Chapter 88

"Having broken through to the Dao Realm, my understanding of the three techniques—Sun and Moon Refinement, Sun and Moon Transformation, and Sun and Moon Slaying—has deepened far beyond what it was before." Gu Chensha wielded the Demon Subduing Blade, effortlessly performing the Sun and Moon Slaying technique without any pain from broken meridians.

This was due to the significant enhancement of his body's resilience.

Many things he had not been able to comprehend in the past regarding Sun and Moon Refinement and Sun and Moon Transformation now felt thoroughly familiar. The circulation of qi and blood within his body was sometimes secretive, sometimes surging, unpredictable, and at his command.

Spiritual energy flowed in waves, and with each breath, his body felt cleansed, his meridians strengthened, and his speed became as swift as a ghost.

"I was just a naive child before, but now I have finally grown up." He smiled and nodded, putting on the Great Dragon Armor again and leaping out of the Sun and Moon Altar space.

The pool of Dragon Transformation Liquid and the one-foot-tall treasure tower were still floating there.

Gu Chensha approached, but this time he did not try to grab the tower, knowing that even with his enhanced strength from the Dao Realm, he could not move it.

But he had a plan.

His fingers began to seep blood, drawing runes, which were the treasure-refining techniques from Sun and Moon Refinement. His blood was now different, having a luster like the sun and moon, and when held up to the light, it faintly glowed with a rainbow hue.

With the change in his realm, his ability to refine treasures in Sun and Moon Refinement had greatly improved.

He intended to communicate with the tower using the treasure-refining technique.

The tower was covered with runes drawn in his blood, but it remained motionless. Undeterred, he made a sacrificial gesture with his hands.

"Gu Chensha offers blood to the heavens, using the Sun and Moon Refinement to communicate with my soul and blood, to refine this treasure." A large amount of his blood flowed into the altar space, and his face turned pale.

As he performed the sacrifice, ripples of energy oscillated within the altar space, and a mysterious force entered his body, allowing his fingers to touch the tower.

The runes written in blood on the tower suddenly flickered and transformed into raging flames.

The flames resembled the light of the sun and moon, glowing with a golden hue, and the light floated up, forming divine dragons.

"I used my blood to sacrifice according to the method in Sun and Moon Refinement, and it actually summoned the Sun and Moon Dragon Fire!" Gu Chensha nodded, having just comprehended the changes in Sun and Moon Refinement.

Buzz...

The tower began to tremble, and a faint mental connection formed with Gu Chensha.

"No matter how powerful a magical treasure is, it cannot resist the power of the heavens within the Sun and Moon Altar. Besides, this tower is still in its embryonic form and has not been truly refined, so it is in the cultivation stage." Gu Chensha had already understood many things.

"Treasure tower, receive!"

The tower was burned by the raging Sun and Moon Dragon Fire for a full hour. When the dragon fire extinguished, Gu Chensha imprinted blood runes on it, forming the symbols of the sun and moon.

The tower then generated an internal vortex of suction, absorbing the entire pool of Dragon Transformation Liquid, and its size increased to over a person's height, growing about seven or eight times larger.

Then, the tower rose with a rumble and fell into the Sun and Moon Altar space, remaining still.

"Good, the treasure tower is finally obtained." Gu Chensha was overjoyed. He left the underground palace and entered the altar space again by the bronze door.

Now he only needed to wait for the door to open. Once the two high priests entered the underground palace to inspect, he could leave, and the sky would be his to fly.

Of course, obtaining the Dragon Transformation Liquid and the treasure tower was not enough. To enhance his strength and compete with other princes, he needed to acquire more treasures.

Entering the altar space, he took ten drops of Heavenly Dew, activating Sun and Moon Refinement to replenish the qi and blood he had lost. After two hours, he was fully recovered and felt refreshed and invigorated.

Using his blood for the sacrifice to summon the Sun and Moon Dragon Fire and obtain the tower had been extremely draining, almost instantly extracting three-tenths of his blood. For an ordinary person, this would have been fatal.

Sacrifices not only include others but also oneself.

During his ascension to the Dao Realm, Gu Chensha had comprehended several special methods of self-sacrifice in Sun and Moon Refinement.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Dew provided nourishment. If he had relied solely on absorbing spiritual energy to recover, it would have taken at least three months. With the Heavenly Dew, it took only two hours.

After recovering his physical strength, Gu Chensha observed the tower, which was now over a person's height. The internal layers were filled with Dragon Transformation Liquid, which had not been completely absorbed but was still changing. He frowned, as he did not know the purpose of the tower or how to activate it.

In other words, the tower was now just a decoration.

Unless he repeatedly used the blood sacrifice to summon the Sun and Moon Dragon Fire, refining it dozens or even hundreds of times, it might become his magical treasure.

However, such a process would severely deplete his qi and blood, and even with the Heavenly Dew, it would damage his foundation.

Of course, if his cultivation improved further, such as reaching the fourth or fifth transformation of the Dao Realm, his qi and blood would be stronger, and the dragon fire summoned through sacrifice would be more powerful, greatly increasing the efficiency of refining treasures. Perhaps a few times would be enough.

He glanced at the "Law-Breaking Immortal Sword" on the altar, which bore the mark of Grand Tutor Wen Hong, making it difficult to refine. However, as his cultivation deepened and he performed self-sacrifice to summon the Sun and Moon Dragon Fire, he could still erase the mark.

