Zhang Yuan could tell Qin Tianyi had not told the truth, but everyone had secrets of their own. He did not pry, instead following Qin Tianyi's gaze toward the spot where Li Chuanqi had fallen.
Before his death, Li Chuanqi had grown a pair of eyes using his Dao Domain. Whether by coincidence or not, an object had fallen out of each eye.
They were not Pre-Heaven Artifact Treasures, but two rather ancient-looking books lying quietly on the ground.
After a moment's hesitation, Zhang Yuan picked up the two ancient books.
Qin Tianyi was equally curious and looked at their titles.
"Thunderwind Punishment Scripture."
"Sea-Covering Heaven-Bearing Art."
Cultivation methods.
Two cultivation methods of the Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path, at that.
Zhang Yuan did not rush to read them. He closed his eyes to sense the karma on the two ancient books, then slowly opened them again.
The two ancient books were not entirely clean. They carried some karma, but it was all ordinary karma, with no ties to anything at too high a level.
That was how it should be.
Had the books carried Great Karma, or no karma whatsoever, he would certainly have thrown them away. Their current state was exactly what one would expect of a cultivation method of the Sha Ingestion Gang Devoration Path.
There ought to be some karma, more or less.
"The Thunderwind Punishment Scripture-this must be the method Li Chuanqi cultivated in his previous life," Zhang Yuan surmised, looking at the ancient book on the left and opening it to leaf through its contents.
This book was a thunder scripture. Upon reaching Mahayana, its practitioner could command five kinds of thunderclap as Li Chuanqi had: water, divine thunder, dragon, demon, and heaven. It was immensely powerful, and the method pointed straight toward a