Starry Sky Professional Directory 106
Chapter 106: The Cauldron and the Coffin (Subscription Request)
“Another second-order demonic beast slain…”
The dense forest was silent. The demonic energy and death cries of a second-order demonic beast were enough to clear the surrounding area. This level of energy fluctuation wouldn’t attract a third-order demonic beast.
Fang Xing stood on the corpse of a four-armed golden ape, wiping the blood from his sword with the beast’s bright golden fur, which resembled flames. Then, he began dissecting the beast.
“Hopefully my guess is right… but even if it’s wrong, I’ll still get materials from a second-order demonic beast, plus experience from sparring and a life-or-death battle. It’s not a loss…”
He skillfully opened the ape’s belly, cutting open a huge stomach sac. A sour stench filled the air, but Fang Xing had already activated his nanosuit’s protective function, creating a gas mask.
He looked into the stomach sac and found many undigested minerals. These minerals glowed faintly, some as large as a palm, others like longans (a small, round fruit), all appearing extraordinary.
“They should all be second-order minerals… they’ll sell for a lot of Spirit Stones. This demonic monkey liked to eat minerals to refine its physique? No wonder its defense was so strong!”
Fang Xing searched further and found some undigested demonic beast meat, causing him to ponder:
“The death of a Golden Core cultivator is like a whale fall… their bodies are rich in spiritual energy, even a drop of blood is the same… so it would definitely attract nearby demonic beasts to devour it.”
“Then, these demonic beasts would either advance in cultivation or be eaten by other stronger beasts…”
“Only this second-order ape remains nearby. It must be a ‘king among insects’ (a dominant being among its peers), anything good should be on it…”
He searched again, and his eyes suddenly lit up. A strangely shaped golden phoenix hairpin fell into Fang Xing’s hand.
Though just a small hairpin, it was unusually heavy. The phoenix’s eyes were blood-red, lifelike, its wings about to take flight.
“This feeling… is more astonishing than any spiritual artifact… worthy of being a treasure of a Golden Core cultivator! Even in the stomach of a demonic beast that can digest second-order minerals, it remains so clean and new…”
Fang Xing secretly guessed that it might take another hundred years for the hairpin to be gradually digested by the ape, further strengthening its defense. By then, he might not be able to break through its defenses.
‘No, Martial Dao isn’t like the Immortal Dao, its progress is incredibly fast… A hundred years later, will I still care about a small demonic beast? Even if it has near-third-order or even third-order body refinement?’
He played with the hairpin, probing it with his spiritual energy. However, it was like throwing mud into the sea; he was met with complete resistance.
In the end, he could only reluctantly admit that while the thing was valuable, its value only lay in its material. He prepared to put it in his storage pouch and continue disassembling the second-order demonic beast.
As for the Golden Core cultivator’s storage pouch? It clearly wasn’t here. It was highly likely that the third-order Jiao dragon had swallowed it.
A third-order demonic beast was comparable to a Golden Core cultivator! Even more terrifying, a third-order Jiao dragon must have extraordinary bloodline, at least equivalent to a True Core, or even Golden Core cultivator! It was far beyond Fang Xing’s current capabilities.
“Hmm?”
As he was transferring his spiritual energy into his storage pouch, his expression suddenly changed! The ‘Myriad Laws Token’ inside began to flash faintly, and it was… getting stronger!
“Impossible!”
Fang Xing’s face changed: “It’s still far from the last limit distance! Could it be… that this thing’s sensing range is changing?”
“Or… the item it’s sensing is nearby? Did those three Golden Core cultivators bring it out from the secret realm?”
His expression solemn, he immediately began to review:
‘If this Myriad Laws Token is sensing something in the secret realm, the probability of it being brought out is the highest… but why is it here?’
‘Unless… the female Golden Core cultivator, knowing she was going to die, secretly threw it out before her death, not wanting the Jiao dragon and the cultivator who ambushed her to get it? Amazing… I didn’t even notice her little movement…’
‘Of course, it’s also possible that the Myriad Laws Token is broken, or its sensing range has changed… this is easy to test, just move towards the Five Scorpion Valley… and observe its reaction.’
Setting variables and conducting experiments was something every Blue Star University student did.
Thinking of doing it, he did it!
Fang Xing moved, running towards Five Scorpion Valley while monitoring the Myriad Laws Token. Soon, the light on the token gradually dimmed.
He stopped: “Good… it seems those three Golden Core cultivators were quite capable, they really brought a treasure out…”
“But… is this treasure destined for me? Can I truly be the angler (to benefit from the situation)?
“Even if I find it, will a cultivator’s treasure be useful to me?”
“And how far am I willing to risk it for this unknown treasure?”
Fang Xing constantly questioned his inner self, then made a plan…
…
A moment later.
A small bird drone, with the Myriad Laws Token tied to its claw, flew out of the jungle. Fang Xing held a suitcase, his eyes glued to the monitor screen.
