Chapter 532: Gathering Point
Chapter 532: Gathering Point
Brother Dong’s body fell onto the ground.
Lin Xuan Qi kept his hammers, went over and tried to see if there was anything worthy on his body.
There wasn’t much, except for around ten Spirit Stones and an Artifact that looked like a statue with different animal forms carved on it.
He wanted to keep them in his toad statue but stopped and pondered on it for a little while.
Best to leave them for Lao Er and Ling Er.
They would need all the resources they could get their hands on to start the sect.
He went into cover behind a tree trunk and channeled his thoughts to Lao Er and Ling Er using the incense urn.
Lao Er and Ling Er were approaching where the bodies of Skinny Claws and Rouge Scholar were.
When Ling Er saw the two burnt corpses lying on the ground, she held her hands over her mouth to stop herself from puking.
But the smell of burnt flesh that was in the air came into her nose and made it worse a moment later.
Finally, she couldn’t help it anymore and she went to the side and puked.
"Ling Er, are you alright?" Lao Er went over and helped soothe her by stroking his hand on her back.
Ling Er waved her hand at him, gesturing for him to give her a moment.
Meanwhile, as he waited for her to be done with puking, the familiar low coarse voice came out from the incense urn.
"Go and see if there’s anything valuable on the bodies.
"There’s another body that isn’t too far away, to the left of where you are, go and check on it too." The voice from the incense urn said.
Lao Er frowned and nodded his head, "Yes, Grand Ancestor Lin."
"They are dead and it’s not my fault..." He glanced at the burnt bodies and mumbled to himself over and over again.
Lin Xuan Qi wanted them to get used to how it was in the world of cultivation.
Either you were ruthless to your enemies or you would be the victim to them.
They had to learn to ignore the nice appearances and words these cultivators spoke, and judge them based on their actions before Lao Er and Ling Er suffered from it.
And it was a tough lesson indeed.
Ling Er wiped her lips when she was done, but her face was now pale white.
"Do you need a rest first?" Lao Er asked and she shook her head.
She had wasted enough time and it was best they quickly moved on before this region of the secret realm collapsed.
They walked and stopped at the two burnt bodies.
Lao Er glanced at Ling Er and Ling Er did the same.
The sight of the burnt bodies still made both of them uncomfortable.
Finally, after a moment of hesitation, Lao Er pointed at one of the bodies and said, "I will check on this one and you shall check on the other one."
Ling Er nodded her head and they proceeded to walk up to the bodies.
Using one of their hands, they pinched their noses while they turned away from the sight of the bodies and rummaged with their other hand.
"I found something!"
"Me too!"
Both of them exclaimed excitedly and they took the Spirit Stones that were on the burnt bodies.
And after they were done with the two burnt bodies, their mental apprehension was gone and it got easier for them.
Lao Er and Ling Er kept the Spirit Stones and they moved on to check on the body of Brother Dong.
"Look, there’s something different." Lao Er said excitedly and he held up the statue with an eagle, wolf, tiger and bear carved on it.
"It is most likely an Artifact." The low coarse voice said and reminded them to move on, "There’s no time to check on it now, move towards the middle of the ancient forest."
Lao Er and Ling Er kept the Spirit Stones and they proceeded on their way.
Lin Xuan Qi followed closely behind.
Along the way, there were many skirmishes between cultivators trying to rob each other of whatever treasures they had gotten in the secret realm.
Lao Er and Ling Er were able to avoid them under the guidance of Lin Xuan Qi.
Finally, the foliage of the ancient forest began to clear and they reached an area that was an open space.
And there were many cultivators and Qing Feng Sect disciples already there.
"Who are they?"
"They managed to survive for so long?"
"These two must be lucky as hell."
When the cultivators saw Lao Er and Ling Er emerge, they couldn’t believe their eyes.
They could only sense a very meager amount of Spirit Qi in them.
Lao Er didn’t bother with what they were talking about and he stood as tall as he could in front of Ling Er.
Lin Xuan Qi quickly used his invisible talisman and stood a distance near Lao Er and Ling Er to see what the Qing Feng Sect was up to.
"How much longer before the exit opens up?"
"Yeah. It’s been so long since we waited here."
"I want to get out of here as soon as possible."
The cultivators were getting restless as they were now in close proximity with each other.
They knew that for those who were able to make it here, they had something up their sleeves to survive for so long in the secret realm.
All of them wanted to leave soon so that they wouldn’t be killed when they were so close to success.
"Silence! The Qing Feng Sect is kind enough to share the treasures of the secret realm with you so I would suggest that you keep quiet and wait."
One of the Qing Feng Sect disciples stared at the cultivators and said.
The cultivators kept mum and they grumbled silently among themselves.
Some who were restless turned their attention over to Lao Er and Ling Er.
They began to suspect that Lao Er had something valuable that had managed to let them survive for so long in the secret realm.
"Those two over there.... Find an opportunity later to see what they got from here." One of the cultivators said and his juniors nodded their heads.