Although the demon cores were gone from these sea beasts' remains, their bodies were exceptionally tough. Their tentacles, claws, and even their shells were superb materials for refining magical artifacts. How could Xiao Hua leave them behind when he saw them? Thus, when he saw something else surface, he naturally headed over.
Yet when he reached the object floating directly before him, Xiao Hua frowned again. Several corpses were linked together. Their flesh had long vanished, leaving only scattered skeletons. Even the skeletons had shrunk into short segments of bone, as though the corpses had been scorched by waves of fire! Outside the corpses lay pieces of shattered armor, most of it a bluish-black. It too bore beadlike marks left by fire, large and small, like a layer of bluish-black pearls.
Judging from the clothing and armor, these corpses were clearly cultivators. Yet what puzzled Xiao Hua was that these skeletons were incredibly large, far beyond anything he knew. By his rough estimate, they had been two or three times taller than ordinary cultivators!
"What... what happened here?" Xiao Hua stared blankly at the strange bones. The armor was already ruined beyond any possibility of refinement, so he did not move closer.
"Oh, there's something here..." Xiao Hua looked again and saw a thumb-sized half-ring around one corpse's bone joint!
"A storage ring!!" Xiao Hua's eyes lit up. He reached out, and the half-ring fell into his hand. Sure enough, when he sent his divine sense inside, he found a tiny space that was nearly collapsing. Within that space floated a strange thumb-sized object.
Xiao Hua took the object out. Seeing the corpses float over his head and rise to the surface of the Qiang He Sea, he sighed and tossed the burned-out storage ring into the sea.
The thing