Fire Dragon Reverend involuntarily took a step forward, his eyes burning as he stared at the firelight flying sword. However, as soon as he moved, he sensed the cold gazes of the others, immediately causing a sense of crisis to rise in his back.
Fire Dragon Reverend instantly retracted his foot and became more sober.
Although these magical treasures were eye-catching, he also knew that he wasn't alone here. There were several other Golden Core cultivators, and he wouldn't do anything to displease them.
Yangshan Old Daoist, however, maintained a normal expression. With a wave of his hand, he retrieved the fiery red flying sword and then took out a black iron shield, studying it.
There were a total of nine magical treasures here, each radiating spiritual light. There were swords, shields, orbs, and more. They were comprehensive in both attack and defense. For Golden Core stage cultivators, magical treasures were indeed something they valued highly.
A cultivator who had just broken through to the early Golden Core stage might not even be able to gather the materials to refine a single magical treasure. Of course, some people were wealthy and possessed several magical treasures.
Like Fire Dragon Reverend, although he had only recently broken through to the late Golden Core stage, he had four or five magical treasures. This was also the number of magical treasures most late Golden Core stage cultivators possessed.
So, while the Golden Core cultivators present didn't lack magical treasures, it didn't stop them from staring at these few magical treasures with fervent eyes.
These nine magical treasures were all top-quality. Each one could be exchanged for four to five hundred thousand spirit stones, or even more, in the market. This was a considerable fortune.
Before long, Yangshan Old Daoist finished examining the treasures and turned to the others, saying:
"I have finished counting these treasures. All nine magical treasures are top-quality. Four are attack-type, and three are defense-type..."
Actually, without the old Daoist's introduction, Zhang Ling and the others roughly understood the value of several magical treasures through the partial power displayed when the old Daoist activated them.
After speaking about the magical treasures, Yangshan Old Daoist addressed the others again.
"As for the rest, there are over twenty types of treasure refining materials. The elixirs are also suitable for our cultivation. There are White Bloom Pills, Azure Jade Pellets, and Purple Spirit Powder."
"However, after sensing them, I found that four of the magical treasures have already been integrated with the blood essence of other cultivators and belong to others' natal magic treasures. Even if we refine them, we can only unleash about 70% of their power. Therefore, the distribution of treasures will depend on your preferences. Do you value these magical treasures more, or the elixirs and materials?"
Yangshan Old Daoist waved his hand, and the treasures gathered before everyone's eyes.
"Hehe, thank you, Daoist friend. But this old man is old and doesn't want to waste time refining any magical treasures. If no one objects, I value these few bottles of elixirs quite a bit," Old Man Shen said, stroking his bald head and chuckling.
The others, upon hearing this, remained expressionless but began calculating in their minds.
Although magical treasures were the most valuable of these items, everyone had been in the Golden Core stage for a long time and basically had suitable magical treasures. Having one or two more wouldn't increase their strength by much.
On the other hand, the elixirs in the jade bottles were quite good and suitable for assisting in cultivation.
Zhang Ling frowned slightly as he looked at these treasures. Although the magical treasures were good, none of them caught his eye. There were no ancient treasures among them, which disappointed him.
But then he thought that this also had its advantages and disadvantages. If ancient treasures had appeared among these treasures, the people in front of him would have immediately started fighting.
He also didn't lack those few bottles of elixirs. For a moment, his gaze fell on those treasure refining materials.
Among the treasure refining materials, there were three or four special ores that Yangshan Old Daoist hadn't recognized. The others had also stepped forward to check them earlier but hadn't recognized them either. They seemed to be some top-quality treasure refining materials.
Among them, there was a grayish-yellow oval stone that Zhang Ling found particularly appealing. He recognized it as a special treasure refining material that would be useful to him.
For a moment, everyone started speaking, each mentioning what they favored, hoping to gain some advantage during the treasure distribution.
They discussed for another quarter of an hour before roughly dividing the treasures into six piles. Each person had a pile of items in front of them.
Yangshan Old Daoist was the first to pick three magical treasures and a few bottles of elixirs.
In the end, everyone received two medium-grade Ice-Fire Jades, a bottle of elixir each, and each selected a magical treasure. Fire Dragon Reverend and the others also selected treasures of roughly the same value.
The remaining items were distributed according to their value and other needs.
Zhang Ling then took another magical treasure and selected three good treasure refining materials. Fire Dragon Reverend and the others also selected treasures of roughly the same value.
The distribution of treasures was fairly harmonious, and everyone showed some smiles on their faces. Then, they began to carefully inspect the first floor of the stone building to see if there was anything they had missed.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling smiled wryly. It seemed that these people were all shrewd. They had inspected everything in this place, even the wooden racks where the treasures were placed.
These racks were actually made of Ironwood, but this Ironwood was only a low-grade material, and they didn't pay attention to it.
Zhang Ling understood this in his heart. Although the distributed treasures weren't very useful to him, the fact that there were no conflicts among them made it a normal treasure hunting trip.
This was the usual outcome of most ancient cultivator ruins. It was even more common to gain nothing at all. Not every ancient cultivator ruin had great gains.
After the treasure distribution, everyone headed towards the second floor.
The stone building had three floors. Perhaps there were other gains on the upper two floors. They walked up a row of stone steps on the left corner of the wall and went up to the second floor.
The space on the second floor of the stone building was much smaller than the first floor, but the decorations inside were much more luxurious. There were some stone tables and chairs, and a huge stone screen blocked their view.
The screen was very simple and ancient. It was engraved with patterns, and everyone's eyes immediately went blank as they were attracted by the patterns.
One pattern depicted a one-eyed giant. The giant was hundreds of feet tall, with half of its body hidden in the clouds. The giant's hands were raised as if supporting the sky, and there seemed to be spiritual power surrounding its hands, giving people an extremely oppressive feeling.
The second picture depicted a strange man with wings. A pair of huge wings spread out as he shuttled through the endless clouds, holding some kind of treasure in his hand with spiritual light flashing.
The third pattern seemed to have a rumbling sound coming from it. A huge black hole cracked open in the sky, and a huge mountain fell from it.
The fourth pattern depicted a huge sinkhole with no end in sight. Countless gray gases emerged from it, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, transforming into gray air currents that constantly spread outward.
And in this strange gray gas, a five-colored spiritual light lit up. A five-colored bronze cauldron bloomed with dazzling spiritual light, seemingly suppressing the endless gray gas below.
The lines of the several patterns were rough and engraved on the stone screen, which was very simple, but the person who engraved these patterns was also a powerful cultivator, and there was still remnant soul power on them.
