DIV Chapter 28: Counting the Harvest

What appeared before Li Chang'an was a seated skeleton.

In front of the skeleton was a stone table, and on the stone table lay a storage bag.

"That storage bag should be the opportunity." Li Chang'an's gaze focused, staring at the storage bag.

He remained cautious and didn't act directly, as the tragic fate of Xu Fugui and others was still fresh in his memory.

For safety's sake, he controlled his puppet to go forward and take the storage bag.

The entire process went smoothly without any incidents.

Li Chang'an breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you for your generous gift, senior."

He bowed toward the skeleton.

"Senior, your inheritance would only gather dust if left here. This junior is taking it to carry it forward and make it flourish."

After speaking, he controlled the puppet to erase the restrictions on the storage bag.

Opening the bag for a look, Li Chang'an immediately smiled.

"This senior's wealth was truly abundant."

There were over a thousand spirit stones in the bag!

There were also quite a few pills, including first-tier low-grade, mid-grade, and even superior-grade pills.

"That's not right. Why are there so many poison pills?" Li Chang'an was somewhat surprised.

With a thought, he took out a bottle of pills.

This was Bone Corrosion Pill, a first-tier superior-grade poison pill with extremely strong toxicity and an extremely expensive price.

Similar pills were not uncommon in the storage bag.

"Normal cultivators mostly only buy pills that assist cultivation, recover magical power, or heal injuries. They wouldn't spend spirit stones to buy so many poison pills."

Li Chang'an looked strangely at the skeleton.

He had a general guess about this senior's identity.

He continued searching in the storage bag.

Before long, he discovered a jade slip.

Li Chang'an took it out and gave it a rough scan.

"First-tier superior-grade talisman inheritance!" Li Chang'an's face showed joy.

The inheritance was in hand!

The future path for talisman skills no longer needed to be worried about for now.

Then, he found a second jade slip in the storage bag.

This jade slip wasn't some inheritance; it only contained a dying message.

Li Chang'an held the jade slip and listened to the entire dying message completely.

"This senior was indeed a bandit cultivator."

The content of the dying message verified his previous guess.

The owner of this cave dwelling had the public identity of a first-tier superior-grade talisman master, but secretly was a bandit cultivator.

"He's a bit like Wu Yun, both a talisman master and a bandit cultivator, earning money from both sides." Li Chang'an thought silently.

Such an identity should have left more resources in the storage bag.

But the cave dwelling's owner had converted most of his resources into treasures needed for Foundation Establishment, attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment.

The result was failure.

He suffered backlash and was severely injured.

With his last breath, he came here and left behind his inheritance and dying message.

The dying message clearly stated that he hoped whoever obtained his inheritance would be a bandit cultivator.

"Hoping a bandit cultivator would obtain the inheritance?"

Li Chang'an looked again at the skeleton, his expression becoming increasingly strange.

This opportunity really was fated for Wang Da and Wang Er.

It's just that Li Chang'an had intercepted it midway!

"This just shows their fate wasn't strong enough."

In the cultivation world, fate ultimately depended on strength.

The stronger one's power, the stronger one's fate.

Li Chang'an put down the jade slip and continued looking at other treasures in the storage bag.

There were two magical artifacts, both first-tier superior-grade.

They were the Shadowless Net and Ghost Needle.

Both magical artifacts were suitable for sneak attacks, one to trap enemies and the other to kill them.

There were over ten technique manuals and spell books.

One of them caught Li Chang'an's interest.

"This Thousand Faces Divine Art is quite interesting. After learning it, one can freely change their own aura. Unless someone is a full major realm higher, they absolutely cannot detect it."

This type of spell was exactly what Li Chang'an needed most right now.

After mastering it, he could disguise himself as another person.

He carefully read through the Thousand Faces Divine Art and decided he must master it.

Then, Li Chang'an continued examining the storage bag.

The remaining items were almost all miscellaneous objects of little value.

"This time, the biggest harvest is the talisman inheritance and the Thousand Faces Divine Art."

Finishing his inventory, Li Chang'an was very satisfied and put away the storage bag.

With a casual wave, he threw the Wang Da and Wang Er brothers out of the spirit beast pouch.

He had already taken their storage bags.

The opportunity also belonged to him.

They had basically no value left.

Wang Da glanced at the scene inside the cave dwelling and immediately turned ashen.

"Li Chang'an, you've already obtained the opportunity?"

"Mm." Li Chang'an responded casually.

Wang Da and Wang Er looked at each other, both showing unwillingness in their eyes, but more anxiety.

The shadow of death was already looming over them.

"Li Chang'an, as long as you promise not to kill us, I'm willing to offer you a priceless treasure!"

Wang Da gritted his teeth and spoke to Li Chang'an.

Li Chang'an was somewhat puzzled.

"Both of your storage bags are with me. What other treasure could you have?"

"That treasure is too precious, so we hid it in a secret place!" Wang Er also quickly spoke up, as if grasping at a lifeline.

"Besides us two brothers, no one else in this world knows about it."

"Oh? Tell me the details." Li Chang'an became somewhat interested.

"No! You must swear first!"

Wang Da insisted, refusing to back down.

He stared at Li Chang'an, speaking word by word, "Swear by your Dao heart that you guarantee not to kill me!"

"After swearing, you'll tell me about that treasure?"

"Exactly!"

Wang Da nodded and added, "Otherwise, even if you kill me, I absolutely won't..."

Swish!

A cold flash suddenly appeared.

Wang Da's body trembled. Before he could finish speaking, his entire person seemed to freeze.

A thin line of blood appeared on his neck.

"You... why did you..."

Wang Da opened his mouth wide, his face full of disbelief.

He had thought he had aroused Li Chang'an's interest and could use the treasure to exchange for a chance to live.

But unexpectedly, Li Chang'an was so decisive.

He completely disregarded the treasure and directly killed him!

"Bang!"

Wang Da died with his eyes open, his head falling to the ground.

It rolled several times on the ground before finally rolling to his brother Wang Er's feet.

Wang Er immediately turned pale.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

He screamed in terror, fear reaching its peak in his heart.

If even a treasure couldn't control Li Chang'an, what other way was there to survive?

At this moment, he was already in despair.

But Li Chang'an suddenly put away his Green Wood Sword and smiled at him.

"I'm someone who never liked killing. As long as you tell me the location of the treasure, I can guarantee I'll spare your life."

"Is... is this true?" Wang Er was stunned, thinking he had misheard.

Li Chang'an nodded, "Don't worry, I'm not a bandit cultivator. I always keep my word and do what I say."

Hearing this, Wang Er was immediately overjoyed.

He felt like he had survived a disaster.

Afraid that Li Chang'an might change his mind, he quickly said, "That treasure is hidden by us underground in a manor. The manor isn't far from here."

"Good, lead the way!"

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