CHAPTER 271: CHAPTER 258: OVERNIGHT WEALTH!

Red Fox Ridge, Purple Cloud Cave.

By now, nearly three months had passed since Zhouyang returned from opening the Purple Mansion.

During these three months, apart from showing himself for the first two days and revealing his Purple Mansion Stage cultivation in front of the gathered Zhou Clan Members, he spent the rest of the time in the cave mansion’s bedroom attempting to open the two storage rings.

And after three months of effort, he finally erased the spiritual marks left by the previous owners within the two storage rings. The treasures within were now all laid out before his eyes.

The space inside Blood Nether’s storage ring was undeniably larger, with enough space to fit a small mountain!

The space in the "Golden Light Ascendant’s" storage ring was slightly smaller, but still had a capacity of over eighty zhang.

With such large storage space, it’s no wonder that Golden Core Stage cultivators could travel with just a small storage ring.

Of course, the main focus wasn’t the space, but the lifelong collections of two Golden Core Stage cultivators.

Due to their backgrounds, both Blood Nether, who hadn’t established a permanent cave mansion, and the Loose Cultivator "Golden Light Ascendant," were used to carrying most of their possessions with them.

This allowed Zhouyang, who acquired their life’s accumulations, to broaden his horizons considerably.

Not to mention other things, Zhouyang found over three hundred seventy thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, more than two thousand five hundred middle-grade Spirit Stones, and seven standard-size top-grade Spirit Stones in their storage rings!

Even calculating by converting one middle-grade Spirit Stone to a hundred low-grade ones, the number of low-grade Spirit Stones Zhouyang acquired this time was over six hundred thousand, nearly enough to buy half of a "Jade Liquid Golden Pill!"

Of course, for Golden Core Stage cultivators, aside from top-grade Spirit Stones, Spirit Stones were the least valuable items in their storage rings.

Regardless if it’s their Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts, or the collected artifacts, spirit talismans, arrays, elixirs, or other Tier Four and Tier Five spiritual objects, each was worth an unknown number of Spirit Stones.

To speak of the artifacts, Zhouyang found a total of eight Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts in the two storage rings, including six used by a cultivator and two demon artifacts.

The two Tier Five demon artifacts were a blood-colored jade axe used by Blood Nether, and a blood-colored jade coffin emitting a chilling aura. The jade axe was Blood Nether’s Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, making it virtually unusable by others.

Of the six Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts, three belonged to the "Golden Light Ascendant," namely the Tier Five Lower-Grade Flying Spiritual Artifact "Thunderbolt Golden Light Divine Shuttle," the Tier Five High-Grade Artifact "Soul Capturing Treasure Pearl," and the Tier Five Middle-Grade Artifact "Jinghong Sword."

These three artifacts were treasures inherited from his predecessors, and because he never gathered the materials to refine a Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, he never managed to create one.

Additionally, in Blood Nether’s storage ring, Zhouyang discovered three Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts, namely the Tier Five Middle-Grade Artifact "Earth Guarding Banner," the Tier Five Lower-Grade Artifact "Kunyuan Ruler," and the Tier Five High-Grade Artifact "Cyan Dragon Hairpin."

The two artifacts "Earth Guarding Banner" and "Kunyuan Ruler" were obtained by Blood Nether after killing Yellow Sand Sect’s Golden Core cultivator Jiang Ming, with "Kunyuan Ruler" being Jiang Ming’s Lifebound Spiritual Artifact.

As for the Tier Five High-Grade Artifact "Cyan Dragon Hairpin," it had been obtained earlier by killing a Golden Core Stage cultivator in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm.

Of course, none of these Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts could be refined by Zhouyang at the moment, so he could only look at them and leave them to gather dust in the storage rings.

However, the treasures of the two Golden Core Stage cultivators naturally did not consist solely of Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts; quite a few Tier Four artifacts were also present.

Excluding demon artifacts unusable by cultivators, Zhouyang found as many as nine Tier Four Spiritual Artifacts and dozens of Tier Three Spiritual Artifacts in the two storage rings.

Of the nine Tier Four Spiritual Artifacts, there were five Tier Four High-Grade Artifacts, three Tier Four Middle-Grade Artifacts, and only one Tier Four Lower-Grade Artifact.

Among them, four suitable for Zhouyang to refine and use were the Tier Four High-Grade Artifact "Azure Dragon Cauldron," the Tier Four High-Grade Artifact "Thousand Blade Disc," the Tier Four High-Grade Artifact "Fire Separation Vermilion Bird Furnace," and the Tier Four Middle-Grade Artifact "Mother and Child Golden Light Sword."

The "Azure Dragon Cauldron" once belonged to Yellow Sand Sect’s Purple Mansion cultivator Xiao Bufan as a protective spiritual artifact, and Zhouyang had witnessed its power firsthand when he had helped resolve an issue during the "Seven-Colored Cloud Smoke" incident.

And with Xiao Bufan slain by Blood Nether, the artifact naturally ended up as Blood Nether’s collection piece.

As for the other three artifacts, they were "Golden Light Ascendant’s" collection, with the "Thousand Blade Disc" being the pinnacle of his artifact refining skill, while the "Fire Separation Vermilion Bird Furnace" was an artifact refining cauldron used by his predecessor, and the "Mother and Child Golden Light Sword" was his prized creation.

Yes, besides being a Golden Core cultivator, "Golden Light Ascendant" was also a rare Tier Four High-grade Refiner. Zhouyang even discovered a Tier Five Artifact Refining Skill inheritance in his storage ring!

