Chapter 270: Young Beast

Yuan Tong saw Wang Yu looking over, revealed a smile, chanted a Buddha name, and said:

"Fellow Daoist Wang is indeed not an ordinary Qi Refinement disciple. The power of that final strike was so great that I fear it is not inferior to a personal strike by an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator; otherwise, it would have been impossible to shatter such a hard soul box.

According to what I know, a human puppet soul box must be refined using at least second-rank materials."

"That thing is a second-rank material?" Wang Yu's spirit lifted. He immediately stood up, walked to the ground not far away, and picked up a dozen black fragments the size of fingernails from the floor.

Judging from these fragments, this soul box should have been the size of a palm under normal circumstances; the previous miniature form was clearly a special form under the old monk's secret technique.

Since it had been agreed that all spoils of war other than the Brahma Body sarira would be his, Wang Yu naturally did not stand on ceremony and put all these second-rank fragments into a wooden box, which he then stored in his storage bag.

These were second-rank materials; even fragments that had already been refined by someone were of great value, far from comparable to the first-rank materials he had been in contact with before.

What's more, the soul box was so hard that it could even withstand the first two strikes of the Child-Mother Floating Mirror, which must also have a great deal to do with the refining method. If he could restore the inscriptions on these fragments, perhaps he could learn something from them.

Not only that, Wang Yu also walked to those seven or eight piles of ashes and checked them one by one. After checking, he found a purple bottle that was somewhat scorched on the surface from one of the piles; it was precisely one of the bottles containing pills that the old monk had taken out previously. Apart from that, there was nothing else.

Wang Yu was still somewhat unwilling to give up and carefully checked these ashes again, but still found nothing.

Yuan Tong, who was beside him, saw this scene, and a look of surprise also appeared on his face.

Wang Yu felt greatly depressed and secretly pondered whether to ask Yuan Tong for some extra benefits.

After all, having taken such a massive risk this time, the harvest was too small.

Just at this moment, a faint man's voice came from high in the sky:

"Little fellow, no need to look anymore. This human puppet body, along with everything on it and its storage bag, was burned clean by the Fate Soul Flame summoned by the secret technique backlash. Only this medicine bottle seems to have a bit of soul silver mixed in, which is why it could be preserved."

Wang Yu was shocked and hurriedly looked up, respectfully calling out "Senior Gong."

Only to see high in the sky above, a ball of silver light was slowly permeating through the white light curtain. Following that, it surged in the wind, and a middle-aged man walked out from within; it was precisely Gong Yue.

"Senior Gong, wasn't it the time of one stick of incense? How did you return so quickly?" Yuan Tong saw this and couldn't care about the wound on his abdomen. He swallowed the emerald green leaf in his hand, hurriedly walked over, bowed to the high sky, and asked with trepidation.

"Because things were handled a bit faster than expected, I naturally returned a bit faster, and I happened to see the scene of you two joining forces at the end. In addition, this is the small benefit I am giving you." Gong Yue first said to Yuan Tong with a smile that wasn't quite a smile, then said two sentences to Wang Yu. In his hand, he was actually grasping a small beast like a pug, furry and covered with pale-cyan down.

A bit faster?

How long had this battle lasted? He probably had been staying here the whole time and hadn't left at all.

Yuan Tong heard this, and his heart couldn't help but feel some slander.

"Senior, this is..."

Wang Yu, however, looked at the small beast in Gong Yue's hand and saw at a glance that this was a wolf beast cub, but the aura on its body seemed somewhat different from those first-rank wolf beasts.

Although the small beast's aura was weak, it carried an indescribable sense of majesty, and his heart couldn't help but stir.

"This is the cub of that second-rank Cyan Wind Wolf in the secret realm. This Cyan Wind Wolf was personally placed in the secret realm by Old Man Jialan back in the day. It is said that it has other special bloodlines, an extremely long lifespan, and even a sliver of third-rank potential.

It's just that there is no second-rank spiritual vein in the secret realm, and plus it was suppressed by restrictions, so after this beast advanced to the early second rank, it could no longer advance any further.

I specifically teleported to the wolf den earlier and grabbed one at random." After Gong Yue explained indifferently, he threw the small beast over at will.

"Many thanks, Senior." Wang Yu was overjoyed upon hearing this and carefully took the small beast.

According to the other party's statement, this was a spiritual beast cub with the potential of a Golden Core ancestor; the magnitude of its value was self-evident.

As soon as the small beast left Gong Yue's palm, it immediately struggled desperately, even opening its mouth, which didn't have many teeth, and directly took a bite of his arm.

Wang Yu didn't dare to use too much force, fearing he would hurt the small beast, and for a time, he was actually somewhat flustered.

"A Four Symbols Sect disciple, actually not carrying a spiritual beast bag? The Four Symbols Sect was famous for its beast-taming techniques in the Wu Nation back in the day. Could it be that the current Four Symbols Sect is no longer skilled at taming spiritual beasts?

Forget it, I will give you this spiritual beast bag as well." Gong Yue saw this scene, shook his head, and said. Following that, he took out a pitch-black leather bag from his sleeve and threw it over.

Wang Yu took the black leather bag and swept his divine sense into the spiritual beast bag, but he couldn't help but feel a shiver, his complexion revealing a look of wild joy again. He hurriedly thanked Gong Yue several times before carefully putting the small beast into the leather bag.

"Now I am the only reincarnated being left, so Senior's promise..." Yuan Tong could no longer hold back and opened his mouth to ask Gong Yue, while simultaneously feeling shocked in his heart that the other party had truly gone and returned in such a short time.

"Here, this is the Brahma Body sarira for you." Gong Yue didn't wait for the young monk to finish speaking. He flicked his finger toward the bottom, and a small ball of black shadow shot down, but slowed down above Yuan Tong and revealed its original form; it was precisely that golden crystal.

"Many thanks, Senior, for the reward."

Yuan Tong grabbed the golden crystal with great joy, opened his mouth, and without a word, swallowed the item directly into his abdomen before bowing repeatedly to the high sky with a face full of smiles to express his thanks.

"No need to thank me; these are all Old Man Jialan's arrangements. Now that all matters are concluded, I can answer one question for each of you, and then I must leave this place." Gong Yue said indifferently.

This unfathomable artifact spirit was actually going to leave immediately!

Wang Yu and Yuan Tong were both shocked and couldn't help but look at each other.

After Yuan Tong hesitated for a moment, he spoke first and asked:

"Senior Gong, after you leave, how will this secret realm be handled?"

"This secret realm is useless to both me and Old Man Jialan; others can handle it however they wish.

By the way, I threw the fifth key to some place in the secret realm at will when I teleported back just now; it depends on who is fated to obtain it." Gong Yue waved his hand and replied with two sentences that left both of them speechless.

"Listening to Senior's tone, could it be that Senior Jialan is still in this world?" Wang Yu's mind turned rapidly, and he also asked a question.

"Is this your question? I can only answer one sentence: Old Man Jialan is in this world, and yet he is not in this world?" After Gong Yue looked at Wang Yu deeply, he replied with an indifferent sentence.

Upon hearing this, Wang Yu only felt that this sentence was unfathomable, but it seemed to have great meaning.

Yuan Tong, who was beside him, was also full of contemplation, seemingly understanding something as well.

But at this moment, Gong Yue had already flicked his sleeve at the two, and fluctuations appeared in the nearby void.

A massive white array diagram emerged under the two people's feet.

After the white light rolled before their eyes, the two suddenly vanished from the bluestone ground. ===== CHAPTER 271 =====