Gains from the Trip to the Shen Clan's Mountain

The summit of Shen Family Clan Mountain is the place with the most abundant Spiritual Qi in the entire Shen Family Clan Mountain. At the center of the summit, there is a ruin.

There are also two plaques in the ruins, one of which reads "cave abode" (洞府).

Another plaque reads "Shen Clan Repository".

In addition, scattered among these ruins are several tattered array flags, as well as some inedible spiritual objects such as ancient books, Law Artifact, and blank Talisman Paper.

The spiritual objects scattered on the ground were all first-tier spiritual objects; there were no second-tier spiritual objects.

After all, the Shen Clan has a weak foundation and has only recently become Foundation Establishment Family.

There wasn't a single Spirit Plant on the surrounding dozen acres of High-Grade Spirit Field.

"That Snake Demon in the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment is really ruthless. It even demolished the Shen Clan's Cultivation Abode and Clan Repository. The spiritual items on the ground should be those stored in the Shen Clan Repository." Seeing this scene, Ling Pengyun couldn't help but sigh to himself.

"Fellow Daoists, make rubbings of all the books scattered on the ground."

"As for those first-tier spiritual items scattered on the ground, we should only take 30% of them. We will divide this 30% equally among the three parties, and leave the remaining 70% to ourselves."

"If we take less, even if the Shen Clan guesses that this is our family's specialty, they will definitely consider our strength and won't dare to cause trouble."

"But if we act too greedily and take all the spiritual treasures here, it will surely anger the Shen Clan. If the Shen Clan goes to the Hundred Spirits Sect to accuse us of taking advantage of the chaos, then we will be in trouble."

Luo Qiuming looked at the scattered books in the ruins in the center of the mountaintop and the gleaming eyes of the spirit creature, and gestured to Ling Pengyun and Liu Daozhong riding the Flame Cloud Tiger.

Ling Pengyun and Liu Daozhong both agreed with Luo Qiuming's statement.

With everyone in agreement, they quickly got to work.

In less than a hundred breaths, the three of them had finished making copies of the scattered books and divided up about 30% of the first-tier spiritual items scattered on the ground. After harvesting the mountaintop, the three of them went to the Shen Clan's Technique Pavilion halfway up the Shen Family Clan Mountain.

This Technique Pavilion was not destroyed and is protected by a First-Tier Superior-Grade Defense Array.

However, this level of formation was broken in front of Luo Qiuming, a profound Array Formation Master, in less than a hundred breaths.

Ling Pengyun, Luo Qiuming, and Liu Daozhong also successfully entered the room and quickly used the rubbing technique to transfer the texts into numerous blank texts that had been prepared beforehand.

Having accomplished this task, there is nothing else of value left on the Shen Family Clan Mountain.

The three of them did not linger there. Instead, they went down to the foot of the mountain and began to harvest the useful spiritual materials from the hundreds of Demon Beast corpses they had killed.

While they were harvesting materials from the Demon Beast's corpse, the five Qi Refining cultivators from the Shen Clan, who had been protected by a high -First-Tier Superior-Grade Aura Concealment Array several miles away, also arrived.

The five Shen Clan cultivators all looked unwell. Just now, they had all used their Aura Observation Technique to see Ling Pengyun and the others searching for Cultivation Method manuals and scriptures in the ruins atop the Shen Family Clan Mountain.

However, despite their observations, their cultivation levels were only at the Qi Refining, so they naturally dared not retaliate and could only swallow their anger.

"Thank you for your help to the Shen Clan, seniors, in reclaiming Shen Clan Mountain!" Among the five Shen Clan cultivators, the elder with the highest Qi Training Completion stage, suppressed his anger and thanked Ling Pengyun and the others.

"No need for thanks, please help us harvest the materials from the Demon Beast here."

"Once it's done, the flesh and blood of these hundreds of Qi Training Demon Beast will all be yours. I can also repair your Shen Clan's Second Rank Low Grade Defensive Formation for free, but you'll have to provide the materials." Luo Qiuming pretended not to see the angry expressions on the faces of the five Shen Clan cultivators, waved his hand, and spoke.

The decision to give away the flesh and blood of hundreds of Qi Training Stage Demon Beast on the ground to the five Shen Clan cultivators was a joint discussion among Luo Qiuming, Ling Pengyun, and Liu Daozhong, who controlled the Flame Cloud Tiger.

It's not really right to take the Shen Clan's inherited Cultivation Method and manuals for free. Giving the Shen Clan Shen Clan some benefits can be considered a form of compensation.

Of course, the compensation they received was not proportional to the value of what they had taken.

Upon hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the five Shen Clan cultivators softened somewhat.

The Second Rank Low Grade Mountain Protection Formation on Shen Family Clan Mountain was destroyed by the Demon Beast horde led by the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment Demon Serpent more than ten days ago, resulting in damage to the formation flags and making it difficult to activate.

If this formation can be repaired, the five Shen Clan cultivators are fully confident that, relying on the Mountain Protection Formation, they can withstand the attack of a Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Beast and three or four hundred Qi Training Demon Beast.

"Thank you very much, senior." The Shen Clan cultivator, who Qi Training Completion, bowed and expressed his gratitude.

Then, he led four other Shen Clan cultivators, each taking out a relatively sharp magic Law Artifact, to help Ling Pengyun and the others cut materials from the hundreds of Demon Beast beast corpses on the ground.

After the Demon Beast materials were collected, Ling Pengyun and Liu Daozhong, who could control the Flame Cloud Tiger, both left. Only Luo Qiuming, the Array Formation Master, stayed at the Shen Family Clan Mountain to help the Shen Clan repair the Second Rank Low Grade Defense Array on the Clan Mountain.

