Chapter 43

Yongfu walked directly up to a teenager who was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and then cast a beam of spiritual light at the youth.

Immediately, the youth woke up. Upon seeing Yongfu, he was first startled, then showed extreme fear, and kept twisting his body, shouting, "Please, kill me, kill me!"

Faced with the youth's terrified cries, Yongfu showed no reaction and cast another spell at the youth.

Lin Haoming clearly saw that as Yongfu cast the spell, the youth immediately began to scream in agony, his face completely contorted, as if he had fallen into hell.

"What did you do to him?" Lin Haoming asked.

Yongfu did not answer immediately. After a dozen breaths, he cast another beam of spiritual light at the youth, who instantly fell unconscious again. At the same time, Lin Haoming noticed that a small red insect, no larger than a fingernail, soon emerged from the youth's mouth and fell directly into Yongfu's hand.

"What is that?" Lin Haoming asked, frowning.

"Bone Marrow Worm, a poisonous insect that specifically devours the spiritual marrow from the bones of cultivators!" Yongfu replied.

After hearing this, Lin Haoming finally understood and nodded silently, "Your meaning is that Qian Yuanshu used these Bone Marrow Worms to extract the spiritual marrow from these children, and then used it for his own cultivation. If I'm not mistaken, this should be the 'Spiritual Marrow Bone Tempering' mentioned in the 'Divine Bone Technique,' right?"

"Exactly! But I don't know what cultivation technique my master was practicing!" Yongfu nodded in agreement.

Lin Haoming thought for a moment, took out the jade slip, and skimmed through it again before frowning, "According to the 'Divine Bone Technique,' only cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage or above can extract spiritual marrow from their bones. Below the Qi Condensation stage, unless they are specialized in body cultivation, even breaking the bones would be useless. So Qian Yuanshu used the Bone Marrow Worms to extract the spiritual marrow."

"Ah, I see!" Yongfu also seemed to understand at this point, clearly not knowing what Qian Yuanshu intended to do with the extracted spiritual marrow.

From Yongfu's reaction, Lin Haoming knew that Qian Yuanshu had come here to cultivate this technique and had taken Princess Yongfu as a disciple to facilitate his capture of people. However, he did not know where Qian Yuanshu had obtained this technique. He vaguely remembered that there was no powerful technique called the 'Divine Bone Technique' in the sect. According to the technique, once cultivated to a higher level, its power would be unimaginable. According to the records, once cultivated to the sixth level, one could use their own bones as magical tools, with the entire skeleton being a set of magical tools.

Bones are part of the body and can be continuously nourished, eventually becoming incredibly powerful. Although this was a partial version, only up to the ninth level of the technique, it was still enough to cultivate to the Great Perfection stage of the Golden Core realm.

Such a technique, even if it was just a partial version, could cultivate to the Great Perfection stage of the Golden Core realm. Logically, there should have been an elder in the sect who had cultivated it. Perhaps this technique came from outside the sect, and Qian Yuanshu had obtained it by chance?

Lin Haoming couldn't figure it out, but he didn't intend to think about it further. This was exactly what he wanted.

Lin Haoming also knew that his talent was poor, and if he followed the normal path of cultivation, his future achievements would be limited. But if he focused on body cultivation, there might be a different path.

Lin Haoming was a decisive person. Once he made up his mind, he would move forward without hesitation.

After putting away the jade slip, Lin Haoming asked, "Is there anything else?"

Yongfu smiled bitterly and said, "I was just a tool for Qian Yuanshu to help him find these children. I've told you everything I know!"

Lin Haoming nodded upon hearing this, looking at the woman, who was also quite beautiful, and sighed, "If there were no enmity between us, I might have let you live. But now, you must die. However, you can rest assured, I will keep my word!"

Hearing Lin Haoming's words, Yongfu gave a helpless smile, "Ever since I became his disciple, I knew that one day it would come to this. I just didn't expect to die at the hands of someone else, not Qian Yuanshu. If it were Qian Yuanshu, I would have been prepared. But facing you, it seems that heaven has decreed my death, and I cannot avoid it!"

"Do you have any last wishes?" Lin Haoming asked, not sure why he asked this.

Yongfu was taken aback by the question, her beautiful eyes looking at Lin Haoming, as if there was an indescribable pain. After a while, she smiled bitterly and shook her head, "Yongfu is just my title. My real name is Li Wanru. If I have any last wish, I hope someone will remember my name!"

Lin Haoming didn't expect Princess Yongfu to make such a request, but he still agreed, "Alright, as long as I live, I will remember that there was a woman named Li Wanru who suffered."

Hearing that Lin Haoming called her a suffering woman, Li Wanru couldn't help but be moved. She looked at Lin Haoming with gratitude, "Thank you, and thank you for letting me understand the cause and effect."

Lin Haoming didn't expect Li Wanru to thank him, and genuinely so. He felt the reaction of the merit bead, and this gratitude was quite heavy, directly forming a small amount of merit. However, after saying this, she didn't wait for Lin Haoming to respond, but directly struck her own crown, and then collapsed on the ground.

Princess Yongfu, or Li Wanru, died without hesitation. Looking at her body, Lin Haoming couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for her.

Lin Haoming didn't know why he had such a feeling. It wasn't because Li Wanru was beautiful, nor because she had given him a bit of merit. It was just a subconscious feeling that this woman reminded him of Xie Ruolan.

Lin Haoming was actually a bit worried that one day Xie Ruolan might also die unexpectedly, even though she was very strong, and three of him combined probably wouldn't be her match. But even so, facing a Foundation Establishment cultivator, she would be as vulnerable as Princess Yongfu was to him today, with little ability to fight back, let alone facing a Golden Core elder.

Am I really starting to have feelings for Xie Ruolan? Realizing his feelings, Lin Haoming couldn't help but ask himself. But he couldn't find an answer, because he found that although he didn't want Xie Ruolan to get into trouble, he enjoyed seeing her in distress, especially hoping to see her pitiful and bullied by him one day.

With this thought, Lin Haoming couldn't help but laugh at himself.

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