443: Mountain and River Map

Qin Shilei first canceled his Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth state, then went to retrieve the staff that was tightly clutched by the severed arm.

Finally, he returned to Steve and simply stopped the bleeding for him.

He commanded, "Give me all your equipment and space rings."

Steve first handed over his space ring, then unequipped various items he was wearing and handed them over again.

After Qin Shilei stored the items, he controlled Steve to return to the previous battlefield with him.

He meticulously searched the area where Reno sacrificed himself but could not find his storage equipment.

Could it be that the Heaven Piercing Sword destroyed the storage equipment, causing it to be lost in another dimension?

Since it couldn't be found, there was no point in forcing it.

Qin Shilei turned around and asked Steve,

"How do you contact the Underworld, and why can you contract skeletons that are one rank higher than yourselves?"

Steve truthfully replied, "I obtained a finger bone and a spell from a secret realm. With these, I contacted Reno from the Underworld. With his help, we were able to barely contract those high-level skeletons."

Qin Shilei searched through Steve's space ring and found a white jade-like finger bone.

He then inquired about the spell, as well as the location and activation method of that secret realm.

He asked again, "How many people have you helped contract high-level skeletons, and can you still find them now?"

Steve replied, "There are a total of 118 people, and most of them are dead. Not long ago, three people contacted me, and I might be able to find these three."

Qin Shilei took out Steve's sound transmission talisman and handed it to him, "Contact them now and arrange to meet them in a suitable place."

Steve successfully arranged to meet two of them in a secluded location via the sound transmission talisman. The third person had already been killed by Qin Shilei, so there was no reply.

Qin Shilei easily killed those two with Steve's help.

After a careful count with An Qian and the others, they found that four people were still at large.

Those four were all individuals with Platinum skeleton pets, posing a certain threat to Qin An Royal Mansion.

Qin Shilei had no choice but to use the Treasure Hunting Mouse, spending most of the day to find and kill those four one by one.

Just then, Steve also woke up from Qin Shilei's control.

Everything he experienced in the illusion intermittently surfaced in his mind.

His expression changed drastically, and he immediately bowed and begged for mercy, "I beg Qin An King to spare my life. I will obey your commands from now on."

"I believe there's someone who would very much like to see you."

Qin Shilei once again controlled Steve with his Eye of Illusion Breaking Purple, then brought him back and handed him over to Nova.

Nova tortured Steve for a while before finally cleaving off his head with a sword.

At this moment, Qin Shilei was tallying his gains.

The first item Qin Shilei took out was the staff he obtained from Steve.

tus staff (Orange): A staff refined by the peerless expert Tus from the bones of a lightning-elemental bone dragon. It increases the power of all abilities by one hundred percent and increases the power of lightning-elemental abilities by two hundred percent. It comes with four unique skills: Dragon Might, Bone Dragon Shield, Yin Thunder, and Bone Dragon Roar.

Qin Shilei had personally experienced all four of these unique skills and almost fell victim to them, so their power certainly lived up to their orange quality.

However, the cooldown times for all four unique skills were not short; the shortest, Bone Dragon Shield and Yin Thunder, both required eight hours, while the other two were even longer, lasting twenty-four hours.

If Qin Shilei wasn't so accustomed to using swords, he would have been tempted to wield this weapon and become a Thunder Archmage.

What he valued most about this staff was the unique skill Yin Thunder.

When he was struck by this move earlier, he gained a comprehensive understanding of lightning, and the bottleneck in his advancement loosened slightly as a result.

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Indestructible (Purple): The staff's hardness is greatly increased, allowing it to withstand normal attacks from Master-level experts without damage.

Rapid Recovery (Purple): The cooldown time of the staff's attached unique skills is halved.

Deterrence (Purple): The bone dragon's Dragon Might within the staff will automatically activate, causing a Deterrence effect on all living beings within a thousand-meter radius, reducing the target's strength by up to fifty percent.

Qin Shilei actually valued the Deterrence entry more, but for the sake of his early advancement, he had no choice but to choose the Rapid Recovery entry.

Besides this staff, those Golden Experts and Steve also contributed twelve purple items to him.

Among them, a necklace called Elf's Heart was similar to his broken Soul Suppressing Pearl, capable of defending against soul attacks, so he put it on.

The rest were temporarily stored in his space ring.

Qin Shilei then took out the gold treasure chest dropped by Reno and handed it to An Qian.

An Qian first took out a few silver treasure chests to test her luck. After opening one purple item, she solemnly opened the gold treasure chest.

One orange and one purple light emanated from the treasure chest.

The purple one was a Boundary Breaking Talisman.

The orange one was a map.

Mountain and Rivers Map (Fake) (Orange): Contains a space ten kilometers in radius, with functions such as trapping enemies. The Mountain and Rivers Map can also display surrounding natural scenery such as mountains and rivers.

Qin Shilei's spiritual power probed into the Mountain and Rivers Map, and sure enough, he found a sizable space inside.

The space was just a desolate yellow dirt land, and he didn't know if anything could be planted there.

However, since he already possessed a vast Blessed Land, he somewhat looked down on this space.

Qin Shilei also tested the Mountain and Rivers Map's function of trapping enemies.

It relied on spiritual power to activate, opening a space entrance about ten meters wide, waiting for the enemy to voluntarily enter.

Achieving enemy entrapment was somewhat difficult; it could only be realized if the space entrance was instantly opened at the enemy's forward position, causing the enemy to rush into it.

If an enemy was taken into the Mountain and Rivers Map, even someone as strong as Qin Shilei could not forcibly exit.

The Mountain and Rivers Map would not only reduce the trapped person's strength by twenty percent but could also create various natural phenomena within the space to attack enemies.

Qin Shilei didn't particularly value these functions of the Mountain and Rivers Map; instead, he was very satisfied with its other use.

As he poured vital energy into it, the Mountain and Rivers Map slowly unfolded, and a three-dimensional map of the surroundings appeared before everyone's eyes.

On the map, there were also four red markers and one to two hundred green markers.

The red markers displayed Qin Shilei's four Platinum-level and above powerhouses, while the green markers indicated Golden Experts.

The patterns displayed on the Mountain and Rivers Map became smaller and smaller, while the displayed range grew larger and larger, quickly showing the topography of an area spanning thousands of kilometers.

Beyond five hundred kilometers, the green markers representing Golden Experts no longer appeared.

Qin Shilei continued to pour vital energy into it.

The displayed range of the Mountain and Rivers Map expanded from ten thousand kilometers to twenty thousand kilometers, finally stopping at fifty thousand kilometers.

Two red markers appeared at three thousand kilometers and seven thousand kilometers respectively.

Qin Shilei's eyes lit up, "Finally, I can easily find those high-level exotic beasts."

However, beyond ten thousand kilometers, even experts at the Platinum Realm and above could no longer be displayed.

Qin Shilei reached out and tapped the red dot area three thousand kilometers away.

Immediately, the topography of that area independently appeared on the Mountain and Rivers Map, then rapidly enlarged.

It also had a zoom function!

The enlarged independent mini-map showed that it was a mountain range, and the red dot was still slowly changing its position.

What a truly excellent treasure!