Chapter 795: Treasure vault

Standing in front of the Daoist temple, Gu Qing Shan looked up.

The wall of the Daoist temple was raised as tall as the sky itself so he wasn’t able to see the end.

According to the subsystem of this world, the Daoist temple was the vault that stored the cultivation scriptures and weapons from the Bygone Era.

But because this world was under constant control of the Desolate race, no human cultivator had ever made it here.

——–no.

From what I found out, it wasn’t under the control of the Desolate race, it was under the Soul Shrieker’s split body.

From a power perspective, the Soul Shrieker’s split body was unbeatable in the Desolate race and had the ability to slaughter Divinity like killing chickens.

But it allowed Xie Gu Hong’s group to enter this place.

Gu Qing Shan paused briefly before acting.

He pressed his hand on the door of the Daoist temple.

A voice came from the door.

[Welcome, human civilian, little boy]

[This venue stores many cultivation-type scripture inheritance and treasures, a total of 36 floors. Each floor has its own kinds of treasures and scriptures]

[Attention please, you may only choose one treasure when you enter]

[Some treasures have a certain level of recoil characteristic, some treasures will choose their own masters, as well as various other circ.u.mstances]

[Make sure to be careful, remember it well, remember!]

Rumble!

The door opened to either side.

Gu Qing Shan entered the Daoist temple.

The first floor of the Daoist temple was empty. There was only a single warp formation at the very center.

Gu Qing Shan scanned through with his inner sight.

This was a short-distance warp formation.

Short-distance warp formations were the simplest of all the formations, so much so that this formation from the Bygone Era wasn’t that different from how they exist in the future.

The warp formation was already engraved with spirit stones by someone else, so they were ready to operate at any moment.

As an expert formation user, Gu Qing Shan quickly went around the formation to carefully sense the state of each spirit stone.

These spirit stones were relatively energized so they formed a gently circulating stable circuit of spirit energy.

The scattered spirit energy fluctuations around the formation have already settled down, but there was still a tiny bit of spatial fluctuation in the void of s.p.a.ce.

…half an hour.

From this fluctuation, the last time the formation was activated should be about half an hour ago.

——yes, that must have been Xie Gu Hong.

Gu Qing Shan walked into the formation.

Oong!

With a bright glow, the formation warped Gu Qing Shan away from this floor.

The second floor.

Gu Qing Shan appeared on a high platform.

He was a bit shocked to see the scenery in front of him.

A vast sea of s.h.i.+ny metals was right below the high platform.

Countless weapons and armors were piled up there, layered one upon another, too many to even try and count.

There was no way to see how deep this pile of artifacts was.

Even with Gu Qing Shan’s eyesight, all he could see was a platform at a distance extremely far away.

Gu Qing Shan leapt off the high platform and used [Ground Shrink]!

He didn’t bother to look at this ‘sea’ of treasures a second time.

——-the burly man specifically waited at the entrance to this word to obstruct him.

Since that was the case, Gu Qing Shan decided to move as quickly as possible to see what exactly happened!

A second later, Gu Qing Shan made it past this sea of artifacts and reached another high platform.

Another warp formation.

The various slots on this formation have also been engraved full of spirit stones.

Gu Qing Shan stood on it and was instantly warped away.

He left the 2nd floor and reached the 3rd floor.

This floor was different from the previous one.

Innumerable talismans silently hovered below the high platform.

The Elemental talismans glowed with the appropriate Elemental color.

Reinforcement types talismans weren’t glowing as countless runes flickered in and out of the void of s.p.a.ce around them instead.

Spatial talismans have all gathered in one place to form a warped and twisted subs.p.a.ce.

There were also various kinds of strange and mysterious talismans that stood alone in their corners.

Gu Qing Shan only glanced at them briefly without feeling moved.

He quickly found the high platform that led to the next floor, used [Ground Shrink] again and moved to it.

The 4th floor.

Clouds drifted about this place.

Cultivation scriptures and techniques filled the area below the high platform.

These scriptures weren’t too complicated, so they didn’t need to be taught with special recordings or engraved directly into the mind. Books were more than enough to do it.

Gu Qing Shan knew that there definitely were a few sword techniques among those books.

The Bygone Era and the Age of Old didn’t have the concept of Secret Sword Arts, as all of their sword techniques, were highly destructive and powerful.

From what he knew about swordsmans.h.i.+p over the ages, the cultivators of the future were troubled by two main factors: their cultivation was not high enough, and they didn’t have enough spirit energy. They had no choice but to use all of their wits and innovation to focus all their strength into a single strike and exert power beyond what was normally possible.

This was how Secret Sword Arts were born.

Purely from the perspective of swordsmans.h.i.+p, this was an improvement.

If the Secret Sword Arts of the future were to be taught to the ancient sword cultivators——–

Thanks to their cultivation and immense spirit energy, the Secret Arts of the future would have allowed them to unleash even more of their terrifying power.

Gu Qing Shan only hesitated for a brief moment before giving up on the idea of searching for a scripture from below.

There were more important things for him to do right now!

He quickly leapt onto the higher platform and warped to the next floor.

The 5th floor.

