A jade seal shot out from Gu's body, and Gu put it away. Yet in that brief span, quite a few cracks had already appeared across its surface.
Gu estimated that it could probably be used one more time at most.
A Dao Venerable Dharma Seal was, by nature, a consumable.
However, Gu had heard that some such reliances could be used without limit, their wear and tear recovering automatically.
Naturally, such things were beyond his reach.
This jade seal alone had consumed eighty percent of the resources he had accumulated since his birth.
As for the scroll now summoning the Dragon-Elephant Emperor's Dao body, because it had come from the black market and was an unstable product, it was not only cheaper—costing him roughly ten percent of his resources—but also of somewhat higher quality and greater power.
Back in his homeland, products of this series were all measured in Dao value. A Dao Venerable Dharma Seal was fixed at nine points, while an Imperial Venerable Dharma Image had fluctuating Dao values, with a minimum of thirteen and a peak of fifteen.
The only flaw in this thing was that one careless mistake could allow one to be contaminated by an Imperial Venerable's Dao arts, suffer a mental breakdown, and descend into madness.
Unlike a Dao Venerable Dharma Seal, which carried not the slightest risk in use.
But if not for that, it could not possibly have been sold so cheaply.
A harmless Dao Venerable reliance of equal strength was worth more than a hundred times as much.
Gu had acquired this thing as a trump card simply out of his habitual desire to play it safe. He had not expected to actually use it.
And when the Dharma body transformed, Gu immediately sensed the difference between the two. If