Scum Of The Demonic Sect

Chapter 96 Unsealing the Fourth Merit Bead

Lin Haoming knew that cultivators could resist ordinary poisons, and his cultivation of the "Divine Bone Technique," a body-refining technique, made him even more resistant to toxins than ordinary people. However, his cultivation was still weak, and he had heard of many powerful poisons that could easily kill even Golden Core Ancestors.

Faced with this situation, Lin Haoming immediately took an antidote pill. After taking it, he found that while the pill did have some effect, it was clearly far from enough to completely detoxify.

This situation prompted Lin Haoming to immediately grab the man's storage bag and quickly search its contents.

Lin Haoming was somewhat surprised when he received the storage bag. Not only was the man's storage bag ten zhang square, but it was also a storage bag with an additional layer of space that could be stacked on top of it. The value of this storage bag was so great that many Foundation Establishment cultivators probably couldn't afford it.

And inside this enormous storage bag were a great many items, a motley collection, many of which Lin Haoming himself didn't recognize.

Fortunately, the man's storage bag was quite organized, with pills neatly arranged and spirit stones properly stored.

Because he didn't know what kind of toxins were inside, Lin Haoming dared not take any pills indiscriminately.

After putting down the pills, Lin Haoming immediately searched for jade slips, hoping to find information about poisons.

However, this man's storage bag contained a great many jade slips—dozens for a Qi Refining cultivator! After searching through most of them, Lin Haoming finally found a scripture titled *The Record of Ten Thousand Medicines*.

Lin Haoming could basically guess that the poison this guy used definitely came from this book. However, the *Record of Ten Thousand Medicines* was a massive work of millions of words, containing thousands of illustrations. Finding the corresponding poison in a short time was simply a joke.

Faced with this situation, Lin Haoming was extremely anxious. He could vaguely sense that the toxins were gradually mixing together, rapidly damaging his body's functions.

At this moment, Lin Haoming felt his body alternating between hot and cold, some parts itchy, others intensely painful. If it weren't for cultivating the *Divine Bone Technique*, Lin Haoming estimated his condition would be even worse.

"I can't continue like this, or I'll die!" Lin Haoming thought to himself.

He picked up the storage bag with the mustache, intending to put it into the spatial pearl and leave. However, when he tried to put it in, he discovered that perhaps because the storage bag could also overlap spaces, the spatial pearl couldn't contain it.

The storage bag had an antique design, clearly quite old; carrying it would make it easily recognizable.

Thinking this, Lin Haoming immediately spent nine small merits to unseal the second layer of the Space Pearl.

However, after unsealing the second layer, the Space Pearl only increased in size; it could still only accommodate one layer of overlapping space.

This prompted Lin Haoming to use twenty-seven small merits to unseal the third layer of the Space Pearl.

After unsealing the third layer, the size of the Space Pearl remained the same, but it could now accommodate two layers of overlapping space. Lin Haoming immediately placed the storage bag inside, and this time it succeeded.

However, just as Lin Haoming unsealed thirty percent of the Space Pearl, the Merit Pearl also provided feedback: he could now use one large merit to directly unseal the fourth Merit Pearl.

Unsealing the two layers of the Space Pearl consumed thirty-six small merits; he now had fourteen small merits and one large merit remaining.

"Should I unseal the new Merit Bead?" This thought flashed through Lin Haoming's mind.

But in the current situation, would unsealing it even make sense? Could it possibly unseal a bead that could neutralize poison?

As Lin Haoming pondered this, he suddenly sensed a faint reaction from the Merit Bead. This reaction seemed to be a prompting, which gave the anxious Lin Haoming an indescribable shock.

Although he didn't understand what this feeling was, Lin Haoming agreed to unseal the fourth Merit Bead immediately.

After the fourth Merit Bead was unsealed, Lin Haoming was overwhelmed with indescribable emotions.

A Poison-Dissolving Bead!

The fourth Merit Bead really was a Poison-Dissolving Bead!

Lin Haoming truly didn't know how to express his feelings at this moment—excitement, joy, or gratitude for a timely help?

Lin Haoming immediately took out the antidote bead and placed it on the wound. As the bead glowed, some black substance was drawn out of the body and into the bead, causing it to darken as the toxins were absorbed. However, over time, it gradually returned to its soft white color.

The antidote bead was indeed effective, but the detoxification process was too slow. Lin Haoming checked and found that unsealing the second layer of the antidote bead required twenty-seven small merits, and he only had fourteen left, which was clearly insufficient.

Looking at the mustachioed man he had killed, Lin Haoming quickly used the Soul-Soothing Mantra.

With the power of the Soul-Soothing Mantra, the mustachioed man's terrified soul was indeed released. However, to Lin Haoming's surprise, the spirits of Lin Feiyang and Shao Youhe did not appear!

Lin Haoming was puzzled. Had their spirits departed because their physical bodies had turned to ashes? Or was it because the power of the Heaven-Burning Mirror was too great, annihilating even their souls?

Watching only the soul of the man with the mustache rise, Lin Haoming felt helpless. What frustrated him even more was that as the mustache's soul entered reincarnation, no merit appeared.

Could it be that he didn't gain merit from killing? If so, how did the little monk Fayuan earn merit by killing?

Lin Haoming was momentarily confused, even staring blankly at the mustache's corpse for a while.

Unable to understand why, Lin Haoming could only burn the mustache's corpse and then carefully and slowly remove the toxins from his body. After all, this place was too dangerous; if someone came here, in his current state, even a cultivator at the sixth or seventh level of Qi Refining could become a major threat.

Perhaps it was a case of surviving a great calamity bringing good fortune. In the following days, Lin Haoming encountered no accidents, and the toxins were completely cleared away within a few days.

After the last bit of toxin was absorbed, Lin Haoming finally felt relieved and began to recover his depleted magical power.

A few more days passed, and Lin Haoming's magical power had almost fully recovered. However, due to the excessive consumption of his essence and blood in the previous battle, his qi and blood were still somewhat weak.

In this desolate wilderness, Lin Haoming felt it was best to fully recover, so he didn't immediately leave to return to his sect but instead planned to continue recuperating for a few more days.

Lin Haoming also took out the storage bag belonging to the man with the mustache and retrieved a jade slip from it.

This jade slip was black, with some ancient patterns on it, giving it a very weathered feel.

When he was searching for an antidote, Lin Haoming had noticed this jade slip because it contained a cultivation technique—a seemingly very unusual technique.