CHAPTER 860: CHAPTER 860: SECT LEADER’S CEMETERY

Jiang Zheng’s prestige as Sect Leader was challenged, yet he was helpless.

After all, those who challenged him were his two most beloved disciples.

"Trust me, the array is absolutely fine!"

He thumped his chest confidently.

Tang Zhirou was doubtful but still reluctantly nodded her head.

"Alright, I’ll trust you this time, old man. If anything goes wrong, I’ll come back and rip out all your beard!"

Jiang Zheng felt phantom pains in his chin out of nowhere and rubbed it with his hand, before pulling out ten Spirit Stones from his storage bag.

These ten Spirit Stones were only thumb-sized, looking like scraps, yet the pure Spiritual Energy contained within them made Chen Nan’s pupils shrink suddenly.

Compared to the low-grade Spirit Stones he normally used for cultivation, the Spiritual Energy within the ten small Spirit Stones in Jiang Zheng’s hand was over dozens of times stronger!

These are top-grade Spirit Stones!

One should know that one hundred low-grade Spirit Stones can be exchanged for one hundred medium-grade Spirit Stones, and one hundred medium-grade Spirit Stones can be exchanged for one top-grade Spirit Stone.

In other words, the small piece of top-grade Spirit Stone in Jiang Zheng’s hand is equal to ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.

Over the past few months, Chen Nan kept refining Elixir Pills in the Qingshan Sect, though most were exchanged for Spiritual Medicine, he also accumulated plenty of Spirit Stones.

But even then, he only gathered around tens of thousands of low-grade Spirit Stones.

To a third-tier sect, tens of thousands of low-grade Spirit Stones are already a considerable fortune.

And now, Jiang Zheng suddenly took out ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.

The key point is, though the exchange rate is set, no one would foolishly use top-grade Spirit Stones to exchange for low-grade Spirit Stones, because the Spiritual Energy within top-grade Spirit Stones is incredibly pure, far superior to low-grade ones.

So even those who possess top-grade Spirit Stones will keep them for cultivation rather than exchange them, making them essentially priceless.

Previously, Chen Nan killed Liu Tong and combined the storage bags of Liu Tong, Hu Chuan, and Zhao Kai, gaining only several thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, some of which were used by Chen Nan to support the Qingshan Sect.

Thus, the ten top-grade Spirit Stones in Jiang Zheng’s hand were most of Qingshan Sect’s assets.

"Wow, old man, you’re quite generous this time." Tang Zhirou was also surprised.

Previously, Jiang Zheng always seemed very stingy in their presence; this impression was deeply rooted.

Jiang Zheng gave a bitter smile, saying nothing.

Chen Nan was equally surprised. No wonder Jiang Zheng said after Qingshan Sect’s decline, no one entered the Inheritance Land.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to enter the Inheritance Land, they couldn’t afford it.

Opening it once costs ten top-grade Spirit Stones, too expensive!

Jiang Zheng painfully placed the Spirit Stones into the array’s recess; these ten top-grade Spirit Stones were actually exchanged with the Beast Taming Sect and other nearby sects.

Of course, the price certainly wasn’t exchanged for one thousand low-grade Spirit Stones each; Jiang Zheng paid half over the premium, plus Chen Nan’s connections, to finally acquire them.

Meaning, what he held wasn’t most of Qingshan Sect’s assets, but all of them!

After embedding the Spirit Stones into the array, it emitted a faint white light. Jiang Zheng chanted the incantation beside it, placing his hands onto the array.

"Alright, the array is functioning normally, hurry and step in."

"Remember, be sure to bring a lot of things out, or we’ll face a big loss!"

Chen Nan and Tang Zhirou entered the array, the scene before them began to distort, and they both felt a sudden discomfort.

But soon, the discomfort vanished, and they appeared in a strange place.

This place resembled a graveyard, everywhere were mounds, with a stone stele erected in front of each.

Looking around, there were hundreds of graves.

The whole area appeared eerily gloomy, without a trace of sunlight, yet spectral fires floated everywhere.

"This... is the Inheritance Land?"

Tang Zhirou nervously clutched Chen Nan’s sleeve, asking softly with tension.

"Are you afraid of ghosts?"

Chen Nan seemed to have discovered some truth, smiling with squinted eyes.

Tang Zhirou immediately released Chen Nan, pretending to be calm, said: "Nonsense, how could I be afraid?"

To prove she wasn’t afraid, she deliberately walked to the nearest tombstone.

By accident, she stepped on a brittle bone in front of the tombstone, breaking it with a crisp sound.

Crack!

The sound scared Tang Zhirou like a quail, she darted back behind Chen Nan, tightly closing her eyes.

"Haha, frightened is frightened, everyone has things they’re afraid of, what’s the big deal, I won’t laugh at you."

Chen Nan turned around, smiling in comfort.

"Really?"

Tang Zhirou slowly opened her eyes, only to see Chen Nan’s teasing gaze, she immediately realized she was tricked.

"You big jerk!"

Chen Nan couldn’t hold back and burst into laughter.

"This is hilarious, a cultivator like you afraid of ghosts, it’s practically a rare sight!"

"Ahhh, I’m going to kill you!" Tang Zhirou, completely embarrassed, lunged forward to grip Chen Nan’s neck, shaking him fiercely, grinding her teeth.

Unfortunately, her attack didn’t affect Chen Nan at all.

After laughing enough, Chen Nan calmed his mood, seriously said: "Alright, let’s quickly check what inheritance there is."

Tang Zhirou also recognized the urgency, so she temporarily let go of Chen Nan, but those eyes still seemed vicious.

The two arrived in front of a tombstone, reading the engraved text on it.

"Master Wu Shang, the seventy-eighth sect leader of Qingshan Sect, lived two thousand eight hundred years, ambushed by demon cultivators, severely injured, killed all demon cultivators and returned to the sect, died from untreated injuries."

Just reading the text, they could feel the fierce meaning within the words.

"How is the inheritance obtained?" Tang Zhirou frowned, puzzled, reaching out to touch the tombstone.

Instantly, she stood still on the spot, eyes closed, seemingly caught in a dream.

Chen Nan realized, looks like this is how the inheritance is received, just need to touch the tombstone.

Just as he was preparing to step forward to check, Tang Zhirou suddenly opened her eyes, retreating two steps.

"How was it?" Chen Nan asked curiously.

Tang Zhirou shook her head disappointingly: "Inside the tombstone is Master Wu Shang’s residual soul, one must be recognized by the residual soul to receive the inheritance. Sadly, I wasn’t recognized, my consciousness was expelled."

"I see," seeing her mood low, Chen Nan didn’t continue to mock, but comforted: "No worries, look there are many inheritances, surely one will recognize you."

"Even if you don’t get any inheritance, it’s okay, no one would blame you, see our master didn’t get one either?"

Though comforting, to Tang Zhirou it sounded very unpleasant, causing her to roll her eyes at Chen Nan.

"Thank you, you’re really great at comforting people!"