Yet shifts in human consciousness could sometimes be remarkably strange.
Perhaps you merely took a step or blinked, and afterward, you changed your mind about something you had already decided.
And once you realized it, you found it inexplicable yourself.
The moment Dai Yunze reached the stairs, he suddenly changed his mind and decided to take a look at this Treasure Appraisal Fair held exclusively for Inner Court disciples.
He had also suddenly felt an intuition that this Inner Court-level Treasure Appraisal Fair might contain something that greatly interested him, something he really wanted.
So he turned and headed upstairs.
Worried that someone might stop him, he kept the gold card Song Lao had given him clenched in his hand.
But in fact, no one stopped him anywhere along the way from the second floor to the third, or even when he entered the third floor.
And the moment he reached the third floor, he spotted a flawless, pure-white finger bone, translucent as jade, floating quietly within the crystal glass of a display case.
Dai Yunze could not help moving closer to read the description on the display case:
This is an External Soul Bone for the left index finger.
That very first sentence made Dai Yunze's pupils contract.
He continued reading:
The Soul Beast that produced this External Soul Bone is unidentified, and its age is unknown. However, testing has confirmed that it possesses an extremely powerful Soul Skill. Death Upon Touch.
Dai Yunze could not help gaping. His gaze continued downward as he read all the remaining text:
``` However, precisely because the Soul Skill attached to this External Soul Bone is excessively powerful, every Soul Master who previously attempted to fuse with it was affected by that skill. It is presumed that only