Lao Xishan clutched his severed arm and hurriedly retreated, saying in shock, "What are you!" His eyes stared closely at Little Ann, wanting to use his aura to lock onto Little Ann, but all he got was a blank space.
Little Ann stood in a patch of wild grass that almost drowned her. She put away her hidden blade and silently gazed at him. The two Skull Prayer Beads did not take advantage of the situation to attack and returned to her hands. They were just things used to attract Lao Xishan's attention.
The true battle had already ended.
Not a single drop of blood flowed out from the severed arm. Soon after, his entire arm lost all feeling, bringing only a slight stab of pain, followed by a deep numbness that spread throughout his entire body.
A layer of pale red flames adhered to the severed arm and burned into Lao Xishan's body.
Lao Xishan wanted to escape but fell to the ground, his eyes revealing deep fear, "What did you …"
Before he could finish speaking, a fiery light shone from the depths of his eyes, growing brighter and brighter. The flames fiercely spewed out of his eyes, mouth, and nose, igniting him from the inside out.
All of the flames flowed back into Little Ann's palm and then disappeared completely. Everything was as natural as stabbing an ant under a large poplar tree. He then turned his head and looked expectantly at Li Qingshan, almost saying, "Hurry and praise me."
Li Qingshan raised his eyebrows and said, "Well done, as expected of my Little Ann!"
Little Ann shyly lowered her head, her face blushing as the corners of her lips curled up slightly.
Li Qingshan put his hands on his waist, "I really have to work hard! If this goes on, wouldn't a man like me become someone who lives off a woman! "
He waved his hand and true energy swept up the hundred treasures pouch and the spirit artifact knife into his hand. He had originally wanted to return to Jiaping City with Commander Lao and also have someone as a witness to prove that he had nothing to do with Zhuo Zhibo's disappearance.
But since Lao Xishan wanted to be an official, then he changed the story: Commander Lao was worried about Commander Zhuo and entered the zombie cave to search for him. In the end, they both got lost in the maze-like underground caves. Regardless of whether you believe it or not, I believe it.
In this way, he now had three hundred treasures pouches of sixth layer Qi Practitioners. There were also the Hundred Treasures Pouches of the seven elite Qi Practitioners. There were a total of ten Hundred Treasures Pouches, a huge fortune.
He couldn't wait to return to Jiaping City, so he began to count his gains on the spot. Ten hundred treasures pouches lined up, and he couldn't help but feel slightly excited.
He first opened the hundred treasures pouches of the seven Black Wolf guards. These people had been in the Hawkwolf Guard for many years, and they were all Zhuo Zhibo's trusted aides. They had always been taken good care of, so they all possessed considerable wealth. It was truly shocking.
In the end, he found more than four thousand Qi Gathering Pills in Xie Nande's Hundred Treasures Pouch. There were more than a thousand Qi Gathering Pills. In addition, there were three hundred Hundred Herb Pills, dozens of elixirs of higher grades, more than a hundred spirit stones, more than two hundred talismans, and tens of millions of silver notes.
Opening a hundred treasures pouch was not just about collecting spoils of war. It was also a very interesting and special process, because all cultivators would view them as the most precious. The most commonly used hundred treasures pouch was in Dong Jin's tiny hundred treasures pouch, so apart from these items that Li Qingshan had noticed first, there were many other interesting miscellaneous items. He could tell a person's temperament and interests by looking at them.
The seven hundred treasures pouches represented seven different temperaments.
There was a zither in Xie Nande's hundred treasures pouch. There were also quite a few music scores. This old man's hobby could be described as elegant. If he had not followed Zhuo Zhibo into the pitch-black underground to oppose him, he would have found a bamboo forest deep in the mountains to play the zither and sing in the spring. Wouldn't that have been great?
Ge Jian was actually a fetish. There were quite a few dudou and sweat towels in his hundred treasures pouch. Who knew where he had obtained them from, which made Li Qingshan look down on him.
In the hundred treasures pouch of an unknown Black Wolf guard was a thick stack of letters, which made Li Qingshan sink into his thoughts for quite a while. No matter who's husband or father he was, it was impossible for him to return home anymore.
However, Li Qingshan did not regret killing him. Ever since he made up his mind to venture beyond the Nine Heavens, the path he walked was destined to not be a path that allowed him to be soft-hearted. If he did not kill, he would be killed. That was the so-called reality.
However, when killing had already become a habit, these enemies were basically no longer people in Li Qingshan's eyes. They were humanoid objects that could speak and fight back. All he needed to do was destroy, rip, crush, and pierce through them. Afterwards, their flesh and blood would be devoured by Little Ann's flames, as if they had never existed in this world.
At that moment, the blurry figures recovered their concept of humans, which made Li Qingshan sigh emotionally. He maintained his original heart and humanity.
The remaining three were the commander and vice commander of the Hawkwolf Guard and the Zombie Daoist. The hundred treasures pouches of the three sixth layer Qi Practitioners were the ones that Li Qingshan valued the most.
The first to be opened was the vice commander, Lao Xishan. Although he had just broken through to the sixth layer, just his hundred treasures pouch was much larger. It was the size of a small house. However, the items inside were a little lacking. It was not even as much as what Xie Nande had, which left Li Qingshan rather disappointed.
