Chapter 735: Chapter 281: A Dead Dragon Cannot Be Resurrected (Part 2)

Compared to those captive-bred Death Warriors, the Storage Rings of these traitors contained a much wider variety and assortment of items.

For example, one of them carried over a dozen jars of different Tier Three Spirit Wines in their Storage Ring.

Another had collected the corpses of several dozen types of venomous snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, and spiders.

Yet another had filled their Storage Ring with numerous dresses, ribbons, and sachets all treated with incense powder, as well as some pink bodices embroidered with mandarin ducks.

Of course, there were also the usual Elixirs, Talismans, and Cultivation Techniques.

By Xiao Chen’s estimation, selling it all off would probably fetch over a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

More importantly, among the first eight Storage Rings, there were only a paltry two Spirit Storage Boxes.

However, the last and most complex Storage Ring not only contained two Spirit Storage Boxes, but also two Sheepskin Scrolls, two small booklets, and a letter.

Having learned from his experience with Copper Kui, Xiao Chen opened the letter directly this time.

It was still written in that same tone of a superior giving orders to a subordinate.

It ordered the Cultivator named Copper Wolf to follow the Nautical Chart and hurry to a place called Zhiyi Cave.

He was then to use the Xin Jin Treasure Gourd and its accompanying Secret Technique to retrieve the item inside and deliver it to Golden Simurgh.

’An accompanying Secret Technique?’

Xiao Chen picked up the two untitled booklets.

He opened the first one, only to find it wasn’t the so-called Secret Technique but rather a collection of insights on Arrays.

Furthermore, it wasn’t a complete work. Instead, it seemed to be a book of excerpts, hand-copied from some original text to record personal insights.

It was basically a personal journal, the kind where you jot down thoughts as they come, with almost no connection between the entries.

However, Xiao Chen noticed the term "Sun Storage Stone" was mentioned frequently.

This meant that several of the Arrays being studied used this special Spirit Ore, which was unique to the Mojie Sect.

’Could this guy be a traitor from the Mojie Sect?’

Xiao Chen grew curious. ’But he didn’t seem to be recognized back in the Relic. Does that mean they’re studying the Mojie Sect’s Arrays?’

Generally, such research was done for two reasons.

The first, naturally, was to learn. After all, the Array Dao was a very popular Dao Skill.

As for the second reason, it was undoubtedly to find loopholes in an Array or to study how to break it.

Usually, this implied that a targeted operation would follow.

’I hope it’s not the second case.’

Xiao Chen offered a sincere prayer.

He then flipped open the second booklet and, unsurprisingly, saw the so-called Secret Technique.

’Mirror suspended in eight directions, channeling spirit to suppress the fiend?’

’Bound in a returning loop, to expel evil and ward off the fiend?’

’Qi coils through the Nine Palaces, to dissolve the fiend into emptiness?’

HISS—!

Xiao Chen was completely baffled. ’What is this Secret Technique for? It can’t be for fighting Evil Qi, can it?’

’Could it be...’

His spirits immediately lifted, and he grabbed the two Sheepskin Scrolls.

The first was identical to the one he had given away earlier, marking the movement route of a Giant Sea Beast.

The second resembled an Ancient Sea Map, with a conspicuous island marked by a red circle amidst a large black and white area.

Overall, the island was located in the middle of the Compassion Sea, very close to Pudu Temple.

No wonder the Sea Race needed to commission traitors to infiltrate; it was nearly impossible to get there without being spotted by the nearby Monks.

In terms of direction, the center corresponds to the Earth Attribute. This could even be an Earth Fiend.

’Damn, now I have to go.’

In truth, after receiving a similar mission before, Xiao Chen hadn’t been very keen on getting involved.

He didn’t know much about the Sea Race and had no desire to get entangled with them.

The problem was, that was mainly because he wasn’t particularly interested in the Ancient Cave Mansion. Now that it involved Evil Qi, it was a different matter entirely.

He didn’t know what the Sea Race wanted to do with the Evil Qi they collected.

But that didn’t matter. Since Xiao Chen now possessed this information, there was no way he would just hand it over.

The Sea Race might have trouble going near Pudu Temple, but he had no such reservations.

Besides, something like Evil Qi was a naturally occurring phenomenon. It belonged to no one, so of course, it was finders keepers.

’Excellent!’

Xiao Chen carefully examined the Nautical Chart one more time before putting it away in his Vast Sea Ring.

’I really should participate in more Secret Realms and Relics. Look, another new clue has fallen right into my lap!’

Although the clue wasn’t directly related to the Relic, he had still obtained it inside one, hadn’t he?

PHEW—!

Xiao Chen took a deep breath to calm himself, then turned his gaze to the last four Spirit Storage Boxes.

He picked up the first two Treasure Boxes and opened them one by one.

The first thing he saw was a crystal-clear Dao Crystal. Unfortunately, it was of the Water element.

Fortunately, Xiao Chen currently had a good number of Wood Element Dao Crystals on hand, so while it was a small regret, it wasn’t a big deal.

Then he saw three thick pieces of Rich Turtle Shell Armor.

This material came from the very center of a Sea Turtle Shell. Its most distinct feature was that its shape was almost identical to a large copper coin.

It was one of the rarer materials for Artifact Refining.

"Sigh."

Xiao Chen sighed softly. At times like this, he always felt a pang of regret that he wasn’t an Artifact Refiner.

Truthfully, the disciplines of Pill, Artifact, Talisman, and Array didn’t conflict with one another.

A Cultivator could learn whichever they pleased, and in theory, could even master them all for comprehensive development.

The only difficulty lay in whether one could actually learn so many things at once.

The problem was, Xiao Chen didn’t really have much free time to devote to cultivating these skills.

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