by D cat
This specific skill was much more powerful than creating another clone to increase his combat strength.
"This upgrade was amazing, and I haven't even activated fourth function yet!"
Su Lang's heart pounded uncontrollably in the moment of exhiliration. "I wonder how crazy the new function will be. System, activate the fourth function immediately!"
CHAPTER 82 - NEW ONE-CLICK TREASURE SEEKING FUNCTION
[Ding! Consuming 100 gold coins to unlock the One-Click Treasure Seeking Function!]
[Ding! With the One-Click Treasure Seeking Function currently at Level 1, two Treasure-hunting Flying Shrews (WU) can be sent out in search for valuable items.]
[Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained the abilities, 'Treasure Spirit Sense' and 'Perfect Harvest.' You are now able to detect, identity, and collect any treasure without damaging it!]
[The Treasure-hunting Flying Shrew not only possesses the same two abilities, but it even has an extremely formidable life-saving ability.]
[However, when it encounters enemies that are far out of its league, it might not be able to escape death. If it were to die, there will be a two-hour cooldown for it to reform completely.]
[The Treasure-hunting Flying Shrew's search area and where it can be sent to is similar to that of the clones. Furthermore, they can also be sent to explore the same area more than once.]
Su Lang stared at the system's description of the fourth function, utterly dumbfounded.
It wasn't until a moment later when he burst with utmost elation.
"Oh my god! It's actually a treasure seeking function!"
At that instant, a shocking light shot out from Su Lang's eyes.
Although this function did not directly increase one's combat strength, it served a purpose equally as, if not, even more important than the other ones.
What were the most important things required in one's cultivation?
Aptitude... cultivation methods... and, of course, the resources available to them.
Such resources referred to spiritual energy and various heavenly treasures.
Putting the topic of spiritual energy aside, there isn't a single martial cultivator in this world who did not dream of owning some sort of heavenly treasure.
However, getting one's hands on such treasure would proved to be extremely difficult.
First of all, such treasures would always be hidden in obscure places. Even if one did catch a lead of the location, it would be an optimistic estimate at best. Wanting to find those sorts of heavenly treasures completely relied on one's luck.
Secondly, many of those heavenly treasures were most of the time heavily guarded by Vicious Beasts. Otherwise, they would be monopolized the experts in the higher realms of cultivation. After all, one had to possess formidable strength in order to seize food from the tiger's mouth.
Let alone finding them, the majority of heavenly treasures had their own unique methods of harvest. If one did not put in enough care with its initial harvest, they would be directly damaged, making it several times more difficult to successfully obtain it.
However, that part of the process had just become an absolute breeze for Su Lang.
With the One-Click Treasure Seeking Function, he no longer needed to go through the painstaking process of learning the method to harvest the heavenly treasures. He will not need to spend a large amount of money to buy information about those treasures, to venture deep into the dangerous wilderness and wade through mountains and rivers, or to fight against powerful enemies, be it Vicious Beasts or other cultivators.
On the other hand, Su Lang will only need to sit in leisure and drink his tea happily while his Treasure-hunting Flying Shrews does all the hard work for him.
Furthermore, if they managed to come across some sort of mineral vein or deposit, he will have hit the jackpot!
In short, after unlocking the One-Click Treasure Seeking Function, Su Lang now had the ability to gather heavenly materials and treasure with ease.
After doing so, he would keep the useful treasures and sell the useless ones for more gold coins. This would essentially become a stable and automatic function for him to upgrade the rest of the system's functions.
By going down this easy road, Su Lang's streangth would be like a snowball rolling down a high mountain, only getting bigger with each second.
"Quick, use up all my remaining gold coins to upgrade the One-Click Treasure Seeking Function!"
Although Su Lang had already spent a million gold coins for the previous upgrade, he still had quite a bit of them left. Thus, he did not hesitate to use the rest to further upgrade the new function.
