"Sigh..."
"This is way too much."
Zhi Meng opened Liu Liangsheng's storage ring, the space within resembling a small realm.
Countless fingernail-sized immortal crystals, crystal clear, piled up into mountains, exuding wisps of immortal aura.
With a sweep of her divine sense, there were exactly twelve trillion.
In addition, there were mountains of jade boxes containing millions of immortal spirit herbs.
Rows of jade bottles held immortal pills—thousands of lower-grade pills and several dozen middle-grade pills.
There were also mountains of rare ores, divine iron, and more.
Over a hundred divine artifacts, and seven Heavenly Artifacts.
A divine-grade flying boat, and ten small to medium-sized flying boats capable of crossing time-space turbulence.
Liu Liangsheng's assets were simply absurdly large.
Had Liu Liangsheng brought the entire treasury of Heshan Immortal City with him?
No, that shouldn't be right.
Given Liu Liangsheng's greedy and unscrupulous nature, his bottomless willingness to harm low-level cultivators, it wasn't surprising he had so many assets.
After all, Liu Liangsheng was the City Lord; it would have been far too easy for him to plunder resources.
"We've struck it rich," Zhi Meng said with an excited expression.
After all, with her Divine Flame Realm cultivation, even if she risked her life, without robbing others, it might take her a hundred years to accumulate even ten billion immortal crystals.
After all, she needed to cultivate too.
This was also why most Divine Flame Realm cultivators were practically penniless, with barely any immortal crystals to their name besides their magical treasures.
She had robbed several Divine Flame Realm cultivators and only obtained several hundred thousand immortal crystals.
Only during special occasions, when Divine Flame Realm cultivators needed to purchase treasures to assist in breaking through realms, would they accumulate immortal crystals.
And now, to suddenly obtain over ten trillion immortal crystals, along with numerous immortal pills, immortal herbs, and magical treasures—Liu Liangsheng's years of accumulation had all become her windfall.
It was enough for her and Gu Qing to cultivate all the way to the Profound Divine Realm.
"Hmm? What kind of treasure is this?"
Zhi Meng's divine sense swept over a jade bottle that was placed separately, but her divine sense couldn't penetrate the bottle's restriction.
Moreover, this bottle's restriction was too advanced; she couldn't break it for the time being.
Forcing it open would only cause the bottle to self-destruct.
"What's wrong?"
After three days of recovery, Gu Qing had fully healed.
Seeing Zhi Meng's excited expression, he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Disciple, we've struck it rich."
"The restriction on this jade bottle is quite advanced. See if you can break it."
Zhi Meng's stunningly beautiful face was filled with a bright smile, her porcelain-white skin flushed as her slender, fair jade hands held the jade bottle, offering it to Gu Qing.
Struck by the sudden impact of her stunning beauty, Gu Qing blanked out for a moment, reciting the calming mantra three times before he could suppress his agitation.
Since Jiang Yu had left, Zhi Meng had become increasingly vibrant and lively.
Every frown and smile revealed an elegant nobility, so breathtakingly beautiful it was incredibly striking.
Her pair of auspicious phoenix eyes, having shed their coldness, now showed nothing but tenderness, lively and divinely spirited.
The upward tilt of her eyes' corners made her originally aloof face reveal a charming and captivating expression.
Gu Qing couldn't help but picture in his mind the domineering and proud Zhi Meng, panting softly, her phoenix eyes hazy, the corners of her eyes tilted upward...
"Sigh, can't think about it, can't think about it. This is the villainous Master who cultivates by killing her husband. Although she's enchanting, she's even more dangerous."
Shaking his head, he shook the unseemly image out of his mind.
Gu Qing took the jade bottle, used his Dao Pupils to directly pass through the restriction, and saw the Time Essence inside. His hand trembled, and he almost couldn't hold it steady.
"What's wrong?"
"Master, we've struck it rich. Inside is Time Essence."
Time Essence contained the Laws of Time. Not only could it help one comprehend the Laws of Time, but its most important function was to cleanse one's Dao foundation aptitude and reshape one's foundation.
The Morning Dusk Sea attracted countless prodigies and monstrous talents to enter one after another, and the biggest reason was because of the Time Essence.
Which prodigy wouldn't want their foundation and background to reach a higher level?
"Good, good, good!"
Zhi Meng was overjoyed, saying "good" several times in a row, then raised the storage ring in her hand.
"There's another surprise inside, take a look."
Gu Qing scanned with his divine sense and was instantly dazzled by the overwhelming wealth inside.
Damn it, how many people did Liu Liangsheng rob?
While others risked their lives fighting demonic beasts for billions of immortal crystals, Liu Liangsheng already had so many that his storage ring could barely hold them all.
