*BOOM!*
A huge crevice of several hundred meters formed after a resounding slap from Yang Ming, it was quite amusing to see a fragile man hit the snout of a dragon, and it somersaulted several times just to breathlessly fall to the ground, no longer rising.
"Three souls in the end..." Yang Ming frowned; he didn't expect Long Bai to do such a reckless act as to kill his friends.
With a slight sigh, he walked over to the dragon's body and touched its head. The black smoke emitted from his hand began to cover the dragon wholly, and as if sensing something, Long Bai suddenly let out a heartrending roar that shook everything around him.
*RRRRRRR!*
"That must really hurt," grinned Yang Ming, at the sight of the wriggling dragon as if it were an ordinary worm.
*BOOM!*
Again Yang Ming hit the dragon with his fist, the nasty lizard tried to escape from the iron grip of Yang Ming, but he failed as Yang Ming seemed to have foreseen it.
The blow might not have seemed strong, but it was the last nail in the coffin for the dragon. Long Bai felt as if his dragon's impenetrable scales were like tofu under Yang Ming's blow, and what shocked him once again was that after the blow all his organs had completely turned into mush.
Looking at how Long Bai seemed to begin to come to his senses Yang Ming chuckled, only in death did he begin to recover his sanity but it was far too late. After the blow, he blacked out again, it's just that this time for eternity.
*Ding!*
[You have devoured a lesser dragon's soul. 50 points gained]
*Gulp*
Yang Ming swallowed hard, his eyes glowing brightly; he could not have imagined that for such a weak lizard the system would give so many points. He had expected much less, to the point of getting less than 10 points, and luckily he was wrong.
Lowering the dragon's body, Yang Ming stretched his hand forward and whispered:
"Burn"
A powerful fire burst from his hand completely incinerating the breathless body of the dragon, the fire was so strong that the ground next to him instantly blackened and the plants around him began to lose moisture and catch fire.
"Truly astonishing!" He couldn't help but exclaim, Yang Ming couldn't even imagine that the reward he received from the system would be such a powerful weapon. With which he could easily conceal the traces leftover on the sites of his devouring, because each time the victim could simply be incinerated without even leaving the ashes.
Once the body of the dragon was completely burned, Yang Ming turned his gaze to the two dragonewts, if before in his gaze could be seen deep contempt, but now they were like treasures to him.
*Ding!*
[You have devoured a dragonewt's soul. Gained 20 points]
*Ding!*
[You have devoured a dragonewt's soul. Gained 20 points]
The reward that Yang Ming received from the two dragonewts was incomparable to Long Bai, but even so it was not as low as he initially expected. His efforts at the auction completely paid off, which made Yang Ming unable to not smile slightly.
"Now where's the map?" Having dealt with the absorption and then the destruction of the corpses, Yang Ming moved on to the main course, for which he not only teased the group at the auction but also lured them into the trap.
After collecting their spatial rings, which would not burn even in Yang Ming's fire, he checked their contents. If the two Dragonewts rings contained all kinds of junk, different weapons, techniques and pills of low quality, then Long Bai would have had a feast for the common cultivator. He had many high quality pills, various fighting techniques that were only meant for dragons, medium and low quality weapons.
But none of this mattered at all, the difference between the upper and lower realms was like heaven and earth. If the treasures in the Long Bai's Spatial Ring the Lower Realm might be considered unique for which many cultivators would fight and some would even kill close friends, then the same in the Higher Realm would have been considered akin to trash, which even wandering cultivators, who had not only the lowest level of cultivation but also extremely fragile cultivation base and weak techniques, would have been squeamish about using.
'Even just to imagine, it is too horrible for the cultivators of the Lower Realm' - thought Yang Ming while looking at the items.
Although they were complete garbage in Yang Ming's opinion he was not going to throw them away it would have been very foolish to do so, perhaps the young masters of the Higher Realm clans did just that by throwing everything away as they would have considered it too despicable a matter.
But, Yang Ming was different, treasures are always important, no matter what quality, it was important to use them in suitable time. Some treasures that until now have been considered ordinary or useless can be hidden gems, and can even be at too high a level.
"At least that's what they wrote in the novels" reasoned Yang Ming, of course he wasn't going to leave them behind and wait for a miracle that one of them would suddenly reveal itself, for now all they were useful for was to trade them for money or exchange for information in the Lower Realm.
And since many cultivators were willing to kill for them, Yang Ming could easily get what he wanted, and he didn't want to use force every time or give away his belongings from the Higher Realm.
Checking the items, he moved them to his own spatial ring until his gaze was on the last item in the ring belonging to Long Bai.
"Jackpot" He laughed happily.
As Yang Ming suspected, the last item was the map that was sold to Long Bai at the auction.
As soon as Yang Ming took it in his hands, it suddenly disappeared and an alert went off in his head.
*Ding*
[Congratulations, you've obtained part of the Grand Emperor's Tomb map. Pieces: 2/4]
*Ding!*
[You have completed the task! Received a reward of 2,000 points]
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" - Laughed Yang Ming like a madman, he did not expect that the map that would be in the auction and even in the Lower World would be such a valuable treasure that he previously assumed only the system could give. He was happy that he already had half of it, because very soon he would be able to visit the Grand Emperor's Tomb.
But at the same time he realized that the system could give out tasks that would be very useful to Yang Ming, for example the next time it could give him a similar task and he would get his hands on the next part of the map, of course these were just Yang Ming's thoughts.
But he was glad that everything he had done to date had not been in vain.
Having finished with everything Yang Ming suddenly remembered that while he was killing the group and after absorbing their souls, all this time he was not alone, there was always a spectator, who was in the shadow of Yang Ming, watching and protecting him.
"Shui Wai Tian!" - Strictly said Yang Ming.
Not a breath later, he appeared in front of him, kneeling on the ground and bowing his head down, like a slave is supposed to do before his master.