Chapter 285: Section 178: Damned Zong’s Storage Bag, Rich Treasures! (Third Update~)_2
Su Xing felt joyous; many of these Jade Slips contained the very techniques he needed to compensate for his inadequacies in arts and techniques practice.
Besides the Jade Slips, Su Xing also saw eight puppets.
Among them, seven were at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection level!
“Goodness, these seven puppets are nearly equivalent to seven Heavenly King level experts!”
“Previously, Damned Zong used the combined striking technique of these puppets. If these seven puppets cooperated well, they could rival Divinity Transformation Stage cultivators!”
Su Xing tried to control the puppets but failed.
These puppets had prohibitions on them; unlocking them would likely take some effort.
Especially since Su Xing had yet to master puppet arts; it was challenging to control these puppets for the time being.
“But this eighth puppet… I don’t seem to have seen it before…”
Su Xing felt puzzled; this was a female puppet, extremely beautiful, seemingly crafted directly from a living person.
Moreover, this female puppet wore a splendid dress, making her look quite beautiful.
The most critical point was that this puppet only had a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation level, which logically shouldn’t have been in Damned Zong’s collection.
“Strange, a Foundation Establishment Stage puppet, what’s the use? Apart from being good-looking…”
As he said this, Su Xing’s expression turned strange; he recalled something he had read in Damned Zong’s diary.
“This female puppet… could it be the Flower Fairy who cuckolded Damned Zong?”
At this thought, Su Xing felt a chill run down his spine.
He hadn’t expected Damned Zong to have such a peculiar hobby; this puppet was likely not for combat but for some other use…
Thinking this, Su Xing’s gaze moved past the puppet, looking at other treasures.
Over ten enormous jade boxes, each half as tall as a person, were piled in the corner.
Su Xing opened one of them, and his face lit up with joy.
Inside these boxes were an assortment of precious spiritual medicines!
Some were decades old, while others were over a thousand years old!
Counting them carefully, there were over three thousand different spiritual medicines!
“Goodness… with this batch of spiritual medicines, I can attempt to refine new elixirs!”
Su Xing was elated; many of these elixirs were rare and weren’t found in the Descending Sect’s treasure vault.
Additionally, there were numerous bottles and jars inside the jade boxes, seemingly containing various elixirs.
However, Su Xing didn’t know their effects and dared not try them recklessly.
With time, perhaps Su Xing could use his alchemical expertise to identify each one carefully.
Su Xing continued searching through the storage magical artifacts.
He soon found the bone sword used by Damned Zong, a mid-grade magical artifact, indeed extraordinary.
But just a glance and Su Xing felt the deep resentment and karma wrapped around the bone sword…
It was evident how many innocent lives had been sacrificed when refining this magical artifact.
Besides that, there was a Soul Summoning Flag and over a dozen other magical treasures whose names Su Xing couldn’t even call out.
This included sinister cultivator hidden weapons used by Damned Zong, such as Five Thunder Pills, of which there were hundreds.
These Five Thunder Pills were incredibly precious, capable of harming Divinity Transformation Stage cultivators.
Each Five Thunder Pill was as valuable as a top-grade magical artifact!
“Tsk tsk… Damned Zong’s thousand-year treasure collection is indeed as rich as a nation’s wealth!”
Su Xing exclaimed and then looked toward the final corner.
In the last corner, a small pile of Spirit Stones lay quietly.
Su Xing scanned with his Divine Sense, then frowned slightly.
“Damned Zong as a Divinity Transformation cultivator… only has a mere eight thousand plus Spirit Stones?”
Su Xing was slightly surprised; although eight thousand plus Spirit Stones were much more than he had.
But these Spirit Stones weren’t enough for cultivation, not even for covering Damned Zong’s daily spiritual energy losses for more than a few years.
And since Damned Zong had awakened from his slumber, at least a hundred years had passed.
Why were there so few Spirit Stones?
Although it was the end of the Dharma Era, and spiritual energy was scarce, Divinity Transformation cultivators were still top-level experts in the Cultivation World.
Aside from top-level sects like the Wan Mu Sect, typical sects’ Sect Masters or Supreme Elders were usually Divinity Transformation cultivators.
Such powerful entities should have accumulated two to three hundred thousand Spirit Stones during times of abundant spiritual energy.
Even in the end of the Dharma era, Divinity Transformation cultivators should have amassed considerable wealth.
Especially since Damned Zong liked to kill and loot, his wealth should far exceed that of ordinary Great Perfection Divinity Transformation cultivators.
“Something is off… there are too few Spirit Stones!”
“With Damned Zong’s cautious personality, surviving thousands of years, it isn’t possible to have only these Spirit Stones…”
“Could it be… Damned Zong hid his Spirit Stones somewhere else?”
Su Xing felt confused and began searching around but couldn’t find where the Spirit Stones were hidden.
Suddenly, Su Xing had an idea and murmured:
“Damned Zong liked to write diaries so much… could he have written down the hiding place in his diary?”
Su Xing began to go through Damned Zong’s diaries, starting from the most recent and working backward.
Sure enough, after flipping through a few, Su Xing found that ten years ago, Damned Zong had hidden most of his Spirit Stones in a mountain called Five Elements Mountain.
“This Five Elements Mountain… where is it?”
Su Xing wondered and continued reading Damned Zong’s diaries.
During the next few hours, Su Xing searched through one diary after another.
Finally, Su Xing found a reference to Five Elements Mountain, and even a map was tucked into that page of the diary.
“In the year 2817, during my escape, I stumbled upon a treasure map and decided to explore it…”
“In the year 2818, I found Five Elements Mountain, which was the slumbering place of the Five Elements Sect Master from centuries ago. He consumed the Yellow Spring Elixir, and there might be endless treasures inside the tomb…”