If Gou Cheng becomes the Dao Ancestor, the monkey will come to become his disciple.

He glanced around and saw that there was no one in sight for miles around.

Jiang Chuan was finally relieved.

He immediately waved his hand, dug a pit in the ground, buried the ashes of the two people in it, and then cast a "Minor Cloud Rain Technique" to wash away all traces at the scene...

Seeing that there were no signs of a battle, Jiang Chuan then looked at the spoils of war.

A gray cloth bag, and a round jade pendant.

"What is this?"

Jiang Chuan carefully prepared the incantation beforehand, then cautiously used his spiritual sense to capture the cloth bag.

"Could this be the legendary storage bag?"

He had longed for the storage artifacts commonly found in the cultivation world for a long time, but he had always been short of spirit stones to buy them.

He didn't stop to examine the storage bag, but instead put away another jade pendant, tucked them all into his pocket, and quickly left.

……

After safely returning to the Lingtian wooden house,

Jiang Chuan was slightly relieved and decided to stay home as much as possible for the next period of time to avoid being tracked down by the market enforcement officers.

He had already thoroughly studied both spoils of war.

That small gray cloth bag really was a storage bag, and the other jade pendant was a mid-grade first-tier defensive magic artifact.

"Now, it's time to draw the lottery!"

The storage bag had the spiritual imprint left by Old Man Wang, but Jiang Chuan, who was already at the ninth level of Qi Refining, easily broke through it.

He opened the storage bag with great anticipation and "saw" the items inside.

The space was small, only about one cubic meter, and it was filled with a bunch of things.

Jiang Chuan took them out one by one.

A large red women's bellyband, damn it, what kind of weird fetish is that? I threw it away.

Three bottles of pills, their purpose is unclear for now, so I'll set them aside for now.

A small silver sword, about a foot long, suspected to be a magical flying sword.

A dark, unremarkable iron plate with an intricate pattern engraved on it, resembling a winged tiger.

He roughly counted a pile of low-grade spirit stones; there were probably one or two hundred of them.

Finally, there were three old-fashioned books...

"Haha, we've struck it rich... It's true what they say, murder and arson bring wealth, while road and bridge construction leaves no trace. No wonder robbing cultivators is so rampant; it's too quick and easy money..."

"Of course, if you walk by the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet."

Jiang Chuan smiled as he looked at the gains from this counterattack against Old Man Wang and his companion. It was more than he had earned from selling talismans and books for several years.

He carefully counted the spirit stones, which totaled 198. Adding his own, the total number of spirit stones reached a staggering 315.

"What kinds of books are these?"

Jiang Chuan looked at the three antique books with great anticipation. The books that Old Man Wang had so carefully collected must be extraordinary.

A moment later, he figured it out.

The three books include two cultivation techniques and one fire-attribute technique called "True Flame Technique," a mid-grade first-level technique that can be cultivated up to the Foundation Establishment stage.

One of them is the "Thick Earth Technique," an earth-attribute manual, a mid-grade first-level manual that can also be cultivated to the Foundation Establishment stage.

The last book appears to be a body-refining technique called "Diamond Body," which only has the first three levels and can be cultivated to the first level of perfection.

After briefly glancing at the cultivation technique, Jiang Chuan's eyes lit up. It was like a perfect pillow had arrived when he was sleepy.

He was planning to buy some Five Elements cultivation techniques to study and learn from.

The several manuals are profound and extensive, containing tens of thousands of words, and require careful study; they cannot be learned in a day.

Jiang Chuan put down his martial arts manual and picked up a small silver sword about the size of his palm and a round jade pendant.

In this world of cultivation...

Qi Refining stage cultivators use magical artifacts, which, like cultivation techniques, are also divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.

Reusable, highly lethal, and multifunctional magical artifacts are worth more than ten times more than talismans of the same rank.

According to what he saw at Biyang Tower, even a low-grade magic weapon was worth dozens of spirit stones, while the value of a mid-grade magic weapon was several times higher.

He knew absolutely nothing about weapon crafting, but after studying it for a while, he imprinted it with his own spiritual sense.

Immediately, with a thought, his silver flying sword, about a foot long, floated into the air and began to move in various ways as he manipulated it.

"Does this flying sword magical artifact only use spiritual energy as its power source for attack?"

Jiang Chuan tried it out; the flying sword swiftly pierced the ground, leaving a shallow crater the size of a fist.

If we're talking about power?

Ahem, let's not talk about it. He should be able to barely kill a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining.

This is completely different from the flying sword magical artifact I had imagined.

There must be something fishy about this.

Jiang Chuan pondered for a moment and suddenly realized that his method of using the flying sword might be completely wrong.

He tried to control the flying sword, infusing it with magical power. In the next instant, the silver flying sword suddenly grew to seven feet in length, radiating a cold, sharp light, and looked incredibly powerful.

"I knew it! I must have been doing it wrong."

"Spiritual consciousness should be the control system of the flying sword, controlling its direction, while magical power is the power system, providing abundant strength and also able to change size... Tsk tsk, as expected of a legendary magical artifact, it's truly amazing."

Having figured it out, Jiang Chuan excitedly stepped onto his flying sword, hovering about three feet off the ground, and carefully flew around the wooden house...

"Is this what flying feels like?"

Jiang Chuan suddenly experienced the joy of cultivating immortality. If he were to return to Earth, wouldn't this be more stylish than any car?

Bugatti and Koenigsegg have to take a backseat.

After experiencing the feeling of flying, Jiang Chuan imprinted his spiritual sense on the round jade pendant and figured out how to use it.

This is a defensive magical artifact; after use, it can form a layer of "protective aura" on the body's surface...

After sorting out the spoils of this battle,

Jiang Chuan then thought of the two treasure-delivering boys, Old Man Wang and Wang Yuyan, whose bodies had already been destroyed to cover up the crime.

"I wonder if their disappearance will attract the attention of the market enforcement team?"

For the next few months, Jiang Chuan stayed obediently in the wooden house, continuing to farm while studying the three cultivation techniques...

In the blink of an eye, another six months have passed.

The deaths of Old Man Wang and his companion caused no disturbance whatsoever. Not only did the market's law enforcement team not intervene, but even Old Man Wang's other acquaintances did not come to inquire about the matter.

While breathing a sigh of relief, this also served as a wake-up call for Jiang Chuan.

In Taihu Market, you can't rely on anyone to protect you. Once your secrets are exposed, no one in the world can protect you.

One must survive, survive until the end of time, survive until one is invincible.

In the past six months, he has not been without gains. In addition to mastering flying sword magic weapons, he has also carefully studied the newly acquired cultivation techniques several times.

His knowledge, especially regarding foundation building, made him more skeptical of his previous understanding.

He originally thought that this world of cultivation was just a traditional "mortal cultivation" world, but now it seems that he had been too simplistic in his imagination and had no idea about the true secrets of this world's cultivation system.

Breaking through from the Qi Refining Perfection stage to the Foundation Establishment stage was far more difficult than he had imagined.

Besides having to pass through the three stages of "essence, qi, and spirit" to transform gaseous magic power into liquid magic power, the most crucial thing is to obtain a certain "foundation-building spiritual object" in order to establish a foundation for one's Dao.

The types of spirit objects used for Foundation Establishment are diverse.

It could be a breath of innate spiritual energy from heaven and earth, a special spiritual plant, a magical ancient mirror, or a secret treasure...