One person: I, Daoist Master, am a cultivator of immortality!

After relaying the message that the Danjing well was relatively safe to Chen Yulou, Sun Yao returned to the corpse. According to the original story, these should be the remains of the Feng family, the Guanshan Taibao. Sun Yao didn't care much for the Feng family's belongings. Feng Shigu's attempt to achieve immortality through the earth's veins and feng shui was utterly impossible. However, he did manage to create many monsters through these veins; the Nine Deaths Terrifying Armor and the zombie he himself had transformed into were both products of this feng shui.

Zombies were really too lowbrow; Sun Yao was more interested in the Nine Deaths Shocking Armor. But that was all he was interested in, because this thing looked like it was made through Gu refining, with the main ingredient being the Nine Deaths Resurrection Grass, using human flesh and soul as a catalyst to combine it with bronze, somewhat similar to the refining method of the Silver-Winged Arrow.

However, the method of refining the Silverwing Arrow is much more difficult than that of the Nine Deaths Terrifying Armor. After all, the Nine Deaths Terrifying Armor is ultimately a plant, while the Silverwing Arrow is made from cicadas, which are animals and extremely fragile. This comparison clearly shows the difference in quality.

However, the remains of this Feng family member likely contained a technique Sun Yao greatly admired, probably recorded within the Guanshan Taibao's own repertoire: paper effigies. The Guanshan Taibao, lacking the advanced skills of the four major tomb-raiding factions, typically used paper effigies to scout ahead when entering tombs. Sun Yao coveted this technique; he desperately needed this method of finding scouts, as it could be crucial for survival.

However, the corpse poison on Guanshan Taibao's body was very troublesome; even a tiny bit could lead to infection. Sun Yao dared not risk his life, but he naturally had a way to deal with the corpse poison that Guanshan Taibao had set up to preserve his body.

Sun Yao took out a small pouch from his waist, inside which was the Purple-Backed Heavenly Centipede he had previously refined in the main hall. However, the Purple-Backed Heavenly Centipede was not yet fully formed, or rather, it was not yet completely refined. But Sun Yao couldn't wait that long; he decided to catalyze the formation of this Purple-Backed Heavenly Centipede.

Sun Yao took out the Purple-Backed Centipede, then forced a drop of blood from his fingertip and dripped it onto the sphere composed of numerous centipede corpses. The next moment, a miraculous thing happened. The sphere that had been nurturing the Purple-Backed Centipede suddenly emitted a dark purple light, and the blood Sun Yao had dripped onto it was immediately absorbed.

As the light faded, the sphere began to disintegrate, and the next second, a purple figure crawled out. It was a centipede about the length of a forearm, though not very thick. Its only unusual feature was that it had two pairs of wings on its back, making it somewhat resemble a six-winged centipede.

However, the wings of this Purple-backed Heavenly Centipede are no less impressive than those of the Six-winged Centipede. Each pair of wings represents a sixty-year cultivation level, which was created by countless centipedes in the main hall using their life energy, yet it only supports a cultivation level of two sixty years.

Of course, the "two Jiazi of cultivation" here refers to this centipede cultivating for two Jiazi. If Sun Yao's two Jiazi of cultivation were added to the centipede, it would probably already be able to speak human language.

After emerging, the Purple-Backed Centipede climbed onto Sun Yao's arm. Sun Yao tapped its head and placed it next to the corpse of Guanshan Taibao. As soon as it detached from Sun Yao's hand, it immediately took action. It bit into the desiccated corpse of Guanshan Taibao, and the next second, the black aura emanating from Guanshan Taibao visibly began to shift towards the Purple-Backed Centipede.

In the blink of an eye, the corpse poison left on Guanshan Taibao's body was completely absorbed by the Purple-backed Centipede. Sun Yao immediately stepped forward and began to search the body thoroughly. In no time, he had found three items on the corpse. The first was a gold token belonging to Guanshan Taibao, a symbol of status similar to a tomb raider's talisman. However, he sensed something different about this gold token—ethereal yet possessing the power to ward off all evil.

He was very interested in this thing, but now was not the time to study it. He put the golden token of the Guanshan Taibao into his treasure pouch, planning to study it after leaving Ping Mountain.

The second item was the "Guanshan Zhimi Fu" (Guanshan's Guide to the Mystery), which the Guanshan Taibao (Guanshan Protector) had made into bamboo slips and carried with him. "What a great king, headless and without a body; without his wife, the mountains remain closed; he burns firewood to start a pot, cooking his liver and lungs; he digs wells and cuts salt, asking ghosts for money; the bird paths are crisscrossed, winding nine times in a hundred steps; to visit the Earth Immortal, first find the Black Sheep." These 48 characters essentially provided only a clue to finding the Earth Immortal Village.

As for the third item, it was their Guanshan Taibao's signature technique, simply written with the three characters "Guanshan Jing" (Guanshan Scripture). Sun Yao eagerly opened the book and, sure enough, found the paper effigy technique he had been longing for. However, their paper effigy technique was a method used by extraordinary individuals. No wonder they could make the paper effigy move; it turned out they needed to infuse Qi into its body.

Reading the summary of the Guanshan Scripture, I learned that the Feng family had already found a method of cultivation in Coffin Mountain, and the whole family had become a family of extraordinary individuals. No wonder they were able to besiege the four major tomb-raiding sects without suffering any retaliation. Apart from the royal family's blessing at the time, it was very likely because, as extraordinary individuals, dealing with ordinary people was extremely easy for them.

However, this posed no problem for Sun Yao. After all, Sun Yao was also an extraordinary person, and learning this paper doll technique was quite simple for him. Compared to the Three Ones Sect's Reverse Life Triple Technique and the Celestial Master's Mansion's Five Thunder Orthodox Method, this paper doll technique was incredibly simple. This technique was actually the method of the puppeteer, except that they replaced the bronze, wood, and stone used to make the puppets with wooden sticks and paper.

It's unclear which puppeteer's grave they robbed, or perhaps a weapon refiner—who knows? I'm sure the Feng family suffered heavy losses; which puppeteer or weapon refiner wouldn't leave behind a way to ensure their peace after death? But this also benefited Sun Yao; this tomb raiding trip was quite fruitful.

Just as Sun Yao finished putting away the three items, he heard the sound of people landing one after another behind him. Sun Yao turned around and saw Chen Yulou and the others descending down the ropes with torches in their hands.

"Boss, come quick, your enemy is here. I'm sure this guy is just as attractive to you as gold and silver."