Moving stealthily the whole way, Lin Taichu avoided every patrolling cultivator and cultivation site, speeding toward the Graveyard.
The closer he came to the Graveyard, the denser the deathly aura in the air became, mixed with a faint stench of blood and an evil Yin Energy. It was the scent left behind after the Spirit Devouring Gu fed on Soul Power.
About an hour later, Lin Taichu arrived at the Graveyard. The Graveyard was enormous, covered in tightly packed tombstones. Most of the tombstones were broken beyond recognition, with no names on them, only blurred scars of carving.
Countless bones lay scattered across the ground: the ruined wings of Angels, black scales from Demons, and the skeletons of Human Cultivators, piled together in utter disorder and giving off a piercing deathly stench.
Lin Taichu slowly walked into the Graveyard, stepping over a thick layer of bones beneath his feet, which gave off faint cracking sounds. He bent down, picked up a broken Angel bone, and injected Soul Power through his fingertips to probe the aura within.
Inside the bone, a faint trace of spiritual energy remained, but it was mixed with a dense aura of Spirit Devouring Gu. The spiritual energy had long since been devoured to nothing, leaving only an empty shell.
He picked up another piece of demon bone. Its condition was similar to the Angel bone; the Yin Energy inside had been completely drained dry, leaving only traces of corrosion from Gu Worms.
Lin Taichu understood. These cultivators had not died from battles against outside forces. They had been forcibly drained of their cultivation by those breeders, then casually discarded here to fake the appearance of death by conflict and cover up the crime of cultivating Spirit Devouring Gu.
He slowly advanced through the Graveyard, carefully examining