316: Chapter 316 Receiving Treasures from the Inner Treasury

The Old Ancestor of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect, Situ Kong, hit the jackpot this time!

It took about several hours to control all the combat power at the Nascent Soul Stage and above.

As for the small city where the Corpse Refining Sect was located, it had already been reduced to ruins.

A large number of Cultivator souls and Mortal remnant souls were fought over and devoured by these Ghost Kings.

This resulted in no survivors within the entire small city.

This included the subordinates of the Shadow Dust Pavilion, and most importantly, the Advisor.

When Gu Changan received the news, he hadn't expected things to develop this way.

What a pity for the Advisor!

After Gu Changan detonated the Divine Soul of Situ Kong's son, he fled at full speed.

His target was Situ Kong's old lair.

Gu Changan spent about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to arrive at Blood Refining Valley once again.

The place was bustling, no different from when he had come before.

He estimated that the small city of the Corpse Refining Sect should be a pile of ruins by now, right?

Following the memories obtained from soul searching, Gu Changan arrived at the mountain gate of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect with practiced ease.

He glanced at the strict guards.

Gu Changan decided to disguise himself as Situ Xing or one of his two uncles!

Disguising as his two uncles would make it unavoidable to face greetings and bows from various other Cultivators.

Situ Xing's identity was more practical!

After several days of close contact, he already knew Situ Xing's appearance by heart.

Gu Changan walked through a small alley, and when he emerged, he had already transformed into Situ Xing.

He casually hung Situ Xing's identity token on himself.

He walked straight into the Situ Family.

The guards at the entrance did not dare to stop him when they saw Situ Xing; they only silently lowered their heads.

Gu Changan first pretended to return to his own residence.

Then, he dashed straight toward the secluded cultivation grounds of the Situ Old Ancestor, Situ Kong.

Some secret guards of the Family did not suspect anything when they saw Gu Changan's movements.

After all, he was looking for his own grandfather!

He just wondered what kind of expression he would have when he discovered his grandfather wasn't there in a moment.

Gu Changan reached the entrance of the underground river and used Situ Xing's identity token to enter.

The underground was actually a hazy, grey space.

A yellow underground river covered the entire subterranean area of the Situ Family.

This underground river was terrifyingly silent, with white bones like skulls floating upon it.

He didn't know if they were entire skeletons or just skulls.

Gu Changan discovered that his Divine Sense could not penetrate the yellow river water.

Could it be that this was Yellow Springs water?

Observing the river surface more closely, there wasn't a single ripple.

The only activity was near the skulls, where bubbles rose one after another.

Red liquid was mixed within the bubbles, which was then assimilated by the yellow river water outside.

But outside the bubbles, it was terrifyingly calm, without a single ripple splashing.

Gu Changan recalled Situ Xing's memories; his Old Ancestor had warned him.

This Yellow Springs water corrodes the Physical Body; approaching it means total annihilation of one's remains!

Then what were those skeletal remains floating on the river?

Could they be the corpses of the Nascent Soul Stage?

Gu Changan did not dare to speculate too much; the most important thing before him was the nascent soul forming pill.

There were no guards in the underground river, only the sect-protecting Great Formation of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect.

This Great Formation had been passed down for thousands of years and was a Nascent soul level Great Formation.

Gu Changan estimated that if he were to crack it, it would take some time.

Moreover, a large amount of Spiritual Qi was needed to maintain the gateway on the Formation.

There was a high probability he would be discovered by Situ Kong.

So as a last resort, he could only lure Situ Kong away!

Now that he was inside, even if he caused a stir, he could still make a clean escape.

Unknowingly, he arrived at the upper reaches of the underground river.

There was a tree here as black as ink.

The entire tree was about three zhang high, and its trunk was about as thick as a person.

However, there were no leaves, only branches, and a large number of souls were stuck to the branches.

It looked like these souls were being consumed by the tree before him.

Could this be the soul nurturing wood?

Gu Changan glanced at it and then stopped paying attention.

He hurriedly walked toward the earthen hut behind the tree; after entering, all the furniture was extremely simple.

There was only a stone bed, a stone table, and several stone stools.

Thinking about it, what could exist year-round in an environment of Yin Qi?

Not to mention there was also the water vapor of the Yellow Springs here, which corroded all sorts of Materials!

Gu Changan turned his gaze toward a wall; this was the location of the Situ Old Ancestor's inner treasury.

Situ Xing and his uncles did not know the method to open the inner treasury.

Gu Changan quickly used the 36 Minor Heavenly Cycle Restrictions to open the surface Restriction on the wall.

In the center of the wall, there was a silver spatial vortex; it seemed this was the spatial passage where the inner treasury was located.

Gu Changan secretly injected a large amount of Spiritual Qi, causing the silver spatial vortex to slowly grow much larger.

Then he flashed directly into it.

Upon entering, he found it was just a small room.

There were two rows of shelf-like things standing straight on both sides.

At the very back against the wall, there was also a table with jade boxes of various sizes on it.

There were also some wooden boxes!

Gu Changan had no time to observe these at all.

He directly released the treasure gathering basin, and all the shelves in the room along with everything else were sucked into it.

None of the items on them had individual Restrictions set.

Presumably, Situ Kong felt at ease; any Cultivator who could enter this place...

...would find such Restrictions useless, as they could be broken at will.

If they couldn't enter here, then of course it would be safe and sound!

Gu Changan retracted the treasure gathering basin and turned to exit the silver spatial vortex.

This process took less than a single breath.

With a flash, Gu Changan arrived beside the soul nurturing wood.

The main problem had been resolved, but what if there was no nascent soul forming pill inside?

So the soul nurturing wood before him counted as insurance!

Gu Changan casually summoned his natal Spirit Treasure, the nine heavens mountain suppressing pagoda.

"Little Earth, hurry!"

"Dig up this soul nurturing wood for me!"

Little Earth, being a man of few words, took action immediately.

A large amount of Earth Qi was stripped away; there were numerous Formation Restrictions at the roots of the soul nurturing wood.

After all, this was the root of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect and had been protected by Formations since its Legacy began.

Gu Changan casually pulled out his natal Spirit Treasure sword pellet, Soul Slasher.

"Quick, help break the Restrictions!"

The sword pellet traced an arc in the air and then split into ten, with 10 sword threads consecutively slashing through the weak points of the Formation.

Then, the Formations binding the soul nurturing wood shattered one after another.

The two natal Spirit Treasures cooperated fully, and after one breath of time...

...the soul nurturing wood struggled free, wanting to flee from this place.

After all, it had been passed down for thousands of years and had long since developed its own intelligence.

If it hadn't been bound underground by the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect year after year, perhaps it would have escaped long ago?

Now that it had this chance, how could it dare to delay?

Gu Changan had gone to such great lengths to get it out; how could he let the cooked duck fly away?

He directly sent out the treasure gathering basin.

The soul nurturing wood let out a soulful shriek, but it began to slowly shrink.

Finally, it was covered and taken in by the enlarged treasure gathering basin.