Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 354: 262 Opening Blind Boxes_2

Chapter 354: Chapter 262 Opening Blind Boxes_2

Packing up the treasure materials and spiritual medicine, he used his divine sense to inspect the small tower, his expression suddenly froze, betraying a look of surprise!

This unassuming black tower was in fact pregnant with thirty-six layers of Earth Evil Restriction, and was indeed a top-grade spiritual artifact. It only lacked the unity of the Four Nines, and the formation of a Heavenly Gang Treasure Restriction to be promoted to a low-grade magical treasure.

Alas, this slight gap was as vast as the difference between heaven and earth; in the Cultivation World, perhaps one hundred top-grade spiritual artifacts might not produce a single magical treasure.

Zhao Sheng felt some joy, yet despite his vigorous pumping of spiritual power into the tower, aside from emitting a layer of black light, it did not display any other functions or effects.

It seemed this spiritual artifact, though extraordinary, most likely needed some special magic spell to be activated.

Zhao Sheng felt a great sense of regret as he shook his head and stored this top-grade spiritual artifact into his storage bag.

For him now, spiritual artifacts were sufficiently abundant; anything below a top-grade spiritual artifact simply did not catch his eye.

Next, Zhao Sheng simply opened the remaining storage bags.

Fourteen Foundation Establishment cultivators contributed a total of over forty storage bags.

Now what a sight it was, a vast assortment of strange and curious items stuffed half of the stone room, and spirit stones piled up as high as a person.

As expected, the majority were common cultivation resources.

However, with such a quantity, there were always a few treasures that caught the eye.

For instance, after rummaging for a while, Zhao Sheng actually found two Red Fire Ganoderma.

The Red Fire Ganoderma was the main ingredient for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, and of course, it was quite valuable.

With Zhao Sheng’s quasi third-rank Pill Master realm, a furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills could yield at least five to seven pills at the minimum. If he pursued quality, producing one or two top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills from two furnaces was a certainty.

Soon, the small mountain reduced by half.

When Zhao Sheng opened a jade box, he suddenly saw a fist-sized, purple fog-enshrouded crystal mushroom emitting a strong exotic fragrance.

“Damn, Purple Qi Mushroom!”

Zhao Sheng had lived six lifetimes, spending close to a hundred years combined as a medicine collector in the third and fourth but still had never laid eyes on the long-coveted Purple Qi Mushroom.

Yet unexpectedly, this treasure had appeared before him out of the blue.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng was very excited as if he had resolved a long-standing wish.

The Purple Qi Mushroom was much more precious than most millennium-aged treasure medicines, for it was one of the three main ingredients in refining Golden Core Formation Pills.

When Dong Miaozhen married him, among the dowry she brought was a Golden Elixir Recipe.

The Zhao Family had by then already collected the two other main ingredients, the Jade Divine Flower and the Nine Curves Ginseng, and the auxiliary ingredients were also ready, with only the Purple Qi Mushroom missing.

Zhao Sheng had long memorized the process of refining Golden Core Formation Pills by heart; what he now lacked was just the practice.

Now that he had the Purple Qi Mushroom, it was just like finding something when you least expect it – effortless!

Zhao Sheng felt an itch to start refining, but unfortunately, the alchemy ingredients were all stored in Xinglong City, so he could only look at the mushroom with a sigh of longing.

After storing the Purple Qi Mushroom, his interest suddenly waned; he casually rummaged through the items, tossing the ones that didn’t catch his eye into his storage bag to deal with once back in Xinglong City.

An hour later, he had scrutinized and cleared all the items.

Evidently, most of the Foundation Establishment cultivators frequenting the Pocket World City were poor devils.

Zhao Sheng did a quick estimate; aside from the treasures he had his eye on, the other items combined with the spirit stones amounted to about 1.3 million spirit stones in value.

Though this was a considerable fortune, it was only enough to buy a low-grade magical treasure, or barely afford the worst quality Golden Core Formation Pill.

It was clear, then, how difficult it was for a Foundation Establishment Family to support a Golden Core Master.

Now, only four treasures and a dozen or so jade scrolls of different styles remained before him.

The jade scrolls contained various cultivation experiences and some strange cultivation techniques written in codes which were not too useful until deciphered.

Zhao Sheng merely glanced over them briefly before stowing all of the jade scrolls into his storage bag.

As for the four treasures, the most common were two third-tier special talismans — talisman treasures.

One talisman treasure had a Four-winged Fire Crow drawn on its surface, while the other had a green wooden sword.

