After Qin Ming left.

Four figures of black-robed cultivators landed at the place where Qin Ming and another had just been fighting.

"Damn it, someone beat us to it!"

"That kid was a fat target, we barely managed to get him seriously injured."

"Should we give chase?"

"No time, Spirit Feather Sect's pursuers are almost here, let's run first."

"Damn it! Don't let me find out who snatched my kill!"

As the four were discussing.

Not far away, a Dharma Ship of the Spirit Feather Sect was rapidly approaching this way.

"Not good! Let's go!"

An elder on the Dharma Ship from Spirit Feather Sect frowned as he watched the four fleeing. As he got closer and saw the corpse burned to ashes on the ground, he was shocked.

He immediately abandoned the ship and flew in the direction of the four.

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It took a detour of more than an hour.

Qin Ming took a winding route and sneaked back to Qingyang Market.

Returning to the Cool Small Residence, his anxious heart gradually relaxed.

Whoosh~

Qin Ming exhaled heavily.

Yet, a hint of excitement lingered on his face.

He had finally slain that bastard Jiang Kun, bringing much peace henceforth.

He entered the Quiet Chamber.

And began to tally up his gains.

From Jiang Kun's storage pouch, the item that excited him most was that Top-Grade Dharma Sword.

Qin Ming held it in his hand and toyed with it for a while, then easily erased the mana imprint Jiang Kun had left on the sword thanks to his powerful spiritual sense.

This Top-Grade Dharma Sword was called 'Cyan Nether Sword'.

After refining it, it completely became Qin Ming's own possession.

However, when Qin Ming tried to wield it with mana, he found out that the required mana was astonishingly high.

Even with his Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, boasting twice the mana of his peers, he could only barely maintain it for less than half an incense stick's worth of time.

He needed at least the late-stage Qi Cultivation level to freely use this sword as he wished.

In the storage pouch, along with this sword, there was a set of top-tier sword technique, 'Cyan Nether Sword Technique', which had six layers, suitable for cultivation all the way to late-stage Foundation Establishment.

The first three layers correspond to Qi Cultivation, and the latter three to Foundation Establishment.

After all, Qin Ming had experienced this sword technique firsthand and knew its power well.

Just one strike of Cyan Nether Sword Qi could pierce his glazed treasure robe and strong physique.

He put away the Cyan Nether Sword and sword technique, then continued to inspect Jiang Kun's storage pouch.

There were fifty Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, and more than three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

All in all, it amounted to over eight thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

What surprised him the most was a Tier-Breaking Pill for late-stage Qi Cultivation, the 'Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill', the same one Jiang Kun had intended to use to win him over at Mingzhen Tower.

It ended up back in his hands.

Besides, there were some healing and detoxifying pills, as well as pills to enhance mana, left, along with some spiritual materials and talismans.

At the bottom of the storage pouch quietly lay a golden talisman, its spiritual energy having faded and became dim.

Qin Ming took it out for a closer look, breaking into a cold sweat!

"It's actually a talisman treasure!"

Talisman treasures are crafted by Foundation Establishment or higher cultivators, reusable and capable of releasing spells with power equivalent to a full-strength Foundation Establishment strike.

However, examining this talisman treasure, its spirituality was lost, clearly used several times by Jiang Kun, rendering it useless.

Qin Ming was deeply relieved, thinking how during those thug's pursuit, Jiang Kun had exhausted this talisman treasure.

Otherwise, the outcome might have been different.

He realized a great risk in murdering and looting, a risky venture indeed.

It's better to peacefully cultivate the fields.

But if it weren't for Jiang Kun being gravely injured, Qin Ming would not have rashly acted.

Such opportunities are rare; who knows when the next one might come?

Overall, it was quite fruitful.

In Qingyang Market, Qin Ming did not dare blatantly use Jiang Kun's items, waiting to do so when his strength increased and he could leave Spirit Feather Sect.

Alternatively, he could discreetly deal them in the black market if possible.

Qin Ming packed up his items.

Clearing distractions, he took pills in the Quiet Chamber and entered a state of cultivation.

The next day.

Qin Ming woke up early.

After a night's cultivation, he was full of essence, qi, and spirit.

