Chapter 700: One Million Silver, Counting the Spoils!

After Jiang Yao left, Su Mu wandered around the dark hall. Everything in the dark hall vanished in the explosion of the blood portal and the Blood Fiend Grand Array.

Afterwards, Su Mu didn’t go to cut off Wang Heng’s head. Although sending this person’s head to Donglai County Mansion could fetch a handsome silver reward, the trouble wasn’t small, and it wasn’t necessary at all.

This trip was full of twists and turns, but he obtained the Flood Dragon Shocking Skill’s remnants and seized numerous notorious pirates’ Sumeru Rings. One couldn’t say the gains weren’t plentiful.

Su Mu estimated that this battle alone could earn him a fortune in silver, amounting to one million taels!

This fortune could serve as his startup capital to go to Qingzhou. He could use it to purchase the necessities for alchemy and cultivation, and with his alchemy skill, Su Mu believed it would be enough to support the three lung refinements needed for completing the Three Profound Forging Lungs Technique and open the Little Vajra Secret Realm in the short term.

Simultaneously, Su Mu hadn’t forgotten those four formidable Divine Arm Crossbows. Although the crossbows couldn’t pierce his protective Gang Qi, they forced the Profound Demon Gang out, bringing him some pressure.

No matter whether those Divine Arm Crossbows were the property of Donglai County Mansion, or whether Donglai County was backing sea pirates to deal with the Cyan Fish Gang, at present, everything died without evidence in the explosion, so Su Mu didn’t overthink the matter behind it.

His mind focused on the Divine Arm Crossbow itself. With a thought, his strong eidetic memory made one Divine Arm Crossbow float in his mind.

“If the Divine Arm Crossbow is slightly improved, its destructive power will be even greater… After entering Donglai County, my forging skills have stagnated for a while. This item should improve my forging art.”

The Divine Arm Crossbow is a product of the painstaking effort of Great Yan’s elite craftsmen, but Su Mu has strong confidence. As long as he is willing to spend time researching, he will surely understand it thoroughly and even improve upon it!

Next, Jiang Yao revealed her identity as part of the Qingzhou Demon Slayer Bureau on the island. After learning about the deaths of several gang leaders and a group of notorious pirates, except for a few who resisted stubbornly and were killed on the spot by Jiang Yao, the majority of sea pirates lost their fighting spirit and were captured by Jiang Yao in one fell swoop.

Then Jiang Yao directly requisitioned visitors participating in the auction on the island to clean up the battlefield, searching all over Profound Turtle Island and its four subsidiary islands for three consecutive days.

Upon a thorough search, they discovered ancient arrays similar to the Blood Fiend Grand Array on the four subsidiary islands, but they were all unactivatable remnants, with traces of recent damage.

Sect Leader Jiaoxue Liu Sha acted meticulously, having already prepared the destruction of other entrances as a backhand, and now the only portal on Profound Turtle Island leading to the secret realm was also destroyed in the battle.

Unless a strong individual equivalent to the realm of the secret realm’s creator makes a breakthrough to shatter the spatial shackles, it’s nearly impossible to enter the secret realm anymore, unless time passes until that secret realm emerges naturally.

This statement corresponds with what the Sun Family Ancestor informed, but who knows how long one has to wait for a secret realm to emerge?

This matter will likely end unresolved.

During this period, Su Mu also discovered something interesting; Jiang Yao didn’t requisition Su Mu using her identity from the Qingzhou Demon Slayer Bureau, so Su Mu returned to South Fire Island intending to wait for the return voyage.

He soon discovered that South Fire Island surprisingly had survivors, not others, but the uncle and nephew pair who had informed him of the secret realm, the elder named Lu San Niu, and the young man named Zhou Ding.

The young man didn’t know his father; his mother, weak after giving birth to Zhou Ding, passed away years later. Unable to bear leaving Zhou Ding alone, Lu San Niu raised him from a young age.

After surviving the catastrophe, Su Mu was surprised to find that the uncle and nephew had gained a trace of the Power of Fortune. The elder Lu San Niu had a faint power appearing white, while the seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man had a slightly thicker power, a touch of extremely pale blue color.

“To survive such a disaster… surely leads to fortune.”

Su Mu, after discovering the uncle and nephew who escaped death, sent them some food and water, causing the pair to be grateful on the spot, repeatedly calling Su Mu their benefactor.

In the following days, Su Mu quietly cultivated on the large ship, waiting for the return journey. Several times, Zhou Ding wandered outside Su Mu’s cabin as if wanting to inquire about the events on the island, but without exception, he was stopped by the elder in advance.

“You brat, if you dare to cause trouble for me again, I’ll break your damn legs!”

“But Uncle, don’t you want to know…”

“Shut up, I don’t want to know. I still want to live a few more years. After this, I’ll resign to the steward.”

The small episode between the uncle and nephew added a bit of intrigue to the waiting days. After Su Mu took time off these days, he carefully tallied up all his gains, including the spoils from the last sea expedition.

First, regarding the elixirs, there were only six bottles of Fourth Grade Elixir, far below Su Mu’s expectations. On second thought, only one Alchemy Master in Donglai County could refine Fourth Grade Elixir, and Su Mu had never heard of any Alchemy Grandmaster capable of refining Upper Three Grades Elixir.

Fourth Grade Elixir in Donglai County is already a precious commodity. On the market, one can easily sell for five to six thousand taels per pill. At this level, it is almost customary for one bottle not to contain ten pills, but rather five pills.

Therefore, six bottles are worth at least sixteen or seventeen thousand taels in silver. Among them, two bottles are Jiao Tendons Profound Bone Pill, while four bottles are Profound Armor Pill.

Both are elixirs for body enhancement. After taking Jiao Tendons Profound Bone Pill, besides enhancing physique, the most noteworthy aspect is that it can repair hidden tendon and bone issues from long-term cultivation of Horizontal Training Martial Arts, making the tendons tougher and more flexible, essentially ‘softening’ the tendons.