Chapter 7: Remains (Part 2)

Finally, the sharp spike completely melted, shrinking to the size of a water tank, floating before his eyes and rising and falling in the purple talisman fire. Guo Shier smiled triumphantly, “Great! Haha!” Two golden threads shot out from his eyes, circled once, and then pierced into the melted spike.
Like a sponge absorbing water, the melted spike was drawn into his life talisman sword. Gradually, the life talisman sword fully emerged, its shape also changing—there appeared a small tip at the front of the slender blade, as if the sword head had split into two. Guo Shier muttered to himself, “What is this?”
Without pause, he began to refine the second spike.
It took Guo Shier six days to incorporate all nine spikes into his life talisman sword. The sword’s appearance had completely changed; it now had ten sword heads in total. He didn’t even know what shape this was supposed to be.
After a while, he finally came back to his senses, took a deep breath of relief, and said, “It wasn’t easy at all. Hey, Uncle Luo, when did you return?” He turned to see Luo Zhan standing there with a smile.
Luo Zhan looked at Guo Shier speechlessly before saying after a long pause, “Shier, I’ve been standing here all day, and you didn’t even notice? Sigh, it’s heartbreaking…”
Eagle Demon scolded, “Stop complaining. Can’t you see how hard Shier is working?”
Luo Zhan suddenly wore a strange smile and said, “Shier, guess… what I found?”
Guo Shier asked curiously, “Oh, Uncle Luo, what did you find?”
Luo Zhan puffed out his chest and said with a smile, “Actually, it’s nothing much…”
Eagle Demon shouted, “Hey, are you trying to trick us?”
Luo Zhan took out a talisman bag and handed it to Guo Shier, saying, “Check it out yourself!” His proud expression was impossible to hide.
Guo Shier took the bag and examined it indifferently before his expression changed instantly. Eagle Demon asked urgently, “What is it?”
Luo Zhan smiled proudly and said, “It’s nothing.”
Guo Shier handed the bag to Eagle Demon and said, “Check it out yourself.”
Eagle Demon glanced at it briefly and became excited as well. “How is that possible? A Blood Soul Stone! How do you know about a Blood Soul Stone?”
Luo Zhan retorted, “How could I not know about a Blood Soul Stone! Eagle, you underestimate people too much!” Then he added proudly, “There’s more below. I’ve only dug up a part. Hehe, it seems to be of high quality.”

Blood Soul Stones are no different from ordinary stones. They are hard to identify; one needs to use special spells to enhance vision in order to recognize them. However, those of extremely high quality can be recognized at a glance.

Guo Shier said, “Let’s go and take a look.” In the Bloody Secret Realm, he had found some Blood Soul Stones, but their quality varied, making them unsuitable for constructing his soul altar. As for Anluo Stones and Zuling Wood, he had collected quite a few, which should be sufficient.

Kumu and Monier had already returned to the Talisman House. Guo Shier asked Luo Zhan to bring them over. Moments later, Kumu and Monier arrived. Kumu asked, “Shier, what’s the matter?”

Monier also asked, “Honey, have you found something?”

Guo Shier raised his thumb in praise, “It’s still my wife who’s the best. Hehe, Master, there are Blood Soul Stones here!”

Kumu was shocked. He asked, “Where? Where are they?”

Guo Shier pointed at the ground and said, “There are many Blood Soul Stones on the ground between the skull and the skeleton.” At that moment, an idea struck him, and he suddenly understood. He said, “I see… This huge mutated talisman beast’s skull was severed, and its blood and soul spilled onto this land. After thousands of years of accumulation, Blood Soul Stones were formed.”

Without further ado, the five of them began digging, with Kumu handling the purification. Kumu had the highest purification skills here, far surpassing Guo Shier’s.

They quickly dug out all the Blood Soul Stones. Kumu started purifying them, again using talisman fire. High-quality Blood Soul Stones were refined one by one, and each person received a share. Guo Shier said with a smile, “With these high-quality Blood Soul Stones, we can build a layer of a soul altar.”

Kumu looked up at the huge skeleton and after a long while said, “We can’t collect such a large skeleton for now. Let’s leave it here. We’ll return when we’re strong enough to retrieve it.”

Guo Shier closed the Talisman House and flew with Kumu to another skeleton site.

…

This skeleton was half the size of the one they saw last time, but it had an extremely long tail that stretched over 1,500 meters, resembling undulating mountains and being quite impressive.

The entire skeleton was broken into three sections. Guo Shier glanced at it and exclaimed, “Two cuts! Maybe a knife… Damn, three sections! Impressive!”

Due to the skeleton being extremely intact, with only the severed parts damaged, it was truly stunning at first glance. Guo Shier felt that even the Ancient Talisman People must be top-tier professionals with Soul Altars, capable of eliminating such a huge mutated talisman beast with just two clean strikes—true instant kills.

The five of them pondered for a long time before descending. They landed at the broken site and searched the ground for a while, eventually finding more Blood Soul Stones. Guo Shier exclaimed excitedly, “Great! More Blood Soul Stones—let’s continue refining them.” The more of these rare treasures, the better.

