Cultivation System: Stronger with Age

Looking at the neatly piled harvest, Lin Xuankong thought to himself, These Martial Cultivators are indeed much more efficient than ordinary people. However, this much harvest won't fit into the large wooden box I brought... Should I sew ten or eight large bags from Tier Two Python Skin? Make more than ten snakeskin bags? Walk hundreds of miles with more than ten large snakeskin bags on my back to other gathering places? I wonder if I can borrow Zhao Yufei's dog to carry the things... There's too much harvest; transportation is a real problem! Other Martial Cultivators can't kill so many demons on their own, so they wouldn't have this kind of "fortunate" dilemma... How should I transport it all?

Thinking of this, Lin Xuankong turned to look at the Martial Cultivators who were packing up the spoils. Those Martial Cultivators, already soaked to the bone, avoided his gaze when he looked over, their faces showing a mixture of respect and fear. Lin Xuankong's feat of single-handedly driving away thousands of pythons had long inspired immense awe among them. Moreover, just now, with a mere raise of his hand, he had effortlessly killed three Tier Three Martial Cultivators as easily as slaughtering chickens. This display made them even more fearful.

"Hmm, is this the Ghost Toad's Stomach?" Lin Jiao suddenly asked.

Lin Xuankong turned his head to look. He saw Lin Jiao retrieve a mud-covered, slightly writhing meat pouch from the waist of a recently deceased four-armed Martial Cultivator.

"It really is the Ghost Toad's Stomach! Wow, this is a hugely valuable item, an extraordinarily valuable item!" Lin Jiao exclaimed. He washed the Ghost Toad's Stomach in a nearby puddle, revealing its original blood-red color, then quickly ran over and handed the meat pouch to Lin Xuankong.

Lin Xuankong, who had just been pondering the issue of the snakeskin bags, couldn't help but show a hint of joy as he received the Ghost Toad Pouch. This treasure only came from Tier Three Ghost Toads. Furthermore, after obtaining a Ghost Toad's Stomach, it required several Martial Cultivators to nurture it with their Qi Blood for many days to transform it into a functional storage treasure. He had seen this type of treasure at the Dragon Capturing Town auction, where martial young masters had bid fiercely for it!

He squeezed the slightly writhing, creased Ghost Toad Pouch, then secretly activated it with his Qi Blood. Instantly, a gap appeared at the top of the Ghost Toad Pouch. He reached in and pulled out an Exorcism Weapon.

"This belongs to one of the Ma Family brothers! When we first entered the valley, the Ma Family brothers were killed and robbed by these four-armed Martial Cultivators!" Lin Jiao said after taking a closer look.

Lin Xuankong nodded and used his Qi Blood to sense the interior. Indeed, he sensed an oval, wrinkled space inside, about three to four zhang in diameter, containing five Exorcism Weapons, some clothes, and twenty elixirs placed in one corner.

Back then, when he had seen the four-armed Martial Cultivators using a Ghost Toad Pouch to store items, he had been quite envious, I should quickly hunt a Tier Three Ghost Toad to get a storage treasure like that... Now, not only had he obtained a Ghost Toad Pouch, but it also came with six valuable pieces of Exorcism Equipment.

He took out one of the elixirs and examined it carefully, his face showing even more joy. The deceased four-armed Martial Cultivator seemed to have been at the Late Stage of Tier Three. The elixirs he had stored in the Ghost Toad Pouch turned out to be rather expensive Nourishing Spirit Pills—a full twenty of them! With these, he wouldn't need to worry about his supply of Nourishing Spirit Pills for a while!

Looking at these, Lin Xuankong couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion. In this Demon-Suppressing Valley, the strong can always find opportunities; it's just a matter of how ruthless one is willing to be! Killing for treasure yields rewards no less than hunting demons!

With this thought, he took the Ghost Toad Pouch and quickly collected the nearby spoils. In an instant, the Exorcism Weapons, Forehead Scales, Python Skin, and more than ten thousand jin of Tier Three Marsh Python flesh and blood were all stored in the Ghost Toad Pouch, including his Ruyi Profound Gold Rod. Additionally, he collected over twenty thousand jin of Tier Two Marsh Python Flesh. Only then was the Ghost Toad Pouch, outwardly no larger than a palm, finally considered full!

This Ghost Toad Pouch was also said to prevent food and elixirs stored inside from spoiling, making it an extremely valuable storage treasure!

The nearby Martial Cultivators watched this scene, their faces filled with envy. Who wouldn't want such a storage treasure? More importantly, the sheer volume of materials Lin Xuankong had just stored was incredibly abundant!

Not to mention anything else, the over twenty thousand jin of Tier Two Marsh Python Flesh alone were invaluable, let alone the Tier Three Marsh Python flesh! These materials couldn't even be measured in silver taels. They probably amounted to half the wealth of great families like the Feng Family or the Guo Family, yet Lin Xuankong had obtained it all in a single day! Such an amount of materials was staggering. Even if all sixty or seventy of them risked their lives together, they couldn't hunt that much. Outside, in the wider world, it was an amount they couldn't hope to amass even in ten lifetimes! Thinking of this, how could they not feel envious?

「After gathering the materials,」

Lin Xuankong handed the Profound Silver Scalp Sword and two other pieces of Exorcism Equipment to Lin Jiao, Hu Shuo, and Nalan Yunzhu.

"I'm setting off now," he announced. "I'll follow the traces of the Gu Yue Sect to those two gathering places. The journey is long and fraught with many demons. It would be less safe for you to follow me than to stay here. Now that the Profound Iron Chain Bridge has been destroyed, Juefeng Mountain is even easier to defend than before! With these pieces of Exorcism Equipment, the three of you should be able to hold out until I return!"

Hu Shuo and the others were taken aback by his words. Though they all wished to accompany Lin Xuankong, they fell silent when they considered their own strength.