With a casual wave of his hand, Lu Tiandu stowed the three massive beasts into his own Stone Bead World. His storage bag wasn't high-end, and couldn't hold them all at the moment.
"Two Level 3 demon beasts and one Level 2 demon beast—even if they were dismantled into their materials, they'd be worth thousands of spirit stones. This trip was well worth it,"
Lu Tiandu sighed to himself, turning back to Junior Brother Liu from Spirit Beast Mountain. Although his storage bag was gone, he was deeply interested in how this fellow had poisoned Senior Brother Wang, a late Foundation Establishment cultivator, and how he had then instantly leaped dozens of feet to attack the man in white.
Therefore, he didn't touch the man's body. After all, with his poison and demonic skills, he might have left behind some hidden tricks.
Drawing out a long sword and fiddling with the man's clothing, Lu Tiandu carefully inspected the man for any hidden possessions.
At that moment, the ethereal figure of the strange man also paused somewhere. Watching Lu Tiandu's actions, his eyes narrowed, and he sneered,
"So you're here to rummage through corpses? Did he collect the bodies of those little creatures, or did someone else take them?"
He walked at a leisurely pace, not afraid of losing Lu Tiandu, but he didn't see him collecting the monster corpses.
After searching for a while and still finding nothing, Lu Tiandu wasn't disappointed.
Perhaps the secrets lay in the storage bag, a pity the white-clothed man from the Yanyue Sect had gotten away with it.
Habit forced upon him, he casually waved his hand, sending a small fireball raining down upon the man. Lu Tiandu then turned and offered free cremation to the other two.
Just as he was about to return, he suddenly noticed a pair of navy blue boots, gleaming with a spiritual light, resting on the cremated remains of Junior Brother Liu.
"Huh?"
This sight reminded him of the gauze cloak that had exploded during the cremation of Qi Lao San last time—a rare invisibility item.
A flicker of joy crossed his lips, and with a swift movement of his five fingers, a large, azure hand seized the boots.
"Haha, I was right! The secret to this man's short-distance teleportation lies in these boots!"
After examining the dark blue boots several times, Lu Tiandu suddenly felt delighted.
"So they're called the Heavenly Fortune Swift Wind Boots?"
Lu Tiandu discovered a few tiny words on the inside of the boots.
This type of boot-shaped artifact is not common, like the gauze cloak, the ethereal hat, and the flying needle artifact—they are rare but possess miraculous uses.
After inspecting them and finding no issues, Lu Tiandu, not minding the mess, quickly removed his own boots and slipped the Heavenly Fortune Swift Wind Boots onto his feet.
The boots seemed to be made of the fur of some demonic beast, covered in mysterious patterns and emitting a faint aura. They were soft and light to the touch, making them feel like nothing.
Lu Tiandu channeled his magical power into the dark blue boots and took a step forward. With a whoosh, he instantly appeared thirty feet away, narrowly missing a giant tree.
Instantly twisting his body and taking another step, Lu Tiandu reappeared several dozen feet away.
He remained unhurried, continuing to experiment with his newly acquired magical weapon within the woods.
A moment later, Lu Tiandu's smile widened.
"It's truly a top-tier treasure!"
He had now fully grasped the magical weapon's purpose, feeling immensely satisfied. "And it's a wind-attributed magical weapon that matches my needs!"
This was the third wind-attributed magical weapon he had acquired, following the Wind Sword and the Green Dragon Flag.
Only then did Lu Tiandu feel that his journey had been truly worthwhile.
With his perfectly refined wind-attributed spiritual power, he could even reach a distance of thirty or forty feet in one step, comparable to the performance achieved by Junior Brother Liu, a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, using these boots. This was truly beyond his expectations.
However, any further distances caused him to feel a bit unwell, and he suspected that short-distance teleportation required a certain level of physical strength.
However, he would next go to the Spirit Beast Mountain Market to test some of his theories. If all went well, this wouldn't be a problem.
