Li Guanqi sheathed the Red Lotus Sword back into its sword box with a swift motion.

He glanced at the two daggers scattered on the ground and reached out to grab them.

Upon closer inspection, he found that the blades were still intact, emitting a faint glow.

Clearly, these were no ordinary items; they were rare spiritual weapon daggers.

With a quick thrust, he plunged his sword into Yu Heng’s chest, finally feeling a bit more at ease.

After completing this, Li Guanqi searched Yu Heng’s body and found five or six storage bags.

He then rummaged through the other two corpses, taking the long whip from the woman’s hand.

In total, he had nine storage bags.

Looking at the storage bags in his hand, Li Guanqi couldn’t help but murmur.

“Are Golden Elixir stage cultivators really this poor? Not even a storage ring?”

However, when he opened all the storage bags, he was stunned!

Inside these ten storage bags, there were a total of eight thousand low-grade Spirit Stones!

Yu Heng’s storage bag alone contained thirty mid-grade Spirit Stones!

There were also various demon beast materials, beast cores, and some low-grade Spirit Herbs and Pills.

Altogether, these items were worth at least two thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.

In total, just the Spirit Stones amounted to fifteen thousand!

Li Guanqi smacked his lips and stored everything in his storage ring, cursing under his breath.

“No wonder Grandpa always said that robbing in the Cultivation World is the fastest way to make money!”

“Truly, a horse can’t get fat without wild grass, and a man can’t get rich without ill-gotten gains…”

He took out some corpse-dissolving powder bought from the sect’s Treasure Pavilion and searched the three bodies twice more, finding nothing else.

Li Guanqi sprinkled the white powder from the jade bottle onto the three corpses and erased all traces of the battle before stopping.

He flew over to the silent Ye Feng, stuffed a green antidote pill into his mouth, and then sat quietly on a tree branch to carefully count his gains.

There were two bottles of enhancement pills for Golden Elixir stage cultivators, totaling forty pills.

However, their appearance was pitted and had a pungent smell.

Li Guanqi frowned and muttered.

“Can this even be called a pill? It’s more like a pellet.”

“This probably doesn’t even have sixty percent of its potency!”

Disappointed, he tossed the pills into his storage ring and found a jade slip.

The green jade slip was unremarkable, with a mark left by Yu Heng before his death.

With a surge of his Divine Sense, Li Guanqi instantly erased the mark.

His Divine Sense probed the jade slip and discovered it contained a rather intricate technique for concealing and altering one’s aura.

However, the technique was somewhat limited, only barely effective against those of the same level.

Li Guanqi pondered for a moment but decided to memorize the technique.

Better to have it than not.

After a long while, Ye Feng’s complexion finally regained some color.

But he still didn’t open his eyes, prompting Li Guanqi to slap him on the head and scold.

“Stop pretending. If you’re awake, open your eyes.”

Ye Feng opened his eyes, scratched his head awkwardly, and called out with a fawning smile.

“Boss…”

Li Guanqi’s expression turned cold as he looked at him calmly and asked.

“Do you realize your mistake?”

Ye Feng lowered his head, not daring to meet his gaze, and softly replied.

“I do.”

“What was your mistake?”

“I shouldn’t have meddled…”

Smack!

Ye Feng held his head in confusion and said.

“Wasn’t that it?”

Li Guanqi’s anger flared even more. He took a deep breath and said sternly.

“No!”

“It’s because you didn’t keep your promise to listen to me in everything!”

“Didn’t I tell you not to go?”

Ye Feng lowered his head, his expression complicated, and said.

“I’m sorry, Boss. I was wrong.”

“I promise it won’t happen again.”

“In the future, if you say east, I won’t go west!”

Seeing his sincere remorse, Li Guanqi’s anger subsided a bit.

He said, “Just this once. If it happens again, you’ll go back to the sect on your own!”

These words were heavy, and Ye Feng understood his mistake.

If Li Guanqi had really left at that time, he would have been dead for sure!

So, it’s not an exaggeration to say he owed his life to Li Guanqi.

Li Guanqi continued.

“You’re usually pretty smart. Why were you acting like an idiot this time?”

“In this vast wilderness, how could you just happen to run into such a situation?”

“That woman ran straight towards us, and that bearded guy had several chances to kill her directly!”

The more Li Guanqi spoke, the lower Ye Feng’s head hung.

Thinking back, everything was indeed as suspicious as Li Guanqi said.

“Remember, there are no such coincidences in this world!”

“If something seems too coincidental, you’re probably being set up.”

“Who knows how many people that woman tricked with that Blood Essence Fruit core.”

Ye Feng nodded heavily, his eyes full of remorse, clearly taking these words to heart.

Seeing this, Li Guanqi decided not to say more.

He had said enough today. If Ye Feng could take it to heart, great. If not, they probably couldn’t continue together in the future.

Li Guanqi sighed, casually tossing the jade slip to Ye Feng and said.

“It’s a technique I found on them. You should practice it; it might come in handy someday.”

He also took out a storage bag and gave Ye Feng three thousand Spirit Stones.

Ye Feng shook his head and refused, feeling too guilty to accept anything.

Li Guanqi forcefully shoved the items into his hand and said.

“Take it! Improving your strength is the most important thing right now.”

“It’s just some Spirit Stones. You can give me something good in return later.”

The Spirit Stones he had wouldn’t last long anyway. The sword box still contained a Thunder Dragon egg, which was a gold-devouring beast.

So far, the egg had only grown slightly larger, with no other changes.

If he didn’t think it would be impressive to ride a dragon in the future, he would have given up long ago.

After bandaging Ye Feng’s leg wound, neither of them felt sleepy anymore.

They decided to leave, as the earlier battle might attract unwanted trouble. It was better to pack up and move on.

Li Guanqi also found a map on Wen Mei’s body.

The map wasn’t large, covering only a ten-thousand-mile radius.

After choosing a direction, Li Guanqi led Ye Feng to a nearby city to find a place to settle down and see if there were any hidden paradises around.

Little did Li Guanqi know, today’s events would bring significant changes to Ye Feng’s future.