Seeing how firmly Duomaiti refused, Zhou Ke's expression turned somewhat ugly. Zhou Hai beside him had even nearly risen to give Duomaiti some physical persuasion, but Zhou Ke stopped him in the end.
Then he took out a cigarette, gestured to Duomaiti with it, and after seeing him shake his head, lit one for himself and began recounting how the Zhou Family had obtained the Jade Pendant.
Although Duomaiti did not want to listen, he knew something about Martial Artists. For his family's safety, he could only listen in silence.
On the roof, Chen Mo observed the Jade Pendant on the kang table with his Spiritual Sense while listening to Zhou Ke's account. The runes on the Jade Pendant were not ones he recognized.
He had never studied such unorthodox corpse cultivation techniques. This was also his first time seeing a corpse cultivator's runic formation, so naturally, he was curious and wanted to study it carefully.
Moreover, he sensed from the runes that his earlier conclusion might have been somewhat hasty. This Jade Pendant might not simply absorb and release baleful energy. Judging from its complex patterns, it might contain other formation runes as well.
But all of that was beyond his understanding and required careful research.
This only made Chen Mo want to follow Zhou Ke and the others even more, to see what their ultimate purpose was. In addition, he had become interested in Xiye Ancient City.
Since this sort of Jade Pendant had been obtained from Xiye Ancient City, might there be other items belonging to cultivators there? There might even be cultivation manuals left behind by corpse cultivators.
Although he would not practice corpse cultivation, he had a powerful curiosity toward formations, runes, and such things.
Chen Mo even vaguely felt that when he eventually reached