"No wonder... no wonder these skeletal corpses were so difficult to destroy. They seemed to be formed from corpse aura, but all four baleful intents were clearly present within them."
Su Shi'er pondered silently, committing this discovery to memory.
His intuition told him that the solution to the problem of the four baleful intents was very likely connected to this.
On second thought, however, the Golden Baleful Patriarch was no less capable than he was. There was no reason he would have failed to notice.
The situation remained unclear, so Su Shi'er did not rush to say anything more. He simply continued watching without betraying his thoughts.
"Alas! What a pity. These corpse soldiers' flesh has long since rotted away. They cannot even bear a fraction of the array's power for me."
The gray-robed elder swept his gaze across the surrounding skeletal corpses, making no attempt to hide his disdain.
Only then did he raise his eyes toward Su Shi'er and the Golden Baleful Patriarch.
"But you two are another matter. If I could take your bodies and place them in the two baleful eyes of warrior and corpse, it would save me quite a bit of blood essence."
The elder's gaze lingered on Golden Baleful first, then settled on Su Shi'er.
"One has pure golden law, while the other brims with vital blood. Perfect. One can bear warrior baleful intent, and the other can nourish corpse baleful intent."
With that, the gray-robed elder thrust his withered right hand downward as swiftly as thunder struck before one could cover one's ears.
He moved so quickly that neither Su Shi'er nor the Golden Baleful Patriarch had any chance to react.
At the motion of his hand, hundreds of broken weapons around them trembled in unison.
The earth shook. Skeletal remains that