69: The Three Treasures of Tianshan! Incredible Tianshan Coin Rewards!

"The three treasures of tianshan are three precious Martial Emperor's relics left behind by the legendary Martial Emperor."

In the Tianshan Pavilion, on a small path covered in ice and snow, Wang Yu leisurely led Lin Yi along while introducing them to him:

"Each of these three relics contains incredible power and is of immense help to us Martial Artists in achieving an Innate Breakthrough."

"Therefore, since our Heavenly Mountain Sect's Ancestral Master, 'Founder of Tianshan Sect', accidentally obtained these three treasures over a thousand years ago, he immediately placed them within the Tianshan Pavilion to serve as the foundation for nurturing the younger generation of Disciples."

"Over the past thousand years, relying on these three treasures of tianshan, our Heavenly Mountain Sect has cultivated countless Innate masters. This has even allowed the territory under our sect's command to expand from a five-prefecture land a thousand years ago to an eight-prefecture land today, and our strength is still increasing."

"And the first treasure I will introduce to you is a cultivation-boosting treasure—the mother pool of the scarlet dragon!"

"The mother pool of the scarlet dragon?"

Hearing this name, Lin Yi's heart jolted. Then, ahead on the path, within a massive courtyard, he saw it at the center.

A colossal pool, nearly a hundred zhang in circumference and entirely golden, appeared before Lin Yi. Thirty-six lifelike, giant golden dragons were carved around it, facing north, south, east, and west.

"This is the mother pool of the scarlet dragon? Why does it look..."

"Look a bit familiar?"

Seeing Lin Yi's shocked expression, Wang Yu smiled slightly:

"It's only natural that it looks familiar! Because the Red Dragon Pool at your Dongshan Martial Academy, as well as the Red Dragon Pools in other Prefecture City Martial Academies, are actually sub-pools of the mother pool of the scarlet dragon."

"According to historical records, when the Heavenly Mountain Sect Ancestral Master accidentally found this Red Dragon Pool at 'Yangyuan Mountain' in Chu Province a thousand years ago, he actually obtained thirty-six pools in total: one mother pool and thirty-five sub-pools."

"Afterward, the Ancestral Master placed the mother pool in the Tianshan Pavilion, while the other sub-pools were placed in various Prefecture City Martial Academies under the Heavenly Mountain Sect's jurisdiction. The Red Dragon Pool at your Dongshan Martial Academy consists of just two of those sub-pools."

"Sub-pools?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi was stunned.

So the Red Dragon Pools he had used before were merely sub-pools of the true Red Dragon Pool?

But if the sub-pools were already so powerful, just how strong must this mother pool be?

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel curious and immediately asked Wang Yu this question.

"The mother pool of the scarlet dragon is indeed much stronger than the sub-pool of the scarlet dragons."

Wang Yu explained with a smile:

"First of all, a sub-pool of the scarlet dragon can only support one person's cultivation at a time, and the Martial Artist must be soaked inside the pool for the water to have its various miraculous effects. If the water is removed, or if the Martial Artist isn't soaking in it, the effects vanish."

"However, the water from the mother pool of the scarlet dragon retains its miraculous effects whether it's placed in a wooden bucket or any other container. As long as it's water from the mother pool, it works."

"So, within this courtyard, the Tianshan Pavilion has set up a total of one hundred rooms for Disciples, each with a pipe underground connected to the mother pool of the scarlet dragon."

"This way, we can ensure that every Disciple of the Tianshan Pavilion can enjoy the miraculous effects of the mother pool of the scarlet dragon."

"Additionally, the vastness of the energy within the mother pool's water is far more terrifying than that of the sub-pools."

"For instance, a sub-pool of the scarlet dragon can only support cultivation up to the Fifth Rank level. Once a Martial Artist's cultivation exceeds the Fifth Rank, the energy in the water becomes insufficient, and its auxiliary cultivation effects are greatly diminished."

"The mother pool, however, can support cultivation up to the level of a Second-Rank Martial Artist. The upper limit is much higher."

"Furthermore, the mother pool is much more effective at increasing the daily limit of energy a Martial Artist can absorb."

"In short, in every respect, the mother pool of the scarlet dragon is far superior to the sub-pools."

"I see!"

Hearing this, Lin Yi nodded in appreciation:

"As expected of the mother pool of the scarlet dragon, the source of all Red Dragon Pools. Its effects are truly Heaven-Defying."

"However, as powerful as this mother pool is, how do I use it to obtain tianshan coins?"

"It's simple!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Yu gave a soft laugh:

"While martial cultivation is the least important and easiest requirement for geniuses to meet when breaking through to the Innate realm,"

"if one's cultivation can be raised quickly, then the Martial Artist will have more time to strengthen their Divine Soul and comprehend Limit Breaking, thereby increasing the probability of an Innate Breakthrough."

"Therefore, to encourage geniuses to raise their cultivation as quickly as possible, the Tianshan Pavilion established a rule long ago: anyone who raises their cultivation to the Third Rank level within five years will be rewarded with 2,000 tianshan coins."

"Raising cultivation to the Second-Rank level rewards 10,000 tianshan coins."

"And if one reaches the First Rank, they can receive a reward of 100,000 tianshan coins!"

"100,000! That much!"

Hearing this number, Lin Yi couldn't help but be shocked once again.

One Tianshan coin was worth 100 taels of silver, so 100,000 tianshan coins was a full 10 million taels of silver.

Heavens!

With 10 million taels of silver, how many talents could he evolve!

Even if Divine Soul talents were rare, he might be able to evolve one!

"Haha, is 100,000 a lot?"

Hearing this, Wang Yu smiled faintly and said:

"Do you know how difficult the First Rank is? Even among Tianshan Pavilion Disciples, there are many who cannot break through to the First Rank in their entire lives."

