Chapter 748: Chapter 284: Aren’t You Afraid of Angering Lady Golden Simurgh?

THUD!

The Flying Claw landed another punch, knocking the man unconscious on the spot as he stared back in despair.

’What’s the most effective way to prevent him from using some hidden trump card to escape?’

’Destroy his Golden Core, of course!’

Xiao Chen found the right spot, his right hand forming a claw as he focused his strength into his five fingers.

SCHLICK!

His hand, like five sharp blades, instantly tore through the Spirit Robe over the man’s abdomen. He seized the Golden Core and crushed it on the spot.

’How strange.’

Xiao Chen mused curiously as he removed the man’s Storage Ring. ’That crimson flash from just now... why did it look so much like the Blood Escape Technique?’

Although he hadn’t seen the man spit out Essence Blood to activate a Talisman, he could still discern traces of a Demon Technique from the bloody light.

He made a mental note of this suspicion.

He decided to pay extra attention to anything related to it when he searched the Storage Ring for clues later.

Of course, he had to do things one at a time to avoid confusion.

So, after Xiao Chen collected the fallen Storage Ring and the bronze lamp, he used his Xin Jin Treasure Gourd to absorb all the remaining Evil Qi inside Zhiyi Cave.

This would ensure that if the Golden Simurgh sent anyone else, they would leave empty-handed.

Only then did he sit down at the cave’s entrance and skillfully begin breaking the Restriction.

’Whoa, this model is a bit novel!’

Xiao Chen had seen his fair share of Storage Rings by now, but the one in his hand was quite different.

While its Restriction wasn’t as complex as those on the rings of Copper Kui and his ilk, it was still far superior to that of an average Cultivator.

As a result, it took him a full eight hours to finally complete the Refinement.

’Holy cow, it’s huge!’

The moment his Divine Sense probed inside, Xiao Chen saw an interior space even larger than his Vast Sea Ring.

This special Storage Ring was a full four zhang square.

Don’t be fooled by the mere one-zhang difference, thinking it’s not that significant.

In fact, by Xiao Chen’s estimation, the internal space was nearly twice as large.

The most striking object inside was an enormous Pill Furnace, a full zhang tall and two zhang wide, shimmering with Spiritual Light. It was clearly no ordinary item.

It didn’t seem particularly cramped inside the Storage Ring, but if he took it out, it would barely fit inside the cave.

Beside it was a smaller Pill Furnace, which was much more normal in size.

It was only as tall as a man and about two feet wide, likely a backup furnace.

’Oh? So he was an Alchemist?’

Xiao Chen was a little surprised. He hadn’t expected an Alchemist to side with the Sea Race.

Generally speaking, as long as their Alchemy skills weren’t too terrible, Alchemists enjoyed a relatively high status.

Even a Loose Cultivator who was an Alchemist could often befriend Cultivators from major powers and build an extensive network.

’But the problem is, he possessed such a fine Storage Ring and Pill Furnace.’

’His Alchemy skills couldn’t have been that bad, could they?’

Though he was puzzled, Xiao Chen followed his usual routine and first took stock of all the Spirit Stones in the Storage Ring.

There were a total of 3,500 Middle Grade Spirit Stones, plus over 899,000 Low Grade Spirit Stones.

Judging by this fortune, the man was definitely not some destitute Loose Cultivator.

Curiosity piqued, Xiao Chen began to examine the other items.

As expected, he quickly found many Elixirs and Spirit Grasses.

Among them were seven different types of Tier Three Elixirs, totaling twelve bottles, as well as two bottles of what looked like very freshly made Foundation Establishment Pills.

He also found a staggering two hundred twenty-one stalks of various Tier Three Spirit Grasses.

And they weren’t just haphazardly piled together like a Loose Cultivator’s stash.

Instead, they were neatly sorted and stored in individual jade or wooden boxes.

There was even a Sealed Medicine Jade Box, inside of which lay a Tier Four Righteous Fruit.

’This is getting interesting.’

Seeing all these items piqued Xiao Chen’s interest. He took out the five small booklets stored inside.

The first booklet contained the Secret Technique for evading Evil Qi.

Its contents were identical to the one he’d found on Copper Wolf.

The second booklet held a complex Pill Formula—the Jade Liquid Nourishing Essence Pill.

This was a Tier Four Spirit Pill that could accelerate a Nascent Soul True Monarch’s cultivation of True Essence.

The third booklet also contained a Pill Formula—the Purple Sea Recovery Powder.

As its name suggested, it helped Nascent Soul True Monarchs rapidly recover their True Essence.

The fourth booklet was noticeably thicker.

Xiao Chen flipped it open and saw it was filled with dense, tiny script.

It recorded various summarized observations on medicinal property changes and personal experiences from the alchemy process.

’Ah, it’s just alchemy notes.’

Xiao Chen couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed that he hadn’t found the complete Alchemy inheritance he was hoping for.

He had thought he might find a Tier Four Alchemy inheritance, but it turned out to be just someone’s personal notes.

It wasn’t useless, of course. A talented Alchemist might even be able to teach themselves based on these insights.

Still, it couldn’t compare to a systematic Alchemy inheritance.

The fifth booklet was only a few thin pages long.

Xiao Chen opened it to find a series of deconstructed Array Maps.

Had he obtained this any earlier or later, he truly wouldn’t have been able to make any sense of it.

But not long ago, he had read another book of Array insights that happened to describe some of the very same Array Maps.

This was yet another analysis of the Mojie Sect’s Arrays.

However, besides detailing how to counter the Mountain Protection Array, the latter half also focused on how to quickly destroy the Guardian Array of the Mojie Sect’s Alchemy Hall.

It clearly marked the locations of the Alchemy Hall’s Array Bases.

Simply put, with this information, one could prepare the corresponding Array Flags or Array-Breaking Talismans in advance.

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