Chapter 527 - 317: Subduing the Giant Spirit Guard! Gaining the Underground Palace Core!

Inside the gold plate were stored two Giant Spirit Guards, while the jade ring contained numerous treasures; neither of the Worlds in the Palm permitted him to attempt anything.

He pondered for a long time.

"I can only leave them here for now..."

He summoned the Primordial Artifact and flew out of the underground Ice Cave.

He was not worried about the Cold Abyss Nether Flame being taken, as merely getting close to the Cold Pool was impossible for those in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm.

As for breaking through the Cold Pool into the underground Ice Cave, that terrifying cold was something even a National Guardian Realm figure like the ancestral master couldn’t withstand.

The Yan Imperial Mausoleum was built relying on the Cold Abyss Nether Flame, which already proved how terrifying the cold of the Nether Flame was.

Back then, Great Yan couldn’t move the Nether Flame and thus could only build the Imperial Mausoleum based on its location.

Flying out of the Cold Pool, Chu Ming didn’t linger and swiftly flew out of the Cold Abyss, arriving at the entrance of the Imperial Mausoleum Palace.

At the entrance of the palace, dried blood and ruins revealed three broken corpses.

Chu Ming stood suspended in the air, heart thought stirred, communicating with the Core Stone Tablet.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Below, thousands of Soldier Terracotta Warriors guarding the palace simultaneously looked upward.

Golden light, blue light, jade light...

Various Storage Space lights enveloped them, taking away groups of dark-colored Soldier Terracotta Warriors.

After a few breaths.

Chu Ming smiled, flying into the depths of the Imperial Mausoleum Palace.

Below, there were twenty thousand Soldier Terracotta Warriors total, from low grades comparable to the Blood Circulation Realm to high grades comparable to the Meridian Unlocking Realm.

Of those he had just taken away, there were three thousand, all above the Blood Circulation Realm.

With limited Storage Space, he naturally selected the superior ones.

The majority were at the Strong Bone Realm level, with three hundred at the Refining Organ Realm and fifty at the Meridian Unlocking Realm, ten of which were Lower Meridian Unlocking Realm level.

It was a pity he initially missed the three golden General Terracotta Warriors comparable to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm; otherwise, the harvest would be even greater.

"I wonder if the Imperial Mausoleum contains the refining methods for Soldier and General Terracotta Warriors; if found, perhaps those three golden Generals could be repaired."

Thinking thus, he flew into the grandest palace in the depths of the Imperial Mausoleum — the Yan Imperial Palace.

Through the Core Stone Tablet, he knew the Yan Imperial Palace was indeed the treasure trove of the Yan Imperial Mausoleum.

The golden doors gleamed brightly before him, blocking his path, and Chu Ming wasted no words, blasting forth a palm.

Boom!

The golden doors shattered.

Stepping inside, dazzling jewels greeted him.

Mountains of gold and silver met his gaze, but that was all; the treasures and elixirs had been taken by Yan Huan, now within Chu Ming’s jade ring.

Chu Ming selectively took the relatively valuable items and continued deeper into the palace.

Beyond the mountains of gold was a library, holding cultivation techniques, martial skills, secret manuals, and various ancient texts.

Seeing this scene, Chu Ming was overjoyed, for these books were far more precious to him than the gold and silver outside.

The Sword Gourd Spirit Spread out, covering all the books, probing them bit by bit.

Suddenly.

"Found it!"

He hurriedly stepped to the golden bookshelf near the center on the left, taking something from it.

"Mountain and Sea Great Wilderness Scripture·Sea Scripture..."

Bold letters appeared before his eyes, and Chu Ming eagerly flipped through.

Rustle...

Three hundred pages passed like smoke, yet they had already imprinted themselves into his Sea of Consciousness, transforming into fragments above the lake of Sea Scripture.

Chu Ming crossed his legs and seated himself, heart spirit immersed in the Sea of Consciousness, beginning to parse the contents of those three hundred pages of the Sea Scripture.

"Cangqian Continent... Ancient Profound Western Continent... Profound Ice North Continent... Ghostly Sea... Star-devouring Sea... Longli South Continent..."

Based on the first three pages of the Sea Scripture, Chu Ming gained more insight into the Cangqian Continent.

The Cangqian Continent consists of five continents and three seas: Ancient Profound Western Continent, Profound Ice North Continent, Longli South Continent, with Ghostly Sea and Star-devouring Sea between these continents.

The newly acquired three hundred pages of the Sea Scripture provided a more detailed supplement on Profound Ice North Continent and Ghostly Sea, while also recording parts of Longli South Continent and Star-devouring Sea.

Chu Ming spent more than a whole day before basically decoding all three hundred pages of Ancient Shell Script.

"Five continents, three seas..."

He pondered, recalling the words of the Primordial Qi Warriors Black Ash and Ice Bone he killed regarding the Cangqian Continent’s Black and White Divine Palace.

The six hundred pages of the Sea Scripture hadn’t mentioned the Cangqian Continent or the Black and White Divine Palace.

"By the naming convention of the Sea Scripture regarding each continent, Cangqian Continent could very well be what the Sea Scripture referred to as... Central Continent."

"Cangqian Middle Continent, Black and White Divine Palace?"

He gazed forward, brows slightly furrowed.

Then, flipping through the books and jade slips from the Storage of Black Ash and Ice Bone, he examined them carefully.

After a lengthy period.

"Outer Palace disciple?"

Upon careful scrutiny, despite being Primordial Qi Warriors of the Fifth Realm Primordial Qi Seed Realm, they were merely Outer Palace disciples of the Black and White Divine Palace.

If the Outer Palace disciples’ realm was already this high, how about the great figures within the Outer Palace? Is there also an Inner Palace within the Outer Palace?

As he contemplated, an indefinable pressure began to encircle his heart.

"The rate of power increase is still too slow..."

Chu Ming recalled Old Man Shi and the silver-haired elder he met on Yan Mountain before entering the Underground Palace.

The Sword Gourd Spirit Probe revealed they were just ordinary elders, but Chu Ming knew they definitely were not.

Meeting like that seemed coincidental; in fact, there were many oddities.