Inheritance
Translator: CinderTL
"Xue Mei, what are you trying to do?"
Song Wen was about to perform the Soul Searching Technique on Tai He's Nascent Soul when Xue Mei snatched it away, causing him to feel displeased.
"Naturally, I want to search his soul," Xue Mei replied.
At this moment, Song Wen suddenly realized that although Xue Mei's cultivation was only at the early Nascent Soul stage, she was a reincarnated cultivator. Her Divine Sense realm should be at the mid Nascent Soul stage, or possibly even higher.
"Give me his Nascent Soul. I will perform the soul search," Song Wen said in a tone that brooked no argument.
Xue Mei stared at Song Wen for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
"Fine, I'll give it to you. But, the items in his Storage Ring must be split equally between us."
Song Wen frowned slightly and asked, "What do you want from him?"
"The method to craft the Minor Teleportation Talisman," Xue Mei replied without hesitation.
"Alright, agreed. If there is a method to craft the Minor Teleportation Talisman, you can make a copy," Song Wen said.
Song Wen wanted to perform the soul search on Tai He for two reasons: first, to obtain Tai He's soul; second, to gather information about the Divine Blood Hall from his memories.
However, the results of the soul search left Song Wen quite disappointed. He didn't obtain any information related to the Divine Blood Hall.
Instead, he discovered why only Tai He could craft the Minor Teleportation Talisman. Even if other Nascent Soul cultivators from the Nine Palaces Sect obtained the crafting method, they still couldn't produce the talisman.
In the ancient ruins where Tai He obtained the method to craft the Minor Teleportation Talisman, he also received an inheritance.
This inheritance was the crafting insights of the Minor Teleportation Talisman, which were directly imprinted into Tai He's memory.
Without these insights, even those with exceptional talent in talisman crafting would find it extremely difficult to successfully create the Minor Teleportation Talisman. Unless they could gather a large amount of Talisman Drawing Materials and continuously experiment and summarize, there was only a slim chance of success.
Naturally, Song Wen couldn't obtain the complete inheritance insights through the soul search.
He waved his hand towards Tai He's corpse.
The Storage Ring on the corpse immediately flew into Song Wen's hand.
Scanning the Storage Ring with his Divine Sense, Song Wen found two jade slips in his hand.
One contained the method to craft the Minor Teleportation Talisman.
The other contained Tai He's personal insights on crafting the talisman.
Song Wen tossed the two jade slips to Xue Mei and said, "Here's what you wanted. Make a copy."
After Xue Mei copied the two jade slips, the two of them divided the treasures within Tai He's Storage Ring.
Notably, Song Wen obtained several extremely rare poisonous Spirit Herbs, as well as Tai He's Natal Magic Treasure, the Plaguefall Banner.
The Plaguefall Banner contained a vast amount of Poison Mist, which was perfect for Song Wen's cultivation of the "Ten Thousand Poisons Body."
As compensation, Xue Mei received the remaining two Minor Teleportation Talismans in the Storage Ring.
After dividing the spoils, Song Wen subtly used the Blood Sea Seal to devour Tai He's soul and body.
"Fellow Daoist Xue Mei, where is my Gu insect?" Song Wen asked.
Before entering the Divine Blood Hall, Song Wen had secretly left behind a Shadow Gu and recorded the locations of the teleportation arrays mentioned by Gou Jun—the mountain gate, the snowy mountain, the Hall of Living Souls, and Blood Corpse Mountain—on a jade slip, so that Xue Mei could meet up with him.
Xue Mei flipped her hand, and a barrier formed by Spiritual Power appeared in her palm.
Inside the barrier, a Shadow Gu sat obediently.
Xue Mei, a Nascent Soul cultivator, had formed a barrier of Spiritual Power, and the Shadow Gu, at the early third stage, dared not make any reckless moves.
As soon as Xue Mei lifted the barrier, the Shadow Gu eagerly flew towards Song Wen.
"Ji Yin, in your opinion, are there any treasures on Thunder Mountain?" Xue Mei asked, gazing at the mountain over two hundred miles away.
Song Wen collected the Shadow Gu and replied, "Whatever treasures lie on Thunder Mountain, they are beyond the reach of both you and me."
The thunderous power on Thunder Mountain was immense, and with just Song Wen and Xue Mei, it would be difficult to reach the summit.
Xue Mei understood the implication in Song Wen's words and said, "If we can't ascend the mountain, then we can only search for a Teleportation Array outside of it."
Song Wen replied, "I'll trouble you to search for the Teleportation Array alone first. I have some matters to attend to."
"What are you going to do?" Xue Mei asked.
"I'm afraid I can't disclose that," Song Wen said, then turned and headed towards Thunder Mountain.
Arriving at the altar at the foot of Thunder Mountain, Song Wen ignored the curious Xue Mei who followed him and directly used his Spiritual Power to summon the Thunder Falcon.
Then, Song Wen released the Blood Sea Seal, transforming it into a massive blood-red barrier that enveloped both himself and the area around the altar.
He placed the massive body of the Thunder Falcon on the altar.
Song Wen then placed nine mid-grade Spirit Stones into the nine grooves at the edges of the array.
Next, he used his own blood to dye all the array patterns around the altar red.
Instantly, the array patterns on the ground and the Thunder Patterns on the altar were activated, slowly emitting a blood-red glow.
Song Wen approached the altar, sat down cross-legged, and placed his hands on two grooves in the stone wall of the altar.
As Song Wen summoned a bolt of lightning and injected it into the altar, the entire altar began to radiate dazzling thunderous light.
The severely injured Thunder Falcon immediately felt a powerful suction force emanating from the altar beneath it, relentlessly tearing at its wounded body.
Realizing the danger, the Thunder Falcon began to struggle violently.
However, under the suppression of the blood mountain transformed by the Blood Sea Seal, the Thunder Falcon was powerless to resist and was eventually consumed by the altar, its essence blood and soul devoured.
And thus, Song Wen gained the Thunder Magic talent of the Thunder Falcon.
By the time Song Wen dispelled the blood-red barrier, an hour had passed.
Xue Mei looked at the altar, then turned to Song Wen with a face full of curiosity and confusion.
"What did you just do?"
The blood on the altar and the array patterns on the ground had already been cleaned away by Song Wen.
Xue Mei saw no trace of any remnants.
"Nothing much, just used the essence blood of the Thunder Falcon to cultivate a secret technique," Song Wen casually dismissed.
Naturally, Xue Mei didn't believe Song Wen's explanation.
Cultivating a secret technique wouldn't require such a mysterious altar.
Before she could press further, Song Wen asked first, "Have any of the eight Nascent Soul cultivators who ascended the mountain come down?"
Seeing that Song Wen was unwilling to discuss the Thunder Falcon, Xue Mei didn't probe further and said, "No one has come down. There's likely a Teleportation Array at the summit, and they probably left directly through it."
The Thunder Falcon had activated the array on Thunder Mountain to attack the eight, and while the power was formidable, it couldn't have killed all of them.
Since no one had descended, the only explanation was that there was a Teleportation Array at the summit for leaving this place.
"Have you found the Teleportation Array?" Song Wen asked.
Xue Mei said, "I found one. It's in a valley hundreds of miles away. Should we use that Teleportation Array to leave this place?"
Song Wen replied, "We definitely need to leave. But before that, shouldn't you share some information about the internal situation of the Divine Blood Hall? Where exactly are we going to find the Corpse King's Rebirth Art?"
(End of the Chapter)
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