Darkness-Breaking Technique
Two hours later, in a karst cave a thousand miles away from Clearpeace Mountain.
Song Wen reversed his Qi and Blood, and after forcing out some of his Essence Blood, he devoured all the Essence Blood from the corpses of Su Gan, Qingyan Daogu, Su Wenshi, and Du Tianhua.
Then, he began to take stock of the storage rings belonging to the group.
First, there was Su Gan's storage ring. To Song Wen's delight, the ring contained a considerable amount of Spirit Stone: twenty-three Superior Spirit Stones, several hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stone, and several thousand low-grade Spirit Stone, totaling over 300,000 low-grade Spirit Stone.
In addition, there are some elixirs and Cultivation Practice Method.
Suddenly, a glint flashed in Song Wen's eyes, and with a thought, Song Wen took out a token from his storage ring.
The token is about the size of a palm, and is blood red in color. The word "" is engraved on one side of the token.
Song Wen probed his storage ring with his Divine Sense and took out a blood-red token of the same size.
The two tokens are almost identical, except for the inscriptions on them.
The piece that was taken out later had the character 'corpse' engraved on it. It was obtained by Song Wen after he killed Shi Shou, and it contained the cultivation method of the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art>.
These two tokens clearly originated from the same faction.
Out of curiosity, Song Wen probed the 'Life' character token with his Divine Sense.
This token contains the method for inscribing and controlling the <Devouring Essence Array>.
Song Wen knew nothing about formations. He only felt that the <Devouring Essence Array> was extremely mysterious and difficult to understand.
The token's contents mention at the end that this formation originated from a sect called the "Longevity Hall".
Song Wen recalled that Su Gan had mentioned the words "the High Antiquity secret Longevity Hall" before his death.
Therefore, it seems that the Longevity Hall is a sect that has disappeared into the river of time. The situation is exactly the same as that of the Divine Blood Sect with the 'Corpse' token.
In Su Gan's storage ring, Song Wen also found a Jade Slip Jade Slip, which recorded Su Gan's various insights into the <Devouring Essence Array>, as well as some information about the Longevity Hall.
After a cursory glance, Song Wen wasn't particularly interested.
He put away Su Gan's storage ring and took out Qingyan Daogu's storage ring.
Compared to Su Gan, Qingyan Daoist nun's storage ring contained far fewer Spirit Stone, only 170,000, but it was filled with a dazzling array of pills and spiritual herbs.
Among them were twenty bottles of Beast Brocade Pill, totaling two hundred and forty pills.
This greatly alleviated Song Wen's current problem of insufficient Beast Brocade Pill. Because he had not had time to refine Beast Brocade Pill recently, the Sacred Beetle Gu had been consuming Silver-Shining Stone for some time.
There are two bottles of a pill called 'Dragon Force Pill', containing a total of twenty pills. This is also a pill used to feed spirit beasts, but it is a pill for third-tier spirit beasts, belonging to the third-tier beast pill category.
Song Wen was able to recognize the Dragon Force Pill and know its effects because Rong Jingyun's Jade Slip mentioned this pill, and Rong Jingyun was trying to refine it, but had not yet succeeded.
In addition, there were many pills and spiritual herbs in Qingyan Daoist's storage ring that Song Wen couldn't even name.
Next up is Du Tianhua's storage ring.
The number of Spirit Stone in his storage ring was less than that of Qingyan, less than 120,000; the number of spirit herbs and pills in his storage ring was also not much, making it seem rather meager.
However, Song Wen discovered something extremely interesting in his storage ring.
Firstly, there were two white spheres, each the size of an egg, which contained the Hidden Spirit-Hiding Mist.
Secondly, there was a Jade Slip containing a secret technique called "Darkness-Breaking Technique".
This secret technique is not considered profound; even cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Early Stage can practice it. However, it is extremely precious because it is a rare Divine Sense technique.
This was the second time Song Wen had encountered a secret technique related to Divine Sense since entering the Cultivation World.
The first time I encountered it was on Ancient Battlefield, when that Dwarf Ghost unleashed a mental attack.
The "Darkness-Breaking Technique" is a secret technique that uses Divine Sense to explore; it does not possess any offensive power.
According to the records on it, once mastered, one can condense the Divine Sense that radiates outwards in a circle into lines, giving it greater penetrability and allowing one to explore places that are difficult for Divine Sense to penetrate, such as the Spirit-Hiding Mist.
Du Tianhua relied on this secret technique to move freely within the Spirit-Hiding Mist.
Thirdly, there was also Jade Slip recording a Cultivation Method, specifically a breath-concealing technique. This technique was extremely profound, but it was of little use to Song Wen, who could control his breath through his physical body.
It was by using this concealment technique that Du Tianhua escaped Qingyan Daogu's pursuit in the Spirit-Hiding Mist. He then used this secret technique to sneak back into the valley, where he was eventually killed by Song Wen.
Su Wenshi and Su Anping's storage rings looked rather shabby. As managers of the Su Clan, the two of them together only had less than 100,000 Spirit Stone, and the Spirit Artifact they used were not good either, with their flying swords being only high-grade Spirit Artifact.
Song Wen discovered that neither Su Gan nor Du Huatian possessed any Law Treasure; their weapons were all top-grade Spirit Artifact. Only Qingyan Daogu's longsword was a true Law Treasure.
After checking the other seventeen storage rings, Song Wen categorized and stored all the treasures into his own storage ring. Song Wen discovered that he already had no less than a million Spirit Stone, which was undoubtedly a huge fortune for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
In addition, he also possessed two Law Treasure: Funeral Banner obtained from Wu Ren and a longsword belonging to Qingyan, which were worth nearly a million Spirit Stone.
He also possesses various treasures such as Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal, all kinds of pills and herbs, with a total value exceeding one million Spirit Stone. Such a large amount of Spirit Stone is enough for him to cultivate for a long time without worrying about resources.
Of course, this is on the premise that all the resources he needs can be bought with Spirit Stone.
After checking several storage rings, the next step was to examine Qingyan Daogu's spirit beast pouch.
The Qingyan nun Qingyan is dead, and the mark she left on the spirit beast pouch has disappeared. The Ironback Turtle, which was nurtured in the spirit beast pouch, is no longer bound by the contract and has regained its freedom. It can freely enter and exit the spirit beast pouch, but it remains inside the pouch without reacting.
This only proves one thing: it was seriously injured and could only stay in the spirit beast pouch to recover.
Currently, Song Wen has two methods for dealing with the Ironback Turtle.
First, find a suitable buyer as soon as possible to sell the Ironback Turtle and exchange it for a large amount of Spirit Stone. Although Song Wen was not clear about the price of spirit beasts, a living third-tier spirit beast would definitely fetch an astronomical price.
Secondly, kill it to prevent future trouble.
As for the contract with the Ironback Turtle, Song Wen had no such idea.
He was a whole realm below the Ironback Turtle. Even if he forcibly signed a soul contract while the Ironback Turtle was seriously injured, the Ironback Turtle could still forcibly break the soul contract at any time after it recovered and turn against its master.
Unless it is a spirit beast that a cultivator has nurtured for a long time and there is an emotional bond between them, the strength of a spirit beast usually does not exceed that of a cultivator by one major realm.
After some thought, Song Wen decided to kill the Ironback Turtle.
In a short period of time, he simply couldn't find a suitable person to take down the Ironback Turtle.
In addition, as the spirit beast of Qingyan, the Ironback Turtle is probably familiar to many cultivators in the vicinity of the Beast Taming Sect.
Selling it rashly could easily lead to unnecessary trouble.