Chapter 56 A great harvest
Zi Xuan looked at Lina's body, pondered for a moment, and finally did not move forward.
She took a step back, then sat cross-legged on the ground, intending to protect Xiaojing.
The night suddenly brightened, and a long dragon-like lightning suddenly appeared in the sky, followed by a burst of loud thunder.
A few minutes later, it started to rain heavily.
Raindrops as big as copper coins hit the ground fiercely, making a "pa pa" sound. Not long after, the sky seemed to collapse, and heavy rain poured down from the sky. The rain gathered into water on the mountain, expanded rapidly, and then flowed to the low-lying areas...
Zixuan and Xiaojing sat cross-legged quietly. The rain disappeared without a trace when it fell two or three feet above their heads.
If a cultivator passed by, they would see that there was a faint spiritual shield around them. This shield was centered on Zixuan and covered an area of 30 to 40 meters in radius. As a result, other areas on the mountain were filled with water and steam, while the ground in this area was extremely dry, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.
Ten minutes later, Xiao Jing opened her eyes with a gentle smile on her face. With the help of the elixir and breathing exercises, a large amount of spiritual energy surged through her meridians again. The pain in her body had mostly gone away, and she felt her limbs were full of strength again. As for the internal injuries, they were no longer a big deal.
"Sister, I'm fine!" Xiaojing smiled and stood up.
"Oh, let me see."
Zixuan opened her eyes, stood up, and put her right hand on her shoulder.
Then, she nodded and said, "Well, the recovery is okay, but I still need to consolidate it in the next two days."
Xiao Jing felt warm in her heart and smiled, "Okay, but this injury is really nothing to me!"
Zi Xuan shook her head and said seriously, "Having said that, you still have to be careful and remember to consolidate your origin!"
Then, she seemed to remember something and said with a wry smile, "If I had known that this dead puppet was so difficult to deal with, I shouldn't have agreed to let you take such a big risk. Instead, we should have solved it together! Alas, man proposes, God disposes!"
"However, overall, it seems that God favors us more..." Xiaojing laughed when she heard this.
Zi Xuan was startled after hearing this, and then she laughed, "You won't brag this time? It seems that you still have self-awareness!"
Xiaojing nodded embarrassedly, knowing that there were many coincidences in her victory.
Zixuan glanced at her, patted Xiaojing on the shoulder, and sighed, "If there is a next time, don't do this again--"
Although Xiaojing had the last laugh this time and seemed very relaxed, the danger involved is still frightening to think about.
A few days ago, during the competition in the valley, Zixuan, considering Xiaojing's cultivation, lent her the intermediate treasure Yellow Dragon Inner Armor and asked her to wear it with her, and told her not to be cautious and to give her all, and to wear the inner armor in an emergency. Xiaojing didn't use it there, but forgot to return it to Zixuan in time and kept it with her.
This time, if Xiao Jing had not summoned out and put on the Yellow Dragon Inner Armor in time at the critical moment, let alone sneak attack underground, she might have exploded into a bloody mist under the pressure of the Heaven-Covering Seal.
Moreover, it was fortunate that Lina's low-level treasure was a seal. Under the cover of the Heaven-Covering Seal, the space around the seal was blocked, and the ground was the weakest side. Lina must have not expected that Xiaojing happened to be proficient in earth-moving skills, which gave her the possibility of escape and surprise attack.
As for the last blow, it was Xiaojing's life-threatening move. The Spirit Wing was originally a weapon of high-level assassins. It was a top-grade spiritual weapon, and it was very strange. Its attack line could often be unexpected under the control of the mind, so it could become a great killing weapon for assassins. Xiaojing thought, no matter how hard Lina's neck was, it could not be compared with her arm, not to mention that the Spirit Wing was a top-grade spiritual weapon, and it was very sharp.
I'm afraid that when she turned into an assassin, she might not have thought about retreating - if this full-strength attack failed, would Zi Xuan be able to save her in time.
That's why Zi Xuan broke out in a cold sweat when she thought about how she had seemingly cooperated with Xiao Jing tacitly in her crazy assassination plan.
The heavy rain fell for a long time and gradually subsided.
Zixuan looked at Lina's headless body on the ground, and the questions she had thought of before came to her mind again.
Why did Lina take such a huge risk and sneak back to Xiaojing's side?
Given the situation at the time and Lina's intelligence, she would not be stupid enough to use her soul to attack Xiaojing. In this case, her target was not Xiaojing, but this corpse.
With this thought, Zixuan bent down to examine the body. She didn't know what material Lina's body was made of, and it was extremely hard to the touch. However, this didn't seem to have any special use for the soul.
