Chapter 32: Finding Another Inheritance
Despite all of his complaints, Marx kept walking into the cave. He found the design of the cave quite normal.
There were no signs of traps. The light passed through its front, so the further he went, the darker this place became.
He raised his hand, gathering a large amount of Qi into his left palm. In an instant, the Qi started crackling, transforming into lightning arcs.
At the same time, he raised his right hand, gathering a large amount of Qi, condensing it into the wooden handle.
Those lightning arcs produced heat, so he used it to burn the wooden handle, constantly supplying it with wood Qi so it wouldn’t burn out.
With the light from the fire, he continued walking into the cave. Along the way, he kept throwing rocks just in case it would trigger some traps.
He had already seen some dangerous traps in the previous cave. So, he couldn’t be more alert.
But as he continued making his way deep into the cave, he realized something was wrong.
It was too long.
There was definitely a barrier placed outside the cave, but besides that, it had no traps.
He didn’t know how long he had been walking for, but it should’ve been more than four hours.
Eventually, he decided to increase his speed, running forward as quickly as possible.
Half an hour later, he stopped.
Suddenly, light flashed from two different directions.
Marx stood there for a moment. As nothing happened, he looked around. He saw a corpse on the side.
The moment he saw this corpse, a smile appeared on his face.
’Interesting! This is so interesting.’
He thought to himself as he walked towards the corpse.
Without any hesitation, he picked up the ring from the corpse and put it on his finger. He smiled and released his Qi into the ring.
The moment his Qi entered the ring, it was absorbed.
At the same time, he heard loud laughter coming out of the ring.
"Hahaha! Finally, someone came here."
Marx didn’t speak; instead, he showed a fearful expression.
"W-wh-who are you? Are you the ring?"
"Haha! Lad, it is your blessing that you picked me up."
A large amount of grey energy emerged from the ring, transforming into a figure of a man.
But without waiting for Marx’s reply, it immediately entered his body.
"I would love to talk more, but I have been waiting for two hundred years. My soul is almost destroyed."
"Thankfully, I managed to preserve enough soul energy to take over your body."
Those words would’ve frightened any one other than Marx. After all, this process was known as possession.
When Marx saw two different paths to reach the center where the inheritance was supposed to be, he found something strange.
It was prepared for others, but there was no trial, no trap, nothing.
If there were traps or trials, Marx wouldn’t have noticed anything. After all, it wasn’t abnormal for a cave to have two entrances.
"I’m sorry, Mr whoever you are. This is my body, and I am not comfortable with you."
Marx chuckled as he replied. Suddenly, his spiritual sense erupted, and before the soul inside him could react, it was pulled into the tower.
At the same time, Marx also disappeared into the tower.
When the soul appeared in a different space, his eyes widened in shock, especially as he floated in front of Tyler.
"No, where is this? Who are you?"
The soul looked at Tyler with wide eyes and angrily asked.
"Sorry, but it’s my turn to ask questions!"
If it were a body, he could use that kind of torture. But since it was a soul, he could only rely on the suppression power of the tower.
Marx clenched his fist, and immense pressure fell upon the soul.
"Wait, wait, don’t do this! Don’t kill me! Poof!"
Before it could say anything else, its soul body suddenly collapsed into a puff of cloud.
"What the hell? System, what’s going on here?"
Marx was stunned by this sudden change of events. He was just trying to suppress this soul, not destroy it.
[Marx, did you forget something? This is the soul with barely enough soul energy to capture the body of a Qi Sea Realm cultivator.]
[How could it bear the suppression of the Heavenly Rank Artifact? Now, it should be my turn to absorb this scattered sou energy.]
[Should I?]
Marx helplessly smiled and gave permission to the system spirit. After all, there was nothing he could do now.
He left the tower. He had appeared quite far away from his house, so Maria didn’t know about his arrival.
After he returned to the cave, he walked up to the remaining skeleton and placed his hand on top of it.
[The Great Evolution Technique]
As he activated this technique, the purple gas emerged from his body, covering the entire skeleton and devouring it in one single go.
Unlike with the previous one, Marx felt a massive influx of energy inside his Spiritual Root.
If he wasn’t wrong, this skeleton of a Golden Core Cultivator was enough to improve his Spiritual Root to Top Grade.
At the same time, Marx also received the attributes of this cultivator.
Considering that he was only dead for two hundred years, his spiritual root wasn’t dried out.
So, his benefits were quite huge.
Unfortunately, the improvement from Mortal Rank to Spirit Rank would need more resources.
Thinking about resources, Marx suddenly remembered two pills he had bought for his parents to improve their spiritual root.
Since he had the Great Evolution Technique, he didn’t think of using those pills. Now, those pills might not be effective, but they could give him attributes.
Considering the attributes he received from this cultivator were Earth and Gold, he only lacked Fire and Water of the five Basic Elements.
Thinking about the Nascent Soul Cultivator with Five Elemental Spiritual Root, he immediately decided to take these pills.
If he could devour that person’s spiritual root or even any treasures related to the five elements, his spiritual root would be able to reach Spirit Rank.
After all, his Spiritual Root wasn’t exactly a Five Elemental Spiritual Root but a Devouring Spiritual Root.
It improved based on the number of spiritual roots it devoured. And the stronger roots it devoured, the more improvement it would receive.
He didn’t need to eat those pills. He just needed to let his Spiritual Root devour them. After all, he was only trying to gain the attributes.
’Fuck! I am so forgetful. If I hadn’t forgotten about that pill, I would’ve made a lot of Good or even Great Grade Pills.’
Marx slapped himself on the forehead before letting go of his frustration as he looked inside the ring.
Not so surprisingly, except for the scrolls and a lot of offensive talismans, he found nothing.
More importantly, those were low-level talismans.
Why low-level?
They were Fire Burst, Water Snake, and Thunderbolt Talismans that would only affect cultivators at the Qi Sea Realm.
Considering this person was a Golden Core Cultivator, it wasn’t hard to deduce his situation.
He probably fought someone, used everything in his arsenal to keep himself alive, and even so, got seriously injured, almost losing his life.
So, he ran to this place, hiding from his enemy as he made this cave, and placed a simple barrier array that made Adult Beasts unable to enter this cave.
Realizing he couldn’t survive, he should’ve used the last of his power to dig another pathway so someone would find this cave sooner.
Marx believed that even his soul was severely injured, which was why his soul could only last for two hundred years.
"This is quite interesting, isn’t it, System? A cultivator unwilling to accept his death, forced to live in his own spatial ring."
[Indeed! While devouring that soul energy, I found two pieces of crucial information. First, he offended a Nascent Soul Cultivator.]
[Second, he was a talented Talisman Maker. Even though he only had two elemental spiritual roots, he was well-versed in all kinds of elements.]
Hearing that, Marx nodded, holding several different kinds of talismans in his hand.
"What I find interesting is whether the guy from Yuki’s future was possessed or not."
[If he had some kind of treasure to protect his soul, even the low-level one, he would make it out alive.]
[But he doesn’t; then it was bound to be his death.]
Marx shook his head.
"I think he did. After all, no normal person would dare to enter this deep into this mountain range unless they are chased or threatened by someone."
"If you are strong enough to be chased here, it should be normal to hold a few trump cards related to the soul, right?"
[I am not so sure, Mark. Do not forget those unlucky people who went to the previous inheritance site with Miss Yuki.]
Hearing that name, Marx couldn’t help but scratch his head in embarrassment.
"Well, how many GP did I earn?"
[350]
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