From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 156 Water Control Technique
"Hey~~"

The feather-patterned flying sword traced an arc in the air, returning to Xu Xiaohou's hand without a drop of blood on it.

Pang Wenjie's body fell to the ground.

Given the Xu family's current overall strength, killing a Qi Refining Level 8 cultivator wouldn't be easy, but it wouldn't be too difficult either.

"search!"

Xu Fugui was secretly looking forward to seeing how many treasures this late-stage Qi Refining cultivator possessed.
He went up and touched the corpse, and after a careful search, he found five storage bags!

One of the storage pouches belonged to Pang Wenjie himself, while the rest were those he had stolen. The array plates and spirit stones he had taken from Lü Qing'ang were all stored in his own storage pouches.

"Five storage pouches, but unfortunately only cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage can open them."

As Xu Fugui was thinking this, he suddenly paused: something's not right.

The reason why only cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining can use storage pouches is that the spiritual power of cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining can be integrated into spiritual energy, giving their spiritual energy "consciousness".

Xu Fugui, Xu Xiaohou, and others practiced the "Meditation and Soul Refining Technique" to enhance their spiritual power, which had already reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

This is also why they were able to cultivate the third level of the Flying Sword Technique.

Thinking of this, Xu Fugui couldn't wait to try it. He picked up one of the colorful storage pouches and, as if controlling a flying sword, channeled his spiritual energy into it, slowly pouring it into the storage pouch.

He "saw" the three-foot square space in the storage bag: the small space was filled with spiritual plants, spiritual stones, and a few talismans.

"How to get it?"

"come out?"

Xu Fugui tried several times and found that although he could examine the items in the storage bag, he could not take them out at will.

"Needs to be refined?"

He guessed that it was because both the feather-patterned flying sword and the sleeve-mounted flying sword required refining magical artifacts to be used.

The storage bag can also be seen as a kind of magical implement.

With the crisis still ongoing, Xu Fugui had no time to refine the storage pouch: "Zhongche, dispose of his body. Da Niu, Liu Zi, let's split up and guard the vicinity of the spiritual vein to prevent any more attacks from the calamity cultivators."

Xu Zhongche stepped forward and unleashed the hottest flames from the Nine Flames Spirit Fire Technique, instantly burning Pang Wenjie's body into ashes that nourished the mountains and forests.

Xu Fugui, Xu Xiaoniu, and Xu Xiaohou stood guard around the area to prevent any further raids on the cultivators.

No more tribulation cultivators appeared until dawn.

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"Let's go to the underground cave."

Xu Fugui, eager to get started, brought five storage bags and had the group meet in the underground cave.

Of the four, Xu Fugui, Xu Xiaoniu, and Xu Xiaohou had reached the late stage of Qi Refining in terms of their spiritual power.

Since Xu Zhongche had only recently broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, his soul was the weakest part of his body. Therefore, even though he practiced the "Meditation Soul Refining Technique," his soul power had not yet reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

"Da Niu, here's a storage pouch. Liu Zi, here are two. First, refine the storage pouches, then take out all the items inside and take inventory."

Xu Fugui made the allocations, keeping two for himself.

"Father, isn't it only in the late stage of Qi Refining that one can use a storage pouch?"

Xu Xiaoniu was filled with doubt.

Xu Xiaohou, who was standing next to him, took the storage bag and understood what was going on: "When we meditate to cultivate our soul, our soul power will reach the late stage of Qi Refining, and we will naturally be able to use the storage bag."

As he spoke, he began refining the storage pouch according to the method for refining magical flying swords in the "Flying Sword Technique".

The difficulty of refining varies depending on the type of magical artifact.

The storage pouches were clearly easy to refine. After half a day, Xu Xiaohou refined the two storage pouches in turn and took out all the items inside.

The storage pouch that Xu Xiaoniu refined was relatively large, measuring six feet square, which is why it took him longer to refine it.

Finally, they finished refining all the storage pouches and took out all the items inside. A large quantity of spirit stones and precious resources were piled up before them, filling them with unavoidable excitement.

The Xu family is desperately short of resources; these treasures are enough to elevate the Xu family's overall strength to a whole new level.

Of the two storage pouches that Xu Fugui refined, one belonged to Pang Wenjie himself. It contained hundreds of spirit stones, a spirit-gathering array plate, a jade slip engraved with cultivation techniques, and two bottles of elixirs.

The other storage pouch contained nearly a hundred talismans, as well as some precious talisman-drawing materials such as talisman pens, ink, and paper.

Most of the talismans are low- or mid-level talismans, such as the Golden Light Talisman, with a few high-level talismans as well.

Xu Fugui guessed that this was a storage bag from the Lan family, because talismans were a specialty of the Lan family.

"Fortunately, that cultivator didn't have time to refine the storage pouch or use these talismans."

He thought to himself that if the cultivators could use so many talismans, their situation would be dangerous.

He opened the jade scroll containing the cultivation manual and examined its contents:

【Water Control and Ice Mantra: A superior water-attribute Qi cultivation technique that allows one to control water and transform it into ice. It is both offensive and defensive, and its spells are highly flexible…】

In places with abundant water, the power of magic is multiplied...

"Is this the cultivation technique of that tribulation cultivator? A superior technique, not bad."

The Xu family lacked qi cultivation techniques, so this provided a good water-based technique as a supplement.

At this moment, Xu Fugui had not yet realized what that inconspicuous "chessboard" was.

He picked up the "chessboard" from a pile of treasures: a bronze ritual object about a foot square, as square and flat as a chessboard, with horizontal and vertical lines on it, like the grid lines on a chessboard.

On the "chessboard," there are many "chess pieces," which, upon closer inspection, are patterns of unknown meaning.

"Is this a magical weapon?"

Xu Fugui realized that the chessboard was definitely not an ordinary object, but he couldn't tell what kind of magical artifact it was.

He attempted to refine it...

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"Haha, I'm rich! I'm rich!"

Xu Zhongche counted the spirit stones on the side, beaming with joy.

Xu Xiaoniu and Xu Xiaohou couldn't stop smiling as they categorized, organized, and inventoried the various resources.

"I've counted them all. There are a total of 782 spirit stones! Nearly eight hundred."

A large number of spirit stones were piled together, reflecting a glittering luster.

"There are more than 120 spiritual plants, but unfortunately I can't identify them."

Xu Xiaoniu shook his head helplessly. Ordinary cultivators do not have knowledge of spiritual plants, and even if they are in front of them, they cannot distinguish the type and age of the spiritual plants.

Xu Xiaohou counted the talismans: "There are a total of one hundred and three talismans, more than fifty low-grade talismans, more than thirty mid-grade talismans, and the rest should be high-grade talismans."

This talisman has a sword drawn on it, one I've never seen before. The energy fluctuations within it are very strong; it should be a high-grade talisman.

"A dozen or so spirit pills, including Qi-boosting pills and Qi-tonifying pills. There's also one I don't recognize."

"..."

While they were counting and tallying the spoils of war, Xu Fugui was constantly refining the array plate.

The array plate of the Spirit Gathering Array is much more difficult to refine than that of the storage bag.

As he refined it, Xu Fugui's mind was filled with a lot of information about the array plate. He finally knew what kind of magic artifact the "chessboard" in his hand was: a first-order spirit gathering array plate!

The array plate is the core magical artifact for setting up an array.

(End of this chapter)