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Li Shen withdrew his gaze, but did not relax immediately. He carefully scanned every corner with his divine sense again, using the Yin Soul Banner to sense whether the Yin Soul aura still existed in this place.

After confirming that the old ghost's remnant soul had completely disappeared, Li Shen slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and his tense nerves relaxed slightly.

He stepped forward and released the spirit-devouring ants that had not yet grown wings, which devoured all the broken magical artifacts. Then he took the storage bags of Zhou Wei, Chen Qiao, and Liu Feng, extracted their souls into the banner, drained their blood and qi, and after checking them over, took out a fireball talisman to burn the corpses and destroy the evidence.

The process was seamless and efficient.

Afterwards, Li Shen picked up the longsword with its dull color, probed it with his divine sense, and was immediately pleasantly surprised.

Unexpectedly, what appeared to be an ordinary, dilapidated artifact was actually a genuine magical artifact.

Furthermore, the mark of recognition within it fades over time, and with a little refinement, it can be used.

However, when Li Shen tried to inject spiritual energy into his body to examine it, the consumption of spiritual energy was much greater than he had imagined.

A moment later, his expression turned serious, and he flicked his wrist slightly.

Within the empty cave, a clear and melodious sword cry seemed to echo, followed by the dust on the sword falling off, revealing its true form.

The blade's edge is still sharp, but with his current cultivation level, it's almost impossible for him to fully control a spiritual weapon.

Just that slight tremor cost far more spiritual energy than I would normally wield a throwing knife.

Moreover, he lacked a suitable sword technique, and it would be a waste to use it only for simple slashing.

Then Li Shen's gaze fell on the hilt of the sword, where three characters were engraved: Array Dao Sect.

"Array Dao Sect..."

He paused for a moment, then repeated in a low voice, thinking of the Divine Talisman Sect disciple who left behind the Concealing Breath Talisman. If he could use the spiritual artifacts provided by the sect, then the legacy left by this old ghost must be quite remarkable.

A look of delight flashed in Li Shen's eyes, but he did not immediately investigate the inheritance jade slip that Zhou Wei had taken. Although this place was secluded, there were too many unknown factors, making it not a good place to study in peace.

He suppressed his excitement, put the longsword into his storage bag, then collected all the boxes on the wooden shelf. After thoroughly searching the area several times to make sure nothing was missed, he left the cave.

After leaving the cave, Li Shen gathered the withered vines around the cracks to cover them up, ensuring a natural look before leaving with peace of mind.

He left subtle marks along the way, and the spiritual spring in the cave that nurtured the Five-Colored Lotus was no ordinary thing.

Once you have a container to hold the spiritual spring, return according to the marker and collect it.

After leaving Laoshan, it was nearly dusk.

Li Shen wandered back to the courtyard, where the lights were on in Liu Rou's and Lin Xiaoxiao's rooms.

He stopped and looked at Liu Rou's room, pondering to himself.

When Liu Feng went treasure hunting, he must have spoken to the people sent to monitor Liu Rou.

Now that Liu Feng has been eliminated, it won't be long before they lose contact with him. Combined with Chen Qiao's death, they will naturally conclude that Liu Feng has been murdered.

The powerful members of the Wild Wolf Gang are all tied down by the Giant Tiger Gang, so this matter is most likely to end without any resolution.

After all, the dead were Liu Feng's relatives, not theirs.

However, this is just my own speculation, and it will take a few more days to verify.

After thinking it over, Li Shen withdrew his thoughts, returned to his room, closed the doors and windows, and laid out all the findings he had not yet studied that day in front of him.

Li Shen suppressed the anticipation that was unconsciously rising in his heart and took the first thing to do by picking up Zhou Wei's storage bag.

After all, the other party is a member of a Foundation Establishment family, and their family background is definitely more substantial than Liu Feng's and Chen Qiao's.

He infused his spiritual energy into it and scanned the area.

The first thing to focus on is spirit stones.

Li Shen estimated that it should be around five hundred yuan.

Then, he took out all the items except for the spirit stones and miscellaneous items and took a quick look at them.

There are ten first-grade mid-level Concentration Pills, five Qi Gathering Pills of the same quality, and one Breakthrough Pill, but unfortunately it is a first-grade low-level pill.

The remaining pills were things like fasting pills, hemostatic powders, and blood-nourishing pills.

Among them, the Blood-Replenishing Pills were the most numerous and of the highest quality, totaling more than twenty pills, all of which were of mid-grade first rank.

Li Shen guessed that this was probably related to the fact that array masters need to consume their essence blood when activating the maximum power of an array.

Just like Zhou Wei used his essence and blood to activate the formation-breaking plate and forcibly break the formation.

There is also a bottle of pills called Male Vitality Pills, containing two pills, both of which are of the lowest grade, first rank.

Although this was the first time Li Shen had heard of this elixir, he could roughly guess its effects from its name.

I never expected that Zhou Wei would need such a elixir at such a young age.

Li Shen clicked his tongue twice, focusing his attention on the two array plates beside him.

Although I can't understand the intricate patterns engraved on top, I can still understand the small print on each array plate.

One is a first-tier defensive formation, the Spirit Wall Formation.

One is a first-tier attack formation, the Fire Rain Formation.

Although no incantation was left, it still stirred something in Li Shen's heart.

The study of array formations has always had an extremely high barrier to entry.

A formation master needs to have a strong enough spiritual sense to flexibly manipulate and set up formations. If there is a slight mistake, the formation will fail at best, and at worst it will cause a backlash of spiritual energy, with the person who set up the formation bearing the brunt.

Moreover, the inheritance of array formations is basically firmly controlled by families or sects, and even the Treasure Pavilion has never publicly sold any array formations.

Therefore, among independent cultivators, those who can hold a complete array plate and master the methods of setting up and breaking arrays must be people who have grasped great opportunities.

Even though these two array plates are only Tier 1, they would definitely cause a huge uproar if they were put on the market.

Of course, the Zhou family was the first to notice.

"This week, Wei Lianqi reached the seventh level and possessed two first-tier array plates. He is probably a core disciple that the family is focusing on cultivating."

Li Shen thought to himself that he should be more careful when using it in the future.

After putting away the array plate, Li Shen checked the remaining talismans of Zhou Wei. Most of them were commonly used talismans, ranging from low-grade to mid-grade first-tier talismans.

Ten low-grade cards, five medium-grade cards.

Finally, there is a book called "An Introduction to the Way of Formations".

Li Shen glanced through it; as the title suggested, the content was all about the basics of array formations.

The concepts of array formations, array pattern identification, basic array setup techniques, strategies for breaking arrays, and the use and countermeasures for several common array formations.

Coincidentally, the introductions to the Lingbi Formation and the Fire Rain Formation are included inside.

This saved Li Shen a lot of trouble.

Having no immediate plans to delve deeper into the subject, Li Shen retrieved all the items and then checked Liu Feng and Chen Qiao's storage bags.

There were about two hundred spirit stones, and the pills were all common healing and restoring spiritual power, with varying quality, mostly low-grade first-order pills.

There are only a few common first-tier low-grade talismans.

The only magical artifact Liu Feng possessed was a low-grade first-tier shield, which showed obvious signs of use. Li Shen planned to use it to feed the spirit insects.

There is a sword technique called "Tiger Subduing Sword" among the martial arts manuals.

Li Shen preferred using a sword to a dagger, so he glanced at them and then sorted them out.

What remained before Li Shen were the treasures left in the cave of the Foundation Establishment old ghost.