“But I never expected this Plague Demon King to practice alchemy too. It’s truly surprising.”
Ling Xiao sighed and began to search for something useful to him.
However, the voice of Plague Demon King Martial Soul didn’t stop: “Master, that jade token should be related to a certain ancient inheritance treasure trove. It’s very likely to be one of the keys to opening that inheritance treasure trove. The Plague Demon King had also just obtained that thing. He had no time to study it.”
“Treasure trove? Interesting, I like treasures the most!”
For martial artists, a treasure trove meant that there was a possibility of finding divine artifacts or martial arts manuals or even rare worldly treasures.
One should know that the Profound Realm had a history of over 100,000 years. During this period of history, there had been several blank periods and only a very few records in history.
Especially the things left behind by the experts of the Human King’s generation, no one had discovered them so far.
Ling Xiao injected his soul power into the jade token to examine it, and he discovered that he could indeed vaguely see a place, which resembled a tomb. However, the picture was incomplete and it was also not very clear. Therefore, he temporarily couldn’t judge where it was located now.
Besides, Ling Xiao’s understanding of the Profound Realm was too little at present.
Even the understanding of the Heavenly Dragon Continent alone was too little.
Therefore, even if the picture was clear and complete, he might not necessarily recognize the location.
Store it first, and slowly study it later. In any case, without this key, even if the other people find the treasure trove, it’s impossible to obtain it.
“Then, what’s this damaged umbrella?”
Ling Xiao asked.
“That’s ‘Plague Umbrella’ used by the Plague Demon King in the past. It’s a divine-grade spirit artifact!”
What! It’s actually a spirit artifact! Moreover, a divine-grade spirit artifact!
Ling Xiao was shocked.
No wonder he felt a terrifying aura pouring into his body, seemingly wanting to destroy him, when he touched that damaged umbrella.
Fortunately, he had the Landscape Martial Soul and this aura instantly became useless.
This actually turned out to be a divine-grade spirit artifact. He truly hadn’t expected it.
However, the Plague Demon King was cunning enough. He had placed this damaged umbrella here in case someone broke into this place and tried to snatch his treasures. At that time, once this damaged umbrella was touched, the terrifying aura that suddenly erupted would be enough to instantly kill this person.
But it was a pity that the person who came here was Ling Xiao, and his trick failed.
“I can’t use this thing.”
Ling Xiao thought that he had found a good treasure and was overjoyed. However, when he tried to move it, there was basically no effect at all.
It seemed that the things written in the book were correct. Only Celestial Realm powerhouses could use spirit artifacts. Although this Plague Umbrella was damaged and lost a lot of power, it should still be on the level of a common-grade spirit artifact at the worst. It was not something he, a Transcendent Realm martial artist, could use.”
In the past, he had heard from Yang Danlin that the most powerful treasure of the Moonlight Sect was the Moonlight Sword, which was a guardian treasure.
But it was just an excellent-grade spirit artifact.
And in the sect, most of the elders and even the current Sect Master used just divine-grade treasured artifacts.
As said before, the martial artifacts were divided into Treasured Artifact—Spirit Artifact—True Artifact—Supreme Artifact—Heavenly Law Artifact.
Some people in the Secular World called the latter two as Immortal Artifact and Divine Artifact.
In addition, each grade was further divided into common grade—excellent grade—rare grade—immortal grade—divine grade.
For instance, Ling Xiao’s Ice Dragon Sword was a rare-grade treasured artifact, Floating Snow Sword was an excellent-grade treasured artifact, and the Plague Umbrella was a common-grade spirit artifact.
He had seen a lot of treasures so far, but this was the first time he had seen a spirit artifact.
According to the information in the Moonlight Sect, the strongest martial artifact in the Heavenly Dragon Continent was probably a spirit artifact. He had never heard of an artifact that was of a higher grade than the spirit artifact.
In the sects, treasured artifacts were the most common, moreover, most of them were treasured artifacts below rare grade.
Only those with deep inheritance or the people on the level of sect elders or Sect Masters possessed the immortal-grade treasured artifacts and divine-grade artifacts.
Once such a thing appeared in the world, that would definitely trigger a war to obtain it.
“I never expected this damaged umbrella to be a spirit artifact. However, even if it was a treasured artifact, it might not have been useful. It’s better to use it as a material to forge a better sword for me…”
If the Plague Demon King knew that Ling Xiao actually planned to use his magic weapon as a material to forge a sword, he might have probably died in anger.
However, Ling Xiao didn’t care about what a dead person would think. He had already made the decision.
At this stage, the spirit artifact was meaningless for him. Because he couldn’t use it, it was just trash.
Speaking of spirit artifacts, he suddenly recalled the iron plate, which contained terrifying killing intent, he accidentally obtained in the Hollow Cloud City.
Now that he thought about it, that terrifying killing intent was more frightening than the Plague Umbrella’s aura.
Could it be that that iron plate is actually a treasure of higher grade than a spirit artifact?
Ling Xiao looked in the Landscape World and saw that that iron plate was stuck in a rock, standing straight between heaven and earth, continuously emitting terrifying killing intent.
Forget it, this thing is very dangerous. Let’s study it slowly later.
He continued to plunder the Plague Demon King’s treasure trove. Among them, there were over ten thousand low-grade spirit stones, over a thousand mid-grade spirit stones and over a hundred high-grade spirit stones.
He naturally took them all.
In addition, there were also several martial art manuals, which were all demonic arts of the True Demon Empire, and they were gold-grade martial arts. Unfortunately, the cultivation method was completely different from the Human Race’s martial arts. He had no intention to cultivate them, but he still stored them and see if he could auction them later.
He believed that there were many people in the Profound Realm that cultivated the demonic arts.
Finally, he collected the gold and silver.
In any case, his Landscape World was very big. Although gold and silver had not much use to martial artists, they were not completely useless.
…………
After thoroughly plundering the Plague Demon King’s treasury, Ling Xiao went to look for Shangguan Lei.
It could be said that there were many twists and turns in this task. Wan Yanjun and Chen Zui easily surrendered to the enemy side. They simply had no spine at all.
However, that was also good. Ling Xiao didn’t need to kill them in person.
Moreover, those two people’s rare-grade treasured artifacts and that Golden Brick became Ling Xiao’s trophy.
At this moment, Shangguan Lei was unconscious. Probably because the battle just now was too fierce and he couldn’t endure that terrifying aura, he had fainted.
One had to say that this person was lucky.
If he had insisted on walking on the dark path like Wan Yanjun and Chen Zui, then he might have reached the bad end of being swallowed by the Plague Demon King.
Fortunately, he kept his bottom line and stood together with Ling Xiao, which saved his life.
Although he had lost one leg, that was not a problem. A Transcendent Realm martial artist could use a puppet technique to attach prosthetic limbs to himself, moreover, it was very easy to use.
In the past, Ling Xiao had destroyed nearly one-third of Hei Suo’s body, but later, those parts were all forged with puppet materials.
Since Hei Suo could do it, Shangguan Lei could also do it. Moreover, he had just lost one leg. The other places were basically intact.
