Nothing unusual happened. The ring lay motionless between the two skeletal palms.
Meanwhile, a ghostly white Bone Banner had appeared in Wang Yu's hand. Holding it horizontally before him, he watched the White Bone Fiend's hands, his eyes flickering slightly.
After he waited a while, the ring still showed no change whatsoever.
Wang Yu raised an eyebrow slightly. Silver light swept across his brow, and the Bone Banner vanished in another flash.
The White Bone Fiend walked over woodenly and held out the ring pinched between its fingers.
Looking at the black crystal stone on the ring, Wang Yu turned various possibilities over in his mind, then slowly extended a finger toward it.
Puff.
A wisp of flame flew from his fingertip and swept straight toward the ring held between two skeletal fingers.
Sizzle.
The same scene played out again. The instant the flame touched the ring, the black crystal stone sucked it inside.
Already prepared for this, Wang Yu's expression barely changed. Instead, he began chanting, and what flew from his fingertip was no longer a wisp of flame, but a large, roiling Fireball, fully the size of a watermelon, which engulfed the ring.
But the next moment, the Fireball blurred and vanished into thin air.
"A spell-breaking object? No, a spell-absorbing object!"
Wang Yu let out a long breath, arriving at this guess with inward surprise.
Though spell-breaking and spell-absorbing differed by only a single word, their meanings were a thousand miles apart-as different as heaven and earth.
Spell-breaking meant unraveling spells and reducing them to nothing, whereas spell-absorbing meant sealing away and isolating an opponent's spells, or even turning them to one's own use.
In the Cultivation World, spell-breaking objects were uncommon, but some core sect disciples possessed them. Certain low-grade Barrier-Breaking Talismans, in particular, were among