Published: September 2, 2025
Chapter 539: Three Heads and Six Arms
After asking Wen Siyue about the location of the riftwind beast’s lair, Han Li casually left her a bottle of pills to consume and refine. Wen Siyue was naturally very grateful and immediately closed herself off in seclusion to refine the pill's power with great joy.
Han Li, on the other hand, entered another stone chamber, prepared to study the newly acquired copper piece.
Sitting cross-legged in the chamber, he carefully examined the item in his hand.
The copper piece had inscriptions on only one side, while the other side displayed an extremely strange drawing—a creature with three heads and six arms.
The creature’s three heads glared angrily with wide eyes, and its six arms were raised together toward the sky, the meaning of which was unknown.
After frowning and observing it for a while, Han Li took out the beast-hide manuscript and compared the writings on both items.
Only then did he realize that the characters on the copper piece shared much of the same structure as those in the beast-hide manuscript, but there were subtle differences. It seemed as if they originated from the same source but had evolved into different scripts.
Unable to discern anything useful just by looking, Han Li no longer hesitated and infused magical power into the copper piece.
With the infusion of magical power, the copper piece emitted a low humming sound and began to tremble automatically.
Suddenly, a surge of light erupted, and a hazy yellow pillar of light shot from the half-sided copper piece toward the stone wall opposite.
An animated ancient scroll instantly appeared.
Han Li’s heart leapt with joy at first, but upon closer inspection, he was stunned.
A humanoid demonic beast covered in scales with a single horn on its head appeared in the painting. This beast was exactly the same as the three-headed, six-armed creature engraved on the back of the copper piece, except that now it had only one head.
While Han Li was still puzzled, the light flashed again.
The beast in the painting sat cross-legged on the ground, forming a strange hand seal with both hands. Its body twisted slightly, striking a peculiar pose.
Han Li’s face showed surprise.
After a while, the beast changed its hand seal and twisted its body again, shifting into an even stranger sitting posture.
Every so often, the humanoid beast in the painting would change into a new mysterious posture and hand seal, as if practicing some kind of cultivation technique.
After half an hour passed, the glow from the copper piece dimmed and the painting disappeared.
Han Li counted carefully and found that the beast had assumed thirty-six different postures.
Rubbing his nose and looking at the item in his hand, Han Li’s expression was one of baffled amusement.
Although he did not understand the content of the text on the copper piece, from the painting it was clear that this was not something belonging to human cultivators—it recorded a demonic cultivator’s cultivation technique.
He had never known before that high-rank demonic beasts also practiced cultivation techniques. Aren’t demonic beasts naturally able to absorb and expel spiritual energy and cultivate on their own?
Since this cultivation technique was used by a shapeshifting humanoid demonic beast, it was definitely no ordinary thing.
However, Han Li looked at the copper piece with a half-amused, half-exasperated expression.
Even if he could understand the text, would he dare to practice a demonic cultivator’s technique?
Besides, he wasn’t short of any high-level techniques! The complete set of the Profound Yin Scripture was still safely stored in his storage pouch.
Thinking this way, no wonder that dark-skinned cultivator had mysteriously taken out this item for trade—it was basically useless!
Han Li felt like he had been played for a small fool and was somewhat frustrated.
Since the text on the copper piece was a unique demonic cultivation inheritance, no amount of searching through human texts would yield any clues.