What Does Leaving Three Hundred Spirit Stones Mean?

The storehouse was spacious and empty. Night Pearls were embedded in the walls to serve as light sources, allowing the pitch-black inner chamber to be seen clearly.

The floor was piled full of chests and crates, all kinds of items heaped up like mountains.

The quantity was astonishingly vast.

Lin Heng clicked his tongue.

To be honest, worldly stockpiles gave off the feeling of things that had been hoarded for ages, set aside and never quite used.

Fairy Cloud Peak also had a storehouse for goods, but Meng Yutong had managed it for a hundred years without saving up anything good.

Spirit Stones, pills, ironware—however much there was, that was how much would be squandered.

With a Master who did not know how to live within her means, they disciples naturally had to follow along and drink the northwest wind.

"There's still quite a lot of grain..."

Golden Horse City's prosperity far surpassed his expectations.

Lin Heng's thoughts turned rapidly. Grain and the like could be left alone. After cultivators abstained from grains, they practically did not need to take in energy through food.

"This table's material isn't bad." He reached out and touched the desk, which had a rich jade-like feel.

After that, the thing embedded in the center of the desk drew his attention.

What was this?

A stone?

Lin Heng's mind stirred. He spread the five fingers of his right hand and pressed them onto the desk. His True Yuan circulated, and a suction force came through.

Rumble—

A jet-black stone the size of a millstone was sucked out.

Lin Heng carefully observed the black stone in his hand.

"This thing seems to be ore. Its quality is completely different from ordinary ore."

"Hmm? It's losing color?"

Lin Heng could not help letting out a sound of surprise. The black impurities on the stone's surface began to peel away naturally, revealing the bright silver color inside, like a pool of spring water.

Water Spirit Mother!

The purest water-attribute spiritual object in the Cultivation World, existing only in abyssal waters.

With the Heavenly Chart and System Space assisting him, Lin Heng could naturally recognize this thing.

"The City Lord's Mansion is simply recklessly wasting heavenly treasures. Embedding Water Spirit Mother into a table as decoration—what a talent!"

He murmured.

Water Spirit Mother was the essence of ten thousand waters gathering together. It contained powerful vitality and energy, could nourish the physical body, promote cultivation speed for related attributes, and even had a trace of ability to improve aptitude.

If this thing were placed in an Auction, at the very least, it could serve as a semi-finale item.

"There are four forbidden lands in the Cultivation World. I'm afraid only the Long Nether River could be used to search for this thing."

"Forget it, don't worry about where it came from... take it first."

Right now, he had to seize the time. If things went badly, after Yun Yao woke up, she might follow the vine to find the melon and trace her way here.

If Yun Yao saw these treasures, wouldn't they all be snatched away?

Furthermore, the people from the Justice Bureau were still patrolling nearby. If they discovered the corpses lying outside, he would inevitably have to kill some more people.

Aside from the best Water Spirit Mother in the first Granary, he also found a piece of Starfall Stone weighing around ten catties.

As its name suggested, Starfall Stone was a product formed through rapid collapse during a comet's collision. It was a top-grade material for forging weapons.

In the second Granary, it was almost entirely filled with grain. Only a few empty treasure chests had any value for use.

Seeing that there was nothing valuable, Lin Heng simply pried down the Night Pearls on the walls.

This Mystery Box gave him the feeling that he had taken a loss.

In the third Granary, the moment the storehouse door opened, what met him head-on was boundlessly majestic spiritual energy.

Lin Heng was overjoyed.

"Holy shit! I'm rich! A whole storehouse of Spirit Coins!?"

The Spirit Coins in this warehouse were even more exaggerated than in the second one, densely packed everywhere, all strung together with cord.

By conservative estimate, the number of Spirit Coins here exceeded a million.

According to the exchange ratio of ten to one for Spirit Stones, that was one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

What kind of concept was one hundred thousand Spirit Stones? The Green Pavilion Sect only distributed around 500 to 1,000 Spirit Stones to its disciples each month.

As an Elder, Meng Yutong's salary only fluctuated around three thousand Spirit Stones.

One hundred thousand Spirit Stones would be enough for him to save up for several hundred years without eating or drinking.

Lin Heng's eyes shone, the greed in them clear as day.

Cultivation was fine, the mundane world was fine, but money was the most important thing.

Golden Horse City had saved up its family coffers for several years and already had this much wealth. No wonder the Dynasty was so willing to maintain stability in the mortal world.

Lin Heng carefully stored all the Spirit Coins into the System Space, then continued to investigate the remaining items.

At the innermost part of the warehouse, a weapon and a suit of armor were placed separately.

The armor was grayish-brown, clearly covered in dust for a long time.

Lin Heng casually picked up the armor and gently stroked it.

Dragons and phoenixes were carved across the surface of the armor. Faintly, it gave off a savage and tyrannical air, as if wearing it would allow one to conquer the world.

