276: The Death of Long San, Heavenly Palace

“Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the War Demon Cauldron, the Origin of the Calamity of Tianwu! You are rewarded with a mysterious gift package!”

Listening to the System's prompt, Xu Qing looked at the small cauldron fused in his hand, a slight curve on his lips.

This War Demon Cauldron was a weapon that could suppress the Demon Race. The Demon Realm had always been one of the Human Race's formidable enemies, and this cauldron might allow him to control all living beings in the Demon Realm.

Xu Qing opened the gift package.

“Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Demon Slaying Sword, a strand of a Heavenly Demon Race Great Emperor's Origin, one Low Grade emperor fruit, and two Peak emperor fruit!”

“Demon Slaying Sword: A chaotic spiritual treasure from the Archaic Era, crafted by the Human Race's Weapon Saint over ten thousand years, collecting the essence and blood of billions of Demon Race beings to specifically target them. It was once wielded by the Human Race's God of War, Yao Zhan, who used it to slay seventeen Demon Race Dao Monarchs.”

“It seems I need to make a trip to the Demon Realm!”

Upon seeing the rewards in the gift package, a thought sparked in Xu Qing's mind.

“Oh? Leaving already?”

Suddenly, Xu Qing's gaze turned towards outside the city, where a warship was traversing the Void Realm, rapidly departing.

Xu Qing watched them leave. Only after they were a hundred million li away from Star Ancient City did he raise his hand and draw towards the warship's direction. Moments later, a jade box appeared in his hand.

Opening the jade box, it was precisely the Dark Heaven Key.

“The second one! Including the Dark Heaven Key, that makes three! Among the Nine Heavens, Dark Heaven represents darkness, Dark Heaven represents thunder, and Yang Heaven symbolizes light. The remaining days represent Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind.”

“What exactly do these Nine Heavens Key represent? The System once said that the Nine Heavens Key are keys to an ancient door, involved in a shocking secret. What is this secret then?”

Xu Qing was filled with doubts. The only thing he could think of was that the door involved the secret of Eternal.

Only then would the Nine Heavens try to send away such important keys, and they didn't entrust them to those Dao Realm powerhouses, but to the least conspicuous Emperor Realm existences in that great battle.

Perhaps before sending away the keys, they had already foreseen their own end.

“I hope they don't provoke me!”

Xu Qing murmured softly. He knew that behind this, there was definitely a big hand manipulating everything, but he was certain that this person was definitely not Eternal.

If he were Eternal, why would he design the living beings of this world? If he were Eternal, he would have long since gone out to explore, just like the other Eternals who left before.

Xu Qing stopped thinking and put away the key.

He wouldn't go to the Star Palace. His next step was to continue his travels, then go to the Demon Realm, and then head to the Ancient Land of Dao. To achieve a Breakthrough, he needed to go there to obtain more resources.

Relying on the current family points to purchase Cultivation resources was simply not enough to fill the Qiankun Great World, so he needed to go to the Ancient Land of Dao to seek Opportunity.

The next day, Star Ancient City suddenly became lively, and Xu Qing also learned a piece of news from the crowd.

Long San was dead, killed in Black Reef Lake at the border of the eastern and southern regions. According to eyewitnesses, when Long San's warship passed Black Reef Lake, a bolt of thunder descended, striking the entire warship and everyone inside, killing them all.

Immediately, the relationship between Star Palace and Black Dragon City became tense.

Xu Qing was somewhat surprised. Everyone now believed that Star Palace was responsible.

Framing Xu Qing like this, wasn't that courting death?

He believed that Zhu Yuan and the others would not violate his orders and stir up trouble at this critical juncture.

Moreover, the news spread so quickly, causing a city-wide uproar by the next day. If no one was intentionally spreading it, he wouldn't believe it.

He immediately took out the heaven monitoring mirror to investigate, but he couldn't find anything.

There weren't many people in the Lower Realm who Xu Qing couldn't find. After spending a certain amount of family points, Xu Qing got the answer he wanted.

“Sky Gazing Pavilion: A Peak Power, with its main pavilion located in the Fallen God Land, the first forbidden zone of the Eternal Continent. The pavilion houses three Great Emperors... It is a branch of the Heavenly Palace, a power from the Ancient Land of Dao, responsible for monitoring the movements of the Lower Realm and recruiting Geniuses for the Heavenly Palace.”

