209: Chapter 209 Treasure in the Fiery Hell

Several hours later, Master Yuchen and Chen Changqing's group returned. The Yan Country Cultivators who had gone in pursuit also came back. In this battle, they had killed quite a few Cultivators, and their objective had been achieved.

After returning, some Cultivators had faces beaming with joy, while others were sorrowful and silent.

Master Yuchen gave instructions for a portion of the Cultivators to be responsible for keeping watch, while another portion returned first to rest and regroup.

After bidding farewell to the three people, Chen Changqing also found a quiet place in the city to rest and inspect the Storage Pouches of the Red-robed Young Man and the other person.

First was the Red-robed Young Man. The resources in his Storage Pouch were neither too many nor too few. Just the Spirit Stones alone amounted to a full one hundred thousand, and there were also dozens of bottles of Medicinal Pills. However, most of them were empty bottles, with only a few bottles still containing some Medicinal Pills.

Chen Changqing took them out to look. These few bottles of Medicinal Pills were mainly Gathering Spirit Pills. The effect of Tier 3 Gathering Spirit Pills was merely to speed up the Cultivation of Purple Palace Cultivators, so their usefulness was not particularly great.

As for the other items, most were Tier 2 Magical Artifacts and Tier 2 Formations. However, there was also a Tier 3 Low Grade Magical Artifact.

This Tier 3 Low Grade Magical Artifact was a black Flying Sword named the Black Scaled Sword, which seemed to be made from the scales of a Black Scaled Snake.

Besides this, there were also some Artifact Refining Materials and an Artifact Refining Manual.

He immediately perked up. He had not expected the Red-robed Young Man to actually possess this kind of Legacy—an Artifact Refining Manual.

Chen Changqing flipped through it, and the more he read, the more surprised he became. This Artifact Refining Manual recorded quite a few Artifact Refining methods, among which those containing Tier 3 Magical Artifacts numbered a full six types, covering the refining methods for Tier 3 Low Grade, Middle Grade, and High Grade Magical Artifacts.

The Blood Blade used by the Red-robed Young Man previously was precisely one of the types from this Artifact Refining Manual.

Moreover, it also recorded the refining methods for dozens of Tier 1 and Tier 2 Magical Artifacts. Although most of them were unremarkable, they could still enrich the Chen Family's Artifact Refining Legacy.

The Magical Artifacts refined by the Chen Family over the years, apart from those obtained by their ancestors in the early years, also included those harvested by Chen Changqing at the Wanta Sect in recent years and those collected by the Family.

Although the Family already possessed quite a few Artifact Refining methods, for an Immortal Cultivation Family, naturally, the more of such Legacies, the better.

Chen Changqing began to look forward to the Storage Pouch of the cane-holding old man. Taking a look inside, there were far too many miscellaneous items, but with just a single glance, their value was probably even above that of the Red-robed Young Man.

Making a rough estimate, the cane-holding old man had a total of one hundred seventy thousand Spirit Stones, along with two Tier 3 Low Grade Magical Artifacts and a number of porcelain bottles of Medicinal Pills.

His Divine Sense probed inward, and inside was a jade box containing three foundation establishment pills.

Chen Changqing's expression was calm. Nowadays, Medicinal Pills like the foundation establishment pill were very ordinary pills to him. Although they were still quite rare, given his current strength, it was not difficult to occasionally buy one or two to bring back to the Family.

He continued to check the contents of the Storage Pouch. There were also four Tier 3 Low Grade Breaking-Killing Talismans and one...?

Chen Changqing looked closely. This was a map depicting mountains, rivers, and the borders of several Immortal Cultivation countries. Besides this, there was also a mark resembling a Treasure Trove, but what was that location?

He raised his head, suddenly thinking of something, and hurriedly rummaged through the cane-holding old man's Storage Pouch.

Before long, Chen Changqing took out a manual from inside, which recorded the specific information of this map.

This map was drawn by a Golden Core Master, Master Jiuyan. The Treasure Trove recorded in the map was precisely his place of passing. The reason he passed down his place of passing through a map was mainly in the hope that future generations would seek it out, as the resources he accumulated throughout his life were located there.

However, Master Jiuyan's place of passing was located in a perilous zone bordering Tang Country and the Daqian Dynasty, a perilous zone named the Fire Prison.

As the name implied, this Fire Prison was an area subjected to the scorching of high-temperature flames all year round.

The reason this place was scorched by high-temperature flames year-round was said to be precisely because its surface and underground possessed large patches of Flowing Flame Ore. As a Tier 3 Ore, Flowing Flame Ore constantly emitted terrifying flames.

There had once been Purple Palace Cultivators who ventured deep into this place, and in the end, they were also burned to ashes by those terrifying flames.

Even Golden Core Masters dared not venture deep into the Fire Prison without any preparation, because the deeper one went into the Fire Prison, the more rapidly the surrounding temperature soared. Therefore, no Cultivator had been able to investigate what existed in the depths of the Fire Prison to this day.

Chen Changqing examined it carefully, memorizing all the records of this manual into his mind.

After a quarter of an hour, he put the manual back into his own Storage Pouch, and then categorized the resources he had obtained before finally finishing.

This time, his harvest was quite abundant. From the Red-robed Young Man's Storage Pouch alone, he had gained Spirit Stones worth nearly three hundred thousand. As for the cane-holding old man, not counting the value of the map, just the resources on the surface already exceeded five hundred thousand in value. Truly, as expected of a Cultivator about to enter the Late Stage of the Zifu Stage, his net worth was simply different.

Just as he began to meditate to recover his magic power, the battlefields in other directions were still ongoing.

Master Baiye struck once more. Whenever she went into battle nowadays, there were bound to be several Purple Palace Cultivators joining forces to hold her back.

Among them, there were even hidden Purple Palace Cultivators watching for an opportunity to launch sneak attacks. There had been several assassination attempts targeting Master Baiye previously, but in the end, they had all failed. One of them had nearly succeeded, but Master Baiye had too many life-saving methods. Had it not been for this, Yan Country would have lost yet another seed for a Golden Core Master.

The Purple Palace Cultivators assigned together with Master Baiye were either extremely strong in combat power or possessed an abundance of methods.

Their main task was to cooperate with Master Baiye to restrain the opponent's experts as much as possible, so that their companions in other directions would face less pressure.

Boom, boom, boom!

Both sides continuously entangled with each other, neither giving ground. However, the Purple Palace Cultivators besieging Master Baiye dared not be careless, even though Master Baiye was currently still carrying injuries.

Previously, Master Qingfeng, who possessed the strongest strength at the Zifu Stage among the three countries, was still healing his injuries at this moment. After being severely wounded by Master Baiye, he had yet to fully recover to this day.

Therefore, they were all rather wary of Master Baiye's methods.

As for the remaining directions, most directions saw the Yan Country side defeated, and only in a minority of directions did they beat back the opponent.

However, those Purple Palace Cultivators who had been beaten back turned around and ran to other directions to launch joint attacks, causing Chen Changqing and his group to be unable to rest for even a short while before having to head to other directions for combat.

In this way, the Purple Palace Cultivators of both sides constantly changed the locations of their magical battles, fighting until heaven and earth turned dark. However, no matter how fierce the subsequent fighting was, very few new Purple Palace Cultivators died.

Because they discovered that as soon as they couldn't win, they would immediately change locations.

This move left Chen Changqing and the others physically and mentally exhausted. Originally, they only needed to guard the previously assigned positions. They had no idea how these Purple Palace Cultivators had altered their combat strategy, as if they were in a rush to drag down and exhaust Yan Country's Purple Palace Cultivators to death so they could breach Jizhou City.