Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 287 - 286: Treasury (Congratulating the Silver Alliance)_1

Chapter 287: Chapter 286: Treasury (Congratulating the Silver Alliance)_1

Fragment World.

Inside the treasure vault.

The heavy stone door closed, and layers of prohibition shimmered, manifesting automatically.

Darkness descended, and silence enveloped the surroundings...

Time was unaccountable.

Suddenly, atop the bronze fragment, lights danced, and glorious luminance gathered into mysterious runes.

The runes spread outward, transforming into a gate of light!

Fang Xi’s figure emerged from the gate, scrutinizing the interior of the vault.

Within the vault, besides the bronze fragment, there were many other treasures.

Many white-shining platforms exhibited semi-transparent prohibitions, forming domes.

Through the prohibitions, one could see high-grade beast skins, Spiritual Trees, and even...

"Hiss... Mysterious Water Crystal Ying and Heavenly Fire Liuli!"

Fang Xi stared at a white platform, a hint of joy instantly surfacing on his face.

"Even if I can’t use these two Core Formation Spiritual Objects, they’re excellent for trading or nurturing subordinates..."

"The Shaman Race originally had no knowledge of arrays or prohibitions... I was the one who taught them."

Fang Xi, now barely a third-order Array Master, had no major issues silently cracking the prohibitions.

With a sweep of his Divine Consciousness, he had already identified several of the most valuable items in the vault.

First and foremost was the bronze fragment!

The second was these Water and Fire Core Formation Spiritual Objects.

The third precious item was a pile of Vermilion Fruits aged several hundred years!

The Vermilion Fruit Tree is a Heaven and Earth Spirit Root, and eating its fruits even raw has miraculous effects on enhancing a cultivator’s Magic Power!

The ones here at Danya’s were all five to six hundred years old, and would make countless cultivators in the Cultivation World envious.

"If refined into elixirs, they are also beneficial for advancing the Magic Power of Core Formation cultivators."

"Pity... there are no Thousand-Year Red Fruits!"

"Although the sacred land does have Thousand-Year Red Fruit Trees, they are beneath powerful prohibitions, and the fruits can only be harvested once every hundred years and in limited quantities... The last share of City of Black Nirvana was taken by the Sky Demons..."

In the end, Fang Xi was also interested in a third-order Spiritual Tree, the spiritual light of which indicated it might be a top-quality item.

"Pity... there’s no Treasure Pattern Crystal!"

"Danya knows I require Treasure Patterns for my mirror; she wouldn’t place them together..."

Fang Xi sighed, then from his Storage Ring, he took out several colorful small flags.

Pfft, pfft!

The flagpoles were thrust directly into the interior of the vault, setting up a small array of sound isolation and prohibition concealment.

Immediately after, he took out an Array Disk, stuffed it with a mid-grade Spirit Stone, and started murmuring incantations at the prohibition dome sealing away the Core Formation Spiritual Objects.

"Forcibly breaking the prohibition is easy, but to do it quietly and unnoticed by all the Shaman Race is a bit difficult..."

"Fortunately, I was the one who taught them, and the principle remains unchanged..."

A flicker of cyan light shone in Fang Xi’s eyes, and suddenly he formed a Magic Spell with his hands, "Open!"

A Command Banner struck the platform’s prohibition, actually creating a small circular hole!

Cyan luminescence flickered over Fang Xi’s hand as he reached into the prohibition and seized the bronze fragment.

Upon contact with his palm, the fragment seemed illusionary, transforming into a ray of light that shot directly into his body.

In the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, ’Treasures of All Heavens’ sounded a faint rumble, and a gap was startlingly filled!

Simultaneously, enigmatic information surfaced.

This led Fang Xi to know that a third unknown world had finally been unveiled!

"Done..."

With the most important task completed, Fang Xi instantly felt relieved.

After accomplishing all this, he immediately recalled his Array-Breaking Command Banners, vigilantly watching for any disturbances from the prohibitions or the vault itself.

Despite the platform now being empty, the prohibition dome flickered uncertainly, but after flashing several times, it remained stable.

The vault’s external prohibitions hadn’t been triggered, and the Big Shaman guards detected no anomalies.

"Very good... with this, I can take a bit more."

"Even with forceful attacks on the prohibitions, I wouldn’t be able to break a large number of platforms to take treasures in a short time..."

"At least, I’m Danya’s teacher... it’s not too much for a teacher to collect a bit of tuition from a student... right..."

Fang Xi continued to operate the Array Disk, unlocking prohibitions and extracting the "Mysterious Water Crystal Ying" and "Heavenly Fire Liuli."

The prohibitions around the vault began to tremble, but no alarms were raised.

This let Fang Xi know his time was running short.

He immediately turned to his next target—the Vermilion Fruits!

After a similar process, the fruits as large as dates were collected into a jade box, his face unavoidably filled with pleasure.

"Good... next is that third-order Spiritual Tree."

Seeing that the vault’s prohibitions were still normal, Fang Xi immediately moved to the fourth platform.

But just then, the consecutive disruptions of the prohibitions finally triggered a chain reaction.

Multiple prohibitions roared unexpectedly, starting to forcefully penetrate Fang Xi’s concealing array and signaling an alarm to the outside.

"This is troublesome!"

He frowned, the Green Barley Sword appearing in hand as he slashed down!

Whoosh!

Zuxian Sword Qi flashed, a cyan Sword Qi tinged with flecks of golden light falling upon the platform’s prohibition, causing it to flash wildly in five colors, yet it still held steadily.

