A moment later.
Fang Qing once again guided the White Jade Boat through the air and began inspecting Lu Qianfan and Zhou Mingjing's storage bags.
Recalling the battle just now, he could not help but sigh with emotion.
Lu Qianfan was, after all, a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator. Even if he had only recently advanced, with his many Second-Order Puppets, his combat strength should not have been weak at all—yet—
During their earlier fight, those Second-Order Puppets had been cut down one by one with a single stroke of his sword, as easily as chopping firewood.
And when Lu Qianfan, in despair, controlled a Flying Bird Puppet to flee for his life, it had been nowhere near as fast as sword escape.
Aside from his impressive puppet techniques, this man's own fighting ability had been mediocre. Within a few exchanges, Fang Qing had severed his head with one sword. He had died with absurd ease, nothing like a Foundation Establishment great cultivator renowned throughout the Lesser Vast Sea.
If it had been a Foundation Establishment Late Stage sword cultivator instead, Fang Qing might not have been able to kill him so easily—
"These Ancient Shu sword cultivators are truly formidable—"
Fang Qing first opened Zhou Mingjing's storage bag and immediately discovered quite a few spirit stones.
"As expected, the divination did not deceive me. Though a fortune scatters to the four winds, it returns again—most of these should be the spirit stones I paid for the Jade Radiance Branch—"
Besides that, there was the mid-grade Spirit Artifact Silver Mirror, along with some worthless magical artifacts and pills—and several jade slips and books.
"Hmm?"
Fang Qing found a spirit shell. After opening it, he saw several tiny insects circling around his own storage bag.
Thoughtful, he took out the jade