Chapter 147 - Inventorying the Spoils of War

After leaving Hanshan City, Lin Bai did not rest at all and went straight back to the Spirit Sword Sect.

“This journey was fraught with danger, but it was also incredibly rewarding.”

Lin Bai sat in his room and opened the twenty-odd storage bags in his hand.

Out of these, twenty-three came from a group of martial artists of the First and Second Level of Earth Martial Realm, led by Li Yun Suan.

They were not very wealthy, and apart from tens of thousands of spirit stones, they only had a few bad-quality elixir pills.

Lin Bai took out the spirit stones and put them in his own storage bag.

“Next should be the storage bags of the big fish, the warriors of the Three Great Wealth God Families.

They should be quite wealthy.”

“Shang Tian’s storage bag.”

Lin Bai took out a blue storage bag with an “Shang” embroidered on it, representing the status of the Shang Clan, one of the Three Great Wealth God Families in Shenwu Kingdom.

“Wow, these spirit stones are almost blinding me!”

As Lin Bai opened Shang Tian’s storage bag, the colorful glow of the spirit stones within filled him with excitement.

After counting the spirit stones in Shang Tian’s storage bag, there was a total of thirty million.

Lin Bai recalled that when Shang Tian bid for the Great Five Elements Skill at the Treasure Pavilion auction, the final price he offered was “twenty-nine million spirit stones”, but in actuality, Shang Tian had taken a full thirty million spirit stones from home.

With a grin, Lin Bai placed the thirty million spirit stones into his storage bag, then continued to rummage through Shang Tian’s storage bag.

“Elixir Pills?” Lin Bai took out many bottles and jars, all full of elixir pills that Shang Tian had purchased.

But after looking them over carefully, Lin Bai found that the medicinal effects of these pills were too weak to be of any serious value to him.

Moreover, when it comes to breaking through cultivation states, Lin Bai mainly relied on Demon Blood.

Consuming elixir pills, unless they are top-grade, did not have a rapid effect.

“I wonder if there are any top-quality Five Elements Spiritual Objects in their storage bags.

If there are, I can cultivate a Spirit Vortex.”

Now that he was back in the sect, Lin Bai was eagerness to cultivate a Spirit Vortex.

To cultivate a Five Elements Spirit Vortex, one needed top-quality Five Elements Spiritual Objects.

Without the ample attribute spiritual energy from these spiritual objects during the formation of the vortex, it would collapse in less than a quarter of an hour.

“Heavenly Sword Nine Slashes, an Earth Grade 1 sword technique.”

Lin Bai took out another basic martial technique from Shang Tian’s storage bag, which was the technique Shang Tian had been practicing.

Among these techniques, only the Earth Grade 1 “Heavenly Sword Nine Slashes” caught Lin Bai’s eye; he did not pay attention to the rest.

“Sadly, I don’t know sword techniques, so this technique is of no use to me.

Well, it’s still a martial technique after all.

If I sell it, it should be worth a few million spirit stones.” Lin Bai, undeterred, put all the martial techniques into his storage bag.

Besides, Lin Bai also took out some precious ores and spiritual medicines from Shang Tian’s storage bag, put them into his own, then discarded Shang Tian’s storage bag.

“Xu Jiangsheng’s storage bag.”

In Xu Jiangsheng’s storage bag, Lin Bai found thirty-five million spirit stones.

When Xu Jiangsheng was bidding at the Treasure Pavilion, Li Yun Suan directly offered forty million, so he gave up.

Now it seemed that Xu Jiangsheng indeed could not compete with Li Yun Suan.

In addition to these thirty-five million spirit stones, there was also a bow and arrow.

“Rising Sun Bow, a Fourth-grade Spirit Weapon.” Lin Bai took out the bow and arrow.

It was the one Xu Jiangsheng had used in their battle, a Fourth-grade Spirit Weapon with remarkable power among its own grade.

After stowing the bow and arrow, Lin Bai proceeded to take out Li Yun Suan’s storage bag.

“Forty-five million spirit stones.

Li Yun Suan, as the young Patriarch of the Li Family, is much wealthier than Xu Jiangsheng and Shang Tian.” Lin Bai grinned joyfully and stuffed all the spirit stones into his own storage bag.

“Qinglong Bokilling Skill!”

Lin Bai took out a martial technique.

It was precisely the technique Li Yun Suan had used in his battle with Lin Bai.

While using this martial skill, one would bind the opponent, transforming into an azure dragon in the process.

