【You picked the one disciple out of the ten who was still more or less intact and had him lead the way.】
【As for the rest, you left them to fend for themselves.】
【Three of them had already run off anyway, so whether you rooted out the remaining ones made little difference.】
【The Daoist disciple led you down the mountain and then back up again, until you reached a spot halfway up the slope.】
【Here, a defensive formation and an illusion formation protected an important place: the spirit-nourishing pool that the Old Hag used to nurture her treasures.】
【“Nurture treasures? You mean putting magical artifacts and spiritual treasures here is beneficial to them?”】
【“Exactly. Master said it can improve the quality of treasures and may even allow them to develop artifact spirits.”】
【Your brow twitched.】
【You had assumed your brothers had been captured by some villain and were living in misery. Who would have thought they were enjoying a comfortable retirement here instead?】
【The thought of how hard you had been struggling out there, barely getting by…】
【“Open the formation!”】
【The disciple said he didn’t know how to open it. The Old Hag had hired a famous formation master to set up these defensive formations, and this place was her most prized possession.】
【Can’t open it?】
【No problem!】
【You simply charged through the formation with your physical body, enduring all sorts of damage and illusions. After all, you had “Wolverine.” As long as you weren’t afraid of pain, it was basically a painless speedrun!】
【The final barrier blocking your way was a defensive grand formation.】
【This formation was second-grade. Even someone from the Heaven-Reaching Realm could only stare at it helplessly. No amount of brute force could tear it down—in fact, the more you attacked, the thicker the protective barrier became.】
【Unfortunately, this formation came with a hidden entrance.】
【The Old Hag had probably worried that one day she might lose the method for controlling the formation, so she had left herself a way to get inside.】
【In theory, outsiders would never be able to discover the hidden entrance.】
【But you were a formation master yourself, and you also possessed “Reverse Engineering,” so naturally, you saw through it.】
【Opening the hidden entrance was very simple. All you had to do was recite an incantation.】
【“May every treasure under Heaven enter my bag! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!”】
【A cramped opening appeared.】
【You were certain that the Old Hag had custom-built this entrance for herself. It was only large enough for someone as short as her to pass through.】
【You were tall and powerfully built, standing six feet tall. Your head made it through, but your shoulders did not.】
【“Huh? I think I’m stuck…”】
【At that moment, your head was inside the formation, while your butt remained outside.】
【Fortunately, the Daoist disciple who had led you here was still beyond the layers of illusion and killing formations. He couldn’t see what was happening to you. Otherwise, you couldn’t help feeling that your chrysanthemum would be in danger.】
【Inside the final formation, you saw a small pool steaming with heat.】
【Several objects were soaking in the pool. Every one of them was an old acquaintance.】
【The Myriad Soul Banner, the Demon Refining Pot, the Thunder-Chasing Lightning-Racing Boots, the Heavenly Dragon Blade, the Immortal Binding Rope, the Hunyuan Armor, and the Nine Ravens Divine Bow.】
【To your surprise, the Demon Refining Pot and the other treasures whose artifact spirits had vanished after entering the Material Realm had somehow regained their spirits. You could hear them chatting.】
【Myriad Soul Banner: “Hey, you guys got up pretty early today. It’s only noon. Could it be that last night wasn’t a sweet dream?”】
【Immortal Binding Rope: “As long as we rest in this spirit-nourishing pool, we automatically enter Dreamland. How could we possibly not have sweet dreams?”】
【Heavenly Dragon Blade: “Last night, I transformed into a blade spanning Heaven and Earth in my dream. I could cleave the sky and split the earth, sweeping aside everything in my path while all the other weapons bowed before me! I roamed the heavens and earth, supreme and unrivaled! What a thrill!”】
【Hunyuan Armor: “I dreamed that I got married. Heh heh, to over a hundred wives!”】
【Nine Ravens Divine Bow: “Yaya wants out! Yaya wants to fight!”】
【Demon Refining Pot: “Oh, come on, Little Crow, give it a rest! There’s no wind or rain here, no disasters or troubles, and we can even nourish our spirits. Isn’t this wonderful?”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner floated halfway out of the pool and pointed at the Demon Refining Pot with a hand formed from its banner cloth.】
