Still retracing his original path, Li Shiming carefully avoided pedestrians with the help of drones in the sky.

    Most residents of Central Capital were just waking up, and there weren''t many pedestrians on the streets.

    He chose a more secluded route and by the time he got home, it was already seven in the morning.

    "Young Master, when did you get up?" he didn''t alarm the guards, but upon entering the main house, he was met by Si Qin''s bright eyes.

    Thinking about it, Si Qin would have already been up preparing his washing items around this time.

    "I got up early today and moved around in the courtyard for a bit," Li Shiming said, having changed back into his usual clothes after entering the city, and he waved his hands in response.

    Si Qin didn''t think much of it and briskly went to make the preparations.

    Li Shiming felt Si Qin''s happiness, and the impact of last night''s killings gradually faded from his mind, a smile appearing on his face as well.

    After washing up, he went to his study.

    Everyone in the courtyard knew he was preparing for the big examination, so they were all very quiet; whoever was doing whatever, they made sure to stay away from the study to provide him with the optimum reading environment.

    Li Shiming placed the three storage bags in front of him, knowing that the troubles with the Hao Family had finally ended with them in his possession.

    He didn''t wish for it to be so, but the Hao Family had to be eliminated for him to have peace.

    The moment the Hao Family sent Cultivators to assassinate him, a life-and-death struggle between them was set in motion.

    Two of the storage bags were the same model, while the third was slightly different.

    He first opened one of the identical storage bags, just like the ones he''d obtained from the Cultivators of the Hao Family previously - inside were a low-grade long sword magical artifact, over a hundred Spirit Stones, and several dozen various talismans.

    Feeling a bit disappointed, he opened the second identical storage bag and found a talisman pen and some talismanic ink in addition to the other items, suggesting that the owner of this storage bag was most likely a Talisman Maker.

    He then turned his attention to the final storage bag, the one he placed most of his hopes in.

    This storage bag probably belonged to that sixth-level Qi Refinement realm elder of the Hao Family who was also the clan leader.

    Even if he used plain language to describe the true meanings, other Cultivators couldn''t feel what he felt.

    Unless he could transmit the true meanings simulated by the IBMz15 into the five senses of other Cultivators, they wouldn''t comprehend the true meanings as easily as he did.

    After setting aside the Spellbooks, he picked up another book, "Chang Chun Gong."

    This was a Qi Refinement Realm Cultivation Technique designed for those with a Wood Spirit Root.

    After reading through Chang Chun Gong, and comparing it with his own "Five Elements Qi Absorption Technique," he felt Chang Chun Gong seemed too simplistic.

    This was just his opinion. With his level of knowledge, he couldn''t be sure whether this feeling was correct.

    The last book was "Hao''s Talisman Inheritance," a talisman inheritance of the Hao Family.

    After reading "Hao''s Talisman Inheritance," he finally understood what that spirit bamboo root was.

    It was a type of Spirit Bamboo known as ''Spirit Bamboo.'' The Hao Family''s inheritance relied on ''Spirit Bamboo.''

    Besides the bamboo shoots, which were Spirit Food, the bamboo itself didn''t have much use. In contrast, the bamboo leaves were naturally the raw material for talisman paper.

    "Hao''s Talisman Inheritance" contained the Hao Family''s unique methods of converting ''Spirit Bamboo'' leaves into talisman paper, with an average of two leaves needed to make one piece of talisman paper.

    With ''Spirit Bamboo,'' the Hao Family could not only sell talisman paper but also use it to train their own Talisman Makers.

    "Hao''s Talisman Inheritance" recorded more knowledge about talisman crafting than the "Complete Compendium of Runes" and the notes of the Hao Family Cultivator he had obtained before. He also figured out how the Hao Family Cultivator who had tried to assassinate him became invisible.

    There were two ways: one was to practice the ''Invisibility Technique'' to become invisible in front of ordinary people; the other was to create an ''Invisibility Talisman'' with the technique, enabling Cultivators to become invisible.

    He stored the frequently used items into five cubic storage bags and hung them around his waist. From now on, these would be his regular storage bags.

    Since he could always store the storage bags in the machine room space and even secretly switch them without worrying about anyone realizing that a minor Qi Refining Second Level Cultivator like him was using the precious five cubic storage bags.

    The rest of the six storage bags were all placed into the machine room space to be used for storing materials.

    The gains of this occasion also included ''Spirit Bamboo'' and the spirit soil needed to cultivate ''Spirit Bamboo.'' There was a little over one cubic meter of spirit soil, taking up one and a half storage bags all by itself.