C121 Deep Valley

Not long after leaving the Lingyun City, Qin Shaojie bid farewell to Wen Ya. Then he went back into the Taihang Mountains alone.

Qin Shaojie was not unfamiliar with Taihang Mountains. Back then, before he had become a spirit opener, he had already traversed the Taihang Mountains and entered the Holy Flame Academy. Now, Qin Shaojie was a practitioner of Peak of Genuine Force.

Although he was still unable to contend against the magical beasts in the depths of Taihang Mountains, his strength had at least improved a lot compared to before.

Last time, he had been very cautious when entering the mountain. Other than the ferocious beasts, there was almost no other threat. However, this time, it was different. Cultivators could be seen shuttling back and forth between the mountains from time to time.

Presumably, this situation had something to do with the Assembly Token that Wen Ya was talking about. With the distance from here to Holy Flame Academy, if the assembly order were to spread out, perhaps there would be some in the Taihang Mountains.

Seeing that, Qin Shaojie picked a quiet path and walked towards the depths of the Tai Qing Mountain Range.

Right now, he had extremely good control of his own Qi, and every step he took was extremely light, even if he was not too far away from Qin Shaojie, it would be difficult to notice his existence.

As they went deeper and deeper, Qin Shaojie became increasingly cautious as well. The deeper they went, the more likely they were to encounter any Demon Beasts. Magical beasts were different from wild beasts. They absorbed the essence of the world and had the strength to fight against cultivators.

The beast Qin Shaojie killed in the blink of an eye, but not the beast. Not only was its defensive ability extremely strong, it also had intelligence, and most importantly, it was able to borrow the Profound Spirit Qi of heaven and earth. Forget about Genuine Force, even if Three Spiritual Realms s and Earthly Yuan Stage expert s were facing those strong magical beasts, they would still have to temporarily avoid danger.

Fortunately, Qin Shaojie was experienced enough to avoid any places where magical beasts might appear. Deep into the night, he found a quiet canyon.

The canyon was very close to the depths of the Taihang Mountains, so it was almost impossible for beasts to appear in this kind of place. All of them were demonic beasts, but once they were discovered, it would be very troublesome, so even Qin Shaojie had to be cautious.

The sound of water gurgling could be heard within the canyon. Under the cover of the moonlight, the low sound of a beast could be heard from time to time, making this place feel even more comfortable. Qin Shaojie carefully examined his surroundings. Within a radius of several tens of kilometers, there were at least three second grade spirit beasts. These second grade spirit beasts were comparable to the Peak of Genuine Force of humans;

But to become a magical beast, they all had their own territory, so they wouldn't casually step into the domain of other magical beasts. The gorge in front of him was in the domain of three magical beasts.

As long as he didn't cause too much of a commotion, it wouldn't attract the attention of the magical beasts.

The most important thing was that this place was a natural protective barrier. If anyone or any magical beast tried to enter this valley, it was very likely that they would alert these magical beasts.

After his gaze swept across the canyon, Qin Shaojie finally locked onto a huge rock in the middle of the canyon information.

The enormous boulder had already become incomparably smooth after being soaked in the water for years. With a leap, Qin Shaojie jumped onto the boulder with an area of several tens of meters.

With the aid of the moonlight, even though it was night here, one could still see very clearly.

"Let's do it here."

Qin Shaojie was clearly very satisfied with this place, and he immediately said with a deep voice. After he touched the spatial ring on his finger, a gentle light flashed and a coffin appeared in front of Qin Shaojie.

This coffin was one of the unexpected treasures that Qin Shaojie had obtained from the Exquisite Auction.

When the coffin appeared, Qin Shaojie also felt a sense of camaraderie. This was the first time Qin Shaojie placed the coffin on the Taihang Mountains after he planted his own aura on it.

With a thought, the coffin lid directly opened, and Black Scorpion Man's corpse once again appeared in front of Qin Shaojie.

As his gaze continued to size up Black Scorpion Man, Qin Shaojie was also quite careful. Even though the aura being emitted by that soul was currently weaker than before, Qin Shaojie was still able to clearly sense it.

If he wanted to know what was going on with this soul fluctuation, perhaps he would have to wait until he truly controlled this coffin before he could confirm it.

Qin Shaojie took a deep breath, and used his profound energy to carefully move the Black Scorpion Man's corpse out. During this entire process, Qin Shaojie held his breath, afraid that he would accidentally awaken that soul strand of hers.

To be able to suppress the soul of a Black Scorpion Man, Qin Shaojie did not think that he was an ordinary person.

