After putting the little black sword Treasure into his Storage Bag.
Li Ping turned his gaze back to the Gleaming Golden Orb the size of a soybean.
The life-bound Treasure and the enormous quantity of spirit stones were enough to prove that the Body Possession was actually a Core Formation cultivator.
That left no doubt about what the Gleaming Golden Orb found inside his body was.
It was the Golden Core formed from the essence, qi, and spirit within that Body Possession Core Formation cultivator!
In theory, after Core Formation, a cultivator's divine soul resided within their Golden Core, nourished by their magical power.
But to carry out Body Possession, that Core Formation cultivator had been forced to send his divine soul out of his Golden Core.
And because Gu Musheng had taken him away in such a hurry, the Golden Core had been left inside the corpse.
"What use does this thing have?"
Li Ping knew that things rich in spiritual qi, such as Golden Cores and cultivators' Dharma Bodies, were favorites of Demon Beasts and ghostly creatures, but were of little use to humans.
None of the many texts he had read recorded any uses for a Golden Core.
He dared not handle it recklessly, but neither could he bear to throw away something so precious.
After pondering for a moment, he finally took out a Jade Box and carefully stored the soybean-sized Gleaming Golden Orb inside. Only after cautiously affixing a Sealing Spirit Talisman did he put the whole thing into his Storage Bag.
Having dealt with the Golden Core and the life-bound Treasure.
Li Ping began examining the other items one by one.
He planned to keep the several thousand-year-old spirit herbs and use them to refine pills for himself after reaching Core Formation. After checking