【“The Old Steward’s right for once! What’s so great about fighting and killing outside? Here, we can do whatever we want in our dreams every day. Isn’t that the life?”】
【Just then, the Myriad Soul Banner heard a voice beside it.】
【“Old Wan, do you miss your old home?”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner didn’t even turn around. It simply waved its banner cloth.】
【“Life here is wonderful. I have no desire to return to my old home!”】
【Only after finishing did it suddenly realize something.】
【“Why does that voice sound so familiar…?”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner turned around and saw a scene straight out of a horror movie, like a ghost suddenly lunging into view.】
【It was you—only half of your body visible—baring your teeth and cursing furiously at the Myriad Soul Banner.】
【Myriad Soul Banner: “Guys, I think I’m seeing an old acquaintance.”】
【Demon Refining Pot: “No way! We crossed an entire planet with that old woman. Boss Chen was just a nobody in the Material Realm. How could he have followed us here?”】
【Heavenly Dragon Blade: “Could we still be dreaming?”】
【Myriad Soul Banner: “Dreaming about this old acquaintance wouldn’t be a sweet dream. It’d be a nightmare…”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner truly was about to experience a nightmare.】
【In your desperation, you simply broke your own shoulder. Your body twisted as your bones shattered with a series of sharp cracks, and you forced yourself inside.】
【To the Myriad Soul Banner, the sight was no less terrifying than Sadako crawling out of a television.】
【You then slowly stood up. Under the effects of “Wolverine,” your body healed itself with a series of crackling sounds, looking about ninety percent like a zombie rising from the dead.】
【The first thing you did was beat up the Myriad Soul Banner.】
【Then, your eyes grew moist as you opened your arms wide.】
【“Brothers! I’ve come to take you home!”】
【They could joke around all they wanted, but upon truly seeing their old acquaintance again, the artifact spirits still couldn’t hide their joy at being reunited with you.】
【The Myriad Soul Banner in particular was so moved that it began to cry, babbling incoherently.】
【“Did any of you acknowledge that old woman as your master?”】
【The Demon Refining Pot flung its opening to the side.】
【“Of course not! We’re the Human Realm’s Immortal Treasure Squad, and we’ll follow Martial God Chen forever!”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner roared,】
【“Oh, please! When your artifact spirit recovered, you were practically lying at that old woman’s feet and polishing her shoes! The only reason you didn’t acknowledge her as your master is because, after regaining our artifact spirits, we became half-step innate spiritual treasures and could no longer accept a master!”】
【The Demon Refining Pot pretended not to hear.】
【“Master, we should leave quickly. That old woman could show up at any moment!”】
【You crouched down and scooped up some of the spirit liquid from the pool.】
【“There’s no rush. First, tell me exactly what happened.”】
【The truth was not complicated.】
【The Old Hag had an entire family of treasures. How could she possibly take an interest in a bunch of objects that, by the standards of the Material Realm, were nothing more than high-grade magical artifacts?】
【The Myriad Soul Banner was the obvious exception.】
【In fact, the Old Hag had a keen eye. The moment she spotted you on Fortune Star, she realized that the objects you carried were no ordinary items.】
【She never considered the possibility that they had come from the Void Realm, because no one from the Human race had ascended from the Void Realm in many years. The survivors of the Primordial Era who came up via the Path of Immortal Ascension might have concealed their origins.】
【So she came up with the idea of taking them for herself.】
【After bringing them back and investigating, she discovered that the Demon Refining Pot and the other immortal treasures had already developed artifact spirits within them. However, all of those spirits had been suppressed to the point of near extinction.】
【Since the Myriad Soul Banner’s artifact spirit was functioning normally, she realized that she could awaken the artifact spirits of the other treasures by improving the quality of the Demon Refining Pot and the rest.】
【Thus, she soaked them all in precious Spirit-Nourishing Fluid.】
【She had refined the Spirit-Nourishing Fluid using a secret technique unique to her. It contained abundant resources for artifact refinement and represented her entire lifetime of savings.】
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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