Pu Ban City, the secret hall of the Magi Palace …
The hall, which was a few miles in both width and length, was entirely made of black rocks. The coarse walls were not decorated at all, and no pillars could be seen in the empty hall. The hundreds of meters tall dome was supported by the power of the magic formation.
Countless fist-sized pearls were inlaid in the ceiling, illuminating the hall with a snow-white light.
Tens of different sized cauldrons were standing in the hall. Green magic fires were blazing in those cauldrons, and the medicinal soup was boiling in those cauldrons. The dense herbal aroma condensed into a visible white mist, piling up on the floor three feet deep.
A row of black stone tables were lined up neatly against the wall, on which were the corpses of Ying Yunpeng and hundreds of clan elders. Every single one of them was stripped clean, and their body hair was shaved off as well, exposing their translucent, cyan-colored, glass-like bodies, which were glowing with a cyan light.
Nearly a thousand Magi in long white robes surrounded these stone tables, holding sharp blades and carefully cutting open the bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other clan elders, one meridian after another, muscle after muscle. Some of them took out their internal organs and put them on jade trays, carefully analyzing the changes in their internal organs bit by bit.
Many other Magi in white robes were holding transparent crystal containers, soaking the tiny tissues taken out from the bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other clan elders in all kinds of potions. Through the changes in the potions, these Magi in white robes could tell whether they were affected by some kind of poison or not.
Along with a sizzling noise, a bone of Ying Yunpeng's hand was taken out. All skin, muscles, blood vessels and meridians of his left hand were taken out, leaving only a faintly cyan-colored, nearly transparent bone.
An elderly Magi held Ying Yunpeng's hand bone and quickly walked to a corner of the hall.
Slightly shaking his hand, Ying Yunpeng's hand bone split into tens of pieces. Magi who had been waiting in this corner each picked up a piece of bone and began doing all kinds of violent experiments.
Hacking with blades, hacking with axes, burning with raging fires, freezing with ice, soaking in poison, washing with acids, striking with hammers, striking with thunderbolts. These Magi tested these finger bones in hundreds of ways, and soon, the results were gathered.
Emperor Shun, Si Wen Ming and a group of human leaders quietly stood by the front gate of the secret hall, gathering the test results one after another and handing them to Emperor Shun. Emperor Shun read those test results over and over again. His face turned more and more serious, darker and darker.
Si Wen Ming and the other senior ministers took over the test results one after another. Reading the results of the tests on the dead bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other elders, their faces turned extremely weird.
The experiment proved that the physical strength of Ying Yunpeng and the others had become extremely strong, at least ten times stronger than their actual cultivation.
For example, Ying Yunpeng was only a peak-level Magus King, but his physical condition was already great enough to rival a newly promoted Divine Magus. In terms of resistance to acid, poison, thunder, fire and all other powers, Ying Yunpeng's body was many times stronger than that of ordinary Divine Magi.
Especially to all kinds of negative powers, such as death power, hatred power, negative power from the earth, and all kinds of curses, the bodies of Ying Yunpeng and his friends were hundreds of times stronger than those of ordinary Divine Magi.
In other words, any part of Ying Yunpeng's body could be used as a treasure to ward off evil spirits.
If Ying Yunpeng's body was hung there, no ordinary ghosts or spirit creatures dared to approach within the area with a radius of a hundred miles. As for evil spirits and monsters, if they slightly touched Ying Yunpeng's body, they would be burned into ashes by a tremendous power.
The bone marrow of Ying Yunpeng and his friends had changed magically as well. Their bone marrow had turned into a sticky paste, which looked like a piece of chalcedony. The paste was filled with a kind of pure Yang power. The wizards tested it on a few thousand-year-old ghosts. An extremely ferocious ghost was forcibly fed a drop of the paste taken from Ying Yunpeng's bone marrow, and it was immediately burned into ashes.
The body of the ghost was burned into ashes, but the ghost power and evil power released from its body condensed into a fist-sized, crystal-clear bead.
This crystal bead didn't contain any ghost power or evil power. Instead, it was filled with pure energy, which could replace magic crystals for cultivation, or to drive puppets or build magic formations.
What was even more shocking was that the brains of Ying Yunpeng and his friends had also changed magically.
Their brains didn't have the complicated brain circuits that normal human brains had. Instead, their brains had become crystal clear, just like precious gems. The color of their brains had turned light cyan, and at first glance, they looked like cyan-colored gems.
After cutting their brains and cutting open the soft membrane, the insides of Ying Yunpeng and his friends' brains had turned into a sticky paste, which contained a magical power, just like their bone marrow. However, the paste inside their brains was even more sticky, and had a strange aroma similar to ambergris. Besides, every drop of paste was extremely heavy, and its density was hundreds of times greater than that of iron.
Apart from that, their muscles, meridians, blood vessels, and internal organs had all undergone some kind of strange crystallization. Their bodies seemed to have gone through some kind of magical refinement, turning from flesh and blood into some kind of existence that was half flesh and half gemstone.
With this kind of body structure, they had a greater defensive power, and their strength, reaction speed, agility, as well as the amount of power that could be stored in each Magus Acupoint, and the flowing speed of the power in their meridians had all been largely improved.
"But of course, the most important discovery is …" An especially old Magus, who was staggering, tremblingly raised a piece of skull taken from Ying Yunpeng's body. On the cyan-colored skull, large amounts of patterns of lotus were clearly visible.
"Lotus patterns!" The old Magus lowered his eyelids and said coldly, "Emperor Shun, lotus patterns, this reminds me of something that I once read in an incomplete scroll when I was a little apprentice of the Magi Palace a long, long time ago."
"Which incomplete scroll?" Si Wen Ming asked in a deep voice.
The old Magus looked at Si Wen Ming and said in a deep voice, "Those incomplete scrolls that are forbidden. Back then, I didn't mean to violate the forbidden rules. I was sent by an elder to clean the forbidden palace … I accidentally saw … spirits? Were they? Among the Innate Spirit Clan, quite a few of them have successfully cultivated the Lotus Seal! "
Emperor Shun's face suddenly turned purple-red. He gnashed his teeth, and blood veins suddenly bulged on his forehead.
Si Wen Ming knitted his eyebrows and said to Emperor Shun in a deep voice, "Since you have invited Netherworld Priest to help, and Donggong and Ximu have also shown up, then …"
Emperor Shun clenched his fists, and his voice turned incomparably dry.
"Netherworld Priest isn't a big threat to our humankind. Donggong and Ximu were good friends of our humankind back in the ancient time. It won't be a big problem for them to reappear in the world."
"What I'm afraid of are the people who signed the agreement on top of Sky Pillar back then, under the witness of the five divine emperors!"
Si Wen Ming remained silent for a while, then said blandly, "Go and see if Elder Feng San has found anything."
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