The Long Journey to Immortality

Therefore, Han Lu killed all the monsters that she could not use to avoid causing herself trouble.

Despite the cover of the black mist, Wen Erya quickly finished washing and changing her clothes in front of everyone. While tidying her slightly damp long hair, she walked to Han Lu's side.

Looking at the spoils scattered on the ground, Wen Erya said, "Junior sister, we were able to win so easily thanks to your outstanding performance. How about we split these things 60/40? You get 60, and I get 40."

The items belonging to the Three Heroes of the Western Regions were just extra spoils from this duel, so Han Lu didn't care much about them. She generously said, "Senior Sister, no need. We can split it 50/50. I'll take more magic tools, and you can take more spirit stones and pills."

Wen Erya had no objection to Han Lu's arrangements.

After exchanging a few more words, the two transferred the cultivation resources to their own storage bags, leaving behind only the corpses of twelve demonic beasts, spirit beasts, and the three heroes of the Western Regions on the ground.

Just as the two were thinking about how to dispose of the bodies, five directors of the Hans Company arrived at the site under the protection of numerous security personnel.

All five of them appeared before Wen Erya and Han Lu with fawning smiles on their faces, showing no sign of the unpleasantness they felt about handing over the precious treasure to Han Lu and Wen Erya.

The director whom Ke Jitong had previously addressed as Mr. Ran walked at the front and congratulated Han Lu and Wen Erya, saying, "You two seniors are truly amazing and powerful. You fought beautifully and won brilliantly."

Wen Erya still remembered the director's surname. "Mr. Ran, it's time to fulfill the bet."

“Of course, of course,” Director Ran said, “but the underground warehouse at headquarters not only contains the magic weapon you mentioned, but also a lot of Hans Company’s technological products, so it will take some time to inventory and organize them before we can deliver what you two seniors want and fulfill the bet.”

Mr. Ran repeatedly assured, "Rest assured, seniors, we will absolutely deliver everything into your pockets as agreed in the bet."

Han Lu said, "Okay, but if we find out that you have deliberately withheld, concealed, or covered up anything..."

Mr. Ran replied without hesitation, "Even if those two seniors were to demolish the Hans Building, my colleagues and I would have no complaints."

On someone else's turf, and with things already discussed to this extent, Han Lu and Wen Erya didn't bother to question them.

“Alright, since you’re so sincere,” Han Lu looked at the corpses on the ground and had an idea, “we’ll just give these corpses to you as a favor.”

“Isn’t studying these things better than focusing all your efforts on those magical artifacts? Consider it our compensation to you.”

Upon hearing Han Lu's words, all the directors and researchers showed expressions of delight.

Although Han Lu and Wen Erya considered these to be just a dozen or so useless corpses, the directors and researchers who had just witnessed the power of the cultivators saw them as a great gift.

The gambling match allowed them to collect a lot of data and information, and the corpses on the ground were enough for them to carry out more and more feasible research, thereby increasing the possibility of breaking down the barrier between technology and cultivation.

"Thank you, seniors." Several directors stood up to express their gratitude.

"It's a small matter," Han Lu said with a smile. "As long as you don't come looking for revenge later and let us kill less, what's wrong with giving you a few more magical items?"

Under the influence of the three heroes of the Western Regions, Hans Company also gained a certain understanding of the classification of magical treasures.

Compared to higher-level magical artifacts, spiritual weapons, and magical treasures, lower-level magical items like magical tools are obviously easier to activate with technological power and unleash their power in their hands.

Therefore, Mr. Ran hurriedly stated, "Rest assured, seniors, Hans Company can afford to lose. We are willing to accept defeat and will definitely not cause you any more trouble."

Wen Erya nodded slightly and casually summoned the golden bell and spirit sword that Ke Jitong had just used from her storage bag. "Alright, it's a deal. These two items are yours."

Han Lu also voluntarily gave away the giant shield that Yu Wenzhang had used.

These magical items were incompatible with the two women's birth charts. Since the two women were about to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage after leaving the ancient cultivation secret realm, they naturally didn't mind being generous at this time to avoid future troubles.

"Thank you, senior." A few more unoriginal words of thanks came from Hans Company, as if the directors had really forgotten that they were the losers in this bet.

Numerous security personnel and researchers were left behind to clean up the battlefield and collect the bodies.

Han Lu and Wen Erya returned to the meeting room where they had rested briefly after their initial meeting, along with the five directors.

The reception room had changed its appearance since the gambling match began.

