Mysterious Tortoise Shell

Yin-Yang Qi intertwined, surging madly in all directions like wave after wave.

Yet this was the Gods and Devils Forbidden Ground, where the bones of countless experts lay buried.

Even the bodies of Gods and Devils had been buried here in unknown numbers.

Though Su Fang had never seen the true remains of Gods and Devils and had only heard of them, such legends could not have sprung from thin air.

These energies possessed immensely vast power, as if they were about to suppress everything beneath them.

Yet the might emitted by the intertwined Yin-Yang Qi not only failed to alarm the tomb near Su Fang, but instead accelerated his absorption.

Though Su Fang was surprised, he knew that this might be his opportunity.

Immersed in cultivation, Su Fang had not lost his awareness of his surroundings because of it.

This was because Su Fang cultivated the Soul Art, an exceedingly peculiar alternative cultivation method that allowed his soul to sense everything around him.

Su Fang had activated the Soul Art at once and begun investigating the surrounding area.

Perhaps even the person currently digging through graves like mad inside the tomb had never imagined that someone would hide beneath the soil of a forbidden ground, silently probing his secrets.

"I never expected the intertwining of Yin-Yang Qi to produce such powerful energy!"

As Su Fang cultivated, his heart shook wildly. He could feel the strength of his body constantly increasing, and even the Soul Art, which had shown not the slightest hope of advancement, was being nourished.

His enormous dantian, originally brimming with boundless vitality—

All of a sudden!

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Like bluestone shattering, like golden locks being torn apart, sounds began echoing within Su Fang's body.

Within Su Fang's dantian, which had originally shone with dazzling golden light and surged with tides of vitality, streams of black-and-white light swam ceaselessly like fish. His already boundless dantian was actually opened up by several more inches at that moment.

The black-and-white light faced the Creation Golden Core across a vast sea.

Su Fang's dantian, which should have been formed from endless Creation Qi, had inexplicably gained black-and-white hues at that moment.

"This is... dantian expansion!!!"

Delight appeared on Su Fang's face as he carefully examined his dantian.

His dantian, originally about the size of a pond, had expanded considerably at that moment.

Black-and-white light coiled around the dantian, causing the drifting Profound Yin Qi around him to continually sink into his body.

Meanwhile, the Killing Intent that pervaded every corner of the Gods and Devils Cemetery acted like mice encountering a cat, unconsciously avoiding his body.

And Su Fang's flesh, which had been eroded by Yin Qi, was swiftly nourished by those two strange powers.

His body became increasingly firm. His skin tightened, while his flesh seemed to have been meticulously refined. Faintly, he could even hear the sound of his blood flowing like lead and mercury.

"Could this... could this be what the Dao Scripture described—blood flowing like lead and mercury, skin like white jade, flesh like crystal?"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Su Fang began examining his body internally, searching for anything amiss within his flesh.

After all, this was the Gods and Devils Cemetery, a graveyard thick with Yin and Baleful Intent. Having absorbed so much Yin and Baleful Intent here, Su Fang could not afford the slightest carelessness.

Yet after carefully inspecting himself, Su Fang found no problems at all. On the contrary, he felt that his physical strength had increased considerably.

"The Creation Golden Core had already forged my body to rival a Martial Artist. Now, with this Yin-Yang Qi, my body has become strong enough to rival a Martial General.

"Moreover, ever since obtaining this Yin-Yang Qi, my cultivation has broken through to the Martial Soldier Ninth Layer. In no more than a day or two, I should be able to break through into the Martial Artist Realm."

Happy though he was, Su Fang did not become overly complacent. After all, there were countless powerful experts living within the Gods and Devils Cemetery.

Any random one of them was at the Martial Master or Martial Sect level. Though his current strength rivaled that of a Martial General,

he still could not be considered an expert. Besides, among those who entered the Gods and Devils Cemetery, whose strength would be weaker than his?

"I cannot celebrate too soon. Now that I have learned to absorb Yin-Yang Qi and increase my cultivation, I must stay steady!"

Just as Su Fang carefully sensed the changes in his body and familiarized himself with his strength, the sealed tomb passage had already been opened by that person.

"Hahaha! A sixth-grade spirit treasure, the Azure Yang Sword! The Gods and Devils Cemetery truly favors me, Jiang Chen!"

Jiang Chen stood at the entrance of the tomb and laughed loudly. Dense Yin Qi billowed from his body, yet he was not alarmed.

With a flick of his hand, he pulled something from his robe. It was an exceedingly strange tortoise shell.

"You lot have been dead for who knows how many years, yet you still left behind so much Yin Qi. What rotten luck."

"Fortunately, when I first dug a grave, I obtained this strange treasure. Not only can it devour Yin Qi, it can also suck all the filthy things within tombs inside it!"

As he spoke, Jiang Chen pressed the tortoise shell tightly against his chest.

The surrounding Yin Qi, so dense it seemed ready to take form, was swiftly devoured by the tortoise shell as though it had encountered its natural enemy.

The tortoise shell was only palm-sized, yet the carvings upon it were exceptionally exquisite.

The patterns and grooves across its surface crisscrossed like a web, and some kind of treasure seemed faintly embedded within it, now gleaming with an unusual light.

It seemed to faintly resonate with the Gods and Devils Cemetery, but Jiang Chen, who had just obtained a precious treasure, appeared not to have noticed at all.

Or perhaps he already knew and simply did not care. Instead, he wholeheartedly began examining the Azure Yang Sword in his hand.

The sword was about six feet long, with faint motes of fluorescent light flickering across it. Perhaps it had been eroded by Yin Qi, or perhaps there was another reason, but that glow was gradually fading.

Jiang Chen also understood that such a treasure could not be exposed too openly. With a flick of his hand, he stored it in his storage ring. After repeatedly checking his surroundings and confirming that no one had witnessed his actions, he stretched out his hand and resealed the tombstone.

This place was strange. It had clearly just been excavated, yet before long, the ground looked as though no one had ever disturbed it.

"Pah! You were the founding ancestor of the Clear Profound Sect, yet your tomb was poor as a ghost's den. Such a huge coffin, and all you left inside was a little stone. Who are you trying to fool, the ghosts?"

As though recalling something, Jiang Chen cursed furiously at the two-man-tall stone stele before him and even spat at it with utter disrespect.

Only then did he leave, cursing under his breath.

What he did not see was that within the previously silent tomb, a deathly pale hand had appeared.

Hidden nearby, Su Fang had already learned of Jiang Chen's actions.

Yet when he saw that tortoise shell, his heart still trembled, and he was even somewhat astonished.

"Jiang Chen truly has good fortune. To find such a strange treasure among so many tombs... It seems that treasure can not only help him remove the Yin Qi from his body, but can also suppress malicious souls!"

"Even malicious souls would not appear before him, even within a tomb. It seems this tortoise shell is extremely lethal to Yin souls and malicious souls!"

Thinking this, Su Fang felt somewhat regretful. If he could borrow it for a look, perhaps he could imitate the tortoise shell and use the True Fire Forging Art to forge a strange treasure of his own.

But Jiang Chen, who had only taken a few steps, suddenly stopped. He turned around and coldly shouted toward Su Fang's hiding place.

"Come out. I've already seen you!"

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