Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 467: Jade Thumb Ring

Chapter 467: Chapter 467: Jade Thumb Ring

In Fang Bai’s past life, martial artists wouldn’t rashly consume spiritual medicine after obtaining it. Instead, they would find a pharmacist, pay a certain reward, and ask them to refine it into an elixir for cultivation.

However, given the toughness of Fang Bai’s physical body, he had no such worries. He could completely take those Spirit Fox Grass and Tears of Crystal. Then, after refining the medicinal power, convert it into his own True Yuan. Perhaps the cultivation level of his realm, which had been stagnant for a while, could thus make a breakthrough.

Fang Bai slowly walked around Zhuge Dingtian’s corpse and suddenly grabbed something in the air with his right hand. A white cloth laid in front of Zhuge Dingtian’s body unexpectedly flew towards him as if carried by an unfelt breeze.

Hiss—

Seeing Fang Bai show this trick, Wu De was shocked, taking a sharp intake of breath.

Obtaining objects from thin air was a technique only achievable when a martial artist’s True Essence Force was condensed to a nearly tangible realm and could be controlled at will. Although Wu De was now a high-rank Earth Level martial artist, he admitted he was far from reaching this capability.

Wu De had originally thought that Fang Bai’s strength was only slightly better than his own, but now he realized that compared to Fang Bai, they were simply not on the same level.

He subsequently speculated that Fang Bai must be a Heaven Level martial artist.

Wu De had traveled far and wide, even entering and exiting the Hidden Sect World multiple times, and had seen countless young experts. However, he had never seen nor heard of a twenty-year-old Heaven Level martial artist, and he would not even dare to contemplate such a thing.

If it weren’t for Fang Bai’s modern attire and behavior typical of someone from the Secular World, Wu De would definitely suspect him to be from the legendary Minor World, just like the long-dead Zhuge Dingtian before him.

Surely, only in those legendary Minor Worlds could such astonishingly talented individuals exist, right?

Fang Bai held the white cloth in his hand and slowly unfolded it. It contained several lines of small characters. He frowned and began to read closely.

Curious, Wu De and Ghost Hand leaned in to view it together.

Wu De had entered and exited the tomb several times before and had noticed the white cloth. His mind, though, had been fixated on how to take the Essence Stones, so a mere piece of cloth had failed to pique his interest, and he hadn’t realized that it had writing on it.

The writing on the white cloth was the last words of Zhuge Dingtian. It mainly recorded the details of Zhuge Dingtian’s escape from the Minor World into the Secular World. In the end, Zhuge Dingtian stated that if someone were to find his tomb in the future, he hoped they would help him fulfill an unaccomplished wish.

"Who would have thought this Zhuge Dingtian was quite the lady’s man in life? He not only charmed the daughter of a major Sect Leader but also left her secretly pregnant before slipping away... Predecessors! Such a man who abandons after wooing... I like it! Hahaha..."

After reading the text on the cloth, Wu De couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"What do you mean by ’charmed’! Didn’t you see it’s written that their affection was mutual here? This man didn’t slink away or abandon her after causing chaos. He was forced to hide because he was being hunted by the Sect Leader’s men! Read carefully!"

Ghost Hand, seeing Wu De’s sleazy laughter, retorted irritably.

Fang Bai ignored the conversation between Wu De and Ghost Hand. He focused on the Jade Thumb Ring on the left index finger of Zhuge Dingtian and murmured, "If I’m not mistaken, that Jade Thumb Ring should be a Spiritual Artifact!"

"What?"

Upon hearing the word "Spiritual Artifact," Wu De’s eyes lit up, and he made a move as if to snatch the Jade Thumb Ring.

"If you do not wish to die, go ahead and take it!"

Fang Bai simply stated this, and Wu De dared not move, laughingly standing there and asking, "Brother, what do you mean by that? Could it be that the Jade Thumb Ring..."

Before Wu De’s words were finished, Fang Bai had already gathered his True Yuan, and with a flick of his wrist, he launched a Golden Essence Stone that was extremely hard. Its target was the Jade Thumb Ring on Zhuge Dingtian’s hand.

Carrying the force of True Essence, the stone whistled and flew like lightning, giving the impression that even if it were to hit an iron plate, it would penetrate through.

"This..."

It was already too late for Wu De to stop Fang Bai. He thought to himself that, after all, the jade in the thumb ring was not as hard as the Golden Essence Stone. If it were to be hit, wouldn’t the well-made Jade Thumb Ring shatter on the spot?

Wu De had clearly forgotten that Fang Bai had just said the Jade Thumb Ring on Zhuge Dingtian’s finger was a Spiritual Artifact.

If it was a Spiritual Artifact, how could it be so easily destroyed? How could it not have any countermeasures?

Whoosh—

Just as the Golden Essence Stone thrown by Fang Bai was about a meter away from the Jade Thumb Ring, a swift sound as if cut by the wind sliced through the air, and an incredibly sharp blade intent burst forth from the Jade Thumb Ring which let out a faint glimmer of light.

That blade intent, though invisible, nevertheless gave Fang Bai and the others the sensation that their skin might be slashed open, forcing them to quickly retreat backward.

Crack—

The extremely sturdy Golden Essence Stone was cut through as easily as slicing tofu by the murderous intent unleashed from the Jade Thumb Ring, splitting into two pieces that fell to the ground.

"Goodness..."

Feeling a blade intent many times more powerful than his own full-strength strike, Wu De stuck out his tongue and broke out in a sweat.

If Fang Bai hadn’t spoken up just now, what would have been sliced into two wouldn’t have been the Golden Essence Stone, but likely his body instead.

Indeed, as Fang Bai said, that Jade Thumb Ring was a Spiritual Artifact, but it was one with thorns. Ordinary people who tried to take it would get badly wounded or even lose their lives on the spot.

"Predecessors! This guy named Zhuge Dingtian really lacks virtue. A good Spiritual Artifact and he set up such a fierce trap; isn’t this harming people?"

"Nonsense, a great Innate Expert, how could he not have any defensive measures? I bet if you try to touch his corpse now, you will die a terrible death. Do you believe me?"

Fang Bai said irritably.

Fang Bai wasn’t just trying to scare anyone; on Zhuge Dingtian’s wrists, neck, and even hidden in his hair and clothes, there were all sorts of items like jade pendants and the like, each one a Spiritual Artifact brimming with murderous intent.

Those deadly intents were infused into the Spiritual Artifacts by Zhuge Dingtian while he was alive, to prevent his corpse from being desecrated after his death.

As an Innate Expert, the deadly intent Zhuge Dingtian put into the Spiritual Artifacts naturally equated to the full-strength attack of an Innate Expert, and the power they possessed was so immense that not even Fang Bai, as he was now, dared to touch them.

"Zhuge Dingtian’s last words said that if the person entering his tomb chamber is willing to offer a blood oath promising to go to the Minor World someday and inform the woman he loved of his death, he would be greatly grateful and would reward them handsomely... Old Brother Wu, do you want to give it a try?"

Fang Bai picked up the white cloth in his hand, looked carefully at the last few lines once more, and then said to Wu De with a smile.

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