Chapter 99: Chapter 89: Corpse Puppet Complete, Finally Freeing My Hands!
Even though he had returned to his own home, scenes from the underground of Wang Mazi’s house still occasionally surfaced in Ji Yuan’s mind.
A corpse can actually be sold for Spirit Stones...
If you don’t cultivate properly, even your corpse won’t be wanted?
After pondering for a while, Ji Yuan replaced the sign with [Alchemy Room].
Let’s first try to push the Alchemy skill to middle grade of the first rank.
He then refined a batch of Hundred Herbs Pill and attempted a batch of Mystic Qi Pill. The Hundred Herbs Pill could now stably yield three successes out of five.
When he manages three successes out of three, he can refine two doses of Elixir in one batch.
As for the newly mastered Mystic Qi Pill, it was still lacking, with only one success out of three.
As night fell, Ji Yuan peeked at the Yin Ghost Banner and found the two Yin Ghosts inside still motionless, lying idle within.
The next morning.
Having spent the whole night in arduous cultivation, Ji Yuan didn’t forget to kill all the Red-crowned Chickens. When he delivered all the chicken corpses to the chicken cultivator, this old friend gave a smile that was worse than crying.
It was not until Ji Yuan said he needed to continue ordering Reed Chickens that he beamed with joy.
For this chicken cultivator, it was quite simple, as the profit from Reed Chickens was greater than that from Red-crowned Chickens.
And Elder Ji was someone who had no shortage of money... all in all, it was a good thing.
After dealing with the Red-crowned Chickens, Ji Yuan didn’t forget to go home and change into yesterday’s attire again, and by the time he arrived at Wang Mazi’s meat shop, the sun was already high in the sky.
It seemed Wang Mazi had been prepared for a while as he hadn’t opened the meat shop yet. Upon seeing Ji Yuan, he waved him over.
"Friend, you came really early today."
As Ji Yuan entered the room, Wang Mazi closed the door and said with a chuckle:
"Friend, you’re really in luck; today just happens to have a fresh Immortal Talent corpse. It’s been less than three hours since it was delivered after death, and it’s still warm."
"Oh? How did they die?"
"Poisoned. It seems they were previously poisoned and thought of escaping to our Cloud Rain Marsh market, but didn’t make it and died midway. We just happened to pick it up."
While talking, the two of them headed underground.
In the middle of the secret chamber lay an Ice Coffin, and lying within it was a young woman in a large black robe, looking peacefully asleep, but her face was ashen.
She was also covered with a lot of gray-black mud, as if she had been fished out of a mud pit.
"This poison seems quite potent, so you’d better be careful when you take it back and use it,"
Wang Mazi kindly reminded.
Ji Yuan sensed the female cultivator’s cultivation before her death, at the fifth layer of Qi Cultivation, not too bad.
He had initially intended to find a male cultivator’s body, but who knows how long he’d have to wait, unless it was like Wang Mazi suggested.
Killing one on the spot.
"Hmm."
"This one will do then."
Ji Yuan paid the remaining 10 Spirit Stones, and with a casual wave, the entire Ice Coffin vanished.
Wang Mazi was stunned to see this... a Storage Bag big enough to hold an Ice Coffin, how large was it?
Ordinary Qi Cultivation cultivators’ bags are only about a foot square, and slightly better ones are three feet square.
How could they possibly hold this Ice Coffin?
Even the corpse was transported in a Storage Bag, and then Wang Mazi used a spell to conjure an Ice Coffin for storage.
As for Ji Yuan, he had inadvertently obtained a Peak of Qi Refining cultivator’s Storage Bag, which was a whole zhang square in size!
Not to mention this small Ice Coffin, even if he wanted to take all the Ice Coffins on the wall... well, that would still be a bit difficult.
After a while, Ji Yuan returned home.
He was not in a hurry to deal with the female cultivator’s corpse, instead heading to the [Talisman Room] to attempt drawing 6 Soul Control Talismans.
Now, being a first-rank upper-grade Talisman Master, drawing medium-grade talismans was not difficult. Just a few tries and he succeeded.
With the Soul Control Talismans ready, next up were the Rootless Water, Yin Sha Mud, and Spirit Needle.
As for the Spirit Needle, Ji Yuan’s upper-grade magical artifact Spirit Water Needle was definitely inappropriate, not to mention that it required twelve Spirit Needles to pierce the twelve main meridians of the corpse, and the Spirit Water Needle was a killing needle, not a healing needle.
So, he needed to specially prepare a set.
This sort of thing, medical cultivators usually had.
They’re quite abundant at Medicine King Valley, though perhaps this "Corpse Puppet Technique" originated from there.
Ji Yuan then went out again, heading to Zengtou City to purchase 50 jin of Rootless Water and a set of Spirit Needles.
Rootless Water was rainwater that hadn’t touched the ground.
It was cheap, you could buy it with Broken Spirit.
Yin Sha Mud wasn’t bad either, it was just mud tainted with Yin Sha energy.
Mainly used for cultivating some herbs.
Ji Yuan went to several herb shops to gather it.
However, the set of Spirit Needles, even though they weren’t even considered magical artifacts, cost Ji Yuan 5 Spirit Stones.
Once everything was prepared, Ji Yuan returned home.
He needed to wash the female cultivator’s corpse clean with Rootless Water... Ji Yuan wasn’t sure why this was required.
Wouldn’t a "Cleaning Technique" or a "Cleaning Talisman" efficiently solve this?
And save himself the trouble.
But since the technique required it, Ji Yuan could only comply, as any misstep could bring trouble.
He then took the female cultivator’s corpse to his bathroom.
Her face was still ashen; this poison seemed tough to deal with.
For now, there was no choice; clean the corpse first.
Ji Yuan glanced at the female cultivator and could only mentally apologize.
"Excuse me."