Essence of Yimu

Wang Daoyuan said modestly, "You flatter me, Fellow Daoist Liu. I merely happened to counter him.

Had our cultivation methods not restrained each other, even if I had won, I would have been severely injured."

Liu Zhiyuan smiled. "Fellow Daoist Wu, you are too modest. I have another matter to discuss with you.

Our Town Sea Sect has obtained some of the Spirit Taming Sect's inheritances and has achieved a little in corpse refining, puppets, and the like.

These three devil cultivators' corpses are all excellent materials for corpse refining.

I would like to exchange other items for the devil cultivators the two of you killed. What do you think, Fellow Daoists?"

Wang Daoyuan understood at once. As expected, there was more to Town Sea Sect than met the eye.

The two sides had already laid their cards on the table. For a refined corpse to possess the combat strength of a cultivator of the same realm, it needed to be nurtured for several centuries.

During that time, vast amounts of resources also had to be invested.

The cultivators of Town Sea Sect were not fools. They would not engage in this sort of long-term investment at a critical moment when the sect's survival was at stake.

Moreover, refined corpses had overly limited methods, and their strength would be restricted at sea. They simply were not worth paying such a great price to refine.

The puppet-refining methods Wang Daoyuan had obtained from the Seven Stars Secret Realm mentioned a special kind of puppet called a "corpse puppet."

The Spirit Taming Sect was proficient in puppet arts and had also obtained many inheritances from the Seven Stars Secret Realm back then. It was quite possible that it had acquired methods for refining corpse puppets.

Such things used corpses as their primary