Sure enough, after hearing what the Great Elder said, Li Yan fell briefly silent. Soon, however, he spoke up with a question.
"Which parts of the body will that current enter?"
"Almost everywhere except the sea of consciousness and the dantian!"
Li Yan felt a little relieved at that. A cultivator's sea of consciousness and dantian were absolutely forbidden territory.
By now, Li Yan had roughly guessed how the magic treasure performed its test. He looked at Gong Chenying again and saw her nod to him.
"May I ask whether that magic treasure can only be activated by a Nascent Soul Cultivator?"
Li Yan turned toward the Great Elder. This time, before the Great Elder could answer, the Third Elder's charming voice reached him.
"Hehehe, that's no problem. Let A-Ying activate it!"
Half a quarter of an hour later, Li Yan withdrew an arm from a strange box.
The box was about five feet long and emerald green throughout. One end had a round opening as thick as an adult's arm, while the opposite end had no outlet.
On top of the other end of the box was an open Demon Beast paw, which gave an impression of sharpness and boundless strength.
If Li Yan was not mistaken, it matched the limbs of the legendary, peerlessly ferocious Qiongqi he had seen depicted before. The entire elongated box gave off a lustrous green glow, looking somewhat uncanny.
All Li Yan had to do was withdraw the spiritual power from one arm and insert it into the box, then have Gong Chenying cast a spell to activate it...
As Gong Chenying completed her hand seals, a mass of flowing, waterlike runes appeared above the strange emerald box, then streamed across its surface toward the round opening.
Li Yan felt a cold, shadowy