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"Senior Brother, I know my skills are lacking and I can't help much in battles. But I'm quite good at other things."
"Senior Brother, you seem to be someone who is wholeheartedly pursuing the Dao and improving your strength. I can handle many of the sect's miscellaneous tasks, like buying things and gathering information!"
Despite Su Shi'er's refusal, Zhu Hanwei didn't give up and instead called out with a smile.
He knew the importance of playing to one's strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
Gathering information?
Just as Su Shi'er was about to leave quickly, he changed his mind upon hearing this.
There was a Lord behind that black-clothed person, and he had no idea who they were. To seek revenge, strength was important, but having enough information was also crucial.
With just his own efforts, he couldn't fully focus on both improving his strength and gathering intelligence. Moreover, that black-clothed person knew his name, putting him at risk of exposure at any time. Many things were not suitable for him to handle personally.
With this in mind, Su Shi'er had an idea.
"Let's go, find a hidden place, and wait for the trial to end!"
"Alright! Sure thing!"
Zhu Hanwei beamed with joy, nodding eagerly, and added, "Senior Brother, I know a hidden place! Thirty miles west from here, there's a cave."
Su Shi'er nodded, "Let's go there! For you to have lasted this long with your strength, you must have some skills."
Zhu Hanwei quickly shook his head with a wry smile, "Senior Brother, I don't have such skills. In the trial, disciples with low cultivation like me aren't even noticed by others."
"When encountering strong ones, I just lower my head and let them check my storage bag, then I can leave."
Su Shi'er thought it made sense. The disciples who came here were all after heavenly treasures. The chances of low-cultivation disciples finding good things were too low.
"Then why were you being chased by that person earlier?" Su Shi'er asked again.
Zhu Hanwei pursed his lips, "It's frustrating to talk about. A few days ago, disciples from Heavenly Splendor Peak went crazy and started hunting down disciples from other peaks. Regardless of their cultivation level, they would kill anyone they encountered!"
"Suddenly, the entire trial ground was in chaos. All sorts of demons and monsters appeared, and we low-cultivation disciples were unlucky, being chased everywhere."
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"I heard someone stole their stuff, but who knows who did it!"
The more Zhu Hanwei spoke, the more frustrated he became. To him, it was a disaster out of nowhere!
"Uh..." Su Shi'er immediately realized, his mouth twitching slightly, and he didn't pursue the topic further.
An hour later, the two arrived at a hidden cave.
Returning Zhu Hanwei's storage bag to him and tossing him ten ordinary second-grade spirit materials, Su Shi'er walked to a corner of the cave, took out a mat, and sat cross-legged.
He had plenty of spirit materials now, and since he planned to use Zhu Hanwei, having him become an official disciple would certainly be more beneficial to him.
Su Shi'er understood this reasoning.
Without rushing to cultivate, he sat on the mat and first took stock of the items from the hook-nosed person.
There were no less than fifty storage bags alone.
There were nearly two hundred spirit materials and a total of eleven low-grade ritual artifacts.
These artifacts were of such poor quality that they no longer caught Su Shi'er's eye.
After organizing the miscellaneous items, Su Shi'er's gaze fell on the last three items.
The first was the longbow used by the hook-nosed person, a dark green bow with the small characters "Heavenly Wolf Bow" engraved on it.
This was just a low-grade ritual artifact, but bow-type artifacts were relatively rare, so it had some value.
"This longbow condenses light arrows through True Essence, with power similar to Fire Control, but consuming slightly less True Essence."
"Just this alone isn't enough to unleash such astonishing power!"
Su Shi'er squinted his eyes, deeply impressed by the hook-nosed person's astonishing arrow.
The power of that arrow was comparable to a full-force strike from a top-grade ritual artifact, perhaps even stronger.
Turning his gaze, he looked at the second item beside him.
It was a quiver containing three jet-black arrows.
The arrows were entirely black and shiny, with the small characters "Explosive Arrow" engraved on them. They contained an astonishing spiritual power fluctuation.
"Explosive Arrows! A one-time use high-grade ritual artifact, no wonder the power is so amazing!"
Su Shi'er took a deep breath, his face showing delight.
With just one glance, he knew that the astonishing attack was caused by these arrows.
The power of the Explosive Arrows was something he had witnessed firsthand, definitely a trump card.
"These arrows combined with this longbow indeed have a surprising effect when attacking. With this, I have another means of protection."
With a slight smile, Su Shi'er stored the two items in his storage ring.
Then he turned his gaze to the last item, a black pearl.
The pearl was entirely black, emitting a chill. Holding it felt icy and bone-chilling.
Su Shi'er tried injecting True Essence into it and immediately sensed a mass of sinister black sand within the pearl.
The black sand occupied only a third of the pearl's space, becoming 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, as long as it can be useful at a critical moment!"
Thinking silently, Su Shi'er stored the Sinister Wind Pearl as well.
He then took out a Zhu Fruit, swallowed it, and continued cultivating.
Time flew by, and more than thirty days passed.
Early one morning, Su Shi'er opened his eyes.
Now, his spiritual power was abundant. 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 Refining stage.
Feeling the thick True Essence in his dantian, he couldn't help but smile slightly, showing a hint of joy.
In just five years, he had raised his cultivation to this level. Even the talented geniuses in the sect were no better than this. And he was just a small figure with a mixed spirit root.
"Senior Brother, the teleportation talisman is fully charged, and we can leave now." At the cave entrance, seeing Su Shi'er open his eyes, Zhu Hanwei excitedly called out, holding a teleportation talisman.
"No rush! Let me organize my belongings first!"
Su Shi'er said calmly, sitting in place and beginning to sort and organize all his resources.
He planned to gather all the most precious and important resources into the storage ring in his hand.
This storage ring was a valuable item, more convenient to use than a storage bag, and also concealed, with no detectable aura fluctuations.
...
At the same time.
In the Cloud Song Sect, more than ten figures soared into the sky, arriving one after another in the valley where the ancient teleportation formation was set up.
Exchanging glances, they didn't waste words. Led by the Great Elder of Heavenly Unique Peak, they all injected True Essence into the formation.
The ground trembled, and the enormous ancient formation reappeared in their sight.
Then, they all stared at the formation, their expressions slightly tense.
After all, this time they were going to a new place, and they had sent disciples with low strength. How many resources they could bring back was uncertain.
But the amount of resources brought back was crucial to the development of each peak. These people were the direct beneficiaries.
Moreover, each peak had invested quite a bit for this trial. For a moment, everyone had different thoughts.
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