It was unclear whether Liu Bai's prayers had truly been heard by his ancestral master, but before long, he arrived at one of the three main halls. Judging from the remaining structure of the hall, it was precisely the residence of one of the Three Emperors, the Divine Refinement Emperor.
"So I really ended up at my ancestral master's place. I wonder if he left any inheritance for later generations." Liu Bai thought with a light chuckle.
From the place where the Sky Formation Emperor had fallen, it could be inferred that the Three Emperors had all participated in resisting the invasion of the extraterritorial Fiend Clans. The Northern Region, serving as the forward stronghold of the extraterritorial race at the time, had gathered many powerful experts here to fend off the enemy, apart from the Second Hall Master of the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
The three emperors of the Three Emperors Sect might not have been truly peak existences individually in that era, but in wars of such massive scale, whether battle formation masters or spiritual array masters, the power they could unleash far exceeded what their personal cultivation realms alone could represent.
As for the Divine Refinement Emperor, Liu Bai's ancestral master, he likely provided logistical support in weapon refining from the rear, so it was very possible that none of the Three Emperors were present within the Three Emperors Sect itself.
After entering the palace, everything around was deathly silent.
In fact, Liu Bai had already noticed that this relic contained no trace of vitality, not even skeletal remains. This meant that long before its decline, everyone here had already departed, and the great war seemed to have never reached this place.
What made Liu Bai curious was how these buildings had ended up in their current state.
With no obstruction at all, Liu Bai quickly found the dedicated weapon refining chamber within the palace.
On the ancient stone door, a line of words was engraved.
Divine Refinement disciples may enter.
The corner of Liu Bai's eye twitched slightly. This Divine Refinement Emperor really was not generous. His sectarian exclusivity was so strong that only descendants who cultivated the Divine Refinement Method were allowed to enter.
The Divine Refinement Method was a special weapon refining technique centered on divine soul power, so verification was simple. One only needed to use the unique divine soul control method of Divine Refinement practitioners to open the stone door before him.
"Still, it has been tens of thousands of years. I wonder whether my ancestral master still recognizes the present Divine Refinement techniques."
While thinking this, Liu Bai used the special method from his Divine Refinement Method to inspect the stone door. Soon, amid a rumbling sound, the stone door slowly opened.
There were not as many treasures as imagined. Aside from a stone platform, the chamber was completely empty.
This stone platform looked familiar to Liu Bai. There had been one in Elder Huo's weapon refining chamber as well. It was a platform specifically used by weapon refiners to place refining cauldrons.
Although this platform was larger and engraved with complex array patterns, the refining cauldron that should have been placed atop it was nowhere to be seen. It was clearly taken away by the Divine Refinement Emperor back then.
Facing the stone platform was a stone table, upon which three items were placed. These were the only things in the entire refining chamber that could possibly have been left behind by the Divine Refinement Emperor for his descendants.
Liu Bai stepped forward and looked at the three ancient stone boxes, each about a foot in size. They emitted no spiritual energy and appeared completely ordinary.
He picked up the first stone box and opened it. Instantly, a streak of flowing light shot out, as if trying to escape.
Fortunately, Liu Bai reacted quickly. With a raised hand, a streak of five colored radiance enveloped the flowing light tightly, then guided it back into his hand.
It turned out to be a scroll woven from an unknown material.
Liu Bai was quite surprised. Such items were usually used for record keeping and were only popular before the ancient era. Later on, everyone used scrolls or jade slips, and this kind of silk manuscript was gradually phased out.
When the silk manuscript entered his hand, there was no prompt at all. This meant the system did not recognize the contents as a skill, so Liu Bai had to examine it himself.
"Hm. This actually contains some extensions of the Divine Refinement Method and some conjectures regarding weapon refining beyond Divine artifacts."
In the present Great Thousand World, although Saint Artifact and Peerless Saint Artifacts existed beyond divine artifacts, purely from the perspective of weapon refining, top grade divine artifacts were already the pinnacle.
Saint Artifacts and Peerless Saint Artifacts often contained a form of great power belonging to the world itself. This required true experts to bestow it, or the artifact's own growth. Weapon refining alone could not achieve this step.
In fact, among the mainstream Saint Artifacts in the Great Thousand World today, fifty percent were passed down from the ancient era. Another twenty percent advanced within the past thousand years. The remainder consisted of divine artifacts with powerful intelligence that advanced on their own.