“To the left… offset… the light is getting stronger… the direction is right…”
A few minutes later.
The imitation bird landed on the branch of an ordinary ancient tree, the Myriad Laws Token on its claw was enveloped by a ball of light. The glow was unusually thick, making the black iron token seem to have countless symbols flowing densely.
Tap tap!
Tap tap!
The imitation drone, like a woodpecker, used its sharp beak to peck at the bark, then pulled out a bronze ring. This bronze ring looked like a ring, with a few archaic scratches on it.
The bird waited for a moment, but the bronze ring showed no other changes.
Half an hour later, the drone bird grabbed the bronze ring and flew into the sky.
…
In a wilderness.
Fang Xing watched the drone descend from the sky, his expression somewhat strange.
“A ring?”
“Judging from its appearance… could it be another treasure?”
Something that even Golden Core cultivators would carefully hide would obviously not be ordinary. It was very likely a rare treasure from the secret realm!
“There’s actually no danger…”
Fang Xing, wearing silver gloves, picked up the bronze ring. The archaic scratches on the ring remained motionless. The Myriad Laws Token beside it continued to glow brilliantly.
“It seems the Myriad Laws Token isn’t just a secret realm access token… it seems to correspond to this ring? Huh? This feeling?”
Fang Xing’s heart stirred, his spiritual energy spreading out, landing on the bronze ring. A hazy space appeared immediately, at least ten cubic meters!
“It’s a storage artifact!”
“And the spiritual imprint is so strong… the Golden Core female cultivator is already dead, yet it’s still so powerful?”
“Fortunately, I’m not who I used to be.”
Dragon shadows faintly appeared around Fang Xing, accompanied by tiger roars and the sounds of dragons and elephants, carrying bloody killing intent. Dragon’s Intent Realm, Tiger Subduing Intent Realm, Dragon Elephant Intent Realm, Military Dao Killing Fist!
Four intent realms, along with his spiritual energy, instantly poured into the bronze ring.
After several hours, the spiritual imprint inside the ring finally collapsed, revealing the space inside to Fang Xing!
“So big!”
Fang Xing swept his spiritual energy across it and couldn’t help but exclaim. The storage ring had a large internal space. His two storage pouches each had a capacity of about one cubic meter. But this storage ring had ten cubic meters!
Ten times the space, the price wouldn’t be just ten times, but hundreds or thousands of times!
What surprised him was that inside the bronze ring, there weren’t any Spirit Stones, pills, or treasures… it was empty, containing only two items!
With Fang Xing’s thoughts, *rumbling*! A white jade coffin appeared out of thin air and heavily landed on the ground. The coffin carried a cold air and seemed quite heavy. Next to the coffin was a three-legged, two-eared bronze cauldron. The cauldron was archaic in style, with complex inscriptions, most of which were blurred.
“There’s only a coffin and a cauldron?”
He stepped forward and found that the coffin had no lid, and a person lay inside. The person was wearing a dark ancient robe, and their appearance should have been quite handsome, but their features were unclear because a talisman was affixed to their forehead, covering most of their face!
The talisman was half a foot long and three inches wide, completely black, only the crimson symbols drawn with vermillion ink were flashing faintly. The lines were fine and intricate, even more complex and precise than the second-order ‘丙火神雷符’ (Binghuo Shenlei Talisman) Fang Xing had collected, its aura was even more profound and terrifying, like a deep ocean.
“Could it be… a third-order talisman? Sticking it on the forehead gives a bad feeling… is it a corpse refining technique (zombie)?”
“Is this talisman a third-order ‘corpse suppressing talisman’? Suppressing a third-order corpse demon?”
It was unclear whether it was an illusion, but when Fang Xing’s spiritual energy swept over the corpse, he felt that the person wasn’t very strong.
“Heh…”
He extended his hand, as if to remove the talisman, but then retracted it.
“What kind of judgment is mine? What kind of judgment is that of a Golden Core cultivator?”
“Something that would make even a Golden Core cultivator careful, even affixing a talisman to it, I’d be a fool to take it off…”
Fang Xing had watched too many ghost movies in his past life, and he was speechless towards the kind of protagonist who always does the wrong things despite being warned. The saying goes, “Listen to advice and eat well.” Before he could dominate the world, he should avoid taking risks.
So Fang Xing immediately ignored the white jade coffin and turned to the bronze cauldron. The bronze cauldron was half a person’s height, with thick legs and ancient ears, the inscriptions on its surface were blurred, yet carried an air of vicissitudes.
“In the immortal cultivation world, towers, cauldrons, and mirrors, because of their difficult production, are often top-tier among their peers when they first appear, and may even possess strange magical powers and abilities…”
Fang Xing wasn’t a novice in immortal cultivation; he understood this common knowledge. And now, as he carefully observed the body of the cauldron, he made another discovery: “This cauldron… seems to be the source of the Myriad Laws Token’s fluctuation?”
(End of Chapter)
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