Chapter 331: Silver Talisman and Corpse-Refining Art

Sure enough, these white stones were all the same as the stone powder that had wrapped the three Luori Sect disciples earlier—a rare petrification power.

As for this long petrified trench, it was clearly caused by the light beam sprayed by that corpse-mouse.

This made Wang Yu feel a chill down his spine.

If he hadn't planned not to take the second-rank corpse-mouse's attack head-on and had trapped it a step early, he might not have been able to save his life if he had been hit by that beam, and it definitely wouldn't have ended well.

Wang Yu pondered, putting his previously numbed finger before his eyes.

A trace of faint numbness still remained at the fingertip.

One must know that ever since his Black Tiger Baleful Body was perfected, not only was his physical body exceptionally strong, but his whole body was wrapped in an endless transparent Qi film, making it difficult for even ordinary entry-rank magic artifacts to hurt him.

Yet this petrification power could ignore the skin film and still make his finger feel numb, showing its eeriness.

Petrification power, as the name suggests, is the ability to turn people into stone. Although this petrification wasn't a complete petrification from the inside out, it was a kind of externally wrapping semi-petrification.

Moreover, this petrification power also had the effect of numbing the body and absorbing human essence, showing its terror.

According to the classics he had mastered, petrification ability is extremely rare, and he rarely heard of cultivators who could master it; instead, there were a few rare demon beasts whose innate abilities included petrification power.

Thinking of this, Wang Yu's brain began to quickly search for detailed information on several petrifying demon beasts.

"Stone Bat Mouse."

Wang Yu's heart stirred, and he remembered the largest demon mouse mummy under the well, a flash of realization crossing his face.

He patted his waist storage bag with one hand.

With a swirl of white light, the fleshy red wings he had just collected and a shriveled giant mouse corpse were sprayed out from the bag.

The two floated lightly before him.

Wang Yu waved one hand, and under the control of his powerful divine sense, the two fleshy red bat wings precisely stuck to the two bloodstains on the giant mouse's back.

The size and length matched almost perfectly.

Sure enough, this giant mouse mummy was the rare demon beast "Stone Bat Mouse" recorded in the classics, which possessed both petrification and flight abilities.

These bat wings were removed from this beast and transplanted onto the corpse-mouse he had seen earlier.

But according to the classics, the Stone Bat Mouse's petrification ability came from its saliva; as long as one was sprayed, they would turn into a stone statue, and it didn't seem to have much to do with its wings.

Moreover, the petrification method had changed from spitting saliva to a light beam, a more direct attack method.

Thinking back to the other demon mouse mummies under the well that were missing organs and limbs, this corpse-mouse really seemed to have been pieced together using special methods.

This kind of corpse-demon refining was truly eerie; he wondered if it was a unique secret technique of the Moluo Sect?

What relationship did the Tong family have with this Moluo Sect dwarf?

Was this corpse-mouse made by the dwarf, or was it secretly refined by the Tong family?

Various thoughts spun quickly in Wang Yu's mind, raising all sorts of doubts. He beckoned with one hand, collected the complete Stone Bat Mouse mummy into his storage bag, moved his body, and drifted toward the direction where the dwarf had self-destructed.

Although the demonic Foundation Establishment cultivator's storage bag couldn't contain anything due to the self-destruction, the black iron awl and iron shield were genuine second-rank magic artifacts and definitely had to be retrieved.

"This is..."

Wang Yu held the black iron awl in one hand and the pitch-black small shield in the other, looking at the faint silver bottle phantom floating before him, a trace of surprise appearing on his face.

If he remembered correctly, the original form of this thing was a silver talisman, and it had taken all the poison hidden in the fist print.

But shouldn't this thing be a one-time use item? Why was it still here?

Wang Yu collected the two magic artifacts in his hands, beckoned with one hand, and after the small bottle phantom flew closer, he stretched out a finger to touch it.

It was light, seemingly without any weight, but had a clear, smooth tactile sensation, as if it were truly a small metal bottle.

