Shen Luo felt his throat constricted, unbearably so, and couldn’t help but let out a painful groan, yet he gritted his teeth and endured. According to the Medicine Immortal Collection, the connection between a life-bound Gu and its host is extremely intimate, almost symbiotic. Ordinary Gu Masters implant the life-bound Gu into the body from childhood, strengthening the connection through mutual growth and reducing the backlash of the Gu insect. To truly utilize the Fusion Gu, it must become a life-bound Gu. However, Shen Luo and Fusion Gu merged halfway, and the backlash, needless to say, was immense. The Fusion Gu slowly drilled into Shen Luo’s spine, its body gradually integrating into it. Shen Luo’s body convulsed, and the pain in the spine quickly spread throughout his body, making him feel as if every part of him was in intense pain, pierced by countless burning needles. He resolutely endured, silently circulating the Huangdi Neijing to alleviate everything. After an unknown amount of time, the intense pain gradually subsided, and Shen Luo slowly exhaled, feeling somewhat weak, yet a trace of delight flashed across his face. The Fusion Gu had already fused with his body, transforming into his life-bound Gu. Shen Luo circulated the Huangting Technique, and the exhaustion of his mind and body swiftly recovered. He spread both hands, drawing in the five elements’ spiritual energy from the void, Yin Qi from the underworld, and various forms of vitality. As he urged the Fusion Gu, a suction force emerged, absorbing all these forms of vitality. The body of the Fusion Gu grew slightly larger and began to wriggle rapidly. Then, a stream of pure vitality gushed from its tail, merging through his spine into his body. Shen Luo carefully sensed this vitality, already unable to discern any attribute differences, completely fused into one entity. "Very good!" He secretly rejoiced, refraining from further experiments. The Fusion Gu had just fused with his body and needed more time to fully adapt. Shen Luo flipped his hand and took out two storage magical tools, one purple and one white, belonging to Mr. Purple and Beiming Kun. For the past few days, he had been busy, only now having the leisure to inspect them. He first picked up Mr. Purple’s storage magical tool. After he killed Mr. Purple on that day, he had already looked at it, but was too pressed for time to examine it closely. Shen Luo circulated his Divine Sense to carefully check the contents of the storage magical tool, indeed discovering many treasures, though none useful to him. His eyebrows suddenly twitched, and he retrieved a black round stone from the storage magical tool. This object was round and glossy black, emitting a very weak aura, completely unremarkable, yet hidden within was an exceptionally subtle and powerful demonic qi fluctuation, unnoticed by Shen Luo until his Divine Sense reached the Heavenly Venerate Realm. This stone holds hidden mysteries, undoubtedly not simple. Shen Luo’s mind moved, and he immediately infused it with magic qi within, quickly raising an eyebrow and firmly grasping it. The black round stone shattered, revealing a black round pearl the size of a fist, inscribed with three small ancient demon script characters: Heaven Stealing Bead. "Heaven Stealing Bead? The demon wind mentioned this name before, seems to be some remarkable treasure." Shen Luo’s eyes lit up as he looked at the round pearl, continuing to infuse it with magic qi. The Heaven Stealing Bead immediately glowed with black light, and a greyish-white qi suddenly emerged, exploding with a bang upon leaving the pearl. Shen Luo was startled, and quickly flashed back, simultaneously a golden light flashed before him, forming a golden shield to block the scattered greyish-white qi. The greyish-white qi contained no poison or curse, and after drifting around in the room for a while, quickly dissipated in mid-air. Shen Luo furrowed his brows, picked up the Heaven Stealing Bead to probe again, discovering a space within it, now empty, seemingly used to contain that ball of greyish-white qi. Mr. Purple concealed the Heaven Stealing Bead so secretly that the greyish-white qi must have been extraordinary, but unfortunately, he accidentally released it. Though this thing was also obtained by robbery, he did not care too much, put away the Heaven Stealing Bead, and picked up the white storage magical tool of Beiming Kun for investigation. As Divine Sense entered the storage magical tool, Shen Luo’s face showed a look of surprise. Inside Beiming Kun’s storage magical tool was surprisingly empty, without much stuff, just a few scattered minerals, spirit grass, and three or two magical treasures. That Magic Mirror was among them, but apart from the mirror, the remaining minerals and spirit grass were ordinary goods, containing very thin spiritual power, and the magical treasures were common not worth mentioning. "How can this be?" Shen Luo muttered to himself. Beiming Kun roamed the Three Realms and occupied the entrance to the Divine Demon Well for many years. He originally assumed its wealth must be abundant, unexpectedly the storage magical tool was so meager. Shen Luo summoned the Magic Mirror, briefly examined it, then put it inside, circulating the Innate Treasure-refining Technique for refining. This mirror was a powerful weapon against the Demon Race, needing to be refined quickly. As for the other things in the storage magical tool, he looked down at them, was about to withdraw his Divine Sense, suddenly stopped, and raised his hand for a wave. A black light shot from the storage magical tool, landing in his hand, revealing a two-foot-long broad axe. This axe exhibits no spiritual fluctuations, appearing like a mundane object, but his Divine Sense just swept across the axe, and was actually pushed away by an invisible force. "Right, Beiming Kun used an axe shadow earlier to cut off the puppet law strands on Ao Hong and Yuan Qiu, could it be from this item?" Shen Luo pondered secretly. He infused mana into the broad axe, the axe’s head immediately shone with some black light, but that was all. Despite increasing mana, the axe head showed little change. "Surely not a common object." Shen Luo was not disappointed and attempted refining with the Innate Treasure-refining Technique. But the internal structure of the axe was exceptionally tight, making refining with the Innate Treasure-refining Technique very difficult. He mused on this peculiarity, swept the axe aside, and continued refining. Shen Luo put away the two storage magical tools, summoned the Map of Mountains and Rivers, and with a flick entered, arriving at a certain place in the map. A huge white array floated here, the Hunyuan Wuji Formation, emitting powerful confinement forces, restraining vitality fluctuations and void forces. Inside the Great Formation, encassing a huge beast head, was precisely Beiming Kun’s head. The beast head’s eyes still shone brightly, not deceased. Fire Spirit Child floated above the Hunyuan Wuji Formation, holding the War God Whip, the Soul Devouring Array emerging, encasing a ball of black divine soul, precisely Mr. Purple’s soul. Seeing this scene, Shen Luo said nothing, standing quietly aside. Mr. Purple cultivated the Heart Demon Method, his divine soul extremely stable. Fire Spirit Child spent two days soul-searching him, advancing slowly, but today should be able to complete. It took half a day of waiting, and Fire Spirit Child finally retracted the War God Whip, exhaled lightly. "Completed?" Shen Luo asked, eyes aglow. "The Heart Demon Method is indeed formidable, even with our numerous preparations, we nearly failed." Fire Spirit Child nodded, replying. Saying this, he took out two jade slips, pressing them to his forehead. After a flicker of crystal light, Fire Spirit Child tossed the two jade slips to Shen Luo.
