After leaving the Flamewood Clan, the Red Spirit Blood Abyss Worm turned into a streak of crimson spirit light and continuously tunneled through the earth.
Along the way, it marked several more mineral veins.
At this moment, however, Ye Jingcheng was inside another grotto-heaven, carefully examining the mark.
The golden mark, he saw, rested within his body just like his Beast-Link Mark.
When he sent his divine sense toward it, he strangely could not sense it at all.
Only his eyes could see it.
At the same time, even when he circulated his true essence to squeeze it, he could not force it out in the slightest.
This had to be some special method of the Heavenly Wood Clan.
Yet Ye Jingcheng did not dare make any further attempts.
He had never heard of this mark, nor did he know what it might ultimately be capable of.
If it could erode his soul or even cause his physical body to collapse, then probing it now and provoking Great Gold Demon Lord would be no different from courting death.
Even if he wished to test it, he needed to gather all the Ancient Demon Spirit Seals first.
Otherwise, although he still had his fire-element Shed-Shell Clone and would not truly die,
with the other four spiritual roots gone, along with a great deal of his soul essence,
his path of cultivation would at most reach the early Void Refinement stage.
It would also implicate the other Ye Family clansmen.
Of course, because he knew Great Gold Demon Lord needed something from him, Ye Jingcheng actually felt that the mark likely had no harmful capabilities. It was more like a marker that could be used to find and track him.
After all, he had also revealed the backing of a Body Integration