Cultivation: I have an omnipotent land

Chapter 50 Mysterious Jade Book

Seeing the enormous bronze lion fall to the ground, Xiao Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although there were only two puppets, they almost forced him to use all his magical artifacts, proving that this secret realm was indeed fraught with danger.

With a thought, all the magical artifacts flew back.

The Divine Light Mirror truly lives up to its reputation as a top-grade magic weapon. Its power is extraordinary when it strikes successfully, but unfortunately, it consumes too much energy and can only be used as a trump card.

The Thick Earth Bead is a very handy magical artifact, and it was worth the fight he fought with Yan Shaoyu to get his hands on it.

As for the sword and shield that had accompanied him to the end, the bronze shield was covered in wounds, and the Azure Rainbow Sword also had a clear crack on its blade due to the rough handling just now. Xiao Ming felt a pang of heartache seeing this.

After taking a Qi-restoring pill and resting for a while, Xiao Ming walked towards the forging furnace.

As for the two bronze lions that were spewing earth fire, Xiao Ming observed them carefully for a while before confirming that the two statues were not puppets.

"Having gone to so much trouble, I'm going to see what treasures are inside." Xiao Ming turned the switch and shut off the ley line fire.

Just as he was about to open the furnace, the furnace began to vibrate on its own. The next moment, the furnace lid was blown off, accompanied by a sharp screech, and a wave of scorching heat rushed towards him.

Suddenly, a firebird flew out of the furnace and soared toward the ceiling.

However, there were clearly some restrictions placed in the room. The firebird did not crash through the ceiling; instead, it shattered into pieces, sparks flying everywhere.

However, the flames seemed to come alive and quickly coalesced again, transforming into a smaller firebird.

It tried to crash into other directions, but failed every time.

As it breaks down and reassembles itself more often, it becomes smaller and more transparent.

Xiao Ming could clearly feel that, as time went by, the earth vein energy that the firebird had accumulated in the forging furnace over the years was rapidly dissipating.

Through its increasingly transparent body, one can see a mass of golden-red substance inside. At first, it was as fiery as a flame, then it gradually cooled and slowly solidified.

During this process, the firebird became increasingly sluggish, eventually hovering completely in the air and no longer moving.

Xiao Ming slowly walked over, and a flying sword shot out from his sleeve. The firebird instantly vanished into thin air, turning into a piece of spiritual gold the size of a palm.

It is crystal clear like glass, but feels metallic to the touch. It is crimson in color, and contains a small ball of golden flame in the center, which is constantly pulsating like a heart.

Although Xiao Ming's knowledge was limited, he could still sense the pure fire elemental power contained in this thing, which was definitely a rare and valuable material for refining weapons.

After calming himself down, Xiao Ming walked out of the room, having already looted everything in the three rooms.

But adhering to the principle of not missing any treasures, Xiao Ming walked around the room a few more times, then took out the token and poured spiritual power into it.

Sure enough, an anomaly occurred. As Xiao Ming walked toward a wall, the token in his hand suddenly vibrated, and then the wall cracked open, revealing a small box inside.

"As expected, there was still treasure hidden there."

Xiao Ming opened the box, and the first thing that caught his eye was several square jade tablets, each about the size of a child's palm.

"Is this a jade slip?"

Looking at these jade slips, Xiao Ming immediately felt deflated.

Jade slips are tools used by powerful cultivators to store information. They can be used to inscribe and read information with divine sense, and their capacity can be more than ten thousand times that of ordinary books, making them extremely convenient.

However, jade slips also have drawbacks. Over time, the information inside may be lost. Generally, ordinary jade slips need to be copied and re-engraved every hundred years, otherwise the information stored in the jade slips will become distorted.

Xiao Ming picked up a jade slip and placed it on his forehead. He probed it with his spiritual sense and found that, as expected, after a thousand years, it was completely blank.

"What a pity, it might contain some powerful cultivation techniques and spells."

Xiao Ming sighed, put the jade slips into his storage bag, and then opened the second layer of the box, where a jade book was stored.

Indeed, this is a book made of white jade, with gold thread binding the edges; it is by no means an ordinary book.

Picking up the jade book, Xiao Ming tried to probe it with his spiritual sense, but found no reaction. He then poured spiritual power into it, and this time the jade book lit up briefly. However, as Xiao Ming continued to pour in spiritual power, he found that the jade book was like a bottomless pit; even with all his strength, he could not activate it.

"Could it be because my cultivation level is insufficient? This is probably a treasure." While Xiao Ming pondered this...

Suddenly, an explosion was heard outside.

"Someone's coming." Quickly putting the item away, Xiao Ming pressed one hand on the storage bag and carefully opened the door.

Following the sound, Xiao Ming approached the outer hall and saw a plump young man in a yellow Taoist robe struggling against two late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

One of the two men had a sallow complexion and was as thin as a rake, and he was manipulating a small flag that was constantly emitting black smoke.

The other was eight feet tall, exceptionally robust, with a pale complexion and faintly visible purplish-black veins, like wriggling earthworms.

"These must be people from the Corpse Soul Sect?" Xiao Ming muttered to himself.

The flag that was constantly emitting black smoke and from which vengeful spirits flew must be the soul-summoning banner mentioned in the book.

As for the burly man, he was too tall and had a strong aura of death about him, so he probably practiced some kind of corpse-refining technique.

This burly man did not use any magical artifacts, but instead wielded his fists and feet, each punch possessing the power to split mountains and shatter rocks.

The chubby young man dared not approach, so he summoned an earthen-yellow shield to block in front of him, and kept throwing out fireball talismans from his sleeves, burning the surrounding vengeful spirits to ashes.

"Boy, hand over the treasure you obtained, and we'll let you go. Otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless later," the gaunt man threatened.

They originally thought that with the two of them working together, dealing with a guy at the sixth level of Qi Refining would be a piece of cake, but it turned out that the fat guy had talismans in his hands like they were free, causing his Soul Summoning Banner to lose a lot of high-quality souls.

"I just came in too, I didn't take anything. You can take any of the magical artifacts on this forging table, it's none of my business." The chubby young man felt wronged.

"You fatso, do you think we're fools? These magical artifacts are all failed forgings and scraps. You came in before us, and you took all the usable treasures, didn't you? Hand them over now..."

"Your shield is quite a nice magical artifact. Did you obtain it here?" The blood-eyed man's tone was greedy. The shield had withstood his full-force attack, yet it hadn't even left a mark.

"Nonsense, I brought this from home." The chubby young man muttered as he finished speaking.

"Products from Baoguang Pavilion are always of the highest quality, far superior to these unwanted junk items."

"I don't care where you got it from, I saw it today, so it's mine..."