This armor was a top-tier magic artifact-grade armor.

"The City Lord's Mansion hid so many treasures and didn't use them. Leaving them here to gather dust is such a waste." Lin Heng spoke in a low voice, yet his eyes were fixed on the other two things.

A fist-sized black pearl and a stalk of emerald-green spiritual herb.

The black pearl was pitch-black, its surface smooth, suffused with dense Black Mist, as if it could devour the human heart.

The black pearl contained powerful fluctuations of spiritual energy, yet after being placed into the System Space, not a single descriptive prompt appeared.

That was a little strange.

Even the system could not identify this thing?

After thinking it over, he still left it in the System Space to study later.

As for that emerald-green spiritual herb, it was a rarely seen spiritual plant: Blood Ganoderma.

This spiritual herb grew in extremely rare underground locations. Its growth cycle was very long, and each year it only produced a thumb-sized Blood Ganoderma Fruit.

This spiritual plant was also an extremely scarce item on the market. It could be harvested nine times a year, and each harvest only produced one fruit.

Blood Ganoderma Fruit contained powerful life force. Even the weakest person who ate it could strengthen their physique and become lively and kicking.

"Good stuff. Whether Blood Ganoderma is used to refine pills or planted and cultivated, it's a pretty good choice."

Lin Heng was deeply tempted.

This trip to Golden Horse City was truly worth it.

Not only had he freeloaded off Senior Sister Yun Yao, he had also gained so many treasures.

On the other side, at the inn.

Yun Yao slowly opened her beautiful eyes. Only after a long while did she feel waves of pain coming from her body.

She propped herself up with both arms and looked around. Sparse, scattered clothing lay everywhere.

Her fragrant shoulders were bare. Her body, which had originally been flawless as pink clouds, had somehow been coated with a layer of dirty dust.

"...This... cough, cough!"

Her voice cut off abruptly, followed by coughing, and then a bout of dry retching.

Aside from being somewhat sore, why did her throat also have a strange taste?

Suddenly, a terrifying thought surged into her mind.

"Don't tell me... don't tell me I even did that for him..."

Her head buzzed, and her cheeks turned so red they seemed about to drip.

She took a few deep breaths, doing her utmost to steady her state of mind.

After another long while, Yun Yao took a new set of clothes out of her storage ring.

It was still that familiar fiery-red long dress.

Red, like fire.

Either unyielding or fierce.

Yun Yao stood before the mirror and combed her hair into order. The bite marks on her snow-white neck could not be covered even with powder.

Suddenly, she caught sight of something on the table that seemed to be glowing. When she approached and looked, she discovered that a pile of bright, gleaming Spirit Stones had been placed there.

After counting carefully, there were a full three hundred.

Left by Lin Heng?

Wait!

Something was wrong!

It was one thing for him to wear a mask out of a guilty thief's conscience.

It was one thing for him to pull up his pants and run off afterward.

What did leaving Spirit Stones mean?

Yun Yao's brows knitted. She suddenly remembered that back at the hotel in South City, Lin Heng had wanted to sell her to the young master of the City Lord's Mansion for three thousand Spirit Coins.

In the end, in a fit of rage, she had slapped that person to death.

Three hundred Spirit Stones, converted into Spirit Coins, was exactly three thousand, wasn't it!

Don't tell me...

"Ah! Lin Heng!!!"

Yun Yao reacted, so angry that she crushed the Spirit Stones in her hand with one slap.

So that was what this meant. He was treating her as a performer sold in the Flower Pavilion.

Running off after pulling up his pants, without leaving a single word, was already clearly the meaning of taking no responsibility. In the end, he had even treated her like a flower maiden from the Flower Pavilion.

Yun Yao took a deep breath, and her tightly clenched fists slowly loosened. "It's fine, it's fine. As the Senior Sister, I have to be a little magnanimous. If Junior Brother makes a mistake, a slight punishment will do."

"A coward with a guilty thief's conscience. Isn't he afraid of having his legs broken? Since that's the case, I'll just confiscate the tool used to commit the crime."

She used the gentlest voice to say the most vicious words.

She remembered that before Lin Heng left, he had muttered that he would make a trip to the Money House.

If Lin Heng had done it openly and aboveboard, then so be it, but he should not have put on a hood to impersonate Ye Tian, and even more so should not have had the idea of treating her as a flower maiden to be whored.

Anger was anger, but in the end, she still put away the remaining Spirit Stones.

In reality, these three hundred Spirit Stones had all been taken from Jiang Caiyan.

Lin Heng's original intention was to leave some Spirit Stones for her so she could properly replenish her qi and blood and recover her strength.

In the end, Yun Yao's wild thoughts strung together what had happened before.

If Lin Heng knew that he had botched things by trying to be clever, he simply would not have done this unnecessary extra step.