This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable-Chapter 664 - 13: Yin Hui Core

Chapter 664 -13: Yin Hui Core

The next instant, two jade vases with slender necks appeared in Lu Qingshan’s hands.

The two jade vases were identical in appearance, both crafted from exquisite jade and glowing with a green luster, decorated with branch and leaf patterns spreading across their bodies.

Just by the exquisite look of the jade vases, it was clear that whatever they held inside was no trivial matter.

After all, the saying “buying the casket without the jewels” was only an exception.

These two vases were crystal clear, making the contents inside distinctly visible.

Similarly, they contained two completely identical items.

What first caught the eye inside the vases was a gel-like green fluid, structured much like a piece of amber.

Then, encased within this “amber,” there was also a small chunk of flesh.

The flesh was only a few centimeters long, and in terms of shape, it closely resembled a leech, which was somewhat disgusting to look at.

Even more peculiar was the fact that the front half of this flesh piece was black, while the rear half was white, presenting a clear demarcation as if divided into two regions by someone.

“What is this thing?” Lu Qingshan wondered.

Even with his experience from two lifetimes, he still couldn’t recognize the origins of this object.

With that thought in mind, he moved his thoughts, already taking the grotesque piece of flesh out of the “amber” inside one jade vase and examined it in his hand.

There were some tentacle-like fringes on the piece of flesh, which began to wriggle slightly and latched onto his palm upon contact.

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This scene made it seem as though the chunk of flesh was a living creature.

However, Lu Qingshan knew this was impossible.

Because living things cannot be put into a Storage Ring.

“What is this creature? Why is it so ugly?” Dantai Qingrun, who was beside him, also noticed the anomaly happening with Lu Qingshan.

“It’s the ‘ghost’ I told you about that exists in the bodies of those Lower Grade Underworld Cultivators,” Lu Qingshan explained. “As for what it specifically is, I am not quite sure right now.”

“Wait a second,” Dantai Qingrun suddenly dilated her pupils, showing a horrified expression, “that thing is burrowing into your body!”

Lu Qingshan hurriedly looked down and saw that the chunk of flesh in his hand, after its tentacles had latched onto his palm, was actually burrowing little by little into his body.

In just the blink of an eye, most of the flesh had already merged into his body.

And if it weren’t for Dantai Qingrun’s verbal reminder, he wouldn’t have even felt that there was something foreign inside his body.

Lu Qingshan was immediately startled and unconsciously prepared to crush the blob of flesh into bits—other than his three Life-bound Swords, he wasn’t comfortable with anything else burrowing into his body.

Just as he was about to act, he suddenly received some inexplicable information within his mind, coming from the chunk of flesh.

It was this information that made him halt his actions.

In that moment of delay, the chunk of flesh had completely disappeared from the palm of his hand, vanishing into his body.

“What is this situation?” Dantai Qingrun was shocked.

Lu Qingshan closed his eyes slightly, as if sensing something meticulously, and then once again opened his eyes and extended his right palm to Dantai Qingrun, with the flesh reappearing in his hand.

“This thing is called the Yin Hui Core,” Lu Qingshan’s expression took on an unprecedented seriousness. “It is a piece of the response core taken from a bizarre beast called Yin Hui, possessing an extremely special ability…”

“Conversion,” Lu Qingshan pointed to the distinctly black and white Yin Hui Core in his hand, “With this core, it can convert one kind of mana into another, for instance, the black area of this Yin Hui Core represents the Demonic Qi of the Demon Race, while the white area represents the Spiritual Power of the Human Cultivators.”

“It can turn the Demon Race’s Demonic Qi into the Spiritual Power released by Cultivators,” Lu Qingshan had realized the severity of the situation, speaking word by word, “Meaning that within our Human Race, there must be those who are actually from the Demon Race but disguised as members of the Human Race through this object.”

A single stone stirred up a thousand ripples.

This was even more terrifying news than the Netherworld beginning to brainwash members of the Human Race, nurturing their “Human Cultivators.”

Why would the Netherworld want to develop Human Cultivators?

It wasn’t because Human Cultivators were easy to use; after all, how many of the Human Cultivators who were tempted by the interests of the Demon Race to join the Netherworld truly possessed exceptional abilities?

It was simply that the Demon Race had no choice.

Because no matter how well the Demon Race hid, once they made a move, they would reveal their true form—their released energy was Demonic Qi, which was vastly different from the Mana of Human Cultivators.

In other words, unless they never took action, the Demon Race could not disguise themselves as members of the Human Race and walk openly above ground; they could only lurk in the shadows.

But the appearance of the Yin Hui Core indicated that the Demon Race had long mastered the method of disguising themselves as Human Cultivators.

It also showed that among the current Human Cultivators, there must inevitably be those of the Demon Race, and it was even highly likely that they were already holding high positions!

“This…” Dantai Qingrun looked uneasy.

After hearing Lu Qingshan explain the capabilities of the Yin Hui Core, she too had immediately thought of this possibility, and a chill emerged from her spine.

“The Netherworld risked everything to protect these mere two Yin Hui Cores.

This indicates that for the Netherworld, the Yin Hui must be a rare treasure that cannot be mass-produced,” Lu Qingshan quickly calmed down and spoke slowly, “The situation, though bad, may not be as dire as imagined.”

As for why such valuable items would be placed in the Storage Ring of a Lower Grade Cultivator.

It was actually a counterintuitive move.

The Underworld Cultivators were betting that when they fled in all directions, the cultivators from the knowledge-defending tower would definitely focus their main pursuit on the High Level Cultivators.

So they took the risk of placing it with a Lower Grade Cultivator.

A very wise decision.

And in his previous life, they had succeeded.

….

Such news, naturally, Lu Qingshan would not conceal.

He immediately sought out Ning De and explained to him in detail his own discovery.

Under Ning De’s astounded gaze, Lu Qingshan handed over one of the Yin Hui Cores to him.

This was with the intention for him to take the Yin Hui Core back to the knowledge-defending tower, to be handed over for thorough study, in the hope of reaping some benefits and finding a solution.

As for the other one, Lu Qingshan kept it for himself.

One reason was to have a fallback, in case something unexpected happened at the knowledge-defending tower and the Yin Hui Core got lost.

The second reason was a kind of premonition from the depths of his soul that made Lu Qingshan feel that he might have use for the Yin Hui Core in the future.

This feeling was mysterious, without any logic.

But in the world of Cultivators, in this world filled with various mighty and mystical powers, sometimes one has to believe in the metaphysical.

The two discoveries in this branch of the Netherworld were both shocking to hear.

This left Ning De, who had achieved a great victory, unable to become elated again, and he soon returned with heavy concerns.

This time, Lu Qingshan did not return with him but chose to part ways.

He knew that if he was only at the top of the Netherworld’s hit list before, then after this, he had certainly become what they called…