Chapter 508: Chapter 224: Demon Dao Restriction: Cracking the Storage Ring

Xiao Chen reached out, took them, and stored them in his Vast Sea Ring.

"It was no trouble at all. We were just offering what little help we could."

Qiu Fanghui hurriedly interjected, "What should we do next? We await your instructions, Taoist."

That was indeed the crucial question.

There were about six days left. Continuing to travel with this squad didn’t seem appropriate.

Xiao Chen himself didn’t mind, but they might get caught in the crossfire later on.

With this in mind, he decided to be direct to gauge their reactions. "I plan on heading to the core region to see if I can contend for the Relic’s inheritance."

Upon hearing this, Yu Zhenyang and Ma Wenbo exchanged a look.

They had been reluctant to venture into the core region in the first place, let alone fight over an inheritance.

Qiu Fanghui, however, immediately declared his position. "Golden Light Taoist, your strength is profound. In my opinion, if you make a move, victory is a foregone conclusion."

Previously, whenever he said something like this, someone would quickly chime in to agree.

This time, however, he was met with silence.

Cao Mingjie was still shaken and had no desire to go to the core region either.

Receiving no answer was, in itself, an answer.

Xiao Chen immediately understood what they were thinking. "If you don’t want to go, you can explore other areas."

As he spoke, he took out sixteen Tier Three Spirit Fruits he had obtained in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm. "I have some Spirit Fruits here. You can split them as a reward for helping me collect the Treasure Pearls."

After all, they had spent several hours opening the Traveling Palace. He wanted to show his appreciation in some way.

"No, no, that’s not necessary."

Yu Zhenyang waved his hands dismissively. "We didn’t really do anything. If anything, we should be thanking you, Golden Light Taoist. Without your help, we would have been killed by those Demon Beasts long ago."

"Helping you afterward was the least we could do. How could we have the nerve to accept your Spirit Fruits on top of that?"

This time, even Qiu Fanghui refused. "Yu is right. I think so too."

After he finished, the group fell silent for a moment.

"Alright, if you don’t want them, then forget it."

Xiao Chen put away the Spirit Fruits and waved a hand toward the exit. "Then let’s not waste any more time. Go on and explore the side palaces."

"Let’s part ways here. May we meet again if fate allows."

With that, he went back to focusing on breaking into the Storage Rings.

There were six Storage Rings in total, and cracking them would take about eighteen shichen—a day and a half.

Thankfully, the Relic was open for a full seven days, leaving him plenty of time to see if the other Huo Family Cultivators were carrying any important clues.

Or if they had anything useful he might need later.

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As was his habit, Xiao Chen first used his Divine Sense to take stock of the Spirit Stones.

’Huh? Why are they all so poor?’

The six Storage Rings combined held just over 327,000 low-grade Spirit Stones.

As for Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, there wasn’t a single one.

Some of the wealthier Foundation Establishment Cultivators had fortunes of this size.

’Where did all their money go? Don’t tell me they spent it all on Talismans?’

Xiao Chen spotted dozens of different Talismans at a glance.

Among them were the rarer finds: three Glazed Fire Purification Talismans and six Golden Sealed Turtle Shell Talismans, for a total of nine Defense Talismans.

The battle had simply ended too quickly, so they hadn’t had a chance to use any of these items.

To better explore the Relic, they had prepared not only numerous Talismans but also a considerable number of Elixirs and Array Plates.

And unlike the cultivation-boosting Elixirs Xiao Chen usually saw...

...of the nineteen full bottles of Spirit Pills, half were Essence Replenishing Pills, used for rapidly restoring True Essence.

The rest were elixirs like Wood Element Pills, Dragon Power Pills, and Green Frost Pills, all meant to temporarily boost a Cultivator’s combat strength.

The temporary Array Plates, on the other hand, were quite impressive.

There was the Yan Character Return Array for defense, the Xuanhuang Reversal Array for breaking through the Relic’s Restrictions, and even a Slaughter Array called the Red Sky Breaking Technique.

’These all seem pretty good. I might be able to use them shortly.’

Xiao Chen nodded in satisfaction, putting away the Array Plates and Array Maps.

Judging from the Array Map, this Xuanhuang Reversal Array was in no way inferior to Yu Zhenyang’s Yin Yang Separation Forbidden Array.

Now that he would be acting alone, he had a quick way to deal with any Restrictions he might encounter.

’Huh, what’s this?’

Xiao Chen picked up a long, narrow Token. He saw two words inscribed on the front—’Treasure Gathering’—while the back depicted a tall building.

Upon closer inspection, he saw it was the Treasure House in the West Market, the one that restricted entry to ordinary Cultivators.

’So this is a Treasure Gathering Order.’

Xiao Chen looked it over. ’It’s a shame I got this a bit late. I wonder if there are Treasure House branches in other places, and if this Token is universal.’

He had already decided to lay low, so he definitely didn’t have time to visit the West Market on this trip.

Still, he could save it for his next visit. A small item like this didn’t take up much space anyway.

’The Vast Sea Ring really is amazing,’ he thought. ’All this space is so convenient.’

In addition, the Storage Rings also contained a Fragment, two small porcelain vials, three Spiritual Artifacts, and three Spirit Storage Boxes.

As for the other useless miscellaneous items, Xiao Chen simply incinerated them all with a ball of fire.

First, he picked up the Fragment. It was cool to the touch. He could see a partial image of a green pine tree and a pavilion on its face. He figured the complete image must have depicted a mountain peak.

There were a few characters on the inner side, but only three small words remained: "Guard My Homeland."

After them was a fragment of another character with a fire radical, possibly part of the character for ’refine,’ but it was impossible to be certain.

Next, Xiao Chen opened the two small porcelain vials.

Inside, he found they contained Earth Vein Essence Milk and Moonlight Frost, respectively.

The former was a milky-white Spiritual Liquid that accumulated in the core of an underground Spirit Ore vein.

It could be used to nourish a Golden Core and accelerate cultivation, or as a key ingredient in Alchemy.

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