Chapter 177 Zheng's Treasure House
Under the leadership of Chen Liancang, Zheng Yi once again came to the Taizu Imperial Mausoleum in Tianshou Mountain.

Today, the Emperor Taizu's Mausoleum is completely silent, with only dozens of Shadow Guards cleaning the place.

These people are the most loyal to Zheng Yi. They are born as death warriors and will never betray Zheng Yi.

Inside the Golden Palace, the huge golden coffin had already been removed, and even the dragon throne had been pushed away.

A dark hole appeared in front of Zheng Yi.

"Your Majesty, please look, this jade staircase located in the middle of Taizu's Mausoleum is actually hollow."

Chen Liancang explained: "It not only contains the central hub of the three major formations here, but also a huge 'Zheng's Treasure House'."

"The treasure house has no traps. It seems to have been specially prepared for your majesty."

"I went in to check it myself, and there is no danger."

"Let's go down and have a look."

"promise!"

Liu Chengen led the way, and Zheng Yi followed closely behind him and stepped into Taizu's treasury.

This was a spiral staircase that went downwards. Less than a minute after walking up it, a huge empty square appeared in front of Zheng Yi again.

Three formations arranged in three directions appeared in front of Zheng Yi.

Each array plate is composed of hundreds or even thousands of special array patterns, which is very complicated.

There are also a large number of holes in it, which are obviously the places where spirit stones are placed.

"Your Majesty, this is the array plate of the three major arrays. When the time comes, you only need to use the spirit stone to activate the array eye, or a cultivator can personally take charge, and then you can activate the three major arrays."

"Unfortunately, we don't have any spirit stones, so this formation can only be used as a decoration."

Zheng Yi's mind was moved and he asked, "There are no spiritual stones in Taizu's treasury?"

Chen Liancang shook his head and said, "No, Your Majesty, please~"

Chen Liancang continued to go down, and soon a gate more than one person tall appeared in front of Zheng Yi.

"Your Majesty, this is Taizu's treasure house."

"It contains a large number of cultivation items left by our great ancestor, many of which I don't recognize."

Zheng Yi looked at it carefully and found that the gate had only two doors, but the surrounding walls were carved with dragons and phoenixes, showing the royal style.

On it, four big characters "Zheng's Treasure House" are engraved.

"Go in and have a look."

"promise!"

The door to the treasury was opened. Zheng Yi walked in and was filled with a faint smell of decay.

It was obvious that no one had entered this treasure house for more than three hundred years.

The area of ​​this treasure house is not very large and you can see the end at a glance.

From Zheng Yi's perspective, it was about the size of a football field.

But the height is very high, about ten meters, and the entire space is nearly 80,000 cubic meters.

On both sides of the secret vault, there were rows and rows of huge iron blocks that were more than a person tall, and there were thousands of them.

"What the hell is this?"

Zheng Yi knocked on the iron block and it made a clanging sound. It felt very hard.

Chen Liancang said: "Your Majesty, I am not sure, it should be a material used by monks to refine weapons."

Zheng Yi took a few more steps and said, "Mr. Chen, please go back to the capital and ask Concubine Cui, Concubine Chan and Concubine Yu to come. Neither of us are cultivators, so we can't go to the treasure mountain and return empty-handed."

"promise!"

Chen Liancang said respectfully, then turned around and left to convey the imperial edict.

Zheng Yi put his hands behind his back and continued to move forward to check.

The rows of huge stones were hundreds of meters long. Zheng Yi stopped from time to time to look at them, feeling very curious.

After passing this pile of stones, there were rows of neatly stacked wooden boxes. When he opened them, he saw a pile of things that Zheng Yi didn't recognize.

Continuing forward, various materials appeared before his eyes.

Special wood, metal, and bones, some were piled there randomly, while others were packed in wooden boxes and scattered all over the ground.

Keep going.

After walking for about an incense stick of time, Zheng Yi arrived at the innermost part of the treasure house.

This should be the most precious thing in the treasury. On a huge platform, there are twelve wooden boxes and jade bottles of varying sizes.

Zheng Yi counted carefully and found seven wooden boxes and five jade bottles, quietly placed there.

No one has touched it for more than three hundred years.

But this place is located underground, and even after more than three hundred years, there is not a trace of dust on the wooden box and jade bottle, and they look almost as good as new.

"these things……"

Zheng Yi did not intend to open it. It would be better to wait for Concubine Cui and others to arrive before opening it together.

After all, wouldn’t it be embarrassing if you don’t recognize it after opening it?
"Huh? This is..."

Zheng Yi's eyes suddenly lit up. In the middle of several wooden boxes, there was actually a... book?

"Why are there books in this place?"

I took it and flipped through it, only to find that it was not a book at all, but... a booklet that recorded some secrets.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Zheng Yi rubbed his sore neck and closed the book in his hand.

"So that's how it is. The sudden disappearance of spiritual energy in this world is not due to the spiritual energy tide. The spiritual energy tide takes a long time, at least thousands or even tens of thousands of years." "And the spiritual energy in this world seems to have been absorbed by a mysterious person, or a mysterious species, or a mysterious change. Even now, it is still being slowly absorbed."

Zheng Yi murmured, "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs."

"With more monks, there will be more spiritual energy privately occupied, which will make the spiritual energy of the entire world thinner."

"But the same thing is that once a cultivator dies, the mana in his body will return to heaven and earth and turn into spiritual energy again."