Spirit energy here had condensed into a stream of water that flowed around an island that exuded vitality.

This was an ancient spirit garden that cultivated all sorts of precious and rare herbs.

Sweeping through them with his inner sight, Gu Qing Shan didn’t see Xie Gu Hong here, so he once again leaped onto the high platform and moved to the next floor.

Sure enough, spirit stones have been engraved into all of the slots of the formation again.

Gu Qing Shan activated the formation and left this floor.

The 6th floor.

Countless precious Smithing materials floated in the air.

The 7th floor.

This place was filled with miniature treasure tools that could be worn on one’s body, like earrings, rings, scrunchie, gem ornaments, and other small trinkets that are usually carried around.

The 8th floor.

From this floor onwards, there were a lot fewer items.

Gu Qing Shan immediately noticed a turtle sh.e.l.l in the middle of the room.

This turtle sh.e.l.l gave off an indescribable sense of vicissitudes, it was even giving off faint strands of dim light that were drifting to the sky.

This was the highest grade of Divination tools, even a complete novice like Gu Qing Shan was able to faintly sense some images on top of it with his spirit sense.

Gu Qing Shan sighed.

I don’t know anything about Divination, but if either Xie Dao Ling or Qin Xiao Lou had this turtle sh.e.l.l, they would be able to predict everything related to Bai Hua sect for the next few hundred years.

——Gu Qing Shan suddenly thought of something.

Could it be that the Bygone Era humanity had to leave so hurriedly because they knew too much?

Shaking his head, Gu Qing Shan decided not to think too much about this.

He leapt up, landed on the platform to the next floor, casually activated the formation and left.

The 9th floor.

Sprites of dimly glowing light hovered in the air, dancing like fireflies beneath the high platform.

Seeing this, Gu Qing Shan was a bit shocked.

This was the Spirit Endowment technique from the Age of Old, each of them were a different Thaumaturgy that was made into these sprites of light.

If one wanted to obtain these techniques, they only needed to touch the sprite of light and absorb what was inside.

Certain powerful spells and techniques that can split seas and move mountains were inherited and pa.s.sed on through this method by dead cultivators.

However, the method to do this has been lost to the ages.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t have the time to search for the secret of these Spirit Endowment lights.

He once again left.

The 10th floor.

At this level, there were even fewer items than before, but they were considerably more precious.

Gu Qing Shan completely ignored every item he saw to prevent himself from being unable to restrain his desires.

He flew directly to the platform leading to the next floor.

———-the warp formation here was still engraved full of spirit stones.

Gu Qing Shan sighed emotionally.

Even after seeing so many treasures, Xie Gu Hong still didn’t care for any of them.

So what exactly was Xie Gu Hong doing?

The light of the formation flashed.

Gu Qing Shan vanished from this floor.

The 11th floor.

There were a total of 30 armors on this floor.

Even without anyone wearing them, just by standing there, these armors gave off a sense of power and charm that would tempt anyone who saw them to take them away.

Gu Qing Shan immediately left without looking back.

The 12th floor.

Over 20 pills were happily playing with each other below the high platform.

——-they had gained life and became sentient. Even without eating or drinking them, any cultivator would gain immense benefits just by carrying one of these pills on their body.

The 13th floor.

18 formation plates lightly hovered in mid-air, various supernatural phenomena manifesting around their void of s.p.a.ce where they were.

Gu Qing Shan was feeling a bit impatient.

Why isn’t there a single trace of him, which floor did Xie Gu Hong actually go to?

The 14th floor.

Numerous spirit beast summoning plates were displayed here.

Gu Qing Shan didn’t know how the Bygone Era humans guaranteed that these spirit beasts would still exist until this day.

There wasn’t much time, so he didn’t bother to investigate this.

The 15th floor.

Many jade disks hovered in the air.

These jade disks had the ability to open some Heaven’s Grotto from the Bygone Era.

Gu Qing Shan was feeling very tempted.

But Xie Gu Hong was still nowhere to be seen.

He had no choice but to keep moving forward.

The 16th floor.

“Sect master Zhao, you are here as well?”

A familiar voice called out.

Gu Qing Shan was glad.

Xie Gu Hong and the white-haired old man were standing in front of a row of jade tags.

They both turned their heads to see him.

Gu Qing Shan noticed that Xie Gu Hong was holding a bronze mirror.

Bronze… mirror?

Gu Qing Shan stepped forward and smiled: “I didn’t think this place would be an inheritance site of humanity. Palace Master Xie, did you choose this bronze mirror?”

Xie Gu Hong replied: “This was the treasure that fellow Dao seeker Lin left behind before his death”

‘Fellow Dao seeker Lin’, was referring to the burly man.

“Fellow Dao seeker Lin is dead?” Gu Qing Shan asked in surprise.

The white-haired old man answered with a heavy voice: “Fellow Dao seeker Lin chose this bronze mirror, but he pa.s.sed away from receiving the backlash from it when he tried to use it”

“Pa.s.sed away from receiving backlash…” Gu Qing Shan repeated.

Xie Gu Hong sighed: “Indeed, to find out the truth of the Divinity and the Desolate race, fellow Dao seeker Lin paid the price with his life”