Chapter 1704: Chapter 1743: The Mysterious Severed Hand

Soon after, Jiang Fan reunited with the others.

The Red Demon Venerable looked at him with a strange expression: "Judging by your appearance, it looks like you had quite the haul."

Jiang Fan stifled a laugh and waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, it was just a little catch-up."

Yue Mingzhu couldn’t help but smile and gently pressed down the corners of Jiang Fan’s upturned mouth with her slender jade fingers.

As soon as she let go, they curled up again.

She laughed and said, "How many treasures have you acquired, that your mouth curls up and won’t stay down?"

Jiang Fan coughed lightly, covering his face with his sleeve, and said, "Nothing of the sort, hurry down, the Connecting Sky Black Pillar won’t hold for long."

With his urging, the White Tiger charged forward again.

Yue Mingzhu covered her mouth with a laugh, turned her head to glance in the direction of the great rift, and a flash of nine-colored brilliance flickered in her eyes.

As if she saw something, she couldn’t help but be dumbfounded:

"Is this... is this the same person?"

"His fortune has multiplied several times over!"

The last time she checked on Wang Chongxiao’s fortune, it was already massive, comparable to the entire Taicang State.

Looking at it now, it was at least as strong as four or five Taicang States combined.

Estimating it, it doesn’t lag behind the entire Heavenly State.

"What on earth is this guy’s background?" Yue Mingzhu was shocked beyond measure.

She had never seen any being with such terrifying fortune; even sages and giant emperors couldn’t reach this level.

Despite her shock, as Wang Chongxiao was about to disappear from her view, her beautiful eyes turned:

"Jiang Fan has been working so hard lately, he deserves some replenishment."

She quickly cast a spell in secret, slicing a chunk off Wang Chongxiao’s fortune.

A vast fortune, piled like a mountain, was cut off and transferred into Jiang Fan’s body.

As Jiang Fan was counting his treasures, he suddenly felt an indescribable comfort, as if after a full-body massage.

"Indeed, when good things happen, the mind is at ease," Jiang Fan chuckled, setting up a barrier around him, and quietly explored the two space storage devices.

He thought that for someone like him, who already had Breath Soil, these two space storage devices wouldn’t impress him.

Who knew that after sifting through the Breath Soil in them, he was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

His Breath Soil was only the size of a fist, barely accommodating the Divine Wood, Fixed Seed, and Immortal Binding Vine.

But the combined Breath Soil in these two space storage devices amounted to a whole acre!

Jiang Fan was dumbfounded for a while; how much could one plant here?

The top-tier Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures seeds from the Heavenly Realm, Central Earth, and Hell Realm might not even fill it.

He secretly got excited: "Looks like I’ll have to pay attention to collecting seeds in the future, and whatever I grow that’s useful to me, I’ll use; otherwise, I’ll sell them to Qiqi at a high price."

"Moreover, the Breath Soil can be reused indefinitely, meaning I practically have a gold mine producing gold endlessly."

He merged the two Breath Soil into one and stowed it into a space storage device.

Then he scrutinized the jade rod he had obtained.

This item was defying the odds, allowing Wang Chongxiao, at just the Heavenly Person Decline, to immobilize two Heavenly Human Five Declines.

If he had this Magical Treasure, battles in the Central Earth at the Divinity Transformation Realm might become much easier.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed Angel Clan text on it.

Fortunately, during his time at the Ten Thousand Tribulations Holy Temple, he was forced by the White-robed Skeleton to learn the Angel Clan script.

He recognized it without any hindrance.

"Immortal Fixing Jade Branch," Jiang Fan murmured, carefully observing, realizing it really was a tree branch.

Someone had infused the Time Freeze Law into it.

This was why it could immobilize someone along with their thoughts when used.

However, the Time Freeze Law within it had been mostly depleted by Wang Chongxiao.

It probably could only immobilize two Heavenly Human Five Declines at most.

Jiang Fan felt a pang of distress: "Wang Chongxiao, how could you squander my stuff like that? If it’s not yours, you don’t cherish it, is that it?"

Once the Time Freeze Law within is exhausted, Jiang Fan would have nowhere else to replenish it from.

Carefully putting it away, Jiang Fan then turned his attention to the shield.

This shield was in good condition; in future battles against sage-level opponents, at least their shockwaves wouldn’t be unbearable.

Finally, there was the Immortal King’s Undying Bell.

It was riddled with cracks and severely damaged, yet it still ranked as a Quasi-Realm Artifact!

Ordinary magic artifacts in such a state would mostly become mere scrap metal.

This shows that its complete state must have been an immensely powerful World Artifact.

Noticing there was still a lot of sand on it, he used Divinity Transformation Power to clean it.

However, as he washed the inside with Divinity Transformation Power, a large lump of black stuff fell out.

Initially, he thought it was black sand.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a severed hand!

After washing away the black impurities on it, a smooth and jade-like, long-fingered, beautiful hand appeared.

At first glance, it looked like a woman’s hand.

Remarkably, the hand seemed lifelike, as if it was freshly severed.

How could it look like something buried underground for millennia?

A huge shock struck Jiang Fan’s heart.

He had seen the remains of the Misfortune Sage, which, although intact, looked dim from a millennium of time, clearly a corpse at first glance.

The severed hand before him, however, appeared very much alive.

He didn’t dare to guess what level of being this hand belonged to.

He even stepped back cautiously, extremely wary.

He took out a disposable top-grade spiritual artifact and carefully poked at it to ensure the severed hand posed no threat before he dared to slowly extend his finger and touch it bit by bit.

Finally confident there were no issues, he picked it up.

The hand’s five fingers were in a tight grip but couldn’t completely grasp closed.

It was as if something was held in its palm.

Jiang Fan’s heart raced; if such a being would tightly clutch something upon death, how could it be ordinary?

He tried to pry open the fingers, but they seemed fused to the palm, refusing to budge.

He considered using the Flawless Domain or destroying the hand.

But the thought was quashed as quickly as it came.

Handling an unknown entity’s severed hand recklessly might not be wise; it could lead to unpredictable risks besides gaining nothing.

Mindful of this, he took out a spare space storage device and placed the severed hand in it.

Surprisingly!

As soon as the hand went inside, the space storage device instantly shattered.

The severed hand fell from the void, landing on Jiang Fan’s leg.

Jiang Fan broke out in a cold sweat!

The space storage device couldn’t contain this severed hand?

He tried two more times, each with the same result.

All the space storage devices were crushed.

"Whose hand is this?" Jiang Fan was stunned.

He thought the Immortal King’s Undying Bell was the greatest find, but it turned out to be this severed hand!

Since the space storage device couldn’t hold it, he could only carry it on his person, tucking it into his sleeve.

When Qiqi arrives, he’ll ask if she has any Magical Treasures specifically for prying things open.

"We’ve arrived at the Connecting Sky Black Pillar," Yue Mingzhu reminded him.

Her face had long lost its smile, flames of anger burning in her eyes.

Jiang Fan also withdrew the barrier, stood up, and looked at the Connecting Sky Black Pillar before him, saying:

"Let’s go! Give them a surprise!"

The group had just departed not long ago.

From the great rift, Wang Chongxiao woke up slowly, clutching his head.