Then, Xiaojing turned the body over. Zixuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she saw Lina's palm - there was a white ring on her left middle finger, and a layer of crystal white light was faintly flowing on the surface.
Zixuan's breathing quickened slightly, she was surprised, and then slowly took the ring off Lina's finger.
The white ring seemed to be made of ordinary white jade, and its appearance was quite ordinary at first glance, nothing special. But judging from the slight fluctuations of spiritual power emanating from it, this ring should not be an ordinary item.
Could it be a storage ring? The two speculated secretly.
After Lina's death, the ring had become ownerless. Zixuan easily wiped off the remaining mark of Lina on the ring and planted her own mark.
Next, Zi Xuan probed inside with her consciousness and was immediately stunned. The storage space of the white ring was not large, only the size of a house, but it was filled to the brim.
"Sister, what's in there?" Xiao Jing looked at Zi Xuan's shocked expression, and was very curious. Zi Xuan came back to her senses and smiled bitterly, "Come and take a look!"
The ring on Zixuan's hand flashed white light, and then a bunch of things appeared on the ground.
Looking at the things piled up like a mountain inside, Xiaojing couldn't help but be speechless.
The items were a bit messy, and I guess Lina didn't organize them normally. The two of them squatted down and put the items away in different categories.
There was a dazzling array of things in here, laid out in several piles. One pile was brand new women's clothing, one pile was gold bricks and jewelry, one pile was bundles of large-denomination banknotes, and another pile was books, talismans, materials for refining equipment, and so on.
"This is totally suitable for opening a store!" Zixuan teased.
"It's obvious that her life is really colorful!" Xiao Jing couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, I'm ashamed of myself!"
Zixuan shook her head, smiled and put away the things they had read with Xiaojing one by one.
"Huh? This bottle is a little weird?"
From the pile of refining materials, Xiaojing found a black jade bottle and turned it over and over in her hands.
"Wait!" Zi Xuan saw that she was about to open the bottle cap and said, "Let me see it!"
Xiaojing handed the bottle to Zixuan after hearing that.
Zi Xuan took it. The bottle felt heavy in her hand and seemed to be very old. There were many patterns of demons and ghosts and some strange words engraved on the bottle.
"Sister, I see you don't know either, do you?" Xiao Jing saw Zi Xuan standing there with the bottle in her hand, so she couldn't help but joked, "Open it and you'll know! Once you open it, everything will be solved!"
"No, I think I've seen this bottle pattern somewhere before! Let me think about it!"
Xiaojing shook her head and ignored her, flipping through an ancient book.
After a while, Zixuan suddenly shouted, "I remember!"
Xiao Jing was startled by Zi Xuan unexpectedly and complained, "You are so startled. Do you want to scare me to death?"
Zi Xuan looked solemn, ignored him, and muttered to herself, "I only heard about it before, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes now..."
"What on earth is it?"
"If I remember correctly, this should be the Soul Bottle!"
"Soul-catching bottle?" Xiao Jing was surprised. "Is it the bottle from ancient times that is said to be able to collect souls and spirits?"
"That's right!" Zi Xuan raised the bottle, looked at it carefully, and sighed, "This should be a replica, but the function is the same. Although this bottle is not big, I wonder how many souls it can hold..."
"So what do we do with this bottle?"
"This..." Zi Xuan also felt a headache. There should be a soul in the bottle, but of course it cannot be released at will, otherwise it will become a wandering ghost and may never be reincarnated!
She thought about it and then said, "Put it away first and discuss it later."
Xiao Jing nodded and said, "That's the only way!"
After discovering the soul-catching bottle, the two men did not dare to be careless and continued to check it carefully one by one.
The more she looked, the more surprised she became. In addition to the Heaven Covering Seal that Zi Xuan had obtained earlier, Lina also had a top-grade spiritual weapon trident, two mid-grade spiritual weapons, and three large teleportation talismans in her ring.
You know, the Great Teleportation Talisman can teleport across space. In the world of cultivation, any cultivator who can easily break through space and travel long distances must break through the Spiritualization Stage and reach the Void Refining Stage. Therefore, for those cultivators in the Small Thousand Worlds who are below the Void Refining Stage, the Great Teleportation Talisman is undoubtedly a life-saving artifact.
After Zixuan recognized the three talismans, she suddenly realized that Lina's soul had quietly returned, obviously trying to take the storage ring and escape without leaving anything for Zixuan and the others.
Xiao Jing smiled brightly and said, "It seems like we are really lucky!"
Zi Xuan shook her head and smiled bitterly, then slowly said, "We are lucky, but we took so many things from them, I'm sure they won't let us go easily!"
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(End of this chapter)