"But this time the world has changed drastically. No matter how many dead cultivators there are, the spiritual energy cannot be restored. This means that there is some kind of existence that has been secretly absorbing the spiritual energy, and at a very fast speed!"

He saw all these secret letters in this booklet.

"The ancestor of the Zheng family was originally an inner disciple of the Huangquan Sect. After receiving this secret, he has been preparing for this matter."

"Under the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the ten major sects and thousands of sects fought for survival, and even the entire continent was broken into countless pieces."

"The continent that Dayu is currently staying on is actually part of the original site of the Ephemeral Sect, the Yellow Spring Sect, the Sky Desert Sect, and other sects. The other continents have all been driven overseas."

"After the Huangquan Sect fought with other sects in this great catastrophe until their blood was almost drained, and the entire sect moved overseas, the Zheng family's ancestors stayed behind."

"Da Yu was established with some planning and some resources looted from the catastrophe!"

Zheng Yi murmured, "Zheng's original intention was to rely on the Mortal Dynasty to consolidate his own power, and at the same time use the secret method of the Huangquan Sect to transform himself into a spirit corpse, survive for ten thousand years, and wait for the spiritual energy to revive."

"Unfortunately, who would have known that in just over three hundred years, it would be interrupted by me!"

"And these things..."

Zheng Yi turned around, opened his arms and said, "These things are all cultivation items that Zheng's great ancestor specially preserved for his own future cultivation. They are all exquisite!"

"What a pity. Among the items for cultivation recorded in the booklet, not many spiritual herbs and elixirs were preserved because they would lose spiritual energy."

"I don't know if the spiritual energy in the few remaining pills has also dissipated?"

Just then, there was a noise at the door of the treasure house. It was Chen Liancang and others.

"This old servant greets your majesty." Chen Liancang said, "The three ladies have arrived."

Behind him, Concubine Cui, Concubine Chan and Concubine Yu all bowed to him.

"I have met your Majesty."

"My three beloved concubines, please stand up quickly. You and I are husband and wife, and we are also fellow Taoists. There is no need to be polite."

Concubine Cui said, "Your Majesty, we Taoist friends are the ruler and the subject first, the husband and wife in the middle, and the Taoist friends at the end. Etiquette cannot be abolished."

Zheng Yi smiled and said, "My beloved concubine is really thoughtful. By the way, my beloved concubine, these things were left to us by our great ancestor. Unfortunately, I and Old Chen are just novices in cultivation and are not very familiar with these cultivation items."

"I wonder if my three beloved concubines can help me solve this puzzle?"

"Then let me wait and see."

The three of them separated and checked the contents of the entire treasure house.

Soon Cui Xiabing shouted, "Your Majesty, please come in."

"What did my beloved find out?"

At the entrance of the treasury, Concubine Cui looked at the black iron blocks, which were the largest in number and area, and said, "This should be the most basic material for cultivators to refine weapons, refined iron!"

"I have seen it from my master, but he only has a small piece, about the same size as the bronze mirror."

“I didn’t expect… there are so many in Taizu’s treasury!”

As she spoke, she gestured with her hands, showing great surprise, with her little mouth open.

"Fine iron?"

Zheng Yi looked up and down at the pile of black iron blocks and asked directly: "How do we use it?"

Concubine Cui smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, a cultivator in the Qi training stage cannot use it. Only a cultivator in the foundation building stage can use his own magic power to condense the spiritual fire to melt it and then forge it."

"Or find some spiritual fire from heaven and earth to melt it."

"I think Taizu must have spent a lot of manpower and resources to refine so much fine iron."

"With so much fine iron, I feel like I can make basic magical instruments for all the disciples in a sect!"

"A sect...tsk tsk tsk, it must have at least several hundred or even thousands of people."

Zheng Yi was also amazed. At this time, Concubine Yu, who was not far away, also shouted, "Your Majesty, I recognize this item."

Zheng Yi and Concubine Cui came over to take a look and found Concubine Yu standing in front of a pile of wooden boxes.

Several of the boxes have been opened and Concubine Yu is counting the contents.

When Zheng Yi took a look, it seemed to be a pile of yellow papers, stacked up layer upon layer.

"Your Majesty, this is talisman paper. I have seen it from my master. The spirit-testing talisman that my master gave me was drawn on this talisman paper."

Yu Fei pointed to several other boxes and said, "Those boxes contain cinnabar, ink and other things, which are all necessary materials for drawing talismans."

"My beloved concubine knows how to draw talismans?"

Yu Fei said embarrassedly: "I have asked Master for advice, and Master gave me a book called "The Beginning of Talismans", but until now I can only draw two basic talismans, the spirit-testing talisman and the divine travel talisman, and the success rate is very low."

Zheng Yi said: "As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. My beloved concubine's success rate in drawing talismans is not high because the number of talismans she drew is very small."

"There are so many talisman papers here, my beloved concubine, you can use them as you like, and quickly improve your talisman drawing skills, especially the spirit-testing talismans."

"I hope that my Dayu can have many more people with spiritual roots."

"Spirit-testing talisman?"

Concubine Yu suddenly said, "By the way, Your Majesty, I still have a few spirit-testing talismans in my hand. I tried them on some sisters in the palace."

“I didn’t expect that there is really someone with spiritual roots.”

"Oh? Who is it? What kind of spiritual root?"

(End of this chapter)