Chapter 266 - Harves

The Dragon Blooded Horse was naturally more than glad to uphold this punishment and let them know the outcome of being dishonest.

The sky gradually turned dark. Under Lin Yun and Gao Yu’s protection, Bai Qiushui and the other herbal servants swiftly left the Bloodbone Forest. They left the forest safely, and Lin Yun would deal with any troubles long the way. The journey was smooth and peaceful aside from some demonic beasts without any eyes.

When the first glimmer of dawn emit out of the clouds, Bai Qiushui got everyone to leave while she wanted to talk with Lin Yun privately. “I have to thank you greatly for your help this time.”

Bai Qiushui was filled with gratitude. After all, this journey was dangerous, and they even encountered the Bloodbone Wandering Cultivators. Who knew what would happen if Lin Yun hadn’t rush back. She had heard stories of how women were tortured to death when they fell in the Bloodbone Wandering Cultivators’ hands.

“I’m just doing my part. Ensuring your safety is naturally my responsibility since I accepted the mission.” Lin Yun paused briefly before he continued, “Furthermore, I even got three interspatial pouches, which can be considered a sumptuous harvest, not to mention that I also had a fortune deep in the valley. So if we’re going to talk about it, I should be the one thanking Lady Bai for bringing me here instead.”

After all, he wouldn’t be able to find the valley if it wasn’t for Bai Qiushui. His words made Bai Qiushui curious as she asked, “You had a harvest deep in the valley?”

“That’s right. Lady Bai, since you have research on herbs, then do you know about flowers?”

“I know a thing or two about it. You can describe it and see if I know it,” Bai Qiushui replied humbly.

Lin Yun then described the blood rose without any hesitation. Then again, he skipped details such as the golden tiger and the transcript.

“Dream Soul!” Bai Qiushui’s face changed when she heard that. She immediately asked, “Where is that flower right now?”

“It fused with my sword.” Lin Yun took out the Flower Burial Sword and showed it to Bai Qiushui.

Lin Yun’s straightforward Bai Qiushui embarrassed as she smiled, “Young Master Lin, you’re rather straightforward with it.”

Bai Qiushui took the Flower Burial Sword, and her hands dropped when she received it.

“Dream Soul?”

“That’s right. It’s one of the ten kings. The blood rose that you obtained is known as the king of Dream Souls, looking dreamy when it blossoms. It’s also known as an infatuated flower. So your sword must be special for Dream Soul to fall in love with it,” Bai Qiushui sighed.

“Thank you for your answers.” Lin Yun now knew why the Flower Burial Sword could transcend profound artifacts. So it turns out that the blood rose was one of the ten kings among flowers.

“We’re not out of the Bloodbone Forest. You guys shouldn’t encounter any danger from now on, and let’s bid our farewell here.” Since Lin Yun had finally finished his mission, then he wouldn’t have to return to the Inkcloud City with Bai Qiushui. After all, traveling back and forth was time-consuming.

“It’s best if you refrain from coming to such a dangerous place anymore in the future. Honestly speaking, there’s no need for you to undergo so much trouble with your status…” Lin Yun gave a friendly reminder before leaving.

He was lucky to kill Xue Feng. After all, it was unsure if he could win if he didn’t refine the three lord-rank beast cores in the valley.

“Young Master Lin, you’re already leaving? You’re not curious about my identity?” Bai Qiushui asked while looking at Lin Yun’s silhouette.

“I’ll naturally find it out about it if we’re fated to meet again. But what’s the point of finding out your identity if we’re not fated to meet again?” Lin Yun slowly walked off, gradually disappearing in Bai Qiushui’s view.

Looking at Lin Yun’s figure disappearing, Bai Qiushui sighed inwardly and looked rather disappointed. She never imagined that the youth she had given up on would appear before her again one year later. Recalling how that person rescued the Azure Sky Sect with his sword left Bai Qiushui with deep emotions. She had a feeling that this youth would one day have his name resound in the Great Qin Empire.

Lin Yun found a remote valley after separating from Bai Qiushui and started to sort the interspatial pouches left behind by the wandering cultivators. He first poured out the items from the skinny and one-eyed wandering cultivators. Their interspatial pouches had lots of things, pellets, spiritual jades, artifacts, rations, clothes, and other random stuff.

The things were messy as they were all robbed, and it was simply impossible for Lin Yun to sort them all out. Lin Yun only focused on picking out the spiritual jades, pellets, and martial techniques while ignoring everything else.

“They’re pretty rich to have nearly 30,000 spiritual jades. It’s impossible to find that much in Sword Firmament Pavilion’s disciples.” Lin Yun smacked his lips. It was an astronomical sum of spiritual jades, and he had to spend half a month without rest to get so much back then.

