After reading these souls' memories, Huo Yuhao also learned why they had done this.
Making counterfeit Soul Beast bones required raw materials. As for why they used bones from human corpses rather than livestock, it was, of course, because livestock bones still had to be purchased.
These corpses were different. Every day, they sent people to various graveyards to dig up graves with shabby, dilapidated headstones, or bodies haphazardly buried in mass burial grounds. It did not matter if these were dug up. After all, these people could neither enter nobles' burial grounds nor dare to dig there.
Another point was that these corpses cost almost nothing. They only needed to send people to dig them up and then fill in the holes. Even being discovered did not matter. After all, these were not nobles' graves, and none of the local nobles cared about such things. As for Spirit Hall, this did not fall under its jurisdiction at all. There were limits to where Spirit Hall could intervene.
Moreover, this business required a noble's backing. Only with a noble's protection could something like this continue to develop; otherwise, someone would have reported it long ago. Although the price was handing over eighty percent of the profits to the noble every month, the remaining profits were still considerable.
Strip away the flesh, soak the bones in Soul Beast blood, then air-dry them, and a freshly made Soul Beast bone was complete.
A genuine Soul Beast bone sold for roughly four to six Silver Soul Coins. Previously, using livestock bones had cost one Silver Soul Coin from purchase through production, whereas using these corpses required only six Copper Soul Coins in production costs. The choice was obvious at a glance.
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