When he sent his spiritual senses in, he found that the ring was mostly empty.
There was a lot of dust that was inside the ring which should be the items that had been in the ring before…
Storage Rings were only made with temporary storage in mind. The space inside the Storage Rings still flowed at normal time, so if something was left inside of a Storage Ring for long enough, it could still deteriorate until it turned to dust. Which was what had happened inside of this Storage Ring.
It was quite amazing that there was actually anything left inside of this Storage Ring.
However, that also showed just how long this Storage Ring had been at the bottom of this pond for.
The only things that were left in this Storage Ring was a box and a pair of boots.
The first thing that Lin Fan took out were the boots.
Green Jade Boots:
High Foundation Realm Artifact𝑜𝑣𝔩xt.𝗇𝓔t
Agility: +20 (Cultivator stats, conversion of 1000:1 with human stats)
Defense: +10
Boots that were refined with the purest green jade, grants the user with incredible speed.
Additional: Has a special ability to release a burst of energy that creates a barrier around the user for three seconds. Needs to regain energy for twenty four hours after use.
This was! This was an incredible item!
Not only did it increase his stats, it also had a special ability that would provide him with a protective barrier once a day!
He couldn’t ask for anything better!
In fact, he really didn’t want anything better because if it was a better artifact, he wouldn’t have been able to use it. He wouldn’t be able to bring out the full power of a higher grade artifact, so this artifact was perfect for his current level of cultivation.
As for the increase in stats that were measured in cultivator stats, that was something that Lin Fan’s system had automatically changed to after he broke through to the Foundation Realm.
All of his stats had broke the limits of humanity by reaching a thousand after he broke through to the Foundation Realm, so now his system had converted to a scale that was
more suited for cultivators. All of his stats had returned to around 1 since that was the level that a normal new Foundation Realm Cultivator was at.
But since a normal human’s average stat was 10, that meant that Lin Fan was now a hundred times stronger in everything compared to a normal human.
With that same logic, since these Green Jade Boots were able to increase his agility by 20, it meant that it was increasing his speed by over two thousand times!
This was a speed that would rip apart a normal human body, but with his enhanced body, he was able to endure this. Which was also why if it had been at a higher level he wouldn’t have been able to use the full strength of the artifact. He would have had no choice but to weaken the effects of the artifact to a level that his body could endure.
Without any hesitation, Lin Fan immediately put on the boots before turning to look at his status.
Name: Lin Fan
Age: 16
Cultivation: Foundation Realm
Cultivation Technique: Spiritual Qi Gathering Technique, Love Technique
Strength: 1.2
Vitality: 1.5
Intelligence: 1.9
Agility: 21.4
Luck: -10
Spirit Root: Five Elemental Heavenly Root
Comprehension: Mystic
Physique: Five Elemental True Body
Skills: Love Gauge Taming (Max), Appraisal Eye (Max), Pain Tolerance (Max), Mental Fortitude (Max), Loving Is Sharing (Level 2), Magic Manipulation (Max).
Owned Artifacts: Gramr (Sealed), Green Jade Boots, Clear Water Bead.
The 21.4 agility really was a large disparity with the rest of his stats, but seeing it filled him with excitement.
The other thing that changed was that his comprehension had increased from profound to mystic. While he didn’t know exactly what that meant or what the scale for this was, he knew that it wasn’t a bad thing for him.
Seeing all of his increased stats, Lin Fan was filled with excitement.
But he quickly calmed himself down as he turned his attention to the other box that had been in the Storage Ring.
If the pair of boots was already this amazing, he couldn’t help looking forward to seeing how amazing whatever inside the box was.
But to his disappointment, he found that there was only a simple jade token inside of the box. There wasn’t anything special about this token, there wasn’t even a single marker that made it seem different from a normal piece of jade.
The only thing special was how it had been carved into a perfect rectangle.
The smooth surface and the clean cuts made it clear that the one who had carved this wasn’t a normal person.
But why would they spend all this effort on carving this jade that had nothing special about it.
So after Lin Fan looked all over the jade, he used his Appraisal Eye.
[Jade Token]
A mysterious jade that was carved with extraordinary skills.
“Something beyond comparison.”
Lin Fan couldn’t help being shocked when he saw this.
