Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning - Chapter 149

Chapter 149: Beginning to Tally the Spoils

Jiang Hao stood in front of Zuo Lan, noticing that the other party was still in a daze, so he turned his head to look at Fang Jin and the others.

This glance sent chills down Fairy Lan Jin’s spine.

Fang Jin and Bai Qiong also felt their scalps tingle.

“You should save the people first,” Jiang Hao reminded them.

The nine children were still bleeding, and if left unattended, their lives would be in danger.

Fang Jin and the others finally snapped out of it.

“Thank you for the reminder, Brother Jiang. We were negligent,” they said and went to rescue the children, hoping to confirm if their Junior Sister was among them.

After they went to the altar, Jiang Hao turned his attention back to Zuo Lan.

At some point, Hong Yuye had appeared beside him.

Jiang Hao didn’t mind and simply took away Zuo Lan’s storage treasure first.

Fortunately, Zuo Lan had withstood the Mountain Suppressor, preventing any damage to the treasure.

Upon a preliminary inspection, Jiang Hao found 5,000 spirit stones and a Secret Whisper Slate inside, as well as a book.

Five thousand spirit stones, another windfall.

However, he didn’t pay much attention to the spirit stones and handed the slate to Hong Yuye instead.

After receiving the slate, she put it away and then looked at Jiang Hao: “Give me the other two as well.”

Jiang Hao knew she wanted to combine the three.

After handing over the slates, he looked at the severely injured Zuo Lan and asked, “What is your purpose here?”

“Purpose? Cough!”

Zuo Lan struggled to lift his head, a glimmer of the will to live in his eyes.

“If I tell you, will you spare my life?”

Jiang Hao didn’t answer, just looked at him.

Zuo Lan laughed self-deprecatingly, feeling his consciousness blurring and his vitality fading.

Even if the other party didn’t act, he was going to die.

Finally, he spoke weakly.

“Investigate the Tianyin Sect.”

“Investigate the Tianyin Sect? Why?”

Jiang Hao wondered inwardly but remained outwardly calm.

Apart from the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower, what was there to investigate about the Tianyin Sect?

The mines?

That was the only thing Jiang Hao could think of.

“We just follow orders, and each person with a slate has a different task,” Zuo Lan said in a low and weak voice.

“My task was only to collect the history of the Tianyin Sect.”

“Who do you take orders from?”

Jiang Hao wasn’t particularly interested in the history of the Tianyin Sect.

Most of it could be found in the sect’s archives.

However, the investigation mentioned by Zuo Lan might be related to the book in the storage treasure.

He would know the results of the investigation after looking at it later.

At this point, Zuo Lan was so weak that he was bleeding from the mouth, his head lowered.

“I have a question.”

“What is it?” Jiang Hao asked softly.

“You,” Zuo Lan struggled to look at Jiang Hao.

“Are you at the Nascent Soul realm?”

“Golden Core complete,” Jiang Hao replied truthfully.

“You will be killed,” Zuo Lan said self-mockingly.

“There are many in this world who are jealous of geniuses, many.”

“I know,” Jiang Hao nodded.

That’s why he didn’t want to stand out and preferred to cultivate quietly.

When he became invincible, he wouldn’t have to live in fear.

Unfortunately, he had already been discovered by Hong Yuye, and he didn’t know if she would eventually make a move.

He still needed to keep some cards up his sleeve.

“Zuo Yutian,” Zuo Lan suddenly mentioned a name.

“Is he from the Great Thousand Divine Sect?” Jiang Hao asked.

“Mhm,” Zuo Lan’s breath was fading.

“It’s him, we take orders from him, I don’t know anything else.”

Jiang Hao nodded and continued, “Where are the other slates?”

“If I die, they’ll probably flee,” Zuo Lan replied, his voice growing fainter.

“Do you know who made the slates?”

“No, I don’t know.”

Jiang Hao looked down at Zuo Lan for a long time without asking further questions.

Zuo Lan died.

With a sigh in his heart, Jiang Hao turned to Hong Yuye.

“Senior, do you know Zuo Yutian?”

Hong Yuye shook her head slightly, her tone indifferent: “Let’s go back.”

Jiang Hao nodded; there was nothing left for them here.

After taking all the storage treasures from the bodies, he made sure there were no issues by giving the corpses a couple of extra cuts.

He then said goodbye to the astonished Fang Jin and the others before disappearing into the woods.

By then, Fang Jin and his companions had rescued the nine children, indeed finding their Junior Sister among them.

After many twists and turns, they finally saw their Junior Sister safe and sound, although a little boy who protected her caused them a slight headache.

Of course, the one who truly alarmed them was Jiang Hao.

His purpose and background must be anything but ordinary.

But they wouldn’t ask too many questions.

Fortunately, they had not only avoided conflict with him previously, but their relationship was also quite good.

“Don’t disturb me for the next three days.”

After leaving this instruction, Hong Yuye closed her room door.

Jiang Hao was happy to have some peace and quiet.

These three days were free time, although he couldn’t stray too far from Tiantu City.

Otherwise, it would be easy for others to detect his location.

During these three days, he wanted to explore the city, but the priority was to check out his recent gains.

Perhaps tonight would be another night of sudden wealth.

Returning to his room, Jiang Hao began to tally his spirit stones.

He originally possessed 3,806 spirit stones.

Now, from Zuo Lan’s storage treasure, he had acquired an additional 5,101 spirit stones.

Plus, there was a book of records.

Jiang Hao placed the book on the table and then sorted the spirit stones.

After storing the spirit stones in his own storage treasure, he opened Zuo Lan’s clone’s storage treasure and found nothing.

“Strange, it shouldn’t just be these items. There should be a bunch of miscellaneous things as well.”

Five thousand spirit stones were a considerable amount, and although Zuo Lan was good at making money, his expenses from all his activities must have been significant.

So having 5,000, he was already quite satisfied.

But the absence of other pills and treasures was unexpected.

It’s not possible that he had a main base somewhere else, is it?

“What a pity, not a single survivor.”

With a sigh, Jiang Hao began to inspect the storage treasures of the other four Golden Core cultivators.

He started with the two at the early stage of Golden Core; these two weren’t very wealthy either, one had 926 spirit stones, and the other had 1,103.

“They seem so poor.”

Jiang Hao felt that the Golden Core members of the Tianyin Sect must be much wealthier than them.

After all, being backed by the Tianyin Sect itself came with certain cultivation resources.

These people had to continuously buy cultivation resources with spirit stones.

Being poor was inevitable.

Unless, like Shi Xin, they saved up spirit stones for decades to buy breakthrough elixirs.

However, these two people’s storage treasures did contain some miscellaneous items.

Pills for Foundation Establishment and some average-quality treasures.

Plus a few Healing Talismans.

All together, these could sell for three to five hundred spirit stones.

Next, he opened the storage treasure of the late-stage Golden Core cultivator and found that this person wasn’t much wealthier than the first two.

1,300 spirit stones, a decent quality spirit sword suitable for Foundation Establishment.

It should sell for over a thousand spirit stones, and there were also two bottles of elixirs commonly used in the mid-stage of Golden Core.

These could be worth four to five hundred spirit stones.

There wasn’t much else of value.

Finally, he took out the storage treasure of the Golden Core completion stage cultivator.

Upon inspection, he found no spirit stones.

Instead, there was a note, the first sentence of which read.

【I knew I might not survive this time, so I hid all my valuables】

Jiang Hao was stunned, never having expected to encounter such a person in the world of cultivators.