Patriarch of Incense
Chapter 504

The Stone of Time and Woodblight

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The others had far fewer thoughts on the matter. Ordinary cultivators could hardly move mountains and dismantle ridges; at most, they could let loose and take whatever they could carry.

These things were of little use in everyday life. The sensible course was to break them into spirit crystals or spirit stones for laying arrays and restrictions, or simply sell them to a merchant association in exchange for magic treasures and pills they could use directly.

"Elder Li, which way should we go next?"

Luo Jingwei soon drew his gaze away from those bricks and put the question to Li Ling.

Li Ling said, "Keep moving forward. Let's take a look over there."

Luo Jingwei quickly grasped his meaning. "You mean to attack its original body while that remnant soul is away?"

Li Ling said, "Exactly. Whenever cultivators use soul projection, their physical bodies remain their foundation, especially for an existence like this, which died long ago and cannot truly be considered a living being.

"I even suspect that what we encountered earlier wasn't a great power's remnant soul at all, but a new will born from the rotten, fallen side of that great power's spiritual will!"

Luo Jingwei, An Qinglong, and the others could not help agreeing.

It was a reasonable conjecture. Some corpses buried in the earth were tempered by yin baleful qi and turned into ghost spirits in precisely this way.

Did such a thing have any connection to the deceased?

It certainly did.

But to say it was the same person who had lived would not be entirely true.

If it was the spirit resonance within a corpse that had become a spirit or monster, dealing directly with its original body was actually the best choice.

Of course, ordinary people could not locate that corpse in

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