Chapter 465: Making a Painstaking Investigation (1/2)
Chapter 465: Making a Painstaking Investigation
Translator: LawEditor: Hitesh
Back in Pu Ban city, in the core, secret hall of the Magi Palace…
An enormously broad hall many miles squared in area was entirely built with black rock. The surface of the walls was rough, without any decorations. Not a single pillar could be seen in the empty hall, and the dome, which was hundreds of meters above the floor, was completely supported by the power of the magic formation set in the hall.
Countless fist-sized glowing pearls were inlaid in the ceiling, emitting snow-white lights, lighting up the entire hall.
Tens of different-sized stoves were standing in the hall with pots placed upon them. Green fires had been blazing in those stoves while liquid medicines boiled in those pots. The dense scent of herbal medicine had condensed into a visible white mist, accumulating on the floor with over three-inch depth.
A series of black stone tables were placed against a wall orderly. On those stone tables were the dead bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other, hundreds of rebellious elders. All those dead bodies were stripped, and even their body hairs were shaved as well, exposing their nearly translucent bodies, which had been glowing with a faint cyan light that made their bodies look like colored glass.
Nearly a thousand Magi in long white robes were surrounding these stone tables, with sharp knives held in their hands. They carefully cut open the bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other elders, dissected all meridians and muscles one after another. Some of those Magi took internal organs out of those dead bodies, placed in jade trays next to them, then ran a careful check of those internal organs, distinguishing the changes that had happened to these dead elders’ bodies.
Many other Magi in white robes had transparent crystal containers held in their hands. They put small pieces of body tissue taken out of those corpses into these containers and soaked in all kinds of reagents, to find out if these elders were affected by some special kinds of poison before they died.
Along with a creaking noise, the bones of one of Ying Yunpeng’s hands were taken out from his dead body. All skin, blood veins, and meridians of his left hand were peeled off, till only the faintly cyan-colored, almost transparent bones remained.
An elderly Magus carried the bone hand and quickly walked to a corner of the hall.
By slightly shaking his hand, this Magi split the bone hand of Ying Yunpeng into tens of pieces. Each of those Magi who had been waiting here picked up one piece of the bone and started all kinds of violent experiments.
Hacking with blades or heavy axes, burning with fire, freezing with ice, soaking in poisonous liquid, washing with strong acids, bashing with heavy hammers, striking with lightning bolts… Those Magi ran tests on those hand bones with hundreds of different methods, and only after that did the final results quickly sum up.
Emperor Shun, Si Wen Ming, and some other high-level leaders had been quietly standing by the front gate of the secret hall. Numerous autopsy reports gathered over one after another, being handed to Emperor Shun’s. Emperor Shun leafed through those reports in paper order. The more he read, the darker his face became, and the more serious his look turned.
Si Wen Ming and other ministers took over those reports one after another. While reading the data gained through experiments based on the dead bodies of those hundreds of rebel elders, the faces of all these ministers turned extremely dark as well.
A series of experiments proved that the bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other rebel elders had all become extremely tough and sturdy before they died. Their body conditions had been improved by at least ten times, comparing with their actual cultivations and power levels.
If one was to take Ying Yunpeng as an example, he was only a peak-level Magus King. However, his body was already tough enough to compete with a newly promoted Divine Magus. Meanwhile, in terms of resistance to things like acids, poison, lightning, and fire, Ying Yunpeng’s body condition was even many times better than the body condition of an ordinary Divine Magus. Moreover, when facing all kinds of negative powers, such as the power of death, hatred and netherworld power, as well as all kinds of magic curses, Ying Yunpeng’s body would be over a hundred times stronger than the body of an ordinary Divine Magus.
In other words, any part of the bodies of Ying Yunpeng and the other rebel elders could be used as an evil-exorcising treasure. If Ying Yunpeng’s dead body were hung at a spot, the area hundred miles in radius around the spot would become a forbidden area for all kinds of ghosts, spirits and other creatures living on negative powers. If they ever dared to step a single toe into this area, their bodies would be immediately burned to ash by an immensely great power.