Er Ming's Burial Ground, Jerry's Paradise

After listening to Jerry's explanation, Er Ming understood. So these bones were useful too. Delighted, he said to Jerry, "Jerry, I've eaten quite a few Soul Beasts over the past tens of thousands of years. I threw all the bones into a small valley nearby. Most are hundred-year and thousand-year ones, but there are ten-thousand-year ones too! I'll take you to have a look."

"Really? Then let's go now!" Jerry said excitedly.

Er Ming then quickly brought Jerry and Xiao Wu to his burial ground. Jerry looked over the valley, which was filled with white bones. Because of the passage of time, some had already sunk halfway into the soil. The bones exposed aboveground still gave off a faint glow. Nurtured by Soul Power, bones decayed more slowly in this world! Jerry also spotted a Soul Beast corpse that still emitted the smell of rot. Er Ming had probably dumped it there not long ago. Some rotting flesh and parts Er Ming did not eat still remained on it, though that flesh had already begun to decay.

Many Soul Beast skeletons were entwined with all kinds of plants, and there were also many plants growing across the ground. Their seeds had likely been blown here by the wind, where they had taken root, sprouted, and grown. Jerry discovered that many of these plants were already a hundred years old, while many more were a thousand years old. Even more outrageous was a Ghost Vine that was already ten thousand years old. Its vines were extremely long, coiling around a skeleton three or four stories tall. From a distance, one might have mistaken it for a Soul Beast!

Plant Soul Beasts could attack, but after sensing Er Ming's aura, none of them dared move. They looked no different from Ordinary Plants! If an ordinary Soul Master entered this place, there was an eighty percent chance they would never come back out!

Among the skeletons, Jerry also found several human skeletons. Only after asking Er Ming did he learn that some had been thrown here by Er Ming. They had barged into the Core Region to hunt Soul Rings and had been hammered to death after encountering Er Ming. Since Er Ming did not eat people, he threw them here. Others had probably wandered into this valley on their own. Seeing the sheer number of skeletons here, they thought there was treasure hidden within! So they charged in, only to be killed by the many Plant Type Soul Beasts!

This worked out nicely for Jerry. Neither Er Ming nor the Plant Type Soul Beasts here had any use for the belongings carried by Soul Masters, so they simply left them lying around. Any Soul Master capable of reaching this place was bound to be extremely powerful! Jack quickly discovered several treasures. These items would not decay, making them easy to spot at a glance. Jerry found a Storage Bracelet, two Storage Rings, and a large sword. However, the sword had already rusted, having likely lain on the ground for a very, very long time. It was useless now! Jerry also saw scattered items around the waists of several skeletons. Their storage pouches had probably decayed, spilling their contents out. The ironware had all rusted, and some clothes had not yet completely rotted away!

Jerry could not wait to inspect the items inside the Storage Rings and bracelet. The clothes in the Storage Rings had already decayed, turning to powder at the slightest touch. There were also many Gold Soul Coins and Silver Soul Coins, which earned Jerry a small fortune, since they would not decay no matter how long they were left there! Some ironware had rusted as well and could no longer be used!

The best finds were several leather-bound books. Jerry had no idea what kind of Soul Beast hide they were made from, but they had not decayed even now!

It seemed that the Space Equipment in this world was different from what Jerry had seen in novels. Putting something inside merely placed it in another space, but that space was not frozen in time, so the items would still decay! At that moment, he somewhat envied the Qiankun Rings in cultivation novels. Anything placed inside could be taken out in perfect condition no matter when it was retrieved. You could store food inside, and it would still be hot when you took it out to eat!

One ring had roughly ten cubic meters of space, the other had fifty cubic meters, and the bracelet had around twenty cubic meters. Jerry was not used to wearing bracelets, so he gave the ten-cubic-meter ring and the twenty-cubic-meter bracelet to Xiao Wu, keeping the fifty-cubic-meter ring for himself! Xiao Wu had long coveted Space Equipment. Now that she had obtained two pieces at once, she was overjoyed. She held them in her hands, looking them over from every angle, storing things away and taking them back out again, happy as a fool!

Of course, Jerry did not forget the important matter at hand. After collecting some thousand-year and ten-thousand-year bones, he prepared to head back and conduct his experiments!