But he had gotten it so easily after killing two wandering cultivators. Lin Yun was naturally glad to see the spiritual jades since he was broke. When he kept the spiritual jades, he first looked through the martial techniques. Aside from the Demonic Fiendclaw and Flameiron Fist that those two had used, there were still some martial techniques from randoms sects lying around.

There were many of them, but none of them caught Lin Yun’s attention.

“I should be satisfied. How can I be unhappy with getting 30,000 spiritual jades from two small fries.” Lin Yun didn’t need the pellets, and he could give them to the Dragon Blooded Horse. After all, the Dragon Blooded Horse ate everything, even poison.

But the highlight was Xue Feng’s interspatial pouch. Everyone on the Great Thief Ranking was wanted by the Great Qin Empire, and every single one had committed grave crimes. Just their heads alone would worth 50,000 spiritual jades.

Xue Feng might be ranked towards the rear, but he was still someone on the ranking. When Lin Yun took out Xue Feng’s interspatial pouch, and the spiritual jades in it piled before him. In just a brief moment, the pile was two times taller than Lin Yun.

Just how many people did this fellow kill? There should be at least a hundred thousand spiritual jades here… Lin Yun took a deep breath with his heart throbbing. He needed a large amount of origin energy for the Iris Sword Sutra and Age Sutra, and these spiritual jades could resolve his urgent need for them.

Aside from spiritual jades, there were still many other martial techniques, which gave Lin Yun a pleasant surprise. “T-these are all from the four sects?!”

“Bloodfiend Slash.” It should be the martial technique that Xue Feng used, an evil martial technique that could perfectly fuse the ominous aura and saber intent together. Lin Yun wasn’t confident that he could win Xue Feng if it wasn’t for the three lord-rank beast cores, and there was no way he could resist Xue Feng’s ominous aura even with his sword intent.

The reason why Bu Chen and Xiao Ran were so easily suppressed was that they were completely oppressed by the Bloodfiend Slash, and they couldn’t even bring out half of their strength. It was a powerful martial technique, and Lin Yun wouldn’t be able to kill Xue Feng if the latter had reached greater mastery with it.

Lin Yun applied pressure with his grip and crushed the plaque. It was best to destroy such an evil martial technique.

“The Dracophant Battle Physique!” Lin Yun’s eyes suddenly lit up when he saw a jade plaque. It was the Primal Origin Sect’s body-refining martial technique, and it was on a higher level than his Thunderblitz Battle Physique.

Lin Yun was already envious about it when he saw Zuo Yun executing it, and his gaze began to change. Unlike the incomplete Dragon-Tiger Fist lying around, the Dracophant Battle Physique was something that only Primal Origin Sect’s disciples could practice, and anyone who wasn’t a disciple of their sect would get into trouble if they practiced it. On the other hand, he didn’t have such concern with the Dragon-Tiger Fist since it was gifted to him by Drifting Goblet.

“Let’s keep it for now and decide later.” Lin Yun gave up thinking about it for the time being and kept the Dracophant Battle Physique. There were some taboos that he had to keep even if he was envious about it.

Xue Feng’s interspatial pouch contained ten-odd martial techniques that belonged to the four great sects. But aside from the Dracophant Battle Physique, everything else was only in the profound martial techniques. Lin Yun was somewhat disappointed when he searched thoroughly and saw that there weren’t any spiritual martial techniques.

“This saber is not bad. It’s a transcendent-grade profound artifact, and it should be pretty popular. This is the Firecloud Pellet, this is the Violetcloud Armor forged by the imperial clan… T-this is a blood crystal? Holy shit, he even has over a hundred second-grade spiritual jades!” Lin Yun opened his eyes when he saw the items in the interspatial pouch.

The things in Xue Feng’s interspatial pouch were on a whole new level compared to the other two wandering cultivators. After all, Xue Feng wouldn’t keep any trash in his interspatial pouch. Anything that could be placed in Xue Feng’s interspatial pouch was a treasure.

Shifting all the treasures into his interspatial pouch, Lin Yun instantly had 130,000 spiritual jades, all sorts of blood crystals, artifacts, and pellets. His wealth exploded compared to how he was broke when he came up the mountain. He had to keep his belt tightened previously when using resources, but he no longer had to do it right now.

“No wonder Bu Chen and Xiao Ran would fall out with me. So it turns out that Xue Feng’s interspatial pouch contains so many treasures.” Lin Yun’s gaze finally fell onto the devil mask. The devil mask was engraved with strange spiritual runes, and it was forged with a material unknown to Lin Yun.