70: Chapter 70 I See Beauty as White Bones

The moment he received the feedback of Luck.

Lin Shen knew that Li Yifan was dead.

Muru Xue and Muru Yu, who were healing their internal injuries on the side, also directly turned into gray smoke.

"Banner, come!"

Watching this scene, Lin Shen was extremely excited. The soul-absorbing banner appeared in his hand, and he waved it hurriedly, quickly releasing ferocious evil ghosts one after another to devour the yet-undissipated Soul power in the air.

These were the incomplete Souls of two Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators. If they were devoured, his soul-absorbing banner would definitely become his greatest trump card in his hands.

Roar, roar, roar!!!

The evil ghosts roared. Amidst shrill and miserable screams, the floating incomplete Souls in the air were directly pulled into the soul-absorbing banner.

As these strands of incomplete Souls were pulled into the soul-absorbing banner to serve as nourishment, the entire soul-absorbing banner became heavier, and the black Qi it emitted became richer.

"Although this is an item of the Demonic Path, if it is put to good use in my hands, it will definitely become a supreme sacred artifact!!!"

Looking at the soul-absorbing banner billowing with thick black smoke in his hand, a trace of a smile appeared at the corner of Lin Shen's mouth.

He quickly bent down to pick up the Storage Pouches beside those pieces of corpse fragments.

Taking away all the Storage Pouches and carefully inspecting the entire scene, Lin Shen quickly erased his traces, and his figure disappeared on the spot.

As if he had never appeared at all, this place had merely suffered a natural and man-made disaster.

...

Several days later.

Lin Shen entered the territory of Qingzhou.

After completely moving far away from that stronghold back then, he looked for a secluded cave in the uninhabited wilderness.

Using the Formation Plate to shield this cave, Lin Shen then contentedly opened the Storage Pouches he had picked up earlier one by one.

Now that he had completely distanced himself from the stronghold where he killed Li Yifan, Muru Xue, and Muru Yu, it was naturally time to carefully inspect his harvest this time.

As for inspecting them only after returning to Chiyun Valley, that was naturally impossible.

In Chiyun Valley, what if strange phenomena were revealed while inspecting the treasures?

As a result, it turned out to be even safer than being in an uninhabited place in the wilderness.

Opening the first few Storage Pouches, Lin Shen did not find anything particularly precious, only a considerable amount of Spirit Stones and a large number of Yao Beast Materials.

Presumably, those few Storage Pouches should belong to Muru Xue and Muru Yu.

However, the number of Spirit Stones was quite large, and those Yao Beast Materials were also quite valuable.

If they were all converted into Spirit Stones, the amount of Spirit Stones harvested from these Storage Pouches would be enough to drive a Foundation Establishment Cultivator crazy.

Lin Shen nodded quite satisfied. After organizing and sorting them out, he opened the remaining Storage Pouches.

A heavy saber, a scroll, a bagua mirror...

And this unpretentious compass...

One extremely precious item after another directly appeared before Lin Shen's eyes.

Among them, Lin Shen had seen that heavy saber and the scroll with his own eyes. The value of such treasures was extremely high, and I am afraid even someone in the Golden Core Realm would find it difficult to possess them.

Obtaining such treasures all at once, Lin Shen was extremely excited in his heart, feeling that heaven was favoring him.

If it were not for the fact that Li Yifan had a treasure like the ten-thousand-mile escaping talisman, he probably would have only been able to take a risk and kill Li Yifan, and then hand over these treasures on a platter.

Fortunately, Li Yifan had the ten-thousand-mile escaping talisman and even took him along to escape, allowing him to launch a sudden attack when they were least prepared and become the final person to reap the benefits.

With his eyes radiating sharp light, Lin Shen gently stroked these treasures with his fingers, frantically suppressing the excitement in his heart.

From now on, these treasures would all belong to him.

He quickly put away these treasures, but when he was about to touch that unpretentious compass, his fingers stiffened in the air.

Unusual!

Far too unusual!

This compass was too unpretentious; how could Li Yifan possibly classify it together with numerous treasures?

Clearly, this compass was definitely not as simple as it looked on the surface.

With curiosity in his heart, Lin Shen did not touch the compass directly with his hands. Instead, Spiritual Qi surged within his palms and headed toward that compass.

He wanted to see what unknown secrets and confinements were contained within this compass!

If it were a treasure, it would definitely withstand his tossing; if it were not, destroying it meant destroying it, and there was nothing worth regretting.

Spiritual Qi surged forth.

When this Spiritual Qi came into contact with the compass, a white light suddenly flashed, and an aged phantom projected out from the compass.

"This young friend, stop at once!"

Accompanied by the surging Spiritual Qi driven by Lin Shen, that aged phantom hurriedly waved its hand.

"Hm? Are you an artifact spirit or a remnant Soul?"

Lin Shen did not stop; he merely maintained the Spiritual Qi in mid-air, furrowing his brows and staring straight at the aged phantom in mid-air.

He had a premonition in his heart.

The reason why Li Yifan was able to obtain so many treasures, break through to the Qi Refining Peak in just three short years, and become so powerful was definitely inextricably linked to this aged phantom in the air.

"Artifact spirit! Artifact spirit!"

That aged phantom hurriedly spoke: "I am the artifact spirit within this treasure-seeking compass. When my master refined me, I already existed!"

"Your master? Who is your master?"

Lin Shen furrowed his brows tightly, looking at the aged phantom with some vigilance in his gaze.

"My master..."

Seeing a trace of contemplative expression in the aged phantom's gaze, it then shook its head again: "I cannot remember clearly, I cannot remember clearly. My memory is too vague; I only remember it was a very, very long time ago."

"The many treasures on Li Yifan were all found for him by you, right?"

Lin Shen continued to press on with his questions, and deep down in his heart, there was also a trace of anticipation.

If it was truly as he expected, then this compass named the treasure-seeking compass would probably be his greatest harvest this time.

"Naturally. Without this old man's credit, how could that silly boy possibly grow so fast? How could he possibly obtain so many precious treasures!"

The aged phantom smiled smugly.

Looking at Lin Shen, its smug smile froze slightly, and its eyes carried a trace of fear and caution.

Gazing at Lin Shen, the aged phantom suddenly sighed and shook its head: "Little friend truly has good boldness. I did not expect that amidst the numerous sieges, you would actually be the one to reap the final benefits as the fisherman."

As it spoke, thinking of how the flower-like and jade-like twins were also killed by Lin Shen, the aged phantom could not help but smack its lips with some regret: "It is just a pity about those two great beauties. Previously, that brat Li Yifan was so infatuated that he lost his mind, but little friend did not even blink an eye when killing them. It is simply a bit of a waste of natural resources..."

"A waste of natural resources?"

Hearing the phantom's words, Lin Shen could not help sneering and saying: "So what if they are peerless and charming? After death, they ultimately become a handful of yellow soil, nothing more than pink skeletons..."

Ever since stepping onto this path of Immortal Cultivation,

Lin Shen viewed beauties as skeletons, with only the heart heading towards the Dao in his heart.

A breathtaking beauty was far less yearning to Lin Shen than a stalk of Spirit Medicine that could help him improve his cultivation.

[It could have been sent out half an hour ago, but the section where Li Yifan was killed was revised twice, deleting unnecessary plots, because a direct one-hit kill is the hard truth, and there is no need for back-and-forth moves.]