Besides the Blood Soul Stones, Guo Shier was also interested in the single horn on the skeleton’s head. It was curved like a knife, shaped like a crescent moon, and bright red in color. Guo Shier shouted, “I want this horn! I want to incorporate it into my life talisman sword!”

Ku Mu asked, “You’ve already strengthened it once?”

Guo Shier replied, “Mm, using spines of the same quality—that counts as one strengthening. This is the second time.”

Ku Mu nodded. “This horn is even better in quality than those spines. Incorporating it into your life talisman sword… won’t be easy. You might be able to do it, but it will take about twenty pieces. Fortunately, there are plenty of Blood Soul Stones now; otherwise, it would be difficult.”

After thinking for a while, Ku Mu added, “The quality of your current life talisman sword isn’t as good as this horn. Why not consider using it to replace the main body of your sword? That way, its quality will improve significantly.”

Guo Shier nodded. “There indeed is such a method. Alright, I’ll give it a try.”

Blood Soul Stones, Storage Wood, and Anluo Stones are all top-grade materials for crafting life talisman weapons, but few people use them because they are essential for building Soul Altars. Only those who don’t understand or have extra of these materials would use them to enhance the quality of life talisman weapons.

Apart from Guo Shier, the others went to dig for Blood Soul Stones, with even the Eagle Demon joining in to help. Guo Shier used purple talisman fire to refine it again and found that the horn was extremely hard, making it very difficult to melt.

However, after adding Blood Soul Stones, the horn could no longer resist the talisman fire and gradually melted. Guo Shier found an alternative method in his inherited memories: using the horn as the main body to replace the original sword body and transferring the runes from the old body to the new one. This method wasn’t difficult, but it required the alternative material to be of extremely high quality.

The quality of this horn was indeed outstanding, which was why Ku Mu suggested that Guo Shier use it as a replacement.

As more and more Blood Soul Stones were thrown into theFulu fire fire, the entire unicorn began to soften. A large amount of impurities were burned away, and the unicorn’s size gradually shrank. Guo Shier was amazed—Blood Soul Stones truly had extraordinary effects; just using a dozen of them had completely melted the once-impregnable unicorn.

At this point, Guo Shier was confident. As long as he could melt the unicorn, he could stabilize it with virtual talismans and also utilize the runes originally on it. This method of crafting talismanic weapons was a secret technique of the ancient talisman makers. Continuous incantations were cast, and endless virtual talismans were sent out, gradually integrating into the unicorn.

Due to the addition of Blood Soul Stones, the unicorn shrank to seven meters in length. It still retained the shape of a unicorn but was now completely melted. The runes on its surface still maintained their original unique crescent shape, glowing with a blood-red hue and emitting a dazzling red light. A faint fragrance wafted out, refreshing Guo Shier greatly.

He wondered what kind of unicorn this was, capable of emitting such a scent. Shaking his head, he realized the unicorn could no longer shrink and threw in more Blood Soul Stones.

Gradually, the unicorn shrank to just one meter in length, covered in countless runes that formed beautiful patterns that appeared and disappeared intermittently. Knowing it was time, he immediately unleashed his life talisman sword. Since the life sword talisman had fully merged with his soul, he could retrieve it in any way he wished.

Guo Shier began transferring some of the runes from his life talisman sword to the unicorn. Thousands of incantations were cast, and numerous virtual talismans combined with the runes from the sword were forcibly pulled out and transferred to the unicorn.

When the last set of runes was transferred into the unicorn, the entire life talisman sword melted into strands of gold, which then seeped into the unicorn bit by bit.

Guo Shier was extremely nervous. If he failed now, the life talisman sword would disappear, and his strength would decline significantly—a loss he couldn’t afford. Fortunately, with the help of the Blood Soul Stones, the life talisman sword gradually stabilized. By now, it no longer had the shape of a sword but was instead a blood-red crescent. Guo Shier simply named it Moon Blade.

He carefully cast sets of virtual talismans to stabilize Moon Blade’s structure. A low humming sound arose, and Moon Blade began to tremble violently. Red light spread out like ripples on water’s surface. He had already sensed Moon Blade’s power and suppressed his excitement as he worked to cast the final set of virtual talismans.

With a thunderous crack, Moon Blade seemed to come to life. It circled around Guo Shier once before hovering in front of him.

As the moon blade rotated, layers of red light spread out, carrying immense fluctuations and pressure. Fortunately, it was at the head of the skeleton with nothing around, so the disturbance wasn’t too great. Yet Guo Shier could clearly sense that the moon blade was much more powerful than the original sword talisman and still had room for improvement.
The Eagle Demon flew up and called out from afar, “Shier, are you done? If so, come down!” Then it descended again. Guo Shier wanted to show off a bit, but before he could speak, he realized the Eagle Demon had already left. He had no choice but to follow down, muttering, “What’s the rush? Such a hurry…”