Chapter 47

"Senior Brother, I know my strength is too weak to be of much help in battle. But I am very good at other things."

"Senior Brother, you look like someone who is wholeheartedly seeking the Dao and improving your strength. I can take care of many miscellaneous tasks within the sect, such as buying things or gathering information!"

Faced with Su Shier's refusal, Zhu Hanwei did not give up but smiled and called out.

He knew the principle of playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses.

Gathering information?

Su Shier was about to speed away, but upon hearing this, he suddenly changed his mind.

That black-clothed person had a Venerable behind him, and it was unknown what kind of background he had. To seek revenge, strength was certainly important, but sufficient information was also necessary.

Relying on my own strength, I can't fully focus on both improving my strength and investigating. Moreover, that black-clothed person knows my life is at risk, and I am always in danger of being exposed. Many things are not suitable for me to handle personally.

Thinking about this, Su Shier had an idea.

"Let's go, find a secluded place and wait for the trial to end!"

"Good! Alright!"

Zhu Hanwei's face lit up with joy, and he nodded hurriedly, then added, "Senior Brother, I know a secluded place! Thirty miles west from here, there is a cave."

Su Shier nodded, "Let's go there! With your strength, being able to hold on until now, you must have some skills."

Zhu Hanwei shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Senior Brother, I don't have those skills. In the trial, disciples like me with low cultivation are not taken seriously by others."

"If I encounter someone powerful, I just lower my head, let them check my storage bag, and I can leave."

Su Shier thought about it and realized it was true. The disciples here were all after heavenly treasures. The chances of low-cultivation disciples finding good things were too low.

"Why were you being pursued by that person earlier?" Su Shier asked further.

Zhu Hanwei pouted, "This matter is depressing. A few days ago, the disciples of Tianhua Peak went crazy and started killing disciples from other peaks, regardless of their cultivation level. If they encountered someone, they would kill them!"

"Suddenly, the entire trial area was in chaos. All kinds of monsters came out, and we low-cultivation disciples suffered, being pursued everywhere."

"I heard that someone stole their things, but no one knows who did it!"

Zhu Hanwei became more and more depressed. To him, this was a completely unjust disaster!

"Uh..." Su Shier immediately understood, his lips twitching slightly, and he did not extend the topic further.

An hour later, the two arrived at a secluded cave.

Returning Zhu Hanwei's storage bag and giving him ten ordinary second-grade spirit materials, Su Shier walked to a corner of the cave, took out a mat, and sat down cross-legged.

He now had plenty of spirit materials. Since he planned to use Zhu Hanwei, it would definitely be more beneficial for him to become a formal disciple.

This logic, Su Shier understood.

Without rushing to cultivate, he sat on the mat and first inventoried the items from the hook-nosed man.

There were no fewer than fifty storage bags.

There were nearly two hundred spirit materials, and a total of eleven low-grade magical artifacts of various kinds.

These magical artifacts were of such low quality that they no longer caught Su Shier's eye.

After organizing the messy items, Su Shier's gaze fell on the last three items.

The first was the longbow used by the hook-nosed man, a deep green longbow with the words "Heavenly Wolf Bow" carved on it.

It was just a low-grade magical artifact, but bow-type magical artifacts were relatively rare, so it had some value.

"This longbow can condense true essence into attack arrows, with power comparable to the Fire Control Spell, but with slightly less true essence consumption."

"However, this alone is not enough to produce such astonishing power!"

Su Shier narrowed his eyes, remembering the astonishing arrow the hook-nosed man had fired.

That arrow's power was comparable to a full-strength attack from an excellent-grade magical artifact, and even surpassed it by a margin.

His gaze shifted to the second item.

It was a quiver containing three black arrows.

The arrows were entirely black and shiny, with the words "Explosive Arrow" carved on them, and they contained astonishing spiritual energy fluctuations.

"Explosive Arrow! A one-time-use high-grade magical artifact, no wonder it has such astonishing power!"

Su Shier took a deep breath, his face showing joy.

At first glance, he knew that these arrows were responsible for the astonishing attack.

The power of the Explosive Arrow, which he had seen with his own eyes, was truly a killer move.

"With this arrow and this longbow, the attack is indeed unexpected. With this, I have another means of self-preservation."

Smiling, Su Shier put the two items into his storage ring.

His gaze then fell on the last item, a black bead.

The bead was entirely black and emitted a cold aura. When he touched it, it felt icy and bone-chilling.

Su Shier tried to inject true essence into it and immediately felt that the bead contained a mass of sinister black sand.

The black sand occupied one-third of the bead's space and became particularly active under his true essence, ready to burst out at any moment.

"This black sand is not simple, but it seems to be a consumable item? No matter, it can be useful in a critical moment!"

Thinking to himself, Su Shier put the Yin Wind Bead into his storage ring.

He then took out a Zhu Fruit, swallowed it, and continued to cultivate.

Time passed, and more than thirty days went by.

That morning, Su Shier opened his eyes.

Now, his spiritual energy was rich. After refining a Zhu Fruit and over twenty days of hard cultivation, his cultivation had finally reached the peak of the sixth level of the Qi Condensation stage.

Feeling the thick true essence in his dantian, he smiled slightly, unable to hide his joy.

In just five years, he had improved his cultivation to this level. Even the talented geniuses within the sect were no better. And he was just a minor figure with mixed spiritual roots.

"Senior Brother, the teleportation talisman has been fully charged, and we can leave now." At the cave entrance, seeing Su Shier open his eyes, Zhu Hanwei, holding a teleportation talisman, called out excitedly.

"No rush! I need to organize my things first!"

Su Shier said calmly, sitting in place and beginning to inventory and organize all his resources.

He planned to organize all the most precious and important resources into the storage ring in his hand.

This storage ring was a good thing, more convenient to use than a storage bag, and completely undetectable.

...

At the same time.

Within Yun Ge Sect, more than ten figures broke through the air, one after another, arriving at the valley where the ancient teleportation array was set up.

They exchanged glances and did not waste words. Under the lead of the Grand Elder of Tian Shu Peak, they all injected true essence into the array.

The earth trembled, and the immense ancient array reappeared in their line of sight.

Then, they all focused on the array, their expressions slightly tense.

After all, this time they were going to a new place, and the disciples sent were all of low strength. No one could be sure how many resources they would bring back.

But the amount of resources they brought back was crucial for the subsequent development of each peak. They were all direct beneficiaries.

Moreover, each peak had revealed some of their trump cards for this trial. For a moment, their thoughts were varied.