The Blood Sea Divine Cult's Gift

Tap! Tap!

Jiang Chuan stepped through the door, reaching for the switch as he scanned the living room.

The next second, Jiang Chuan's pupils abruptly contracted.

Not good!

Because he saw a pitch-black figure in his living room.

Click!

As Jiang Chuan prepared for a confrontation, he pressed the switch.

As the lights came on, Jiang Chuan saw the black figure clearly.

The pitch-black figure was, shockingly, a suit of Dark Silver Armor.

The Dark Silver Armor seemed to have been tempered from Silver Water mixed with obsidian. Under the lights, it gave off a dim gleam.

Jiang Chuan looked at the English letter B on the armor's chest, delight filling his eyes.

"It's actually B-grade Alloy Battle Armor!"

With immortal light descending upon the world, it was not only flowers, grass, trees, and beasts that had been affected by Transcendent Factors, gradually transforming toward demonic beasts.

Certain ores had also been affected by Transcendent Factors and undergone mutations.

To better combat demonic beasts, the Great Xia authorities had used all kinds of mutated ores to forge various suits of battle armor.

Even the lowest-grade D-grade Alloy Battle Armor could withstand a grenade fired from a 30-millimeter grenade launcher without deforming.

Naturally, a suit of alloy battle armor like that came at an exorbitant price.

A set of D-grade Alloy Battle Armor cost at least three million Great Xia Coins.

A set of C-grade Alloy Battle Armor cost as much as ten million Great Xia Coins.

There was no need to mention B-grade Alloy Battle Armor. Its official price was directly set at thirty million Great Xia Coins.

And not just anyone was qualified to buy it!

"I've struck it rich! I've really struck it rich this time!"

Just as Jiang Chuan was about to walk toward the armor, he suddenly remembered that he was still inside a Blood Sea Divine Cult stronghold.

He clenched his fists and headed for the master bedroom beside the living room.

After turning on the bedroom light, Jiang Chuan looked over the empty master bedroom, then headed toward the guest room.

The moment he arrived outside the guest room, Jiang Chuan saw a figure sitting cross-legged on the bed.

He switched on the guest room light and swept his gaze over the Bald Man, who sat peacefully cross-legged and had already stopped breathing. Then his attention settled on the two boxes on the table, one large and one small.

The larger box resembled a rectangular instrument case. When Jiang Chuan opened it, he found a coldly gleaming longsword and five threaded steel poles.

"A sword? No, this is a shuo!"

Jiang Chuan immediately recognized the weapon in the box.

In appearance, a shuo resembled a longsword attached to a spear shaft.

A shuo could thrust like a spear or pike, and it could also chop and slash like a saber or sword.

Once this great shuo is assembled, it will be nearly three meters long, Jiang Chuan thought to himself.

Demonic beasts had one defining trait: the stronger they were, the larger their bodies.

Any wolf demon that had evolved into a demonic beast was at least three meters long.

Taking a dagger into battle against a wolf demon, never mind whether it could pierce the wolf demon's hide—even if it did, such a tiny wound would be no different from scraping an itch.

As a result, cold weapons in this era were all exceptionally enormous!

Sabers and swords were almost two meters long, while spears and pikes over three meters long were everywhere.

There were even many cultivators who wielded weapons five or six meters long when facing demonic beasts.

Jiang Chuan closed the wooden box and picked up the other, smaller wooden box from the table.

The square wooden box looked only palm-sized, but when Jiang Chuan picked it up, only one thought remained in his mind.

Heavy!

So heavy!

His strength had already surpassed a thousand jin, and after Skin Tempering, it had increased by at least another fold.

"What exactly is inside this thing?!"

Filled with curiosity, Jiang Chuan opened the wooden box.

A gleaming golden sphere appeared before his eyes.

The sphere looked like a lump of gold, but Jiang Chuan was certain that it definitely was not gold!

"A pill? No, this sphere weighs at least fifteen hundred jin, if not two thousand. Even a fourth-realm cultivator would have their stomach and spleen smashed through if they swallowed this pill."

