Chapter 32: Counting the Harvest
"It's really powerful! It is worthy of being a thunder method that is more powerful than all laws, this kind of power can almost catch up with the third-order spells in the ordinary five element spells!"
On the top of the sand slope, Zhou Yang looked at the corpse of the sand bandit that had been chopped into charcoal on the ground, and his face was full of amazement.
He had long heard that the power of the thunder and lightning spell was amazing, and there were very few other spells in the same level that could match the thunder spell in terms of power.
It's just that although the thunder and lightning spell is powerful, the difficulty of cultivation is also the best of many spells.
Generally speaking, only monks with wind and thunder attributes in their spiritual root attributes can learn thunder and lightning spells relatively easily.
A monk like Zhou Yang whose spiritual root attribute is biased towards the five elements attribute is not impossible to learn the thunder and lightning spell, but the difficulty will be more than ten times stronger than that of the wind and thunder attribute monk, and even if he learns it, the magic power he uses will be much lower than that of the wind and thunder attribute spirit root monk.
For this reason, although many immortal cultivators covet the power of thunder and lightning spells, immortal cultivators who are really willing to waste a lot of time on it are extremely rare.
In order to make thunder and lightning spells into spirit runes, not only does it require extremely high spell attainments and talisman making skills of the talisman maker, but it also requires the use of spiritual materials containing the power of wind and thunder attributes as the carrying object.
It is precisely because of such harsh conditions that the thunder runes sealed with thunder and lightning spells have always topped all the same level spirit runes in terms of price, and sometimes even reach the price of higher-level spirit runes.
In this way, there is usually no market for it, and it depends on luck if you want to buy it.
The second-order "Lightning Strike Technique" spirit talisman in Zhou Yang's hand was obtained from the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, and it was the hole card that he specially handed over to him for self-defense before he went down the mountain.
At that time, when he handed over this rare thunder talisman to him, the old patriarch specially told him that it was not a last resort, and it was best not to use this spirit talisman lightly.
Unexpectedly, he had only been out for less than a month now, and he had used up this spirit talisman that had been treasured in the hands of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan for decades.
"It's a waste! I knew that Lei Fuwei could be so big, I just let this guy go!"
Zhou Yang remembered the extremely solemn look on his face when the old patriarch handed over the thunder talisman to him, and suddenly regretted it in his heart.
Although it is said that the sand bandits deserve to die, in order to kill a sand bandit, they waste an extremely precious second-order high-grade thunder talisman, no matter how you look at it, it is a loss!
It's just that the matter has come to this point, and it is useless for him to regret it, and at the moment he can only look at the corpse of the sand bandit on the ground half comforting and half expectantly and mutter: "I hope the storage bags on these three guys can surprise me, otherwise I will really lose to my grandmother's house today!"
Seriously, this is the first time he has killed someone in his two lives, and one kill is three, and it is still an immortal cultivator who kills.
But maybe it's because of the influence of education he has received since he was a child, he doesn't even have any rejection of such things as fighting and killing, and he doesn't feel any discomfort when he sees the corpse of the sand bandit on the ground.
It is said that in the Qingping Mountain Oasis, those miners who were bitten to death by gold-eating rats were really miserable, and many of them were the kind of dead without corpses, although he was also a little uncomfortable when he saw that kind of scene, but there was no particularly uncomfortable reaction.
After all, immortal cultivators have mana to protect their bodies, and they will not get sick, even if their bodies have adverse reactions due to psychological reasons, they can quickly mobilize their mana to suppress them.
Shaking his head, without thinking much about these inconsequential little things, Zhou Yang cleaned up the corpses of the two sand bandits on the ground, and after confirming that nothing was missing, he burned the corpses to ashes with a fire, and then used the "Earth Escape Technique" to escape into the ground, and searched the body of the sand bandit that he killed with a sneak attack with an "armor-piercing dagger", and then returned to the tent under the sand slope to count the harvest.
Unlike sect monks and family monks, casual cultivators have a fixed cave residence to store things, and they don't have to worry about being knocked out of their nest after they go out.
For the vast majority of casual cultivators, they will only feel at ease if they bring all their net worth with them, so the storage bags for casual cultivators may vary in size, but the space inside must be full.
Therefore, Zhou Yang found that the number of storage bags from the three sand bandits was not 3, but 10.
Of the 10 storage bags, there are three with a volume of one zhang, six with a volume of five feet, and three with a volume of three feet.
And after he opened all the 10 storage bags he had obtained, he saw that they were full of all kinds of things, from small golden cups and jade bowls for eating and drinking tea, to cowhide tents and pear wood beds.
However, the most things are still [Golden Bead Rice] and Frozen Demon Beast Meat, the three sand bandits seem to be afraid that they will starve to death in the desert, and the amount of [Golden Bead Rice] and Demon Beast Meat carried by each person is enough for them to use alone for three or five years!
