Chapter 39: Chapter 38 – Splitting The Spoils

While the disciples travelled through the forest, the two boys stole a glance at Long Di from time to time, which didn’t escape the notice of the latter.

 

“What is it?”

 

Though Long Di thrived in awkward situations like a fish in water, he could see that it was starting to get unbearable for the two girls, so he decided to break the ice.

 

“Uhm, w-we…” Tie Lang fidgeted while his face turned red in embarrassment, unable to form a proper sentence.

 

“W-We’re sorry that we thought you had betrayed us earlier,” Jia Yan finally said.

 

“So that’s what it was?” Long Di was a bit shocked that this small matter weighed so heavily on the boys’ heads.

 

“What do you mean!? You were only trying to save us, but we went so far as to curse and said some unsavoury things about you and to you!” Tie Lang finally blurted out, ashamed of his lack of trust.

 

“Don’t worry about it. It was meant to look real, and the mere fact that you showed such raw emotion in concern for your comrades is worthy of praise.” Long Di said.

 

“Really?”

 

“Really,” Long Di consoled the little demon race disciple.

 

“Which reminds me, Feng Yu, could you be a dear and take out those experts’ storage rings, please?” Long Di asked, after a while.

 

When the matter of the storage rings was brought, everyone’s eyes lit up.

 

Though they could take a look at the storage whenever they wanted, propriety was practised here and since Long Di was the one who defeated those experts, the spoils were his to take out.

 

Nevertheless, when Long Di brought it up for them to deal with the matter of the rings, they all still became excited. Even their senior sister Feng Yu was grinning wildly.

 

They couldn’t stop since they didn’t want to stay in the valley, so they started to handle this whilst on the road.

 

“Okay, so give me the storage ring for the one whose’s voice still haunts us in our dreams.”

 

Hearing Long Di’s comment, all the disciples burst into laughter. Feng Yu quickly handed over the storage ring to Long Di without hesitation while he put it away.

 

As for the other storage rings, Long Di and she perused the contents of the rings, and a look of surprise showed on her face.

 

“Senior sister, what is it? Are the rings empty!?” Tie Lang asked in surprise.

 

“How could it be empty!? We’re rich!”

 

When Tie Lang saw that Long Di’s expression didn’t change in the least, and that their senior sister lost her composure, he was afraid that something was wrong.

 

It was decided that only Long Di and Feng Yu would peruse the contents of the rings. Since one was their literal saviour, while the other was the most senior among them.

 

Counting the wealth within the rings and combining it, they counted ten million gold coins along with several white ranked weapons and even a few yellow ranked weapons.

 

“Interesting,” Long Di said after going through all this.

 

“Interesting? Is that all you have to say? Just interesting!? With this, we can revitalise our sect!” Tie Lang exclaimed when he heard the wealth in all the rings.

 

“Oh, really?” Long Di raised a brow at his words.

 

“Don’t be so stupid, Tie Lang!” Feng Yu rebuked him. “We’d need much more than this to revitalise a sect. Not to mention that when it comes to certain things, mortal currency such as gold will never allow you to buy it.”

 

“Oh,” Tie Lang hung his head with an embarrassed smile.

 

He couldn’t really be blamed for this, for it was his first time coming into contact with so much money.

 

“It’s fine,” Long Di waved it off. “On to next matters, Feng Yu, since you had a sword, I can assume that you’re a sword user?” He asked.

 

Feng Yu nodded, wondering why he was asking her weapon preference.

 

“Hm, here then.”

 

An ornate sword with powerful spiritual fluctuations appeared in front of her.

 

“Ah!”

 

When Feng Yu saw the sword, she nearly tripped over herself in excitement.

 

“T-This is a yellow ranked medium-grade spiritual weapon! I-I can’t accept this!” She quickly handed it back to Long Di.

 

He pushed back into her embrace, "It’s fine. It’s good to put things like this in the hands of people who can use them better.”

 

Seeing how adamant he was on this, Feng Yu finally accepted the sword, “Thank you, Long Di. I will remember this favour.”

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“Don’t mention it,” he said, not thinking too much about it. After all, they were not his, so it didn’t hurt him to give them away.

