"Coincidence"

[Seeing how practiced he was at it, this clearly was not his first time. From this small glimpse of the whole, the fact that he had cultivated all the way to the True Immortal Realm must have come through slaughtering the weak like this.

If someone like him were allowed to keep growing stronger, living beings would continually be lured into his schemes and hunted down, until someone who could no longer stand the sight of him killed him...]

[In the 7,961st year, you returned to your temporary residence beneath the sea and opened the Gray-robed Man's Storage Ring. After investigating it, you gained a clear picture of your spoils.]

[There were a great many Immortal Treasures within, though they were rather mixed in quality. Most were low-grade or mid-grade Immortal Treasures. There were also quite a few women's bellybands and other intimate articles, which clearly had not originally belonged to the Gray-robed Man, but had been taken from other weaker living beings.

Although low-grade and mid-grade immortal items were not particularly valuable, the sheer quantity made them worth no small sum. Later, you could find a Black Market and slowly dispose of them, exchanging them for Immortal Jade to purchase what you needed.]

[As for high-grade Immortal Treasures, there were some as well. Among them were two one-ring Heaven-Piercing Immortal Treasures: one was a Crescent Moon Arc-shaped artifact, while the other was a one-ring Dao Amulet inscribed with the "Bloodlight Earth-Walking Technique" (a Heaven-Piercing Immortal Grade Amulet).

The amulet he had failed to use for escape was clearly because the strength you had displayed while merely testing your hand had made him believe he still had a chance to flee, so he had wanted to save the treasure. By the time you truly struck, however, he no longer had