A Bountiful Haul

The Storage Ring's owner had been dead for a long time, so there was naturally no seal on it. When Su Luo injected a thread of Dou Qi into it, he easily examined the contents of the now-ownerless Storage Ring.

"This senior really was absurdly rich."

When his consciousness entered the Storage Ring and saw what was inside, even though Su Luo had been prepared, he was still stunned by its contents.

Back in the cave, Su Luo had seen several hundred thousand to over a million gold coins. Yet this Storage Ring contained more than ten million gold coins.

But compared with the truly valuable items in the Storage Ring, even those tens of millions of gold coins were nothing.

"Earth-tier low-grade cultivation technique, Fire Control Art. Earth-tier low-grade Dou Technique, Soaring Wind Steps to Heaven. Earth-tier low-grade cultivation technique, Thundercloud Nine Heavens. Earth-tier low-grade cultivation technique, Gale Surging Waves... This senior's collection is ridiculously abundant."

Earth-tier cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques would trigger a scramble among countless factions in the Black Corner Region. If they appeared in the Gamma Empire, they could turn the entire empire upside down.

After all, the Misty Cloud Sect's Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill was merely a Mysterious-tier high-grade Dou Technique comparable to an Earth-tier one.

Yet even that Mysterious-tier high-grade Dou Technique, which was comparable to an Earth-tier technique, was one of the treasures the Gamma Empire's greatest sect kept hidden away.

In the entire Gamma Empire, whether the imperial family or the Misty Cloud Sect, it was highly likely that neither possessed a single Earth-tier cultivation technique or Dou Technique.

And yet, things that the entire Gamma Empire most likely did not possess seemed utterly ordinary within this Storage Ring.

They were not exactly as common as cabbages, but among this collection, they were completely unremarkable.

Su Luo was surprised for a while, but as his consciousness delved deeper into the Storage Ring, he became less and less shocked.

That was because he saw pill formulas—an enormous number of them. Among these formulas, third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade ones were exceedingly common. There were relatively fewer sixth-grade formulas, but only relatively fewer.

By this point, Su Luo had basically confirmed the identity of the tomb's owner.

The Nether Flame Demonic Fire Fragment Map indicated that he had been interested in Heavenly Flames, and perhaps had even met with misfortune while searching for one.

The many medicinal herbs in the cave showed that, before his death, he had scattered many Medicinal Herb Seeds there. Ordinary people would not carry around medicinal herb seeds for no reason, especially seeds from high-grade herbs. But for an alchemist, taking some herbs and leaving behind their seeds was something some of them would do.

Coupled with the vast number of Earth-tier cultivation techniques, Dou Techniques, and pill formulas in the Storage Ring Su Luo had obtained, it was clear that the tomb's owner had likely been an alchemist who had traveled the continent in search of Heavenly Flames.

Considering the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, he might even have intended to seek out and subdue the Netherworld Poison Fire. However, judging from his circumstances, he had likely found nothing in the end and died far from home.

As his consciousness swept through the entire Storage Ring, Su Luo's gaze finally fell upon a special book.

Guided by a thread of Dou Qi, Su Luo retrieved the book, which stood out sharply from the other pill-formula scrolls.

Upon opening the book, made from some unknown material, the first page immediately provided Su Luo with information confirming the tomb owner's identity.

My name is Ye Fan. I am a member of the Ye Family, one of the Five Great Families of the Central Continent Pill Tower. In my youth, I traveled the continent with Ye Xiu and Ye Chen of my clan in search of Heavenly Flames.

The three of us traveled through nearly half of the Dou Qi Continent and were fortunate enough to find three Nether Flame Demonic Fire Fragment Maps. We thought we were only one fragment away from the Nether Flame Demonic Fire, but heaven did not favor us. An accident separated the three of us, and now none of us knows whether the others are dead or alive.

If you have obtained this book, it means that you have offered incense before this old man's grave. That is enough to show that you are someone I can entrust things to. If you possess the talent for alchemy, then this book contains this old man's alchemy experience from first grade to sixth grade. If you do not possess such talent, you may tear out these pages and exchange them with alchemists for some benefits.

I only hope that, if you become a powerful figure someday, you will show some care to the Ye Family this old man came from when it is convenient for you. For that, I would be endlessly grateful.

"An alchemist of the Ye Family who traveled the continent... Thank you. If I have the chance, I certainly will."

Su Luo's consciousness continued deeper into the Storage Ring, where he took out two somewhat special scrolls.

They were respectively the Mysterious-tier low-grade Flying Dou Technique, Azure Bird Wings, and the Earth-tier low-grade Dou Technique, Sky Eagle Wings.

After opening the scrolls and examining them, he found that the former was made from the wings of a third-tier Magical Beast, an azure bird, while the latter was made from the wings of a sixth-tier Magical Beast, a Storm Thunder Eagle.

To fuse with the former, one only needed to reach the Dou Zhe realm. It did not require particularly powerful Soul Power, and the so-called remnant soul of a third-tier Magical Beast could not pose much of a threat even to a One-star Dou Zhe.

The latter clearly stated upon opening that one had to be a Great Dou Master to cultivate it. Otherwise, there was a risk of being devoured by the remnant soul.

The former could be used safely in the early stages, while the latter was intended to replace it after one reached the Great Dou Master realm.

"I have to say, this senior truly treated whoever inherited his legacy well. He even accounted for the possible risk of being devoured by a remnant soul."

Su Luo remembered the danger Xiao Yan had faced in the original story when fusing with Eagle's Wing. Even with Xiao Yan's Soul Power, he had nearly been defeated by the remnant soul of the Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle within Eagle's Wing. That showed just how dangerous it was to fuse with Eagle's Wing. Yet despite such enormous risk, even after Xiao Yan used Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations to raise his cultivation to the Dou Huang realm and stacked both wings together, his speed was still inferior to Yun Shan's.

It could be said that it was highly dangerous in the early stages, yet somewhat inadequate in the later stages.

But one of these allowed him to use it without much risk in the early stages, while the other remained useful in the later stages. The two Dou Techniques compensated for each other's shortcomings.

In addition, Su Luo found an Earth-tier low-grade sonic Dou Technique, Tiger Roar Dragon Chant, in the Storage Ring. It was the superior version of Raging Lion's Roar. He also found something called the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra, though he did not know whether it was the superior version of the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

It could be said that, aside from the Nether Flame Demonic Fire Fragment Map that Ye Fan had failed to retrieve by cutting open his arm before his death, everything else had a superior replacement.

And it was not merely superior replacements for those three things. The cultivation techniques, Dou Techniques, pill formulas, and monster cores collected throughout a Sixth-grade Alchemist's lifetime—his entire inheritance—had all fallen into Su Luo's hands. This even included a Seventh-grade Pill that the senior had prepared for swallowing Heavenly Flames: the Ice Soul Heart Protection Pill.

Although it was only a low-grade Seventh-grade Pill, there was no doubt that its medicinal efficacy was far stronger than the Snow Lotus Pill, which was only at the peak of the fifth grade. It was even stronger than the Earth Spirit Pill Medicine Elder had refined.

After all, Medicine Elder's Alchemy Skill was indeed superior to that Ye Family alchemist who had refined this pill, but the difference in pill grade was right there.

"Not bad. A truly bountiful haul."