Chapter 716 - 289: Artifact Slave_2
With a clang, the golden torrent collided head-on with the golden light wall in front of Shen Can.
The Sealing Spirit Possession Ban quickly flickered, forming a large net that captured millions of various Witch Runes all at once.
In an instant, those Witch Runes dispersed again, transforming into golden figures in the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban net, chaotically darting around, causing the Spiritual Ban Net to bulge outward in places.
"This is impossible!"
"This is impossible, this is my Possession Secret Technique, mine!"
The golden figure in the net began to shout and yell; the net was meant to trap the Divine Soul of the possessed, but it had now become his own confinement.
Who wouldn’t go mad in such a situation!
Let alone Tier Five, even Tier Six would be fuming with rage.
"Ah!"
"Ah ah!"
...
"Who are you, who on earth are you, did you know the Secret Technique of the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban beforehand, did you!"
"Did you, quickly tell me, quickly tell me if you did!"
"Impossible, this is the Ancient Secret Technique I bought at Tushang Ancient City’s Exchange Conference with three thousand two hundred Tier Five Source Stones."
"Tushang Ancient City deceived me, claiming it was an exclusive Secret Technique, deceived me!"
"Quickly tell me, have you practiced this Secret Technique before!"
"Quickly say it, quickly say it!"
...
The golden figure struggled continuously, but the more he struggled, the smaller the net confining him became, while he grew increasingly irritable.
Time and again he attempted to regain control of the network transformed from the Secret Technique, but it was utterly futile.
Then he began cursing the Exchange Conference at Tushang Ancient City, saying that he had been fooled and that Tushang Ancient City lacked martial virtue and tricked him with a defective Secret Technique.
Shen Can hadn’t expected that among over four hundred possible scenarios he devised, only one was needed to trap him.
Of course, he had to speak a fair word for the opportunistic possessor.
The guy wasn’t bad.
His comprehension of the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban was actually quite good; he just hadn’t realized over four hundred variations.
"You better say, did you know this Secret Technique a long time ago, quickly say yes, quickly say yes!"
The Spiritual Ban Network shrank to a size of over ten feet, with a ball of golden light trapped inside, two large vacant eyes staring fixedly at Shen Can.
Just like a prisoner in the celestial prison, longing for the outside world.
"Speak up!"
"My three thousand Source Stones, those were cobbled together after selling the master."
"It’s sinful!"
"I’m a Tier Five Witch Artifact, why won’t you refine me, why!"
"Refine me, quickly refine me."
...
While the golden figure continued its incessant chatter, Shen Can had already perceived the entire Artifact Spirit World.
The scenes within this world could completely correspond to the forging process of Bone-Birth Alchemy.
In other words, this guy in front of him was indeed refined into a Witch Artifact alive.
Just, due to other opportunities, he acquired the Secret Technique of the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban, quietly waiting for the destined person to arrive, intending to possess another.
No wonder the first time they met, it resonated with his Divine Sense; it was intentional seduction.
After confirming there was nothing special about the Artifact Spirit Space, Shen Can prepared to deal with this Artifact Spirit.
"Hey hey..."
The struggling golden figure saw Shen Can raise his hand and felt the confining network further shrink.
He immediately ceased his madness, with fright showing in his eyes.
"Wait!"
"Stop, I am willing to be an Artifact Spirit!"
"Ah!"
Before finishing his words, the golden figure began to struggle again, attempting to marshal his Divine Sense Power to resist Shen Can’s descending hand.
Clang!
Within the Artifact Spirit World, a series of booming sounds rang out, and the trapped golden figure continually suffered heavy blows.
Dragging the Spiritual Ban Net that confined him, he started to flee around recklessly, but regardless of how he avoided, the Artifact Spirit World kept him imprisoned here.
He was again locked inside the Spiritual Ban Net, having to endure Shen Can’s attacks over and over.
"If it weren’t for the calamity I suffered, how could I endure your humiliation!"
"Human Race, at worst, let’s perish together!"
The golden figure, which had just gained a bit of backbone, saw Shen Can’s figure twisting, instantly understanding that he intended to leave the Artifact Spirit World.
He hurriedly shouted, "Wait, don’t go!"
