The Path to Immortality

"What a pity."

Looking at the pure spiritual energy, Fang Ping felt a little regretful.

His spiritual root quality is slightly higher in the fire system, so he will definitely focus on the fire-based exercises in the future.

This spiritual spring gushes out water-based spiritual energy, which is not the best for him.

In addition, although the concentration of spiritual energy here is good, it is at best similar to that of the outer gate of Luoyang Sect. In the future, when Fang Ping enters the inner gate of Luoyang Sect and enjoys the spiritual energy of the second-level spiritual vein, this spiritual spring will not be good enough.

Shifting his attention away from the spiritual spring, Fang Ping swept his eyes across the stone chamber and saw the skeleton of a monk sitting on the ground in the corner at the end of the stone chamber.

The skeleton was wearing a light yellow robe. Perhaps because of its age and severe damage, the robe had long lost its spirituality and had no value.

Through the broken parts of the robe, you can see that there are many broken and even nearly shattered injuries on the skeleton.

There are also several porcelain bottles containing elixirs scattered on the ground nearby.

The elixir in the porcelain bottle had long since turned into mud powder. Even with Fang Ping's current attainments in the art of alchemy, he could not recognize what kind of elixir it was.

But from the scene in front of him, it was still easy to infer the situation back then.

Obviously, this cultivator had suffered a fatal injury before his death. After barely escaping back to the water palace, he did not last long and died.

At his waist, Fang Ping saw two hanging storage bags.

One of the storage bags was extremely delicate, with gold threads embroidered on the surface. It was at least a medium-quality storage bag, and it was not ruled out that it was a high-quality storage bag.

However, due to the long time, the spiritual light of the storage bag was much dimmer, but it was still usable.

The other storage bag also had spiritual light left, but it looked a bit strange. It was obviously a circle larger than the storage bag, more like a waist bag.

There were disciples who knew some beast-controlling methods in the outer sect of Luoyang Sect.

The more Fang Ping looked at it, the more he felt that this thing was very similar to the spirit beast bags worn by those fellow disciples.

"Could it be?"

Combining the two strangely appearing black-scaled dragons, Fang Ping slapped his thigh and figured out their origins.

If nothing unexpected happened, the two black-scaled dragons were originally the spiritual beasts contracted by this cultivator, and were ordered to guard this water palace.

As for why they did not die with their master, it may be that the master of the water palace knew that he would die, and he had developed feelings for the two black-scaled dragons, and was reluctant to let the two black-scaled dragons die with him, so he took the initiative to untie the spiritual contract before his death.

It may also be that the owner of the water palace was too seriously injured and too weak, and the black-scaled dragons broke free from the spiritual contract on their own and attacked the master.

But from the fact that the two black-scaled dragons did not destroy the master's body, nor did they leave here, but still lived in the water palace, the former possibility is undoubtedly higher!

"I was just worried about not having a spiritual beast bag, isn't this like a pillow falling from the sky when I was sleepy?"

Fang Ping was overjoyed.

He was about to step forward to take out the storage bag and the spiritual beast bag, but suddenly remembered something, stopped, and bowed.

"Please forgive me for disturbing your long sleep!"

"The things behind you are useless to you, so I will accept them with pleasure!"

After saying this softly, Fang Ping quickly stepped forward to collect the storage bag and the spirit beast bag.

After checking the stone chamber briefly and confirming that there were no other valuable items here, he turned around and left at full speed without hesitation.

When he came out of the stone chamber, the stone house outside had already been filled with the river water that poured in.

The scattered monsters, fish and shrimp remains and various sundries on the ground were washed away by the river water.

This stone house is quite large, and there are also the remains of cultivators and broken pieces of magic tools inside. If you look carefully, you may find other gains.

But Fang Ping knew the consequences of greed, and he was unwilling to waste time for a little uncertain profit, so as not to be blocked by the returning black-scaled dragon.