Seeing this, Fang Xi frowned and with a flick of his finger, the Yi Wood Spirit Sword flew out.

The two sword lights, joining forces, finally cleaved open the prohibition on the stone platform and tucked the third-grade high-quality spiritual wood into the bag.

By then, the array within the treasury had already activated, intent on trapping the thief inside the warehouse.

Even outside, the Big Shamans had begun to cry out in alarm, ordering someone to notify Danya.

"Alas!"

Fang Xi sighed softly, a mist emerging all around his body, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a Witch King with a sinister face and pitch-black treasure patterns etched into his skin.

"Earth-shaking Treasure Talisman!"

After the disguise was complete, Fang Xi waved his hand, a talisman appeared in his grasp and he immediately activated it!

Roar Roar!

As the ground shook and the mountains trembled, the ttreasury’s array shattered directly, large chunks of rock fell, and a long crack appeared in the mountain.

Fang Xi turned into a black shadow and burst out through the fissure in the mountain.

The Big Shamans that were about to surround him, sensing the terror emanating from Fang Xi, immediately retreated swiftly, "It’s the Witch King... Quick, summon the city lord!"

After breaking free from the encirclement, Fang Xi pinpointed the direction and in an instant, flew out of the city, his figure flickering a few times before disappearing into the sky.

However, in his wake, a golden light was twinkling!

It came from Danya who, after receiving the news, had forsaken the grand ritual and was now pursuing with the Golden Light Speeding Earth Talisman!

Fang Xi plunged straight into the depths of Earth, extending his divine consciousness to its limit.

Confirming that Danya had not locked onto him with her divine consciousness, he immediately chose to traverse!

The void flickered, and his figure disappeared without a trace.

Shortly after, Danya arrived in the area, dozens of feet long demonic black and red lights scouring the ground back and forth.

"Damn it, who was that unfamiliar Witch King?"

Danya’s expression was cold as she returned to the City of Black Nirvana.

"Respected Witch King, I have failed in guarding the treasure vault; I am willing to accept punishment!"

The Big Shaman guarding the treasure vault knelt before Danya, his forehead pressing tightly against the ground.

"Let me check the vault first..."

Danya stepped inside the vault, dark lights rotating around her like arms, swiftly clearing away the piles of rubble.

Her divine consciousness swept over the stone platform that once held the Vermilion Fruits, seeing it had been stripped bare, and she just furrowed her brow.

Then she saw the state of the stone platform containing core formation spiritual objects and found it shattered, with no sign of the Mysterious Water Crystal or the Heavenly Fire Liuli, a flicker of rage crossing her face.

These were items she had painstakingly acquired after forming her demon core, intended for nurturing the next generation. Now, they were nowhere to be seen...

Suddenly thinking of something, Danya’s face turned pale.

She no longer cared about the other platforms’ losses and directly walked toward the one that stored the fragment of the bronze mirror, her expression turning vacant when she arrived there.

Only a pile of rubble remained.

The piece of the bronze mirror had vanished without a trace!

"Gone... it’s gone..."

Even Danya couldn’t help feeling a void in her heart at that moment, as if she had lost something extremely precious.

That fragment of the bronze mirror had accompanied her for over a hundred years!

It had taught her demon skills, talismans, arrays...

How could it be gone?

How could it possibly be gone?

Danya’s divine consciousness scoured the insides of the vault over and over, but ultimately, she had to accept this reality, reluctant as she was.

Her ’great opportunity’ was missing!

"How did that Witch King know about the fragment in the vault? How did he know he had to take the fragment?"

Danya’s suspicious gaze turned to the Big Shamans in the tribe, who had rushed over, then she secretly shook her head.

She had never mentioned the secret of the fragment to anyone.

She then found herself engulfed in towering rage, "No matter who you are... Don’t let Danya find you, otherwise..."

...

In the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.

"Haha..."

Hearty laughter echoed from the Dongfu.

Fang Xi sat cross-legged, his face unable to hide the smile.

In front of him were a box of Vermilion Fruits, as well as a crystal that seemed to have been formed from the condensation of Mysterious Water, and Liuli that burned with an internal flame...

Awe-inspiring spiritual energy bloomed from these spiritual objects.

"The two essential items for refining the Water and Fire Refining Golden Pill are priceless. If Old Qing from the Green Wood Sect sees this, he might very well empty out the entire sect’s treasures..."

"As for the Five-hundred-year Vermilion Fruits, I can indeed use them to greatly enhance my alchemy skills, and the spiritual wood... perhaps it could be integrated into the Green Barley Sword to elevate its grade and power..."

"Not to mention... now that the Fragment World has opened up for me, it will be like taking and using at will in the future!"

"There’s even a third world..."

Fang Xi’s gaze flickered slightly.

With another piece completed, the current ’Treasure Mirror’ had the power to open a third world.

But for now, he chose not to recklessly traverse.

After all, the state of that world remained unclear, and what if he encountered danger immediately upon traversing?

Therefore, Fang Xi decided to secure his position first.

Atop the Corpse Refining Inheritance of Situ Nine, the final ’Corpse Control Spell’ contained a secret skill about divine thoughts, allowing a cultivator’s part of the divine soul to inhabit a refined corpse and gain access to all the senses of the latter.

It was said this secret skill could overcome the limitation of ordinary puppets and zombies, which could only be manipulated within the range of the master’s divine consciousness.

Despite having other constraints, it truly had some of the flair of the Demon Sect’s ’Externalization’!

"Once I’ve cultivated this secret skill, I could send a puppet or zombie ahead to the third world to scout out information..."