Chapter 345 - 278: Substitute Death Avoidance Seal, Heaven-Ascending Seal of Borrowed Life!
Chapter 345: Chapter 278: Substitute Death Avoidance Seal, Heaven-Ascending Seal of Borrowed Life!
Not needing to be here anymore, it wasn’t appropriate to examine the Golden Seal. Gu Yuan shifted his thoughts and gathered the charred Qiankun Bag from the air, then his figure flickered as he left the place.
Little Screen Mountain.
A few loose cultivators had just started to rejoice when heavy fog began to drift over the ridges again, completely enveloping the entire cliff.
Gu Yuan once again sat in the Quiet Chamber, as if he had never left.
Yet in this short span of time, a newly ascended Golden Core cultivator had already fallen, his divine soul thoroughly extinguished.
Though certainly much of this could be attributed to the inadequacies of a new Golden Core, this decisive victory nonetheless showcased Gu Yuan’s current prowess.
The Golden Brilliance Great Sword Seal and the Five Thunders Punishment Heaven Seal were both powerful Dharma Seals of immense might.
Even a master at the early stage of the Golden Core realm might not be able to withstand them, let alone a newly ascended Golden Core?
"The only pity is that the Gold-Attribute cannot be plundered..."
Caressing the Golden Seal in his palm, Gu Yuan sighed slightly.
The Gold-Attribute possesses a spirit; with a single thought, it can be integrated into the Dharma Seal, transforming into the Golden Seal, a process so swift that few methods can interrupt it.
After all, no matter how poor a Golden Core cultivator’s cultivation may be, it is still difficult to kill them instantly, leaving them no time to react.
Even with supreme methods, capable of instantaneously killing an enemy cultivator, the Gold-Attribute with a spirit cannot be plundered by cultivators.
Every strand of Gold-Attribute is unique to each Golden Core cultivator, and only one’s own Dharma Seal can fuse into a Golden Seal.
Relying on killing newly ascended Golden Cores to continuously collect the Gold-Attribute is nearly impossible.
Gu Yuan had yet to see such a Dharma Gate.
Typically, there are indeed forces that specialize in slaughtering newly ascended Golden Cores, but this is merely to seize their Golden Seals.
Seizing the Gold-Attribute is unheard of.
However, obtaining a Golden Seal is already quite remarkable.
Equivalent to acquiring a Divine Power.
"Boom!"
Gu Yuan opened his mouth and exhaled, a torrent of golden Pill Fire enveloped the Golden Seal.
"Buzz, buzz!"
The Golden Seal trembled incessantly, seemingly wanting to escape, but a Golden Seal without its master was like a floating root-deprived duckweed, incapable of resistance.
Seven days later.
The already thin marking on the Golden Seal was worn away, Gu Yuan’s heart and spirit moved, and the Golden Seal immediately transformed into a stream of light, drilling into his Dantian.
"Substitute Death Avoidance Seal..."
"Such a profoundly mysterious Dharma Seal..."
Upon refining the Golden Seal, information naturally flowed into Gu Yuan’s heart, and he immediately grasped the seal’s function.
This seal is a protective seal that substitutes tribulation and safeguards life.
Once activated, a Substitute Death Puppet is conjured out of thin air, shielding the Seal Master from a deadly tribulation, while the Seal Master’s true body is transported a thousand feet away.
And the most profound aspect of this seal lies in the "avoidance" effect following the substitute death.
No matter the technique or artifact that kills the Substitute Death Puppet, as long as the attack does not exceed a great realm, it cannot harm the Seal Master again in a short period.
This is why Gu Yuan’s Sword Seal was able to trigger twice, directly penetrating the Demon Cultivator’s Golden Core.
Within ten breaths, as long as Gu Yuan’s Sword Seal’s might doesn’t exceed the Golden Core realm, it cannot be effective.
"If only I were not a traditional Sword Cultivator, then perhaps today he could have escaped..."
Gu Yuan reviewed the battle, feeling a sense of lament.
If he were a traditional Sword Cultivator, with all his cultivation focused on the sword, being unable to inflict damage within ten breaths, then it might have been true that the Demon Cultivator’s Golden Core would have escaped using that eerie Demon Palanquin.
This was likely his confidence in daring to attack the city again.
However, the methods that Gu Yuan now possessed were far beyond just a single kind; the Five Thunders Punishment Heaven Seal’s might surpassed even the Golden Brilliance Great Sword Seal, decisively obliterating it.
"Golden Seals truly are objects of profound mystery..."
Gu Yuan sighed once more.
Currently, he holds two and a half Golden Seals, none of which are used for killing, each possessing its own strange mystical ability, and when utilized appropriately, they create extraordinary effects.
Thinking of this, Gu Yuan grew more curious about the origins of the Demon Cultivator’s Golden Core, wondering how a loose cultivator could manage to craft such a mystical Dharma Seal.
Moreover, the prior black "Longevity Seal" seemed to be no ordinary item.
But regrettably, as the Demon Cultivator’s Golden Core perished, the Longevity Seal also faded into nothingness.
"A newly ascended Demon Cultivator Golden Core even possesses a Qiankun Bag, his wealth may surpass mine."
Gu Yuan waved his sleeve, retrieving a charred cloth bag.
Though the cloth bag was blackened on the surface, beneath the scorching marks, black runes still shimmered with spiritual light. Gu Yuan’s Pill Fire merely lightly burned, causing the scorch marks to scatter and revealing seventy-two smooth and new Qiankun Artifact Patterns, like black gold.
As the patterns intertwined, the air of the void quietly permeated.
Tier Three Treasure, Qiankun Bag!
The Qiankun Bag, unlike a regular Storage Bag, has an extraordinarily vast inner space. Most crucially, the Qiankun Bag can store living beings, like a real little world.
Yet, it cannot compare with a real Secret Realm; typically, living beings can only remain inside for at most ten days, after which they must be taken out for a period, or they will drown in the void.
Drowning in the void is akin to drowning in water; all mana and essence qi are consumed by the invisible void, reduced to a dried corpse that even Daluo could not save.
Gu Yuan, having cultivated up till now, does not possess a Qiankun Bag, still using an upper-class Storage Bag.
The crafting of a Qiankun Bag requires Tier Three Spirit Ore and Qiankun Stone.
But this stone has long been extinct in the South Mountain Domain, unheard of being mined.
Nowadays, Qiankun Storage Treasures are mostly remnants crafted and preserved from a thousand years ago or acquired from other domains, scarce in quantity and priceless in value.
The Cyan Peak Daoist School originally had one such treasure in their treasury, but years ago it was gifted to the Master of Mount Jing, and no more remain.