Chen Mo entered the cave and was stopped by its formation when he reached the main hall.
The Jade-colored Skeleton had naturally made preparations before entering the room. He could not possibly fail to guard against Chen Mo. They were both cultivators; how could he not know what soul devouring was?
Soul devouring could be considered a taboo in the Cultivation World, but under the current circumstances, the Jade-colored Skeleton could no longer care about such things.
Yet when he and Chen Mo had discussed terms, both of them had deliberately avoided the subject.
The Jade-colored Skeleton knew it was not something admirable, so he avoided mentioning it. Moreover, he had waited thousands of years for a flesh-and-blood body. Now that one had finally appeared before him, how could he possibly say that soul devouring was taboo? Had he gone crazy?
Absolutely not. Even if he had to become the enemy of the entire world, the Jade-colored Skeleton would reclaim a flesh-and-blood body.
Before entering the Life and Death Xuan Guan, he had possessed a body and lived a life of romance and pleasure. But after going into seclusion, faced with the end of his lifespan and unable to survive, he could only await death. In the end, he used a secret technique to abandon his flesh-and-blood body and transform himself into a soul body.
As a Spiritual Body born from a secret technique, he could not leave this hall. For thousands of years, he had survived only within this cramped, dark chamber. It was practically no different from being imprisoned.
Other prisoners at least got time outdoors. He had spent thousands of years directly locked inside a dark stone room. The fact that he had not gone mad already proved his endurance.
Therefore, with a flesh-and-blood body now right