Yu Shixian had not misjudged the situation. News that Fang Qianyuan had killed Dongfang Zhi soon spread throughout the world, shocking the mighty figures of every faction.
Yet Fang Qianyuan, at the very center of the storm, sensed nothing unusual.
He led his subordinates in taking over Dongfang Zhi's legacy step by step, reaping enormous profits.
Unlike ordinary rogue cultivators, who killed for treasure but could recover little in their haste, Fang Qianyuan's plundering was more like conquering cities and seizing territory. Every treasure ore mine, treasury, collection, and tribute from subordinate factions connected to Dongfang Zhi was swallowed whole or devoured bit by bit, all swept into his possession.
In just a few days, Fang Qianyuan acquired no fewer than ten million spirit jade and assorted treasures, along with several precious prizes comparable to the Water-Splitting Sword and the spirit creature Mausoleum Fish he had obtained earlier.
The most valuable among them was a high-rank magic treasure called the Blood-Dissolving Dart.
It was a throwing knife containing the power of the laws of a deadly blood-dissolving poison. Once it wounded an enemy, the wound rapidly dissolved into pus-a vicious and formidable weapon.
The other spirit creatures were mostly venomous sea snakes, along with a pair of Gold-and-Silver Ring Snakes still being nurtured.
These spirit creatures were not powerful in themselves, but they could bear all manner of unusual laws of poison. Once raised into Earth Rank spirit creatures and infused with poison glands, they would possess considerable killing power.
Although Fang Qianyuan was not a Spirit Tamer who specialized in poison arts, he would not pass up spirit creatures with such tremendous potential for growth. He ordered his people to rear them carefully, planning to take them back to the sect when the time came.
Whether he turned them