Several hours later.

Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain and went straight to the Lineage's Affairs Hall.

"Eighth Brother, did you gain anything from this trip to the Shen Family Clan Mountain?" Ling Pengliang, who was in the Affairs Hall, saw Ling Pengyun return and asked with a bright expression.

Before leaving, Ling Pengyun told Ling Pengliang about his trip to the Shen Family Clan Mountain.

Therefore, Ling Pengliang is also an insider.

"Yes, and the harvest was quite substantial. The Shen Family Clan Mountain Shen Family Clan Mountain was indeed breached by a large group of Demon Beast, and I have made copies of most of the ancient texts found there."

"The reason I came to find you this time is to have you with me to look through the Cultivation Method we obtained during this trip to the Shen Clan and classify them, so that we can know the value of these manuals," Ling Pengyun replied with a smile.

After saying that, he took out two bulging Storage Bag from his bosom and summoned out hundreds of books, more than ten first-tier Law Artifact artifacts, blank Talisman Paper, spirit iron and other first-tier spiritual items.

Previously, when these books were being copied at the Shen Family Clan Mountain, Ling Pengyun had not had time to look through their contents.

"Those spiritual items were also found by the Shen Clan. They were all handed over to the Lineage and exchanged for Contribution Points at half the market price. Just put it in my account," Ling Pengyun said, pointing to the first-tier spiritual items he had summoned.

He now has several thousand Lineage Contribution Points in his account, but since there aren't many good things in the clan right now, he hasn't spent them.

As for calculating Spirit Stone with the Lineage, that would be too difficult for Lineage, as the family doesn't have many Spirit Stone these days.

"I understand, Eighth Brother."

When Ling Pengliang saw that Ling Pengyun had not only brought back a lot of books but also some first-tier spiritual items, a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.

Without wasting any time, he quickly stepped out from behind the counter and joined Ling Pengyun in looking through the books.

Although there are many books, Ling Pengyun and his companion are both cultivators, so they can easily read ten or even a hundred lines at a glance.

After all, it's not about meticulously examining those classic texts, but rather roughly skimming through the text to distinguish the types and values of those texts.

In just one day, the two of them had sorted out the hundreds of books.

Most of these hundreds of books are of little value to the Ling Clan; they are mostly travelogues or cultivation insights from Qi Refining cultivators.

Most of these items were picked up from the Shen Clan's Technique Pavilion, and the Ling Clan also had quite a few; they were not lacking at all.

However, among these classic texts are a dozen or so precious Qi Training Stage Cultivation Method, as well as First Rank Low Grade inheritances of five arts: alchemy, talisman, array, artifact, and plant cultivation.

In addition to these, there is a second-tier talisman-making inheritance book and an earth-based Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method that can be cultivated to the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment.

Although the content of that second-tier talisman-making inheritance was extremely ordinary, it was nowhere near as good as the second-tier talisman-making inheritance that Ling Yunhong, the Clan Head of the Ling Clan clan, had obtained more than ten years ago when he followed the Peace Cloud Yang Clan to destroy the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family in Cloudwater County.

However, this second-tier talisman-making inheritance also records many insights left by Talisman Crafter, and even the insights left by the current Foundation Establishment Clan Head of the Shen Clan, a second-tier Talisman Crafter.

These insights into talisman making are of great benefit to Talisman Crafter.

The earth-based Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method that can be cultivated to the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment is even more valuable to the Ling Clan. Among the Ling Clan's five elements Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method, the earth-based Cultivation Method is the only one missing.

This earth-attribute Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method, "Earth Armor Art," obtained from the Shen Clan, perfectly fills the only gap in the Ling Clan's Five Elements Technique.

Previously, the Ling family only had one water-attribute foundation-building technique, the Azure Sea True Scripture.

However, more than a decade ago, the Ling Clan used their share of the Mystic Water Iron Mine to buy a metal-attribute Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method called "Geng Metal Sword Classic Manual" from the Hundred Spirits Sect.

A few years ago, Ling Yunhong, the Clan Head of the Ling Clan clan, followed the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family of the Peace Cloud Yang Clan in destroying the Ye clan of Cloudwater County and obtained a Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method with fire, wood, and metal attributes: "Exploding Cloud Blazing Fire Art", "Rotten Wood Revives Spring", and "Metal Splitting Treasure Classic".

In addition, the local attribute Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method "Earth Armor Art" that was obtained this time makes it complete with all five elements.

There are six Foundation Establishment Cultivation Method, but only two of them Cultivation Method of the metal Foundation Establishment.

After sorting out the hundreds of books they had obtained from their trip to the Shen Clan, Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengliang placed most of the ordinary books in the Lineage's Technique Pavilion halfway up the mountain.

The entire Qi cultivation technique, the second-tier talisman-making inheritance, and the local armor-type techniques—all these relatively precious classics—were placed by Ling Pengyun in the study of his mountain cave.

This action was also taken to prevent the valuable Cultivation Method manuals from being leaked out of the country.

Anyone who is a member of the Ling clan can enter Ling Clan Ling Clan Clan's Technique Pavilion, but they need to spend Contribution Points.

However, only high-ranking members of the elder class are allowed to enter the study on the mountaintop.

As for the hundreds of books that Ling Pengyun handed over to the Lineage this time, they were quite valuable.

However, Ling Pengyun didn't ask for much. He packaged it up for 5,000 Contribution Points at a very cheap price and let Ling Pengliang put it on his account.

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