His tone shifted as he looked at Gu Sheng with a hint of perfectly timed confusion.
"However, Brother Gu seemed puzzled just now as to why he could not shake Bingyu. Could it be that Brother Gu thought Bingyu was also a body cultivator?"
Gu Sheng neither confirmed nor denied it, merely watching him.
Tantai Bingyu chuckled and shook his head. He took out a white jade talisman from his robes. It looked ancient and unremarkable, yet felt warm and smooth to the touch as he explained.
"Bingyu is not a body cultivator. What I relied on just now was this Body-Solidifying Spirit Talisman, personally refined by my younger uncle."
He held the jade talisman in his palm and continued.
"This talisman possesses no offensive power. Its only effect is to grant its wearer absolute defensive strength comparable to a fully cultivated golden body. However, it has two limitations.
First, it can only passively endure attacks and cannot be actively used to attack or move. Second, activating it requires one drop of Venerable Realm blood essence every half month as its energy source."
Understanding flashed through Gu Sheng's eyes. So he had relied on an external object.
He reached out and took the Body-Solidifying Spirit Talisman. The instant it touched his hand, he sensed countless incomparably intricate runes and energy circuits within it. Its structure was so complex and profound that it far surpassed any artifact he had seen before.
He tried to perceive it using his powerful spiritual force and his understanding of artifact refinement and formations, only to feel his sea of consciousness swell slightly with a stabbing pain! This was not an attack. Rather, the information contained within those runes was simply too vast and complex. Even in his current state, he could not fully decipher it