Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists Chapter 53 - 53 52 Opening the Storage Bag Looking for

Chapter 53: Chapter 52: Opening the Storage Bag (Looking for First Subscription!!!) _1 Chapter 53: Chapter 52: Opening the Storage Bag (Looking for First Subscription!!!) _1 ‘I need to reflect, this ti when I saw my enemy, I couldn’t control myself.’

Fang Xi spread out two storage bags, one exquisite and the other crude, as a silent reminder to himself.

Killing people for their treasures is thrilling, but if one becos the victim of such a fate, it’s not so splendid anymore.

Fang Xi, who now owned a treasure trove, did not want to end up like that.

After calming his emotions, he first picked up the crude storage bag.

This storage bag belonged to Yingsong, whose magic power was weak, and since Fang Xi was already in the mid Qi Refining Stage, it took only the ti it takes to drink a cup of tea to unlock it.

Inside the storage bag was indeed a space of similar size to the one Fang Xi had previously carried, containing two stacks of talismans, about a dozen spirit stones, and so clothing and miscellaneous items.

Even, Fang Xi suspected that so many talismans might not actually belong to Yingsong but were life-saving items given by Qi Liu.

After all, cultivators in the early Qi Refining Stage have weak magic power and can’t use top-grade magical artifacts, making talismans more convenient and economical.

Besides, the flying artifact called ‘Black Cloud Cap’ that Yingsong had controlled also beca Fang Xi’s war spoils.

‘Overall, not bad at all.’

‘Still, the real prize is the loot from that Kou family expert…’

Fang Xi picked up the storage bag of the third son of the Kou family, which was noticeably more exquisite.

Not only was it exquisite, but the magic power imprint on it was also very strong.

It took Fang Xi a full five to six hours to barely erase it and unlock it…

Once opened, even with so ntal preparation, he couldn’t help but squint his eyes slightly.

Spirit Stones!

The first thing that caught his eye was a corner filled with a pile of over a hundred spirit stones!

‘Made a fortune, I’ve really made a fortune this ti…’

Fang Xi muttered to himself and then looked toward the other loot, taken aback.

This storage bag clearly had a larger capacity than the previous two, approximately three cubic ters in size, and it contained blood-stained magical artifacts, materials, dicinal pills, and even jade slips and parcels… Most were scattered ssily as if hastily packed in a panicked mont.

‘This third son of the Kou family must have looted quite a few people in the market and accumulated a lot of wealth…’

However, at this mont, such accumulation was naturally and unapologetically accepted by Fang Xi.

He abandoned his original storage bag and directly upgraded to the three-cubic-ter one from the Kou family’s third son, instantly feeling much more spacious.

As for the other two storage bags, he didn’t plan to leave them empty but intended to use them specifically for transporting monster materials.

For soone like Fang Xi, who was a transporter between two worlds, having more storage bags was always better.

Fang Xi could already envision the day in the future when he would be promoted to a disciple with eight bags or even an elder with nine in the Beggars’ Sect…

…

The night fell.

‘Many thanks for the gifts from the Kou Brothers!’

Fang Xi had thoroughly sorted and identified the miscellaneous items, holding in his hands the loot processed that day.

A golden longsword magical artifact!

This artifact was two feet three inches long and one inch wide, entirely golden, with delicate scales etched on the surface and a dragon’s head decoration on the hilt. The edge emitted a chill that could be felt on sight, inspiring awe in the beholder.

This was indeed a top-grade magical artifact—the Gold Dragon Sword!

‘Even the cheapest top-grade magical artifact in the market costs a hundred lower-grade spirit stones!’

‘Unfortunately, it is stolen loot and cannot be shown in public.’

Thinking of the other two brothers of this third son, both late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, Fang Xi felt a shiver run down his spine.

Indeed, according to the rules of the Cultivation World that whoever kills the enemy gets the spoils, this storage bag of the third son of the Kou family should have belonged to Situ Qingqing.

