Chapter 470

The next morning, Shi Qiuping took seven or eight subordinates from the Mishan Sect and set off on two spirit boats, heading straight for the Hanlan River market.

This market was located deep at the source of the upper reaches of the Hanlan River, on a small second-rank spirit vein, only a day or two's journey from the current Mishan Sect base.

If Shi Qiuping and her party did not encounter any delays on the road, they should be able to make the round trip in three or four days.

At this moment, Wang Yu had already quietly arrived more than ten zhang deep underground, in front of a hall located in a very secret position.

The surrounding walls of this hall were built of thick bluestone, and the heavy door was cast from refined iron; at the same time, several sealing talismans were pasted on the tightly closed iron door, seemingly to prevent something inside from escaping.

Even more eye-catching were the two metal lion statues crouching on either side of the refined iron gate, their bodies flashing with green light, seemingly cast from bronze.

As soon as Wang Yu approached, the two lion statues, each a zhang in length, had a flash of red light in their eyes and actually crawled up from the ground slowly. At the same time, low roars like those of real lions came from their mouths, and their two front paws simultaneously "swished" as they unsheathed sharp, snow-white claws, their bodies beginning to emit Qi fluctuations of the late Qi Refinement Stage.

Wang Yu, as if well-prepared, raised one hand, and a bronze token of the same material appeared in his hand, which he simply waved toward the two bronze lions.

"Puff," "puff."

A spell technique flew from the token and vanished into the bodies of the two bronze lions in a flash. The red light in the puppets' eyes faded, and they crawled back to their original positions, turning back into statues once more.

Wang Yu clicked his tongue; with his current eyesight, he could naturally see clearly that the necks of the two bronze puppets were each imprinted with the three silver, bean-sized characters for "Ling Lei Sect."

These two puppets were among the spoils of war he had received from the Heisha Sect.

The two had originally been guards placed at the entrance of the Heisha Sect's treasury. Perhaps because the people of the Heisha Sect were too busy moving resources out of the treasury before fleeing, they had actually left these two puppets behind, which worked out to his advantage.

Now, these two puppets of no small strength had been readjusted by several people in the sect who understood puppet mechanism arts, and after new control tokens were made, they had been placed back here.

Wang Yu walked to the gate and raised his sleeve, sending out several spell techniques.

The talismans pasted on the iron door drifted down, and the gate slowly opened.

He flashed inside, the iron door closed again, and the talismans that had drifted to the ground flashed and stuck themselves back on.

At this moment, Wang Yu was already standing at the entrance of this mysterious hall.

He saw that as far as the eye could see, black Qi was rolling, yin winds were blowing in gusts, and sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling came from the depths of the hall. At the same time, groups of ghost shadows flickered in and out of the black Qi; they were all newly born yin spirits.

The ground was covered with a dense layer of animal bones, leading directly to the center of the hall.

Wang Yu's expression remained unchanged as he stepped on the white bone surface of the ground and walked slowly toward the center of the hall.

Wherever he passed, the surrounding black Qi retreated, vaguely yielding a path, but a biting chill rushed toward him from ahead.

From the animal bones on the ground, wisps of black Qi emerged from time to time; although very slow, they were indeed constantly gushing out.

Wang Yu turned a blind eye to this. He narrowed his eyes, and when he infused some of his internal mana into his pupils, he could clearly see more black Qi constantly emerging from tall bone piles in various corners of the hall.

Looking up again, he could see a layer of white light curtain flickering at the top of the hall, seemingly shrouding the entire hall beneath it.

The layout here was exactly the same as in the system login interface; he had used some simple Feng Shui restrictions and the animal bones on the ground to forcibly transform it into a place of yin energy.

This was different from the spiritless world of Blue Star; as long as there was spiritual energy and animal bones on the ground, it could continuously produce a large amount of yin energy, from which yin spirits would be born endlessly.

Wang Yu no longer paid attention to these things, and after walking another ten or so steps forward, he could see a white bone altar appear in front of him.

This altar, in both style and size, was also exactly the same as the one in the system interface.

The only difference was probably the bone banner inserted into the altar.

Although the lower half of the banner's handle was as crystalline as jade, the pitch-black banner surface on the upper half had no patterns at all. Instead, the banner surface fluttered without wind, constantly sucking in the nearby black Qi, making the banner surface become even more shiny and oily.

On the ground a little further from the altar, thirteen white, giant skeletons sat cross-legged, each draped in thick bone armor, with bone-made weapons such as giant bows, swords, and sabers placed in front of them.

Some of the bone armor and weapons in front of the skeletons were covered with small cracks, and some limbs were missing parts, but wisps of black Qi were constantly entwining around them, slowly seeping into the bone armor.

On the nearby ground, one or two animal bones would jump up automatically from time to time, bursting into bone powder in mid-air, or drifting onto these giant skeletons, or being directly absorbed by the bone weapons on the ground to repair the cracks on them.

Among these thirteen white bone skeletons, two were clearly a size smaller than the others, and their bone armor was as brand new as ever.

"It looks like the repairs are almost done; in that case, I can proceed to the next step."

Wang Yu looked at all this and murmured.

This bone banner was naturally the Yin Soul Banner he had brought to the Blue Star World, but because too much yin energy had been consumed while in the Blue Star World, as soon as he finished setting up the small Spirit Gathering Array here, he immediately imitated the yin energy land of the system interface and directly transformed the original underground treasury of the Heisha Sect.

Although it was a bit rushed, fortunately, this was the Eastern Wasteland, where there was no shortage of monster bones; the Heisha Sect treasury even left behind a large pile of animal bones below the first rank.

Wang Yu unceremoniously threw them all into this newly built yin land.

Although bones that were not even first-rank had no great improvement effect on this Yin Soul Banner, they were naturally sufficient for replenishing yin energy.

As for the twelve white bone human demons before him, two of them were new white bone human demons he had re-selected and added from his storage bag.

After all, two of the white bone human demons originally prepared to synthesize the White Bone Yin Demon Banner had been lost to the British Union in the Blue Star World.

Later, as the Huaguo and the British Union reconciled, and even the Heaven-Opening Project was opened to the outside world, that "Helena" clone also joined the base. Both sides tacitly agreed that one would no longer pursue the cause of the real "Helena's" death, and the other would not mention pursuing the whereabouts of the two white bone human demons that had fallen into the hands of the British Union.

After all, white bone human demons were essentially just two puppets; once the yin energy inside was exhausted, they would become dead objects, so Wang Yu did not care too much.

But in the few days he spent with that clone "Helena" afterward, he always felt that the way she looked at him was a bit strange, and he even felt in the dark that this clone seemed to know that the real "Helena" had not died, which was why she joined the base and deliberately approached him.

Wang Yu shook his head, quickly suppressing these thoughts in his mind, and his gaze fell back onto the bone banner on the altar.

With a wave of one hand, the bone banner rose into the air as a ball of black light, and after circling once, it landed steadily in his hand.

He grasped the crystalline banner handle and infused a little mana; immediately, the bone banner hummed, and twelve gray-white inscription phantoms on the banner surface flickered in and out of view.

Wang Yu's eyes suddenly widened!

This Yin Soul Banner, which was originally only first-rank in Blue Star, had actually become a second-rank low-grade magic artifact. Although a twelve-inscription magic artifact was a relatively inferior type even among second-rank magic artifacts, it was indeed a second-rank magic artifact.

But this magic artifact, when it was previously brought to the Blue Star World, had clearly only condensed eight inscriptions, and even the ninth one had only condensed halfway.

How could it have suddenly condensed several more inscriptions and advanced on its own just by being placed in this yin energy land to replenish some yin energy?