"As for reaching the First Rank within five years, in the history of our Tianshan Pavilion, only one Senior from over five hundred years ago ever managed to do it."

"But although that Senior had extraordinary Physical Body cultivation talent and high Comprehension Ability, his Divine Soul talent was simply too poor. In the end, he still failed to break through to the Innate realm and passed away in regret at the Peak of the First Rank."

Speaking of this, Wang Yu's face couldn't help but show a trace of sighing and sorrow.

The Innate realm was difficult! Truly more difficult than ascending to the heavens!

The three great mountains of Cultivation, Force Exertion Realm, and Divine Soul power—each mountain higher and heavier than the last—had crushed the spirits of countless prodigies throughout history.

Particularly the mountain of Divine Soul power, which was the nightmare for eighty percent of First-Rank Masters attempting an Innate Breakthrough!

Because geniuses with naturally powerful Divine Soul talent were truly, truly too rare.

"Sigh! Never mind!"

After a moment of silence, Wang Yu adjusted his emotions and then continued to smile at Lin Yi:

"The introduction to the mother pool of the scarlet dragon is finished. Lin Yi, pick an empty room in this courtyard first, and then I'll take you to see the next Martial Emperor's relic!"

"Yes! Teacher Wang!"

Lin Yi nodded, chose an empty room with the number ninety-nine on the doorplate, and then followed Wang Yu out of the courtyard.

Afterward, the two walked for a while and soon arrived at a new location.

It was an open valley about seven or eight square kilometers in size, where about seventy or eighty people were scattered about.

These people, male and female, old and young, were all sitting with their eyes closed in deep thought. Some were looking down, sketching on the ground with their fingers, while others were looking up at a green stone wall about five meters square on a cliff in the center of the valley.

"Lin Yi, do you see that green stone wall?"

While Lin Yi was silently observing these people, Wang Yu's voice suddenly rang in his ear.

"I see it."

Lin Yi nodded and then asked Wang Yu:

"Teacher Wang, is there something miraculous about this stone wall?"

"Of course there is!"

Wang Yu smiled and said:

"This green stone wall is called the myriad laws stone wall, the second of the three treasures of tianshan."

"For any Martial Artist, regardless of what martial arts they Cultivate, as long as they are below the Innate realm,"

"once they focus their mental intent entirely on this myriad laws stone wall, it can manifest a perfect opponent who practices the same martial arts as you and is perfectly suited to you. You can then fight this opponent to identify and fix your mistakes, filling in the various loopholes in your martial arts."

"It can be said that with the help of this myriad laws stone wall, a Martial Artist's progress in martial arts is incredibly rapid, far exceeding the speed of pondering and practicing alone!"

"What! Manifesting an opponent to identify and fix mistakes? It's that powerful?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

One must know that in the path of martial arts, a good opponent is hard to find. Among the thousands of Martial Artists in the world, one is lucky to find even one or two good opponents.

Yet this myriad laws stone wall could manifest a perfect opponent based on the martial arts you practiced. In that case, wouldn't the Force Exertion Realm of a Martial Artist using the myriad laws stone wall improve by leaps and bounds?

Lin Yi was shocked. After calming down for a moment, he asked Wang Yu again:

"Teacher Wang, since this myriad laws stone wall can rapidly improve a Martial Artist's Force Exertion Realm, then based on the experience with the mother pool of the scarlet dragon, is it true that if a Tianshan Pavilion Disciple can reach a certain level in their Force Exertion Realm within five years, they can also receive a certain amount of tianshan coins as a reward?"

"Smart!"

Wang Yu smiled and said:

"The importance of the Force Exertion Realm for an Innate Breakthrough is not as great as the Divine Soul, but it is not at all inferior to one's cultivation level."

"Therefore, the Tianshan Pavilion stipulates that as long as a Disciple raises their Force Exertion Realm to Second Level of Limit Breaking within five years, they can receive a reward of 5,000 tianshan coins."

"If they can reach Third Level of Limit Breaking, the reward is 30,000 tianshan coins."

"And if they can reach Limit Breaking Level Four, they can even receive a reward of 200,000 tianshan coins!"

"200,000 tianshan coins! This Tianshan Pavilion is far too wealthy."

Hearing this, Lin Yi's eyes turned a bit red with envy.

100,000 tianshan coins before, and now another 200,000 tianshan coins here—that added up to a total of 300,000 tianshan coins, or 30 million taels of silver.

What a terrifying amount of wealth! Even a First Rank would probably go crazy for it!

However, Lin Yi also knew that Limit Breaking Level Four was already the standard for the Innate realm, and it was much harder to achieve than reaching the First Rank of martial cultivation.

To reach that step in just five years—even if the prodigies in the Tianshan Pavilion were all extraordinary—there had likely never been anyone in history who could achieve it. Otherwise, the Tianshan Pavilion wouldn't have offered such a terrifying figure.

"Alright, Lin Yi."

Seeing Lin Yi's shocked expression, Wang Yu couldn't help but smile slightly and said:

"I've finished introducing the myriad laws stone wall to you. Next, let's go see the last of our three treasures of tianshan!"

"That is also the most important one in our Tianshan Pavilion, and the only treasure that can enhance Divine Soul power. Its value is so great that even Peak powers of the Nine Provinces like the Buddhist Sacred Land, the Daoist Sacred Land, and Wanxiang Tower are extremely envious of it."

"It is precisely because of it that our Tianshan Pavilion has been able to Cultivate so many Innate masters over the past thousand years!"

"Oh? A treasure that enhances Divine Soul power? Even Peak powers of the Nine Provinces are envious of it?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and his curiosity grew even stronger. He immediately followed Wang Yu toward the location of that final treasure.