Harvest

Earth Essence Stone

High-Grade Dharma Artifact

After refinement, it slightly increased the absorption speed of earth spiritual power. It could store a portion of earth spiritual power within the stone, which could flow into the body when needed.

The most valuable thing on Xiang Pichi's person was naturally the Earth Essence Stone on his chest.

"A High-Grade Dharma Artifact! This feels great! What a pity Jiang Xiaobai is a wood cultivator and can't use it. Still, we can save it for Yang Fu and have him follow the path of earth cultivation."

Xiang Pichi's strength in the recent spell battle had been undeniably formidable.

His several earth-element spells had also opened Yang Genshuo's eyes, making him sigh that this was what a true cultivator was like.

The Embryonic Breath Stage was like children playing house.

You threw a fireball at me, and I shot an ice arrow back at you.

As Yang Genshuo watched Huzi pull out the spoils piece by piece, his eyes kept searching for a cultivation manual suited to his earth element.

Unfortunately, even after everything had been turned over, they did not find Xiang Pichi's Jade Slip containing the "Earth Sovereign Spiritual Art."

They had not even found many Spirit Stones.

But thinking about it, that made sense.

What sensible person would make a short trip out and deliberately bring their cultivation manual and Spirit Stones along?

They had definitely all been left at home!

Still, Huzi found some good things.

"Brother Shi, look! These four bottles of pills. They look like immortal pills!"

The little bottles were made of jade. Generally, such expensive materials were used to hold cultivators' pills, preventing spiritual power from dissipating.

Ten Essence-Nourishing Pills, five Spirit-Recovery Pills, three Bone-Strengthening Flesh-Regenerating Pills, and one Earth Essence Spirit-Replenishing Pill.

Essence-Nourishing Pills were First-Grade Pills used by Qi Refining Realm cultivators to increase cultivation speed.

Spirit-Recovery Pills were also First-Grade Pills. After consuming one, it could rapidly replenish spiritual power.

Bone-Strengthening Flesh-Regenerating Pills were First-Grade healing pills. Xiang Pichi had just taken one.

As for the final pill, Yang Genshuo could not help taking a deep breath of cola after reading its description.

"Burp~~~ There's even a Second-Grade Pill. This thing is valuable."

Second-Grade Pills generally cost around ten times as much as First-Grade Pills, starting at one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Usually, only cultivators at the Qi Refining Realm and above could afford them.

And the effects of this Earth Essence Spirit-Replenishing Pill were especially remarkable.

After consumption, it could slightly improve one's earth Spiritual Root aptitude. Only one could be used in a lifetime.

"It can actually improve Spiritual Root aptitude in a targeted manner. That's wonderful!"

Yang Fu's Spiritual Root aptitude had already been outstanding by nature. If it improved further, his cultivation speed would be unimaginable.

Seeing Yang Shi holding the four pill bottles and examining them from side to side with a puzzled look on his face,

Yang Genshuo manifested and told him their effects.

"Oh~ so that's how it is! Which pills does Ancestor need? We'll offer them to you during this year's sacrifice."

"Just leave me one Bone-Strengthening Flesh-Regenerating Pill."

The Essence-Nourishing Pills and Spirit-Recovery Pills were for cultivators, and he could not use them yet.

But he could keep one of the Bone-Strengthening Flesh-Regenerating Pills, which could rapidly treat external injuries, on hand. If he ever went out and stumbled upon great fortune, it might save his life.

Besides the Earth Essence Stone and the four bottles of pills, there was also a Dharma Artifact.

It was a pair of transparent gloves, thin as cicada wings, worn on Xiang Pichi's hands.

Ice Chi Gloves

Middle-Grade Dharma Artifact

Impervious to water and fire, capable of increasing the power of spells.

"Not bad either. At least it's versatile and doesn't pick its user. We can give it to Jiang Xiaobai."

Two Dharma Artifacts, four bottles of pills, ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and one shattered demonic artifact—that was everything Xiang Pichi had carried.

The total value was very high!

It was Yang Shi's first time seeing a High-Grade Dharma Artifact.

The Rogue Cultivator Market only had Middle-Grade Dharma Artifacts, and they started at fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

This High-Grade Dharma Artifact, the Earth Essence Stone, would cost at least two hundred Spirit Stones.

Anyone could use the Ice Chi Gloves, so Jiang Xiaobai tried them on.

"Wow~ the range my Spirit Rain Art and Universal Growth Art can affect has become so much larger. It feels like my strength has risen by an entire level."

Jiang Xiaobai was at the Embryonic Breath Sixth Layer, yet the spells she cast could rival those of an Embryonic Breath Seventh Layer cultivator.

"My Yang Family gladly accepts them all."

Yang Shi smiled faintly, feeling that he had not spent all those Spirit Stones for nothing.

"This person's corpse is so frightening. Husband is kind-hearted and can't bear to look at this. Little Flame, carry it farther away and burn it into ashes."

Jiang Xiaobai whistled, and the Flame Tiger went off to destroy the corpse and erase all traces.

