Arriving at the Lotus Pavilion, Yang Hong did not need to empty the contents of his storage bag.
He was now a cultivator in the Fusion Realm, able to quickly search through his storage bag with his divine sense.
"Female cultivators are such a hassle, with another pile of useless things!"
It wasn't that they were truly useless, but rather that Yang Hong couldn't use them.
In the three storage bags, Yang Hong found over 800 sets of women's clothing, exceeding 4,000 pieces if counted individually.
What a waste of storage space.
And these were just ordinary clothes, not artifact clothes.
Artifact clothes were scarce, only 5 sets – one for each of the two female disciples and three for the alluring female cultivator.
There were plenty of other artifact-level items, over 300 pieces, but their quality was exceptionally poor.
More than half were low-grade Tier 1 artifacts, with only 38 Tier 2 artifacts, similar to the previous female cultivator Yang Hong had killed.
There were 6 Tier 3 artifacts, fewer than the set of Radiant Robes possessed by the previous female cultivator.
Furthermore, that female cultivator's Radiant Robes had 5 sets of Tier 3 quality,
along with more than ten other assorted Tier 3 artifacts.
This left Yang Hong very perplexed about the identities of these three individuals.
Of course, there was another possibility: the good items might have been placed by the alluring female cultivator into Old Daoist Yuan's storage ring.
To Yang Hong, the three female cultivators felt like only one thing:
Poor!
Fortunately, he wouldn't complain about these spoils; the low-grade artifacts could be gradually given to Song Yuzhi and the others.
After inventorying the artifacts, it was time for the elixirs.
There were over 230 bottles.
However, looking at the porcelain bottles, Yang Hong dared not consume them.
They were again elixirs with only color differences and no labels or descriptions.
Yang Hong didn't want to accidentally poison himself.
Next was a small pile of exquisite jade, which Yang Hong suspected might be spirit stones.
Finally, the main focus of Yang Hong's harvest – secret manuals!
A large pile of various types of secret manuals.
There were common paper manuals, parchment scrolls, stone tablets, and even oracle bone inscriptions.
The quantity was enormous, totaling over ten thousand in all.
"Heh heh! Found them!"
"I knew it, how could a cultivator not have jade slips?
Jade slips are the true books of cultivators."
The two smaller storage bags contained no jade slips, only the large one did,
and there were quite a few, 46 in total.
"46 jade slips, this should be enough for me to evolve my cultivation technique once?"
Calculating the number of jade slips, Yang Hong's mood became excited.
Glancing at the time, it was already midnight, so no one would disturb him.
Looking at the sky, the moonlight was bright, a good night for sleeping.
Suitable for opening jade slips.
Without any ceremony, Yang Hong picked up a jade slip and began to place it on his forehead.
"Basic Fire Elemental Spell!"
"This is good. Although it only contains one firebolt spell, its applications and transformations amount to 8 variations, equivalent to 8 spells."
The first jade slip wasn't a cultivation technique, but a spell, yet it was quite practical.
In the future, when surviving in the wilderness, he wouldn't need to carry a lighter.
"Minor Rain Conjuration, for summoning rain. Can it be used for irrigation?
Not bad, not bad. This will save me the work of watering when I farm in the future."
The second spell was a water-elemental spell, which Yang Hong favored even more.
This spell would be perfect for farming.
In a good mood, Yang Hong began to read the next jade slip.
"This one is okay."
"Alas~ there's a spell like this too."
By the fourth one, Yang Hong's brow furrowed.
"Blood Drinking Technique," a spell for absorbing the blood of living beings to heal injuries.
Furthermore, the spell specifically stated that the blood of intelligent beings was more effective, with human blood being the best.
This was an evil spell designed for killing, treating human lives as medicine and food.
"Crack~"
With a crisp sound,
Yang Hong directly crushed the jade slip, destroying this spell.
Of course, he couldn't completely destroy the spell.
He had only destroyed this carrier; there would surely be more jade slips and more cultivators who knew this spell.
