Discovered

"Then let's go in."

It didn't look like anyone else was coming. The masked corpse cultivator on the left spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Alright."

Chen Luo nodded, walked over to the refined corpse, and very naturally patted his head. This action instantly silenced everyone present. The two masked people stopped moving at the same time and looked at Chen Luo with unfriendly expressions.

To them, Chen Luo's behavior was a provocation.

"What do you mean by this, fellow daoist?"

The corpse cultivator on the left narrowed his eyes, and the aura around him began to stir.

"This is a custom from my hometown. It means offering blessings." Chen Luo looked at the corpse cultivator and grinned.

"I advise you not to try anything funny. This friend of mine has quite a bad temper."

Only after carefully examining the corpse puppet and confirming that no backup plans had been left behind did the corpse cultivator on the left issue a warning. He then put some distance between himself and Chen Luo, no longer as easygoing as before.

Chen Luo did not take it to heart.

Contacted Dead Person's Brainwaves. Damage degree: 7%. Read?

The instant he touched the refined corpse's head, he extracted this refined corpse's brain.

A refined corpse of the Dao Integration Realm.

Chen Luo sensed a great deal of resentment qi from this refined corpse, all of it directed at the corpse cultivator beside her. The refined corpse was named Ren Ji. Before death, she and the corpse cultivator beside her had been Dao companions. They had lived together for over two thousand six hundred years. Later, while exploring a ruin, they were ambushed by the Masked Corpse Cultivator and left severely injured and dying.

The Masked Corpse Cultivator took her out of the ruin, used a