Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

For cultivators, demon beasts are treasures all over.

Especially the Golden-winged Eagle before him.

Their wings can be used as materials to create magical treasures, their flesh can be refined into elixirs, and most importantly, they have demon cores.

The value of a mid-grade second-order demon core is beyond words.

Scanning the battlefield, Yang Zhenshan’s thoughts stirred, his figure flickering repeatedly as he didn’t entangle with these demon birds but went scavenging.

The explosion of the Thunder Pool from the Heaven and Earth Great Array had incidentally injured many demon birds, and there were many demon bird corpses in the city.

Others aside, but all these demon bird corpses were ownerless, if not to pick them now, then when?

Yang Zhenshan’s figure then kept appearing around the city, each time he took away a corpse, whether of demon birds or mutant beasts.

However, he didn’t greedily take all the demon bird corpses; after collecting the corpses of twelve demon birds, he stopped.

No choice, taking too much might attract hostility from others.

Everyone is fighting desperately, yet you are here scavenging; once the battle ends, it’s a wonder if others don’t resent you.

After the scavenging wave, Yang Zhenshan turned around and joined the battle.

He found Zhongli Xiayi’s figure, clutching a stack of talismans, he began fighting around Zhongli Xiayi.

As a Talisman Master, Yang Zhenshan rarely used talismans for battle, because fighting with talismans requires skill. Though he could craft talismans, he hadn’t trained in the skill of using them.

If talismans are only used as trump cards, it requires no skill, but if used as regular fighting means, then mastery of controlling talismans is needed.

Yang Zhenshan hadn’t trained in skills for using talismans, only knowing the simplest talisman control technique.

However, he had plenty of talismans in hand.

One by one, Mysterious Thunder Talismans were activated by him, blasting wildly at the surrounding demon birds.

During battle, Zhongli Xiayi was startled by his sudden burst.

While fighting, Zhongli Xiayi appeared especially dazzling; she cultivated the Path of Radiance.

Bathed in stunning radiance, her body moved like a rainbow across the battlefield, leaving beautiful trails of Xia Yan whenever she reached a spot.

Like setting off fireworks, various hues of brilliance blossomed.

In contrast, Yang Zhenshan’s method of using Mysterious Thunder Talismans for wild blasting appeared brutal, lacking elegance.

”Tsk tsk, Pill Masters certainly seem wealthy, using Mysterious Thunder Talismans like they were free!” Zhongli Xiayi teased Yang Zhenshan while fighting.

”Hehe, if Fellow Daoist Zhongli needs them, I can give some to Fellow Daoist Zhongli!” Yang Zhenshan activated another Mysterious Thunder Talisman, killing a second-order mutant beast.

He could craft four kinds of second-order talismans: Cloud Soaring Talisman, Golden Saber Talisman, Small Teleportation Talisman, and Mysterious Thunder Talisman.

Over the years, although he only crafted talismans during leisure time, he still accumulated many.

Among the four kinds of second-order talismans, Cloud Soaring Talisman and Small Teleportation Talisman were of little use to him, and he gave them mostly to his disciples.

Golden Saber Talisman was also an attack talisman but mismatched his cultivation attributes, so he also gave them away.

Only the Mysterious Thunder Talismans were mostly retained by him.

With Cui Yang’s talisman making skill long surpassing his, people no longer needed him to provide talismans, so he accumulated quite a lot of talismans.

Especially the Mysterious Thunder Talismans, he had over a thousand in hand.

Zhongli Xiayi shot Yang Zhenshan a charming glance, then released a violet glow fiercely striking a gray demon bird.

The battle lasted more than two hours, the demon birds in the sky were all slaughtered by the managers and Guest Elders of the Ten Thousand Treasures Store.

The strength of the Ten Thousand Treasures Store was even more powerful than imagined, especially in the peak Foundation Establishment combat power, far superior to the White Cloud Dao.

However, the strongest was Lady Ziteng; the Eternal Qingteng being a spiritual artifact, and Lady Ziteng controlling the Eternal Qingteng managed to capture and kill the Demon King Golden-winged Eagle.

As the massive corpse of the Demon King Golden-winged Eagle lay in the plaza inside the Ten Thousand Treasures Store, the demon birds attacking from above emitted shrill cries and scattered to flee.

The demon beast army rampaging the city also retreated under the command of the Demon King Earth-shaking Tiger.

With the battle ended, White Cloud Immortal City was left in shambles.

The originally prosperous Immortal City was filled with ruins, severed limbs everywhere.

Grief and resentment dominated the atmosphere of the broken Immortal City.

To the ordinary cultivators inside the city, they were unaware of high-level schemes or conspiracies, they only knew all this was caused by demon beasts.

They loathed the demon beasts, wishing they could tear every demon beast limb from limb.

However, whether grief or resentment, at this moment, the battle had ended.

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Three days later.

Spirit Source Land, Flame Mountain, inside the Immortal Artifact Pavilion.

Yang Zhenshan and Yang Jizhen, along with several apprentice artifact refiners, were processing the demon bird corpses.

”Ancestor, this pair of wings is still intact, can directly be used as main materials to refine a magical treasure?” Yang Jizhen looked at the undamaged golden wings, happily saying.

Yang Zhenshan glanced over, ”Refining what magical treasure?”

”Wings can be used for flying or attacking!” Yang Jizhen replied.

Yang Zhenshan raised his eyebrows, ”Wings, wouldn’t that turn one into a birdman?”

”Birdman!” Yang Jizhen was stunned, then nodded in strong agreement, ”That’s true indeed.”

”Suit yourself!”

Yang Zhenshan was too lazy to bother with what magical treasure he was refining; wing-types were still useful to Foundation Establishment cultivators, at least enhancing their flight speed, but not much use to him as he could teleport.