Xu Feng understood what Mr. Li meant.
Mr. Li must have wanted him to take the Corpse-Liberation Liquid. Otherwise, he would not have gone out of his way to bring it up from beneath the tomb.
But—
Xu Feng could not help making a pained face. He strongly suspected there had once been a real corpse in this coffinful of Corpse-Liberation Liquid.
For all he knew,
the liquid itself might once have been a person.
Still, it would be rude to refuse such a generous offer.
Xu Feng touched the liquid with a fingertip.
At once,
what happened was both expected and utterly surprising.
The game actually gave Xu Feng a notification.
[Item detected] [You obtained an equippable item: Corpse-Liberation Chang Decoction (single-use item)] [This item can be equipped] [Equip it?] [Yes/No]
Xu Feng was puzzled. This counts as an item?
He did not equip it.
Xu Feng withdrew his hand and said nothing, pretending to be stunned by the coffinful of Corpse-Liberation Liquid.
Then he opened the entry
and examined its information carefully.
[Item: Corpse-Liberation Chang Decoction (single-use item)] [Grade: Middle Nine Classes] [Evaluation: Preservative liquid from a Corpse-Liberation Coffin, made using a preservation technique long since lost. Chang is wine brewed from black millet. In the Pre-Qin Era, it served as the foundation of offerings to the gods. Blended with aromatics, it reached the gods above and Yin Ghosts below, allowing humans and spirits alike to partake; placed in a Corpse-Liberation Coffin, with chang as its base and aromatics, medicinal decoctions, and a secret formula added, it bathes the corpse and preserves it for a thousand years. This is one of the three great uses of Great Yin Corpse Liberation.]
Beneath that evaluation
were four attributes: [Suppression], [Preservation], [Communion with Spirits], and [Dispersal of