 

If others saw what Long Di had given done, they would have most certainly thought he was mad.

 

The disciples knew how valuable these kinds of weapons were. It had to be known that spiritual weapons were divided into four ranks, white rank, yellow rank, orange rank and black rank, with each rank having a low, medium and high grade as well.

 

Spiritual weapons on a whole were not something that they were qualified to think about. To begin with, white rank spiritual weapons were only held by wealthy members of big sects, and even then it was most likely to be a white rank spiritual weapon.

 

Yellow rank weapons were things that were held by the elders of the big sects. Not to mention orange rank weapons, which were something that only people on the level of sect masters were qualified to touch.

 

From this, it can be seen how ecstatic Feng Yu was, and it didn’t end here. Long Di quickly called over the two boys and asked them about their weapon preferences as well.

 

It wasn’t long before the two of them each received a yellow rank, low-grade spiritual weapon of their own.

 

Lastly, Long Di turned to Shen Ling, “I’m guessing there’s no weapon that you feel a particular attachment to. Am I right?”

 

When Shen Ling heard this, her expression turned to one of mild surprise, “How did you kno-”

 

“I know a thing or two about abyss ghosts,” saying this, Long Di didn’t thrust any weapon upon her.

 

Every disciples’ expression turned to one of shock when they heard of this.

 

“H-Hold on!” Shen Ling took the initiative to stop Long Di from changing the subject, something that he is known to do quite expertly.

 

“What is it?” asked Long Di, a bit confused.

 

“What do you mean you know a thing or two about abyss ghosts!?” Sheng Ling wasn’t the one who asked this question, instead it was Feng Yu.

 

Abyss ghosts were a race shrouded in a fog of mystery. Documents, scrolls, books that included information were scarce and far too few.

 

The most prevalent information about that still existed referred to them as a race of tragedy that called a calamity upon themselves. Not even the calamity itself was described.

 

As a result, information about their attributes, properties or their characteristics were practically non-existent.

 

However, that didn’t stop them from being hunted down, and any power that dared to harbour one would become a public enemy and would be in danger of being eradicated.

 

“I only know a few things,” Long Di admitted.

 

He spent a lot of time reading in his younger years… though he was still in his younger years.

 

Nonetheless, the number of times that abyss ghosts came up could be counted on one hand.

 

“Well, a few things are more than most people in the world!” The disciples were ecstatic to hear that they could learn some more information about Shen Ling, especially Feng Yu.

 

There were times in the village where she would see Shen Ling daydream with a forlorn look on her face.

 

She knew that Shen Ling was curious about her people, but there was too little information available and the elders refused to talk about it.

 

“Before that, how many times have you all come to this so-called demon city?” Long Di asked.

 

“Huh?” The disciples were caught a bit off guard by the question, but they still told Long Di that they only came a handful of times.

 

“And how many times was Shen Ling a part of these excursions?” Long Di asked, his expression still impassive.

 

“Oh.”

 

It didn’t take long for them to realise that Shen Ling never came with them when they came to the city.

 

Each one of them followed an elder to the city at least twice, Feng Yu actually visited times before, but Shen Ling had never gone, they didn’t even realise.

 

“Let me tell you this right now. There is a reason for that, they don’t tell you certain things because they don’t want to get you implicated, the secrets surrounding her are nothing that you guys can handle.” Long Di’s voice rarely took on a serious tone, but the disciples could hear it clearly.

 

“I can see the outlines of the city in the distance. Do me a favour and don’t bring up abyss ghosts, I don’t know how much you know about them, but they are a taboo-like existence to everyone else and you can get yourself and everyone you care about killed if you talk about them wantonly.”

The disciples’ expressions changed once more when they heard about this. They never knew that something as uncontrollable as one’s own race could call down sudden destruction upon themselves.

 

“Here,” after a while, Long Di passed a storage ring to each disciple.

 

“You’ll find 2.5 million gold coins in each ring. Something tells me that finding whatever herb we need won’t be easy. When we get to the city, let me do all the talking and this will be painless.”

 

The disciples went on their way, unaware that a pair of eyes were looking at them from afar.