Looting bodies was a skill every transmigration traveler absolutely had to master, and also the most anticipated one.
Yang Hong didn't shy away from the fact that the corpse was female, nor did he mind that it was headless. After practicing on Song Yuzhi, he had become adept at undressing women in this world, even complex garments like the "Ni Chang" style.
"Hmm, lucky me. This set of clothes is undamaged, and the quality looks quite good. It might even be a magic artifact or a treasure."
Yang Hong tried to tear a corner of the Ni Chang, but it wouldn't rip. He was currently a strongman with 200,000 catties of strength, and yet he couldn't tear it. This just showed how durable the Ni Chang was.
While marveling at the quality of the Ni Chang, he also felt fortunate that he had gone straight for the head and dealt a fatal blow. If he had been more merciful and attacked the woman's body, he might have been the one to die.
"Not only is the Ni Chang tough, but the bellyband is also so sturdy!"
After removing the female corpse's bellyband, Yang Hong experimented with it using his true qi. Even with his full true qi amplifying his strength, he couldn't tear the bellyband. It was indeed a magic artifact.
At this point, he no longer cared about it being dirty and collected everything from the female corpse. He even retrieved all of the corpse's jewelry from behind its exploded head.
Once he had thoroughly looted everything, Yang Hong dragged the female corpse to the area beneath the Demonic Qi Blood Lotus and buried it, considering it a form of recycling.
He briefly washed the items from the female corpse in the Baolian Pool, then carried the collected items to a pavilion by the pool to sort through them. The pavilion was named "Baolian Pavilion," an octagonal structure inlaid with eight luminous pearls at its corners, providing decent illumination.
The Ni Chang set consisted of eight components: an upper garment, a lower garment, an inner layer, and other pieces. Yang Hong tugged at each one, confirming they were all unbreakable and undoubtedly magic artifacts. Yang Hong had never seen magic artifacts or treasures before, so he couldn't determine their grade and assumed they were all magic artifacts. In addition, there were four pieces of intimate apparel, also magic artifacts.
"Are women's clothes this troublesome? Excluding accessories, that's twelve items. What a hassle."
Yang Hong grumbled, finding some aspects of feminine beauty incomprehensible. Next were the accessories: headwear, including two hairpins and a pair of earrings, all magic artifacts. Then came the clothing adornments, which he considered accessories. There were 18 needles of varying sizes, 9 embroidered patches, 2 jade pendants, and 2 sachets. Additionally, there were 2 bracelets, 2 anklets, and 1 ring. Oh, and a pair of embroidered shoes. All of them were magic artifact-grade items.
"These are good things, but unfortunately, they're all for women. I'll have to find an opportunity to give them to Song Yuzhi later. For now, I need to see if I can find the legendary storage equipment."
Anyone who had read novels would be interested in the storage equipment of cultivators. Yang Hong released his spiritual sense and scanned each of the accessories one by one, starting with the rings, as storage rings were widely known.
"No... not this one... still not..."
"Holy cow, it's this one!"
However, Yang Hong was mistaken. This female cultivator did have storage equipment, but it wasn't a ring or a sachet as he had initially thought, nor was it an anklet. Looking at the storage equipment shaped like an embroidered patch, Yang Hong felt a wave of disgust. This patch was three inches long and one inch wide, oval in shape. Someone unfamiliar with it would think it was a decorative appliqué stuck to the forehead.
But Yang Hong remembered this patch had fallen off from the smaller garment beneath the female corpse. He had initially thought it was a detached part of a worn-out garment. He had almost buried it along with the corpse, but decided to keep it for research. He never expected it to be storage equipment.
"This female cultivator is truly a peculiar one."
While muttering, Yang Hong poked the "membrane" of this storage equipment with his spiritual sense. It was a barrier preventing spiritual sense from entering. Perhaps because its owner was dead, the "membrane" broke easily when Yang Hong poked it.
"This is the storage space? It's a bit small?"
It was a cubic space with a length, width, and height of one zhang. It was nowhere near the hundreds or thousands of zhang spaces Yang Hong had imagined.
"Small is small, but it works."
Despite his complaints, Yang Hong wasn't dismissive. After all, any space, no matter how small, was still storage equipment. With a thought, Yang Hong emptied all the contents of the space. Upon seeing the pile of items, Yang Hong's brows furrowed again.
"Women are women! Whether ordinary mortals or cultivators, they are all so fond of beauty."
Among these items were six sets of Ni Chang, plus the one she was wearing, making a total of seven colors: crimson, peach, pink, dark red, goose yellow, egg yolk, and bright yellow. The intimate apparel and shoes also came in these seven colors, seemingly matched to the outfits. Besides clothing, the most numerous items were various cosmetic powders and rouges, which occupied one-third of the entire space. This further proved that female cultivators were indeed women.
After searching for a long time, Yang Hong found 34 bottles of pills. However, this female cultivator had only attached labels of different colors to the outside of the pill bottles, without writing the names of the pills, let alone any descriptions.
"It seems I'll have to find an opportunity to buy some dogs to experiment on."
Leaving the pills, Yang Hong examined the other items that might be magic artifacts. There were 7 mirrors, 5 hairpins, and 1 long sword. Yang Hong attempted to input true qi into them, and faint light emanated from each, indicating they were indeed magic artifacts. He just didn't know how to use them.
After putting these items away, only three jade stones remained on the ground. These stones were four fingers long, two fingers wide, and one finger thick, and they were crystal clear. Jade slips! The moment Yang Hong saw these three jade stones, he thought of the essential secret manuals of cultivators in novels – jade slips. Following the methods from novels, he picked up a jade slip, placed it against his forehead, and projected his spiritual sense into it.
Indeed, a massive amount of knowledge flooded into Yang Hong's mind immediately. In just fifteen minutes, Yang Hong had absorbed all the knowledge from this jade slip.
"The 'Su Nü Cai Yang Gong' (Art of Picking Yang)? How disgusting."
With a look of disgust, he put away this jade slip and picked up the other two. Following the same procedure, he quickly read the knowledge from the remaining two jade slips.
"The 'Xuan Nü Ju Ling Gong' (Mysterious Woman Gathering Spirit Art) and 'Suo Ling Zhen' (Spirit Locking Array)? Really... what is the origin of this female cultivator? So evil?"
Out of the three jade slips, two were cultivation techniques, both specifically for women to cultivate. It was understandable, given they belonged to a female cultivator. However, both techniques were focused on extracting yang energy to supplement yin. This was rather repulsive. The 'Xuan Nü Ju Ling Gong' was somewhat better; if it didn't absorb yang energy, it could still absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth to cultivate. The 'Su Nü Cai Yang Gong', however, was purely a cultivation method based on coitus. Both techniques could only be cultivated by women; men practicing them would inevitably suffer qi deviation.
The only thing Yang Hong could learn was the 'Suo Ling Zhen'. This was a method for setting up an array, clearly and completely detailing the methods for arranging spirit locking arrays of grades 1 to 3. That is, each jade slip contained three arrays. The function of the spirit locking array was to seal and gather spiritual energy within a certain range, preventing it from dissipating. The jade slip also mentioned that the spirit locking array needed to be set up in conjunction with a spirit gathering array. However, Yang Hong couldn't find a jade slip for the spirit gathering array, rendering this spirit locking array largely useless. Still, he could start learning it, as a formal introduction to the cultivation world.
After putting away all the items, Yang Hong was once again troubled.