415: Chapter 415 A Fresh Clean

With the addition of Han Jingyang's trio, the speed of gathering the spoils increased significantly.

Soon, everything was picked clean.

Han Jingyang wasn't polite either; as long as it was stripped from the Japanese invaders, he took it all for himself.

Monk Kongyun?

The monk shouldn't even think about taking a single copper coin.

Of course, the monk wouldn't do such a thing, nor would he dare.

The monk only gave thanks repeatedly. From the moment they started gathering the spoils, he had said 'thank you' countless times. Finally, he warmly invited the six of them to Xingguo Zen Temple to wash up and change clothes, his attitude very sincere.

Han Jingyang smiled. "No need."

As his voice fell, he raised his hand and used a skill: "Clean and New."

A breeze blew over everyone present. The bloodstains on Liu Jing and the others vanished instantly, restoring them to their original clean and fresh appearance; their clothes were cleaner than when they were first bought.

Monk Kongyun was stunned. "This..."

Han Jingyang smiled proudly. "Just a trivial little trick, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."

"To you, it's just a trivial little trick, but to practitioners other than you, it's... five words: envy, jealousy, and hate. Why can't we practitioners who have cultivated for many years do this? Forget about being able to do it; I've never even heard of the existence of such a spell before."

"There must be such spells. It's just that you look too high and far, ignoring the most basic aspects of survival and life. Otherwise, they would have been invented long ago."

"This... Mr. Han has a point."

"Hehe, let's go. Down the mountain to Xipo Village. Xipo Village is full of treasures. Of course, let's send these back first."

These two hundred or so Japanese invaders provided more than five hundred spoils. Even if they weren't dharma instruments, they were still worth some money. Small amounts add up to a significant sum.

But the main haul would still be in Xipo Village.

Xipo Village.

Han Jingyang led Liu Jing, Shi Xiaoya, Yang Jinyuan, Xu Xin, and Zhou Changzhu back to Xipo Village.

This time, they drove directly into the village.

First, they went to Chaotian Temple to take a look but found nothing.

But this was unreasonable.

Chaotian Temple must have dharma instruments; otherwise, it couldn't serve as the formation's eye, nor could it be used to create gods.

They must have been hidden.

They just didn't know where they were hidden.

Nor did they know what means were used to hide them.

To be honest, Han Jingyang was quite bewildered because his Qi Observation attribute had always been successful, yet it frequently failed in Xipo Village. First, it failed on Huang Jianshe, and then on the various dharma instruments in Xipo Village.

It could be summed up in two words—ridiculous.

It must have been Huang Jianshe's doing.

Huang Jianshe was someone who could evade skill Tracking. He might not have any other specialties, but his hiding ability was top-tier.

If only he could get his hands on Huang Jianshe's spell technique.

Then he could pretend to be an ordinary person wherever he went, playing the pig to eat the tiger.

Han Jingyang refused to believe it and started smashing things directly.

He smashed open Chaotian Temple, searching inside and outside the walls, above and below the ground. As long as it looked like an old object or a dharma instrument, he gathered it up and appraised it one by one.

This time, there were indeed results.

A Bronze Incense Burner that looked very ordinary turned out to be a Grade 5 item upon appraisal.

There was also the long sword in the statue's hand. No one had given it a second look when it fell to the ground during the previous battle. Now, upon touching and appraising it, good heavens, it was also a Grade 5 item and even had a skill. However, such a heavy and long sword was unusable for ordinary people.

There was also a large string of Amulet Coins hanging from the beam, which was a rare complete set of dharma instruments.

The porcelain guanyin statue built into the wall also had a skill.

The peach wood carving of a Vajrapani excavated from beneath the statue was a Grade 4 item with two skills, clearly the core dharma instrument of Chaotian Temple.

After looting Chaotian Temple, they headed straight for Liu Cheng's house.

It was still a "digging three feet deep" style of looting. At first, they found nothing; on the surface, Liu Cheng's house looked no different from an ordinary home.

Until they found a cellar in the courtyard.

Not just one.

But a total of nine cellars.

Each cellar had two rows of shelves.

Each shelf held at least twenty items.

Only...

Han Jingyang frowned. "Smash them all."

These items were also dharma instruments, but not only were their levels low, they were also quite unlucky—they were Spirit Tablets. The front had names, and the back was engraved with birth dates and times.

Unsurprisingly, these were the things Liu Cheng and the others used to create and control those "deities."

Too evil.

And too disgusting.

Not to mention looking at them every day, just thinking about them caused physical discomfort.

They searched out all these Spirit Tablets, piled them in the courtyard, and burned them to ashes.

However, everyone's expressions were not very good.

Although they were mentally prepared, seeing such a pile of things was still very... infuriating and saddening.

These should have been living people, but they were turned into so-called "deities" by people like Liu Cheng and Huang Jianshe.

In reality, they were just ghosts.

They couldn't even rest in peace after death.

People like Liu Cheng and Huang Jianshe really deserved to die!

If they had known, they should have captured Liu Cheng and Huang Jianshe and tortured them well, making them suffer all the world's punishments before killing them. It would be best to turn the two of them into these things as well, so they could feel what it was like to be manipulated and unable to escape even in death.

Leaving Liu Cheng's house, they headed straight for the basement where Liu Cheng had previously hidden.

When Tracking Liu Cheng, the bamboo dragonfly had taken them there, but they hadn't gone down.

Looking at it now, they realized it wasn't a basement at all, but an ancient tomb, likely from the Han Dynasty. The murals and stone carvings of immortal themes on the walls were very characteristic of that era.

However, the tomb wasn't large and had been renovated, with severe damage, leaving only a few remnants visible.

Then, they found many dharma instruments here, at least a hundred pieces. Although the quality was uneven, the sheer quantity was pleasing to see.

Besides that, there were also some gains like cash, gold, silver, and jewelry.

Quite a bountiful harvest.

Nothing more to say; they loaded it all onto the vehicle.

During the loading process, some villagers noticed, but no one dared to stop them. They just watched from a distance as they emptied the tomb chamber.

Liu Jing looked at the spoils filling half the truck and asked excitedly, "Is there more?"

Han Jingyang nodded. "There's more, and of even higher quality, but it'll take some hard work."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go."

This hard work wasn't just talk.

It was truly exhausting.

They had to walk through the entire Xipo Village in the middle of the night to find the Feng Shui layout of Drawing Qi to the Temple.

Han Jingyang tried hard to recall the scene at that time, determining the direction the Qi Dragons came from, and then slowly searched along those directions.

Searching dragon by dragon.

Fortunately, this time the Qi Observation attribute could play a role, at least by identifying the more accurate Feng Shui structure through the residual Qi.

Even so, facing this Feng Shui layout that encompassed all of Xipo Village, the group only managed to dig up half of it by dawn, even after splitting into two groups.

There was no helping it; a village was just too large, and most of those dharma instruments were buried in the soil, making the search extremely difficult.

As the sun rose, several groups of villagers carrying tools like detectors began to wander all over the hills.

Shi Xiaoya's killing intent flared. "I'll go take them out!"