He immediately went straight to the black-scaled dragon's egg.

The spirit beast bag, like the storage bag, also has the mark of the cultivator's magic power. Before the magic power mark was erased, even if other cultivators accidentally got it, they would not be able to open it.

But the owner of the spirit beast bag had been dead for who knows how many years, and the remaining magic power mark in it was already very small.

Fang Ping used his magic power to wash it a few times casually, and then erased the mark inside.

After outputting the magic power, the spirit beast bag opened, revealing a space similar to a storage bag. However, this space is not completely closed to the outside world. The spirit beast can contact the spiritual energy and air in it. After getting the owner's permission, it can even vaguely sense the situation outside, and take the initiative to appear from the spirit beast bag to protect the owner when necessary!

Under Fang Ping's magic power intake, the two huge black scale dragon eggs were safely stored in the spirit beast bag.

After hesitating for a moment, Fang Ping took the second black scale dragon egg out of the spirit beast bag and put it back into the nest.

The second black scale dragon has the strength of the tenth level of Qi training!

God knows whether there is any Qi induction between it and its own dragon egg, or whether it can follow the remaining weak breath all the way to chase and kill it.

But after leaving an egg behind, the Black Scaled Dragon will face a dilemma.

If it does not chase and kill, at least it may be able to save one egg. If it chases and kills again, and other cultivators break in during the period, it will not be able to save even its only offspring.

Although this move will cause Fang Ping to lose a lot of profits, the possible risks will also be greatly reduced.

"People who are too greedy usually have no good end."

After reminding himself in his heart, Fang Ping turned around and swam out.

At the same time, he held the upper-grade basic talisman [Wonderful Shadow and No Trace Talisman] that he had bought earlier.

If the Black Scaled Dragon really returns early and blocks him head-on, only this talisman is likely to save his life.

But fortunately, until he swam out of the water house again, the black scale dragon did not return.

Relieved as a heavy burden, Fang Ping immediately controlled the bubbles of the water-avoiding talisman and accelerated his escape to the lower reaches of the Canglan River along the flow of the river.

………

A moment later.

On the downstream bank of the river, Fang Ping appeared in an inconspicuous forest.

At this point, his situation was basically safe.

He used his magic power to evaporate the river water on his body, and then used several dust removal spells in succession to avoid any residual smell, and then he checked the storage bag obtained from the owner of the water house.

After erasing the equally weak magic power mark in a few strokes, Fang Ping opened the storage bag.

A storage space several feet wide appeared in front of him, far exceeding the low-grade storage bags that the outer sect of Luoyang Sect gave to disciples for free.

"It is indeed a high-grade storage bag!"

Fang Ping's eyes lit up. This storage bag alone was enough to be considered a windfall.

Not to mention, there were a lot of items piled up in the storage bag.

Thanks to the barrier of the top-grade storage bag itself, the spiritual energy inside was lost much more slowly, and most of the items were preserved.

Fang Ping roughly checked it for a while, and saw spiritual stones, elixirs, talismans, Taoist books, jade slips, common spiritual materials, broken magic tools...

"There are dry food and water, which proves that this cultivator is probably not a foundation-building cultivator yet."

"But if he can afford a top-grade storage bag, his strength is probably not weaker than Liu Wuchen, at least in the late stage of Qi training, or even perfect Qi training!"

Originally, this trip was just to help Liu Wuchen and get a promise from him.

Unexpectedly, by chance, he actually sneaked into the water palace left by the senior cultivator and got a black-scaled dragon egg, and a top-grade storage bag of a cultivator at least in the late stage of Qi training!

This unexpected harvest is really too big and too surprising.

Looking at the many items in the storage bag, it would probably take a lot of time just to count them.

After all, this place is not absolutely safe, and it is not advisable to stay too long.

Fang Ping temporarily suppressed the urge to take inventory of his gains, put the top-grade storage bag close to his body, and then flew along the woods on his sword towards the agreed gathering point.