Chapter 702: Chapter 273: Sheepskin Scroll - Entering a New Relic

’Forget it. What’s the point of dwelling on that?’

Xiao Chen put away the Spirit Pearls and turned his gaze to the four Spirit Storage Boxes before him. "Might as well play a thrilling game of unboxing."

’Let’s see, which one should I open first?’

From the outside, they all looked exactly the same.

So, going with his gut, Xiao Chen picked up a Spirit Storage Box and opened it.

Inside the box lay a small, triangular Array Flag. It was exquisitely crafted, its patterns arranged in neat, orderly lines.

"Huh? Why would anyone put something like this in a Spirit Storage Box?"

Xiao Chen was puzzled. ’Is this really necessary?’

Array Flags weren’t actually that easy to break.

While not as durable as Spiritual Artifacts, they certainly weren’t so fragile that a single bump would damage them.

"Hmm, next one."

Since he couldn’t immediately figure out its purpose, Xiao Chen decided to move on.

He opened the second Spirit Storage Box.

Inside was a small, pure white jade bottle.

’This Elixir... it looks familiar.’

Xiao Chen uncorked the bottle and peered inside. "This is... the Primordial Purity Life Extension Pill!"

He thought back to the Tingtao Sea auction and immediately recalled this special Tier Four Spirit Medicine.

He never expected that after all the twists and turns, this Elixir would end up in his hands.

The irony was, he didn’t really need something like this.

If he had gotten this Spirit Pill earlier, Xiao Chen would have most likely sold it for Spirit Stones.

After all, there was still a bounty of a million posted in Cangming Market.

But now... there was no way he was going to let Old Dog Yi use it to extend his life.

He recorked the jade bottle and placed it back in its box.

Xiao Chen then tossed the entire Spirit Storage Box into the depths of his Vast Sea Ring to collect dust.

That thing wouldn’t see the light of day again until after he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm and had his revenge.

Then came the third Spirit Storage Box.

Inside was a length of folded, pale yellow silk. When spread out, it measured a full ten feet long and six feet wide.

A closer look revealed that an Array Deployment Map had been embroidered onto its surface.

"Whoa! What a complex Array!"

Xiao Chen had some basic knowledge of Arrays, but looking at this Array Deployment Map was like trying to read a celestial tome—it was completely indecipherable.

The sheer number of dense, multicolored lines was enough to make his head spin.

If he wasn’t mistaken, this had to be the deployment map for a Tier Four Grand Array at the very least.

He scanned the edges of the embroidery and finally found a column of small characters at the very bottom right corner.

Six Extremes Wave-Splitting and Spirit-Returning Array.

"Oh, I get it! So the six Spirit Pearls are for this!"

The name alone immediately made Xiao Chen think of the six Spirit Pearls he had found earlier.

He examined the Array Deployment Map again and, sure enough, found exactly six locations for the Array Bases.

Of course, these two components alone were clearly not enough.

’Don’t tell me... the last box has the matching Array Flags, right?’

Xiao Chen picked up the fourth Spirit Storage Box and opened it.

However, to his surprise, this Treasure Box contained a slightly larger Lotus Jade Purification Bottle.

’That’s not right.’

At first, Xiao Chen couldn’t understand why someone would carry the Array Deployment Map and Core Spiritual Materials but not the accompanying Array Flags.

The single Small Array Banner from before was nowhere near enough to control such a complex Grand Array.

But he quickly realized that the original owner was not working alone; they likely had accomplices responsible for the other parts.

’Then what is this thing?’

Xiao Chen picked up the Lotus Jade Purification Bottle and gently removed the stopper.

A vibrant purple Spiritual Light immediately surged from the bottle.

It was accompanied by a wave of Spiritual Qi that rushed straight into his face.

Peering inside, he saw it was half-full of a special Spiritual Liquid. It was slightly viscous, with shimmering flecks of bright purple light floating on a liquid so deep it looked like the night sky.

In an instant, five words suddenly appeared in Xiao Chen’s mind: Purple Fire Refining Essence Marrow!

Several years ago, he had seen an illustration of this very substance in the book, *Memoir: Treasures of the Eastern Domain*.

He never expected to encounter the real thing here.

The substance’s purpose was simple: to use a fierce purple fire to refine a Cultivator’s True Essence.

This process acted as a form of purification, or ’dehydration,’ so to speak.

In short, it helped a Cultivator effectively improve the quality of their True Essence, enhance their Magic Power, and slightly increase their chances of success when breaking through a bottleneck.

It was similar in principle to how increasing one’s total Qi Blood helped break through a bottleneck.

Of course, for Magic Cultivators, the benefits gained from improved True Essence quality were relatively limited.

"This is great stuff. More than half a bottle must be worth at least several bottles of Nine Luminaries Profound Pills."

Xiao Chen was quite optimistic. After all, this was a Tier Four essence marrow, something normally used by Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

For a Golden Core Cultivator, it would undoubtedly yield exceptional results.

To him, this was far more useful than some Array Flags. It was a completely unexpected windfall.

The only problem was that the process of Refining True Essence would likely take some time.

Considering the new Relic was about to open, he probably wouldn’t have time to use it now. He would have to wait until after he returned.

He recapped the bottle and carefully put away the Purple Fire Refining Essence Marrow.

Xiao Chen picked up the two Sheepskin Scrolls and opened them in turn.

The first scroll, only a foot long and six inches wide, depicted a simple map of the Compassion Sea.

Because such a large area had to be drawn on such a small Nautical Chart, the markings were extremely basic.

It did little more than point out the locations of the headquarters for a few major powers.

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