God-Slaying Blade

Qin Jueqian chuckled, "That's true..."

"What's inside this storage ring that's making you so excited?" Liu Qingxue asked curiously with a smile.

Qin Jue grinned and said, "There are tens of thousands of spirit crystals alone! In addition, there are more than a dozen pill bottles, more than thirty well-preserved demon beast corpses, and hundreds of top-grade natural herbs! There are also seven or eight spiritual artifacts! Those demon beasts look quite powerful, and their cultivation levels in life should all be above the Spirit River Realm!"

Of course, I also have several soul stones, but while they might be the most valuable thing to others, they're practically useless to me.

Liu Qingxue teased, "How can it be a useless thing? If you don't use it yourself, you can sell it! If you sell it, wouldn't that be spirit stones? Even if you don't sell it, it's not bad to keep it as a foundation for the Jue Tian Sect."

Qin Jue laughed and said, "I was just saying that, for me personally, the inheritance of cultivation techniques is a double-edged sword."

"Heh, so is there a pass marker or not? That's what you need most right now," Liu Qingxue asked with a smile.

Qin Jue opened his right hand, and a white jade tablet the size of a palm appeared in his palm.

"Is this a pass marker? It looks like a token, and there's only one like it in his storage ring," Qin Jue said.

Liu Qingxue said, "This should be his identity token in the sect. However, this token has also been infused with the same spiritual energy as this Spirit Locking Array. It can also be used as a passage token."

Qin Jue's eyes lit up: "That's good!"

"You should infuse your spiritual power into the identity token, and then a surge of power will emerge. You can then guide this power into the Refining Stone."

"good!"

Qin Jue did as instructed. When the power surging from the jade tablet fell onto the well cover, a beam of white light emerged from the well cover, transforming into a white light array.

"Be careful once you're inside!" Liu Qingxue reminded her.

Although this place has become ruins, it's hard to guarantee that there aren't people hiding in the space behind this spirit-locking array.

"Um!"

Qin Jue's eyes narrowed, and his spiritual energy gathered within his body.

"Sword Demon, follow me!" He picked up the God-Slaying Blade and stepped into the portal of light.

The Sword Demon followed.

Ong!

A flash of white light appeared before his eyes, and Qin Jue was already on a bluestone road.

"There shouldn't be any sign of living people, and the place isn't very big, only about thirty miles in circumference. However... it does have quite a few top-grade spiritual materials and spirit-grade heavenly materials planted. There's also a spirit marrow stone! I must say, Xiao Jue, you're really lucky!" Liu Qingxue said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Qin Jue felt relieved.

He'd rather gain something easily than resort to violence!

"Sister Qingxue, what is this Spirit Marrow Stone?" Qin Jue asked as he walked forward.

"Do you know how spirit stone veins are formed?" Liu Qingxue asked.

Qin Jue was taken aback and said, "It must be formed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathering underground and then condensing over countless years, right?"

Liu Qingxue smiled and said, "You're only half right. The reason why the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathers in one place is because there is a Spirit Marrow Stone underground! The Spirit Marrow Stone itself contains infinite spiritual energy and can continuously gather and absorb the spiritual energy scattered between heaven and earth."

Over time, the mortal soil near the Spirit Marrow Stone can transform into spirit stones, and even over longer periods, it can condense into crystals. The owner of this place placed the Spirit Marrow Stone here to nourish the spiritual materials here. If it weren't for the existence of this Spirit Marrow Stone, the spiritual energy in this space would have been completely absorbed by these spiritual materials long ago.

"It's fortunate you arrived early. If you had come a hundred years later, the power within this Spirit Essence Stone would likely have been completely depleted. At that point, it would lose its ability to gather spiritual energy and become nothing more than a useless stone."

Qin Jue laughed and said, "It seems I'm quite lucky! I can't move the Refining Void Stone, but I should be able to collect this Spirit Marrow Stone, right?"

"Of course," Liu Qingxue said with a smile.

As Qin Jue walked along the bluestone path, he saw medicinal fields on both sides, and he had been itching to get his hands on them for a long time.

But right now, the most important thing is still the Spirit Marrow Stone!

"Um?"

Soon, Qin Jue saw a huge jade stone, about two zhang tall, with a faint blue light, standing on a circular stone platform.

But in front of the blue jade stone, a woman dressed in a blue fairy dress was sitting cross-legged!

But the woman had long since lost all vitality.

"Don't worry, she's long dead. But this woman is a treasure trove. Her blue dress is a top-grade spiritual artifact, and what she wears underneath are also high-grade spiritual artifacts. Go over and strip her of these things; it's such a waste to put all this on a dead person," Liu Qingxue teased.

Qin Jue's face twitched. Stripping a female corpse of her clothes didn't seem like a good idea!

But this woman is a treasure trove!

Qin Jue moved closer.

The woman's eyes were slightly closed, her face fair and pretty; she must have been an exceptionally beautiful woman in life. Even though she had been dead for countless years, she still possessed a delicate and refined appearance, her body showing no signs of decay.

Bang!

Suddenly, Qin Jue heard the sound of someone kneeling behind him.

He turned around in surprise, only to see the Sword Demon kneeling on the ground.

His face was expressionless.

But when he saw the woman's corpse, his remaining consciousness compelled him to kneel down.

"It seems there's a close relationship between the Sword Demon and this female corpse. If they're not mother and son, they're master and disciple," Qin Jue said in a low voice.

"They should be master and disciple. There's no blood relation between them, but their bond must be very deep, otherwise the latent consciousness within the remnant soul of the Sword Demon wouldn't have been triggered. When you're dissecting this woman later, you should avoid him," Liu Qingxue said.

Qin Jue's lips twitched. Was Sister Qingxue so certain that he would definitely strip this woman?

"Sister Qingxue, this woman's cultivation level must have been quite high before she died! Otherwise, it would be impossible for her body to be so well preserved after so many years, looking as if she had just died," Qin Jue asked.

Liu Qingxue said, "She must have been at the Nascent Soul Realm. However, her dantian shattered, her spiritual infant dissipated, and her cultivation was completely destroyed before she died. She must have died from her severe injuries. The body of someone at the Nascent Soul Realm is already a jade-bone spiritual body, impervious to water and fire, so it's not so easy for it to decay. However, she's already dead, so no matter how beautiful she is, don't have any wicked thoughts about her."

Qin Jue's face darkened!

When did he ever have any wicked thoughts?

"Sister Qingxue, do you think I have no bottom line?" Qin Jue said angrily.

Liu Qingxue chuckled and said, "Isn't a bottom line something only women have? You men always create unnecessary trouble; when have you ever had a bottom line?"

Qin Jue: "..."

Qin Jue took a deep breath, not wanting to pay attention to Liu Qingxue's lewd remarks, and asked only, "With her dantian shattered, does that mean she can't be refined into a demonic puppet?"

Liu Qingxue said, "It is possible, but it can only be refined into a dead puppet."

Qin Jue narrowed his eyes and said, "Dead puppets are fine too, at least they can continue to stay together. Moreover, a dead puppet made from the corpse of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator should be quite powerful, even if it only has pure physical attacks."