Grand Tutor Wen Hong, though powerful, could not surpass the will of the heavens.

Having made all the necessary preparations, he waited silently by the door, pondering martial arts and consolidating his Dao foundation to ensure it would not regress in the future.

Sure enough, after a day, the bronze door opened again, and two high priests descended the spiral staircase.

Opportunities are fleeting, and he must seize them. Seeing the two high priests enter the underground palace and not see him, he activated the Great Dragon Armor and leaped out of the bronze door, entering the altar space.

This swift entry and exit, a momentary change, was incredibly fast.

Boom!

As he entered, a mountain-shattering roar erupted from the underground palace. The two high priests rushed out, discovering that the Dragon Transformation Liquid and the treasure tower were gone.

This was a serious matter.

The high priests let out continuous howls, and the entire temple was alarmed. Soon, numerous experts rushed to the scene.

The first to arrive was a figure of light, dust stars scattering, a young man in a seven-colored sacrificial robe. He had no trace of the barbarian race, clearly a human.

"This is the Grand High Priest, Yuan Shasheng? I cannot gauge his strength." Although Gu Chensha knew that others could not find him in the altar space, his heart still tightened. The aura of this person made him feel suffocated, as if he could be killed with just a glance.

Grand High Priest Yuan Shasheng continuously questioned in the barbarian language, and more and more important figures gathered in the temple.

Gu Chensha felt a chill in his heart. The World-Conquering Ape Temple was too powerful. Even if the Seventh Prince came, he would surely die. Fortunately, he had no intention of attacking but only to steal treasures to enhance his strength.

These people continued to inspect and discuss, gathering a large number of experts to open each treasure vault and search every corner, but they found no signs of disturbance.

"Search the entire temple, expanding outward!" Yuan Shasheng repeatedly inspected the area, his gaze dark, issuing orders before leaving with the others.

The number of guards protecting the treasure vault increased significantly.

Guards were stationed both inside and outside.

"Hmph!" Gu Chensha sneered. "Do you think this can stop me? With these important figures gone, it will be easier for me to steal. I'll start with the elixir vault."

According to common sense, the most valuable place in a warehouse is the elixir vault.

This temple, with thousands of years of accumulation, must have stored countless valuable elixirs, which he could not afford to miss.

Taking advantage of the guards inspecting the elixir vault, he slipped in again. With the Great Dragon Armor's evolution, he could now become invisible and conceal his aura, making it even easier. The experts were busy inspecting other areas, giving him the best opportunity.

He entered the elixir vault and hid in the Sun and Moon Altar, beginning his observation.

The elixir vault was enormous, with tens of thousands of boxes and various racks. The internal aura of the vault was rich, forming a massive spirit-gathering array.

At the core of the spirit-gathering array, a stone was placed.

The stone was irregular in shape, peculiar, and grayish-white, resembling a fossilized egg, about the size of a human head. This stone was the key to the rich aura in the elixir vault, maintaining the potency of the elixirs and making them even purer.

Any spirit-gathering array requires a treasure to stabilize the array. The stronger the treasure, the more stable the array, and the better the spirit-gathering effect.

However, Gu Chensha did not take the stone but relied on his intuition to find the best elixirs.

He immediately noticed, in the most prominent position in the vault, nine elixirs sealed in spirit crystals.

Fist-sized spirit crystals contained nine grain-sized white elixirs. He could not immediately identify them, but the fact that they were sealed in spirit crystals indicated they were extraordinary. Even the Hundred Tribulations Golden Elixir, which the Heavenly Talisman Emperor had bestowed upon Lou Baoyue, was not sealed in a spirit crystal.

He threw the nine elixirs into the Sun and Moon Altar and began moving boxes.

The boxes were labeled with gold, purple, green, red, and black.

Clearly, black-labeled elixirs were of the lowest quality, while gold-labeled elixirs were of the highest quality.

Gu Chensha did not open the boxes but moved the gold-labeled elixirs into the Sun and Moon Altar first, moving dozens of boxes before finishing, then moved the purple-labeled elixirs.

The elixir vault contained at least a hundred thousand boxes of elixirs. There were dozens of gold-labeled boxes, hundreds of purple-labeled boxes, and thousands of green-labeled boxes...

With so many elixirs, Gu Chensha knew he could not move them all. He only needed to move all the gold and purple-labeled elixirs, and ideally, all the green-labeled elixirs as well.

On the eastern side of the Sun and Moon Altar space were the treasures plundered from the Taixian County temple, totaling over a thousand boxes, which had not yet been inventoried. To prevent confusion, Gu Chensha placed the treasures from this plunder on the western side.

Wearing the Great Dragon Armor, his speed and strength were greatly enhanced. In a short time, he moved all the purple-labeled elixirs and then immediately moved the green-labeled elixirs.

When he had moved half of the green-labeled elixirs, about two thousand boxes, he heard voices from outside. He knew his opportunity for plundering was over. He quickly grabbed the stone at the center of the spirit-gathering array and threw it into the altar, then hid.

Without the stone to stabilize it, the spirit-gathering array immediately weakened by dozens of times.

At this moment, the door opened.

Barbarian experts entered to inspect.

This was a routine inspection, and there were no truly powerful figures present.

Taking advantage of the moment the door opened, Gu Chensha slipped out, moving stealthily. Halfway through, he heard angry roars behind him. Clearly, the inspectors had discovered the severe damage to the spirit-gathering array and the disappearance of the valuable elixirs.

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