Chapter 11: Harvest

Seeing the great array start to operate again, Chen Mobai finally let out a sigh of relief.

He wanted to sit down and rest, but the sight of the two bodies in the water palace made him lose his mood.

Every time he closed his eyes, he saw their unpeaceful expressions.

However, Chen Mobai had no experience in dealing with corpses. He paced back and forth in the hall, looking at the dead fish and wondering if he should throw the bodies into the water outside the array for the fish to eat clean.

But after careful consideration, Chen Mobai shook his head.

Although he didn't know where this Donghuang was, he had been obsessed with various detective dramas since childhood and felt that the fish here shouldn't be that fierce, capable of completely destroying the bodies without a trace.

To avoid the bodies floating to the surface and being discovered by the cultivators of Donghuang, Chen Mobai thought it was the safest way to completely eliminate all traces of the two people within the water palace.

But how to do it?

Chen Mobai walked back and forth with a worried look, thinking about burning them. However, he had no cultivation in fire techniques, and even if the temperature was sufficient, in this enclosed space, he, an ordinary high school student, couldn't bring himself to burn the bodies.

Finally, he walked to the old man's dismembered body, trying to suppress his natural reaction, and was about to turn away when he saw the sealed stone door of the side hall.

"Right, I can use the restrictions here."

Remembering how the coin he used to test the restrictions was vaporized by the azure electric light, Chen Mobai felt his idea should work.

Wasting no time, he took immediate action.

Mainly, he really didn't want to stay with the bodies any longer.

Using the most proficient lifting technique he had cultivated, he lifted one of the old man's arms and threw it toward the stone door of the side hall.

A "sizzle" sound!

As expected, without the protection of spiritual energy and a shield, the blood-stained arm was instantly vaporized by the azure electric light, turning into a large cloud of blood mist that slightly stained the floor tiles. The blood splattered on the stone door triggered the restriction's power.

Zzzz...

Next, the entire water palace was immersed in the continuous flashing and flickering of electric light.

After five rounds, the old man's body was finally completely processed.

Chen Mobai was surprised to find that the restriction on the stone door of the side hall seemed to have weakened.

"It seems the restriction of the side hall is not connected to the entire water palace's spirit vein. This makes breaking the restriction much easier."

An excellent array master would link the important structures in the protective array to the entire spirit vein, so as long as the array was not broken and the spirit vein was not dispersed, the restriction on the structures would immediately recover even if it was worn down.

Although this Bishui Array was not bad, it was clear that the array setter had merely purchased the array disk and array flags and set them up by rote.

After processing the old man's body parts, Chen Mobai found a blood-stained cloth bag on the floor tiles. Following the principle of caution, he used the lifting technique to lift the bag and then emptied its contents from a distance.

A jumble of items.

Besides a dozen neatly cut gold bars, there were two booklets, three bottles of pills, a short knife, and a set of spare robes.

Chen Mobai's breathing quickened when he saw the gold bars. Although their value was not as high as in the previous civilization, in the immortal sects, they were still a cultivation material. Whether used as gold powder for writing talismans after special processing or refined into gold essence, they had a significant market.

These dozen gold bars, roughly estimated, were worth about 800 merit points. If handled well, they could yield nearly 1,000 merit points.

Chen Mobai, who had never owned so much money before, felt a bit agitated.

He then picked up the two booklets and flipped through them. One was the old man's cultivation technique, named "Black Water Technique." Chen Mobai put it down after a glance, as it wasn't the time to study it.

The other one made his breathing quicken when he saw the title.

"Comprehensive Explanation of the Bishui Array"

This was actually the manual for the entire water palace's protective array. Chen Mobai had thought the old man was lying when he said he was the disciple of the water palace's master, but now, seeing this book, he believed it might be true.

However, the array book was quite thick. Chen Mobai checked his phone and saw that he only had an hour before class, so he didn't study it in detail.

At this point, he thought of another issue: could he take these items back to the city?

With this question in mind, he began to process the body of the brown-clothed youth.

This time, with experience, he used the lifting technique to search and indeed found six hidden pockets in the youth's sleeves.

A bottle of pills, two white jade stones, a foldable crossbow, and a manual for the Flying Needle Sect.

He then opened the palm-sized needle box in the youth's hand and collected the earth-yellow flying needles he had shot everywhere. Chen Mobai, feeling satisfied, gathered the items from the old man's bag and placed them together.

After using the stone door restriction to vaporize the bodies again, Chen Mobai used the old man's spare robes as a cloth to wipe all the blood-stained areas in the water palace.

He used the lifting technique to meticulously clean the bloodstains on the floor tiles in front of the side hall door, even collecting the fish.

Everything was restored to cleanliness, and Chen Mobai felt a sense of accomplishment, as if he had tidied up his own home.

He plopped down in the middle of the hall, in front of the pile of loot he had painstakingly recovered.

The old man's bag was also bloodstained, and Chen Mobai, finding it ominous, did not use it. He took off his shirt, laid it on the floor tiles, and then placed the items on it one by one.

Finally, he touched the two white jade stones, and a gentle, pure spiritual energy flowed through the meridians in his palm, like a warm current, making Chen Mobai shiver involuntarily, almost moaning in pleasure.

"Could this... be... spirit stones!"

If the previous items had only excited Chen Mobai, these two white jade stones made him completely lose his composure.

After all, in the immortal sects, these things were as valuable as gold in the previous civilization on Earth.

However, due to the resource scarcity on Earth, all the spirit stone mines had been thoroughly explored, and except during war, all spirit stone mines were not allowed to be mined.

Even so, according to the latest financial report from the immortal sects, the spirit stone reserves on Earth were already in a precarious state.

If it weren't for a genius who invented a technique two thousand years ago, which could recharge dried spirit stones to 80% of their original state, the merit point system of the immortal sects would have collapsed long ago due to the lack of sufficient spirit stones for exchange.

But even so, the immortal sects only allowed cultivators to exchange merit points for spirit stones at the bank during war.

One ten-thousand merit points were equivalent to one low-grade spirit stone.