Zhao Sheng inspected them and was slightly disappointed to find that both talisman treasures were second-hand, with the former only capable of one more use, and the latter somewhat better, usable twice.

For him, at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, ordinary medium and low-tier talisman treasures were no longer indestructible attacks; only a strike from a top-grade talisman could seriously injure him, and whether he would die or not was still debatable.

The third rare treasure came from an unlucky fellow of the Purple Sun Sect.

It resembled a chicken egg in size, entirely red and dainty, but the exterior was covered with fine cracks, and it was a bell; the bell hammer was a thumb-sized crystal skull. Inside it contained three mysterious treasure restrictions.

It looked like a damaged magical treasure.

Zhao Sheng, curious, injected a stream of spiritual power and gave it a few shakes.

Hum!

Just then, he suddenly felt dizzy, a piercing pain like being pricked by needles abruptly emanating from deep within his divine soul.

“Fuck, what the hell is this magical treasure? It even hurts its owner!” Zhao Sheng exclaimed in shock and quickly tucked it back into his storage bag.

This bell-shaped magical treasure possessed an immense power, capable of releasing a strange fluctuation that even he couldn’t detect.

You should know that his divine sense was already much stronger than that of his peers,

and since he had crushed his heart demon, his divine sense had greatly improved once again, now twice as strong as an ordinary cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Perfection.

Yet even so, it was difficult to withstand even a light strike from this mysterious bell.

If this magical treasure could be repaired and unleashed its full power, it might be difficult for even a Golden Core Master to resist it easily.

However, it was clear that this bell had to be controlled with special methods; otherwise, it would not differentiate between friend and foe, easily causing harm to both sides.

Zhao Sheng carefully placed the bell into a specially emptied storage bag.

There was only one last treasure left in front of him now.

The last and what he considered the most precious, it appeared to be a death replacement doll woven from Life and Death Grass, hiding an unknown talisman inside.

According to rumors, the death replacement doll could take a lethal attack on the owner’s divine soul in their stead.

Just for this, the value of the death replacement doll was immeasurable,

unclear who was the lucky or unlucky one who found it, but now Zhao Sheng was the one to benefit.

There had long been rumors that the death replacement doll went against the Heavenly Dao and that its owner would ultimately die by an accident.

Of course, he thought this was purely nonsensical.

The use of the death replacement doll was very simple!

Zhao Sheng forced the essence blood of its previous owner out of his body.

As for the divine soul fragments left by the previous owner, they had already dissipated, saving him the trouble of erasing them.

Next, following the procedure, he dripped a drop of his essence blood into the body of the death replacement doll and then cut a strand of his divine soul and infused it into the talisman.

It sounded easy, but when separating his divine soul, Zhao Sheng almost fainted from the pain, the agony of tearing the divine soul was more than ten times worse than being sliced by a thousand knives.

Just as Zhao Sheng was sweating coldly from the pain, outside of the White Mist Ruins, Shen Mo and Vulture Old Monster had several brief skirmishes before confronting each other again.

With two Nascent Soul-stage Cultivators present, all the cultivators who came later and learned of the situation became very compliant.

Since the powerful figures did not allow entry, they obediently waited on the side.

Nobody dared to leave,

without permission, as no one dared to defy the decree of a Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Things started to become interesting.

Zhao Xuanjing, hiding on the sidelines, was more than happy to see this stalemate continue.

It would be best if it dragged on until his master Dongyang Que arrived.

But the two Nascent Souls were not fools and naturally understood the principle that delays would bring changes.

Therefore, both sides soon took a step back, each selecting a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to enter the ruins.

Their purpose was not to fight for treasures but to contend for the two Golden Core cultivators within.

Time ticked away slowly, but there was no word from those sent inside.

After half a day, just as Shen Mo and Vulture Old Monster were growing impatient, Dongyang Que suddenly appeared with two Nascent Soul juniors.

There’s no need to say more, by the might of a Great Cultivator, Dongyang Que single-handedly fought against two and won easily.

From then on, the ruins temporarily fell under the control of the Ksitigarbha Sect.

Seeing this, Zhao Xuanjing finally showed himself and then assumed the heavy responsibility of exploring the ruins.

Zhao Sheng learned much later about a series of major events related to the ruins from Zhao Xuanjing.

At this time, he had just recovered from the intense pain of his divine soul and was unaware that this profound incident had already started to ferment slowly.

As the headache eased slightly, Zhao Sheng immediately took a Returning God Pill to treat the injuries to his divine soul and swiftly went into deep meditation to nurture his divine soul.