Looking at their expressions, Ding Ruozhao spoke again.
"My sister and I obtained a magical artifact and a piece of spirit ore. Old Long took a magical artifact, so the remaining flying sword and other items will be divided into two shares."
"If anyone fancies this flying sword artifact, they can compensate the other person based on the value difference between the two shares. What do you two think?"
Ding Ruozhao looked at Zhang Ling and the others, stating her suggestion, but her tone carried an unquestionable air.
"Fellow Daoists, what Fairy Ding said is correct. Moreover, we still need to explore other places next, and there might be other gains. Why be fixated on this one magical artifact?"
Old Long, standing next to her, stroked his beard and said.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling and the Azure Python Daoist could only nod in agreement. After all, this woman had the highest cultivation among them, and what she said was the only feasible method.
Zhang Ling and the Azure Python Daoist exchanged a glance and nodded.
However, seeing the Azure Python Daoist's furrowed brows, Zhang Ling sneered inwardly and spoke first.
"How about this? Since Daoist Azure Python fancies this treasure, I don't mind letting you have it, as long as you give me 150,000 spirit stones. The flying sword is yours."
"What? 150,000 spirit stones!" Hearing Zhang Ling's words, the Azure Python Daoist's expression turned unpleasant.
Zhang Ling ignored the man's expression and pointed at the remaining items, sneering as he spoke.
"Any discerning person can easily see the value of the remaining items. Although the flying sword is an ordinary magical artifact, we roughly tested it earlier, and its attack power is not small, worth around 200,000 spirit stones."
"As for the remaining items, that bottle of pills is basically worthless, and even if the spiritual herb seeds can survive, their value isn't great. Then there's this jade slip. Being used to store such treasures, it might be something of considerable value. It's just that we lack the knowledge to study it. But this is just a guess, and there's a high probability it'll be useless even if we get our hands on it."
"Is a difference of 150,000 spirit stones not worth it in everyone's opinion?" Zhang Ling said leisurely, looking at the remaining items.
What he said was the actual value, and the others naturally couldn't say much. Even the Azure Python Daoist's face alternated between red and green.
The man remained silent for a while before speaking. "Alright, let's do as you say, Daoist friend. However, I might not have that many spirit stones on me. How about this? I'll give you 50,000 spirit stones first, and if there are other treasures later, I'll let you have them until the 150,000 spirit stones are made up."
Looking at the Azure Python Daoist's expression and then at the others' expressions, Zhang Ling frowned. He knew he could only do this for now.
Since the Azure Python Daoist had already made a promise, he couldn't say anything more. After all, making things too tense wouldn't be good.
Zhang Ling then raised his hand and directly put the two jade bottles and the jade slip into his storage bag.
"Haha, then thank you, Daoist Zhang. If there are other treasures later, I will definitely let you have them," the Azure Python Daoist naturally rejoiced, chuckled, and took out a large bag.
Zhang Ling glanced over it slightly. Most of them were low-grade spirit stones, with only a hundred or so middle-grade spirit stones. It seemed this man really didn't have that many spirit stones on him. He nodded and expressionlessly accepted the spirit stones.
After the five people finished distributing the treasures, they stayed in this secret cave for a while, searching all the items in the stone houses.
Only after a quarter of an hour did they leave this secret cave and head to other places for a large-scale search.
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The few people walked along the left path. Continuing along this path, they found two more clusters of stone houses.
However, the gains were few and far between. Apart from some broken magical artifacts, there was nothing else. In the end, the five people returned to the previous fork in the road and searched towards the mountain road on the right.
Searching all the way down, beside the path on the right, they also saw large patches of red berries. The few people picked them again, each harvesting thousands of spirit fruits.
Not long after, they saw large patches of spirit herb fields, divided into different sizes. Roughly estimated, there were more than a hundred acres.
"Spirit herb fields! Our luck is not bad. Maybe we can find some rare ancient spirit herbs."
The few people were quite excited. After all, rare spirit herbs meant that precious pills could be refined to break through cultivation.
This was the most important goal for cultivators. After all, for them, these Golden Core cultivators, there were very few suitable pills on the market.
However, after searching through these spirit herb fields.
Most of the spirit herb fields were planted with low-grade spiritual plants, without even restrictions on them. Although a small half of them were still growing spirit herbs, they were mostly low-grade spirit herbs.
Most of them were still several kinds of yellow sprouts and spiritual grains for low-level cultivators.
These spiritual grains grew very well, and the yield was as high as hundreds of thousands of pounds. But for them. It was only worth four or five thousand spirit stones at most.
Moreover, the quantity was huge, and none of them were interested in collecting them.
One of the reasons was that the space in the storage bag was limited, and it was not cost-effective to store so much spiritual rice.
They could only give up helplessly.
Fortunately, there were also a few spiritual fields with rich spiritual energy, planted with some second- and third-grade spiritual herbs.
Most of them were already mature, and some had withered, which was a pity.
But there were still a few that had broken through to a thousand years of age. They were truly thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.
The most expensive one was a purple-patterned flower with more than three thousand years of age.
This was a third-grade spiritual herb, although not a rare one. But it was not surprising that it could grow for more than two thousand years. The value was not small.
This kind of spiritual flower was widely used and could be used as a medicinal primer for several kinds of pills. In addition, there were five or six other spiritual herbs ranging from one thousand to two thousand years.
According to the value of the spiritual herbs, in the end, basically everyone got a thousand-year-old third-grade spiritual herb, and twenty or so second-grade herbs.
Zhang Ling got a yellow forest ganoderma with about 1,500 years of age, and two or three ordinary third-grade spiritual herbs. The age was mostly five or six hundred years.
Of course, there were also ten or so second-grade spiritual herbs of two or three hundred years. Calculating the value, it was nearly 100,000 spirit stones. The others were roughly the same, which could be regarded as another good harvest.
It was not easy for Golden Core cultivators to accumulate 100,000 spirit stones. Their wealth was mostly used to improve their cultivation and magical artifacts.
Looking at the ecstatic expressions of the crowd, Zhang Ling felt a little bitter in his heart.
So many spiritual herbs were a huge harvest in the eyes of ordinary cultivators. The few rare spiritual herbs among them were even difficult to see outside.
But for Zhang Ling, he could use the mysterious small bead in his hand to cultivate them in a year.
But this was also normal. It was beyond the expectations of several people to have these harvests in this ordinary spiritual field.
