Corpse Excavation Harvest

Du En poked at the corpses in front of him, making the other corpse handlers uneasy.

"Du En, is, is there a problem?" Ning Caize asked tentatively.

Du En withdrew his shovel and shook his head slightly. "There's nothing unusual, but looking at their clothing, it seems extraordinary. I just wanted to see if I could find anything good."

Hearing the first part of his words, everyone relaxed. Hearing the second part, everyone was stunned again.

Their gazes shifted to the four headless corpses.

Indeed, the green robes were made of satin, clearly more exquisite than the clothing of ordinary people from the lower classes.

Huh?

Wait, wearing green robes, and the fabric is good. Hiss! Could this be a Hall Master of the Green Robe Gang?!

Good heavens!

As expected of you, Du En! Facing these gang bosses who met successive tragic deaths, you're still thinking of profiting from their corpses!

Although these scoundrels deserved their fate and there was no need to worry about damaging the bodies, still...

"These have already been searched two or three times, what could possibly be left?" Ning Caize voiced his pessimistic opinion.

Is this the time to be talking about that? Wei Ming glared at him.

Ning Caize, who had calmed down, no longer hid behind Du En. Meeting Wei Ming's gaze, he said, "If we're talking about dangerous hidden dangers, there certainly won't be much left. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been searched so many times already."

Wei Ming finally understood, but he also felt a bit worried.

After all, it might have been done by an Evil Cultivator. Shouldn't they be more careful?

Just as he thought this, they saw Du En already reaching out to search.

His movements were cautious and careful. Magic Power was attached to his hands, which were covered by thick cloth gloves.

Soon, his hand stopped.

There really was something missed?

Instantly, everyone else held their breath subconsciously, appearing even more nervous than Du En.

Du En seemed to be merely searching, but in reality, he was using his current advanced Cultivation Technique to sense. He felt an unusual feedback from the stomach area.

Then, the others watched as Du En pried open the severed neck and reached his hand inside through the esophagus.

Ugh...

This scene immediately made them feel a bit awkward.

But only a bit. Because even though doing this would involve getting stained with blood, stomach fluid, or even putrid stomach contents, they were in this line of work. They were constantly immersed in the stench of corpses and foul spirits, so it wasn't really a big deal.

At most, the action itself was inexplicably relatable, similar to how one's heart would chill and legs would clench when seeing someone else's misfortune.

Du En was digging around in the stomach and pulled out a bag.

It was hidden quite deep, at the junction of the stomach and the duodenum. It was a groove that had clearly been artificially created and tightened by fibrous tissue.

This was to prevent someone from digging through the stomach!

Du En casually felt it and indeed discovered traces of a previous search.

"As expected, I'm not the only one who knows you can hide things like this."

As Du En thought this, the others gathered around, looking astonished.

These relatively new corpse handlers had never actually considered that things could be hidden this way.

Perhaps Ning Caize had a vague idea, but he didn't dare to take the risk to verify it.

Du En then pressed on, digging through the other corpses in one go.

One of them had already been thoroughly searched, yielding nothing.

First, he used the corpses' clothes to wipe off the various smudges on his hands, then he examined the items obtained from the corpse digging.

The bag from the first corpse was opened, revealing densely packed Low-grade Spirit Stones. Counting them, there were thirty-eight, which wasn't a small amount.

At the same time, there were several folded pieces of paper. They looked familiar. Du En opened them and found they were just a low-grade spell called the Earth Armor Technique.

This wasn't a mere coincidence.

In fact, when Du En had chosen his targets last night, he had a specific focus.

Specifically, among the four Hall Masters, two of them also cultivated the Yellow Earth Technique, making it likely they would have items related to the earth element.

His luck was quite good, so he obtained the Earth Armor Technique.

The reason there were many pages of paper wasn't because this low-grade spell was particularly unique, but rather that the deceased had recorded their practice心得 (experience/insights) before death.

One could read a sense of smugness and arrogance from them.

It was a form of self-aggrandizing diary.

The second corpse yielded not a bag, but a long, thin object pulled from its duodenum. This greyish-white thing, like a parasitic worm, was pulled out until it reached the fecal matter, stretching nearly ten meters.

The onlookers were stunned into silence, exclaiming that they had never seen anything like it.

After Du En's identification, he concluded it was a spiritual item, specifically a soft metal spirit ore. It was First-tier Mid Grade, quite valuable, worth at least fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones.

The Gather and Appraise skill, which had been stuck for a long time, was also stimulated and accumulated a charge.

Finally, the fourth corpse. This one also had no bag, but instead, a Spirit Stone was lodged in its small intestine, like an intestinal blockage.

It was a Mid-grade Spirit Stone.

Compared to Low-grade Spirit Stones, it was several times larger, harder, and more translucent. The spiritual energy contained within it seemed like misty vapor, beautiful under the sunlight.

Its value could be exchanged for one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.

The total haul was one Mid-grade Spirit Stone, thirty-eight Low-grade Spirit Stones, a First-tier Mid Grade spirit ore of some kind, and a Low-grade spell, the Earth Armor Technique.

Not bad at all, and all of it went to Du En.

After all, the others had merely watched, powerless and too afraid to act.

Seeing Du En's significant gains, they became restless. They eyed other corpses, even spotting a few that were reasonably well-dressed, but as they approached them, they hesitated and ultimately didn't dare to search them.

Du En packed up his spoils and casually checked the others, finding nothing in their bellies.

The situation was clear: only the truly seasoned or particularly unusual corpses might leave a little something behind for the Corpse Buriers at the bottom of the totem pole, the ones doing the dirtiest work.

"Let's get back to work. After we finish for the day, if you want to learn the Earth Armor Technique, you can come watch."

Du En was not stingy about this.

However, the others had limited energy. Even Ning Caize, the best among them, had only just managed to move past Beginner's Practice with the Sand Raising Technique and was only beginning to grasp its fundamentals.

Even with the added insights from the deceased, the Earth Armor Technique was clearly harder to learn. If they truly wanted to master it, it would likely take a considerable amount of time.

Despite this, everyone's dejection vanished. They cheered his prowess and eagerly threw themselves back into their work.

Du En, however, took a moment to slack off and ponder the Earth Armor Technique.

With his mastery of the Yellow Earth Technique, two related spells were at least at the Proficient level. Coupled with the deceased's insights, he quickly learned it.

[Earth Armor Technique (Beginner's Practice 0/10)]

"The daylight hours are already taken up by two other spells. I'll practice Earth Armor Technique in the evenings when I have free time. It's not like the powerful Earth Bullet Technique, which can be practiced indoors. Hmm, I'll practice it five times a day."

"Mastery reduces the requirement by two, Minor Accomplishment by 1.5, Proficient by one. Breath Concealing Technique isn't related, so it shouldn't reduce it. That means practicing five and a half times will accumulate one point of proficiency."

Increasing the proficiency wouldn't be difficult, Du En mused.

Suddenly, he sensed something faintly and turned his head towards the path.

Someone was approaching!

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