Chapter 553 - 483: Void Talisman, Sword Sect’s Fleet

Chapter 553: Chapter 483: Void Talisman, Sword Sect’s Fleet

At the same time.

Volcano State.

Su Ye sat solemnly in his cave abode.

He was receiving visitors.

He had originally planned to enter seclusion to refuse all visitors.

After all, many elites from the nine sects were currently in Volcano State.

According to Su Ye’s intelligence, some of these cultivators were carrying Detection Stones.

If some tactless fool decided on a whim to visit his cave abode, and the moment they sat down—before a single word was spoken—a Detection Stone started blaring ’BEEP BEEP BEEP’...

Er...

That would be a rather amusing situation.

However, these particular visitors were special.

They weren’t originally on Su Ye’s list.

He had previously investigated the factions seeking to align with him, performing a screening to create a preliminary list.

After all, the quality of these factions that had lost their Golden Cores varied greatly.

Some were families of Golden Core cultivators, lacking the ability to sustain themselves and relying entirely on the support of their Golden Core patriarchs.

Su Ye had no interest in keeping pets. Factions like these, which could offer no real help, were rejected outright.

Other factions were competent enough, but their conduct was questionable, and they had made too many enemies. The benefits of sheltering them wouldn’t outweigh the trouble they’d bring.

Therefore, after a round of screening, Su Ye had eliminated nearly half the factions. They weren’t even allowed into his cave abode.

This particular faction would have been one of them, but they claimed they were willing to offer a great treasure in exchange for his protection.

The gift list they provided had piqued Su Ye’s interest, so he was willing to make an exception and grant them this opportunity.

"Cangwu the He Family..."

Su Ye looked down from his elevated seat, his gaze slightly lowered as he scrutinized his visitors.

"Yes."

"I am He Ming, and this is my daughter, He Xinlan. Greetings, Yehai!"

The middle-aged man, dressed as a scholar with graying temples, bowed deeply.

Though he tried his best to hide it and appear natural, his unconsciously tense body betrayed his nervousness.

As for the young woman in white beside him, she could barely control her nerves, her head stiffly lowered, not daring to meet Su Ye’s gaze for even a moment.

’So stiff. Do I look like I’m going to eat them?’

’That can’t be it...’

Su Ye complained internally.

"Ahem."

"Let’s dispense with the formalities."

Su Ye’s light cough snapped the somewhat dazed father and daughter from the He Family back to their senses.

"Where is the item?"

"Right here." He Ming took out an iron box.

"Please wait a moment, Yehai. I must disable the restriction on the box. Otherwise, forcing it open will cause the treasure to self-destruct."

He then began to perform a spell, tapping the buttons on the box in a specific pattern. Soon, a large mouth with sharp teeth appeared on the box’s surface.

The mouth spoke mechanically, "Password."

He Ming said nothing. He cut his palm and let his blood drip into the mouth.

Su Ye watched thoughtfully. ’A bloodline restriction? Only a descendant of the bloodline can open it.’

’How cunning, mentioning a password...’

Su Ye had no doubt that if an outsider tried to open the box with a verbal command, it would immediately self-destruct.

「Soon.」

"Password correct."

Having drunk its fill of blood, the mouth stuck out a tongue, on which rested a brass key.

The mouth then vanished, and the box returned to normal. He inserted the brass key and twisted it. With a CLICK, the box opened, revealing the treasure inside.

CLICK.

The iron box was open.

He Ming presented the treasure to Su Ye.

Hm.

It was a talisman.

It felt soft and was a faint yellow, like the skin of some mammal.

Pure silver runes were inscribed on the talisman. Perhaps due to its age, the glow of the runes had dimmed slightly.

However, the void fluctuations emanating from the runes were still quite distinct.

"A Void Talisman?"

"A Tier Five!"

Su Ye was visibly impressed.

Thanks to the Celestial Observation Instrument, he had some understanding of void runes.

With a brief inspection, he could roughly determine that this talisman’s effect was long-distance teleportation!

At the level of a Tier Five Void Talisman, this teleportation could cover a distance of at least tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand miles!

It was truly astonishing!

’At a critical moment, this thing could be very useful!’

Su Ye thought to himself, a glint in his eyes.

Of course, this talisman had its flaws.

First, it had been stored for too long. Even with good maintenance, the long passage of time had caused the talisman to lose some of its Magical Power.

The loss of Magical Power in a talisman was a fatal problem.

This was because losing Magical Power didn’t weaken the talisman’s effect, but rather lowered its probability of successful activation!

It wasn’t a matter of the talisman losing ten percent of its Magical Power and thus casting a Big Fireball Spell with ten percent less power.

Instead, after losing Magical Power, it was very likely that it would fail to activate at a critical moment, or worse, the Big Fireball would lose control and smack you right in the face!

Furthermore, Su Ye’s expression shifted slightly as he carefully stroked the talisman.

The material of this thing... it seemed to be... human skin?

As a type of animal, human skin could also be used as a raw material for talisman paper.

Talisman paper made from the skin of a high-tier cultivator was no less effective than that made from a demon beast of the same tier.

But using human skin to draw talismans was, without a doubt, a method of the Demon Dao.

After the Reversed Moon War, the order established under the leadership of the Jade Void Sword Sect strictly forbade this practice!

Drawing or using a Human Skin Talisman would result in punishment.

Of course, given Su Ye’s status, as long as he wasn’t unscrupulously creating Human Skin Talismans on a large scale, no one would bother him.

"However... the material of this talisman, the origin of this human skin... is anything but ordinary..." Su Ye’s gaze narrowed.