However, the female cultivator did not ntion this, seemingly conceding it by default.

Fang Xi also felt that saving her life justified taking a little spoils of war.

At this point, any troubles that followed were his to face.

Beyond that, in the storage bag of the third son of the Kou family, there was a mid-grade magical artifact ‘Black Iron Shield’ which Fang Xi took out and cherished deeply, refining it to be his defensive magical artifact.

As for the flying shuttle he had used, it had been destroyed by the Yin Thunder and was already unusable.

‘Now, together with the Black Cloud Cap for travel, I have a complete set of artifacts for attack, defense, and travel… Is killing for loot really the quickest way to wealth?’

Fang Xi muttered to himself.

Apart from the artifacts, he found nurous dicinal pill jade bottles in the stacked loot, even stumbling upon a bottle of ‘Wood Origin Pills’, truly an unexpected treat.

Regrettably, the most valuable was a bottle of ‘Golden Grains Pills,’ used by Qi Refining late-stage cultivators practicing gold-elent cultivation techniques for advancing their magic power, probably intended for the third son’s personal use.

Fang Xi couldn’t use them, so he decided to just store them away for now.

However, so healing and detoxifying dicinal pills, as well as a large number of Avoiding Grain Pills, were neatly sorted out by him, compartntalized, and stored, to be used when needed in the future.

As for the contents of those jade slips, they recorded miscellaneous information.

Just the cultivation techniques alone included the complete ‘Fire Origin Art’ and half of the ‘Gold Wind Skills’…

Unfortunately, they were all generic cultivation techniques like the ‘Eternal Spring Skills’ and Fang Xi had no intention of switching his primary cultivation technique.

As a cultivator with a wood-biased spiritual root, wouldn’t practicing gold and earth cultivation techniques be like giving up on reaching the Foundation Establishnt?

However, the jade slips that contained various bits of trivia, travelogues, and literary works, gave Fang Xi a sense of broadening his horizons and he planned to read them when he had nothing else to do.

‘Finally, there is this.’

Fang Xi picked up the last jade slip.

Not only was this jade slip much thicker than the others, but its material was also quite different, resembling what in the mundane world would be called mutton-fat white jade—warm and lustrous, with threads of gold running through it.

A glance was enough to tell it was a high-grade item among jade slips.

When Fang Xi first got it, there were even spots of blood on it, indicating that many cultivators must have lost their lives fighting over this item.

And when Fang Xi’s Spirit Sense probed into it, a dense flurry of information imdiately erged, led by a line of golden text—

[Array Taoist Beginner’s Guide (Volu One)]!

This was actually a manual for a first-level Array Master’s inheritance!

In the Cultivation World’s four arts—arrays, pills, equipnt, and talismans—

Even a Talisman Master, ranking lowest among them, could lead a very comfortable life, let alone an Array Master, at the very pinnacle of the hierarchy!

Fang Xi, too, had once considered the idea of studying a craft to aid his cultivation.

He had originally planned to delve into the Taoist of Talisman, for which he had even intentionally made good relations with several Talisman Masters, like Master Zong Symbol, like Chen Ping… Yet how unpredictable the ways of the world can be.

Now, Master Zong Symbol was dead, and it’s better not to ntion Chen Ping.

Unexpectedly, an Array Skill Inheritance had fallen into his own hands!

Fang Xi had already skimd through it, and this manual truly was just for beginners, suitable for newcors to arrays, with the strongest array within being only a first-class superior ranking!

But that was enough; if he were to sell it, it could fetch at least several hundred Spirit Stones!

As for why an Array Taoist inheritance and Master Zong Symbol’s notes on talismans were of similar value…

“F*ck, array crafting is way too difficult!”

Fang Xi looked at the first line of the beginner’s guide and imdiately felt flabbergasted:

“An array assimilates the Changes of heaven and earth, exploring the mysteries of creation’s multiplication and division; cultivators are best to observe with Divine Consciousness, for beginners can achieve twice the results with half the effort…”

Divine Consciousness!

