Fortunately, this person was only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
Otherwise, it was hard to say whether his strike could have knocked the person out, considering he was not a physical cultivator.
He looked around, gazing at the cultivators lying all over the ground, and nodded in great satisfaction.
After making sure no one was awake, he took out the Key to the Icefield Secret Realm to open the exit.
However, just as he was about to move, he suddenly thought of something and stopped. He squatted down and began patting down everyone for their storage bags.
Collecting fees was important.
He was very fair and just; no matter how many treasures were in each person's storage bag, he only took spirit stones.
And he didn't ask for much—just fifty pieces from each person.
It was just a little compensation for his hard work. He wouldn't be greedy for anything else.
After all, he didn't rely on this to get rich.
However, when he collected the fee from Jiang Cheng and a few other cultivators, he found that they actually had several somewhat worn-out storage bags on them, completely different from the ones hanging at their waists.
Lin Xiao knew immediately that these must have belonged to others, picked up by them in this ice cave.
Hu Guanyu had one too.
The only difference was that Hu Guanyu's extra old storage bag contained a skeleton and a suicide note, while the others only contained valuables, with no bones or dying words.
Obviously, unlike Hu Guanyu, they had no intention of bringing the original owners' remains and news of their deaths to the outside world.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao fell silent for a moment.
Then, he stored all the old storage bags from these people into his own private inventory, and only took fifty spirit stones from their personal storage bags.
When Lin Xiao moved on to collect the fee from Yuan Zhiyun, the moment he opened her storage bag, the system suddenly chimed.
Ding—Congratulations to the host for discovering one Heart-Questioning Stone.
Eh, a Heart-Questioning Stone?
Lin Xiao looked carefully into the storage bag and found that there was indeed a large stone inside.
To think that Yuan Zhiyun actually had this item on her.
Lin Xiao was a little tempted.
If he took this Heart-Questioning Stone now, wouldn't he effortlessly have the foundation for his sect's Heart-Questioning Path?
But taking without asking is stealing, and having lived two lives, he had never been a thief.
Even if he wanted to trade something for it, he couldn't possibly wake her up right now to ask for her consent...
It wasn't right to just swap it secretly either. Since she was carrying this item, what if she had a specific use for it? He wasn't sure, and if he rashly swapped it and delayed her matters, that wouldn't be good at all.
Although he had saved her, one thing was separate from another. Saving someone didn't mean he could just take whatever he wanted from them.
So, after struggling with himself for a long time, Lin Xiao still only took fifty spirit stones and placed Yuan Zhiyun's storage bag back.
Anyway, she lived in Yuanling City. At worst, he could just find an opportunity to trade with her later.
Besides, maybe it was even sold in the market.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiao stood up feeling relaxed and continued to collect the fee from the next person.
After finishing the fee collection from the dozens of people one by one, Lin Xiao used the Key to the Secret Realm to open the exit, and then tossed all these people out through it.
Because he didn't use the Icefield Secret Realm connection portal, this opened exit was exactly the original entrance they had used to come in.
It had already been a few days since the secret realm opened. Everyone knew the situation in the Icefield Secret Realm: gathering resources was basically done in the first few days, and the rest of the time was spent fighting demonic beasts.
But the demonic beasts in the Icefield Secret Realm were famous for getting fiercer by the day, so generally, anyone wanting to enter came in the first few days. Later on, unless someone had a special need, basically no one else would enter.
Therefore, there was currently no one at the entrance of the secret realm.
Except for two cultivators sent by the Tianxuan Sect to stand guard here.
These two were merely Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Golden Core cultivators would only come to make an appearance on the first day of the opening.
Afterwards, it was guarded by several Foundation Establishment cultivators taking turns.
They called it guarding, but they weren't actually expected to do much.
It was just acting as door gods.
Because after entering the secret realm, unless you waited for the fifteen-day period to end and the secret realm automatically teleported people out, there was no way to come out on your own.
So the two stationed cultivators at the entrance were currently busy—one meditating, and the other keeping watch.
Suddenly, they heard a thump, and saw a person crash onto the ground, unconscious.
The two were stunned. Before they could even figure out where this person came from, they watched with their own eyes as another person flew out from the entrance of the Icefield Secret Realm.
One of the cultivators softly asked his teammate beside him:
"Doesn't this secret realm only let people out after fifteen days? Today is only the eighth day, right? Did I remember wrong?"
The other cultivator shook his head and softly replied:
"You didn't remember wrong. Today is indeed the eighth day."
As the two spoke, the exit went thump, thump, thump and several more people flew out.
Seeing the entrance continuously spitting people out, the two cultivators didn't step forward to check for a while.
It wasn't until dozens of people were spat out in a row and there was no further movement for a good while that the two finally walked up.
"These people aren't dead, they're all alive!"
"Hey! Look at this one. Isn't this Junior Brother Hu, who always follows behind Senior Brother Xi from the Seven Stars Peak?"
"And this one, this one! Isn't this the young master of the Yuan family, Yuan Zhiyun?"
"Quick, wake them up and ask what happened!"
...
While the two Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the gate outside were trying to figure out how to wake up the dozens of people Lin Xiao had thrown out, Lin Xiao had already set off for the next gray dot area to save more people.
Of course, the process remained exactly the same.
First drug them into unconsciousness, then throw them out.
Thus, the two cultivators outside finally managed to move everyone to an empty space to the side so they wouldn't be piled up in a mountain of bodies, only to turn around and find another fresh mountain of people outside the entrance.
Until the very end, Lin Xiao threw himself out, landing at the very top of the human pile, pretending to be unconscious.
The two Foundation Establishment guards dutifully moved these cultivators to the open space and laid them out one by one.
As for the valuables on them, the guards didn't give them a second glance.
They looked down on the meager wealth of small fries, and besides, they were figures from an established sect; it wasn't worth ruining their reputations over a tiny bit of loot.
As for someone like Yuan Zhiyun, who definitely had good items on her, they did sneakily open her storage bag to take a look, but they didn't dare reach their hands in.
Unless they could guarantee killing Yuan Zhiyun and all the cultivators on the ground without leaving a single trace, doing so would very likely bring a heap of trouble upon themselves.
After all, the Yuan family vaguely held the status of the number one noble family in Yuanling City, and their relationship with the Tianxuan Sect was quite close. Yuan Zhiyun was their young master, so she couldn't be easily offended.
On the contrary, if they properly settled everyone and then notified the Yuan family to come pick them up, the Yuan family would definitely give them a reward. And seeing as they were disciples of the Tianxuan Sect, the reward probably wouldn't be light either.
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
