"I've struck it rich!" Xu Ping exclaimed in delighted surprise, realizing how incredibly wealthy this person was.

He counted meticulously; just the Spirit Stones alone were close to two thousand.

The total amount, when added all together, surpassed five thousand Spirit Stones.

Surely a windfall!

Undoubtedly a great windfall indeed!

Of course, this certainly didn't account for the most valuable amongst them—the silver bell and the bronze corpse.

Counting these two would surely make the value even greater.

Xu Ping first took out the silver bell.

He effortlessly erased the Divine Sense imprint from it and then began channeling his Mana for its refinement.

An hour later.

The silver bell burst with radiant light, as if establishing a subtle connection with Xu Ping.

Subsequently, some information automatically surfaced in his Sea of Consciousness.

It's a lower-grade Mystical Artifact—Soul Sound Bell!

"It's actually a Mystical Artifact!" Xu Ping was astonished.

He had never anticipated that this silver bell would turn out to be the renowned Mystical Artifact.

Mystical Artifacts are Magical Artifacts used by ancient cultivators for their cultivation.

These Magical Artifacts have singular Divine Techniques, but their power is generally immense, far superior to ordinary Magical Artifacts.

Moreover, Mystical Artifacts are divided into upper, middle, and lower grades.

Upper-grade Mystical Artifacts are exclusive to Nascent Soul Cultivators, middle-grade requires Golden Core Cultivators at the least, while lower-grade belongs to Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

"No wonder this bell is so powerful, turns out it's a Mystical Artifact!" Xu Ping held the bell in his hand, brimming with excitement.

Even if this Mystical Artifact were taken to auction, it would fetch at least several thousand Spirit Stones.

Having this Mystical Artifact is like adding wings to a tiger, its effect even surpassing that of regular Top-grade Magical Artifacts.

Although Xu Ping really wanted to test the power of this Mystical Artifact now, he restrained himself.

It's not the right time yet.

Xu Ping took a deep breath, suppressing his inner excitement, and turned his gaze towards the bronze corpse.

He rummaged through the spoils for a while, and finally found an ancient book titled "Corpse Refining," which detailed the uses and refinement of the bronze corpse.

This bronze corpse is a Second-stage Mid-grade Corpse Refining, refined from a Second-stage Mid-grade Body Cultivator combined with various Spirit Medicine and minerals.

Not only can it fully preserve its strength and speed, but also greatly enhance the corpse's defensive power, even resisting Top-grade Magical Artifacts is not a problem.

"Resist Top-grade Magical Artifacts?"

"This bronze corpse is remarkable! Even Second-stage Upper Grade Body Cultivators probably can't achieve this!" Xu Ping was secretly shocked, yet extremely relieved at the same time,

"It's fortunate I didn't clash head-on with this bronze corpse back then, otherwise I'd be the one who died."

Even though Sword Qi Thunder Sound can break its defense, to completely destroy it, it would certainly take considerable effort.

If it engaged me in combat, that man with disheveled hair could control the Soul Sound Bell and drag me to my doom.

Choosing to kill the man with disheveled hair first back then was indeed the correct decision.

"But how to control it?"

Xu Ping began flipping through the methods of controlling the bronze corpse.

"Its control core is the Spirit Control Token."

"Spirit Control Token?"

"Could it be the token from the chest of that man with disheveled hair?" Xu Ping suddenly recalled the token he took out of that man's chest.

He took the jade token out and held it in his hand.

This jade pendant was only half the size of a palm, smooth all over, with a ghost head pattern engraved on it.

Xu Ping used his Divine Sense to perceive the jade token and discovered a Divine Sense imprint on it.

He immediately erased it and conveniently planted his own Divine Sense imprint.

At the moment of planting the Divine Sense imprint, Xu Ping felt something, gaining control over the bronze corpse.

"Move!"

Xu Ping directed it with a thought, making it walk.

