To ensure nothing could go wrong, Cheng Xinzhan drew several dozen more suppression and sealing talismans, along with several dozen talismans that isolated the inside from the outside, and attached them to the Gourd. Only then could he no longer hear any movement or sense any fluctuations of magical power from within.
This fox certainly had a close relationship with Aunt Bao of the Celestial Master Residence on Dragon-Tiger Mountain, and she certainly knew some of Dragon-Tiger Mountain's secrets. She would have to be sent back to the sect for a thorough interrogation.
With a Dao Tradition handed down by the Ancestral Celestial Master, seizing a Dragon and Tiger disciple and taking them back to the mountain for interrogation would cause an earthshaking uproar. But if a fox demon was caught in a demonic den in Western Hunan, revealing some of the Celestial Master Residence's sordid secrets in the process, outsiders could hardly be blamed.
Putting away the Gourd, he began cleaning up the aftermath.
He flicked a spark onto the heap of Xue Linglong's flesh and blood and burned it clean away. Once burned, a Third Realm cultivator's body turned into pure spiritual qi that returned to nourish heaven and earth, leaving nothing behind. A few treasures hidden in the body's acupoints did fall out, however.
The most striking among them was naturally that Golden Core.
Xue Linglong's Golden Core was a vivid blue-green, like a lump of painting pigment. Cheng Xinzhan weighed it in his hand, sensing such dharmic essences as [Gui Water], [Deep Cold], and [Yin Poison] within. He thought he would put it back in the furnace and refine it anew, reversing yin and yang to see whether he could extract the Gang and Baleful Intent inside.
Cheng Xinzhan thought little of the remaining Dharma Treasures.