379: Void treasure house? Ancient cave!

“Who goes there?”

“Are crew the teleportation array guardians chosen by the Master?”

“What happened to the Master?”

These few people were dressed in spirit robes, looking fierce, but their aura was not weak.

They were all Eight-Rank powerhouses!

“Master?”

Guo Feng raised his eyebrows, “Is your Master the Grand Manager Hu Lie?”

“Presumptuous!”

One of the black-robed men, with the strongest aura, was an Eight-Rank Ninth-Layer powerhouse.

He shouted, “Is the Master’s name something you can casually call?”

A hint of doubt then flashed in his eyes, and he coldly asked, “You dare to call the Master’s name directly. Who exactly are crew?”

“What’s with all the yelling? Yell at your sister! I’m your new Master!”

Guo Feng had long been annoyed with this black-robed man. As soon as he entered, this guy started chattering away.

As he spoke, he slapped out with a backhand.

With a rumble, he didn’t even use the power of the Fire Emperor, directly condensing an invisible large hand.

He slapped the guy so hard that he was deeply embedded into the jade plaza.

Only his head remained visible.

“Ah?”

“What’s going on?”

All of the black-robed man’s companions were stunned.

One of them quickly flew up and shouted, “Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”

Bang!

Before he could finish speaking, he was also slapped by Guo Feng and embedded into the plaza.

At this moment, a warning and shouting sound also came from inside the cave.

Guo Feng waved his hand at Wang Shengzhi: “Bring the leader with crew, let’s go in!”

“Yes!”

Wang Shengzhi nodded quickly, picking up the black-robed man who had been beaten so badly by Guo Feng that he couldn’t move.

Soon, the two of them passed through the cave.

Guo Feng didn’t expect that this cave was merely something akin to a memorial archway.

Upon entering the cave, after a depth of more than ten meters, it suddenly opened up.

Behind it was a plain that was probably nearly a hundred kilometers in circumference.

Approximately over thirty thousand square kilometers.

Approaching the size of a small province.

There were many buildings inside.

There were even many residents and city-states.

In the farthest distance, there was a magnificent complex of buildings, which should be the core location of the cave mansion.

“This is a cave mansion, and it has many ordinary people kept in captivity?”

Guo Feng was startled for a moment, then immediately reacted.

However, he was asking the person held by Wang Shengzhi.

That person didn’t speak.

Guo Feng slapped him, “Your Master is dead. I am your new Master. Are you still going to be loyal to a dead Master?”

“Ah…”

That person froze for a moment, then seemed to react as well.

The Master of the cave mansion was not a blood relative to him.

Masters changing back and forth, as long as he didn’t die, it really had nothing to do with him.

Thinking of this, he quickly showed a smile, “To serve the Master diligently until death, that is what crew should do.”

“However, I indeed only recognize the Master of the cave mansion.”

He quickly added, “Let me answer your previous question.”

He secretly glanced at Guo Feng’s expression, then said, “This is Jade Void Grotto Heaven, the cave mansion of the ancient Jade Void Daoist. The Jade Void Daoist was an Immortal Rank Five Immortal.”

“However, he died in a great battle later on.”

“This cave mansion has changed hands an unknown number of times, and it has been annihilated many times over countless years.”

“But fortunately, the foundation of the Jade Void Daoist’s cave mansion was extremely good and was not completely destroyed.”

“The previous Master, Hu Lie, inherited the legacy of the previous seven Masters.”

“The city-states in the cave mansion are mainly used to collect the power of faith, and the cave mansion is responsible for their food.”

He paused, “And some of us who cultivate and work in the cave mansion are talented individuals selected from the city-states, responsible for helping the Master operate the entire cave mansion.”

“So, everyone here is kept in captivity?”

Guo Feng was a little surprised to hear this.

That person quickly said, “You can’t say that. Besides having to attend collective prayers in each city-state every day, everyone can do what they like to do.”

He paused, “In another way of saying it, perhaps it’s captivity, but everyone is also very free and very satisfied.”

“That’s true.”

Guo Feng nodded.

In this world, some people like to lie flat, some people like to strive, and there’s no conflict in that, actually.

Some people like to be kept in captivity.

Some people like complete autonomy.

This is also very normal.

He then asked, “What is this power of faith used for?”

“A portion is used to maintain the energy required by the cave mansion in the void, and a portion is added during alchemy and artifact refining to increase the success rate and the rate of producing supreme-grade items.”

That person continued to answer.

He paused again and said, “Of course, according to the Master, a lot of power of faith is also needed when breaking through to the Immortal Rank.”

“The power of faith has so many uses.”

Guo Feng was also a little surprised.

That person smiled, “There are many other uses that this humble one doesn’t know. According to the Master, the power of faith has endless wondrous uses and is one of the most miraculous powers in the world.”

“Mm.”

Guo Feng also knew that the power of faith was inherently strong. He then asked, “How many people does the entire cave mansion support?”

“Over thirty million people.”

That person immediately replied, “We control the population. If the population is too large, we can’t support them.”

“How do you support them?”

Guo Feng was a little curious.

That person said, “It’s the three teleportation array guardians outside who, through teleportation jade slips, purchase medicinal herbs, food, and so on from outside. Then we make the lowest-grade elixir, Food Elixir. Each person takes one pill a month, and they can survive very well.”

“Then you need to produce thirty million pills a month. How do you produce them, and how many raw materials are needed?”

Guo Feng was even more astonished.

“That kind of Food Elixir only requires the most basic materials, using the cave mansion’s most basic alchemy furnaces. One furnace produces ten thousand pills, and there are fifty such alchemy furnaces in total, capable of refining five furnaces a day.”

“So, that’s 2.5 million pills a day. If we refine them non-stop for a month, there will even be more than enough.”

This person said with a smile.

“So that’s how it is.”

Although Guo Feng still had many questions, such as what kind of furnace could refine ten thousand pills in one go.

And also, how Qu Gong, Xufeng, and Cang Shu managed to send raw materials in through teleportation jade slips.

However, since this person said so, there must be a way.

He didn’t ask any more questions; he would surely find out later.

Soon, they flew over a hundred kilometers and arrived at the core area of the cave mansion.

Here was a large mountain.

This large mountain was circularly connected to the large mountain outside the cave.

The cave mansion was built on this circular large mountain.

Those ordinary people were enclosed within it.

There were also many people in the cave mansion, coming and going, very busy.

Guo Feng was led by the man named Yu Zhen to the most core area of the cave mansion.

The Master of the cave mansion’s living hall.

Here was the cave mansion’s control center, as well as the cave mansion Master’s alchemy room, artifact refining room, and cultivation quiet room.

And the most core warehouse!

That Yu Zhen was the highest-ranking among the cave mansion’s management personnel.

He quickly led Guo Feng to the control center of the Mansion Master’s Hall.

He pointed to a stone tablet and said, “This is the cave mansion’s Spirit Tablet. All the control array patterns are on it. Master, you can try to refine it. Once you imprint your spiritual mark on it, you will be the new Mansion Master!”

“Oh, alright!”

Guo Feng’s strength had already awed the people here.

He didn’t hesitate.

He directly immersed his spirit into the Town Mansion Stone Tablet, and immediately, his spirit seemed to arrive in another world!

Then, he began to refine it!