The bronze corpse stepped forward steadily and upright.

"Interesting!"

A smiled flashed across Xu Ping's lips, as if he had obtained a fun tool, immediately controlling it to perform various actions which the bronze corpse executed smoothly.

Half an hour later, Xu Ping stopped feeling satisfied.

Looking at the motionless bronze corpse, he couldn't help but think, "This bronze corpse probably possesses considerable intelligence, far better than a Puppet."

"But can a corpse really be refined into such an intelligent Corpse Refining?" Xu Ping pondered to himself, then flipped through the bronze corpse's refinement methods again.

Soon he discovered something he had overlooked.

This bronze corpse actually required a living person for refining, only living person refining could maximally ensure the intelligence of the Corpse Refining.

"Living person refining?" Xu Ping frowned slightly, such a cruel method involuntarily reminded him of the Demon Cultivators.

"Whatever, it's not like I refined it."

Xu Ping wasn't plagued with a guilty conscience; using innocent living beings for refining was something he'd surely never do, but using others' Corpse Refinings, he was quite at ease with.

"Now, with the Soul Sound Bell and bronze corpse assisting me, my power has improved greatly, perhaps I should try my hand at hunting a Second-stage Demon Beast." Xu Ping thought quietly, a gleam flickering in his eyes.

...

...

Seven days later.

In a lush canyon.

Echoes of a terrifying beast roar reverberated through the canyon.

A Second-stage Lower Grade Bear Demon, three meters tall, covered in scars, was being mercilessly beaten by a Corpse Refining with green scales and bluish-black mist enveloping its body.

The bronze corpse, expressionless, delivered a punch.

Boom...

The fist exploded the air with a thunderous rumble.

The Bear Demon, unwilling to show weakness, roared furiously and raised its mountain-like fist to strike at the bronze corpse.

However, at that very moment, a crisp ringing sound echoed.

"Ding Ding..."

Suddenly, the Bear Demon's expression turned bewildered, raising its fist and staring blankly ahead.

Boom!

The bronze corpse's punch sent the Bear Demon flying, crashing heavily against the rock wall.

Crash!

Amidst a chorus of bangs, the surrounding rock walls crumbled, dust swirling!

"Ah!"

The Bear Demon awoke and let out a painful scream—the punch hurt a lot!!

In the next instant.

It saw a fist enveloped in bluish-black mist rapidly enlarging in its view.

Crash!

Unable to react in time, the fist struck heavily on its head, causing the ground to cave in tens of meters, dust spewing.

Before it could scream out, second fist, third fist, fourth fist... numerous fists relentlessly crashed down on its head.

"Ah..."

The Bear Demon's cries grew weaker and eventually fell silent.

A Second-stage Lower Grade Bear Demon thus alive was beaten to death by the bronze corpse.

Witnessing this tragedy unfold before him, Xu Ping instead was wearing a hint of smile.

"The Soul Sound Bell combined with the bronze corpse is indeed formidable, without needing me to intervene, it took down a Second-stage Lower Grade Bear Demon."

He ordered the bronze corpse to stop, approached it to inspect whether there were injuries from the fierce battle.

Except for its clothes being slightly damaged, everything else was unscathed.

"Its defensive power is truly strong, probably not inferior to some Second-stage Upper Grade Demon Beasts." Xu Ping nodded in satisfaction.

Of course, it's only the defensive power that could barely compare to Second-stage Upper Grade Demon Beasts, other aspects still fall short.

If in a one-on-one, the bronze corpse would undoubtedly be overwhelmed and crushed miserably.

Xu Ping stored the bronze corpse in his Storage Ring, then also collected the Bear Demon whose head was flattened.

"Now, Second-stage Mid-grade Demon Beasts shouldn't pose a threat to me anymore; I should go hunt demons to obtain cores." Xu Ping employed the Wind Manipulation Skill, lightly tapping his foot, rushing towards the deeper parts of the mountain.

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