Chapter 575: Spoils of War

The head of the Tiangui Sect is a Jindan eighth-level cultivator. According to the general sect, he is already the master of the sect. Unfortunately, in a large sect like the Tiangui Sect, the power of the sect is in the hands of the Supreme Elder. As the head, he is actually a leader who handles the sect's miscellaneous matters.

After discovering that Hong Daoren died outside, he immediately notified a Supreme Elder and invited some of Hong Daoren's relatives and friends.

Among the six Supreme Elders of the Tiangui Sect, Hong Daoren had the closest relationship with the fourth elder. Upon hearing the news of Hong Daoren's death, this elder hurriedly came out of seclusion and prepared to send people to investigate the cause of Hong Daoren's death and avenge Hong Daoren.

"Who knows where Lian Xiong went? Why did he go out? How long has he been gone?"

The fourth elder's name is Huang Fulong. This person has a very strange appearance. He is less than three feet tall and has a very thin body like most of the cultivators in the Tiangui Sect. The most peculiar thing is that there is a big brain on his thin neck, which looks very funny, like a clown in a circus.

"Reporting to my great-grandmaster, Master went to Nanyazi Prefecture this time. His main goal was to get a fifth-grade Yinhun crystal from Qi State and refine a fifth-grade puppet beast."

Huang Fulong asked with a gloomy face: "So, Lian Xiong should have died in Nanyazi Prefecture. Do you know the route he took to Nanyazi Prefecture this time? Did he take the Feixing Road or the intercontinental teleportation array of the Shenshui Palace?"

"Master went from Feixing Road and should have gone to Dazhou first." The person who spoke was a disciple of Hong Daoren, so he was naturally clear about Master's whereabouts.

"The Great Zhou is vast, and it is not easy to find the place where Lian Xiong passed away. Hongchan, Chunyuan, the two of you should leave now, take the teleportation array from Shenshui Palace to Nanyazhou, and go to the Great Zhou first, and investigate each market to see if you can find any clues."

Liu Hongchan is the junior brother of Hong Daoren, and his cultivation has reached the fourth level of Jindan, but he has broken his path. Tu Chunyuan has reached the eighth level of Zifu, and he is Hong Daoren's favorite disciple. Even if investigating the cause of Hong Daoren's death will waste a lot of cultivation time, the two of them have no choice but to do it, and this matter has also been ordered by the Yuanying Patriarch.

Seeing that the two were about to leave, Huang Fulong did not forget to remind them: "Be careful when you go to Da Zhou, don't put on the airs of a big sect, and don't alert the enemy and fight easily. You all know Lian Xiong's magical powers. The cultivator who can kill him must have extraordinary abilities. You are no match for him at all."

Just when Tiangui Sect was about to send someone to investigate the cause of Hong Daoren's death, Zhang Zhixuan and his wife had already opened Hong Daoren's storage bag neatly.

Although the two most valuable treasures on Hong Daoren's body had been damaged in the fight, the things in his storage bag were very rich, especially a large number of high-level materials for refining puppet beasts, which were worth at least 200,000 spirit stones.

In addition, after Hong Daoren died, there were three fifth-level magic tools left, and the value of these three fifth-level magic tools was also about 200,000 spirit stones.

However, the magic tools on Hong Daoren had the mark of Tiangui Sect. If they were sold on the black market in Da Zhou, the value would be greatly discounted, and the head and tail would be left behind.

Once the Tiangui Sect came to investigate, the first thing they would check would be this black market, which is actually very easy to expose.

Although Zhang Zhixuan could not use these three magic weapons, they were still useful. Even if they were used as the support of the fifth-level formation, they could save tens of thousands of spiritual stones, which was still of great help to the foundation of the sect.

There were relatively few consumable resources such as spiritual stones, spiritual pills, and spiritual talismans in the storage bag. If it were not for the lack of spiritual stones, Hong Daoren might not have risked going out of the mountain, and he might have waited for a few more years.

Unfortunately, he was reluctant to sell the rare spiritual objects on his body, and he was lucky. He died at the hands of Zhang Zhixuan less than a day after he came down the mountain.

As a cultivator of the Tiangui Sect, the most valuable thing on Hong Daoren's body was the fifth-level puppet beast.

Hong Daoren had two fifth-level puppet beasts, of which the substitute puppet had been destroyed by Qingchan, and it would probably take a long time to repair it.

The value of the substitute puppet is relatively higher. All the late Jindan cultivators of Tiangui Sect will be equipped with a substitute puppet to serve as a life-saving object for them.

As long as the soul is attached to the substitute puppet, the puppet can exert about 60% to 70% of its own strength. However, when using the substitute puppet, one's own body needs to be carefully protected. Therefore, most of the high-level cultivators of Tiangui Sect use substitute puppets to go out instead of themselves, and hide their own bodies in the caves at the mountain gate.

This substitute puppet is a legacy of Tiangui Sect. Who knows if there is any trick in it? Even though the materials on the substitute puppet are very precious, Zhang Zhixuan did not dare to keep it and abandoned it in a desolate cave.

The fifth-level inferior puppet beast with lower value was seized by Qingchan. This puppet beast was refined by Hong Daoren. After his death, it became an ownerless object and fell into the hands of Zhang Zhixuan and his wife.

In terms of jade slips, the gains of this trip were not small. Although it was impossible for Hong Daoren to carry the core inheritance of the sect with him, there was a jade slip that was quite precious.

This jade slip was engraved by Hong Daoren himself. He had the habit of writing a diary. This jade slip recorded more than 100,000 diaries of Hong Daoren's life over 300 years after he formed the elixir. There were more than 100 million words in it. If you want to extract useful information from the diary, it will probably take a lot of effort.

Zhang Zhixuan engraved several pieces of this jade slip and asked Qingchan, Lu Hongniang, and Luo Ziyan to help select them. It still took more than a month to sort out the information in the jade slip.

From this jade slip, they can easily obtain many secrets of the Tiangui Sect, including the internal structure of the sect, the cultivation and personality of the masters in the sect. Even the advantages and disadvantages of some core skills are revealed in Hong Daoren's diary.

The most precious harvest is that the four people found the refining methods of three puppet beasts from this jade slip.

These three puppet beasts are all level 3 puppet beasts. The reason why Hong Daoren wrote the refining methods of the three puppet beasts in his diary is because he has improved these three puppet beasts and reviewed the gains and losses in his diary, which resulted in the leakage of the sect's method of refining puppets.

In addition, there is a black jade slip, and even Qingchan can't figure out what's inside.

This jade slip has a powerful restriction, which is impossible to dismantle violently. It will probably take a long time to break the restriction.

After returning to Qingxuan Sect, Zhang Zhixuan and his wife told Jin Laozu about the situation of this trip. Jin Laozu didn't take it seriously for the two to have a grudge outside. Even Lu Hongniang's friend Tan Yongqi in Huoshan City only knew that they were from a small country in the Southern Wilds. There are hundreds of countries in the Southern Wilds, large and small. If the Tiangui Sect wants to find the murderer, it will probably take a lot of effort and several decades of effort.

According to Qingchan's cultivation speed, he may have cultivated to the ninth level of the Golden Core in a few decades. If Liu Guyan can form an infant by then, with the support of these two people, even the Tiangui Sect will not be able to do anything to them. It can't withdraw half of the sect's masters to go on an expedition, right?

Even if two or three Yuanying came, they could not be the opponents of the three sects alliance that occupied the geographical advantage.