"Not selling?"
Shen Wan's face showed only slight surprise, but no one knew how conflicted the hand tucked inside her sleeve was.
The two of them were currently speaking inside a cave at the edge of the city prepared by Shen Wan. Yu Ci had originally not wanted to go to such trouble, but Shen Wan insisted, and he had no other choice. At this moment, Shen Wan was startled, and Yu Ci merely smiled: "If you really sold such a treasure, that would be the strange thing."
Shen Wan looked at him for a long time before she said, "Even if you take it back, you might not be able to use it in the short term."
She seemed to know that this excuse was not very convincing; her expression remained the same, but her tone was somewhat low, and the tail end of her words sounded like a sigh.
Yu Ci blinked: "How so? Your appraisal notes were written well enough, but the details are vague, and I don't quite understand. How does this Heart-Return Period work, for instance? And what is meant by feeding it with essence and breath day after day?"
Shen Wan was slightly startled, then pressed her lips into a smile: "So you really didn't know."
"If I had known, how could I have let you take it so easily?"
Yu Ci glanced at her, his hands playing with the jade slip without a moment's pause as he waited for Shen Wan's explanation.
"The so-called Heart-Return Period is actually a euphemism. After imprisoning a ghost entity inside the Nine Nether Prison, the Reincarnation Tu Ling Demonic Light naturally generates within it and acts upon the target. It is said to be the supreme torture under heaven, peerless in cruelty. Even if a cultivator's mind