Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

To the northwest of Divine Dragon Valley, about three hundred li away from Azure Mist Peak, lies a mountain with gently rolling terrain, barely two hundred zhang high and as red as fire.

This peak, known as Binghuo Peak, was covered in thousand-year-old fire pines that shone fiery red, making the distant peak look as if it were dyed by rosy clouds, intensely red like blood.

Underneath Binghuo Peak, was a spirit cave, the core spiritual acupoint of a third-rank Bing Fire Spirit Vein where the spiritual energy concentration was incredibly abundant.

Today, this spirit peak finally welcomed its master.

The sun was high in the sky, and the sunlight was bright.

The doors of the cave mansion halfway up Binghuo Peak slowly opened, and Zhao Sheng, dressed in the Jinyan Lan Robe, stepped out, looked up at the sky, and suddenly leapt into the air, transforming into a stream of light, speeding towards the east.

In just a matter of seconds, he had traversed over two hundred li.

Zhao Sheng descended from the sky, landing above a lush spirit field, then his figure suddenly twisted and blurred, and within a flash of light and shadow, he vanished into thin air.

The next second, Zhao Sheng landed on a profound yellow stone ground, facing a continuous undulating stone forest.

Not far in front of him, on the edge of the stone forest, sat three ten-zhang tall Profound Yellow Stone Giants, their faces bearing a striking resemblance to Zhao Xuanjing.

Zhao Sheng's eyes flashed as he flicked a fist-sized bright yellow Stone Bead.

The Stone Bead emitted a faint glow and flew onto the central Stone Giant, blending into it in an instant.

Boom!

The next moment, that Profound Yellow Stone Giant thunderously stood up, then shuffled its steps, revealing a stone staircase about a zhang wide that extended down into the ground.

Zhao Sheng stepped forward slowly and walked down the stone staircase into the underground.

After his figure disappeared from the end of the road, that gigantic Profound Yellow Stone Man moved back to its original place, sat down, and sealed the passage tightly.

Minutes later, Zhao Sheng had ventured more than ten li underground, and along the way, the increasingly terrifying prohibition fluctuations emanating from the stone walls grew more daunting.

Fortunately, Zhao Sheng had access to the treasure vault, so he wasn't treated as an external enemy and eliminated.

After walking another two or three li, a two-zhang high pitch-black stone gate appeared in front of him.

Zhao Sheng formed seals with both hands, casting spell after spell of the Door Opening Spell while spraying a mouthful of essence blood onto the surface of the stone gate, which was quickly absorbed.

The pitch-black stone gate silently sank into the ground, revealing a vast space behind it.

Zhao Sheng walked in to find a broad stone hall spanning more than ten acres, with only six stone platforms, each displaying a Treasure.

Zhao Sheng's gaze slowly swept over the stone platforms, revealing a look of astonishment and eagerness in his eyes.

Of the six treasures, he did not recognize three, but among those he knew, each was exceptionally rare, even unique.

Zhao Sheng quickly walked up to one of the platforms, where a black meteorite, the size of a human head and shaped like an olive, sat, astonishingly embedded with a palm-sized piece of bone fragment.

This bone fragment was completely silver-white, extremely smooth on the surface, and emitted faint golden light from its jagged edges.

However, under Zhao Sheng's Spiritual Sensing, the void within three feet around the bone was violently trembling, with extremely fine and subtle space rifts appearing and disappearing, a truly fearsome sight.

Reading the two lines of text on the platform, Zhao Sheng murmured to himself, "Unknown bone fragment, from a Dead Star in the Outer Void Sea, naturally possessing the Breaking Space Ability, extremely difficult to refine, usage unknown..."

After reading, disappoinment appeared on Zhao Sheng's face, so he immediately moved past this platform to another.

"Sea Shell?!"

Seeing the familiar silver-white shell on the platform, Zhao Sheng was extremely surprised.

It had been over a thousand years, and he had thought the Sea Shell had found a new owner long ago, yet unexpectedly, he encountered this Strange Treasure in the Heavenly Treasure Vault today.

Zhao Sheng made up his mind that if the remaining treasures didn't impress him, he would choose the Sea Shell in the end.

The treasure on the third platform was an Ancient Treasure, shaped like a nine-layered, eight-sided Green Spirit Tower. Each of the eight spires of every layer was adorned with a thumb-sized white bone bell, emitting a blinding white brilliance.

The fourth platform displayed a fist-sized blood-red vertical pupil that continuously rolled its eyeballs as if they were freshly gouged from someone's head.

But when Zhao Sheng approached it, the odd vertical pupil suddenly stopped moving, and then, mirroring Zhao Sheng's movements, its gaze never left him, filled with malice and hatred.

"Ah! It's the legendary Evil Eye of Ghost Chi, could it be the one from the brow of the Sect Leader of Heavenly Taoist Sect?"

Upon reading the simple introduction of the vertical pupil, Zhao Sheng felt an indescribable sensation, his thoughts momentarily drifting back a thousand years.

That Sect Leader of the Heavenly Taoist Sect was at the peak of Divinity Transformation Level, yet this vertical pupil contained the Ghost Chi Clan's unique Great Divine Power, the Extinction Divine Light, immeasurable in its might.

Although the Treasure was precious, Zhao Sheng would not choose it because the will of that Sect Leader still lingered within the Evil Eye. Forcibly erasing that Will would automatically extinguish the Extinction Divine Light and thus render the item almost unrefinable.

The fifth platform held a piece of Wind Soil sealed in Crystal. This treasure was unheard of and unrecognizable to him, so he skipped it.

Zhao Sheng walked to the last platform, seeing a metal pouch interwoven in gold and silver, beside which lay a smooth, head-sized golden ball.

No matter from what angle it was observed, even under the cover of Divine Thought, this golden ball remained perfectly spherical, astonishingly without a single blemish or unevenness.