The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1318

Chapter 1318: Chapter 1315: Heavenly Corpse Scripture Chapter 1318: Chapter 1315: Heavenly Corpse Scripture “According to the Little Master, these dark gold copper mines are called the Copper of Lingxiao, which are an excellent material for refining Yan Armor. I can't miss out on this–perhaps I'll be able to do business with Tianji City in the future,” he said and took out the Free and Easy Mirror, storing the Puppet City Fragments inside. His expression then turned solemn once again.

Beneath the Puppet City Fragments, there was an unanticipated black coffin buried, engraved with many mysterious patterns. It seemed to be no ordinary object.

“How come there is a coffin here?” Shen Luo wondered silently and, with a wave of his hand, formed a golden giant hand that grasped the lid of the coffin, attempting to open it.

However, the patterns on the coffin lit up with a layer of black halos, surprisingly withstanding the force of Shen Luo's grasp.

“A prohibition?” His eyebrows twitched, and he waved his hand again, forming two house-sized golden giant hands that grabbed the black coffin from the top and bottom.

This time, the giant hands emitted dazzling golden light, enveloping the black halos on the coffin and ground them fiercely.

Although the black halos on the coffin were extraordinary, they were ultimately unpowered and were soon completely shattered by the golden light. The coffin's lid cracked open with a sound, revealing the contents inside.

Shen Luo peered intently into the coffin, which held a number of items: more than a dozen white crystal balls the size of bowls, a dried-up yellow corpse, and two jade boxes–one black and one white.

His gaze firstly landed on the white crystal balls, his eyes lit up.

These white crystal balls were precisely the high-level Yan Crystals he urgently needed. With the spiritual power inside still intact, he wouldn't have to worry much when using the Divine Craftsman Cannon.

Shen Luo then looked at the withered yellow corpse. It was skin and bones and bore some resemblance to the Earth Evil Corpse Kings he had encountered earlier. However, this corpse's corpse air was very faint, and its bones were a pale golden color, somewhat strange.

The corpse's skin was covered with innumerable Yan Patterns. It seemed similar to the Heaven Devouring Tiger and the Giant Power Ape, yet the complexity of these Yan Patterns far surpassed those of the two beasts, indicating a higher-level Yan Armor that seemed unfinished.

“That Ghost Yan seems to have some technique that could refine living beings into Yan Armor. This corpse Yan Armor is hidden in such a secret place; it must be extraordinary, it's a pity it's incomplete,” he muttered to himself with a hint of regret.

Finally, Shen Luo picked up the two jade boxes and opened the black one first. Inside was just a yellow jade tablet with numerous tiny characters inscribed on it, which seemed to be a jade slip.

Shen Luo poured his divine sense into it, and his brow rose.

The yellow jade tablet contained a profound scripture–the Heavenly Corpse Scripture, which detailed many secrets of corpse refinement, including the methods for refining Earth Evil Corpse Kings and even Sky Fiend Corpse Kings.

His gaze sharpened as he carefully read the content about Earth Evil Corpse Kings.

According to the Heavenly Corpse Scripture, to refine an Earth Evil Corpse King, one must first find a True Immortal cultivator or at the very least one at the peak of the Great Mahayana. One cannot kill the subject but must suppress them, stripping away their soul and spirit to induce a state of suspended animation.

The stripped soul and spirit are sealed within the body's strength but kept separate from the inner souls, preventing any interaction.

Afterward, one must torment the body daily by soaking it in venom, tormenting it with raging fires, and other means.

Though the body lacks spiritual wisdom, it fully possesses divine souls, maintaining the most complete sense of pain. This will invoke the deep-seated hatred and resentment from their souls.

After about ten years, the body's mana can fuse with this hatred and resentment, transforming into the Corpse Pill of the Earth Evil Corpse King. Only then is the Earth Evil Corpse King initially considered refined.

However, an Earth Evil Corpse King that has just formed originally lost all its cultivation and needed to be cultivated anew. It would be thrown into a Yin Cave or similar locations filled with dense Yin Qi, where it would slay a cultivator with a Yin-aligned fate every month and feed on their essence blood.

