Leaving the Inn, Xiao Yan flew to the other side of the mountain and spread his senses to locate the Red Jade Family.
He quickly found them, {Eight Black Gold Ranks and four Gold Ranks without any guards nor servants, it's them}
Activating the void-form of his Shadow Devil, he went near the family to use the LoHP on them.
{Let's see if it's possible to save the previous hosts from them}
After reading the information of the LoHP, he felt a little disappointed because there was only one soul in each of their bodies.
{Maybe if I use my pure soul force it'll dissipate the souls that took control of them?}
Right now each of the twelve were sitting cross legged and cultivating in their own room, so he went to the room of the strongest one.
His body was that of a handsome man in his early twenties and his cultivation was at the peak of the Black Gold Rank.
Xiao Yan positioned himself behind him, went back to his human form and put one hand on his back to quickly inject his soul force inside of him.
He didn't have the time to react, he just trembled a little and then stopped moving.
{It is as if he is paralyzed. Did it work?}
Using the LoHP, Xiao Yan understood what happened.
{My soul force dissipated the consciousness of the one who originally didn't belong to this body}
{But he already erased all traces of the previous owner when he used the Spiritual Constellation Technique, now it's as if it is an empty shell, a soul without any memories}
An idea popped in his head, so he took the storage ring for himself, put the body in the Temporal Demon Spirit Book and used its power to stop the time only for the body.
He then did the same thing for the other eleven bodies.
{I'll try it when I become a Demigod or a Spiritual God}
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After taking everything in their treasury and their library, he thought, {I still have a few hours before dinner time, for now I should prepare more stuff for the betrothal gift}
First going to a certain family, he looked for four people to add them in his LoHP and wrote down their techniques on blank papers.
Next, he went back to the trading town and soon arrived in front of a huge seven story building, it was the shop of the Divine Flames Family. They were like the guardians of this town as they had the trust of the other families. They had a Legend Rank with two Black Gold Ranks and were considered as the second strongest family of the Abyss Prison Realm, just behind the Silver Winged Family.
This shop sold nearly everything needed for cultivators, like herbs, ores, weapons or cultivation techniques.
The most expensive stuff were on the last floors but not anyone could go there, so he went looking for a certain shopkeeper.
It was a teenager called Li Heng, he was one of the sons of the Patriarch and he had the authority to do business on the last floor.
When he noticed Xiao Yan, he said, "Brother, how may I help you?"
"I would like to take a look at the seventh floor", saying so, he used the LoHP on him as he would need to give him a technique in a moment.
"You need to show me that you have enough wealth to exchange, only then will I be able to let you step there"
Xiao Yan took a white fruit from his ring and said, "Is this enough?"
Li Heng eyes widened with surprise as he said, "Of course, brother. This way please, I'll guide you myself"
And he started to lead the customer on the seventh floor, wondering if something will catch his eyes enough for him to exchange it for that fruit.
Finally on the last floor, Xiao Yan looked around a little to find out the Sparkling Flying Knife Set. It could be useful to him until he reached the Draconic Ruins Realm.
Even if he only wanted this for himself, he still said, "I would like to buy everything on this floor and also the sixth floor, how about fifty Spiritual Origin Fruits?"
He already prepared to exchange it for one hundred of the fruits, but if he said so, Li Heng would have asked for two hundred.
Just like he thought, the other party said while acting conflicted, "Fifty is definitely not enough, these items were passed down since the Age of Darkness and are really precious. It would cost brother at least one hundred"
Xiao Yan smiled and said, "Deal, and I'll also give you five tailor-made cultivation techniques. For your parents, the two great elders of your family and yourself"
He knew that he could have paid only twenty fruits if he proposed ten, but he would feel like he's taking advantage of them.
So he chose a price that he esteemed honest and that wouldn't leave him guilty.
Taking out the hundred fruits and four papers from his storage ring, he then waved his hand to give Li Heng his cultivation technique with a surge of soul force.
While putting everything on the seventh floor in his storage ring, Xiao Yan thought, {Now they have enough resources to nurture at least four more Legend Ranks in the next days. By the time I lead them to Glory City we would have hundreds of Legend Ranks so that's not a problem}
Li Heng was quite excited, he became a Gold Rank after cultivating the technique he just received and he could tell that the other four techniques were as powerful as his.
{With this, I'm going to be the next Patriarch for sure and reaching the Legend Rank is just a matter of time}
{Maybe it's fate? I knew that I could never compete with the other direct descendants of the family with my little talent in cultivation, that's why I came here as a shopkeeper, to still have a chance to have an important position}
{Now even mother is going to be a Legend Rank!}