Chapter 513: Chapter 513: Half of the Technique
Everyone in the Mad Demon Secret Land was angry because Jiang Xiaobai had discovered the treasure alone. However, Jiang Xiaobai himself was just wandering around inside the black castle.
Apart from the main hall they entered initially, there was nothing else of value inside the castle. They saw a lot of household items, but no treasures.
The people around him looked bored after realizing this.
Ao Cheng even wanted to leave.
“Jiang Xiaobai, how about we leave? There’s nothing interesting here, and there’s a good chance that the people outside might come over.” he suggested.
“Besides, the Secret Land doesn’t close until later. If we continue to waste time here, it could be dangerous.”
Ao Cheng said, yawning at Jiang Xiaobai.
From the outside, the castle didn’t look big, but the space inside was huge. They had been walking for quite some time, over ten minutes, and they had only toured the third floor!
“Don’t you find it strange? The castle looks small, but we’ve been walking for a long time. It seems like there’s some sort of special space here.”
Jiang Xiaobai narrowed his eyes.
He had realized this a few minutes ago because the space in here was not consistent with normal perceptions.
Normally one could walk this distance in a minute, but they had been walking for over ten minutes and still hadn’t finished the third floor!
There were either rooms or corridors along the way, or grand halls that looked magnificent, but there was nothing valuable!
It couldn’t be that they were supposed to take all these furnishings back with them just to make the trip worthwhile, could it?
“Let’s keep going. There’s one more floor above us, and look, there seems to be a staircase leading up ahead.”
“We came all this way and built up all this anticipation; we have to at least go have a look, right?”
Jiang Xiaobai said indifferently.
With his insistence, the others didn’t say much, just followed and walked up the stairs.
But when they reached the end of the stairs, they found a cupboard in front of them!
The cupboard was locked and there was nothing else!
This eerie situation shocked everyone, they frowned and hesitated to approach the cupboard.
This was too bizarre!
The people looked at each other, and finally, their gazes landed on Jiang Xiaobai.
“Why are you looking at me?” a baffled Jiang Xiaobai asked.
“Well, you insisted on coming up here to look around, right? So how do you feel now?” Zhuang Huanling retorted with a smirk.
The corner of Jiang Xiaobai’s eye twitched.
Still, he walked up to the cupboard, and before he could even touch it, the cupboard’s doors suddenly opened, revealing a dark passageway with a faint light at the end.
Out of curiosity, Jiang Xiaobai walked straight in, and the others hurriedly followed.
The castle was too strange. If Jiang Xiaobai went in and couldn’t get out, it would be disastrous, so everyone went in together.
Watching the light in front getting closer and closer, everyone was on high alert, ready to deal with any surprises.
Finally, the light brightened before their eyes, and when they walked out of the weird passageway, they were shocked to find themselves in a pastoral paradise, full of birdsong and fragrant flowers!
The place didn’t look big, and there seemed to be some kind of barrier around it that they couldn’t cross.
Inside this place, there was a perfectly preserved grand hall!
“Dang, is this a secret within a secret?” Jiang Xiaobai couldn’t help but be amazed and cautiously moved forward.
This place was full of elixirs, both common and rare, and even some that Jiang Xiaobai knew the names of but had never seen before!
And that’s not all, when Jiang Xiaobai walked into the grand hall, he saw that the floor was filled with World Stones!
That’s nuts!
The first thing he did was rush in and excitedly store these World Stones!
There were over forty of them after counting!
“Jackpot!”
Jiang Xiaobai laughed idiotically as he met his task of collecting World Stones!
This was related to whether he could pass through the world barrier and enter other realms!
Even if he didn’t know what he’d do once he got there, the rewards for completing the system task were generous!
The others looked disgusted when seeing Jiang Xiaobai laughing like a fool over these stones.
But Jiang Xiaobai didn’t care. He never expected that the greatest reward of this whole Secret Land journey would be right here!
Whether judged from the difficulty level of the system task or the previous sneak attack and plunder by the Creepy Dude, it all proved that World Stones were very rare and valuable!
Being able to get more than forty pieces at once here, isn’t that striking it rich?
As for what these things were used for, he guessed he would know when he finished the system task or left the Secret Land to find Baihe.
Following that, Jiang Xiaobai started searching the grand hall again. There were many other treasures here, including the golden essence they had seen in the Mad Demon Secret Land. Other than that, the most peculiar thing was a large box.
The box was very big, and it was Ao Cheng who discovered it first. But no matter what he tried, Ao Cheng couldn’t open the box.
Even brute force didn’t work!
At this moment, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly felt the token in his storage space vibrate. He took out the token marked with the character for ‘Heaven’.
The moment it was released, the token flew out of his hand and inserted itself into a tiny crack on the box.
Click!
The box opened. Everyone was amazed and hurried to inspect it.
Inside was a book that seemed to be a martial arts manual. They flipped through it and found out it was an incomplete copy.
The most impressive part was the second half of the book!
“I see, this must be what the Towards Heaven Sect is after, right?”
Ao Cheng excitedly held the martial arts manual in his hand: “But it’s a pity. Without the first half, it can’t be practiced.”
“Let’s keep it for now. We can take it to the Towards Heaven Sect and see, right?”
Jiang Xiaobai smiled faintly, then he cleared out all the valuable items in the grand hall, even the elixirs outside.
A perfect example of plucking a fat goose!
As he was preparing to leave, he found to his delight that there was a light gate behind the grand hall, which seemed to be a teleportation formation.
Immediately, Jiang Xiaobai excitedly ushered everyone to leave from here. After they left, sure enough, there was something like a teleportation formation. He found himself back at the edge of the pond where they had first entered the place.
“Phew, this journey’s haul has been truly fruitful.”
“Not only has my mentality improved significantly, but even my sword intention seems to have room for improvement. The valuable items and resources we’ve gained are innumerable.”
Jiang Xiaobai felt truly satisfied with this fruitful journey. After a short rest by the pond, they left.
However, not long after they left, a woman wrapped in black bandages emerged from the pond.
Only her icy cold eyes were visible outside the bandages!
If Jiang Xiaobai were here, he would have recognized that this woman looked just like those three fools!