[Ding! Consuming 1000 gold coins. The One-Click Treasure Seeking Function has been upgraded to Level 2. The number of Treasure-hunting Flying Shrews has increased to a total of 4.]
[Ding! Consuming 10000 gold coins. The One-Click Treasure Seeking Function has been upgraded to Level 3. The number of Treasure-hunting Flying Shrews has increased to a total of 8.]
The system notifications continued until the function finally reached Level 3.
"The number of flying shrews actually increases exponentially?"
Su Lang gawked stupidly at the notification.
If he continued to upgrade the One-Click Treasure Seeking Function, wouldn't he eventually have tens, hundreds, and even thousands of Treasure-hunting Flying Shrew?!
When that time comes, wouldn't all those heavenly treasures start flooding into his Storage Space like an unlimited source of food?
Just thinking about the potential of this function caused his blood to boil with excitement!
"Hehehe, my dear treasures, I'm coming for you~"
Su Lang rubbed his hands excitedly and sent out all eight Treasure-hunting Flying Shrews at once.
Ye Lingfeng, who had already finished writing down the blood letter and proceeded with writing down the cultivation techniques, did not understand why Su Lang was acting in such a strange manner.
Despite harboring such thoughts, he did not dare to ask and continued to immerse himself in his painstaking tasks.
......
The territory of the D-class Flaming Fox.
This particular territory was right next to the area of the Glazing Tigers and had already been thoroughly searched by Su Lang's clone.
At this time, in a certain valley, a red flaming fox was staring fixedly at a small tree.
Despite it only being a dozen centimeters tall, the tree had a white fruit the size of a baby's fist hanging from its thin branches.
Soon, the exact white fruit started to redden at a rather abnormal speed that was nevertheless visible to the naked eye.
Upon seeing its change, the flaming fox immediately revealed a greedy expression.
However, right at this moment, a certain white-furred Treasure-hunting Flying Shrew with golden stripes descended from the sky!
The layer of flesh between its four limbs remained visible as it spread open its two strange yet mystifying wings.
Furthermore, its speed was extremely fast as it flew past the vision of the flaming fox like a bolt of lightning.
By the time the fox recovered from its shock, it realized that the white fruit in front of it had suddenly disappeared!
CHAPTER 83 - MIN-MAXING PROFITS
*Squeak! Squeak!*
The flaming fox fumed with undying rage.
After all, it had been waiting patiently over the past five days and nights for the valuable fruit to ripen before plucking it from the tree.
Eyes bloodshot, the flaming fox bared its fangs and brandished its claws, preparing to go on the hunt for the rude fellow who stole its treasure.
However, the Treasure-hunting Flying Shrew had long since fled from the initial scene. Despite sniffing out and chasing after its scent, the flaming fox lost it within a few dozen meters.
On the other side...
[Ding! You have obtained a White Flame Fruit.]
Just as the system notification sounded, a whit
e fruit with red patterns appeared out of thin air within the Storage Space.
At that instant, Su Lang immediately reached into the Storage Space for the heavenly treasure discovered by the first Treasure-hunting Flying Shrew.
"The White Flame Fruit!"
Overjoyed, Su Lang's eyes shone brightly as he said, "That's the main ingredient used to refine the Tier 6 White Flame Body Forging Pill!"
Tier 6 medicinal pills were treasured items that only cultivators in the Martial Expert Realm or above had the qualifications to consume.
Even the lowest grade Tier 6 medicinal pills were worth at least 5000 gold coins.
Furthermore, the White Flame Body Forging Pills were worth at least 10,000 gold coins each!
As the main ingredient of such a rare pill, this White Flame Fruit in perfect condition would be worth at least 5000 gold coins on its own!
This was definitely a number that ordinary people would find hard to believe.
Right at this moment...
[Ding! You have obtained a Green Flower Fruit.]
