Seeking Immortals! Encountering the Black Fiend Cult! First Magic Battle!

He carefully put away the Talisman Treasure, then picked up the unremarkable pouch.

This was a Storage Bag.

He extended his spiritual sense into it; the space was small, only about one or two cubic meters.

Inside were piles of gold, silver, and jewels—enough to make one the richest in the mortal world, but to Han Feng now, they were no different from a pile of rocks.

Besides these, there were seven crystals emitting faint spiritual energy.

Spirit Stones!

The hard currency of the Immortal Cultivation World.

Unfortunately, they were just seven Low-grade Spirit Stones, and the spiritual energy within was impure, of quite poor quality.

A broke loser.

Han Feng silently labeled Venerable Golden Light as such.

In the corner of the Storage Bag, there were also two books.

One was the Qin Family Genealogy; he flipped through it casually and tossed it aside.

The other was a Cultivation Technique.

Gold Melting Art.

A basic Gold-Attribute Cultivation Technique.

The technique spanned from the first to the thirteenth layer—surprisingly, it was a complete basic technique.

Han Feng pondered for a moment.

He currently had a single Wood-Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root. If he added a Gold Spiritual Root, cultivating this technique wouldn't be impossible.

But doing so would downgrade him from a one-in-ten-thousand Heavenly Spiritual Root to a slightly inferior Dual Spiritual Root.

For such a basic technique, it wasn't worth it.

Besides, based on his memory of the original story, common techniques like the Evergreen Skill were sold in the cultivator Market for as little as two Low-grade Spirit Stones for the complete version, and they were everywhere.

There was no need to abandon the essential for the trivial.

He turned his gaze to the surviving Young Woman.

She was huddled in the corner, trembling as she looked at him, her eyes full of fear.

Han Feng grabbed a handful of Gold Ingots from the Storage Bag and tossed them casually in front of her.

"Take this gold, leave this place, and find somewhere to make a decent living!"

The woman was momentarily dazzled by the gleaming Gold Ingots, then suddenly looked up, as if she had made some kind of decision.

"Immortal Master! Please wait!"

She scrambled over to Han Feng, "I know... I know a hidden treasure spot of Venerable Golden Light!"

"Oh?"

Han Feng grew interested.

The woman dared not hide anything and told him everything she knew.

It turned out that Venerable Golden Light had recently buried a chest in the Back Mountain.

He planned to leave the Golden Light Temple after some time.

This woman and the one who had been killed earlier were both mortal women he had abducted from the mortal world to serve as maids.

Given his nature, once he grew tired of them, these two mortal women who knew the secret of his hidden treasure would surely be silenced.

For Venerable Golden Light to possess an Ascension Token, it meant his ancestors must have produced powerful cultivators.

Perhaps he had even left behind some extraordinary treasures!

A flicker of anticipation stirred in Han Feng's heart.

Guided by the woman, he soon arrived at a secluded slope behind the Golden Light Temple.

Without wasting words, Han Feng willed it, and the Seven Profound Sword shot out, spinning rapidly toward the ground the woman had pointed at.

Dirt flew everywhere.

In just a moment, a pit three to four meters deep had formed.

"Clink!"

A crisp sound rang out as the Flying Sword struck something hard.

Han Feng swept his Magic Power, and an ancient Wooden Chest flew out from the bottom of the pit, landing at his feet.

The chest was about three feet long, made of some unknown wood, heavy in hand, with intricate patterns carved on its surface.

He tried to push open the lid.

It didn't budge.

A faint, barely perceptible shimmer of Spiritual Energy flowed over the chest, forming a barrier.

Han Feng tried using his Internal Force, his Magic Power, and even slashing with the Seven Profound Sword, but the wooden chest showed no reaction at all.

No wonder Venerable Golden Light had buried it underground.

He must have exhausted every method and still couldn't open the chest, so he had no choice but to hide it away.

It seemed he would need to find an opportunity to learn some Forbidden Arts in the future.

Otherwise, staring at a treasure mountain and leaving empty-handed would be far too frustrating.

He stored the wooden chest in his Storage Bag, turned to the woman, and said, "You may leave."

"Young Master..."

The woman named Xiao Yu suddenly dropped to her knees, her eyes carrying a mix of pleading and shyness.

"I have nowhere to go. Please take me in, Young Master! I... I still have my Chaste Body."

Han Feng paused mid-step.

He looked at the tear-streaked woman before him, his expression utterly unmoved.

"Find an ordinary mortal and marry him."

"I am pursuing the Great Dao of Longevity. The road ahead is long and fraught with danger. I cannot take you with me."

His words were calm, yet carried an unyielding finality.

If he were to seek a woman, it would be a female cultivator who could walk the same path and explore the immortal way together.

An ordinary mortal would be nothing but a handful of dust a hundred years from now—ultimately, they were not of the same road.

With that, Han Feng did not linger. His form flickered as he activated the Wind Control Art, speeding away toward the mountains and vanishing from Xiao Yu's sight in an instant.

Leaving the Wild Mountains, Han Feng returned to Jingzhou's territory, hired a horse-drawn carriage, and headed north toward Lanzhou.

Lanzhou was broader and more prosperous than Jingzhou.

According to Han Feng's memories, this region was under the domain of Spirit Beast Mountain, one of Yue Country's seven major immortal cultivation sects.

His goal was clear.

Find the Market of Spirit Beast Mountain.

Once he entered a cultivator's Market, he could easily spend spirit stones to buy the subsequent chapters of the Evergreen Skill's Cultivation Technique.

By then, the Attribute Points he had accumulated could all be converted into solid cultivation progress.