Chapter 523 - 373: Divine Blood Vision
Night.
Li Yi was arranged to stay in an independent room.
The room was spacious and neat, furnished with couches as beds, copper incense burners on each side, diffusing a faint scent. There was also a row of bookshelves nearby laden with many bamboo slips, not unlike the residence of the High Priest Mai Sui from Shoushan Village.
Li Yi picked up a bamboo slip and attempted to read it. However, his educational background was limited, and he couldn’t recognize the script on the bamboo slips at all. Yet, he felt that the calligraphy resembled the inscriptions on Sword Coins, seemingly like ancient pre-Qin characters—just not Small Seal script—but rather a system of writing unto itself. It seemed that if he wanted to learn this script, he would need to start again with formal instruction.
Afterward, he turned his attention to studying the leather armor that Xiu Xiang presented to him previously.
The armor made from the skin of an eight-hundred-year Jiao was no ordinary object, far more formidable than the transcendent metal armor he donned, and for some reason, Li Yi felt as if the leather armor was alive, seemingly like a living creature. It was as if the black Jiao had not perished, and its lost soul lingered within the armor.
Li Yi then tried to infuse his cosmic energy into it.
The silver cosmic energy shone brilliantly, activating the leather armor. The black scales quivered, emitting a crisp sound of clashing scale armor. The entire armor moved subtly, and amidst the faint movements, he seemed to hear the roaring of the Jiao’s lost soul.
"Indeed, it’s like this; this isn’t just about stripping the hide from a Jiao to make the armor. Instead, through some special technique, the power of an eight-hundred-year Jiao has been sealed within the armor. As long as divine power is poured into it, the Jiao’s power can be stimulated," Li Yi thought to himself with inward astonishment.
This is the foundation of the Cultivation World.
On Earth, even capturing a Jiao would not allow for full utilization of its powers.