Piqued with curiosity, Su Lang switched his attention to the newly obtained item, which turned out to be the main ingredient for the Tier 6 Green Flower Qi Gathering Pill!
[Ding! You have obtained the Fallen Heart Grass!]
[Ding! You have obtained two Gold Radiance Stones!]
[Ding! You have obtained....]
At that moment, a steady stream of system notifications rang out almost simultaneously.
"What in the world...!"
Su Lang could not help but exclaim in astonishment.
In that short period of time, he had already obtained heavenly treasures worth tens of thousands of gold coins!
However, after the series of gains was a period of emptiness.
Su Lang expressed his understanding of that occurrence. After all, those heavenly treasures didn't grow just anywhere. Furthermore, it took time for the Treasure-hunting Flying Shrews to search for and bring back the items.
Even so, the rate at which this function was generating income for Su Lang was already unparalleled in this world.
At the very least, he could make several hundred thousand gold coins a day by simply allowing his flying shrews to roam freely. This process was much faster than the rate at which coins were being produced in the city!
"Hahahaha, this feels great!"
Su Lang could not help laughing excitedly, "With this, I now have unlimited funds for upgrading the other system functions!"
"Su... Lord Su?!"
At this time, Ye Lingfeng, who buried himself in writing, suddenly raised his head and carefully shouted.
Of course, he had noticed Su Lang's unusual behavior, but now he could only feign ignorance to avoid offending him.
He even had the urge to close his eyes and seal his mouth to prevent himself from knowing too much and being cut down by Su Lang's sword.
"Hmm? You already finished writing down everything?"
Su Lang raised his eyebrows and looked at Ye Lingfeng with a hint of doubt.
"Yes... of course!"
Nodding nervously, Ye Lingfeng handed the book and blood letter over to Su Lang with trembling hands.
Su Lang immediately stored the blood letter into the Storage Space and glanced through the cultivation techniques.
Ye Lingfeng hand certainly kept his promise of handing over his known cultivation techniques. Excluding the ones he had already learned, there were actually five other ones!
Those five cultivation techniques were certainly not simple. Among them were three Intermediate-rank Body Forging Techniques, one Low-rank Lightning Attribute Cultivation Technique, and one High-rank Weapon Cultivation Technique.
The three Intermediate-rank Body Forging Techniques included the Tyrant Armor Body Forging Technique, the Cloud Threading Silk Steps, and the Ethereal Martial Body Forging Technique.
Each of these three skills specialized in strengthening different attributes such as one's defense, movement, and endurance. The potential of each technique was especially great.
Next, the High-rank Weapon Cultivation Technique was known as the Soul Pursuing Sword Arts.
And finally, the Low-rank Lightning Attribute Cultivation Technique was called the Astral Thunder Technique, initially deriving from another cultivation technique similar to that of the Thunder Filament Arts and True Lightning.
"Damn, they're all pretty good techniques!"
With a click of his tongue, Su Lang immediately replaced the Thunder Filament Arts with the Astral Thunder Technique.
At the same time, he switched True Lightning with the Cloud Threading Silk Steps.
In less than half a minute.
[Ding! The Cloud Threading Silk Steps have reached the Entry-state!]
With that, the fluctuating spirtual energy of the cultivation technique surged forth from Su Lang's body. Watching from the side, Ye Lingfeng was wildly taken aback.
As Ye Lingfeng was still in shock...
[Ding! Astral Thunder Technique has reached the Entry-state!]
*Sizzle...*
Su Lang's body trembled slightly as another wave of spiritual energy fluctuated throughout his entire body.
Immediately after, a flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the air and enveloped Su Lang's body.
"The entry state of the Astral Thunder Technique?!"
Ye Lingfeng was so shocked that his jaw almost fell off as he exclaimed, "How is this possible? I had to spend two years of my life just to comprehend it!"
However, something even more shocking happened in the next moment.
As Su Lang's body continued to emit a series of strange spiritual energy fluctuations, all five cultivation techniques had already broken through the entry-state.
