Dividing the Spoils

Soul-Snatching Horse-Face raised her brows but said nothing more. With a flip of her hand, she produced a purple talisman and crushed it. A yellow glow immediately enveloped the two of them as they flew outward.

Their bodies touched the wall and passed directly into it, continuing onward without the slightest obstruction, as though they were traveling through water.

Shen Luo looked around, astonishment appearing on his face.

This effect of traveling underground—the purple talisman had to be something like an Earth-Escape Talisman.

He had read about Earth-Escape Talismans in Fangcun Mountain's records. They were high-grade talismans and extremely precious. He had always wanted to learn how to make them, but had never gotten the chance.

"Senior Horse Face, could you take me to the place in the passage where that ghost creature fought just now? The person who fought the ghost should be one of my enemies. I want to confirm whether he is dead or alive," Shen Luo said, suddenly recalling something.

"Alright." Soul-Snatching Horse-Face activated her incantation, slightly adjusted their direction, and headed into the sealed passage.

A few breaths later, Shen Luo's vision blurred, and he appeared in an excavated hollow within the passage.

Several charred slash marks covered the walls and floor of the hollow, seemingly left by a powerful fire-element Magical Artifact.

A dried corpse lay there. Though its features had withered away, it was still recognizable as Chen Gang.

Shen Luo gave a cold laugh, quickly shifting his gaze away from the corpse and toward the ground nearby.

A yellow-brown jade hoe, a dark-red Nine-Ring Ghost-Head Broadsaber, and a small brass bell lay there. All three emitted faint Magic Power fluctuations, clearly marking them as Magical Artifacts.

The Nine-Ring Ghost-Head Broadsaber in particular still flickered with strands of dark-red spiritual light despite having