It had to be said that although this Black Scorpion Man was only a corpse, it was still heavy enough to weigh a thousand kilograms. If Qin Shaojie had not broken through to the Peak of Genuine Force, it would not be an easy task to pull it out.

After placing the square of the corpse on the smooth boulder, Qin Shaojie also heaved a sigh of relief. With a thought, he stored the coffin back into his storage ring.

Right now, the only thing he could control was the closed lid. As for the rest, they were far from enough. But no matter what, it would not affect Qin Shaojie's judgement that the coffin was an exceptional treasure.

Even if the current Black Scorpion Man were to lose him, he would not feel too much pain, but if there was anything wrong with the coffin, it was likely that Qin Shaojie himself would become very anxious. After all, when Qin Shaojie was at his peak state, he did not even obtain this treasure. Once his strength had risen to a certain level, coupled with the coffin, he would be like a tiger with wings.

After putting away the coffin, Qin Shaojie once again looked at the ten meter tall corpse of the Black Scorpion Man. Even from the looks of it, one could clearly feel the toughness of this skeleton. It was as if it was made of steel and one could even see with their naked eyes that it possessed a formidable defensive strength.

According to the memories of his previous life, Three Spiritual Realms Realm practitioners were basically unable to pose a threat to this skeleton.

No matter what, there was a trace of dragon blood flowing through the veins of this Black Scorpion Man.

After a careful examination, he quietly released his consciousness as well. After a long while, Qin Shaojie's consciousness finally settled on the Black Scorpion Man's chest area.

There was no longer any flesh on his bare chest, only an empty skeleton. It looked to be in panic. But right at this moment, Qin Shaojie confirmed that the enormous soul undulations that were previously emitted was coming from within.

Furthermore, Qin Shaojie's current divine sense was undoubtedly much stronger than before, and his perception was also not something that could be compared to it at the same level. There was a very mysterious feeling, and that the source of the remnant soul should be located at the chest area.

Hu hu hu hu!

Slowly releasing the foul air from his chest, Qin Shaojie's expression became grave.

It was unknown how many years this remnant soul had attached itself to Black Scorpion Man's body. If he wanted to refine this Black Scorpion Man's corpse, the first thing he had to do was to get rid of this remnant soul.

The current Qin Shaojie did not have the slightest confidence in being able to suppress his consciousness. If he were to be hit by a backlash in the end, it would be a complete loss on him. Even if he didn't refine it, if the movement was too large, it would be enough for the soul fragment to reflexively make some movements. And Qin Shaojie was completely unable to guarantee that these actions would be beneficial or harmful to him.

Therefore, the best method was to imprison this remnant soul.

After taking out the Ice-Iron Slime from the spatial ring, Qin Shaojie took a deep breath as he felt the cool feeling in his hand.

Whether it would succeed or not, all of his hopes were placed on the Ice-Iron Slime.

After the Ice-Iron Slime was suspended in the air with profound energy wrapped around, Qin Shaojie's hand seals kept changing. Under this kind of change, the profound energy that was originally wrapped around the Ice-Iron Slime actually started to materialize, and became as minute as silk. Looking around, there was more than just a crowd of tens of thousands.

After the profound energy transformed into something as thin as silk, it quietly extended toward the Ice-Iron Slime.

The Ice-Iron Slime was only the size of a longan and looked extremely smooth. However, after enlarging it by several times, it was not difficult to discover that there were about a million tiny holes densely packed on its surface. It was impossible to see these holes with the naked eye, and even water droplets would not be able to penetrate through them. One could only imagine how small they were.

However, Qin Shaojie completely refined all of this profound energy into the diameter of these spaces, in order to completely submerge them. This seemingly simple step was actually quite difficult.

Not to mention anything else, if he were to miss a single hole inside, it would be a waste of his previous efforts. Therefore, if he wanted to take action, he had to first know how many holes the Ice-Iron Slime had.

There were very few who knew about the number of holes on such a strange object like the Ice-Iron Slime. There were seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-five holes, and each of them were of the same size.

Back then, when Qin Shaojie was alive, he had to expend a lot of effort to understand how many holes there were.

Afterwards, he evenly cut the profound energy into seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and then used extremely good control to completely pour it into the Ice-Iron Slime.

This was the only way that there was a certain chance of quietly separating the two different types of elements within the Ice-Iron Slime.

To do all this, one had to first understand the Ice-Iron Slime. Secondly, his own consciousness had to be strong enough, otherwise, not to mention controlling the profound energy to enter the aperture, just cutting it would be extremely troublesome.

Fortunately, Qin Shaojie had done very well on both points.