219: Chapter 219 The Treasure Bowl Returns

Li Taiping stood amidst the pile of bones, casually shaking the black blood off the branch.

"good grade, it really is different." He exhaled lightly.

He turned around and walked toward the shallow water area.

The young girl was still lying there quietly, completely unaware of the slaughter that had just taken place.

Li Taiping bent down, slipped one arm under her knees and the other around her back, and lifted her up.

She was very light.

To make it easier to exert force, his palm naturally supported her buttocks.

The girl's head leaned against his shoulder, her warm breath hitting the side of his neck.

With her breathing, that mysterious energy surged into Li Taiping's body once again, continuously strengthening his physical body.

"Sequence 20, just breathing makes me stronger..."

Li Taiping looked down at the face in his arms.

The longer he looked, the stronger that inexplicable sense of familiarity became.

A Crew Member that hasn't been unlocked?

This appearance, this figure, and this unreasonable passive Talent.

"Could she be a reincarnation, a fragment, or a projection in this Former Dynasty World of some Crew Member?" Li Taiping pondered to himself.

He shook his head, temporarily suppressing this thought.

Now was not the time to delve into this.

Holding the girl, he swept his gaze over the beast corpses covering the ground, finally landing on the massive Old God skeleton at the bottom of the river.

For offense, there is Xia Zhi's Swordsmanship Mastery.

For information, there is the daily intelligence system.

For sustainability, there is this moving "experience pack" in his arms.

"Then..." A curve formed at the corner of Li Taiping's mouth, "Now all that's missing is supplies!"

In this godforsaken place, with nothing to eat or drink, not even a decent weapon, he couldn't just keep hacking people with tree branches.

Without any hesitation.

He locked onto the Talent in his mind that had accompanied him the longest, was the most core, and was the most important.

"Unlock, Sequence 1, treasure basin!"

Ding—

[Talent Sequence 1: treasure basin, unlocked.]

[Current status: good grade.]

[Feature Activation 1: Collect material fragments; once collected, you can unlimitedly replicate that type of material: food, Tier 1 spiritual materials, Tier 2 spiritual materials...]

[Feature Activation 2: Material fragments can randomly drop from corpses; absorption can trigger critical hits.]

The long-lost mechanical voice sounded in his mind, and Li Taiping felt his palms heat up slightly as an illusory gold ingot mark flashed across them and vanished.

Old friend, you're back.

However... just like how Chu Mengyao's information intelligence transformed into an intelligence system, the features of the treasure basin had changed in this world.

Li Taiping carried the girl and walked to the side of the black-scaled giant ape's corpse.

He extended one hand and pressed it onto the giant ape's head.

"Extract."

A faint golden light flashed in his palm.

The giant ape's massive corpse instantly shriveled up, turning into a pile of black ash.

Ding!

[Obtained: Corrupted Black Blood Crystal × 2]

[Obtained: Hard Ape Bone × 5]

[Triggered treasure basin small critical hit, obtained: Unpolluted Pure Spiritual Meat × 10 jin]

Li Taiping's eyes lit up.

Pure Spiritual Meat!

This was good stuff; it could replenish vitality and was ten thousand times better than the sour, astringent fruits he had eaten before.

He didn't stop and continued to "sweep" the River Beach.

Wherever his palm passed, the corpses of the corrupted beasts turned into fly ash.

[Obtained: Sharp Bone Spike × 12]

[Obtained: Weak Spiritual Energy Fragment × 8]

[Triggered critical hit, obtained: Black Earth Marching Boots (normal grade equipment) × 1]

A pair of black leather boots appeared at Li Taiping's feet.

He unceremoniously took off his worn-out shoes and put them on.

After cleaning up the beast corpses, Li Taiping's gaze turned to the sacrificial bones in the center of the River Beach, as well as the Old God skeleton half-buried in the water.

This was the big prize.

He walked to a sacrificial bone stuck in the mud and reached out to grab it.

Golden light flickered.