Chapter 72: Ruins Core

  When Xu Hua and Luo Cheng arrived at the ancient temple, they found that many warriors were frantically attacking the few isolated pillars around them! This made Xu Hua somewhat surprised, and even thought they were crazy!

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  At the palace gate, nearly a hundred warriors surrounded the eight pillars, constantly striking them! Among these people were martial kings and emperors, yet under the countless true energy strikes, the pillars didn't budge! It even gave Xu Hua an urge to pull one out and use it as a weapon! Such hard pillars not being used as weapons would be a waste!

  But obviously this is impossible, so many strong men hitting these eight pillars together are useless, let alone one person!

  Upon seeing their arrival, those people said with some disdain: "Another couple of idiots have come in, how unlucky!"

  "Yes, I don't know why this place is so strange, no matter how you walk, you can't get out. Originally thought to take advantage of the chaos to pick up leaks, didn't expect that in the end the treasure was not obtained, but people couldn't get out."

  "What kind of formation is this? This pillar can't be broken no matter what! I'm going to his grandfather's!"

  "Our goal is not to smash the pillar, but to consume the energy of this formation. Only when the formation is broken can we get out, otherwise we can only wait for death here!"

  "Hey, kid, don't go in anymore. We're not going to get the treasure anyway. Let's just stay here at the entrance and wait for the formation to break. Then we can leave immediately! Stop looking around, it's you again, you're still looking!" someone pointed at Xu Hua and chattered on.

  "Ah, I think we should take a look around, it's not often that we come here, and if we don't see anything, it would be a waste!" Xu Hua said as he pulled Luo Cheng away.

  Hiding in a secluded spot, Xuhua asked Luo Cheng: "How is it? Have you figured anything out?"

  Luo Cheng's face lit up with joy as he said, "As expected, it was just a temporary setback. However, there should be someone among these people who knows that this is an array formation. But I reckon he doesn't understand either and can only let them randomly attack everything inside."

  "Can we go in?" Xu Huake didn't care about anything else, as long as he could get in himself.

  Luo Cheng nodded and said, "Not difficult, follow me."

  Xu Hua followed Luo Cheng, watching him touch this and look at that, but after a long time, he still didn't understand what he was doing. The others in the palace saw this and didn't think it was strange either, they continued to do their own things, enthusiastically bombing everything in the palace!

  Xu Hua quietly extracted the life essence from these people, many of whom were strong martial artists with powerful life essences within them. Extracting some of their life essence would be completely undetectable to them!

  Soon, the two of them had almost strolled through the entire palace. Xuhua had extracted a considerable amount of life energy from many warriors, reaping a great harvest. However, he also sensed three extremely powerful life energies that surpassed those of others by far - they were three old men surrounded by strong warriors of the Martial Emperor realm. In front of these three, Xuhua didn't dare to circulate his "Life Devouring Skill", fearing being discovered by them!

  He returned to a deserted alley, and Xu Hua let out a sigh of relief, his back already drenched with sweat. At this moment, Luo Cheng suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "Found it!"

  "What? Found the way?"

  As expected, Luo Cheng fiddled around in the front for a while and created a passageway. He immediately pulled Xu Hua into it, and once they entered, everything returned to its original state!

  After passing through the passageway, Xu Hua and Luo Cheng were shocked to see the magnificent golden palace in front of them! The ceiling of the palace was embedded with night pearls that shone like stars, illuminating the entire palace!

  In front of the grand hall, there are eight pillars connecting to the top, each pillar is carved with dragon patterns! Vivid and majestic, imposing and magnificent!

  At the very front of the grand hall was a tall chair, also carved with dragon patterns. On the chair lay a skull. The two people slowly moved forward, stepping over the nine-layered white jade steps, looking at the towering dragon chair in front of them.

  "This strong man must have been a king when he was alive!" Xu Hua looked at the skull in front of him, which had bones as white as jade.

  Luochengdao said: "Maybe, but with bones as jade, at least he must be a top-notch strongman among the Martial Emperors to be like this! This person was absolutely very powerful when he was alive!"

  "I don't even know how long this person has been dead, can the things he left behind still be used?" Xu Hua looked at the black ring on the index finger of the jade skull in front of him and immediately said: "Luo Cheng, this should be a space ring! Just give it to you to use! Take it down and see what else is inside that can be used!"

  Lu Cheng didn't decline, took a step forward and took off the space ring with black dragon pattern! However, what surprised Xu Hua was that Lu Cheng didn't need to drop blood to recognize the master, he directly took out many things from the space ring!

  Xu Hua exclaimed in surprise: "Luo Cheng, your spiritual power has reached the third stage?"

  Luo Cheng nodded and said: "Since I merged with the memories of the Blood Saint, my spiritual power has already reached the fourth stage. Using the ownerless space ring is too easy!"

  Xu Hua felt a little envious, but these were things that couldn't be envied. If he didn't have the Blood Spirit Body, he wouldn't be able to accept the blood crystal left behind by the Blood Saint, nor would he be able to inherit the Blood Saint's memories! In an instant, Xu Hua shifted his attention entirely to the items Luo Cheng had taken out of his spatial ring.

