"I brought back a piece of trash."
Song Wen stared at the mangled corpse's soul, the chill in his eyes surging.
A terrifying suction suddenly erupted from the Black Hole overhead, dragging the mangled corpse's soul up into the sky.
Even as it was about to be swallowed by the Black Hole, the remnant soul's eyes showed no fear, only boundless savagery.
"Forget it. I'll keep you for now."
As Song Wen's voice rang out faintly, the terrifying suction vanished, and he too disappeared from his Sea of Consciousness.
Outside.
A wooden box rested in Song Wen's hand-the very one he had obtained in a side chamber of the Immortal's Tomb.
Opening it, Song Wen discovered that it contained only a single blood-red jade slip.
He took out the jade slip and extended his spiritual sense into it. His expression immediately shifted to one of doubt and astonishment.
The jade slip recorded a method for refining a magical treasure.
The treasure was called the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal.
"This is clearly an enhanced version of the Blood Sea Seal... or rather, the Blood Sea Seal is merely an incomplete imitation of this treasure."
According to the jade slip, the greatest difference between the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal and the Blood Sea Seal lay in "fusion."
The former could fuse with almost any yin-aspected spiritual substance to increase its power. It could even fuse with wandering souls and vengeful ghosts.
The latter, however, had extremely stringent requirements for increasing its power and could fuse with only a handful of spiritual substances.
The word "Undying" in the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal's name came from the blood sea it formed: viscous as mercury and tough as iron, it was extraordinarily difficult to break through. Moreover, as long