Chapter 317: You've Got to Be Kitten Me

Chapter 317: You've Got to Be Kitten Me

Despite the deep history behind each of the hidden stashes within this part of the sect, theres not really much needed to be done.

I find myself just walking around and moving pieces of walls, stones, and occasionally digging a hole. All of which is made easy by my strength and the spirit beasts on me. Like the wonderful earthworm, who takes seconds to dig and retrieve treasures, that would take me an hour to do, even with my increased strength.

Of course, everything Ive picked out to take satisfies three requirements: they are abandoned and wont have anyone looking for them; they are safe, so I wont be stepping into dangerous traps; and are inconspicuous, so that I wont draw too many eyes in their retrieval.

In this way, I pick up a variety of items and treasures. A lot of them are just money and spirit stones, but some others are quite different. Like the item the earthworm has just brought before me.

Its a rock.

Just a plain, smooth rock.

Or at least, thats what they would want a person to think.

After pocketing it and having the earthworm dig into another area, I find the paired item. A small bag, perfectly shaped to carry it. Instead of doing that, though, I actually turn it inside out. From there, then I put the rock inside of it.

The moment it leaves my sight by going into the bag, theres a popping sound. Only the rock remains, but with what appears to be runes on it.

By inserting my qi into it, it shines with a dull light that grows brighter when I face towards a certain spot.

This is both a key and a compass, where it should lead me to another spot.

but with my abilities, I just skip the quest chain and head to the actual treasure spot. Where another hole needs to be dug by the earthworm.

After attaching the stone to the worm, it goes to retrieve a box from the underground. The stone prevents a series of traps from going off and we safely retrieved the box.

Inside, a note from a man to his son alongside several pills to help with cultivation. Saying that hes proud of him and that he hopes that this will help him and the family be better off and survive those tough times.

Unfortunately, the family never had the chance to discover what he left for him.

Unlike the Xing family, who had the extreme intelligence of that girl, Xing Xun, to sustain them, this unknown family could not hold out long enough to get the gift.

Disappeared from history. Sadly, a pattern that exists across this culture and world.

Other things include items that assist in cultivating when attuned, ones that can save you from a single attack, or even books with deep plant knowledge. As well as many others.

All of them, I throw into my space bracelet for safekeeping.

The vast majority of these I wont personally need, but they will be good for giving out rewards later. Emulating the merit system in the sect, but within our group. Not unlike how the cultivation clans do within their families.

Which should work, as Ive already established something similar using the rewards for training others earlier.

Im not looking to get involved in another mess. I already searched out enough of that already.

As this route is pretty large, we have a few days to travel back to the towers.

Leaving me with a wonderful chance to check the status of a few things.

Of course, the first group I check is the demi-humans and Gong.

What I find is a bunch of superhumans.

The lion demi-human that seemed to be a friend of Gongs has grown to a massive size. His muscles have muscles.

Even more shockingly hes physically stronger than me. Even with my cultivation and him without.

The other demi-humans are not as far along, but are at least as strong as I am. A product of being demi-humans, with a naturally robust body.

Of course, Gong is at the top as well. With her massive body and constant actions, she could still knock me around like a ping-pong, if she wanted.

this is a great reminder that I need to train far harder than I currently have been. With my bonuses, I should be far ahead of them, even considering their demi-human lineage.

Thats not to put down their efforts, though. With just the healing aura and training, theyve reached a level that could do damage to a Foundation Establishment expert. Without cultivation.

Something that I plan to change right now.

I quickly take control of a few of the spiders, leading them over to Gong. With our shared connection to the spiders, she automatically knows its me doing this and gathers her attention on them.

Alright, lets see if this works.

They start spinning a fine sheet of web in the shape of paper, while other spiders spit colored venom onto it. All in the shape of a book.

Im having them create the Omnibus Cultivation Method in written form, for them. Gong, as expected, is quite excited.

But since this will take a while to log the full method, I turn my attention now to the spirit beasts in the forest. The ones outside the 20 that I took with me to the tamers outpost.

The several hundreds I left behind after my fight with Ao Jin. Of course, Ive been keeping a very low healing on them, with the occasional death among them.

But after thoroughly extending my senses to have a greater awareness about their situation I realize that the tree people, mentioned earlier by Wei, may not have been unconnected with me.

Did I really do this?