Old Master Liu had already searched this place from top to bottom.
When it came to finding treasure, he was probably even better than Xu Feng.
But once he had finished searching, what belonged to someone else still belonged to them. This item, for instance, he had left for Xu Feng.
He could not take it away. As for Xu Feng, the moment he saw what lay before him, he knew the answer he had come here seeking
was probably inside this bundle.
Whether the Greater Calamity-Stitching Art would succeed
depended on what lay within.
Xu Feng said, "Master, I'm opening it!"
His master said, "Go on. Let's see what's inside!"
Xu Feng untied it.
As he opened the enormous yellow cloth bundle, something softer and smoother than silk unfurled before him.
Even though Xu Feng had expected it, his heart began to race!
Inside was a stack of human skins!
They had been piled together, and now that the yellow wrapping no longer held them down, the skins slowly spread out.
Every one of them looked lifelike!
For a moment, silence fell. Xu Feng stared at the center of the spread-out skins. They clearly had not been taken from living people, and every single one was a treasure in its own right.
At that moment,
Xu Feng recalled what Shen Jicheng had told him: when they pulled the troublesome corpse from the Yellow River, why had Li Changle and the City God both chosen to separate its body from its soul?
Xu Feng laid out the skins one by one. There were eleven in all.
At the sight, his master was too stunned to speak. Shen Jicheng said, "The trip was worth it."
He even cupped his hands toward Xu Feng.
"How fortunate I am," he said. "Through your