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Chapter 771: I Despise Being Watched the Most
Chapter 771: I Despise Being Watched the Most
Upon returning to the courtyard, Lu Chen felt slightly more at ease with the protection of the two high-grade spirit arrays.
With a thought, several golden spiritual lightning bolts surged from his body, swirling around him.
Then, he took out the moribund, illusory skin pouch.
The pouch, sensing a hint of freedom, attempted to rebel but immediately sensed the innate suppression exerted by the lightning of exorcism. It instantly became well-behaved and remained still.
"Lurking outside my cave, you obviously don't have good intentions." Lu Chen frowned slightly, gazing at the bizarre pouch that shifted between reality and illusion before him, his thoughts churning.
With another thought, a strand of pure Yin energy forcefully seeped into the skin pouch.
Focusing his mental prowess on it, he instantly gained insight into the pouch's details.
Mystic Corpse Skin Shedding, an evil entity equivalent in strength to a fully-cultivated Foundation Establishment cultivator. It was refined by Jade Countenance Trueperson through the use of evil arts, utilizing the skin pouches of countless cultivators he had collected. Possesses extremely strong concealment capabilities, difficult for even Nascent Soul cultivators to detect.
It can invisibly attach itself to a target, eroding their spirit and soul, and eventually possessing their physical body.
"Mystic Corpse Skin Shedding..." Lu Chen murmured.
This sinister object was shrouded in secrecy and possessed exceptional stealth capabilities. If it weren't for his Mid Nascent Soul spiritual sense, the nourishment of the high-grade Spirit Nurturing Talisman, and the consumption of various spiritual fruits and treasures that enhanced his spiritual sense, he might not have detected its presence.
"Jade Countenance Trueperson, an old acquaintance. Isn't he the evil cultivator who visited when I first moved in?" Lu Chen's mind conjured an image of a cultivator with a fake smile.
"Leaving such an evil object outside my cave is not a friendly neighborly act." A cold smile curved Lu Chen's lips.
The thought that this skin pouch had been lurking near his cave, spying on him, and posed a risk of possessing his incarnation, ignited a fury within him.
"In my life, I despise nothing more than being watched!" Lu Chen coldly harrumphed. With a thought, a sinister grayish-white eye silently emerged from a crack high above and swiftly drifted into the distance.
"Let's see what Jade Countenance Trueperson is up to."
Moments later, the Void Nightmare Eye located the abode of the Jade Countenance Trueperson.
Lu Chen's palm itched slightly, and a crack appeared out of thin air. Soon, a grayish-white eyeball drilled out, sharing the vision witnessed by the Void Nightmare Eye.
As a high-grade treasure, the Void Nightmare Eye's stealth capabilities far surpassed that of the Mystic Corpse Skin Shedding. Lu Chen also intentionally controlled its distance to avoid detection by the Jade Countenance Trueperson.
The evil cultivator's abode was shrouded in Yin energy, guarded by only a fourth-grade illusionary array. With the expertise of the Void Nightmare Eye in illusionary arts, it saw through the entire abode.
"A fourth-grade illusionary array, not very lucrative." Lu Chen sighed inwardly.
The cave he had opened up in the Star Cave already had two fifth-grade arrays, not to mention the sixth-grade array in the Thunderfire Cave. It was only natural that he looked down upon the fourth-grade array.
However, he also understood what he was seeing.
Most of the residents in the Star Cave were solitary cultivators, and it was already commendable for them to possess fifth-grade cultivation techniques or artifacts that matched their cultivation level. Rarely did cultivators have the spare capacity to set up high-grade arrays outside their abodes.
"Here he comes!"
The next day, in the vision provided by the Void Nightmare Eye, a three-foot-tall dwarf riding a sword light appeared outside the abode of the Jade Countenance Trueperson.
The dwarf had an abnormally large head, withered limbs, and soft bones. His gaze was icy as he scanned the surroundings. Finding nothing amiss, he entered the abode with familiarity.