All the tables and chairs had been removed, leaving only numerous safes of various sizes with their doors half-open on the floor.

"Senior Han, Senior Wen," Director Ran addressed them more warmly, "all 132 magical treasures are here, not one is missing."

Upon hearing this three-digit number, Han Lu and Wen Erya's eyes widened in astonishment.

"One hundred and thirty-two magical artifacts of the level of magic weapon or above?" Han Lu quickly calculated in her mind, "If two-tenths of them are spiritual artifacts and half a-tenths are spiritual treasures, then my senior sister and I would be like having plundered the homes of seven or eight Nascent Soul cultivators."

With excitement, Han Lu and Wen Erya opened each safe and took out the valuable treasures inside, conducting a second inventory of the spoils belonging to the winner of the gambling battle.

[Author's Note] Sorry, having a lot of cheats doesn't mean you can do whatever you want.

Chapter 215 Dividing the Spoils

Keeping promises and being obsequious is not because Hans has lost its spirit or ambition after dominating the world for over a thousand years.

Rather, it was because the treasures stored in the Hans Company warehouse, which were part of the bet, were not actually of much value to them.

These rare, high-level magical artifacts, instead of inspiring the scientists at Hans Company to develop any new products combining technology and cultivation, have instead become a significant burden, consuming a great deal of the company's manpower and resources.

The combat prowess of cultivators like Han Lu and Wen Erya was taken seriously by Hans Corporation. In this world where there are only cities and no countries, and where even the succession of super corporations has not resulted in any terrible wars, Hans Corporation does not possess any powerful weapons capable of dealing with cultivators.

Instead of combining the two, it would be better to get rid of the burden and gain the favor of the cultivators who have only temporarily come to this world, so that Hans Company can successfully get through this crisis that will only last thirty days.

If, as it is now, one can obtain some small benefits from cultivators, and more easily obtain research materials that are beneficial to one's own research results than top-tier magic treasures, then that would naturally be the best outcome.

Seeing that Han Lu and Wen Erya wanted to count the treasures themselves, the executives of Hans Company were quite attentive and personally helped the two open the safe door, showing their support.

One by one, the safes that were already half-open were fully opened in front of Han Lu and Wen Erya.

As Director Ran just said, the 132 safes displayed in the reception room do indeed contain magical treasures.

In the field of treasure appraisal, Wen Erya is far more talented than Han Lu. Therefore, this treasure counting operation was led by Wen Erya, who is also the senior apprentice.

Han Lu's perspective is still limited, making it difficult to distinguish between spiritual artifacts and spiritual treasures. However, Wen Erya can clearly judge and even roughly determine whether a spiritual artifact or a spiritual treasure is of the upper, middle, or lower grade, and what kind of supernatural power it possesses.

With ample time, the two took their time, spending a full three hours in the reception room to thoroughly appraise the 132 magical treasures there and categorize and arrange these treasures, which even Nascent Soul cultivators would covet.

Of the 132 magical treasures, 98 were of the level of magic artifacts, 25 were of the level of spiritual artifacts, and the number of the top-level spiritual treasures exceeded Han Lu and Wen Erya's expectations, reaching as many as nine.

What attracted their attention most were naturally these nine magical treasures.

It's important to understand that even a Nascent Soul cultivator might not possess a single Spirit Treasure-level artifact, which gives you an idea of ​​how rare such treasures are in the Central Plains world, let alone nine appearing at once. Even the appearance of just one unclaimed Spirit Treasure would cause a major upheaval in that sparsely competitive cultivation world.

Among the nine magical treasures, there are four magical swords.

A pair of red beads, about the size of an earplug.

A pair of earrings.

A large cauldron used for sacrificial offerings and cooking.

A sturdy ribbon that looks no different from any other ordinary object.

The last item is a white porcelain bottle similar to the Heaven-Stealing Bottle, a treasure of the Zhengyi Sect.

Han Lu and Wen Erya were only inner disciples, so naturally they had never seen the true appearance of the Heaven-Stealing Bottle. Based on the legends, they subconsciously felt that the small bottle that appeared in front of them this time might have some connection with the sect's treasure.

Looking at the treasures scattered on the ground, Han Lu suddenly remembered something. "Senior sister, could you help me check if there are any spirit-level treasures among the treasures I got a few days ago?"

“Okay.” It was a small matter, and Wen Erya readily agreed.

Han Lu obtained a total of five magical artifacts in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the nature of which was unclear—whether they were spiritual weapons or magical treasures.

With Wen Erya's help, Han Lu finally figured out their order of precedence.