"I’ve already said I’m willing to be an Artifact Spirit, I am a Witch Artifact refined by a Secret Technique, you can’t be ignorant about it.
"I’ve yielded, what more do you want!"
He was really scared that if Shen Can left and completely sealed him here, that would be practically life imprisonment.
"Release your Divine Sense, let me imprint the Slave Seal."
"No way, absolutely no way!"
The golden figure exploded; being an Artifact Spirit was humiliating enough, but becoming a slave was something he absolutely refused to accept!
"Then let us die together!"
With those words, the golden figure began to swell.
Then, one by one, Witch Runes lit up; they were the Witch Runes of Bone-Birth Alchemy, shining golden light over the golden figure, immediately deflating his swelling.
"You’ve also practiced Bone-Birth Alchemy!" (Cracked voice)
Bone-Birth Alchemy had indeed refined him into a Witch Artifact, and the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban was his way of obtaining new life; both Secret Techniques were extremely rare.
They were scarcely seen even in Tushang Ancient City.
Damn it, what a curse, how could he encounter someone possessing both Secret Techniques.
Yes, a human!
Bone-Birth Alchemy could allow other creatures to comprehend it; it was his intentional move, as long as one had a median-level talent of Tier Five, at most a few hundred years would suffice to grasp this technique.
With the verification of this technique, supplemented by his skull which had become a Witch Artifact, who among Martial Artists or Wizards would refuse an additional Witch Artifact?
He believed he concealed the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban quite well, and that the Human Race before him wouldn’t possibly uncover it without practicing this Secret Technique.
The key was knowing the counter-measures of this technique, which even he didn’t know!
"To live or die."
Shen Can’s voice rang again, not because he covets the Tier Five Witch Artifact, he covets this Artifact Spirit.
An Artifact Spirit converted from a Tier Five Grand Witch Priest possesses formidable Divine Sense Power, and he couldn’t guarantee that by force he could fully extract its memories.
Moreover, Shen Can was very interested in "Bone-Birth Alchemy"; he had an immature idea and planned to experiment.
"Live."
The golden figure hesitated for a moment and then spoke.
No struggle, as struggling was useless.
He knew if he sought death, he would truly die.
Tier Five Creatures don’t joke around.
Besides, he was really tired; having plotted for years only to run into such an apt Human Race was heaven’s hand in his doom.
Otherwise, what about these two Secret Techniques?
...
In the Side Hall.
"Jinze pays respect to the master."
The skull hovered with a humanoid figure emerging atop.
While speaking, he discreetly surveyed the scene within the hall, noticing a pile of Beast Hide Scrolls and wooden racks.
In his eyes, they were all fairly ordinary items, ones he wouldn’t spare a glance for in the past.
Previously to avoid alerting the snake, he had continually confined himself within the Witch Artifact, waiting for his prey to take the bait.
Unexpectedly, although the bait was indeed taken, it ended up in his mouth.
Sweeping his Divine Sense over, Jinze discovered that among the Beast Hide Scrolls were various Cultivation Techniques, Secret Techniques, and even Tier One ones.
The key was that almost all these Cultivation Techniques were fragments.
Additionally, there were numerous records of deduction processes, diverse in type, documented messily.
As his Divine Sense followed through the main hall, he spotted the nearby Ancestral Temple.
This led Jinze to speculate on what his new master was engaged in.
"Have a seat."
"No need; standing is fine."
Jinze replied; he dared not act out, for in the Great Wilderness, he felt there was no more pitiful Artifact Spirit than him.
Not only imprinted with the Slave Seal but also possessed two layers of Secret Technique Lock blessing the Witch Artifact; life and death were in the master’s hands, and he had to be obedient.
Fortunately, after years of experience with the former master, he was long used to being an Artifact Slave.
Shen Can felt Jinze’s Divine Sense fluctuations and looked up at him, "Do you wish to counteract against me?"
"Oh! Absolutely not!"
Seeing Shen Can look over, Jinze hastily said, "Heaven can be my witness, I have no desire to counteract the master, I am just thinking about the Martial Artist who refined me into a Witch Artifact."
"If I have the intent to counteract, may my soul scatter and die painfully!"
"From now on, I shall be the master’s most loyal Artifact Slave, if the master commands me to go east, I will never go west, if instructed to fight a dragon, I shall not fight a bird."