Months flew by as Jiang Ping An devoted himself to one attempt after another.
He poured nearly all his energy into studying the mysterious beast hide, activating the World Eye again and again in hopes of seeing through its hidden secrets.
The results disappointed him.
His World Eye could comprehend the rules within divine objects such as the Haotian Purple Flame Dragon Origin Divine Spark and the Half-Step Sovereign Skeleton, yet it proved useless against this hide.
Wherever he looked, he saw only chaos. His gaze could not pierce the mist of rules.
He tried other methods as well.
He attempted to imprint a Divine Soul Imprint on it.
Normally, when a Low-level Spirit tried to imprint a higher-grade divine artifact, the artifact's own power would shatter or repel the imprint.
But this beast hide was entirely different.
It neither shattered nor repelled the imprint. It absorbed it.
The imprint sank like a stone into the sea, leaving not the slightest trace for him to sense.
He found that deeply strange.
Besides imprinting it, he tried binding it with a drop of blood and examining it under flames and light of different attributes.
He even kept it against his body for a long time, hoping to trigger some sort of resonance...
Over several months, he tried dozens of methods and spent an enormous amount of mental effort.
Yet no matter what he did, the hide remained unresponsive, lying quietly in his hands.
"Looks like selling it would be safer."
Jiang Ping An rubbed his throbbing temples. He was beginning to want out.
If he alone knew the hide's secret, he might have sealed it away until his cultivation improved enough to study it again.
But quite a few people knew the hide existed.
Ning Yun Ya, the Young Master of