"Hmm... it seemed there wasn't no way after all."
Inside the stone house by the River of Forgetfulness, Chen Mu's heart stirred. He turned to Zhang Er. "Your ability to make Breath-Sealing Stones—is it a Divine Ability or a secret art?"
Zhang Er did not understand why he was asking, but he did not dare conceal anything. "It's a Divine Ability."
What a pity.
If it had been a secret art, this would have been much simpler.
Chen Mu took out a large raw-wood bookcase from the Five Ghosts Bag and began searching through it.
The copies of scriptures and secret arts he had acquired over the decades, along with collections of strange tales and biographies, were all stored in this bookcase.
Before long, he pulled a yellowish-brown Beast Hide Scroll from a wooden box on the lower shelf. He spread it open, and the four large words Secret Record of Embroidered Methods immediately caught his eye.
Back when Jilong Dao relocated to the East Ridge mountains, it had constantly clashed with the local barbarians.
The Eagle Sorrow Cliff Other Courtyard of Jilong Dao had been destroyed by an alliance of barbarians, and Chen Mu had experienced that calamity firsthand.
After escaping underground with Finger Points to Steel, he had obtained this Beast Hide Scroll through a fortunate coincidence.
This secret art could capture a monster's Qi Mechanism and seal it within one's body, then use one's own vital blood essence to nurture and strengthen it, ultimately obtaining part of the monster's innate Divine Abilities.
The innate Divine Abilities of Yinlings were extremely similar to the gifts bestowed upon monsters by nature. If this secret art worked...
Chen Mu looked at Zhang Er and could not help smiling.
Three days later, inside the stone house by the River of