Of the five items, only one reached the level of a spiritual treasure.

A jade calligraphy brush was Han Lu's biggest acquisition in the past few days.

Having figured out the rarity of the many magical treasures on the ground, the most difficult task for those outside the cooperative operation came to Han Lu and Wen Erya.

Dividing the treasure.

However, others are others, and Han Lu and Wen Erya are Han Lu and Wen Erya. The story of turning against each other to divide up the treasure may play out among some cultivators, but it will never turn Han Lu and Wen Erya against each other.

Wen Erya originally intended to let Han Lu take the lion's share based on their contributions in the recent betting contest.

But Han Lu was adamant and insisted on dividing the treasure equally.

Han Lu's thinking was simple: most of these treasures would end up in the sect's pocket after they left, and the two of them could only take a cut, getting half a percent out of ten. They didn't really need to care about the slightest gain or loss.

The two pushed each other back, and finally each took a half step back.

Han Lu took five of the nine magical treasures, and the remaining treasures were divided equally according to their quantity.

In the blink of an eye, the magical artifacts on the ground entered Wen Erya and Han Lu's storage bags, leaving the five directors standing nearby dumbfounded.

One of the directors, Ran, was quite curious and thought that the two cultivators, Han Lu and Wen Erya, were quite easy to talk to, so he took the initiative to step forward and make a small request.

"You want to take an empty storage bag for research? No problem." Han Lu generously gifted a storage bag that originally belonged to Ke Jitong to Hans Company.

Holding the storage bag, Director Ran tried to tinker with it just like Han Lu had done before. Although it was unusable, he was still overjoyed.

With all the magical treasures in hand, Han Lu and Wen Erya's trip to the Hans headquarters, which was venturing deep into the "dragon's den and tiger's lair," finally came to an end.

"Seniors? Why don't you stay here? All of Hans Company's guest rooms are executive suites, guaranteed to make you both very comfortable." Director Ran saw that Han Lu and Wen Erya wanted to leave, so he quickly stepped forward to persuade them to stay, thinking that he would treat them well and use them as temporary security to prevent other cultivators from coming to the door.

“No need, we have a place to stay,” Wen Erya declined Director Ran’s offer. “Besides, we only have about twenty days left here, we don’t have much time to waste.”

Director Ran looked worried and continued, "Those two seniors, how about we draw up a written agreement stating that all the magical treasures placed in Hans's headquarters have been taken away by you? Otherwise, if any more cultivators come knocking on our door, we'll be in trouble."

In just a short while, a statement appeared in Director Ran's hands.

In their statement, Han Lu and Wen Erya introduced themselves and explained that they had taken all the valuable treasures from Hans's headquarters. They also warned their latecomers not to harm anyone and create bad karma.

The wording in the statement was very polite.

After all, four of the five cultivators who belonged to non-Central Plains cultural spheres were no longer able to participate in the treasure hunt. Han Lu and Wen Erya both knew that this statement was written for their fellow disciples as well as the cultivators of the Seven Mountains Alliance and Xuan Yang Valley.

Being polite and courteous would prevent things from getting sour. After all, they would inevitably have to interact with others once they were out there, and making enemies with living people was not something Han Lu and Wen Erya wanted.

Of course, Wen Erya and Han Lu were not afraid of other cultivators. In fact, they would love for other cultivators to come to them and offer their treasures. If the other party was ungrateful and came to them to snatch the treasures, even if they were from the same sect, Han Lu and Wen Erya would not mind letting them stay in this world forever.

Chapter 216 Spiritual Plants and Refining Materials

Although Han Lu and Wen Erya declined the invitation from Hans Company, in order to win them over, Hans Company presented them with a generous gift.

Two bank cards containing millions of yuan were delivered to Han Lu and Wen Erya.

Knowing that the cultivators would be staying in this area for another twenty days, the directors of Hans Company believed that one million should be enough to cover the expenses of the two beautiful female cultivators, allowing them to have a pleasant time in this world and cause less trouble for Hans Company.

There's no reason to refuse money that's offered to you.

Although they believed that one should not accept rewards without merit, Han Lu and Wen Erya calmly accepted the bank cards and put them into their storage bags.

According to their plan, they would stay in these thirty-two modern cities for a maximum of two to three days before heading to the primeval forest outside the city limits to search for ancient cultivation treasures.

Han Lu and Wen Erya have other plans for the million yuan.

Wen Erya planned to withdraw all the money and hand it over to the resistance organization as a way of thanking them for taking care of her during this time.