CHAPTER 84 - SOLO RAIDING THE YE FAMILY
"This... This... T-This cannot be real!"
Ye Lingfeng had once heard Yang Shi mention about such phenomenons.
But hearing about it is certainly completely different from witnessing it with one's own eyes.
Su Lang had successfully mastered five different cultivation techniques in such a short period of time. Such feats were beyond his greatest imaginations!
Even an unparalleled Martial Expert would not be able to accomplish such ridiculous feats!
Just as Ye Lingfeng was starting to doubt his purpose in life, the corner of Su Lang's lips curled up into a smile as he opened his Property Panel.
[Name]: Su Lang
[Race]: Human
[Qualification Level]: Turbid Body
[Realm Level]: Peak Mortal Realm
[Attack Level]: Initial Martial King
[Defense Level]: Peak Martial Expert +
[Movement Level]: Quasi Martial King
[Endurance Level]: Peak Martial Expert +
[Skill Mastery]: Infinite Heart Sutra, Thunder Filament Arts (Low-rank, Middle-state), True Lightning (Low-rank, Entry-state), Astral Thunder Technique (Low-rank, Entry-state), Soul Chasing Sword Arts(High-rank, Entry-state)...
Tyrant Armor Body Forging Technique (Intermediate-rank, Entry-state), Cloud Threading Silk Steps (Intermediate, Entry-state), Ethereal Martial Body Forging Technique (Intermediate, Entry-state), Nine Elephants Mountain Treading Technique (Intermediate, Entry-state)...
(Part of the cultivation techniques has been omitted)
[Activated System Functions]: One-click Cultivation Function (Level 5), One-click Martial Arts Function (Level 5), Clone Dispatch Function (Level 5), One-click Treasure Hunting Function (Level 3)
"I actually broke through to the Initial Martial King Realm!"
At this point, Su Lang could clearly feel the surge of spiritual energy within his body. Even then, he could not help but feel excited when he saw his attack level at the Initial Martial King Realm.
The Martial King Realm!
Only four such cultivators exists throughout the entire Red Maple City!
Furthermore, each of them possessed high-ranking positions within the city.
/> However, after a short while, Su Lang gazed into the sky and revealed a faint smile.
The realm of the Martial King was a state that 99.9% of all cultivators would not dream of achieving throughout their entire lives.
But to Su Lang, on the other hand, it served as the beginning of his future domination.
After all, above the realm of the Martial King were the Martial Emperor Realm, the Immortal Realm, and perhaps even stronger realms after those ones. Ascending past them was the main goal that he pursued in this life!
No matter what, one should always prioritize their own growth in such a world that emphasizes power over anything else.
Retracting his longing gaze from the distance, Su Lang took out and glanced through Ye Lingfeng's blood letter.
The blood letter was filled with Ye Lingfeng's despair words, begging Ye Feizhang to hand over the ransom in order to save him.
"I really hope Ye Feizhang values you enough for him to be willing to pay the ransom."
Su Lang sneered and glanced at the pale Ye Lingfeng before sending out a clone to deliver the blood letter.
Within Red Maple City.
In a dark alley near the Ye Family Mansion.
The figure of a white-cloaked man gradually appeared.
Immediately after, the white-cloaked man's body trembled as a trace of divine light condensed in his eyes.
Su Lang had just used the skill, Perfect Possession, to control his clone.
"This feeling... is completely different from before."
Su Lang stretched the body of the clone and murmured softly.
In the past, he could not hope to control his clone to this extent.
At that time, his clones would move step by step according to his orders. Furthermore, he would occasionally stutter in his orders which made things difficult.
However, controlling his clones felt as if he was moving around in his own body. He could now do whatever he wanted with ease.
"Haha, as expected of the system. Every ability proves to be extremely useful!"
Su Lang chuckled as he started to walk towards the Ye Family Mansion.
