On the Black Gold Token, there was a skull engraved; he believed that this must be the mark of the Voodoo Sect.

"Oh! I see!" Yi Chen suddenly realized.

He had also heard of the mark of the Voodoo Sect, which was a skull; hence, he felt what Lin Yifan said was correct.

"Brother Yi Chen, do you know why the Witchcraft True Master fell out with the eight True Masters over something?" Lin Yifan continued to inquire.

"I heard it was over something that could defy the natural order of life, but I don't know what it is." Yi Chen shook his head and replied.

After this round of probing, Lin Yifan felt that Yi Chen didn't know much about the Voodoo Sect or the Witchcraft True Master, so he stopped asking and instead asked about the intricate wooden box and the black jade.

"Brother Yi Chen, have you seen a wooden box realistically and vividly carved with a moon, a phoenix, grassland, streams, and other scenes?"

As he listened, Yi Chen was immediately taken aback, and then he asked, "Brother Fan! Why are you asking about this, are you also interested in that wooden box?"

"What? Does this wooden box hold some astonishing secrets?" Seeing how surprised Yi Chen was, Lin Yifan asked curiously.

"I don't know what secrets it holds, I just know that all the major Cultivation Sects are secretly searching for this box," Yi Chen answered.

Although it was just a simple statement, it was enough to prove the importance of the wooden box.

Upon hearing Yi Chen's reply, Lin Yifan was shocked, thoroughly shocked. Thankfully, he hadn't auctioned off the wooden box; otherwise, the secret would have been exposed, and that would surely bring endless deadly troubles.

He felt that the actual object the major sects were seeking wasn't the wooden box itself, but the black jade within it.

"Could it be that the black jade is the item that caused the Witchcraft True Master and the eight True Masters to turn against each other?"

After thinking it over, Lin Yifan felt this possibility was too significant; otherwise, why would the major Cultivation Sects be searching for the wooden box? Clearly, their Sect Leaders knew that the Witchcraft True Master was not dead and that the wooden box was still in his possession; thus, they still needed to search.

"Who would have thought that such a plain-looking black jade, even inferior to ink jade in quality, could be something that all the major Cultivation Sects would fight over, evidently a thing capable of defying the natural order. It's just unknown how to use this thing."

"Is it to be swallowed directly, or does it contain immense Cultivation Power that can be absorbed continuously?"

Extremely curious, Lin Yifan secretly resolved to go home and try all sorts of methods, determined to figure out how to use it.

After discussing some other matters, Lin Yifan and Yi Chen descended the mountain and returned home.

On the way, Lin Yifan got out of the car to buy a phone card, then continued driving back.

After returning to his rental place, he shut all the doors and windows of the room and then sneaked out the hidden wooden box; next, he opened it to take out the black jade placed inside.

Holding the black jade in his hand, Lin Yifan tried to absorb its energy, only to find out he couldn't; so, he swallowed the black jade to see if he could absorb and refine it.

After a while, there was no change in the black jade; it kept turning over and over in his stomach.

"Damn! Taking it internally doesn't work either." Lin Yifan felt helpless and then used his Cultivation Power to vomit the black jade out.

"Internal intake doesn't work, nor does external application, how on earth is this supposed to be used?" Lin Yifan was very anxious; then he thought of a few possibilities: "Do I need to soak it, boil it, or burn it for it to react?"

With these questions in mind, he went to conduct experiments with the black jade.

First, he boiled a pot of cold water and then soaked the black jade in water at one hundred degrees.

After ten minutes, there was no change in the black jade, while the temperature of the boiling water gradually decreased; Lin Yifan felt soaking was not the right method, so he proceeded with a second experiment.

He fetched a soup pot, filled it with water, and then heated it to a boil, placing the black jade in the continuously boiling water.

After some time, the black jade in the boiling water was constantly flipped by the rising bubbles without any change in appearance.

"Damn! Still no effect, do I need to use fire to burn it?"

Without further ado, Lin Yifan immediately carried out a third experiment.

He fetched a pair of small tongs, held the black jade with them and then lit the gas stove to slowly roast it.

After a while, when the tongs turned black, the black jade still showed no changes. Finally, when the heat transferred from the tongs became unbearable, Lin Yifan put the tongs down and ended the experiment.

"Soaking, boiling, burning all don't work, it seems this thing is more difficult to use than I thought. But it makes sense, if it could be easily used, the Witchcraft True Master would have used it long ago, and wouldn't have kept it locked in the wooden box."

But at this point, he increasingly felt that the black jade was possibly part of something missing, only usable when put together.

This was just his guess, and he didn't know if it was true.

After trying everything he could, he placed the black jade back where it belonged and hid it again; then he went to take a shower.

Elsewhere, under another part of the sky, a conspiracy was brewing.

An Gang, who had no evidence presented against him for murder, had been released this morning; tonight, filled with unwillingness, he began to implement his second plan.

If he couldn't own Antian Group, then he would destroy it; he couldn't allow his younger brother any chance to recover.

To ensure the success of the second plan, he had arranged a meeting with Zhao Ritian, the wealthiest man in Guiyuan City from the Zhao Family.

Thus, at nine in the evening, they started their discussions in a private room of a high-end restaurant.

Sitting in the spacious private room, Zhao Ritian asked coldly, "Why have you called me out here?"

He knew very well about An Gang's prior act of taking the directors of Antian Group and turning against Antian Group; regarding this inside-playing, scheming old man, he felt some aversion and dislike, even unwilling to engage him in more than a few words.

"Since Young Master Zhao asks so directly, then I won't beat around the bush."

After catching his breath, An Gang continued, "I am also aware of the matrimonial matters between Young Master Zhao and my niece An Qi; now that my niece An Qi has led her team to develop the next generation of cell phones, which has started production and will soon hit the market, it won't be long before the phones sell well, and Antian Group rejuvenates. It's likely this matrimonial event between Young Master Zhao and my niece might be canceled!"

Listening to An Gang's account, Zhao Ritian unconsciously became scared and tense; if things really were as An Gang described, then his engagement with An Qi might indeed be called off.

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