He stared carefully at the small bottle phantom, feeling that the surface of the bottle had layer upon layer of silver spirit patterns, dense and countless.

If he kept looking, he vaguely felt as if his body and mind were being sucked in.

After Wang Yu exhaled lightly, he carefully injected mana into it bit by bit through his fingertip.

"Puff!"

After the small bottle trembled slightly, the silver pattern phantoms on its surface emerged in layers, then suddenly transformed into a streak of silver light that drilled into his fingertip and vanished without a trace.

Wang Yu's body froze for a moment.

Could this thing be a living creature?

After gasping, he hurriedly pinched incantations with both hands, sat cross-legged, and probed his body with his divine sense.

Not in his palms, not in his arms, not in his dantian, divine sense sea...

Wang Yu's divine sense scanned every part of his body, finally discovering a floating, shimmering silver talisman in his divine sense sea.

This thing could actually hide in his divine sense sea!

Wang Yu's heart was shocked.

One must know that apart from third-rank or higher magic artifacts that can be transformed from reality to virtuality and placed in the divine sense sea to nurture spirituality, he had never heard of anything else that could enter the divine sense sea.

Even third-rank talismans didn't have this special function; could it be some kind of higher-rank special talisman?

But if it were such a high-rank item, why did the dwarf only use it to block a bit of poison?

Wang Yu was suspicious and observed the talisman in his divine sense sea for a while.

This silver talisman, like the small bottle earlier, was illusory and blurry, seemingly real and fake, its surface covered in overlapping spirit patterns, appearing extremely mysterious.

Seeing this talisman lying quietly in his divine sense sea without any abnormality, Wang Yu hesitated for a moment before finally releasing a wisp of divine sense to carefully touch the talisman.

The next moment, silver light swirled in his divine sense sea, and the silver talisman vanished without a trace.

At the same time, the silver talisman silently reappeared in his hand.

Wang Yu showed a trace of surprise, injecting a bit of mana into the talisman again.

"Puff!"

After the talisman trembled, it transformed into a stream of silver light that rolled out, re-manifesting into the silver small bottle phantom.

This time, Wang Yu looked at the silver small bottle phantom for a moment before releasing a wisp of divine sense to probe into the bottle's mouth.

He immediately showed a trace of surprise!

Inside this small bottle, there was another small space, not large, only about ten cubic meters, but the entire inner wall of the space was covered in strange bronze-colored patterns, reflecting the entire space in a greenish hue.

In this space, two things were floating.

A pale white jade slip and a large mass of ink-green liquid.

The latter went without saying; it was naturally the poison collected by the talisman when the gourd self-destructed.

As for the former...

Wang Yu's mind stirred, and his divine sense touched the jade slip.

"Whoosh!"

In his other hand, a white jade slip appeared.

Wang Yu looked at the white jade slip in his hand and then at the small bottle phantom in his other hand, falling somewhat silent.

How much difference was there between this thing and a storage bag, other than being able to be stored in the divine sense sea or released outside the body to collect some things?

He suppressed the doubts in his heart, stuck the jade slip to his forehead, immersed his divine sense into it, and quickly scanned the contents recorded in the jade slip.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he exhaled lightly, took the jade slip away, and a trace of strangeness appeared on his face.

The jade slip actually recorded an unknown demonic corpse-refining secret technique, from entry-rank mummies, first-rank white-haired corpses, second-rank iron corpses, and even the refining methods for third-rank silver corpses were all there.

But this wasn't the most important part; more of the content in the jade slip recorded the experimental insights of a demonic Foundation Establishment cultivator who used various refined demon beast limbs and organs to refine more powerful corpse-demons.

The number of experiments recorded in the jade slip was over a hundred, almost exhausting the demonic cultivator's life energy before finally achieving some results, even refining a powerful second-rank late-stage corpse-demon.

What Wang Yu cared about even more was that the demonic cultivator in the jade slip happened to have the surname "Tong." ===== CHAPTER 332 =====