As a seasoned old hand in cultivation, Aaron was especially skilled at looting corpses.
He first picked up the ownerless Golden Snake Hook and brocade handkerchief from the ground, unable to resist turning them over in his hands.
The Golden Snake Hook gleamed brilliantly, its surface covered in countless fine snake scales, making it look like a little golden snake.
The brocade handkerchief, meanwhile, carried the scent of a woman's face powder. It did not seem like the magical artifact of a male cultivator.
"If it is, that means Shen Xuexing is a sissy..."
"If it isn't, that means he has a sweetheart..."
Aaron searched Shen Xuexing some more and found an artifact pouch.
This artifact pouch was used by cultivators to store items. It was like a storage bag, but was comparatively precious in this world.
Aaron knew that even Golden Daoist did not possess one of these.
The artifact pouch resembled a brocade sachet, its opening tied shut with a loop of golden cord. Aaron sent in a thread of true qi, only for it to vanish like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
He immediately understood that his cultivation was insufficient. He would need some time to slowly grind away Shen Xuexing's mana imprint and make it his own.
"Golden Daoist's Daoist scripture is hidden in his bedroom... beneath the bed."
Aaron strode into Golden Daoist's bedroom as though no one else existed. Lifting the bed, he found a Daoist scripture beneath it.
However, the scripture was written in a bird-seal script shaped like bird claws, which Aaron could not read.
He did not mind. He carefully put it away, intending to seek out related writings and learn them later.
After all, Daoist scriptures being written in dragon patterns and phoenix seals, Daoist cloud script, gold-and-silver