Chapter 210: Dried Corpse on the Mountain Top

The "Lightness" character was a treasure-grade talisman.

Its effect was to reduce the weight of an item not exceeding one ton by ninety percent, with the option to choose between reducing the real weight or the held weight.

Reducing the real weight was literal.

But once the weight was reduced, the power would also drop accordingly.

So what Wu Xian had his eye on was the latter, only reducing the user's held weight, while the power felt by the enemy remained original.

Swish!

A faint light spread from top to bottom on the Ghost-Head Blade, and where this faint light passed, the rust on the blade disappeared.

Wu Xian's hand felt light, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

The Blood-Lacquer Ghost-Head Blade was really easy to use; just the baleful aura it emitted saved Wu Xian a lot of trouble, but it was really too heavy; not to mention holding it to hack people, even just carrying the blade around was exhausting.

But now...

Wu Xian stuck his little finger into the ghost head and gave a light flick, and the whole big blade fell into his hand; then he swung it in the air, and it actually made a clear sound of breaking the air.

Not only was it easier to use, but because of the weight reason, Wu Xian could now swing it faster, so the power was also greatly improved.

If he encountered the ball-bouncing ghost again, it wouldn't be so easy for it to dodge Wu Xian's blade.

After using a flashy posture to put the Ghost-Head Blade into the scabbard.

Wu Xian looked at the spell registers; he didn't have high expectations for spell registers, as they were basically direct attack types, so he just had to pick the one that suited him.

The three spell registers were: Lightning Chain Curse, True Water Curse, and Golden Blade Curse.

Wu Xian didn't want the True Water Curse.

The Golden Blade Curse generated a golden long blade composed of Geng metal Qi in the hand, and its effect overlapped somewhat with the Ghost-Head Blade, so Wu Xian didn't consider it for the time being.

Therefore, Wu Xian chose the Lightning Chain Curse.

This spell register could release three lightning chains lasting for three seconds, which could attack one person or multiple targets simultaneously; it was a standard spell register.

The biggest reason Wu Xian chose it was actually to farm favorability with the Thunder-Sound Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable and obtain His blessing.

Having entered the blessed land for so long.

Wu Xian actually envied the blessings of people like Shi Ji and Wei Dian.

Although his own blessing was also very strong, the things he obtained were too messy and not systematic; if the three things given by worshipping the gods could lean toward the lightning system, Wu Xian could transform into a Lightning Dharma King.

He still hadn't had enough of the rolling heavenly thunder from when he fought the Body-Snatching Malevolent last time!

Opening these five doors and worshipping the gods didn't take much time, and the remnant incense in Wu Xian and the others' hands still had leftovers, so everyone decided to go look for treasures again.

Wu Xian held half a Four of Diamonds with two fingers and gave it a slight shake, and this half playing card burned; he had activated his last treasure-hunting technique.

Smoke drifted, pointing to the only mountain on Wonder Island.

Wu Xian touched his rumbling stomach and sighed helplessly: "Let's go, let's go climb the mountain..."

Wonder Island wasn't considered big.

This mountain naturally wasn't high.

There was a railing at the foot of the mountain forbidding entry, which was kicked open by Sun Qian, who was irritable from hunger.

The path up the mountain was paved with bluestone steps, so it hadn't been occupied by plants; occasionally encountering some branches growing horizontally, a light cut with the Ghost-Head Blade would break them.

Wu Xian even picked up a perfect wooden stick because of this.

Using the wooden stick as a cane, the three of them quickly climbed to the top of the mountain panting; although the mountain wasn't high, it still consumed a lot of physical strength from the three starving and thirsty people.

The top of the mountain was covered by an antique circular building.

Wu Xian used the wooden stick to carefully push open the door, and what came into view was a huge space.

Inside the circular building, there were no walls to separate it, only an empty and huge circular room; the very top of the dome had no roof, and a ray of sunlight fell on the dried corpse in the center.

Yes.

There was a dried corpse in the center of the room.

In the humid environment of the island, that corpse in the middle not only didn't rot or grow worms, but instead weathered into a dried corpse...

Besides the dried corpse.

There were many things in the room that surprised the three of them.

First, every place was covered with yellow talismans, some for town-house peace, some for promotion and salary increase, family safety, feng shui stability; the variety made Wu Xian dizzy.

Besides this, there were bronze mirrors, countless peach wood products, bronze bells, Dharma rulers, demon-subduing pestles, Guanyin statues...

Shi Ji couldn't help but complain.

"Good fellow, these things could be used to open a shop."

Sun Qian picked up a bronze mirror, only to find that the mirror had long since grown thick rust, the inside of the Guanyin statue was also covered with spider webs, and the yellow talismans broke at a touch; all these things had already rotted.

The two of them searched the room, trying to find things that could still be used.

Wu Xian walked closer to the dried corpse.

He picked up a notebook from the ground.

The first half of the notebook was a list of everything in the room, recorded densely for many pages.

"Two sarira of a high monk from White Cow Temple."

"One hundred and eight evil-driving talismans drawn by the Daoist priest of Golden Star Temple."

"Thousand-man-slaying Ghost-Head Blade."

"Millennium peach wood sword..."

Every item here was found by the owner of the notebook himself; some were bought at auction houses, and some were bought by going to temples and Daoist halls in person.

This room full of things was bought at a high price, not street stall goods.

Wu Xian's eyes flickered.

"Wonder Island belongs to the Yan family; to have such a place on the highest mountain of this island, I'm afraid this dried corpse is the Yan family member himself... And in the Yan family, I'm afraid only the family head could have such financial resources."

"So this dried corpse should be the Yan family head, Yan Yu."

"Yan Yu set up such a big formation, possibly wanting to exterminate or seal a vicious ghost; it's obvious he failed."

"This might be the truth of the bloody case ten years ago; failing to kill the ghost and being killed by the ghost instead..."

During the process of Wu Xian's thinking.

Shi Ji and Sun Qian had already searched the entire huge room, finding four things that hadn't completely rotted.

They were a crudely made peach wood sword, a samurai sword that had rusted beyond recognition, a piece of dried fruit that still retained some moisture, and a crumpled yellow talisman.

Wu Xian picked up these things one by one, and the Daoist credential displayed the information of these items.

Millennium Peach Wood Sword: The material is the heart of a millennium peach wood tree, made by a child playing, unstained by craftsmanship, can hurt ghosts and evil spirits.

Filth-One-Character: A lost precious blade of a foreign country; the person who obtained the blade, to humiliate the blade owner, soaked this blade in different filth day and night, until this blade was stained with filth, and both ghosts and gods detested it.

Dried Apricot: Dried apricot made from the heavenly spiritual object "Stream Red Apricot"; eating it can control wind and thunder, but after the passage of time, the effect is greatly reduced, leaving only a weak effect.

Amulet: An amulet drawn by an unnamed Daoist priest, can save a person's life...

Looking at these four things, Wu Xian sighed softly.

"Sigh, fake goods harm people..."

The Dharma artifacts that Yan Yu bought at a high price were actually mostly fake goods.

Although he also bought a few things that were truly useful, these things were piled together with other items; he might not have known until his death that he had such treasures in his hands...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 211 =====