He first walked to a corner of the courtyard to check the Withered Blood Poison Vine.

Over so much time, the three purple demon flowers still showed no change.

[Name] Withered Blood Poison Vine [Entry]: Leaf of Space-Time X5 (Maturity 1%)

Qin Ming then took out the Blood Pearl left from Jiang Kun's death and tossed it over.

In no time, the black vine wrapped around it like a starving wolf, absorbing and digesting its essence.

The black vine visibly grew thicker.

Gradually.

The three purple blossoming flower buds began to slightly unfold.

Qin Ming continued observing closely and discovered a slight change in the entry.

[Name] Withered Blood Poison Vine [Entry]: Leaf of Space-Time X5 (Maturity 15%)

Absorbing this Blood Pearl evidently increased the purple demon flower's maturity quite a bit.

"Indeed, essence blood and souls of Qi Cultivation Perfection cultivators promote faster growth."

Qin Ming pondered for a moment.

Then he took out the nest of Four-winged Frost Bees from his Spirit Beast Bag and hung the entire hive on the black vine.

When the flowers bloom, these spirit bees will pollinate the purple demon flower.

After doing all this.

Qin Ming left for his Spirit Field.

He hadn't checked on the Spirit Field for a few days and was a bit concerned.

Arriving at the Spirit Field, looking at the thriving Spirit Plants, Qin Ming resembled a farmer, a smile curling at his lips.

Three acres of Golden Spirit Rice had grown to half height, lushly green.

Two golden shimmering entries caught his eye:

[Name]: Golden Spirit Rice [Entry]: Weak Dharma Power (Maturity 48%)

[Name]: Golden Spirit Rice [Entry]: Quality Enhancement (Maturity 43%)

After tending to the Golden Spirit Rice field, Qin Ming walked toward the three-acre Beast Fang Rice field, where the Spirit Rice Ears were abundantly fruitful.

Just waiting for harvest at the year's end.

In the two-acre Spirit Medicine Field.

Twelve Demon Flame Grasses and eleven Seven-leaf Yellow Lings were also growing robustly.

Because this field had Beast Fang Rice and High-Tier Spirit Plants planted.

Du Haifu, Spirit Field Overseer of Spirit Feather Sect, and Steward Hall's Spirit Plant Record Officer would frequently patrol with others here.

As long as it's not bandits of the level attacking Elder Zhuang's Spirit Feather Sect medicine garden, the Spirit Field is quite safe.

Qin Ming performed the High-Level Spirit Rain Technique for half the day in the Spirit Field.

All Spirit Plants received Spiritual Rain, enhancing their growth.

Even the three-acre Beast Fang Rice showed a trend toward higher quality improvement.

All this, despite never once using the [Quality Enhancement] entry.

"No way? Top-Grade Beast Fang Rice?"

After a whole day of toil in the field, Qin Ming returned to Qingyang Market.

At 5:15 p.m.

Qin Ming cooked a pot of Top-Grade Blood Locust Rice and ate it, then entered his routine cultivation state.

Currently, in cultivating the 'Hundred Treasures Glaze Scripture', he was just a step away from reaching the 7th Layer.

However, he still needed to gather a lot of Qi Blood.

Two days later.

News of the ruthless rogue group's strong-armed robbery of Spirit Feather Sect's medicine garden quickly spread.

After all.

Many loose cultivators witnessed it firsthand.

No matter how big the paper, you can't wrap a fire.

The result was that even Spirit Feather Sect couldn't capture those five cultivators.

It's said they deployed two Foundation Establishment elders, yet couldn't defeat the black-robed cultivator wearing a Buddha Mask.

The black-robed cultivator practiced mysterious and sinister techniques.

Elder Jiangg Minshan of the Punishment Hall almost perished, being heavily injured.

Elder Zhuang Xiran was slightly less wounded.

The cultivators in Qingyang Market suddenly realized!

"Whoa! So deceptive! Those bastards from Golden Cloud Valley, expecting us to take the head of an Evil Star that two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators combined couldn't defeat, just for one Foundation Establishment Pill as a reward."

"Why don't they go themselves?"

"Heh, spu～"

"Despicable, those sects are detestable."

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