For example, the Spiritual Art Divine Hall of the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy had already developed intelligence capable of communicating with people. If supplied with sufficient energy, it might very well advance into a Saint Artifact after thousands or tens of thousands of years.
This silk manuscript recorded the Divine Refinement Emperor's theories on how to help Divine artifacts advance more rapidly into Saint Artifact.
Moreover, the manuscript recorded the items inside the other two stone boxes, which were two top grade Divine Artifacts left behind by the Divine Refinement Emperor to verify his theories.
If the Divine Refinement Emperor's conjectures were correct, then these two Divine Artifacts should have already advanced into Saint Artifacts, or at the very least reached the level of quasi Saint Artifacts.
"Does that mean I now possess two treasures that could possibly be Saint Artifacts?"
Liu Bai's eyes lit up as a look of wild joy appeared on his face.
According to the information in the silk manuscript, one of these artifacts was the Demon Avoidance Divine Shuttle. It was shaped like a jujube pit, pointed at both ends. This item could forcibly tear space under the user's control and allow escape beyond space itself. It was an unparalleled life saving treasure.
From the name alone, it was clear that this artifact had been refined by the Divine Refinement Emperor specifically to help himself escape pursuit by the Fiend Clans. Back then, he refined a total of eighty one divine shuttles, leaving one behind as a test subject to verify his theories, while the rest were distributed to the experts of the Three Emperors Sect for protection.
Clearly, the Divine Refinement Emperor had foreseen the danger of this great war and prepared life saving items for everyone as much as possible. Yet when it truly came to battles of that level, where could one really escape to?
As for the other item, it was also a top grade divine artifact prepared by the Divine Refinement Emperor to resist the invasion of the extraterritorial fiend race. However, it was not an escape artifact, but a killing artifact, known as the Demon Extermination Divine Crossbow.
Its appearance was that of a small cylindrical object. Inside, it contained forty nine crossbow bolts specifically designed to exterminate demon souls. Controlled by divine intent, it could strike unexpectedly, assassinate single targets, or release all bolts at once.
As long as the bolts struck their target, even a Demon King would be completely annihilated by the demon extermination power contained within. The more bolts that hit, the faster the death. If all forty nine bolts struck simultaneously, even a peak Demon King would fall.
Unfortunately, the most crucial part of this artifact was the bolts themselves. Once all forty nine bolts were used up, although other bolts could be substituted, the guaranteed killing effect against the demon race would be lost. This could be considered a minor flaw.
However, the silk manuscript also recorded the materials and methods for crafting these demon extermination bolts. If Liu Bai could gather them, then with his abilities, it might not be impossible to reproduce them in the future.
"Three treasures. Aside from this silk manuscript, the other two were all prepared to fight against the extraterritorial fiend race." Liu Bai sighed inwardly.
This showed just how immense the pressure from the extraterritorial fiend race had been on the Skylaw Continent.
"It seems that if I do not kill a few extraterritorial fiend race members in the future, I would truly be letting down the treasures my ancestral master left behind."
Liu Bai's expression grew sharp.
He then wondered whether killing members of the extraterritorial fiend race would grant experience points. If it did, things would become simple. After all, it was still monster hunting. Targeting the extraterritorial fiend race would be even more convenient and would not leave him with the reputation of a mad killer. Instead, he would become a hero of the Great Thousand World.
"In that case, I could consider joining the Great Thousand Palace in the future and becoming a demon exterminator."
Maximizing benefits, after all. If he could also find a lower plane like the White Dragon Continent that had been occupied, that would be even better.
He did not rush to open the other two stone boxes. According to the records in the silk manuscript, once freed from their restraints, both the Demon Avoidance Divine Shuttle and the Demon Extermination Divine Crossbow would attempt to escape.
Unlike the silk manuscript, which was merely a record artifact with no offensive capability, these two possessed special powers of their own. If he released them and found that he could neither suppress nor retain them, that would be disastrous.
In any case, Liu Bai could not use such powerful treasures at his current stage. A single activation would likely drain all his spiritual energy, so he had no intention of releasing them for now.
After storing everything away and confirming that there was nothing else of significance nearby, Liu Bai respectfully bowed toward the stone table, then exited the stone chamber.
As Liu Bai turned around, he suddenly noticed a stone sphere the size of a fist embedded in the stone door.
