Although the short, fat cultivator's Concealment Technique had its own unique points, with Yue'er handling him, Lin Xuan naturally did not take it to heart.
He raised his head and looked toward the old man surnamed Hu. But with that one look, Lin Xuan's heart sank.
He saw the man take out a palm-sized talisman from his robes. Originally, there was nothing particularly strange about it, but the moment this talisman was brought out, a stench immediately spread everywhere, making anyone who smelled it want to vomit, just like the odor given off by a corpse after it had rotted.
Corpse Talisman!
Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes. At Heavenly Eye Mountain, he had once, by chance, obtained a Jade Slip that recorded ancient talisman-making arts, and there had been such a passage inside.
The Corpse Talisman was one of the ten great evil talismans among earth-rank talismans. It was formed by collecting the resentment and vicious aura left after corpses died, then refining them with Ghost Path divine abilities.
Vicious and evil, its power was enough to make one click one's tongue in astonishment; even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators had no choice but to deal with it carefully.
Where had this fellow gotten such an eerie treasure?
Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes. He remembered once hearing someone mention by chance that the last time a Corpse Talisman had appeared in the world had already been more than seventy years ago.
It was said to have been obtained from a certain ancient giant tomb, a burial object belonging to a devil who had once stormed across the world. Later, it had been auctioned in a Secret Market, where everyone had rubbed their fists and wiped their palms in eagerness, and in the end, it had been bought by an unknown masked