Chapter 17 Windfall

Lu Ping looked at the skinny and tall cultivator who had been smashed into a mess of mud and was vomiting blood profusely, picking up the storage bag from him. He buried the skinny and tall cultivator in the fifteen-centimeters-deep pit that was smashed by his seal with an earth magic method. Then he picked up the sturdy cultivator's storage bag and burned his corpse out with a fireball. Lu Ping took out a jade bottle from the storage bag, poured a wound healing elixir out, and swallowed it. His almost exhausted magic power quickly recovered. He looked around. The woods were quiet in the evening, and then he ran to their academy without looking back. After Lu Ping disappeared in the woods, two people appeared in the sky. They suspended in the air, which was showing that they were at the Blood Dissolving stage. The two of them looked at the messy site, smiled at each other, turned around, and flew to the mountain gate of True Spirit Sect. When Lu Ping returned to his residence in the academy, he opened those two cultivators' storage bags eagerly. Looking at the pile of things in front of him, he was in a good mood, and his fatigue from the fight was swept away. It seemed that individual cultivators were not necessarily poor. They earned these things with their cultivation at the Blood Refining stage. Judging from what they did in the woods, Lu Ping guessed that the "Tongxiu League" probably often murdered people for property. There were more than three hundred spiritual stones. Among them, there were two medium-grade spiritual stones, which surprised Lu Ping who got medium-grade spiritual stones for the first time. With the improvement of Lu Ping's cultivation, his wealth was also gradually increasing, but in the meantime, he also expended more cultivation materials. Lu Ping cultivated hard to improve his skills of making Magic Figures, but only had small savings. These three hundred spiritual stones were undoubtedly a windfall. As for the elixirs, he got two bottles of fine blood elixirs from the sturdy cultivator. They were twenty-eight in total, which was the amount that Lu Ping needed for more than a month, so this saved him another sum of spiritual stones. The skinny and tall cultivator was at the ninth level of Blood Refining. The most suitable elixirs for him were blood refining elixirs. There were also two bottles of them, which were forty in total. Blood refining elixirs were better than blood purifying elixirs for cultivators at the Blood Refining stage. Lu Ping could use blood refining elixirs, but he was at the eighth level of Blood Refining. If he used them, he couldn't be benefited from all their efficacy. Lu Ping would never allow himself to waste them like that. The rest was several kinds of elixirs for healing injuries and restoring magic power. He didn't need to prepare the elixirs for healing injuries and restoring magic power anymore, so this saved him another sum of spiritual stones. Lu Ping calculated with delight. As for the magic weapons, one of them was the jade bottle magic weapon of the sturdy cultivator, and the other was the flying sword magic weapon of the skinny and tall cultivator. Without saying a word, Lu Ping took them up and began to refine them. Although he couldn't use the four magic weapons together with his current magic power, various changes may occur in a match. Any of them could be the most suitable in different situations. His "Landslide" was the most suitable for sneak attacks. It could catch the enemies off guard, but once he fell into a stalemate with the enemies, "Landslide" would consume a large amount of his magic power each time, which would restrict his performance. It just happened in the battle in the woods. His seal was powerful, but when he was in a stalemate with the skinny and tall cultivator, he only attacked the skinny and tall cultivator twice with his seal, but the skinny and tall cultivator attacked him three times with his flying sword. Otherwise, he would have completely suppressed the skinny and tall cultivator and wouldn't have used his fleeing magic weapon at all. What occupied the largest space were some spiritual herbs for alchemy, ore raw materials for refining weapons, and valuable objects from supernatural beasts they hunted. If they were added up, they were also a sum of spiritual stones. Maybe it was a good choice to sell them to the sect in exchange for some contribution values. A sect also needed to be operated, especially a sect that had existed for thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years. Its various systems were perfect, and contribution value was a common one among them. Through contribution values, the disciples could get some items and magic spells that were not available outside or whose value was much higher than that of what the disciples contributed. In this way, cultivators would be benefited, and the sect could also expand. Among them, Lu Ping even saw a five-hundred-year-old Fine Blood Grass and a five-hundred-year-old Black Vine needed for refining blood dissolving elixirs. It was said that twenty-four kinds of five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs were needed to refine blood dissolving elixirs. As long as a disciple could collect eight kinds of them, they could get a blood dissolving elixir. Lu Ping was excited when he saw these two kinds of spiritual herbs. They were a quarter of a blood dissolving elixir! He could exchange them for contribution values, but not everything could be traded for with contribution values. Blood dissolving elixirs were one of them. These elixirs about the rise and fall of sects could only be traded for with raw materials, which was different from the rule of the market. Besides, there were several jade slips, which recorded magic methods, experiences, and so on. Lu Ping scanned them and printed them on the jade slips of True Spirit Sect that Immortal Senior Liu gave him. They could complement each other, which was kind of useful. One of the jade slips attracted Lu Ping's attention. It recorded a lot of information about the True Spirit Sect according to time. Most of the people who were mentioned in it were disciples at the Blood Refining stage, and a few of them were Immortal Seniors at the Blood Dissolving stage. Lu Ping only heard about these Immortal Seniors. It even recorded the situation of the Grand Competition and the fact that he was called "Seven Braves". Many things it recorded were even unknown to Lu Ping. Lu Ping remembered that in the woods, the sturdy cultivator said that someone hired their "Tongxiu League" to inquire about the situation of the True Spirit Sect. He was shocked. Was anyone scheming against their sect? Later, he ruled out this idea. How could it be possible? How could someone scheme against their sect with the information about the disciples at the Blood Refining stage? The foundation of a sect was the Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage and the Grandmasters at the Dharma stage. Even the Immortal Seniors at the Blood Dissolving stage were just nonentities for the sect. However, on second thought, Lu Ping changed his mind. If someone was really scheming against their sect, the disciples at the Blood Refining stage would be the first to bear the brunt. He was one of them. It seemed that he still needed to report this to the sect, but he hoped they wouldn't confiscate the things he got from the cultivators he killed. Lu Ping had lived in True Spirit Academy since he was six years old. It had been ten years since then. He naturally had a strong sense of belonging to the sect. Even though he had a soul different from that of others, he was a grateful man! Lu Ping finished sorting out what he got. The next day after the team finished cultivating, he told Immortal Senior Liu exactly what happened yesterday and gave him the jade slip that recorded the situation of True Spirit Sect. After listening to the story, Immortal Senior Liu kept silent. He took Lu Ping's jade slip without even looking at it. He said directly, "Those rats specialize in making profits! Don't worry about such trivial matters. Just ignore them and concentrate on cultivating and preparing for your travel." Lu Ping nodded and was about to leave. Suddenly, something flew out of his belt. It was his identity nameplate. Immortal Senior Liu held it in his hand and threw it back to him after wiping it, saying, "I've recorded your merit. You may leave." When Lu Ping came out, he took out his nameplate and had a look. He happily found that there were already ten contribution values on it. He could trade twenty contribution values for a low-grade magic weapon. This meant he had got half of it. But he had already had four low-grade magic weapons. If he was going to get another magic weapon, he should get a medium-grade one which could be used when he reached the ninth level of Blood Refining. However, fifty contribution values were needed for a medium-grade magic weapon. From Immortal Senior Liu's tone, Lu Ping felt that the sect had already known that the "Tongxiu League" was inquiring about the situation of their sect, but he was not sure. These big figures' shrewd thoughts were not something he could figure out at the time. He was worried that the benefits he got from the cultivators he killed would be confiscated, but he didn't expect that Immortal Seniors were lofty and didn't even care about what he got. Facts proved that his worry was uncalled-for.