“What is this thing?” Su Banshi dug a stone box out of the floor tiles. The stone box was sealed very well. Su Banshi tried hard to open it, but found it extremely hard. Even with his power as a high grade Emperor, he could not pry it open. This made him exclaim in surprise. He handed the stone box to Ye Chu and asked, “Can you open it?”
Ye Chu took it and found the stone box to be very heavy. Such a small piece weighed a hundred jin, obviously possessing an astonishing density.
Looking at the tightly sealed stone box, Ye Chu poured his strength into it, wanting to open it, but found that no matter how hard he tried, he could not pry it open.
“Huh!” Ye Chu was also very curious. His power was so surging that he could lift an entire mountain, yet he actually could not pry open the stone box.
“The Poison Insect Sect kept this stone box very well. It was placed in the floor tiles and disguised with them. It seems it is no ordinary item.”
Ye Chu nodded. The fact that it could withstand the combined strength of the two of them was enough to show its extraordinariness.
“I wonder what is inside!” Su Banshi asked curiously, “Do you have any way to open it?”
Ye Chu thought for a moment and suddenly threw the stone box into the air. At the same time he threw it, a green lotus suddenly appeared in his hand. The green lotus shot out at a terrifying speed and fiercely collided with it.
“Boom…”
With a loud crash, the collision tore the stone box apart. Shards of stone shot in all directions. The green lotus fell back into Ye Chu’s palm, and a piece of black silk fluttered down from the air.
Su Banshi picked up the shattered and scattered stones. Looking at the black silk that had fallen into Ye Chu’s palm, he asked, “What is this thing?”
Ye Chu examined the black silk. As his hand touched it, he felt that it actually contained a trace of the aura of laws.
Seeing that the silk was bizarre, Su Banshi also reached out to take a look. But the moment his finger touched the silk, wrinkles appeared on his finger. This made Su Banshi’s eyes twitch. He quickly let go and looked at the silk in Ye Chu’s hand with fear.
“This silk can obliterate a person’s vitality!” As he spoke, Su Banshi circulated his blood and energy to smooth out the wrinkles on his finger, but he did not dare to touch the silk ever again.
Ye Chu had felt the laws on it, but he had not expected it to be a law that could obliterate human vitality. This made him frown, and his gaze was quickly attracted to a spot on the silk.
That spot was a dark spring. The dark spring gurgled and flowed, and all around it were piles of white bones, which was in stark contrast to the fresh vitality brought by the spring.
Seeing Ye Chu standing there in a daze, Su Banshi gently pushed him with worry and asked, “Are you alright?”
Ye Chu shook his head. The gurgling spring looked too familiar, and it was no different from the holy liquid. Those piles of white bones were definitely from people who had coveted the holy liquid.
Thinking about how wrinkles appeared on Su Banshi’s finger the moment he touched the silk, Ye Chu became even more certain. He examined the silk and compared it with the four types of holy liquid he had obtained, only to find that the holy liquids he had were all different from this dark spring.
“Could it be that this is the hiding place of the fifth holy liquid?” Ye Chu looked at the towering mountains and deep valleys on the picture and thought of a possibility.
“Did you see anything?” Su Banshi asked Ye Chu.
“It might be a map, but I am not sure either. I need to study it slowly to know for sure,” Ye Chu said to Su Banshi.
Su Banshi nodded and did not put his mind on this matter. He started looking for other things!
Ye Chu also found a type of ore among them, the Green Butterfly Fire Ore. When this ore was burned, it could produce flames in the shape of green butterflies, nurturing a profoundly terrifying fire intent. It was perfectly suitable for Ye Chu.
After searching here for a while longer and not finding anything else he could use, Ye Chu stopped paying attention. He had Yang Tangting lead people to transport these things back, and then he returned to the Imperial Palace.
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The news of the annihilation of the Poison Insect Sect immediately shocked this region. The Poison Insect Sect had been deeply rooted here for hundreds of years, and no one dared to enter their lair. The Poison Insect Sect had once declared that any cultivator below the Xuanhua Realm who entered would undoubtedly die.
No one had expected that the Imperial Palace actually had the ability to penetrate deep into the lair of the Poison Insect Sect and wipe it out directly. Did this mean that the Imperial Palace had a Xuanhua Realm expert guarding it?
The Imperial Palace immediately became highly prestigious and truly became the overlord within a radius of a thousand miles. No sect dared to provoke them. Quite a few sects also wanted to submit to the Imperial Palace.
The Imperial Palace gradually got on the right track. With the resources of the Poison Insect Sect, the Imperial Palace had abundant resources in the short term, which was enough for the Imperial Palace to grow stronger.
Tan Miaotong and the others also relaxed, watching the Imperial Palace grow stronger with each passing day.
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Returning to the Imperial Palace and enjoying some rare leisure, Ye Chu spent quite a bit of time studying the black silk. He felt more and more that this was the map to the location of the holy liquid. However, Ye Chu could not tell where this place was. He also asked Zhong Wei, but she did not know either.
Ye Chu was not surprised by this. Zhong Wei had never left the Red Dust Domain. Even if she had read extensively, it did not necessarily mean she was familiar with the terrain of every domain.
Ye Chu also cultivated daily, and nothing bothered him during this time. Occasionally, he spent time with Tan Miaotong. When he was with her, Ye Chu’s bottleneck would loosen slightly, just like when Zhong Wei danced, which made Ye Chu puzzled.
Ye Jingyun still used Ji Die to scare him every day, but Ye Chu did not care about this. He thought that she was worried a few days ago, but after so many days without seeing Ji Die, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance she was lying. If he were to be scared by her again, he would truly be a fool.
Zhong Wei was also very happy during this time, but she was equally worried. Her identity was sensitive. If the Emperor’s people found this place, it would be fundamentally difficult to resist them with the strength of these people here.
But every time she said this, Ye Chu would laugh and tell her that he wished the Emperor would come in person.
Ye Chu’s attitude made Zhong Wei feel helpless. She had not seen any power in Xia Mountain that could resist the Emperor.
Seeing Zhong Wei so anxious, Ye Chu did not explain. He thought to himself that there were so many Shaman Clan spirits in Xia Mountain, including many terrifying existences. If the Emperor did not come, then fine. If he did come, the Shaman Clan members controlling them could absolutely take his life.
Xiang Fu led a group of people and did not leave the Shaman Clan Holy Land. They stayed there, and apart from cultivating, they were mastering the heritage left behind by the Shaman Clan.
Ye Chu had visited the Shaman Clan Holy Land once. At this time, because everyone had obtained the inheritance, the Shaman Clan Holy Land was full of vitality, faintly showing the shadow of a peerless great clan.
Given enough time, the Shaman Clan would absolutely be able to become a terrifying existence no less than any holy land.
The Imperial Palace looked weak, but no one could imagine that a giant dragon was hidden within Xia Mountain.
Of course, many people in the Imperial Palace did not know this. Except for a few people like Ye Jingyun and Tan Miaotong, people outside the Shaman Clan did not know this. They only regarded the Imperial Palace as an ordinary sect, just one with extremely abundant resources.
“Ye Chu!” Tan Miaotong snuggled against Ye Chu. She opened her mouth, but suddenly fell silent again, hesitating to speak. Her red lips were tender and alluring.