That’s an exclusive ability only Foundation Establishnt cultivators possess!

Divine Consciousness allows for an out-of-body exploration within dozens or even over a hundred paces, greatly advantageous during combat.

Not to ntion, with Divine Consciousness, crafting talismans, concocting pills, and forging equipnt also beco much more convenient.

That’s why those Foundation Establishnt cultivators often seriously study one of the four arts of Cultivation, using Divine Consciousness as an aid, and with a long lifespan to delve into it, they usually achieve so results.

And now, Fang Xi finally understood why Array Masters were at the top of the hierarchy!

Other artisans like pill makers and equipnt forgers could start their research during the Qi Refining Stage, but Array Masters were better off starting at the Foundation Establishnt Stage!

But it’s true, if one has Divine Consciousness, it trendously aids in researching prohibitions, drawing terrain, precisely laying out arrays, and observing subsequent array evolutions!

“But the key point is, during the Qi Refining Stage, you have no Divine Consciousness, just an inward-viewing Spirit Sense…”

Fang Xi really wanted to complain.

When he then saw that studying arrays required a dedicated space and a large number of Spirit Stones to create Array Disks and Array Flags, he was even more dumbfounded…

In truth, those resources weren’t the issue; the key to truly becoming an Array Master lay in one’s talent, that is, the intuitive understanding of arrays!

For the other three arts, such as pill and talisman making, one could accumulate a wealth of resources, fail many tis, and still co up with so experience and techniques to gradually improve.

In other words, as long as one wasn’t afraid of wasting resources, progress was always possible.

But with the array path, if you couldn’t comprehend it, then you just couldn’t grasp it!

No matter how many tis you tried, you would still fail!

That’s one reason why among Foundation Establishnt cultivators, many studied pills, equipnt, and talismans, while few beca Array Masters.

“Talismans bring wealth, pills and equipnt will exhaust your resources, urging people to study arrays will get you struck by lightning!”

Reading what was clearly a comnt added by so junior within the jade slip, the corner of Fang Xi’s mouth twitched slightly.

But after a bit of reflection, among individual cultivators, Talisman Masters were common, pill and equipnt forgers were very rare, often less skilled than those from major powers, and Array Masters were extrely scarce… It all seed to be very fitting indeed…

“Too bad… I don’t have any other inheritance on hand.”

“Forget it, let’s study it first. It’s hard to practice cultivation in Great Liang anyway, so I might as well spend so ti to confirm my own talent in the array path…”

Fang Xi steadied his mind and continued to delve into the Array Taoist Beginner’s Guide.

“An array is composed of several important parts: Array Source, array patterns, Prohibitions, Array Eye…”

Array Source is the source of an array’s power. So legendary Array Masters could even use the stars and heavens as an array, their might capable of destroying the skies and decimating the land.

Of course, most cultivators nowadays would use a Spiritual Vein as the Array Source, usually supplented with Spirit Stones.

For example, the Sky Blue Water Array at the Green Bamboo Mountain Market!

This array is a second-class array, but Green Bamboo Mountain only has a first-class Spiritual Vein, unable to sustain a second-class array at its full power.

Therefore, the Sky Blue Water Array only activates at its lowest consumption level, and this is why.

During battle, naturally, one can pour countless Spirit Stones into the Array Source without regard for cost, to unleash the full power of the array!

After Array Source cos the array patterns!

This is what makes countless Array Masters spend their energy blood, sweat, and tears!

Understanding array patterns is mainly dependent on one’s intuitional talent!

Different arrays require the arrangent of different array patterns, which then form into Prohibitions. It can be said to be the most basic part, and if the array patterns conflict, the array is destined to fail!

Fang Xi glanced at the array patterns of a beginner-level array, the dense and intricate runes instantly made him feel dizzy, akin to a programr from his previous life seeing a screen of error codes…