I was just making up techniques... how did all of you become Emperors?

"I didn't expect the Black Demon Eighteen Thieves to be this wealthy; they have more money than I, the eldest grandson of an Imperial Dynasty."

Shi Xuan smiled and remarked emotionally after looking through the contents of the two storage rings.

"Master, you aren't joking, are you?"

Liang Yi asked with a face full of astonishment.

"It's for you; take these resources to cultivate yourself."

Shi Xuan casually tossed one of the storage rings to Liang Yi.

"Thank you, Master."

After receiving the storage ring, Liang Yi's first reaction was to use his spiritual sense to check the things inside.

Hiss...

He gasped; this fellow really is rich. Even if I work hard for one hundred years, I might not have this many treasures.

Shi Xuan murmured, "My master once said: Murder and arson bring a golden belt, while building bridges and repairing roads leaves no corpse for burial. That is indeed correct."

"Master, so should we listen to the Grandmaster?"

Liang Yi, dizzy with the treasures inside the storage ring, asked this sentence subconsciously.

Bam!

Shi Xuan slapped Liang Yi on the head and said displeasedly, "We are cultivators from the Holy Land, and one day will even become disciples of a Sage. How can we do such things?"

"Then what should we do?"

Liang Yi rubbed his head with his hand. What Master said was correct; they are cultivators with backing. How could they act like the Eighteen Thieves, who are bandit cultivators? How degrading would that be?

Shi Xuan smiled and said, "Naturally, we will act chivalrously and take all that ill-gotten wealth into our hands. Firstly, we remove a scourge for Profound Continent, and secondly, it can be considered avenging those innocent people who died in vain."

"Brilliant, truly brilliant."

Liang Yi gave a thumbs up towards his master: "Master, where should we go next?"

"No rush. Inside the storage rings of these Eighteen Thieves, there is a secret key I have never seen before. I don't know if there will be any treasure after activating this key."

As he spoke, Shi Xuan took out an ancient golden key, carved full of inscriptions, from the storage ring.

He immediately injected his spiritual sense into it, and not long after, the key in his hand emitted a ray of light.

At the same time as a map appeared in Shi Xuan's spiritual sense sea, he also perceived that there was another secret key several hundred miles away.

He swept his spiritual sense in that direction and saw Jin Xi and the others at a glance.

"So these fellows were targeted by the Black Demon Eighteen Thieves for this reason."

"Master, what are you saying?"

Liang Yi saw his master muttering to himself and couldn't help asking a question out of curiosity.

Shi Xuan told his disciple his guess, and after hearing it, the latter revealed a look of sudden realization.

"Then Master, are we going to that treasure now?"

"Since we have come, how can we not go?"

Shi Xuan spoke and then flew towards the location of the treasure as indicated by the map.

They were no more than ten thousand miles away from the treasure's location. In less than a quarter of an hour, the two arrived at the foot of a magnificent great mountain.

"Master, this mountain is very strange, and it makes me feel fearful."

As Liang Yi spoke, he subconsciously moved closer to Shi Xuan.

Shi Xuan looked at the mountain before him and murmured, "This is the Heavenly Zen Mountain. In the past, countless strong ones ascended to the Heavenly Realm here, naturally leaving Imperial Might on this mountain. Even just a trace of it can make people feel awe."

"Will a place like this really have treasure?"

Liang Yi said somewhat uncertainly.

Shi Xuan smiled: "Whether there is or not, won't we know when people arrive? Let's find a quiet place to cultivate first. I think someone will come here very soon."

"Yes."

Liang Yi replied respectfully.

After the master and disciple pair entered Heavenly Zen Mountain, they found an unoccupied cave and cultivated quietly.

Time passed day by day.

Three days later, Shi Xuan sensed that people had come to the foot of the mountain, and moreover, they were not just from one group.

He did not go out to check but waited quietly here instead.

A moment later, the sound of fighting came.

The intense sound of fighting startled Liang Yi.

"Damn it, Master, people are coming."

Shi Xuan said indifferently: "I have told you so many times, you must be calm when encountering matters, do not be impulsive."

"Your disciple has received the teaching."

Liang Yi really wanted to go out and watch the excitement.

However, seeing his master sitting there like an old monk in meditation, he dismissed this idea and honestly sat back down beside his master.

Half a day later, the sound of fighting outside finally ended.

A loud voice also came from outside the cave: "Fellow Daoist, have you two watched enough of this play?"

Hearing the sound, Liang Yi did not speak; he just cast his gaze onto his own master.

He wanted to see what kind of reaction his master would have.

Shi Xuan did not even open his eyes and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist counts as a polite person. Speak, what do you want to do?"

Outside the cave, a tall man carrying a large blade on his shoulder said: "Fellow Daoist, hand over the secret key in your hand, and I, Qian Jundao, can let you off. Otherwise, you can only become corpses like those few unlucky ones at the foot of the mountain."

"Oh, is that so?"

Shi Xuan said with a smile: "I do not believe it."

"Fellow Daoist, are you provoking me?"

Although Qian Jundao was tall and big, giving people the feeling of a big oaf, in reality, he was a man with a mind as fine as a needle.

Before coming to the cave, he had already swept the cave with his spiritual sense.

He discovered that he could not see through that fellow wearing the bronze mask, so he dismissed the thought of killing to seize the treasure.

"Provoking? You are not worthy."

Shi Xuan did not even open his eyes.

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere instantly became murderous.

Liang Yi looked at his master eagerly, wondering how many moves it would take for his master to finish off that big fellow outside.

Just as Qian Jundao was about to be unable to hold back, a startled voice came from the distance.

"Senior Sister Jin, look quickly, there are corpses here."

Accompanying the rising of the sound, Qian Jundao immediately restrained his aura.

He swept his gaze towards the direction the voice came from.

He saw a group of young cultivators descend from the sky, led by a woman as beautiful as a flower.

The people who came were precisely Jin Xi and the others.

Seeing that fellow as tall as a small hill in the distance, they subconsciously pulled out their weapons.

Jin Xi raised her hand to stop everyone: "This little woman is Jin Xi, a disciple of the Sacred Dao Academy of the Northern Abyss Holy Dynasty. I do not know how to address Fellow Daoist?"

"So it is a Fellow Daoist from the Sacred Dao Academy."

Qian Jundao did not let down his guard and said with a smile: "I am a loose cultivator, Qian Jundao."

"You are that Qian Jundao who shakes the Northern Sea?"

A disciple of the Sacred Dao Academy said with a face full of astonishment.

Qian Jundao said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist flatters me. Those are just big shots flattering each other. I, a mere Rearing Spirit cultivator, how can I talk about shaking the Northern Sea?"

"Are you Fellow Daoists also here for that Nine Star Secret Treasury?"

"Correct."

Jin Xi said: "It seems Fellow Daoist also has a secret key in hand. However, I heard that the Nine Star Secret Treasury requires nine keys to open."

"I wonder where the remaining few actually are?"

Qian Jundao said: "I have two here. I wonder how many Fellow Daoists have in your hands?"

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