-up.

He moved aside the weeds and leaves and found several broken weapons and two somewhat dirty storage rings inside.

In addition, there are several good herbs that can be used to heal injuries and restore fighting spirit.

Two more plants were used for detoxification.

Several second-tier magic cores.

These must be the spoils of the Blazing Bear's battle.

Those second-tier magic cores were probably leftovers from its meal.

After all, magical beasts can directly absorb the energy within the magic core.

"This is a great deal for me!"

A hint of joy flashed across Xiao Yang's face, and he immediately created several tasks.

[Task: Obtain four Tier 2 Magic Cores. Reward: One bottle of Grade 2 Qi Recovery Pill and one bottle of Grade 2 Rejuvenation Pill.]

[Task: Obtain twelve mid-tier medicinal herbs; Reward: Thirty-six herb fields.]

[Mission: Obtain three damaged weapons. Reward: Three pieces of special metal.]

[Quest: Obtain two storage rings; Reward: 20 units of herb field.]

Although these rewards aren't many, they're still pretty good.

Especially the reward for medicinal herb fields.

Xiao Yang could never have too much of this stuff.

He directly stored those magic cores into his storage ring.

The medicinal herbs appear to have been stored for quite some time.

It seems that some of the medicine's effects are wearing off.

He had no choice but to store it directly in the storage ring.

Damaged weapons should also be stored in the storage ring.

He directly recognized the two rings as his own.

The markings on these two storage rings shattered at the slightest touch, indicating they were likely killed by the Blazing Bear.

Four system notifications echoed in his mind.

[Quest: Obtain four Tier 2 Magic Cores. Reward: One bottle of Grade 2 Qi Recovery Pill and one bottle of Grade 2 Rejuvenation Pill. Completed. Claim reward?]

[Task: Obtain twelve mid-tier medicinal herbs. Reward: Thirty-six prescriptions for a medicinal herb field. Completed. Claim reward?]

[Mission: Obtain three damaged weapons. Reward: Three pieces of special metal. Completed. Claim reward?]

[Quest: Obtain two storage rings. Reward: 20 units of herb field. Completed. Claim reward?]

Xiao Yang accepted the reward without hesitation.

Next, he began to examine the contents of the two storage rings.

The first storage ring contained only some low- to mid-grade medicinal herbs, a few yellow-grade fighting techniques, a yellow-grade cultivation manual, some daily necessities, and gold coins.

After completing several missions, Xiao Yang obtained over a hundred plots of medicinal fields, a storage ring, and several bottles of second-grade pills.

When Xiao Yang opened the second storage ring, he was immediately shocked by what he found.

This storage ring has a lot of space, almost as big as the storage rings rewarded by the system!

It's important to know that the storage rings awarded by the system have space that is practically at the limit for low-tier storage rings.

However, when Xiao Yang saw the things inside the space, he also understood why the storage ring was so large.

The owner of this storage ring was actually an alchemist!

The storage ring contains many items related to alchemists!

It contains medicinal herbs, elixirs, prescriptions, and alchemy manuals!

In addition to these, there are even Xuan-rank combat skills and cultivation techniques!

Chapter 98 A Big Gain

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Yang immediately started creating a quest based on the items inside.

[Quest: Obtain a mid-level Xuan-rank cultivation technique, "Azure Wave Technique." Reward: Ten drops of Water of Life.]

[Task: Obtain a mid-level Xuan-rank cultivation technique, "Flame Flame Technique." Reward: Fourth-tier Beast Flame, Heavenly Evolution Flame.]

[Quest: Obtain a Grade 4 pill formula. Reward: 5 random high-grade medicinal herbs.]

[Task: Obtain medicinal herbs such as Glass Grass, Dragon Blood Flower, and Green Wood Vine. Reward: One acre of medicinal herb field.]

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In this way, Xiao Yang created more than twenty missions.

There are actually two fourth-grade pill formulas inside this ring!

Although there are more than twenty volumes of books below the fourth rank, Xiao Yang already has them all.

He possessed all the formulas for pills of the third rank and below.

Unless an alchemist creates a new pill formula, he possesses all pill formulas of grade three and below on the Dou Qi Continent.

After categorizing and storing those items in his storage ring, the system notification sounds rang out incessantly.

This time, he obtained more than a dozen bottles of second- and third-grade pills.

There are also ten high-grade medicinal herbs.

There were even two plants that could be transformed into human forms!

Finally, there are the cultivation techniques that come with the storage ring, a total of six volumes!

Two volumes of intermediate-level Xuan-rank cultivation techniques and four volumes of low-level Xuan-rank techniques.

As for the combat techniques, they are all at or below the intermediate level of the Xuan rank, and there are more than a dozen volumes of them!

It's a bit of a pity that there aren't many pills in the storage ring; they're mostly ordinary pills.

However, there are two pills that Xiao Yang also needs to pay attention to.

One is the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, and the other is the Qi-Gathering Powder!

Both are fourth-grade pills.

The Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill is a peak-grade fourth-rank pill.

In addition, there are alchemy manuals inside.

Xiao Yang was now certain that the owner of this storage ring was an alchemist.

The journal contained some clues about the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire.

This fourth-grade alchemist was very likely killed by the Blazing Bear when he came to search for the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire.

After all, once the Blazing Bear enters its berserk state, it can even hold off a Dou Wang for a short while.

The cultivator who died with him must have been a Dou Ling.

Xiao Yang's face was filled with excitement and joy.

It's true what they say: "No man gets rich without unexpected wealth, and no horse gets fat without night grazing!"

I never expected to encounter such a wonderful thing on my way to find the strange fire!

Fortunately, the Blazing Bear doesn't know how to use the storage ring.

Otherwise, Xiao Yang might have been in serious trouble this time.