Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 299 The Three Talents Storage Bag. (Second Update!)

As she spoke, Mu Xiangu's figure vanished instantly, seemingly to help find the Soul-Summoning Banner.

Seeing this, Zheng Que turned to look at Shu Yunying and Ku Lan, and immediately asked, "What just happened?"

Upon hearing this, Ku Lan immediately stepped forward and recounted everything that had just happened, embellishing the story. The main point was that Mu Xiangu had ulterior motives and malicious intentions, wanting to take advantage of the situation and kill Zheng Que. It was only thanks to her loyalty, selflessness, and willingness to fight to the death that Zheng Que was kept safe...

Shu Yunying, standing beside her, added a few words as well. This was because Ku Lan was so focused on praising herself that she didn't praise Shu Yunying, so everything Shu Yunying added was also self-praise...

After listening to the two female ghosts, Zheng Que's lips twitched. According to their description, as long as one of the two female ghosts was telling the truth, let alone just one Mu Xian Gu, even ten Mu Xian Gu would not be enough for his two ghost servants to beat!
Thinking of this, Zheng Que directly filtered out the meaningless content and summarized the course of events in his mind: after receiving Chen Zhentao's very auspicious fortune stick, he immediately fell into a hallucination.

Afterwards, in the illusion, all four ghost servants disappeared. In fact, it was because all four ghost servants had been defeated by Mu Xian Gu.

As for him carrying the withered orchid to cultivate in the illusion, it was because Mu Xian Gu had been ordered by him and was in a state of paralysis during the conferment of the title when he was carried into the guest room next door...

There are two issues he can't understand.

One is that with Mu Xiangu's strength, even if he were to launch a sneak attack, he could easily dodge his order. But this time, it is unknown why the other party did not dodge.

Secondly, the Dream Master had told him that his current "law" only applied to the living, but Mu Xiangu, being a female ghost in disguise, somehow also had it applied to her...

Thinking of this, Zheng Que looked at the place where Chen Zhentao had fallen. There was a patch of blue bricks that looked no different from the rest of the place. Dense moss grew in the cracks, and a few clusters of moss flowers the size of rice grains had bloomed. When the mountain wind passed by, they swayed and danced. There was no trace of Chen Zhentao left behind.

The Xuanyuan Pavilion disciple had vanished into thin air, leaving behind only a storage bag resembling an ordinary sachet.

Upon seeing the storage bag, Zheng Que did not hesitate and immediately bent down to pick it up.

The storage bag looks like it's made of beeswax-yellow brocade, embroidered with cloud and water patterns, with an orange-red ribbon tied at the end in a ruyi knot.

Zheng Que glanced at it briefly, then immediately channeled his spiritual energy into it, intending to open it and examine it.

But soon he discovered that, for some reason, no matter how much spiritual energy he poured into the storage bag, he could not open it.

Zheng Que frowned, pondering the reason, when Shu Yunying beside him said, "Shu Que, this won't help."

"This is the [Three Talents Storage Bag], created by the Heavenly Artifact Sect. Unlike ordinary storage bags, it requires a blood oath before use and has three layers of restrictions."

"The first layer of restrictions is designed to seal the opening of the bag. Apart from the owner of the storage bag, no other cultivator's spiritual power can open it."

"The second layer of restriction will automatically destroy all resources in the bag after the first layer of restriction is broken."

"The third layer of restriction marks the cultivator holding the storage bag after the second layer of restriction is triggered."

"Disciples of major sects mostly use this kind of [Three Talents Storage Bag], so even if they perish, ordinary rogue cultivators would not dare to covet the resources in their storage bags."

Hearing this, Zheng Que immediately stopped channeling his spiritual energy, but looking at the storage bag, which was clearly much more elaborately made, he couldn't bear to throw it away. After thinking carefully, Zheng Que quickly came up with a solution…

Previously, Shu Yunying was sealed in a white jade plum vase by the ghost bride, but the seal disappeared after entering the elegant gathering in Baozhen Valley.

This is because they were drawn into the painted world of the gathering, and the master of that painted world, Mu Xiangu, did not paint the seal on the white jade plum vase.

Although this [Three Talents Storage Bag] has three layers of restrictions, the "strange thing" at the gathering seems to be able to counteract this minor restriction...

So Zheng Que put the storage bag into his sleeve and then searched the other guest rooms in Heqitang one by one.

Before long, he discovered that these guest rooms were all very similar, with old furnishings and covered in dust and cobwebs, clearly having been abandoned for a long time. Most of the rooms showed signs of human activity, which was probably due to the monks escorting the taxes staying there.

But now all the houses are empty.

Lu Maohong, Linghu Yuniang, and other cultivators have all disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, Mu Xiangu floated back into the courtyard, a wisp of gray, eerie wind swirling in her hand, with a black banner trailing behind it.

The black banner was carried by a cold wind to Zheng Que before slowly falling.

Whoosh!
The banner for summoning souls was driven into the ground like a javelin, planted diagonally not far from Zheng Que.

Without hesitation, Zheng Que immediately reached out his arm, picked up the soul-summoning banner, and carefully examined it. He confirmed that Qing Li and Nian Nu were both inside the banner and were unharmed. He nodded slightly.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the storage bag that Chen Zhentao had just used, and handed it to Mu Xiangu while saying, "Miss Mu, please take this storage bag to the Baozhen Valley Gathering to lift the restriction, and then bring it back to me."

Zheng Que had a clear understanding of the situation. If he were to take this storage bag to the gathering now, it would take him at least several days to travel back and forth. Not only would it delay his journey to the prefectural city, but more importantly, his impending doom was already imminent!

He didn't want to face his next ordeal in the dangerous Yaotai Mountain!
In contrast, Mu Xiangu is at the peak of the [Scissors Prison], so the other party won't need to spend too much time on this journey, making it a good time to arrange for her to solve this problem.

Upon hearing this, Mu Xiangu reluctantly accepted the storage bag. She didn't want to run errands for the other party at all, but when she thought of the four ghost servants beside him, all of whom were underworld officials and could all go to the underworld to complain about her, she finally forced a smile and said, almost spitting out each word through gritted teeth, "Our friendship is deep, such a small thing is nothing to do..."

"Where can I find you after the restrictions are lifted?"

Zheng Que was in a great mood and waved his hand, saying, "I'm going to the prefectural city this time. After you lift the restriction, just follow the path to the prefectural city to find me."

Mu Xiangu nodded, said no more, took the storage bag, and disappeared instantly.

Seeing that everything at Wanshan Temple was over, Zheng Que immediately flicked his sleeves and said to Shu Yunying and Ku Lan, "Let's go!"

(End of this chapter)