"Master!"
Shao Li called out,
"Why are you back so soon?"
When Cheng Xinzhan returned to the retreat, he found the two young attendants still packing.
Cheng Xinzhan smiled and said,
"I met a foolish one today, but you must never let your guard down when you go out."
"We know!"
Li answered brightly.
Cheng Xinzhan stroked the young attendant's head and returned to his meditation chamber. He sat on the couch and began taking stock of Monk Weeping Wind's Cave Stone and the things he had brought back from the Withered-Longevity Chan Monastery.
He sorted commonly used cultivation supplies such as jade, Gold Essence, minerals, medicinal herbs, and talisman paper by category and grade, then stored them in the Cave Stone.
One could never have too many such things. Even the lower-grade ones could be bestowed upon young attendants, disciples, and juniors; all would find a use for them. He specifically picked out some Spirit Objects of the Jin, fire, wind, and earth attributes, summoned Li and White Dragon, and handed the items to them.
Demonic treasures, evil scriptures, inferior pills, and the like were bundled up to take back to the sect. Whether to sift out the chaff and salvage what was useful or burn and destroy them as furnace fuel was entirely for the sect to decide.
What truly interested Cheng Xinzhan were the Gang, baleful intents, and scriptures. These were also the only things on the Demon Fiend that he considered worth a look.
As expected, just as with Monk Han Shi, he found no trace of any known Heavenly Gang among Monk Weeping Wind's treasures. Such Spirit Objects were simply too difficult to find.
Many of his demonic treasures, however, bore traces of refinement with True Baleful Intent, all originating from the same wind baleful