After Chen Qing vanished from the spot, he quickly found a secluded Pill Room.
With a backhand, he used true essence to return the stone door to its place. Only after confirming there was no one else nearby did he sit down cross-legged and lay out the spoils from this expedition one by one before him.
The first thing that caught his eye was the Profound Iron Heavy Shield that Gu Li had dropped.
The shield was roughly two feet square, forged entirely from cold iron mixed with Starfall Sand. Though the impact of the Exploding Pill had split several fine cracks across its surface and shattered nearly half its edges, its core remained intact.
"Good stuff." Chen Qing lightly tapped the shield's surface with his fingertips, a glimmer flashing through his eyes.
High-grade spirit treasures were already rare, and this heavy shield was an exceptional defensive treasure even among high-grade spirit treasures. If Gu Li had not relied on it to withstand the core impact of a Fifth-Turn Exploding Pill, there was no way he could have escaped Chen Qing's killing trap.
If he faced an encirclement in the future, or had to receive a powerful enemy's killing move head-on, this shield would be an excellent trump card for preserving his life.
Continuing his inventory, he found the pills among the belongings left behind by Bloodfang, Stone Pan, and the other two.
More than sixty Guiyuan Cui Zhen Pills.
Twenty Blood Tempering Pills.
Two Spirit Tempering Pills.
"Looks like these people had spent most of their resources on cultivation since entering the ruins. There wasn't much left."
Chen Qing put away all the pills.
They looked plentiful, but they were still far from enough to break through to Third-Turn Grandmaster. In the future, he would inevitably have to "take"