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Chapter 1281: Chapter 687: Return

Tang Xue Ning was in a good mood, not insisting on staying, but instead returned to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion with Li Yuanba.

She also understood that the appearance of a Great Cultivator from the White Emperor Sect at the Purple Flame Sect’s mountain gate was definitely not a normal event.

Although the current conflict between the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion and the White Emperor Sect had not involved Great Cultivators, having a Great Cultivator hidden by the White Emperor Sect on the Central State Continent was not a good thing.

On the way, Li Yuanba checked out the spoils of battle.

Since this battle had nothing to do with Tang Xue Ning, she did not participate in the division of the spoils.

Even Xue Huan’s body only needed to be shown at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion before being returned to Li Yuanba.

Although it was not often spoken of in the Cultivation World, cultivators’ bodies, especially those of enemy cultivators, were also considered a resource.

Almost all businesses would buy these kinds of bodies, but most cultivators, upon obtaining the body of a powerful cultivator, would not choose this route and instead opt for more secretive channels or use it for their own corpse refining.

The spoils from Xue Huan included a top-level fourth-grade mountain treasure, but unfortunately, it was a life-bound treasure, and even if Li Yuanba refined it, it would only unleash half its power.

Xue Huan used a soul crystal ring, which was not surprising, as a core cultivator of a superpower and a half-step Great Cultivator, his status in the White Emperor Sect was not low.

Li Yuanba’s divine sense entered the soul crystal ring, which contained very few spiritual objects, difficult to imagine for a figure known as White Emperor Country’s strongest Nascent Soul Middle Stage core cultivator, possessing so few spiritual objects in the soul crystal ring.

Even though sect cultivators would store some of their belongings in the sect’s cave, the most precious spiritual objects would still be kept in their personal space items.

Especially for cultivators with a soul crystal ring, they could almost ensure that whenever they encountered a life-and-death ordeal, their Nascent Soul could take the soul crystal ring away.

Xue Huan’s soul crystal ring contained only a small number of spiritual objects, one fourth-grade top flying boat, a fourth-grade top bell-shaped magical treasure, and some jade bottles.

Li Yuanba shook his head, despite the few spiritual objects in the soul crystal ring, their quality was indeed extremely high.

He injected a master recognition technique into the fourth-grade top flying boat, named ’White Emperor Light Cloud Boat.’

A flying boat named after the White Emperor Sect; this boat surely had an unusual origin.

However, he could very well use this ’White Emperor Light Cloud Boat’, irrespective of Xue Huan’s background, for he had his own background.

Moreover, the task of killing Xue Huan was assigned by the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion. If a Sword Cultivator successfully completed the task but was then hunted by the White Emperor Sect for using the spoils, the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion would definitely not agree.

Although the conflict between the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion and the White Emperor Sect seemed fierce, it was actually in a state of mutual restraint.

Li Yuanba then injected the master recognition technique into the fourth-grade top bell-shaped magical treasure, which was a spiritual attack treasure named ’Soul-shocking Spirit Bell.’

A Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator having three fourth-grade top magical treasures was already extremely wealthy.

He focused his divine sense on the jade bottles, perceiving the spiritual pills inside through the bottles.

Even with his firm mind as a Sword Cultivator, he was taken aback by the spiritual pills in the four jade bottles.

He finally understood why Xue Huan’s soul crystal ring contained so few spiritual objects. Xue Huan had exchanged all his possessions for these four spiritual pills.

’White Emperor Sky Exploration Pill’, ’White Emperor Heaven Breaking Pill’, ’White Emperor Firm Heaven Pill’, ’White Emperor Sky Solidifying Pill’, this was a renowned set for upgrading to the Great Cultivator Realm in the White Emperor Sect, known as the White Emperor Great Cultivation Four Spirit Pills.

Resources capable of upgrading to the Great Cultivator Realm are extremely precious.

Even with abundant wealth, without the right channels, obtaining them would require spending several times their value.

Ordinary Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners would find it extremely difficult to acquire even one of these pills, yet Xue Huan managed to collect all four White Emperor Great Cultivation Four Spirit Pills at once.

This was preparation for advancing to the Great Cultivator Realm at any moment. Considering Xue Huan’s half-step Great Cultivator status, having these pills on him was not surprising.

Li Yuanba did not mention the matter of the spoils; the White Emperor Great Cultivation Four Spirit Pills were extremely attractive to any Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner.

He did not want to test human nature with such a resource that concerned a cultivator’s fate, so it was best not to bring it up.

Back at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, Li Yuanba and Tang Xue Ning submitted the task and then parted ways.

Tang Xue Ning did not express much gratitude, but this favor was owed, and when there was an opportunity, it would be repaid.

Li Yuanba did not stay long at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, taking up another assassination task and leaving.

Nansent Soul Middle Stage practitioners from the White Emperor Sect were numerous on the Central State Continent, and the Central State Continent was the domain of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, with the intelligence department able to provide abundant information.

The assassination task he accepted would certainly not be for an ordinary Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner; this practitioner did not possess the ’Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ divine skills, but they had gathered some cultivators and repeatedly ambushed the Sword Cultivators of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

This Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner from the White Emperor Sect, named Huang Ming, was exceptionally skilled at making friends and had connections all over the world.

Additionally, the Sword Cultivators from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion were not very welcomed on the Central State Continent, and many of Huang Ming’s friends secretly supported him, enabling him to successfully set up ambushes on multiple occasions.

The most troublesome part of the task to kill Huang Ming was finding his exact location, and the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion provided several possible locations.