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The Dung Beetle ran for its life.
Chen Yu followed slowly.
The Dung Beetle was so slow that, just as Chen Yu was about to lose patience, a silhouette suddenly appeared in the black mist ahead.
It seemed...
To be a person.
After all the methods he had tried, this was the first time he had encountered anything new.
Chen Yu perked up!
He glanced at the Dung Beetle crawling slowly along the ground, delight in his eyes.
"There's hope!"
The Dung Beetle was tiny, and the human-shaped silhouette was still some distance away. He worried that walking straight over would make him lose track of the beetle, and that putting it away and releasing it again would force it to plot a new route.
So Chen Yu did not rush over.
He continued following behind it.
A quarter of an hour later.
The Dung Beetle led Chen Yu to the corpse.
It was the corpse of a human cultivator, reduced to dry bones. Its robes had completely rotted away, and a ring lay on the ground.
Chen Yu channeled his true qi, and the ring flew into his hand.
"It seems to be a Storage Ring."
Chen Yu examined the ring in his hand, then looked at the corpse before lowering his head to check the Dung Beetle's position.
The Dung Beetle was making its way around the corpse. At its speed, that would take a little while.
So Chen Yu injected a strand of true qi into the Storage Ring.
He discovered that it actually contained quite a few things.
Some books.
Some spirit herbs and materials.
Some Detoxification Pills.
A small Alchemy Furnace.
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