Because Lao Xishan had always been pressured by Zhuo Zhibo, coupled with the fact that he had just broken through to the sixth layer, he had used up a tremendous amount of resources in secluded cultivation.
At the end of the day, the Zombie Daoist did not disappoint Li Qingshan. There were almost two thousand Qi Gathering pills and fifty or sixty spiritual stones, which was equivalent to the wealth of three or four Hawkwolf guards. However, he did not have any talismans, so he always hid in the shadows and controlled the corpses. He did not have much use for them.
Li Qingshan also found something very interesting. It was a strange map that resembled a mental map, but when he channeled his true qi into it, countless three-dimensional lines appeared on the map.
Li Qingshan could immediately tell that this was an underground map. It was over a hundred times larger than what Hao Pingyang had discovered with his mechanical insects. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he basically would have struggled to believe that there was actually such a vast world underground in the pitch-black cavern.
As a matter of fact, there were caves beneath his feet in Jiaping city, and the Zombie cave was not the only entrance. There was another one near Jiaping city. The cave ended at the edge of the map. Clearly, it was nowhere near the complete map. There were many bright spots marked on it, but he was unable to tell what they meant.
Li Qingshan stowed the underground mental map away carefully. At certain times, this map might even be more valuable than a high grade spiritual artifact. It was exactly this map that allowed the Zombie Daoist to move about underground, evade the Hawkwolf Guard's bounty, and appear everywhere at any time to collect corpses.
The last one he opened was Zhuo Zhibo's hundred treasures pouch. As he channeled his true qi into it, the hundred treasures pouch unfurled into a huge space. It was even larger than the Zombie Daoist's hundred treasures pouch. It was like a huge warehouse, filled with various items.
Although Li Qingshan had roughly checked through it before underground, he still felt shocked when he saw it again. This was the largest hundred treasures pouch he had ever obtained. Just the hundred treasures pouch itself was a valuable spiritual artifact. And, the items inside were definitely worthy of the hundred treasures pouch.
There were over three thousand Qi Gathering pills alone. This was not a particularly large number for someone of Zhuo Zhibo's status, but there were over seven hundred Hundred Grasses pills. These were probably pills that Zhuo Zhibo used for his daily cultivation, which was why he had not hoarded too many Qi Gathering pills.
Li Qingshan opened a small bottle. There were transparent pills that sparkled like dew inside. They were actually Pearl Dew pills that he had ingested in the past. In the past, just a single Pearl Dew pill had left all the Qi Practitioners shocked. However, he opened a few bottles consecutively. They were all Pearl Dew pills. Counting them, there were thirty-five of them. The total value of the Hundred Grasses pills was greater than the Qi Gathering pills, while the value of the Pearl Dew pills was probably even greater.
Aside from that, there were a few other types of pills, several dozen in total. They were not labelled. He did not know much about pills, so he could not even name them. However, the auras they gave off were no weaker than the Pearl Dew pills.
There was also a spare mid grade flying blade, thirty-three mid grade talismans, a hundred and twenty low grade talismans, and two hundred and eleven spiritual stones.
As a result, he had obtained close to ten thousand Qi Gathering pills, over a thousand Hundred Grasses pills, a hundred high grade pills, several hundred spiritual stones of miscellaneous quality, seven low grade spiritual artifacts, three mid grade spiritual artifacts, and several hundred talismans.
He did not have to worry about not having enough pills to support his cultivation anymore. If he ate all these pills and converted them into true qi and daemon qi, just what level of cultivation would he reach? As soon as Li Qingshan thought about it, he became engrossed.
It was a pity that he needed the recognition of a commander at the very least to complete the Zombie Daoist's mission. He could not exchange them for pills for now. However, he probably would not be lacking pills for a very long time, so he was in no hurry. He believed that before long, the higher-ups would send a new commander over. However, he had lost two commanders and seven elite Hawkwolf guards all at once. The higher-ups would definitely send people to investigate this matter. He needed to come up with an explanation.
When Li Qingshan returned to Jiaping city overnight, it was not even midnight yet. He did not alarm anyone just like before. Returning to the mountain, he saw that his tiny building was lit. He shot a glance at Little Ann and silently approached the building.
The aura of a Qi Practitioner emanated from the building, but it was not powerful, only at the third layer. Moreover, the aura was rather familiar. With a thought, he remembered who the aura belonged to.
The window on the second floor was suddenly flung open. Li Qingshan asked loudly, "Qian Rongzhi, what are you doing in my room?"
The person in his room in the middle of the night was actually Qian Rongzhi. She sat on the bed, meditating. Her hair draped over her shoulders, and her clothes were disheveled. It was like she treated this place as her own room.
Qian Rongzhi was slightly surprised before recovering her composure. She smiled. "I was obviously waiting for you!" Her smile was charming and soul-stirring.
Li Qingshan frowned. "You practised a sect's arts of charm?" And she had even reached the third layer.
Qian Rongzhi said, "It's a pity that I still can't charm you! Also, I've already given this building to me. It can't be regarded as your room anymore. "
Li Qingshan frowned. "What?"
Qian Rongzhi said, "You don't need to be surprised. That's because everyone on the mountain believes you're dead for sure. They obviously won't leave this building for a dead person."
Li Qingshan said, "But you moved in here?"
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