Chapter 764 - 222: Subtly Offering Fragrant Bait to Entrap the Eunuch, Secretly Connecting the Cyan Lotus to Receive the Ghost Hammer

Chapter 764: Chapter 222: Subtly Offering Fragrant Bait to Entrap the Eunuch, Secretly Connecting the Cyan Lotus to Receive the Ghost Hammer

At this level, everyone knows "how important a Jade Remains is to a Ghost Realm," because even if an Evil Ghost has intelligence, its mind doesn’t function well, but the Jade Remains can become their true brain.

However, cultivating a Jade Remains is particularly difficult.

The Firefly Demon in front of Li Yuan is a hostage.

Soon, Li Yuan arrived at the underground lake surface.

The dark water exudes a certain heaviness, that thick flow resembling metal rather than water, with some humanoid shadows faintly visible floating up and down below...

A strange "dong dong dong dong" sound came abruptly from afar.

It was a massive coffin, like a luxurious giant wheel of death, patrolling above the Ghost Lake on the ground.

The coffin docked, and the surrounding suddenly plunged into a deathly silence.

In the next moment, an eerie "creak creak" sound came.

The coffin slightly opened a crack, but the crimson firelight on the stone wall illuminated the surroundings, yet couldn’t penetrate inside.

The crack seemed like an entrance to the abyss.

And at the entrance, a hand wrapped in Jade Slabs quickly extended out.

The hand wasn’t decayed, but appeared alive, yet even paler, more delicate than a living person, as if crafted from the finest white jade by a heavenly artisan.

In this hand lay a strange iron hammer.

Standing at half a person’s height, the top of the handle was twisted into two pitch-black legs, identical to the Ghost Hammer in Li Yuan’s "Equipment Bar," but the bottom had two pale arms twisted together.

The arms extended downward, forming a pair of cupped white hands at the end of the handle.

The fingers of the white hands interlaced, resembling a flower bud about to bloom.

The hand reached out with the Ghost Hammer from the coffin, then became motionless.

The Firefly Demon glanced at Li Yuan, retreated respectfully, and then respectfully said, "Senior, please."

Li Yuan understood, this was to test his ability, to see if he was qualified.

He fixed his gaze on the blood-red question mark, then glanced at his own pitch-black question mark, suddenly a Golden Body emerged from within him, hunched over in the cave, reaching for the Ghost Hammer with its fingers.

Hiss...

Hiss hiss hiss...

Instantly, the Yang Qi on his Golden Body began to collapse, yet Li Yuan didn’t care.

He was a gathering of Yang Qi, this level of depletion, though terrifying, wouldn’t harm him.

Suddenly, a particularly chilling coldness assaulted.

There was a "bang" as Li Yuan’s Golden Body had a small part bitten off, the level just like before when he caught the Ghost Doll while playing hide and seek.

But, it didn’t matter at all.

This didn’t harm Li Yuan.

And seemingly realizing this, the hand let go of the Ghost Hammer.

The Ghost Hammer landed silently on the ground, and the coffin lid closed again, the somber lake water undulating, as the coffin sank deeper.

Li Yuan stepped forward, grabbing this "new version" of the Ghost Hammer.

The Firefly Demon then stepped forward, starting to explain.

The upper half of this Ghost Hammer is the "Forging Soldiers’ Place," which Li Yuan fully knew;

And the lower half is the "Seizing Lifespan Place," once used, the interlaced fingers will open, and as long as it touches the target, the fingers will continuously extract lifespan from the target.

It’s undoubtedly an evil spell, but it’s indeed better than "using one’s own lifespan."

Li Yuan was very curious why the blacksmith’s item was related to such an eerie coffin on the underground lake, but on second thought, he was at ease, such a forbidden large Ghost Realm usually had many ghosts, it was normal for one related to a blacksmith to exist.

...

After leaving the Ghost Lake, the sky was still dark.

The Firefly Demon stood on the wasteland, suddenly asked, "Senior, how can I find you?"

Li Yuan said, "Look for Peng Mi, I will check on him from time to time."

"Understood."

The Firefly Demon saluted, then smiled, "After some days, that woman from the White Lotus Sect might also come to you."

"Is she also a Jade Remains?" Li Yuan asked casually.

The Firefly Demon replied, "She’s not."

"Then, who is she?" Li Yuan asked.

After asking, he quietly waited.

The moment to test each other had arrived.

The Firefly Demon certainly knew the inside story of the White Lotus Sect, now it depended on whether she would say or not.

The Firefly Demon was silent for a couple of breaths, then said, "I guess... she is someone from the East Sea Immortal Realm, but the East Sea Immortal Realm is not only one sect, who exactly she is, and whether she is an enemy or ally of the Supreme Profound Sect, I do not know."

"Not a bad start." Li Yuan smiled.

The Firefly Demon also smiled, "Pleasant cooperation."

...

Immediately, the two parted ways.

Li Yuan went far, the Ghost Hammer swayed and was received into the "Equipment Bar," and a new glowing information appeared: [Equipment: Beidou Hammer].

To be received into the "Equipment Bar" indicated there was nothing unusual about the item, yet the name of this Ghost Hammer made Li Yuan feel rather strange.

Beidou?

This seemed like stars from before he crossed over.

Why is this hammer named like this?

The Beidou Master dies, the Southern Dipper Master lives, those white hands indeed seize life.

In this way, it is quite a coincidence.

Li Yuan shook his head, unable to comprehend for the moment.

Then, taking advantage of the night, he quickly returned home.

Xiaoyu’Er hadn’t slept and was still waiting for him.

After bathing, he climbed onto the bed, the two leaned together.

Li Yuan’s thoughts scattered.

Originally, he was thinking of slowly infiltrating the Imperial Capital Mountain Hall and then acting when the time was right.

But now... is there a possibility, he could directly use the "Beidou Hammer" to reforge the "three flags and an Earth Fire Sword left by Wei Huosheng" into weapons suitable for him.

Then... with one strike, regardless of the myriad complexities, he could directly shatter it, eliminating any petty worries?

Tomorrow morning, I’ll forge it and see.

Though he doesn’t know how to forge Third Grade Weapons, but he knows Fourth Grade, now it just depends on how many years of lifespan the "Earth Fire Sword and three flags" can endure for him.

Despite feeling a bit distressed about the setup, but... since he can directly sweep through, why bother with the trouble?