Martial Master

“Ha ha.” Ling Yuannan smiled faintly, “Let’s continue deeper. Once we gather a few more blood crystals, we can distribute them... Hmm?” Suddenly, Ling Yuannan's expression slightly changed, his face turning pale.

“Brother Yuannan, what’s wrong?” The others felt something was off and asked in unison.

“My Ling family's Ling Jun is dead.” Ling Yuannan stared intently at the shattered life jade tablet in his storage ring, his expression instantly turning exceptionally furious.

“What? Ling Jun is dead?”

“How is that possible? Wasn't Ling Jun stationed in the gorge to protect those geniuses? He didn’t even enter the interior of the Ancient Ruins Realm, how could he have died?”

“Could it be that someone is attacking our Dan Pavilion’s base?” The others gasped in shock.

“No, I must go back and take a look. Everyone, immediately report this to Lord Situ Zhen. I’ll leave first.” Ling Yuannan’s face turned ashen, and in his anxiety, he blurred and suddenly transformed into a streak of light, vanishing from the spot.

“Let’s go, quickly inform Lord Situ Zhen.” The expressions of the others also changed drastically. Ling Jun was a Martial Emperor guarding the Dan Pavilion's base; his death would undoubtedly indicate an incident at the base.

Swish, swish, swish… After relaying the message, the group leaped into the air, rushing towards the outskirts of the Ancient Ruins Realm. Meanwhile, the Dan Pavilion's Martial Emperors, who had already scattered in different places, also reacted with shock and anger upon receiving the news and hurried to provide support.

Qin Chen naturally had no idea that killing Ling Jun would cause such a significant stir. He did not return to the gorge; only a fool would do that. After sustaining a minor injury during the previous confrontation, he needed to find a place to heal.

Half a day later, Qin Chen landed in an ordinary valley and concealed himself before immediately starting to heal. His Undying Sacred Body and spatial power had astonishing recovery abilities, and since his injury wasn't serious, in a short while, he was nearly fully healed. After burning his damaged clothes, Qin Chen changed into a clean outfit and put on a mask, finally feeling at ease.

Currently, he was only at the Half-Step Martial Emperor level, which was not enough to venture deep into the Ancient Ruins Realm. If someone accidentally saw his face, it would inevitably cause trouble.

Afterward, Qin Chen began examining Ling Jun's storage ring, and breaking the restrictions imposed on the storage ring was no challenge for him. Once the restrictions were broken, Qin Chen poured all the contents into his own storage ring, finally realizing what true wealth looked like.

Previously, after killing the Wind Sword Sovereign in the Lower Four Domains, he had obtained a considerable amount of valuable items, but aside from five incredibly powerful sword pills, the rest were rather ordinary. The real stones were all of medium quality, and the highest-tier pills were only of the seventh rank, and even those were quite common. However, in Ling Jun's ring, Qin Chen couldn't help but marvel at the sheer abundance of wealth.

Inside, there were over a billion high-quality true stones without a single low-quality true stone and around five hundred million medium-quality true stones, which were perhaps just spare change. Once reaching the Martial Emperor level, the medium-quality true stones' effectiveness would diminish significantly. Of course, Martial Emperors from the Lower Four Domains would use medium-quality true stones for cultivation, but clearly, Ling Jun was not comparable to those Martial Emperors.

In addition to the true stones, the pills were all high-tier eighth rank royal pills, and not merely the standard eighth rank true essence pills. There were advanced eighth rank royal pills like Qinglin Pills and Rongxue Pills. Furthermore, some of the pills inside would greatly aid Qin Chen once he broke through to the Martial Emperor level.