With a clear objective in mind, Sheng Nian continued deeper inside.
He stopped in a relatively spacious stone hall, with a crude stone platform at its center.
Sheng Nian walked over to the platform and pulled a dusty gray beastskin bag from a concealed compartment.
Now he held a bag in each hand.
"I reckon most of that old ghost Xin Mountain's belongings are in these two Heaven and Earth Bags."
Sheng Nian hefted them, then opened them without the slightest hesitation and extended his Divine Sense inside to search.
Song Yan walked over as well. With a sweep of Sword Qi from his fingertips, he helped clear the clutter from the stone platform, making room.
Anyone who wasn't eager to divide the spoils had a problem with their thinking.
Sheng Nian took the contents of the Heaven and Earth Bags out one by one.
He pulled out an oddly shaped defensive Law Artifact and toyed with it as he answered Song Yan's earlier question. "That's right. Under normal circumstances, only Golden Core Realm cultivators can truly wield Law Treasures."
"But this world has no shortage of exceptions."
Sheng Nian chuckled. "I practice a special Body Refining Cultivation Method called the Artifact-Refining Art."
"The Artifact-Refining Art?" Song Yan repeated the unfamiliar name. He had never heard of it.
"That's right." Sheng Nian nodded and explained, "Actually, this cultivation method was originally intended for Golden Core Realm cultivators too. Ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivators have only one bonded Law Treasure that they can fuse into their bodies, and its grade rises like a boat on rising water as their cultivation realm advances."
"Other Law Treasures don't gain these benefits, even if they can be stored inside the body."
"What makes the Artifact-Refining Art extraordinary is that it allows a cultivator to