55. Are You a Robber or a Bandit?
Finding a secluded spot, Gong Yiling began taking stock of her gains.
First, her bottomless pit of a body had absorbed the spiritual energy from over a thousand low-grade spirit stones, stored within her dantian. The total amount far exceeded the limits of Foundation Establishment or Core Formation.
As long as she found a suitable place to cultivate, refining this spiritual energy into true essence, breaking through to Core Formation in her demonic art and Foundation Establishment in her Daoist technique would be easy.
As for Qiu Shui, her situation was similar, except that her next breakthrough would be to Return to Origin realm.
Advancing from Core Formation to Return to Origin in just a few days would surely baffle countless people.
—Top-tier cultivation technique and top-tier talent combined to create a true prodigy.
Of course, this was just their improvement in cultivation.
The real prize, besides the sack of nearly a hundred high-grade spirit stones, was the pile of treasures in her Universe Ring.
Countless low, mid, and high-grade pills, over a hundred of each, all of decent quality, if not supreme, then at least good or perfect.
There were also various weapons, armor, and other items, enough to equip a small army of fifty to a hundred cultivators.
And as part of the Cloud Rainbow Sect’s legacy, there were even some Heaven-grade talismans—though mostly non-lethal ones.
Finally, there were the cultivation techniques, martial skills, and spiritual arts manuals.
As the core inheritance of the Cloud Rainbow Sect, the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Sound Technique wasn’t among them, but there were several powerful techniques Gong Yiling recognized.
And all the martial and spiritual skills were of the healing and nature type. With the foundation of the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Sound Technique, Qiu Shui could learn them all.
“HAHAHAHAHA!”
In this secluded spot, Gong Yiling could finally express her joy and excitement.
Just selling these items would earn them hundreds of millions of taels.
Suddenly becoming a multimillionaire, Miss Gong was ecstatic.
“So this is what it feels like to be rich. Wonderful, wonderful.”
Qiu Shui, holding a few carefully selected manuals, chuckled. “But Master, as the Young Palace Master of the Blood Orchid Palace, the treasures in your sect’s vault must be far greater than these.”
“That’s different.” Gong Yiling shook her head seriously. “The Blood Orchid Palace’s treasures are family assets. This is what I earned myself.”
Compared to inheriting a fortune, Gong Yiling preferred the process of earning it herself.
“Speaking of which,”
She suddenly remembered something she almost forgot. “Qiu Shui, what did you take from Daoist Daman’s room?”
“Huh…” Qiu Shui asked, puzzled. “Didn’t Master put it in your ring?”
“Did I?” Gong Yiling rummaged through her overflowing Universe Ring, then gave up.
There were too many items inside. It would take too long to find that misplaced manual. She would have to take everything out and organize it later.
But before that…
“Immortal Master, what are you doing here?”
The sudden voice startled Gong Yiling, almost making her drop the contents of her ring.
She quickly composed herself and turned to Elder Yan. “This Palace Master is having a private conversation with my disciple. Do you mind?”
“No, it’s just… you look like you’ve found some treasure and are secretly dividing the spoils with your disciple… just kidding, hahaha.”
Elder Yan’s unfunny joke made Gong Yiling and Yin Qiushui exchange glances.
“So…” Gong Yiling asked, feigning composure, “what do you want?”
“Ah, it’s like this,”
Elder Yan said sincerely, “we found about two hundred high-grade spirit stones in the room and would like you to oversee their distribution.”
“And we would also like to seek your opinion on how to deal with the surrendered demonic cultivators.”
I don’t want to divide them, and I have no opinion.
She almost blurted out these words.
But then, Gong Yiling had an idea.
To establish a third faction, she needed to figure out how to make people from different paths get along, and where to find such people.
Elder Yan and his allies were too deeply entrenched in the righteous path. She could only interact with them or use them, but the demonic cultivators abandoned by Wu Shijie… perhaps they could be manipulated.
“You can divide the spirit stones yourselves. This Palace Master is only here to find some useful spiritual manuals for my disciple.”
She waved her hand dismissively. “As for those demonic cultivators, deal with those who participated in the attack on your Dongyang Sect as you see fit. Bring the rest to me. I have my own way of dealing with them.”
Elder Yan was overjoyed.
He only wanted those responsible to pay the price, and the Immortal Master’s decision perfectly aligned with his wishes.
Shortly after he left, someone else brought the remaining demonic cultivators to Gong Yiling.
“Immortal Master, we’ve brought them. Your orders?”
“You can go.”
“Yes.”
After the person left, the demonic cultivators shifted their gazes nervously.
They knew the fate of those taken away by Elder Yan.
And the woman before them could “annihilate” them in an instant. Their fear was understandable.
—Although without talismans, Gong Yiling would probably be beaten to a pulp by them. But no one would believe that.
“Those who aren’t from the Hehuan Sect, step forward.”
Those not from the Hehuan Sect, seeing this preferential treatment, were overjoyed and immediately stepped forward.
Then…
Gong Yiling glanced at them and said calmly, “Pay your ransom, or have your sects pay it. Thirty low-grade spirit stones per person.”
The demonic cultivators: “Huh???”
Since when did righteous cultivators demand ransoms? Wasn’t that their thing?
“What ‘huh’?” Gong Yiling said impatiently. “One head is worth ninety thousand taels of silver on the market. Do you think you’re worth less than that?”
“This…”
Ninety thousand taels wasn’t a small sum, but it wasn’t unaffordable either. Considering it as the price for their lives, it was cheap.
“I’ll pay, I’ll pay!”
Almost all of them had some spirit stones. Those who didn’t offered items of equal value. Soon, over a thousand low-grade spirit stones piled up before Gong Yiling.
Money came so easily.
Why work when you could rob bad guys?
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