Demon Suppression Guard, Baleful-Breaking Pearl

Under the cover of night.

A man and two women stood silently before a fetid ditch somewhere in Tongzi Ward, Lin County.

Amid the sickly green silt, a stark white skeleton hung halfway over the dead grass by the earthen trench. As the ditch water rippled, it gave off a stench like rotting rats.

"Grandfather, are you sure this is the remains of that traitorous Demon Extermination Guard?"

Gong Yueni pinched her nose as she asked.

They had come to Tongzi Ward in Lin County because they had encountered Su Xinghe at the Black Market and discovered that he cultivated a Will Technique.

After all, even in Eastern Province, such Will Techniques were rarely seen.

Gong Hao raised a hand and pointed at the bones beneath his feet.

The man had been in the Sixth-Rank True Force Realm, and his bones had been as hard as iron. Even after being dead for so long and weathered by wind and sun, his skeleton remained intact. Not even the rats and feral cats in the foul ditch had been able to gnaw so much as a mark into it.

"Three ribs on his left chest were broken by me in a fit of rage that day. Half a year has passed, and they have rejoined and grown back, but the scars at the fractures remain."

The two women frowned and looked. Sure enough, three ribs on the skeleton's chest bore obvious cracks.

"Gurgle! Gurgle!"

A burst of hurried birdcalls came from the roof of a ruined little earthen house nearby. Seeing the three below raise their heads, the large bird spread its wings and swooped down.

The man lifted his arm, and it landed steadily upon it.

Once its wings folded, they saw that it was a white owl about a foot