Inside the Immortal Abode, before the corpse.
Li Ling listened to the mysterious voice from the Middle Ages and finally learned what he had wanted to know.
This was the result of cleansing the demonic baleful energy with Heavenly Ascension Spirit Incense and removing its karmic sins. The last trace of pure spirit soul remaining within the corpse was extracted, rose into the void, and ascended to immortality.
The signs of stiffening and decay that had appeared on the corpse immediately vanished.
The corpse was still the same corpse, lying there hideously with a fist-sized bloody hole in its abdomen, but the sense that it might rise at any moment was gone.
Li Ling quietly sensed all these changes. Only when the stench of decay had completely disappeared did he reach out, probing inside with his dharma power.
At its heart, a lychee-sized, multifaceted crystal emerged, gleaming as brilliantly as a diamond. It seemed to exist between matter and origin energy, half illusory and half real, with ripples surging around it in the strange rhythm unique to the Time Dao Law.
Li Ling had encountered something similar before: Zhu Wu's Dragon Heart Stone. This Stone of Time seemed to be of a higher grade, with a more concentrated essence. It was a supreme treasure material and an innate treasure that could be used directly as a magic treasure.
Just as when he had seized the Dragon Heart Stone, Li Ling felt the power flowing ceaselessly outward the moment he touched it. A tingling numbness like an electric shock spread through him, and his fingers felt frozen stiff.
But he had descended here through soul projection. His Yang Spirit body, only one step away from that of a Spirit Transformation powerhouse, resisted its invasion, swept it up, and absorbed it into