Destruction was endless.
Frowning, Yang Hong continued to examine other jade slips.
Throughout the night, Yang Hong finished reading all 46 jade slips.
Among them were only 6 cultivation techniques, not enough to achieve the goal of cultivation technique evolution.
There were 28 spells: 19 Tier 1 spells, 6 Tier 2 spells, and 3 Tier 3 spells.
There were no higher or better spells.
However, from the jade slips, Yang Hong also learned that spells of the same tier have varying degrees of strength and weakness.
Spells were divided into 5 grades: Minor Spell, Common Spell, Major Spell, Secret Spell, and Divine Ability.
And the legendary Immortal Spell, usable only by Immortals.
Taking Tier 1 spells as an example,
A Tier 1 Minor Spell consumes 1 point of True Qi to cast, dealing 1 point of attack damage.
Such spells are actually similar to the damage of martial arts, only with a longer attack range.
A Tier 1 Common Spell consumes 2 points of True Qi to cast, dealing 4 points of attack damage.
The True Qi consumption increased, but the damage effect increased even more.
A Tier 1 Major Spell consumes 8 points of True Qi, dealing 8 points of damage.
The damage increased again, but the True Qi consumed matched the damage.
Secret Spells were somewhat different.
Secret Spells generally consumed 100 points of True Qi as a starting point, and 100 points of True Qi theoretically represented the entire True Qi of a cultivator at the first level of Foundation Establishment.
The effects produced by Secret Spells varied dramatically.
Some Secret Spells, with 100 points of True Qi consumed, could only deal 1 point of damage, but had special effects.
For example, the alluring female cultivator's scream was a type of Secret Spell. Although it didn't deal direct attack damage,
her scream was a mental charm attack, directly affecting others' minds and souls.
More Secret Spells could, with 100 True Qi, unleash 1,000, or even 10,000 points of damage.
As for the even more powerful Divine Abilities, they were high-level spells that required the Nascent Soul Realm and comprehension of heavenly laws to learn.
Immortal Spells, as the name suggests, were spells used by Immortals.
In the jade slips Yang Hong obtained, there was only this explanation, with no further details.
After reading these explanations, Yang Hong felt his horizons were greatly broadened.
It also made him look forward to spells even more.
However, among the 28 spells, excluding the one named "Spring Scenery Demonic Sound," which was a Tier 3 Secret Spell, most were Common Spells and Minor Spells.
There were no Major Spells.
Of course, regardless of the spell, with the Divine Imprint System, Yang Hong could cultivate them very quickly.
With the correction and evolution functions of the Divine Imprint System, he could definitely surpass his predecessors and excel.
Making his spells even more powerful.
The last 12 jade slips were not cultivation techniques or spells but contained cultivation insights and travelogues of immortal cultivators.
Seemingly the most useless, they were the most useful to Yang Hong.
One of these jade slips was the cultivation journal of the alluring female cultivator.
This female cultivator, named Dong Chunyan, was originally a courtesan.
Later, after serving a rogue cultivator to his satisfaction, she obtained a rudimentary cultivation technique.
With her own efforts, talent, and charm, she kept finding opportunities to serve immortal cultivators.
It took her over fifty years to cultivate to the late stage of Qi Condensation.
By this age, she could no longer do many things, nor did she want to.
She found an opportunity to fake her death, left the brothel she managed, and used the knowledge she had gleaned from immortal cultivators to gradually improve her standing in the immortal cultivation world.
And her luck was quite good; during an adventure, she actually found the ruins of a "Succubus Sect" cave dwelling.
Within it, Dong Chunyan gained the opportunity for her rise. In ten years, she soared from the ninth level of Qi Condensation.
When Yang Hong killed her, she had already reached the peak of the Fusion Realm, on the verge of breaking through to the Golden Core realm.
However, she was again an unfortunate transporter of wealth.
Meeting Yang Hong, all her life's fortune became Yang Hong's spoils.