Just now, when they were all standing here, who had made that sound?
Was it the first person to enter?
But the first one to rush in was clearly a youth, and the voice that emerged did not sound like it came from a youth, but more like from an old man.
That voice carried a sense of dejection.
Moreover, if the other party had found a treasure, he could simply search the other rooms quickly himself. Why announce it to everyone right away? Would it not be better for him to grab it as fast as possible?
“Perhaps I am overthinking it.” Lin Xiao thought to himself and flew forward as well.
This ancient city spanned a thousand miles in radius, with countless houses and buildings, unknown in number. With only two or three thousand of them, it would take a while just to run through them all, so there was no need to rush to compete with others right away.
And just as he flew forward, he saw several people flying out backwards from a house beside a street, blood spurting from their mouths.
In other rooms, fights had already broken out.
What shocked Lin Xiao greatly was that no matter how great the commotion, those wooden houses remained utterly undamaged.
The buildings in this ancient city were sturdy to an inconceivable degree.
Frowning slightly, Lin Xiao ignored it and continued onward, flying to an inn that no one had yet entered. He stopped at the doorway.
This inn was about twenty zhang in radius and three storeys high. The main door was wide open, but inside was pitch black, with nothing visible.
His divine sense could not probe inside either.
“Sizzle!”
Since no one was watching anyway, Lin Xiao directly urged his spiritual energy. To his surprise, his spiritual energy could not leave his body!
“Hm?” Frowning, Lin Xiao’s vital energy surged within him, and he threw out a punch.
However, no force emerged from his fist at all.
“Force cannot leave the body?” Lin Xiao was shocked.
In this city, not only was cultivation suppressed, but force could not be externalised.
That meant only close-range physical power could be used?
Then his spiritual power and spiritual energy were utterly useless?
“Truly eerie!” Lin Xiao thought to himself. He then tossed out the Purple Corpse Puppet. As soon as it appeared, its appearance matched his own, both ugly middle-aged men.
Only, the Purple Corpse Puppet’s face bore an extra hint of deathly pallor.
Fortunately, though his spiritual sense could not externalise, he could still speak and transmit commands to the Purple Corpse Puppet via divine sense.
This was also quite strange.
At this moment, Lin Xiao could not sense the Purple Corpse Puppet’s cultivation aura either, but it seemed it had also been suppressed to the equivalent of first-level Martial Emperor realm.
“Go in and scout!” After giving the order to the Purple Corpse Puppet, it flew straight into the inn.
Lin Xiao was quite assured of the Purple Corpse Puppet’s defences.
And after the puppet entered for a moment, an angry middle-aged voice suddenly rang out from inside: “You dare rob me!”
As the words fell, sounds of clashing combat erupted inside.
Immediately after, a figure identical to Lin Xiao’s current ugly middle-aged appearance was blasted flying out the door.
This person was not the Purple Corpse Puppet.
The puppet wore completely different clothes.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao’s hairs stood on end.
He was certain no one had entered this room before, and he could not have misjudged that.
Yet how had someone suddenly appeared inside?
“Could it be the first youth to enter?” Lin Xiao considered all possible guesses, but the chance that the first youth had specifically entered this inn was extremely low.
By Lin Xiao’s judgement, this person was very likely to have appeared out of nowhere.
If that was the case, it was somewhat terrifying.
“Die for me!”
This person wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and turned to attack Lin Xiao, smashing a heavy fist towards his chest.
Lin Xiao circulated his vital energy within, clenched his fist, explosive power flowing through his muscles, and met it with an immensely powerful punch of his own.
In pure physical confrontation, he feared no one.
Since the other could be blasted out by the Purple Corpse Puppet, his cultivation should also have been suppressed by the rules here, not exceeding first-level Martial Emperor realm.
Boom!
A loud clash rang out. The middle-aged man opposite Lin Xiao spat out a large mouthful of blood and flew backwards far into the dark room.
Immediately after, the Purple Corpse Puppet rushed out from the room and thrust a palm into the middle-aged man, piercing through his back and out his chest. A large spray of blood erupted from the man’s chest.
Blood also overflowed from the middle-aged man’s mouth, shock appearing in his eyes. Then, he perished.
What followed shocked Lin Xiao. The ugly middle-aged man’s corpse began to contract and compress.
Finally, the bones and flesh compacted together into a fist-sized mass of bone marrow and bloody pulp. Suddenly, an inexplicable white flame ignited on the outside, like will-o’-the-wisp, emanating a yin-cold aura.
In the end, the flame condensed and dissipated, a clear fragrance spreading out. A pill appeared on the ground.
Lin Xiao’s eyes widened involuntarily: “This is, a Human Pill?”
Human Pills were an extremely special kind of pill, using a human as the main ingredient, combined with auxiliary medicines, refined via special alchemy methods into a pill.
Generally, they required living humans for refinement, or for skilled alchemists, freshly deceased ones before the dantian was damaged or dissipated.
It essentially harnessed the other’s cultivation power to refine it into a pill for the consumer to break through their own cultivation.
Or, if the person possessed special talents, such as unique attribute physiques or bloodlines, it could be refined into a pill with special attributes, enhancing certain innate powers or cultivation.
This was an extremely tyrannical, extremely evil, and utterly inhumane method of alchemy.
The formula was rare and extremely difficult to refine. Once someone who made such pills appeared, they would be hunted by countless people and rejected by the world.
Even the Swallowing Heaven Spirit Emperor back then had only seen mentions of this alchemy method in exotic records and had no records of anyone on the continent actually producing them.
Yet the change in this person before him seemed similar to the method described in the Swallowing Heaven Spirit Emperor’s memories from those exotic records.
Only, without incorporating other auxiliary medicines or an alchemist’s refinement, it had condensed into a pill on its own.
And it had inexplicably produced will-o’-the-wisp flames.
Once the pill formed, it even wafted a medicinal fragrance.
This fragrance was more alluring than any pill Lin Xiao had ever refined.
“What exactly is going on here?” Lin Xiao was utterly astonished.
Killing one person, and it automatically refined into a pill. Could this ancient city possess such a mysterious ability?
“Sizzle!” But just then, the pill suddenly turned into a wisp of black smoke and vanished into the air.
Lin Xiao was stunned.
The dead turning automatically into a pill was one thing, but now it had dissipated too?
Was it just to refine it for show?
Lin Xiao was full of bewilderment.
