Chapter 562: 562

Chapter 562: Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Leech

Suppressing his excitement, Yan Liqiang headed towards that stone house .

It had two rooms, one big and one small . Yan Liqiang headed to the smaller room first .

The room had no door but a skin-curtain . It was completely tattered . Yan Liqiang touched it with his sword and the curtain fell to the floor .

It seemed like no one had been here for a long time .

In the first room, there was a stone press, a stone chair, and a stone stand . There were bottles and jars on the stand and a stone-made cauldron . There was a layer of dust on them but Yan Liqiang recognized them immediately .

Yan Liqiang walked out of the first room and headed to the second . He brushed away the curtain and went in and saw a dried body sitting on a stone bed . This gave Yan Liqiang quite the scare .

Up until now, Yan Liqiang had seen all kinds of things and an ordinary dried body wouldn’t be enough to scare him . However, this body had been here for who knows how long, still sitting on the stone bed . Its face seemed lively, as the hair and beard were still there . The eyes were shot and the body wasn’t rotten — the body had just lost its water and seemed a little dry .

Focusing his mind, Yan Liqiang carefully walked into this room . The set up here was simpler . Other than a stone bed and stone table, there was nothing else .

Yan Liqiang studied the dried body . From the looks of it, there was no external injury . The person probably died naturally but it was very magical that this body didn’t rot after death . According to what he knew, the bodies of only those who had a very high cultivation state, at least above Martial Ancestor, would not rot .

For some reason, the body was missing a hand . The body had a silvery necklace that had dense runes inscribed on it . The thing hanging off the necklace was a small black beast core .

Crap, this necklace was a talisman artefact! Yan Liqiang was a bit surprised . He perused the necklace . It had exquisite craftsmanship, especially the formation runes and the design . It definitely came from a master . Judging by the runes, the necklace was a defensive talisman used as insect repellent .

Out of respect for the dead, Yan Liqiang wasn’t going to take the necklace . He felt that for someone to carry something with him to death, the person must have cherished it a lot when he was alive .

“Although we don’t know each other, it’s still fate that we met here . Your necklace is exquisite but in a few years, I can make it myself . I’ll leave it with you!”

After speaking to the body, he didn’t find anything else in the room and was a little disappointed . Just when he wanted to leave, his eyes glanced at the body again and he stopped .

Yan Liqiang noticed that the only hand the body had was clenched into a fist and placed in front of the stomach . For some reason, the index finger wasn’t clenched and instead reached out . Yan Liqiang walked nearer and looked at the direction the finger was pointing . It seemed to be pointing at the stone table next to the bed .

There might not be any meaning to this, but what if it was a clue?

He had plenty of time now so Yan Liqiang didn’t mind testing his luck .

There was nothing on the ground below the table other than dust .

Yan Liqiang squatted down and used the sword to knock on the ground below the table . The sound was solid, nothing hollow .

Since there was nothing below the table, it seemed like he was thinking too much . The finger probably wasn’t pointing to anything here . Yan Liqiang got up and laughed in self-mockery and shook his head before heading toward the door . Just when he was about to cross the door, Yan Liqiang stopped and turned around looking in the direction the finger pointed to once again . He quickly went to the table and felt under the table . A few seconds later, Yan Liqiang’s face was full of surprise and joy . When he took his hand from under the table, there was a stone tablet in his hand . The tablet was filled with small writing .

— Since you have found this tablet, it means there is fate between us . If you took my talisman necklace, you would probably be dead now . The necklace is filled with poison — anyone who touches it will die . Very well, you didn’t touch the necklace . In that case, everything left here is yours .

— Since you have reached this place, you must’ve escaped from that ten-thousand-year spirit leech . It means you’re very lucky and fortunate . You must be thinking about how to leave this place . The only way to leave is through the water pond in that cave . It’s connected to the underground river . The water of that river is like blades that scrape the bones . Normally, if you enter you would die a certain death, but in the middle of the twelfth lunar month each year, the time of the great tide, the water in the river can slow down or even recede . You have one day’s worth of time to go back to the surface through that .

— That ten-thousand-year spirit leech is an extinct being within the world . Its essence and blood Qi is extremely thick . It lived for ten thousand years and ate countless earth dragon fruit in the cave . It has reached an unimaginable level . It’s the most precious thing, especially for martial practitioners . If one uses the leech’s essence for oneself, becoming an ancestor or saint is not out of the question . I originally wanted to use it to forge an Emperor God Pill to reach Martial Emperor, but the heavens forbade it and my life was coming to its end . I could no longer set up a trap to subjugate it . I’ll leave the rest to fate . I wonder who would be lucky enough to get the essence of that ten-thousand-year spirit leech .

— The fruit on the small tree outside is earth dragon fruit . It matures once every 360 years . Once it matures, it emanates a seven-colored light and aroma, but you must not eat it . It’s a huge supplement for strange beasts like the leech, but for humans it’s extreme poison . The things in the gardens are all planted by me . You can eat all those fruits and mushrooms .

— When I was still alive, I had a title called Thousand-Faced Demon Monarch . Some Dao protectionists call me the Thousand-Faced Lust Demon . I wonder if the world still knows of my name . I dominated the pugilistic world and tried all the extreme beauty in the world . I could enter the royal palace, the big sects, island nations, and deserts freely but I have never coerced any woman . It was all mutual . I’m a hundred times better than those hypocrites who act righteous but are secretly bleak . In the cauldron room next door, there’s a secret manual under the cauldron foot . It’s my gift to you . You can take it, but it’s up to you if you cultivate it or not . As for other things, never mind, never mind…

— Little Mei… Little Mei… Little Mei… Little Mei…

The remaining words were all ‘Little Mei’ which seemed to be a woman’s name . There seemed to be endless regret and longing in those words…

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