Chapter 43: Harvesting from the Corpses

Watching Du En poking at the corpses in front like that, the other corpse-buriers could not help but feel nervous.

"Du En, is, is there a problem?"

Ning Caize asked tentatively.

Du En withdrew the shovel he had been poking with and shook his head slightly: "There is nothing unusual, actually; it's just that looking at their attire, it seems quite extraordinary, so I wanted to see if I could find anything good."

Hearing the first part, the group let out a sigh of relief, but hearing the latter part, they were stunned once again.

Their gazes shifted toward the four headless corpses.

Indeed, that set of green robes was made of satin, and compared to the clothing of the ordinary lower class, it was clearly much more refined.

While Du En was thinking this, the others gathered around, looking amazed.

It was several times larger than a low-grade spirit stone, harder, and more translucent; the spiritual energy contained within seemed to be swirling like mist, looking magnificent under the sunlight.

Ning Caize, who had begun to calm down, no longer hid behind Du En; meeting Wei Ming's gaze, he spoke up: "If we're talking about dangerous hidden risks, there certainly won't be many, otherwise, they wouldn't have already been searched through a few times."

Even though this Earth Armor Technique came with additional insights from the dead, it was clearly harder to learn, and if they really wanted to try, it would likely take quite some time.

The Appraisal skill, which had been stuck for a long time, was also triggered, accumulating once.

His luck was quite good, and so he obtained this Earth Armor Technique.

Although these guys truly deserved their fate and there was no need to worry about damaging the corpses, but...

And so, the others watched as Du En pried open the severed neck and reached his hand inside through the esophagus.

Even so, the group swept away their frustration, cheering for his might, and then worked diligently, appearing impatient.

Hm?

Wait, wearing green robes, high-quality fabric, hiss! This, a hall master of the Green Robe Gang?!

Good heavens!

You truly are yourself, facing these successively slaughtered gang bullies, yet you are still thinking about making a fortune off the dead!

After all, it might have been done by an evil cultivator, wouldn't it be better to be careful?

The sight left everyone dumbfounded, exclaiming that it was an eye-opener.

Just as they thought this, they saw Du En had already started searching.

Hmm...

Wanting to pull the proficiency up is actually quite simple.

Was there really something left behind?

Suddenly, the others subconsciously held their breath, appearing even more nervous than the person involved.

And sure enough, seeing Du En gain quite a bit, they became restless; looking at the other corpses, they saw a few with decent attire, but when they stepped in front of them, they hesitated and ultimately didn't dare to start digging.

Wei Ming stared over with wide eyes.

A mid-grade spirit stone.

Not bad at all, all belonging to Du En.

A diary that was a form of disguised self-praise.

From it, one could read a sense of complacency and looking down on the masses.

Du En then went all out, digging through the other corpses in one go.

In fact, when Du En was choosing his targets last night, there was a bias in his focus.

Du En was digging through the stomach and pulled out a bag.

At the same time, there were a few folded pieces of paper that felt very familiar; Du En opened them and discovered it was just a low-grade spell called Earth Armor Technique.

This was not a coincidence at all.

"Mastery reduces it by two, Small Achievement reduces it by one point five, Proficiency reduces it by one; Breath-Restraining Technique is not of the same category, so it shouldn't reduce it, which means practicing five and a half times accumulates one point of proficiency."

These corpse-buriers, whose actual work experience was quite green, really hadn't thought that things could be hidden like this.

After all, the others were just watching, willing but unable and lacking the guts.

This scene suddenly made them feel somewhat subtle.

Regarding this, Du En was not stingy.

His movements were cautious and careful, with magic power attached to his hands, and separated by thick fabric gloves.

Du En appeared to be searching, but in reality, he was using his now-superior cultivation technique to attempt to sense, and he discovered an unusual feedback near the stomach.

After Du En's identification, he concluded that this should be a spiritual object; to be precise, it was a type of soft metal spirit ore, first-grade mid-tier quality, worth a considerable amount, at least fifty low-grade spirit stones.

The total harvest was one mid-grade spirit stone, thirty-eight low-grade spirit stones, a certain first-grade mid-tier spirit ore, and one low-grade spell, Earth Armor Technique.

"Start working; after we finish, if you want to learn the Earth Armor Technique, you can come and take a look."

Perhaps Ning Caize vaguely knew, but he didn't dare to take the risk to verify it.

"Sure enough, I'm not the only one who knows things can be hidden like this."

Relying on his own Mastery-level Yellow Earth Technique, which was at least a peer to the two techniques of proficiency, plus the insights from the dead, he learned it very quickly.

Inside one of them, someone had gotten there first, and there was absolutely no harvest.

Finally, the fourth one; there was no bag here, and in its place was a spirit stone stuck in the small intestine like an intestinal obstruction.

Du En was a bit lazy, taking time to ponder the Earth Armor Technique.

However, the others had limited energy; as for the Sand-Raising Technique, even the best among them, Ning Caize, had only just managed to move past the beginner stage and figure out a few tricks.

Very quickly, his hand stopped.

This was to guard against having the stomach dug!

Du En felt around and indeed discovered traces of it having been dug once before.

"The daytime gaps are already occupied by the other two spells; this Earth Armor Technique should be practiced in the evening when I have time. After all, unlike the Earth Bomb Technique which is too powerful, it can be practiced indoors. Hmm, practice it five times a day."

Du En packed up the spoils and came over to probe a little, but didn't find any goods in their stomachs.

What the second corpse contributed was not a bag, but a thin, long object pulled out starting from the duodenum; this object was grayish-white, like a parasite, and as it was pulled out, it didn't stop until it reached the part stained with feces, reaching nearly ten meters in length.

But it was only somewhat, because although doing this would get blood, gastric juices, or even putrid stomach contents on them, in their line of work, they were soaked in corpse stench and evil stench all day, so it actually wasn't a big deal.

The bag contributed by the first corpse was opened, and one could see densely packed low-grade spirit stones; after counting, there were thirty-eight, which was not a small amount.

At most, watching this action, one would inexplicably feel a sense of empathy, much like seeing someone else suffer a crushing blow to the groin, causing one's heart to go cold and one's legs to instinctively clench.

It was hidden quite deep, at the junction of the stomach and the duodenum, in a groove that had clearly been forced open later and was held tight by fibrotic tissue.

Wei Ming suddenly realized, but he was also somewhat worried.

Du En thought this, then suddenly sensed something vaguely and turned to look toward the small path.

First, use the corpse's clothes to wipe off the various filth stained on the hands, then examine the items obtained from searching the corpse.

Is this the time to be talking about that?

In terms of value, it could be exchanged for one hundred low-grade spirit stones.

【Earth Armor Technique (Beginner 0/10)】

Ning Cai then voiced a negative opinion.

"This has already been searched two or three times, what could possibly be left?"

Specifically, among the four hall masters, two were also cultivating the Yellow Earth Art, so it was very likely they were hiding items related to the earth element.

The situation was clear: only if the old hands hid things deep, or if the corpse was special and unique, might a little bit of soup be left for them, the most miserable grave diggers at the bottom of the corpse-handling business.

The reason there were so many sheets of paper was not that this low-grade spell was particularly unconventional, but that the dead person had recorded their own practice insights while alive.

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(End of chapter)