Jiang Chuan pondered, Could this be a spiritual material born when immortal light fell upon the earth, something that can be used to refine magical artifacts? That doesn't seem right either. People online said spiritual materials all gleam with precious light, but this sphere isn't giving off any such glow.

Unable to figure out what the golden sphere was, Jiang Chuan decided to stop thinking about it.

He set down the wooden box, walked over to the Bald Man, and began looting the corpse.

A moment later, Jiang Chuan pulled out a phone and a yellowed book.

"Kui Niu Divine Spear?"

Excitement appeared in Jiang Chuan's eyes. "Could this be a spear technique created by the Divine Beast Kui Niu?!"

In myth and legend, Kui Niu was known as the beast of the Thunder God. Whenever it appeared, wind and rain accompanied it, with ten thousand bolts of lightning in its wake!

When Jiang Chuan opened to the first page, he saw a line of text.

This spear technique was created by the Divine Beast Kui Niu. It must be used together with the "Thunder Sound Profound Art" to unleash its greatest power.

"It really was created by the Divine Beast Kui Niu!"

Jiang Chuan quickly flipped through it. The Kui Niu Divine Spear was very thin, with only a dozen or so pages, and Jiang Chuan soon finished reading it.

"It was actually incomplete, with only twelve spear forms recorded."

Jiang Chuan was somewhat disappointed, but he also knew that a spear technique created by the Divine Beast Kui Niu had to be extraordinarily precious.

If the true Divine Beast Kui Niu wielded it, a single thrust of its spear would likely bring down lightning from the heavens and annihilate its enemies.

The Bald Man had not even reached the fourth realm. No matter how rich and powerful the Blood Sea Divine Cult was, it could not possibly teach such a divine art to a cultivator who had not even reached the fourth realm.

"Thank you for your gift. I will use your gift to destroy the Blood Sea Div—"

Bzz! Bzz! Bzz!

The vibration of the phone interrupted Jiang Chuan.

He saw the Bald Man's phone suddenly light up.

Someone with a sunrise profile picture had sent the Bald Man a message.

Is the job done?

"This profile picture... Aunt Lu!"

Jiang Chuan raised the phone and aimed it at the Bald Man's face.

The phone unlocked, and Jiang Chuan hurriedly checked it.

Jiang Chuan wanted to look through the chat history, only to discover that the Bald Man had long since deleted it.

After pondering for a moment, he replied with three words.

It's done.

Lu Ping: Keep his body safe. The new headquarters beneath my shop should be finished being renovated on the third of next month.

Lu Ping: Bring his body to the new headquarters then. I will offer him and the other sacrifices to Lord Blood Sea Demonic Immortal together.

Lu Ping: Great Xia wants to wipe out our Blood Sea Divine Cult. This time, we will definitely make Great Xia pay a bloody price!

Lu Ping: The Nandu military and Public Security Bureau have also gathered quite a few cultivators from major universities recently. Don't go out unless necessary, and don't contact me.

"Beneath her shop? The Grassland Hotpot Restaurant!"

Combining this with what he knew of Lu Ping from the other world, Jiang Chuan immediately figured out where the Blood Sea Divine Cult's new Nandu headquarters was located.

After replying with the two words "Got it," a chilling light flashed in Jiang Chuan's eyes.

"This is a perfect opportunity to wipe out the Blood Sea Divine Cult's Nandu branch in one stroke!"

But then Jiang Chuan found himself in a difficult position. With my current strength, dealing with a Blood Sea Divine Cult Follower is as easy as taking something out of my pocket. But the Blood Sea Divine Cult's elders and Branch Cult Master must be fourth- or even fifth-realm cultivators. I'm no match for them at all.

Jiang Chuan instinctively moved to take out his phone and report this to the Public Security Bureau.

But just as he was about to make the call, he stopped.

Although he had killed the Bald Man in self-defense, it still involved a cult follower.

Moreover, the B-grade Alloy Battle Armor, the great shuo, the Kui Niu Divine Spear, and the unknown golden sphere had most likely been obtained by the Bald Man and the Blood Sea Divine Cult through illegal means.

Once he reported it to the Public Security Bureau, how they would be distributed would be entirely up to the Public Security Bureau.

In the end, he might receive nothing more than a reward issued by the Public Security Bureau.