Cultivation begins with ice harvesters

Chapter 61: Loot

Once the cold wind of this night has passed, the last trace Liu Guangqing left in this world will completely vanish with the wind, without causing the slightest ripple.

The cultivation world is inherently cruel; the victor reigns supreme, and strength is paramount. As for those cultivators who have already failed, no one will remember them.

At noon on the second day, the sun hung in the center, and golden sunlight shone between heaven and earth, generously draping the entire Ice Spirit Island in a golden coat. The Northern Frontier Ice Region, which was mired in extreme cold all year round, also felt a little warmth, as if this cruel world had not been completely forgotten.

It was only when the sun was high in the sky that Tong Bingfeng managed to open his eyes. The night's rest had not relieved his pain; instead, his entire body was in a peculiar state of soreness. Only cultivators who had experienced extreme tension and had walked on the edge of life and death more than once in a short period of time could have the opportunity to experience this kind of soreness.

"Unfortunately, I didn't go to Liu's General Store last night and steal all the valuable spiritual items."

After regaining some composure, this was Tong Bingfeng's first sigh, which was both laughable and lamentable. After all, with Liu Guangqing's death, the shop had effectively lost its owner's control for a short period of time.

Furthermore, he had already discovered the array control plate for Liu's Grocery Store in the storage bag left by Liu Guangqing, and only needed to input a little magic power to enter it.

This general store wasn't particularly eye-catching in the entire Ice Sea Market, but it still had quite a few miscellaneous spiritual items.

If they could be stolen all at once, their value would be astonishing. They could then be sold off one by one to obtain a large sum of spiritual items to sustain their cultivation.

After much deliberation, Tong Bingfeng still decisively discarded the array control card on the icy field before stepping onto the Ice Spirit Island. The sole purpose of doing so was to preserve the existing spoils of war and eliminate all potential risks.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If what Liu Guangqing said is true, I plan to trade this complete set of crystal gourds with a certain cultivator from the Chen family."

"If we are not careful and leave even the slightest trace, we may be tracked down by some mysterious means, and then we may not even be able to keep our current spoils."

Tong Bingfeng's heartache at giving up a potential prize is understandable, and in the end, he could only try to console himself in this way.

After refining two first-grade mid-level healing pills, Tong Bingfeng stood up again, feeling the basic recovery of the injuries to his ribs and the displacement of his internal organs.

For cultivators, no matter how terrifying the external injury, as long as they do not die on the spot, such irreparable injuries can be repaired in the future, and the time and energy required to recover from the injury are within an acceptable range.

Compared to the horrific external injuries, internal injuries are definitely more troublesome for all cultivators. The displacement of Tong Bingfeng's internal organs and the meridian damage caused by the impact of the Qi left in his body by the Wujin Spear are obviously more troublesome. It will take a delicate process of up to half a year to truly restore him to his original state.

Of course, this kind of troublesome internal injury will not have too obvious an impact on daily movement, and it is certainly capable of handling the task of counting the spoils.

"A first-grade superior water-attribute magic weapon, the Water Control Fork, is crafted primarily from first-grade superior crystal. It can manipulate water flow as a means of attack and is considered one of the most suitable magic weapons for water-attribute cultivators, renowned for its mana-saving and ease of operation."

The first loot was naturally a first-grade high-quality water-attribute magic weapon, and this magic weapon was obviously brand new, which should have been the magic weapon that Liu Guangqing had prepared in advance for the transaction.

However, this magical artifact was already known to them long ago. The real surprise was a magical artifact in Tong Bingfeng's hand that was shaped like a willow leaf. Judging from the aura it emitted, it was only a low-grade first-order artifact. But it was the very low-grade first-order flying artifact that Liu Guangqing had used to escape first in the territory of the Exploding Thorn Turtle.

"I searched high and low but found it without any effort. I originally thought he had hidden this flying artifact somewhere, but I never expected that he would store it in a nourishing box with a simple spirit-gathering array carved on it."

Tong Bingfeng looked at the exquisitely crafted nourishing box with evenly distributed array patterns, its appearance bearing a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to the Sealing Spirit Box, and a genuine smile appeared on his face.

In a sense, the Nourishing Box is similar to the Spirit Sealing Box. It is a special container used by Qi Refining cultivators to store relatively precious magical artifacts.

After all, cultivators in the Qi Refining stage cannot store magical artifacts in their dantian for nurturing. Instead, they place them in a nourishing box and use a simple spirit-gathering array to refine the small amount of free spiritual energy in the world for their own use, thus achieving the effect of nourishing the magical artifact.

In this way, his spoils consisted of only eleven spirit-sealing boxes and six jade bottles, which he had not yet had time to open for storing pills.

"The first-tier superior-grade magic weapon is a water-controlling fork. I wonder what kind of first-tier superior-grade spiritual pill this fellow specifically prepared to assist in advancing to the late stage of Qi Refining?"

Tong Bingfeng examined the six jade bottles, a hint of curiosity in his eyes. While the treasures stored in the Spirit Sealing Box were undoubtedly valuable, the elixirs in the jade bottles could be directly refined to aid daily cultivation, making them undeniably among the most important.

"Bang"

As the first jade bottle was opened, a unique herbal fragrance, characteristic of elixirs, swirled above his nostrils and flowed down into his mind.

Under the influence of the fragrance of herbs and trees, Tong Bingfeng felt his previously muddled mind quickly clear and calm down under the nourishment of a cool sensation, and the previously scattered gaze in his eyes became bright and alert again.

"This guy truly lives up to his reputation as the owner of a long-established general store; he actually carries around such an expensive, top-grade first-tier Awakening Spirit Pill, a treasure specifically used to nourish and strengthen one's divine sense."

Although cultivators in the Qi Refining stage awaken their divine sense during their cultivation, its range is limited, making it completely ineffective in providing assistance during battle.

Only by establishing a solid foundation, transforming the magical power within the dantian into liquid, and becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator, can one's divine sense accumulate and unleash its full potential, becoming an indispensable means in battle and daily life.

The Awakening Pill is an exclusive elixir that can be taken in the late stage of Qi Refining to nourish the dormant spiritual consciousness. Once one day one advances to the Foundation Establishment stage, one can accumulate strength and unleash it, achieving a breadth and depth of spiritual consciousness that surpasses that of other cultivators of the same level.

The remaining five jade bottles were opened in an orderly fashion, each containing a first-grade high-quality spiritual pill. Among them, three bottles contained first-grade high-quality Hunyuan Pills, which were of excellent quality and were specially designed to assist late-stage Qi Refining cultivators in their daily cultivation.

The last two jade bottles contained two elixirs: a first-grade superior-quality white jade elixir specifically for healing, and a first-grade superior-quality carefree elixir that also had detoxifying and miasma-dispelling effects.

Upon seeing this, Tong Bingfeng's face turned ashen, clearly indicating that he had not met his expectations.