94: Looting corpses

A blood-red longsword, roughly at the level of a Medium Grade Magical Artifact.

The Magical Artifacts of the others were mostly Low Grade Flying Swords, seemingly used only for travel.

The ghost Cultivator's Ghost Chain had already been scorched by lightning, leaving behind a few scraps of molten iron; he would dispose of them as trash when he had the time!

The rest were all ordinary Magical Artifacts, about thirteen in total.

Gu Changan continued to examine the remaining treasures, which included some bottles and jars.

Inside were all sorts of Medicinal Pills, poisons, blood, and various other messy things.

Gu Changan didn't pay them much mind, collecting them specifically into one Storage Pouch to be dealt with later when he was free.

Gu Changan found the Cultivation Techniques used by these Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

The Storage Pouches of the two ghost Cultivators contained no techniques; they were completely clean.

In the five Blood Cultivators' Storage Pouches, he found three techniques: Blood River Scripture, Blood Droplet, and Blood Handprint.

Blood River?

Gu Changan remembered that large mass of blood that had surrounded that person's body!

Blood Droplet should belong to that Cultivator who had several drops of essence blood shuttling back and forth around him like bullets.

And the Blood Handprint must be those few palm strikes the Blood Cultivator sent flying through the air?

Gu Changan felt that none of these were proper techniques, so he didn't plan on cultivating them.

With this essence blood, wouldn't it be better to put it into the top-grade blood soul jar to feed the Red-Clothed Female Ghost?

Cultivating these wicked ways himself would only turn him into something neither human nor ghost!

Gu Changan continued to look through the technique left by the Foundation Establishment Cultivator who possessed the Refined Corpses.

Corpse Refining Art—the name was simple and crude!

He estimated a technique like this would only consume some Divine Soul, and since the Refined Corpses were already made, they were ready to use!

He had two Refined Corpses at the Qi Refining Peak; he could completely control them.

Furthermore, he had nine corpses from the Foundation Establishment Stage and sixty from the Qi Refining Stage.

He figured these corpses wouldn't be easy to refine; at worst, he could just sell the Qi Refining Stage corpses.

If Refined Corpses were easy to refine, he would keep the Foundation Establishment Stage corpses to refine for himself!

Gu Changan also thought about the two Golden Core Old Ancestor skeletons he had; he wondered what kind of power they would have if he turned them into Refined Corpses.

Would he even be able to control them?

To be safe, he should at least wait until after Foundation Establishment before considering such things!

After finishing with the nine Foundation Establishment Cultivators' Storage Pouches, Gu Changan turned his gaze toward the remaining seventy Qi Refining Stage Storage Pouches.

Gu Changan emptied them one by one onto the ground, creating a large pile.

Most of it was clothing and some miscellaneous items.

Gu Changan used Treasure Qi to distinguish them, packing the various messy items together to be dealt with when he had time later.

As for the bottles, jars, and some Medicinal Pills, he would pack them all up and sell them!

Gu Changan couldn't be bothered to figure out what they were.

If there was a trap inside, wouldn't taking them be asking for trouble?

There were still some Medicinal Pills among them that carried Orange Treasure Qi.

But Gu Changan would rather sell them all and buy new ones from the Treasure Pavilion!

At least that would be much safer!

After putting away the miscellaneous items, there was a large pile of Spirit Stones, numbering about 14,000.

This averaged out to about 200 Spirit Stones per person; no wonder so many people became Bandit Cultivators!

There were many Magical Artifacts, but most were Low Grade.

Gu Changan didn't look closely, gathering them all together and putting them into the treasure gathering basin.

There were about eighty low-grade magical artifacts.

In total, he had harvested about ninety-three Magical Artifacts this time.

The total number of Magical Artifacts in the treasure gathering basin had reached 150, which meant he could harvest 150 strands of Orange Treasure Qi every day!

With this amount of Treasure Qi, he could replicate five top-grade Foundation Establishment Stage treasures every day!

Gu Changan was delighted. As for the Qi Refining Stage techniques, there were also about ten or twenty of them.

But most were much the same; the normal techniques couldn't compare to his Five Elements Qi Refining Art.

The evil Cultivators' techniques were even worse than those few Foundation Establishment Stage evil techniques from earlier!

As for ghost Cultivation Techniques, he already had the Purple Sun Soul Refining Art for cultivating the Divine Soul!

He didn't need to upgrade them separately; upgrading them would be redundant.

Because the techniques were repetitive, Gu Changan felt that the techniques he was currently cultivating were already good enough.

So he had no intention of changing them!

After organizing these gains, Gu Changan took out the Corpse Refining Art and began to read.

He found that controlling a Refined Corpse was very simple; he only needed to drip his essence blood into the Refined Corpse's head.

Creating a Refined Corpse was much more troublesome.

He needed to find a corpse with high spirituality, preferably one whose Soul was powerful during life.

Or simply the corpse of a Cultivator.

Then, he would use his own blood to draw a series of runes for control, absorption, transformation, and so on, onto the surface of the corpse.

Once these runes dried, he could bury the Refined Corpse in a place with sufficient Yin Qi.

After waiting for forty-nine days, if he had an initial connection with the Refined Corpse, then the refinement was successful.

The longer it was buried, the faster the Refined Corpse would grow.

For example, if buried for a year, the created Refined Corpse would have strength roughly equivalent to the Early Stage of Qi Refining.

Of course, there were other methods to increase the growth of a Refined Corpse.

For instance, absorbing large amounts of Yin Qi or the blood of many living people could accelerate its growth.

Coupled with various prepared medicinal liquids, the physical strength of the Refined Corpse could be greatly enhanced.

A Refined Corpse created this way would not only have strong defense but also come with its own Corpse Poison.

Gu Changan sighed; creating a Refined Corpse was not simple at all.

So, did he still want to create Refined Corpses?

There were only those few Foundation Establishment Stage corpses.

Where would he get so much blood to create Refined Corpses? However, using those two Golden Core Old Ancestor skeletons to create Refined Corpses would be quite good.

But where would he bury them?

Where could he find a treasure land containing Yin Qi?

Gu Changan fell into deep thought; in that case, he could only sell them all.

Gu Changan placed the Corpse Refining Art into the treasure gathering basin and used Orange Treasure Qi to upgrade it.

As a result, after the upgrade was complete, it turned into a Jade Slip. The name hadn't changed; it was still the Corpse Refining Art.

However, the Rank of the technique had been upgraded from the original Medium Grade Profound Rank to the mysterious tier extreme grade.

The content inside hadn't changed much!

The method of controlling the Refined Corpse was still through essence blood, but the runes activated by the essence blood had undergone a massive change.

They had become much more refined and were also more convenient to activate.

The overall control of the Refined Corpse seemed much smoother than before.

As for the creation of Refined Corpses, the control runes, absorption runes, and transformation runes on it had all become more Advanced.

The result was that all effects were doubled in strength.

Gu Changan was very satisfied and quickly took out the two Qi Refining Peak Refined Corpses he had seized earlier.

He dripped a drop of essence blood onto the head of each of the two Refined Corpses.

The essence blood followed the runes on the surface of the Refined Corpses' bodies and sank directly into their heads.

Gu Changan instantly felt a faint connection between himself and the two Refined Corpses.

Gu Changan thought in his mind: "Sit up!"

As a result, the two Refined Corpses sat straight up inside their coffins.

Gu Changan felt very curious, controlling the two Refined Corpses to perform various movements.

After playing for a while, he felt it was just so-so.