“Sky Gazing Pavilion? A Peak Power not known to the people of the Lower Realm, it turns out to be an organization of the Ancient Land of Dao's powers!” Xu Qing frowned.

The Sky Gazing Pavilion was very strong, with three Great Emperors, who were also peerless Great Emperors with six-tenths of the Dao. They also possessed Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, making their combat power far exceed that of peerless Great Emperors, already comparable to Supreme Great Emperors.

There were eight Peerless Quasi-Emperors, fourteen Eternal Giants, and over one hundred thirty other Quasi-Emperors. This lineup was estimated to surpass Cangwu Academy.

“System, what is the Origin of the Heavenly Palace?”

“Ding! One hundred billion family points for partial information about the Heavenly Palace, one trillion family points for complete information about the Heavenly Palace!”

“Hiss!”

Xu Qing's eyes changed. A piece of information was actually so expensive. To know, investigating the Sky Gazing Pavilion only cost twenty billion.

“Give me the one hundred billion one!”

Xu Qing wasn't short on money now. What was the point of hearing only a part?

“Heavenly Palace: An Immortal Power in the Ancient Land of Dao, the leader of the three evil organizations, formed by some surviving powerhouses of the Ancient Heavenly Court, suppressed by various forces in the Ancient Land of Dao...”

After reading all the information about the Heavenly Palace, Xu Qing couldn't help but frown.

He couldn't afford to provoke this Heavenly Palace. This was actually a power established by some old monsters who survived the Heavenly Court during the Extinction Era.

The powers of the Ancient Land of Dao were divided into seven levels: Unranked, Third-rate, Second-rate, First-rate, Supreme, Immortal, and Eternal!

Those powers without Great Emperor existences were called Unranked Powers. Powers with Great Emperors were Third-rate Powers, and so on. Immortal Powers possessed Dao Ancestor-level Giants.

This Heavenly Palace belonged to an Immortal Power. In the Ancient Land of Dao, the Heavenly Palace was collectively resisted by all races, a power that everyone shouted to beat, even hailed as the leader of the three evil organizations of the Ancient Land of Dao.

But even under these circumstances, the Heavenly Palace could still exist prominently because they possessed a Dao Ancestor. Of course, this news was only known to Immortal or Eternal Powers.

Aside from this Dao Ancestor, the Heavenly Palace also possessed nine Dao Monarch powerhouses, which was also the reason they deterred other Supreme Powers.

Long San's death was very obvious. People from the Heavenly Palace were also looking for the Nine Heavens Key, which was why they attacked Long San.

Xu Qing was unwilling to easily provoke this power, to prevent powerhouses from the Ancient Land of Dao from descending to investigate and disrupting his plans.

As for the person who framed them, Xu Qing also knew. It was the Chaos Palace, the hegemonic power in the central part of the Land of Chaos. He conveyed the message to Zhu Yuan.

How to handle it, he wouldn't interfere. If Zhu Yuan and the others couldn't even manage this small matter, then his efforts in cultivating them would be in vain.

He left Star Ancient City and began his travels, spending ten days touring the Land of Chaos.

During this period, he focused on touring the treasuries of the various major powers in the central region. To prevent treasures from being covered in dust, he kindly handed them over to the System for safekeeping.

In just these ten days, his System also gained over fifty billion family points.

And the Land of Chaos had truly fallen into turmoil.

After Xu Qing gave Zhu Yuan the information, he immediately investigated the Chaos Palace power in the city. This investigation indeed revealed that the people who spread the news earlier were from the Chaos Palace.

Zhu Yuan was not polite and killed everyone at the Chaos Palace's stronghold. Now, when Black Dragon City investigated, they discovered that the Western overlord, the Floating Immortal Sect, was behind it.

As a result, the four hegemonic powers clashed, causing an atmosphere of war to spread throughout the Land of Chaos.

However, for the Cultivators of the Land of Chaos, who lived by the sword year-round, power struggles were already commonplace, merely a change of rulers.

At this time, Xu Qing had already left the Land of Chaos and arrived at Xi Yan Divine Continent.