As soon as the opponent revealed a flaw, the Azure Dragon Bokilling Skill would seize this flaw and relentlessly attack the opponent until death!

In fact, this was the case.

If it weren’t for Lin Bai’s Bronze War Body, he might have already died under the power of this Azure Dragon Bokilling Skill.

“So it’s a martial skill of Earth Grade 2, no wonder it possesses such immense power.” After taking a few glances at the Azure Dragon Bokilling Skill, Lin Bai lost interest, casually threw the martial skill into his storage bag and disregarded it.

Lin Bai had the Earth Grade 9 Astonishing Wind Sword Skill, so he wasn’t too interested in these Earth Grade 2 martial skills.

“Why do these three people not have any top-quality Five Elements spiritual items in their storage bags?”

“There isn’t a single Earth Grade or above movement skill either.

It seems that movement skills are quite scarce in this martial world.

The movement skills cultivated by Li Yun sian, Shang Tian, and Xu Jiangsheng are all mysterious level nine – the same level as Qilin Step”

Lin Bai shook his head.

Apart from acquiring a large number of spiritual stones from the three men’s storage bags, which satisfied him greatly, he didn’t find any Five Elements top-quality spiritual items or a single movement skill, which somewhat disappointed him.

“Well, never mind.

Having obtained over a hundred million spirit stones, I suppose this journey was not in vain.”

Lin Bai laughed, and after collecting his spoils of war, he found a place at the back of Spirit Sword Sect’s mountain and discarded all the storage bags.

Upon his return, Lin Bai cultivated for another seven days, stabilizing his state at the Third Level of Earth Martial Realm.

“I should hand in the task at the Task Hall.”

Early the next morning, Lin Bai put on clean clothes, regained his vitality, and energetically headed towards the Task Hall.

The Task Hall was as bustling as ever.

“Lin Bai, you’re back.” Elder Zhang, who had previously been assigned a task by Lin Bai, joyfully said upon seeing him.

“Yes, Elder, I’m back,” Lin Bai replied with a smile.

Elder Zhang was overjoyed.

Lin Bai held a special position.

Now, the Elder Pavilion, led by Second Elder, highly valued Lin Bai.

Therefore, when Elder Zhang assigned Lin Bai a task, he specifically mentioned that if Lin Bai found it too difficult, he could change the task.

Excitedly, Elder Zhang inquired, “How did the task go?

It’s alright if you didn’t finish it; after all, this is a four-star task, and with your cultivation at the Xuanwu Realm Ninth Level…

wait, did you break through your cultivation state?”

In mid-sentence, Elder Zhang was shocked to discover that Lin Bai’s cultivation state had progressed to the Third Level of the Earth Martial Realm, which left him dumbfounded.

It was only a few days, about a month, and Lin Bai had gone straight from the Xuanwu Realm Ninth Level to the Third Level of Earth Martial Realm!

Such a heaven-defying advancement, even the current Su Cang on the Shenwu Genius List couldn’t possibly do it.

“I luckily made a breakthrough,” Lin Bai nonchalantly remarked.

Just when he was speaking, an old man walked through the entrance of the task hall.

It was none other than the Elder Su who had previously caused trouble for Lin Bai at the Task Hall.

Elder Su looked at Lin Bai in surprise, and scoffed, “Well, well, if it isn’t the famous number one outer sect disciple of our Spirit Sword Sect.

Couldn’t complete the task and returned disheartened, did you?”

When Lin Bai was given the four-star task “White Sheep City,” it was Elder Su who had arranged it.

Elder Su firmly believed that with Lin Bai’s cultivation at the Xuanwu Realm Ninth Level, he simply couldn’t complete this task.

So now, when he saw Lin Bai return to the Task Hall, Elder Su was convinced that Lin Bai had not completed the task and immediately began to mock him.

Hearing Elder Su’s voice, Lin Bai felt annoyed.

This man was like a buzzing fly to him.

“Heh, such a failure, couldn’t even complete a four-star task.

Elder Zhang, assign our top outer disciple a one-star task, that’s all he is suited for, hahaha.” Elder Su laughed boisterously, his laughter full of mockery and contempt.

“Which eye of yours saw me not completing the task?”

Lin Bai mockingly asked.

“Ha!

Do you want to argue?

If you really completed the task, then produce the task scroll and the White Sheep City task token, huh.” Elder Su was certain that Lin Bai would have neither the scroll nor task token.

In his heart, he believed that Lin Bai was simply incapable of finishing the task.

Thud!

A scroll and a task token were taken out by Lin Bai and slapped onto the table.