Lu Tiandu glanced at the boots again. He remembered that in the original novel, such boot-like magical instruments were extremely rare. The most famous were the Four-Sided Flying Boots, found on a bear corpse. Even cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage couldn't catch up with those in the later stages, demonstrating their exceptional speed.
Because of his Wind Spiritual Root's natural gift for speed, he was extremely interested in any magical instrument that could increase his speed, but in all these years, he hadn't found a single such treasure.
While selling Dingyan Pills and talismans along the way, he had been planning to acquire some magical instruments for his journey to the Blood Forbidden Land, but unfortunately, he only managed to obtain the Purple Lightning Pouch.
He had originally planned to seize the Cloud-Stepping Boots from Feng Yue once he entered the Blood Forbidden Land, but unexpectedly, he found a supreme magical instrument here, surpassing even those in speed. This delighted him greatly.
Lu Tiandu stroked his chin, his eyes gleaming again.
Instantly, his figure faded into thin air. A moment later, Lu Tiandu, invisible, reappeared in another location dozens of feet away. Another blink, and he reappeared somewhere else. This repeated pattern of events several times before Lu Tiandu finally reappeared in another location, creating a strange and eerie feeling.
"So the combination of the Gauze Cloak and these Heavenly Wind Boots is truly remarkable!"
Lu Tiandu's eyes were filled with surprise.
He felt that the combination of these two treasures would be a perfect match for an assassination.
As long as his spiritual energy within the Gauze Cloak didn't extend beyond three feet of his body, his invisibility would be undetectable to anyone below the Jindan stage, save for those with certain eye-level magical powers. The Heavenly Wind Boots, like short-range teleportation, allowed him to close in on his enemies instantly.
As long as the opponent hadn't deployed a defensive magical tool beforehand, he could kill them instantly if their cultivation level was comparable.
"The only drawback is that I can only summon two magical instruments at the moment. If I want to use them again after simultaneously invisibility and teleportation, I'll have to give up both invisibility and teleportation... Perhaps I need to forge a few short magical weapons?"
Lu Tiandu pondered the current problems he faced with these instruments.
Even the strange man peeping from afar was surprised: "Where did this little guy come from? With these two treasures working together, who of the same level can escape his sneak attack?"
"But, as for that matter, the stronger this little guy is, the better, as that would increase the chances of success!"
At this thought, a few snow-white teeth peeked out from his greasy, black face, giving people a strange feeling.
"This trip was truly worthwhile! Maybe there's a chance I can kill that guy in return."
Lu Tiandu, who had originally planned to return to confirm the outcome, was now excited.
Acquiring the three demon beast corpses wasn't enough; the truly rare item was these Heavenly Wind Boots.
With this treasure, he now had the confidence to deal with the white-clad figure from the Moon-Blanking Sect.
After checking the area for any anomalies, Lu Tiandu waved his sleeves, unleashing a spiritual shuttle that instantly returned to the nameless hill.
The total time it had taken him to return and adjust to the Heavenly Wind Boots was less than two-quarters of an hour.
Lu Tiandu returned to the formation and raised the formation flag again, concealing himself and observing the man in white.
He was still sitting on the lotus defensive artifact, healing and restoring his mana, but a gray hue occasionally crossed his face, giving Lu Tiandu a slight quirk.
Lu Tiandu's mana wasn't at full strength due to his earlier journey and adjusting to the Wind Boots and gauze cloak, but he wasn't in a hurry. He took out two mid-level wind-attribute spirit stones and began to replenish his mana.
A quarter of an hour later, feeling his mana had mostly recovered, Lu Tiandu stopped wasting time, fearing any further mishaps.
A flash of light passed under his feet, and Lu Tiandu, carrying the formation flag on his back, instantly appeared more than 40 feet away from the man in white. With a flick of his five fingers, more than a dozen mid-level talismans of various colors were activated and shot towards the man in white...
(End of this chapter)