It could only be said that some die of drought while others drown in plenty.
Gu Qing took all the immortal spirit medicines, another one hundred billion immortal crystals, and a medium-sized defensive shuttle that could withstand time turbulence.
"Not taking more?" Zhi Meng frowned.
"It's enough."
Gu Qing shook his head. He didn't use immortal crystals for cultivation, so having more would be useless. Taking one hundred billion for self-defense was already sufficient.
If something couldn't be bought with one hundred billion immortal crystals, then it wasn't a matter of immortal crystals.
He had Zhi Meng take out the Chaos Cauldron and fill it for her, enough for her to cultivate to the peak of the Profound Divine Realm.
Zhi Meng's expression grew complex, and the joy from obtaining the massive sum of ten billion instantly vanished.
Both of them tacitly didn't mention the four words "Primordial Yellow Qi." Zhi Meng summoned the shuttle.
"Come on, let's go to the Soul-Sea Crossing. There might be Immortal Flowers there."
The Soul-Sea Crossing was like a soul realm, the most likely place for Immortal Flowers to grow.
Gu Qing sat at the bow of the shuttle, glanced inside, and showed a look of disdain.
The shuttle's space was too small, only six square meters, and this was considered medium-sized; small ones were only three square meters.
Additionally, this kind of defensive shuttle that could withstand time turbulence isolated it from the outside world, making it almost impossible to sense the Heavenly Laws from within.
This meant one couldn't comprehend the Dao while on the shuttle.
"Forget it, I'll just make do for now."
Gu Qing exhaled, his consciousness sinking into his sea of consciousness.
Check the rewards for killing Liu Liangsheng.
After all, this was a super realm-leaping kill, and the treasures rewarded by the system were no less than the rewards for killing a Child of Fortune.
[Congratulations, Host, for super realm-leaping kill. Reward: Spacetime Shuttle.]
"..."
Gu Qing's heart suddenly raced as if a deer was running wild, and he couldn't wait to check the Spacetime Shuttle.
This was a flying boat containing the two supreme laws of time and space, capable of withstanding a full-force bombardment from a Profound Divine Expert.
As for its speed, when fully activated, it could leap through time and space, tear apart cosmic planes, and even an Immortal King couldn't catch up.
Gu Qing was ecstatic: "Father, no, Mother, I love you to death."
Although he already possessed a flying boat that was fearless of time turbulence, it was too small and couldn't be used for cultivation.
Moreover, its speed was deathly slow.
It didn't even have one-thousandth of the speed when he was flying through the air. Such a flying boat was only meant to deal with time turbulence.
Besides that, it was completely useless.
Therefore, what he lacked most right now was a super-fast flying boat that was fearless of the laws of time.
It was truly a case of whatever he lacked, his System Father provided, so heartwarming.
[...]
Thank you, but can you not lock me in the little black room?
A filial son?
Gu Qing claimed the Spacetime Shuttle and looked at the boundless void, his heart rising with boundless ambition and surging passion.
The mysterious and boundless universe of time and space awaited his conquest.
Gu Qing turned his head, looking at Zhi Meng's flawless profile, her snow-white skin tinged with pink.
"Master, how much longer until we reach the Soul Crossing Sea?"
Zhi Meng gently brushed her hair, secretly calculating for a moment before her red lips parted: "If everything goes smoothly, it should take about ten years."
"Ten years?"
"At least ten years, at the fastest." Zhi Meng replied with absolute certainty.
Gu Qing's expression stiffened, not knowing what he was thinking, as he took out the positioning jade slip given to him by Jiang Yu.
Looking at the location marked on it, Time's Dusk.
"If we go to Time's Dusk, how long would it take?" Gu Qing swallowed hard, an ominous premonition rising in his heart.
He stared intently at Zhi Meng's plump and rosy lips, hoping she would say a number he liked.
Zhi Meng frowned and calculated for a moment before saying: "With our current cultivation level, it would take at least one hundred thousand years."
"???"
Gu Qing was struck as if by lightning, stammering: "Is the Morning Dusk Sea really that big? Master, you're lying to me, right?"
"Am I lying to you?"
Zhi Meng rolled her eyes helplessly and said: "Do you think this is the Lower Realm?"
"You should properly understand the vastness of the Immortal Realm. There are countless secret realms similar to the Morning Dusk Sea."
After speaking, a sense of helplessness rose in Zhi Meng's heart.
The Immortal Realm was boundless and immense; a single secret realm was already unimaginably vast.
Compared to the boundless Immortal Realm, Zhi Meng felt she was as insignificant as cosmic dust.
This trip to the Sea of Souls would take ten years; if she were to go to the Time Dusk that Gu Qing mentioned... she didn't even dare to think about it.
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