  At this moment, many things have been placed on the ground, dozens of jade bottles, a sword, a jade seal, some unrecognized stones, several beast bones with inscriptions, and some stones like jade!

  Lu Cheng looked at these jade-like stones and exclaimed with joy: "Young Master, we've made a big profit this time! There's actually spiritual stone! Now the only thing I'm missing is spiritual stone!"

  Although he had obtained the memories of the Blood Saint, Luo Cheng was still just Luo Cheng after all. As for the memories of the Blood Saint, he had only watched them as an outsider. Now, Luo Cheng simply had a deeper understanding of this world. When he truly saw the large amount of spiritual stones, he couldn't help but feel extremely excited!

  Xu Hua picked up each jade bottle and examined it!

  Jing Qi Dan, Sheng Ji Huo Xue Dan, Shui Yuan Dan...

  Xu Hua opened the bottle stopper and brought the jade bottle over, pouring out a significant amount of white powder! Xu Hua sighed: "It seems that too much time has passed, these medicinal pills have lost their efficacy!"

  "That's inevitable. Ordinary elixirs can't be stored for too long, and these relics are generally over a thousand years old, so the elixirs have naturally become useless!" Luo Cheng explained, then immediately added: "Fortunately, there are two spiritual instruments, and their spirituality hasn't decreased by much."

  Luo Cheng held a similarly dragon-patterned long sword, carefully observing it, and even infused his true energy into it!

  Hmph! Hmph!

  Several sword auras shot out and made a small hole in the ground of unknown material, splashing sparks!

  "It should be a mid-grade spiritual artifact, but it's already at the top of the mid-grade spiritual artifacts!" Luo Cheng handed the long sword to Xu Hua. Xu Hua took it and swung it a few times, feeling that it was not bad. However, he still felt that it was slightly heavy, and estimated that this sword weighed around 2,000 catties. Even though Xu Hua's physical strength had already reached 10,000 catties, wielding it was still not very convenient! He said: "It's just a bit heavy, I estimate that when my physical strength reaches 20,000 catties, I'll be able to wield it smoothly!"

  Luocheng nodded and said, "The Emperor's strength is merely physical power that can reach 100,000 catties. This weight is still a bit light for them. Although this sword was once the top of mid-grade spiritual equipment, after so many years, it can only be considered an ordinary mid-grade spiritual equipment. However, even if it's just an ordinary mid-grade spiritual equipment, to fully control it, one would need to have as much true energy as a Martial Emperor. A late-stage Martial Emperor warrior could use it at most a few times before their true energy is exhausted!"

  "It seems I still can't control it!" Xu Hua felt a slight bitterness, the treasure was right in front of him, yet he couldn't control it. For most people, this would be even more mentally torturous. Suddenly, Xu Hua wanted to pick up that jade seal!

  "Huh?!"

  Xu Hua picked it up, but the jade seal didn't budge! A strange glint flashed in Xu Hua's eyes. "What a heavy jade seal! With my strength, I can't even lift it?"

  "Let me see!" Luo Cheng tried and indeed couldn't lift it. He examined it for a moment, then said: "This jade seal is not simple!"

  Xu Hua suddenly came up with the enthusiasm, using all his strength to try to pick up the jade seal, but the jade seal still didn't move at all! In the end, Xu Hua could only sigh helplessly: "It's so heavy! How can such a small jade seal be so heavy!"

  Luo Cheng shook his head and said, "Spiritual artifacts can't be judged solely by their size. Some spiritual artifacts may look small, but they might have been engraved with spatial laws, making them actually very large! I think this jade seal should be the same too! Young master, try dripping blood to acknowledge ownership, then store it in your spatial ring for now. Wait until your strength increases before taking it out and using it!"

  With a long sword in hand, he lightly scratched his fingertips, and the blood dripped onto the sword and jade seal. Indeed, it was absorbed, but they seemed unsatisfied, producing a strong suction force that continuously absorbed Xu Hua's internal blood!

  Just stopped after sucking Xu Hua's face pale! "Almost sucked me dry! Didn't expect them to suck so much blood from me! Never had so much blood sucked when dripping blood for the spatial ring before!"

  "Most powerful spiritual artifacts are like this! I don't understand it either, there's no such thing in the Blood Saint's memories!" Luo Cheng was also perplexed.

  Xu Hua put away the long sword and jade seal, and looked at the beast bone again, but still couldn't understand the text on it. So he handed it to Luo Cheng to take a look.

  "This is a complete formation of the Array of Confusion! However, for us, it's not worth anything! In the memories of the Blood Saint, there are also several formations, especially those killing arrays that are much more powerful than this!" As soon as Luo Cheng saw it, he understood what it was, and the method was quite rough, far inferior to what he remembered.

  Xu Hua then picked up a few other animal bones and found that he could understand the words on these bones.

  "First-class martial skill of the Earth rank - Immovable Emperor Seal!"