Something that had been called amazing by the system had turned out to be Greeny, the most useful pet that Lin Fan currently owned. Now there was something that was called beyond comparison by the system…
Just what was this jade?
With this thought, Lin Fan decided to put this jade token away in the Pet Storage Space to see if there would be any reaction. However, the moment that the jade token entered the Pet Storage Space, all it did was lay there.
There wasn’t a single notification that popped out.
Feeling a bit disappointed, Lin Fan had no choice but to just leave the jade token in the Pet Storage Space since there was nothing that he could do with it now.
He was certain that he would be able to eventually find a use for it as long as he had his system.
The most important thing for him right now was figuring out a way to get out of this place.
Several hours had already passed, so it should be safe for him to get out of here now, but he still wanted to be extra sure, so he sent out Greeny’s puppets. As he had expected, the cave had been completely cleared out.
But to his surprise, he found the bodies of Team Leader Shen, his men, and their families.
It seemed that the internal struggle inside of the Mercenary Guild really was so intense that they would kill a group of high grade cultivators like this…
But that wasn’t something that he could do anything about. In fact, it was a good thing since the Mercenary Guild was weakening themselves without him doing a thing.
The only worrying thing about this was that if they were willing to kill these people, they must have had something that they could replace them with…or they wouldn’t have done it so decisively.
It wasn’t hard to guess that it was the chimera creatures that they created.
Before leaving, Lin Fan turned to the skeleton and bowed to it once again before saying, “Thank you for everything.”
Then without even looking back, he went back the way he came.
When he left this space, what he didn’t see was that the skeleton suddenly revealed a smile. Then with a swirl of energy, the skins and organs of this skeleton suddenly started appearing.
It was just a mass of red flesh at first, but soon there was skin that appeared covering the red flesh and a white robe appeared above the skin so he wasn’t naked.
When everything was finished, there was a handsome young man in a white robe that appeared.
This handsome young man in the white robe stood up and looked in the direction that Lin Fan left in silence. After a long time, he finally said, “So the one decreed by destiny has appeared. It seems like I can’t idle here any longer.”
He looked up at the ceiling above him and then with a swirl of energy, that handsome young man disappeared from the spot.
Lin Fan continued back to where he had fallen down into this cave and then using his flight spell, he floated back up to where he fell from.
Around him were the corpses of Team Leader Shen, his men, and their families, but he didn’t pay any attention to them. They were from the Mercenary Guild and he didn’t know them, so he didn’t have any obligations to bury them.
But before he could take a single step, there was a shaking that came from under him.
To Lin Fan’s surprise, there were cracks that suddenly started forming in the ground under his feet. These cracks quickly spread all over the ground before a spider net like pattern appeared.
Lin Fan had a bad premonition about this, so without any hesitation, he immediately started running forward.
After breaking through, his speed had skyrocketed, especially since he now had the Green Jade Boots.
Luckily his reactions had also gotten better, or it would have been certain that he would have slammed into the wall in front of him.
With this speed, he was able to easily make it to a place where the ground didn’t have any cracks on them which he quickly charged at.
When his foot finally made it to the ground that didn’t have a crack on it, the cracked ground suddenly shattered apart and the ground completely collapsed. All of the rocks and corpses fell down through the hole until it completely buried the space that Lin Fan had been in before.
Lin Fan looked down in that hole wondering what happened, but his best guess was that the inheritance space must have collapsed after he received the inheritance.
Since this was all over, there was nothing left for Lin Fan here.
Lin Fan started scouting out the surrounding area before leaving the cave, but to his surprise, he found that the Mercenary Guild guards that had surrounded this mountain had completely disappeared.
With these doubts in his heart, Lin Fan also made his way to the village.
When he arrived at the village, the scene that he saw couldn’t help making him disgusted.
That was because the guards that had been surrounding the village were completely gone, but that wasn’t what disgusted him.
The reason why the guards were gone was because there was nothing left in the village for them to guard anymore. The village had been completely destroyed and was now only filled with corpses.
From the elderly to the children, not a single person had been spared…
It was the Mercenary Guild’s way of cleaning up the mess that they had left behind…
With these thoughts, Lin Fan also left the village and headed back to Brilliant Light City.