"It's no wonder that when the elders in the family talk about loose cultivation, their tone is always weird, very disdainful, and even jokingly call them beggars and vagabonds in the immortal cultivation world!"
"This scoop jar is all on his body, and he has a lot of spiritual rice beast meat, isn't it just the same virtue as a beggar and a homeless man?"
Zhou Yang looked at the storage bags that were stuffed with all kinds of things that were of no great use to immortal cultivators, and he was amused and extremely disappointed in his heart.
He was still thinking about finding some valuable goods from these storage bags, so as to make up for the many second-order high-grade spirit runes and one thunder rune he had wasted, and now it seemed that this idea was a little difficult to realize.
Loose cultivation is casual cultivation, and if you are wealthy, you will not fall into the situation of being a sand bandit, although not everyone can be a sand bandit.
However, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it is also meat, and no matter how bad the bean bag is, it is also dry food, and after the 10 storage bags were cleaned, Zhou Yang also found some eye-catching spiritual objects.
Among these spiritual objects, the number of lower-grade spirit stones is the largest, there are two or three hundred, and then there are several bottles of first-order and second-order spirit pills for various purposes, which are estimated to be worth hundreds of spirit stones.
Then Zhou Yang also found a few second-order spirit runes that the three sand bandits didn't have time to use, as well as the refining alchemy materials that the three sand bandits didn't know where to grab and didn't have time to sell the stolen ones.
If these materials are not refined into magic pills, they are worth more than ten or twenty spirit stones, but Zhou Yang himself is a refiner, and his father is also an alchemist, so if he makes good use of it, he can double the value several times.
In the other three sand bandit storage bags, there are also eight low-level immortal cultivation exercises, several cultivation experience annotations, and two records of some immortal cultivators' travelogues in the immortal cultivation world, Zhou Yang looked at it, six of the eight exercises are included in the Zhou family's scripture cave, and the remaining two books can be exchanged for twenty spirit stones after they are donated to the family.
After careful calculation in this way, if you add the several second-order magic weapons he obtained from the sand bandits, as well as the value of the 10 storage bags themselves, only in terms of value, the goal of returning to the capital has been achieved, and there is even a lot of money.
"Murder and arson gold belts, build bridges and pave roads without corpses, the ancients will not deceive me!" Zhou Yang let out a long sigh and decided to retract his previous words.
Although the loose repair is poor, there are still three pounds of nails in the broken ship!
After all, the three sand bandits are all late-stage Qi cultivation cultivators, and they have been engaged in the robbery industry for many years, and their net worth has still accumulated some.
If he didn't count the life-saving talismans and life-saving pills given to him by those elders, he might not be much higher than the three of them in terms of his own family.
It is magnified to the entire Zhou family, not counting Zhou Minghan and Zhou Xuanhao, the two foundation building period cultivators, and only those ninth-level elders who practice qi can stabilize these three sand bandits on their personal net worth.
After Zhou Yang counted the harvest this time, he burned all the useless sundries, and then hung the remaining useful things in two large storage bags around his waist, and the remaining empty storage bags were strung with ropes and hung in the sacks on the back of the Shatuo Beast, ready to wait until they arrived at the Baisha River Oasis before throwing them into the family shop to dispose of them.
As a family monk, it is this advantage, the treasures obtained outside, as long as the origin is innocent, and the monks of other family sects are not involved, they can be hung in the family shop and sold, and they only need to give the family half of the handling fee after being sold.
In exchange for those casual cultivators, no matter what the source of the treasures in their hands is, as long as they are sold in the shops in the market, they don't want to sell them at the normal price, and at worst, they have to reduce the price by 30% to succeed.
If you are unlucky, or inexperienced, take the stolen goods that you have snatched or even picked up from the hands of the family sect monks to sell in regular shops, and the origin of the stolen goods is recognized, not only will the stolen goods be confiscated, but people will be arrested and interrogated by the law enforcement monks of Fang City.
Because of these reasons, if the casual cultivators find any spiritual objects outside, sometimes they would rather waste a lot of time setting up stalls in the stall area of the fang market to sell them slowly, rather than going to the shop to suck people's blood.
However, casual cultivators also need to pay spirit stones to the managers of Fang City when they stay in the Fang City, and once they stay for too long and do not sell the goods in their hands, the final result of the casual cultivators can only obediently admit to slaughter.
Therefore, being a casual cultivator in the immortal cultivation world is really a very hard thing.
Zhou Yang is very glad that he is a family cultivator, although the Zhou family is not a big family, but compared to the casual cultivation at the bottom of the immortal cultivation world, with the family as a backer, he will not be exploited too ruthlessly.
The fierce battle with the three sand bandits did not cost Zhou Yang much time, but it took him half the night to count the spoils on the three sand bandits.
At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and after he finished counting the harvest, he did not stop in the same place any longer, but put away the tent and rode on the sand beast, and continued to set off on the road.