"Brother Li, welcome!" The Jade Countenance Trueperson greeted him with a fake smile.
"Jade Countenance," the dwarf cultivator nodded slightly.
"Jade Countenance, you've been watching that Ling fellow for so long. Have you discovered anything?"
After chatting for a while, the dwarf asked the question that was on both their minds.
Confident in their strength and within the privacy of the cave abode, they saw no need to hide their words or actions.
Little did they know, high up in the sky, an exotic treasure procured from a demon of the outer realms was quietly spying on them.
"I haven't discovered much. That Ling fellow, I don't know if he's being cautious or truly cultivating his art, but my skin pouch hasn't seen him leave his abode."
"However, there's some sort of evil presence that often emerges from his cave and enters the secret realm within Filthy Goat Mountain to hunt demons and beasts."
"I sent my skin pouch to secretly tail it, and I can tell you, that presence is not to be underestimated. I estimate its strength surpasses that of most Foundation Establishment cultivators."
The Jade Countenance Trueperson spoke slowly, his eyes narrowing.
"To be able to set up a fifth-grade array outside one's abode with just the strength of the Initial Condensation stage, either he has an extraordinary background or he's hiding a huge secret."
The dwarf cultivator's voice was cold, sending shivers down one's spine like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows.
"Whichever it is, it means we've found ourselves a plump sheep to slaughter."
The two men exchanged a smile, their unspoken agreement hanging in the air.
"The Fengyuan Star Cave truly lives up to its reputation as a den of evil cultivators. Even my neighbors have designs on fleecing me like a fat sheep."
Lu Chen, over two hundred miles away, shook his head in dismay.
"Such perverse and corrupt tendencies...we righteous cultivators..."
"...should encourage their growth!"
He gazed at the grayish-white eyeball in his palm, the two evil cultivators reflected within like choice fertilizer.
"My neighbor stores grain, but I store guns. My neighbor's store is my granary."
With a flick of his thoughts, his incarnation and spirit body, along with the Fleshly Spirit God, swiftly made their way towards the abode of the Jade Countenance Trueperson.
"Jade Countenance, aren't you afraid that Ling fellow will sense your skin pouch lurking outside his abode for so long?"
As their conversation drew to a close, the dwarf cultivator asked with a hint of suspicion.
"Brother Li, rest assured. My skin pouch possesses extremely strong concealment capabilities. Even a mid-stage or late-stage Condensation Realm cultivator would find it hard to detect, let alone an early-stage one."
A smile spread across the Jade Countenance Trueperson's face as he expressed full confidence in the evil object he had refined.
"Now that you're here, I'll communicate with that Mystic Corpse Skin Shedding. If the timing is right, we can pay a visit to that cave abode together."
"Let's see what secrets that mysterious Ling fellow is hiding!"
The Jade Countenance Trueperson laughed loudly, his smile stretching to his ears.
Then, he closed his eyes, his mind sinking deep into his sea of consciousness.
"Oh no!"
His eyes snapped open, a mixture of confusion and shock reflected in them.
"Has something unexpected happened?"
The dwarf cultivator's expression turned solemn at the sight, and the two tentacles floating beneath his shoulders stirred as if ready for battle.
"I can no longer sense the presence of my skin pouch."
"Normally, the Mystic Corpse Skin Shedding is connected to my mind, and such a situation shouldn't occur."
"The skin pouch is intimately linked to my spirit, and if it were destroyed, I would immediately sense it."
"But the fact that I can't communicate with it means that the Mystic Corpse Skin Shedding has fallen completely under someone else's control."
As the Jade Countenance Trueperson spoke, a sense of foreboding grew in his heart.
Suddenly, a hoarse voice interrupted their thoughts. "Fellow cultivators, I found a stray skin pouch wandering outside my cave abode. Could it belong to either of you by any chance?"
(End of Chapter)
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