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Chapter 497: Chapter 295: Fourth Grade

Li Yuanba was heading to Northern Island for his first sect mission as a Golden Core cultivator, and meanwhile, Li Shiming had also collected Fang Lu’s body in Fire Cloud Valley.

Although Elder Zhao did not stay inside the cave, he never left its vicinity and guarded outside the entrance.

Moreover, he had sent a message back to the Shushan Sect because no matter what, an alchemy master of the Shushan Sect had almost been kidnapped by the people of Skywalk Trading Company using seduction techniques, which was not something he could decide on alone.

There were still two days left of the alchemist assembly at Fire Cloud Valley, and Li Shiming, being an alchemy master, could not leave.

If he were to hurriedly leave in fear of retaliation from Skywalk Trading Company, it would not only cause him to lose face but also disgrace the Shushan Sect.

Not to mention, hundreds of alchemists were still at the assembly, and if they were to flee due to an attack, the entire Beishu Continent would soon hear of the incident.

Li Shiming did not go to persuade Elder Zhao. Instead, since Elder Zhao was assigned by the sect to protect him, and almost faced mishap but managed to handle it on his own, Elder Zhao did not exert much effort.

Elder Zhao himself would not agree to stop guarding outside.

“It’s another troublesome matter!” Li Shiming sighed, shaking his head.

He now felt the burdens of being entangled in the Martial World, where the troubles of his clone, Yuan Ba, had just been resolved with his formation of a Golden Core, and now new troubles had arisen here.

Who would have thought that in such a supposedly safe place within the territory of the Righteous Path, at the gates of Fire Cloud Valley, a Golden Core cultivator would attack him?

Fortunately, Fang Lu was not skilled in combat; her abilities were mostly used in seduction, and her true combat strength was not outstanding among the early Golden Core stage.

Otherwise, Li Shiming would not have solved the issue with Fang Lu so easily. Of course, when he dealt with Fang Lu, he had not used all his techniques, not because he didn’t want to, but because Fang Lu had fallen before he needed to use them.

By his side, the Absolute Spirit Illusion Snake maintained its invisibility. With its intensely toxic breath, a single bite on the unprepared Fang Lu meant certain death.

Additionally, Li Shiming did not use the “Step by Step Lotus” technique, which was a lifesaving measure. These all indicated how weak Fang Lu’s combat abilities were.

Li Shiming held Fang Lu’s space ring in his hand, without much expectation for the Spiritual Objects inside it.

With his wealth, even acquiring space items from other cultivators, including Golden Core cultivators, was merely a matter of curiosity.

His Divine Thought easily entered the inside of the space ring, which was one hundred meters in length, width, and height—similar in size to the space rings he possessed.

Inside, there were many Spiritual Objects. Though Fang Lu was a cultivator, her space ring still contained a lot of women’s items.

Li Shiming’s Divine Thought swept past cosmetics imbued with spiritual power and several alluring garments. His attention was drawn to the magical treasures.

The battle had ended too quickly. It ended so swiftly that Fang Lu didn’t even have time to retrieve her magical treasures.

Therefore, her magical treasures were still inside the space ring: a Seven-Colored Radiant Skirt, a hand drum magical treasure, and a Green Jade Treasure Boat magical treasure.

All three magical treasures were of high quality, all high-grade magical treasures, showing the background of Skywalk Trading Company and the Yin Yang Sect. Fang Lu’s wealth was indeed substantial.

The number of magical treasures is not about having more but better ones. The value of one high-grade magical treasure could top ten mid-grade ones, and its power could easily crush that of mid-grade treasures.

Having three high-grade magical treasures was rare even among major sects for a Golden Core cultivator.

Li Shiming’s Divine Thought swept over the three magical treasures, and he discovered that none of them were life-bound magical treasures.

After realizing this, his Divine Thought swept over Fang Lu’s corpse, finding a Golden Core that had become dull and devoid of energy due to her death. Since Fang Lu was dead, only the empty shell of the Golden Core remained, its spiritual power long dissipated.

Had Fang Lu not died recently, even the shell of the Golden Core would not have been preserved but would have also dissipated as energy.

His divine sense found her life-bound magical treasure in an energetic state, and he also understood why Fang Lu hadn’t used her life-bound magical treasure immediately—it was a sheer gauze garment.

A sheer gauze life-bound magical treasure was not like the normal Seven-Colored Radiant Skirt magical treasure in the space ring but was merely a thin layer of gauze.

Of course, being a magical treasure, it certainly had its unique functions. Li Shiming wouldn’t refine the gauze magical treasure as he was unaware of its true effects, but just from the material of the magical treasure, it was clear that it had no defensive capabilities whatsoever.

Li Shiming couldn’t understand the rationale of the Yin Yang Sect’s witch for choosing a gauze garment as a life-bound magical treasure, possessing neither offensive nor defensive power.

However, upon reflection, perhaps this gauze magical treasure could work in conjunction with the cultivation techniques Fang Lu practiced, enhancing the effects of her techniques considerably.

There were specialized methods to extract life-bound magical treasures from a fallen Golden Core cultivator’s body, and having been in contact with多 so many Golden Core cultivators, Li Shiming knew such methods well.

Since the master had perished, with a light tap of his finger, Fang Lu’s energetically formed life-bound magical treasure, the gauze garment, was extracted, and he casually collected it along with the other magical treasures.

Among the few treasures, perhaps only the Green Jade Treasure Boat was useful, but he already possessed a similar Flying Boat magical treasure.

His Divine Thought returned to the space ring, sweeping over a pile of Spirit Pills.

His brow furrowed as among the Spirit Pills, there were many that looked nauseating to even glance at. He had previously refined Spirit Pills for the Yin Yang Sect through Beishu Trading Company, but he had never accepted a commission for these kinds of Spirit Pills used internally within the sect for male and female affairs.