Raising his brows, although the stone sphere appeared completely ordinary, based on his previous experiences and the countless novels he had read in his past life, he ultimately decided to pry it out.
"I hope my ancestral master will not blame me. After all, you did not leave behind any true spirit projection or the like, so I can only choose to take it rather than risk missing it."
As Liu Bai pried the stone sphere out, he vaguely thought he heard a sigh. However, when he saw that nothing had changed, he abandoned the thought and carried the stone sphere away.
After Liu Bai left, the entire stone chamber once again fell into complete silence.
After leaving the Divine Refinement Hall, Liu Bai did not stop. Following the guidance of the map, he abandoned other miscellaneous places and headed straight for the Spiritual Array Emperor's Spiritual Array Hall.
From his experience in the Divine Refinement Hall, the truly valuable items in this relic should all be in the Three Emperor Halls. Everything else was just minor matters that could be dealt with later.
A short while later, Liu Bai arrived at the mountain peak where the Spiritual Array Hall was located. He entered without any obstruction and then encountered the only room isolated by a grand array, the Spiritual Array Chamber.
It was clear that entering still required meeting certain conditions.
However, unlike the Divine Refinement Emperor's stinginess, the Spiritual Array Emperor did not restrict entry to only his own disciples. One only needed to have sufficient array path cultivation to enter.
Originally, Liu Bai thought he would once again have to sit idly for months deciphering the array, as he had at the stone wall before. Unexpectedly, just as his Heart Eye surfaced, the grand array blocking the Spiritual Array Chamber dissolved like a bubble.
"What is… going on?"
Liu Bai was speechless. Could it be that the array just happened to fail at this moment?
But that should not be the case. The only explanation was that the array sensed the aura of his true Heart Eye, recognized his array path cultivation, and deemed it sufficient, thus automatically dissolving itself.
Frowning slightly, though still puzzled, Liu Bai entered the Spiritual Array Chamber.
This place was unlike the earlier weapon refining room, which had been so empty. In fact, it could be said that the room was extremely crowded with items.
Along all four walls of the room, individual shelves had been built, each filled with countless scrolls.
Because of the array's isolation, Liu Bai could not immediately determine the contents of these scrolls. Judging by the clearly labeled levels, they were most likely all array diagrams.
The corner of Liu Bai's eye twitched. His expression must have been somewhat contorted.
If his guess was correct, then this room contained the largest treasure trove of array diagrams in the entire relic.
"My heart is racing… judging by the scale, the total number of array diagrams here must exceed a thousand." Liu Bai took a deep breath, yet he could not calm the excitement in his heart.
Compared to that so-called ancestral master, the Spiritual Array Emperor was far more generous.
In the center of the room stood a simple wooden table. Behind it was a brown wooden chair, which seemed to be where the Spiritual Array Emperor normally studied arrays.
On the table lay a book made of beast hide. Liu Bai picked it up immediately.
"Summary of Array Diagrams, containing one thousand three hundred and eighty six Spiritual Array diagrams of various levels, divided into the four major categories of trapping, killing, defense, and illusion, spanning twenty six types…"
As he lightly read the contents of the beast hide book, Liu Bai's eyes lit up.
"This is the catalog of all the array diagrams in this room."
This was excellent. With it, Liu Bai no longer needed to examine each diagram individually. By simply reading the names and brief descriptions in the book, he could easily find the array diagrams he needed and study them.
Over thirteen hundred array diagrams. This must have been the Spiritual Array Emperor's collection over the course of his entire life.
"However, the highest level array here only reaches high-level Heaven-Grade Spiritual Arrays. There are no Grandmaster level arrays above this, which is a bit of a pity."
But there was nothing he could do. After all, the Spiritual Array Emperor himself was not a scholar level array master, so naturally he could not possess arrays of that level.
Liu Bai roughly flipped through the book and was surprised to find names he was familiar with.
Like the complete version of the God Annihilation Array and the still incomplete Falling Soul Array.
The former completed the final two arrays — the God Slaughtered Array and the God Killing Array, forming a mid-level Heaven-Grade Spiritual Array with sufficient power to annihilate Upper Realm Sovereigns.
However, Liu Bai was still unable to deploy a full Heaven-Grade Array, so he could only use these three arrays separately.
Even so, the God Slaughter Array was a mid-level Heavenly grade array, and the God Killing Array reached a high-level Heavenly grade. These were by far the most powerful Spiritual Arrays Liu Bai could deploy at present.
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