CHAPTER 782: CHAPTER 775: THREE ITEMS

The night remained hazy.

Inside the Ning Mansion Courtyard, after watching Chen Hai dissolve into the night and disappear, it took Ning Wudi a good while to come back to his senses.

He swept his gaze around, making sure he was indeed the only person left in the entire Ning Mansion. Only then did he use his arms to replace his legs, crawling towards the area where the Evil Infant had died.

"This is... an ancient Immortal Artifact..."

"This is... the highest Inheriting True Method that can cultivate up to the level of a Golden Immortal..."

"These are Five Elements Spiritual Items..."

"A blessing in disguise, indeed, this time, our Ning Mansion has really struck it rich!"

Picking up each item that Chen Hai had deemed unworthy of his attention and left for himself, Ning Wudi felt an uncontrollable surge of ecstasy in his heart.

Grinning like a fool, he carefully collected each item one by one.

After tidying up all the items, he faced the direction where Chen Hai had vanished and performed several deep bows in succession.

If he had been able to clearly see what Chen Hai looked like, perhaps he would have worshipped him daily with incense, and directly enshrined a portrait of Chen Hai.

Recalling how he once suspected that the senior before him was not a human but a different species, Ning Wudi felt more than just embarrassed.

"The True Skill heritage passed down amongst our human race originally stems from certain powerful ancient Creatures."

"The form that the senior showcased earlier, its terror could very well be due to the cultivation of some powerful Divine Skills, resulting in that appearance!"

"If he isn’t of the human race, why would he leave behind these treasures, presenting them all to me..."

After rationalising an excuse for Chen Hai’s tentacled appearance in his own mind, Ning Wudi truly wished to slap himself hard a few times.

Having made sure that nothing was overlooked, his gaze landed on the several corpses that lay scattered not far away on the ground.

Including Ning Wudi himself, the Ning Mansion only had a handful of people, just over ten.

Although the number of people killed by the Evil Infant wasn’t high, it was already about half of the entire Ning Clan’s population.

Had it not been for the recently acquired fortune, faced with such heavy losses, Ning Wudi would certainly have been filled with grief and rage.

But now, he felt that the deaths of those people from his mansion were absolutely worth it.

After all, if the Evil Infant hadn’t been killing rampantly within his mansion, would that senior have come here to slay the Evil Infant, leaving behind such a vast fortune for Ning Wudi?

Among those items he had pocketed, while the external Spiritual Objects were precious, it was not a big deal.

What truly thrilled Ning Wudi’s heart was those various Inheriting True Methods.

You should know, for the average humans living in Mang Mountain City, Dharma Methods that can cultivate to the level of a True Immortal are already out of reach.

Relying on an incomplete method to step into the realm of a True Immortal, Ning Wudi’s achievement was purely by chance, and the arduous process was simply unreplicable.

The method of inheritance he had just acquired could lead directly to the level of a Golden Immortal; just think about it, and you can understand how terrifyingly valuable such an unpassed inheritance is!

"With such an Inheriting True Method in hand, as long as our Ning Mansion can survive this catastrophe, our path forward is absolutely bright."

"Just give us enough time to develop, and it’s not just about becoming a True Immortal; even Heavenly Immortals and Earth Immortals, our Ning Clan might well produce a whole host of them."

"By that time, within the peoples of Mang Mountain City, if our Ning Clan claims to be second, who would dare claim to be first!"

A whirlwind of thoughts spun in his mind, and as Ning Wudi got carried away, a feeling known as ambition began to rise spontaneously in his heart.

Pressing his arm against the ground, Chen Hai flitted out toward the mansion’s exterior.

After all, no matter what was on his mind, the current pressing matter was still to regroup with the people from his Ning Clan who had escaped from the mansion.

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He roamed around the surrounding area for several loops until around two or three in the morning, when Chen Hai finally returned to his mansion.

The originally charming and splendid back garden was now a charred mess, completely unrecognizable.

Continue to cultivate here? The thought that his newly purchased residence had halved in value due to the disturbance caused by the beings from the Nether Land made him very uncomfortable.

After deliberating for a while, he eventually went back to the cold and quiet side room within the dwelling.

Fortunately, the stench of blood that had been pervading the room during the day had mostly dissipated.

Chen Hai, who felt a bit reluctant even to kill a chicken, was still slightly nauseated by the faint smell of blood, but he could barely tolerate it.

"Those guys from the Nether Land, they are all paupers."

"After leaving the Ning Mansion, I wandered nearby for a while, took down six or seven ghosts, but the harvest was basically nothing. What bad luck!"

"If all the ghosts that died by my hand were treasure-giving children like Wu Meng, how wonderful that would have been!"

Mumbling to himself, Chen Hai let out a few chuckles.

Since he was not sure if Chi Lian White Bone and those people from the Nether Land had powerful individuals leading them, he had roamed around the vicinity for safety but had not made much noise or effort to search for those ghosts.

Otherwise, the number of ghosts that had perished at his hands might have been even greater.

What really dissatisfied him was, despite the great effort he had put in, his gains were really pitiful.

Apart from the two items he had obtained from the Evil Infant, the only noteworthy item was a Blood Crystal Stone, whose origins he could not recognize, but felt had some value.

Sitting down at the desk in the side room, he took out the few items he had gathered on this trip and placed them one by one on the desk.

Among the few items, he first picked up the thumb-sized Five-Colored Stone and held it in his hand, inspecting it closely.

Unfortunately, after scanning the item several times from top to bottom, other than feeling that it was incredibly hard, almost indestructible, he could not discern any other peculiarities.

"The Eye of Greed, this weird Divine Skill, only acts on its own will when it’s absolutely starving."

"Just like before, when I was in the abandoned mine, because the Divine Skill had just condensed not long ago and had never captured any treasures, it broke through the Void Space and extended a hand towards the Golden Jiao Scissors on its own."

"But now, the Void Space formed within the Eye of Greed, where the Supreme Treasure Heaven and Earth Exquisite Mysterious Yellow Tower has not yet been fully eroded, won’t emerge unless I call upon it, staying silent."

"If I summon the Eye of Greed, and if this stone really is a treasure, there’s a good chance the Eye of Greed would react abnormally to it..."

Just as Chen Hai was about to put away the Five-Colored Stone, a thought flashed through his mind, and he suddenly remembered his Eye of Greed.

Using the Eye of Greed to determine whether something has value?

This idea suddenly popped into Chen Hai’s head, and whether it was feasible or not, he would only know the accurate answer after a true test.

Chen Hai was someone who didn’t dilly-dally when it came to actions. Having thought of it, he naturally put it into practice immediately.

Looking at the three items laid out on the tidy desk in front of him, he took a deep breath and focused his mind.

The next moment, a faint mark began to slowly appear between his eyebrows.

Soon after, the mark split open, and the Eye of Greed, seemingly the epitome of strangeness, manifested itself.