"It's fortunate that we kindly took in Little Flame back then. It has helped us greatly. Good people receive good rewards," Yang Shi said with feeling.

The Black Ghosts: "!!!"

No, is that how you two understood "kind-hearted"?

What terrible people!

"Ancestor said this demonic artifact was made from human bones and devoured human souls. It is exceedingly cruel. Find a place to bury it. I hope those poor people can enter reincarnation."

After handling everything here, Yang Shi and Jiang Xiaobai rode the Spirit Horse and the little brain tiger back the way they had come.

Huzi and the Azure Wolf stayed behind to guard the place. Yang Shi also gave him several passively triggered formation stones that could be used without spiritual power.

Huzi gripped his whip and looked at the scattered Black Ghosts with a wicked smile.

"You! Right now! Immediately go weed the Spirit Fields! The slowest worker will be rewarded with a ten-pull draw! There's a chance it'll double into twenty pulls!"

The forty-one Black Ghosts jolted in alarm and hurriedly scrambled toward the Spirit Fields, which had been growing wild and rampant, to work.

Hashi stood beside Huzi and shouted with borrowed ferocity, "Show some spirit! Use the strength you use to tear apart beasts for pulling weeds! Brother Hu and I are watching you!"

Smack!

"Who said you didn't have to work?"

After taking a lash, Hashi shamefacedly joined the weed-pulling ranks.

On the soil atop the small hill behind them, where the fragments of the White Bone Disc had been buried, a wisp of black qi quietly drifted out and shot toward the direction opposite Bluestone County.

After Yang Shi returned to Bluestone County, he went straight to the tavern outside the Xiang Residence.

After Yang Genshuo used his one-hundred-and-fifty-meter field of vision to inspect part of the Xiang Residence, he found no information unfavorable to the Yang Family. The people inside seemed not to know where Xiang Pichi had gone.

But even if they knew Xiang Pichi had gone to Demonwind Forest, it would not matter.

Xiang Pichi had been the strongest person in the Xiang Residence. If even he had not come out alive, which of those Embryonic Breath Stage cultivators who farmed the land would dare go into Demonwind Forest to look for him?

Unless the Xiang Family sent other experts. But by then, Yang Genshuo naturally had ways to keep the Yang Family out of it.

Yang Shi looked at the Xiang Residence so close at hand, killing intent flickering in his eyes.

Xiang Pichi was dead. According to Ancestor's intelligence, the strongest cultivators inside were now merely at the Embryonic Breath Stage, and he still had more than ninety talismans of various kinds.

He could wipe out the Xiang Residence of Bluestone County right now!

After drinking down two pots of wine, Yang Shi reined in his killing intent and silently returned to Yang Family Manor.

The Xiang Residence in Bluestone County was not frightening. His true enemy was the Xiang Family of the Great Nai Dynasty—the Xiang Family that had a Foundation Establishment Realm elder in the Blackstone Sect.

He needed to continue enduring in silence until he possessed the absolute strength to overturn the Xiang Family completely.

But when he thought of that Foundation Establishment Realm elder, a little more confusion appeared in Yang Shi's eyes.

"Even killing Xiang Pichi at the Qi Refining First Layer exhausted all my strength. Even if I attain the Innate Grandmaster Realm, how could I deal with a Foundation Establishment Realm mighty figure?"

Hearing Yang Shi mutter to himself, Jiang Xiaobai came over to comfort him.

"Husband, there is no need to be troubled. Ancestor said Fu'er's talent is extremely high, and he will certainly achieve Foundation Establishment in the future. Then Fu'er and I will avenge our Yang Family together!"

"No!" Yang Shi shook his head, his gaze resolute. "The Yang Family's blood-deep vengeance must be avenged by me. Let Fu'er... cultivate immortality well. In the future, even if I am gone, he can continue leading the Yang Family and passing down its legacy."

"I won't allow you to say that! We are family, so naturally we must shoulder this together! How can we let Husband face it alone?"

"Xiao Bai, you needn't worry about me. Ancestor's cultivation is vast enough to reach heaven and earth. He will surely think of a way for me."

Yang Genshuo curled his lips. What good idea could I possibly have?

It's not like I can get you a Dongfeng Express and directly blow the entire Xiang Family to pieces with one strike, right?

That was not realistic.

But Yang Shi's lament also struck a chord with Yang Genshuo.

"Of all pursuits, all are low-grade; only cultivating immortality stands high. I am merely a mortal too—how am I supposed to step onto the path of immortality?"

After watching today's spell battle, Yang Genshuo wanted to cultivate immortality even more!

"The Great Dao is fifty; Heaven's evolution is forty-nine. The one that escapes is the variable."

"Mortals, too, have a sliver of hope to cultivate immortality. There are legendary heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can cause Spiritual Roots to be born!"

"Yang Shi, work hard! Find the immortal path for us!"

Just as Yang Shi and Jiang Xiaobai stood in the courtyard with their arms linked, wrapped in tender affection, a strange sound came from Yang Fu's room.

Smack!

"Ah!" Yang Fu's small voice rang out.

The husband and wife sprang to their feet in alarm and rushed together toward Yang Fu's room.