"Right, Xi Yue, when claiming a bounty, do they need to verify identity information or anything?”
Lu Changsheng nodded and continued to ask.
"Usually not.”
"There are many bounty hunters in the Cultivation World, and they make their living by capturing heretic cultivators with bounties on their heads; they prefer to keep their identities secret.”
"Therefore, the major Immortal Sects don’t require identity verification as long as you have the head or a token of the deceased; they generally won’t investigate your identity.”
Xiao Xiyue shook her head and explained.
"Got it.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Changsheng felt reassured.
If identity verification were required, he would’ve simply given up on the bounty and not bothered with it.
He planned to buy some equipment later to store the two bodies.
Otherwise, by the time he went to collect the bounty, the bodies would be rotten.
"What’s this?”
Lu Changsheng started to clean out the storage bag.
From the burly man’s storage bag, he took out a few items that looked particularly cherished to inspect, and among them was a jar of tricolor patchy soil.
The soil was not only filled with spiritual energy but also gave off a faint fragrance.
"This should be tricolor Spiritual Earth, a pretty good Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object. If consumed during Foundation Establishment by those cultivating earth attribute techniques, it can help with the magical barriers during the three stages of Foundation Establishment.”
"It can also be used as medicinal mud for planting spiritual medicines and Spirit Plants, producing an ‘accelerating’ effect on their growth.”
Standing to the side, Xiao Xiyue looked at the jar of tricolored soil and spoke out.
"Tricolor Spiritual Earth, Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object?”
Initially, Lu Changsheng thought that Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects were average.
However, when he heard about the medicinal mud and its accelerating effects on growth, his eyes immediately lit up.
After obtaining the Golden Armor Bean Mother, he had looked into methods to accelerate its maturity and growth.
After all, the growth of the Golden Armor Bean Mother was excruciatingly slow.
Three years to sprout, three years to grow leaves, three years to bloom, three years to bear fruit—a full twelve-year cycle.
However, upon inquiry, he found that medicinal mud and soil capable of accelerating growth are very rare and precious.
Unless it’s an extremely rare spiritual medicine that’s difficult to cultivate, it would be better to plant in spirit-rich Spiritual Earth and have a specialized Spirit Plant cultivator tend to it carefully.
Unexpectedly, today, without any effort, he had come across such Spiritual Objects.
"Not bad, good stuff.”
Lu Changsheng chuckled lightly and stored away the tricolor Spiritual Earth.
He planned to use it later to cultivate the Golden Armor Bean Mother.
The subsequent cleaning process didn’t reveal any more high-value items that excited Lu Changsheng.
Even with treasures worth over a thousand Spirit Stones, they didn’t impress him much.
"All these are magical artifacts; this must’ve been plunder from a Magical Artifact Shop. I wonder whose shop they robbed.”
Lu Changsheng opened another storage bag.
Seeing it was full of Magical Artifacts, he took a glance and couldn’t help shaking his head.
He then opened every storage bag one by one, finding them mostly filled with Elixir Medicines, Magical Artifacts, and Spiritual Medicines—clearly plundered goods.
After half an hour, Lu Changsheng had finally cleaned out all the storage bags.
"One hundred and fifty-six Middle Grade Spirit Stones.”
"Twelve thousand eight hundred ninety-four Lower Grade Spirit Stones.”
"One portion of tricolor Spiritual Earth, one Middle Grade Spiritual Artifact, four Lower Grade Spiritual Artifacts, but three of them were severely damaged…..”
"Four top-grade Magical Artifacts, nine high-grade Magical Artifacts, twenty-nine middle-grade Magical Artifacts, thirty-five lower-grade Magical Artifacts…..seventeen bottles of Yellow Dragon Elixir, nine bottles of Energy Refining Powder, Condensing Energy Elixirs… treasures of heaven and earth…..”
"Doesn’t seem too much, probably only worth around sixty or seventy thousand Spirit Stones in total.”
Lu Changsheng looked over the items with a slight frown.
The haul seemed large with a variety of items.
But most items weren’t worth much and were a hassle to deal with.
Excluding the three storage bags given by the Patriarch of the Yu Family, the actual total was only about thirty to forty thousand Spirit Stones.
"That’s also to be expected, already being a robber cultivator and resorting to robbing the marketplace; there’s a limit to how wealthy that could make one.”
Lu Changsheng gently shook his head, knowing not every cultivator could be wealthy.
Especially those who were robber cultivators, they generally wouldn’t carry a lot of Spirit Stones on them.
Immediately, he looked at Xiao Xiyue and asked, “Xi Yue, is there anything you fancy?”
"Thank you, Lu Lang.”
Xiao Xiyue smiled lightly and didn’t hesitate.
She took a blue bead and a Flying Needle Magical Instrument.
They were the Lower Grade defensive spiritual artifact and a top-grade magical artifact of the female robber cultivator.
Seeing that Xiao Xiyue only took two items, Lu Changsheng gave her some talismans as well, to keep for emergencies.
After all, for him, talismans were the least valuable.
"Right, there’s also this big fellow.”
Lu Changsheng asked Xiao Xiyue to step back a bit.
He took the corpse of the Green Wolf out of the storage bag.
"Collect!”
Watching the massive corpse before him, Lu Changsheng took out a Magical Artifact gourd and placed it to the side.
Then, wielding the True Yang Five Elements Sword, he skillfully made incisions at several points on the Green Wolf, formed a spell with his hands, and collected all the blood into the gourd.
This Second Rank Demon Beast blood could not only be used to make spirit ink but also for concocting certain Elixir Medicines.
Of course, Lu Changsheng intended to use this Demon Beast blood to nourish his Six-Winged Golden Silkworm.
After draining the blood, Lu Changsheng proficiently inspected the Green Wolf’s head and abdomen.
Confirming there was no Demon Core, he collected the corpse back into the storage bag.
"Lu Lang, you also know the art of Spirit Slaughter?”
Xiao Xiyue watched Lu Changsheng dissect the Green Wolf, collect the blood, and check for the Demon Core; surprise flickered in her beautiful eyes.
"Just a little, just a little,”
Lu Changsheng chuckled and said.
This technique came naturally from the Second Rank Spirit Slaughterer ability he had drawn from the system.
In fact, his instant killing of the Green Wolf was also somewhat related to the Second Rank Spirit Slaughterer ability.