A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

With a wave of his hand, Zhou Ping cast a cleansing spell on himself, washing away the bloodstains on his sleeves.

He then waved his hand at Liu Chong's headless corpse, and two small storage bags, one black and one red, flew out of the other's arms and landed steadily in his hands.

Zhou Ping looked around and found that the members of the Three Flowers Gang had already fled completely, and there was no one to be seen nearby. So he put the two storage bags into his pocket and picked up the two magical artifacts that were scattered on the ground.

The Silver Light Shield was just an ordinary low-level defensive magic weapon, similar to his small black shield. Zhou Ping glanced at it and threw it directly into his storage bag.

The remaining spherical magical artifact in his hand caught Zhou Ping's attention. He focused his divine sense on it and, with a slight effort, easily erased the residual divine sense imprint belonging to Liu Chong from the artifact.

His cultivation level was already a notch above Liu Chong's, and since the other party had already died and his cultivation had dissipated, erasing the remaining divine consciousness imprint on his magic weapon was not difficult for Zhou Ping at all.

hum!

Not long after, the spherical magic artifact, which Zhou Ping had refined again, was infused with his magic power, and its surface once again emitted a hazy yellow glow. That sense of weight returned to Zhou Ping's perception, which startled him.

According to his estimate, after the magic was applied, the weight of the sphere increased by more than ten times. If it was just equivalent to an ordinary iron ball before, it is now almost equivalent to a huge iron hammer, and it seems to have the force of a thousand pounds when it is casually struck.

No wonder Zhou Ping, with his physical strength at the mid-stage of Body Refinement, felt a tightness in his chest and shortness of breath after withstanding the attack of this magic weapon; it turns out that it contained such immense power.

puff!

Zhou Ping tossed the sphere in his hand with satisfaction before putting it into his storage bag. He then cast a fireball spell, burning Liu Chong's corpse to ashes. Just as he was about to leave, another yellowish object emerged from beneath the already burned corpse.

With a wave of his sleeve, he swept away the remaining ashes on the ground, reached out and took the exposed object into his hand, examining it carefully.

"Is this a miniature banner?"

Zhou Ping looked at the delicate, yellow flag in his hand with curiosity in his eyes.

He tried to slowly channel his magic power into the small flag, and sure enough, in just a moment, the small flag hummed and stood upright in his palm.

"what?"

Just as Zhou Ping was completely baffled, a few faint fluctuations suddenly came from the small yellow flag in his hand, causing him to widen his eyes immediately.

Looking up in the direction indicated by the small flag, and after silently confirming the three directions, he vanished from the spot in a flash.

.......

Yunnan Province,

Zhou Ping sat steadily on the flying boat, glanced back at the increasingly smaller Huaxi Gugukou, and a strange meaning flashed in his eyes.

After leaving Sanhua Town, with the full force of the flying boat, he finally left Huaxi Valley after more than an hour and returned to the territory of Dianyun Prefecture.

"No wonder Liu Chong was able to discover me in advance, causing my sneak attack to fail. It turns out he relied on these battle flags."

Zhou Ping looked at the four mini array flags floating in front of him and said with a sudden realization.

After a period of research, he finally figured out the actual purpose of the four array flags. It turned out that it was an extremely simple warning array.

If you place these four small flags in different positions, any disturbance in one of them will be detected by the other three flags, which will then vibrate together to warn the cultivator holding the flag.

"That Liu Chong is cunning. He actually set up this warning array before I even started healing, so that my presence was immediately detected as soon as I approached the cabin."

If Liu Chong were replaced by another cultivator with higher cultivation level, wouldn't he have been exposed and put in danger the moment he stepped into this warning array?

Recalling their previous encounter, Zhou Ping touched his nose with a lingering sense of fear, secretly vowing to be more cautious in the future. Cultivators possessed countless strange and unpredictable methods, and he might easily fall into someone's trap if he wasn't careful.

After thinking it over, Zhou Ping put away the four small flags one by one. The thought of having an extra defensive measure when facing the enemy in the future made him feel a little better.

He then took out the two storage bags he had obtained from Liu Chong, intending to take this opportunity to take stock of his spoils.

He first examined the small red bag, and when he saw that it was empty, containing only a dark red long whip magic weapon, twenty or thirty low-grade spirit stones, and a few empty porcelain bottles, he frowned slightly.

Zhou Ping was familiar with this dark red whip magic weapon; it was the personal magic weapon of the Third Lady, who had died at his hands. He had seen it from afar when she was fighting with the Illusionary Sea Deer.

However, it was quite unexpected that this woman, as one of the three ladies of the Three Flowers Gang, had such a small fortune.

After all, he was a powerful leader of the Jiexiu sect, and even if he had accumulated wealth over a long period of time, it shouldn't be this little bit of wealth.

Little did Zhou Ping know that in order to deal with the Illusory Sea Deer, the three ladies of the Three Flowers Gang had almost exhausted their wealth. Only by working together could they gather spirit stones to refine the top-grade magic weapon, the Golden Crow Hairpin. Their fortunes had already been largely depleted.

He even used the remaining spirit stones to purchase several bottles of Rejuvenation Pills to protect himself during the hunt for the Illusionary Sea Deer. Now he was almost at his wit's end, just waiting to turn his fortunes around after the hunt for the Illusionary Sea Deer. At this moment, he had no savings left.

The rejuvenating pills in those porcelain bottles were completely consumed during Third Sister's escape, leaving nothing behind.

Zhou Ping pursed his lips, helplessly put it away, and turned his hopeful gaze to another storage bag.

This storage bag must belong to Liu Chong. Hopefully, this cultivator from the Crimson Robe Society won't disappoint me.

Zhou Ping opened it with great hope, then tilted it down onto the deck of the flying boat. With a clatter and a gurgle, a large pile of artifacts and spirit stones poured out and piled up in front of him.

"Tsk tsk tsk! That's more like the identity of a Tribulation Cultivator!"

Zhou Ping stared at the large pile of objects on the deck with shining eyes, a look of surprise on his face.

Seventy-eight low-grade spirit stones, several unknown refining materials, two bottles of healing pills similar to Rejuvenation Pills, a jade slip, and a yellow-skinned letter.

With a flick of his sleeve, Zhou Ping first collected the small pile of glittering spirit stones from the deck into his storage bag. Then, he picked up two bottles of pills, carefully sniffed them, and quickly capped them.

"It has similar effects to the Rejuvenation Pill that I know of, but its medicinal effects seem to be slightly stronger."

After confirming the efficacy of the two bottles of pills, Zhou Ping casually tossed them aside. Such pills would be extremely precious to others, but to him, they were rather insignificant.

Putting aside other things, he had no less than four or five kinds of recovery and healing pills. Although most of them were common pills, their actual efficacy should be superior to the other party's pills because they were older.

Then Zhou Ping turned his gaze to several unknown spiritual materials, raised his hand and used his magic power to test them one by one, but his brows furrowed slightly.

Although he couldn't recognize the origin of these spiritual materials, judging from the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from them, they should be some low-grade refining materials. Compared to the beak of the fox crow from before, they were undoubtedly far inferior, which made him somewhat disheartened.

Fortunately, these spiritual materials can be sold at Wanbaoge for tens or even hundreds of spirit stones, which is a considerable income.

After Zhou Ping had sorted out all the spiritual materials, he finally turned his attention to the two remaining items in front of him: a yellow paper letter and an ancient square jade slip.