Unfortunately, materials for refining Tier Five artifacts were hard to come by, and "Golden Light Ascendant," being a Loose Cultivator in the resource-poor Desert Sea Cultivation Realm, found it difficult to advance to Tier Five Refiner level even with such an inheritance.

The Zhou Family’s original inheritance of artifact refining techniques was only up to Tier Four. Now, with the Tier Five inheritance obtained from the "Golden Light Ascendant’s" storage ring, the Zhou Family’s reputation as an "Artifact Refining Family" is firmly established.

However, these magical artifacts, although good, are not what Zhouyang currently needs the most. After all, even if he can refine these artifacts, it won’t bridge the gap of two minor realms between him and Luo Yunqing.

Therefore, what he’s truly concerned with is consumables like spirit talismans.

Compared to magical artifacts, there aren’t many spirit talismans in the storage rings of two Golden Core Stage cultivators, only around a dozen in total.

The reason for this, of course, is that at their level, even Tier Four spirit talismans cannot offer much help, making it unnecessary to collect them.

However, the small quantity of spirit talismans doesn’t matter; quality is what matters.

Among the dozen or so spirit talismans, there are four "Beast Soul Talismans," three of them are Tier Four High-Grade, and one is Tier Four Middle-Grade.

Among the remaining talismans, Zhouyang found two Tier Four High-Grade Attack Spirit Talismans, one Tier Four High-Grade Defense Spirit Talisman, four Tier Four Middle-Grade Attack Spirit Talismans, and three Tier Four Middle-Grade Defense Spirit Talismans, with the rest being all Tier Four Lower-Grade Spirit Talismans.

Additionally, Zhouyang discovered three Talisman Treasures in the two Golden Core Stage cultivators’ storage rings.

Talisman Treasures are special treasures made by Golden Core cultivators extracting the origins of Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts. Generally, Golden Core cultivators extract the origins of their Lifebound Spiritual Artifacts to create these items only when they are nearing sitting in meditation for the final time, leaving them to their successors for protection.

The three Talisman Treasures Zhouyang obtained are made from two Late-Stage Golden Core cultivators extracting their Tier Five High-Grade Lifebound Spiritual Artifacts, and their power is no less than ordinary Tier Five Lower-Grade Spiritual Artifacts.

The other one, although made by a Mid-Stage Golden Core cultivator extracting a Tier Five Middle-Grade Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, is also a rare defensive type of Talisman Treasure, making it equally precious.

With these three Talisman Treasures, plus the previously acquired "Beast Soul Talismans," Zhouyang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared to those artifacts from which he cannot fully utilize their power, these items are the true treasures that can help him overcome minor realm differences to defeat enemies.

Additionally, he found many cultivation technique secret inheritance and profound Hundred Skills of Cultivation inheritances.

For example, in the storage ring of Blood Nether, there is the array formation insights recorded by Jiang Ming, a Tier Four High-grade Array Master, and several Tier Three and Tier Four array formation atlases collected by him.

Furthermore, Zhouyang also found a Pill Formula Jade Scroll within, which documents the refining methods of six types of Tier Three Spirit Pills, three types of Tier Four Spirit Pills, and one type of Tier Five Spirit Pill. These pill formulas were obtained by Blood Nether from killing cultivators in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm.

As for what a demonic cultivator needs these for, of course, it’s to entice and win over some Immortal Dao cultivators.

High-tier pill formulas and array formation atlases have a deadly allure for some high-tier alchemists and array masters.

Especially loose cultivators who have worked hard to become high-tier alchemists and array masters, to further advance themselves in these areas, they sometimes do not mind doing things for demonic cultivators.

Without frequent informants, why would the Immortal Dao cultivators in the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm perpetually fail to eradicate the demonic forces there!

Meanwhile, in Blood Nether’s storage ring, Zhouyang also obtained several cultivation technique inheritances that can be cultivated to the Golden Core Stage, as well as many practical secret technique cultivation methods.

And in the "Golden Light Ascendant’s" storage ring, he not only acquired the Tier Five artifact refining inheritance but also a high-tier technique with gold attribute that can be cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage, the "Golden Radiance Shining Technique," along with a vast amount of alchemy, arrays, spirit plants, and talisman-making technique inheritances. Some of these inheritances reach Tier Four, while others are just Tier Three, which were specifically collected by the "Golden Light Ascendant" for the purpose of founding a sect.

Besides magical artifacts, spirit talismans, and cultivation technique inheritances, Zhouyang also found many precious artifact refining and alchemy materials in the two Golden Core Stage cultivators’ storage rings, including rare items such as "Taiyi Essence Gold" and "Star Meteorite Iron."

But the treasures Zhouyang values the most are the four Demon Pills and one Demon Beast Egg.

The four Demon Pills are all Tier Four, with one Tier Four High-Grade Demon Pill, two Tier Four Middle-Grade Demon Pills, and one Tier Four Lower-Grade Demon Pill.

As for the Demon Beast Egg, its color is a pale gold, with the surface of the eggshell covered in lightning patterns. It’s unmistakably an egg of a Tier Four Demon Beast, the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle, and it’s a living Demon Beast Egg!

This Golden-winged Thunder Eagle egg was found by Zhouyang in Blood Nether’s storage ring, where it was sealed inside a jade box.

Upon seeing this, Zhouyang immediately recalled the encounter with two Tier Four High-Grade Demon Beasts, the Golden-winged Thunder Eagles, at the Red Tiger Mountain Oasis.

At that time, he was particularly puzzled as to why the two Golden-winged Thunder Eagles would fly from the Broken Cloud Mountain Range to the Red Tiger Mountain Oasis to attack human cultivators, and now with this Golden-winged Thunder Eagle egg, everything is explained.