After spending about fifty years like this, it would recover its original strength, and only then would the Earth Evil Corpse King truly be considered accomplished.

Shen Luo did not consider himself a nobleman, and his actions were relatively righteous. He found the cruel corpse refinement method of the Earth Evil Corpse King to be quite repulsive. However, according to the records in the Heavenly Corpse Scripture, the soul of the Earth Evil Corpse King still resided within its body, which was a good thing for him.

Xie Yuxin had already been refined into an Earth Evil Corpse King, and reviving her was no longer possible. However, liberating her divine soul so that it could reincarnate was still doable.

It's just that this place was not safe now and not a good spot for liberating Xie Yuxin's soul.

Shen Luo's divine sense moved away from the Earth Evil Corpse King and looked towards the part about the Sky Fiend Corpse King.

The process of refining a Sky Fiend Corpse King was mostly similar to that of an Earth Evil Corpse King, except it required a Late-stage True Immortal Cultivator to perform the ritual, and nurturing a Sky Fiend Corpse King was not something a single Late-stage True Immortal Cultivator could do; one needed to prepare nine such cultivators to conduct the ritual at the same time.

Only at the final step, by having the nine refined corpses devour each other, using a method similar to raising gu, could the strongest one be chosen. By absorbing the vitality of the other eight refined corpses, one might be able to cultivate a Sky Fiend Corpse King.

“…Condensing Corpse Qi, transforming into a Yin God, Skeleton of Golden Bone, the Heavenly Corpse is born. Weren't the bones of that corpse just now pale gold? Could it be that was a Sky Fiend Corpse King?” His body shook when he saw the description of the Sky Fiend Corpse King.

Shen Luo looked at the Yellow Corpse again and sent a surge of mana into it, operating it according to the methods recorded in the Heavenly Corpse Scripture.

A layer of golden light shone on the Yellow Corpse, and it slowly floated up from within the black coffin, particularly at the spine where a large patch of golden light gathered, bulging into two lumps.

With two light 'clack' sounds, a pair of one-zhang-long wings stretched out from the lumps, their gold gleaming brilliantly.

A dense and incomparable Corpse Air burst out from the Yellow Corpse, spreading to the surrounding area tens of zhang wide. Shen Luo was also affected by the Corpse Air, causing his blood vessels to stiffen momentarily.

“Heavenly Corpse Golden Wings! That Yellow Corpse really is a Sky Fiend Corpse King!” He revealed a look of surprise and delight.

He was already clear about the fearsome nature of the Earth Evil Corpse King; the divine powers of the Sky Fiend Corpse King were far superior, enough to rival a being at the Taiyi Stage. Even people at the True Immortal Peak like Little Master and Ghost Yan were completely outclassed by the Sky Fiend Corpse King.

If he could subdue this Sky Fiend Corpse King, his strength would increase enormously once again.

However, at this moment, the Corpse Air on the Yellow Corpse abruptly retracted rapidly, and the two golden wings also retracted into the body. It fell with a thud back into the black coffin from midair and no matter how Shen Luo urged it, it would not move again.

Shen Luo was not surprised by this; after the spellcasting just now, he had roughly figured out the state of this corpse. It had not truly transformed into a Sky Fiend Corpse King; it seemed to have only advanced halfway, with one foot stepping into the realm of the Sky Fiend Corpse King.

Ghost Yan had used his unique methods to refine it into an Armor, which on one hand made it easier for him to manipulate the corpse, and on the other hand, he also wanted to leverage the power of the Armor to help the corpse take the final half-step.

However, the Armor transformation of this corpse was also incomplete, missing the final steps.

Shen Luo's gaze flickered ceaselessly. With the corpse now in a half-Armor half-corpse state, and since he wasn't familiar with Armor techniques, it seemed unlikely for him to help complete the final Armor transformation.

Fortunately, during this trip to the Black Abyss Mystery Cave, he and Tianji City had formed a considerable good karma. They should not refuse if he asked for help from the cultivators of Tianji City in the future.