Chapter 26: Relics (Part 2)
Zhang Xuanning looked at it and separated the northeast and southwest areas again. The most amazing thing about the entire Yanggong Treasury was that before the main hub was activated, all the secret passages were closed, which was equivalent to making the treasury invisible. Unless the underground of the entire Chang'an City was dug up, and of course no one would do that.
Now that it is isolated, even if someone knows the secret of Yang Gong’s treasure, they cannot get in.
In fact, there were several people who knew about Yang Gong’s treasure, one of whom was Lu Miaozi - he was the designer, so how come he didn’t know about it and how come he couldn’t get in?
In addition, there must be something like a treasure map, but it doesn’t matter now. With the mechanism put down, even Lu Miaozi will have to go through a lot of trouble to get in, not to mention other things like following the blueprints.
Then he opened the hidden door of the secret passage according to the instructions left by Lu Miaozi in the main office. As he expected, it was another connected secret room.
Under the glow of the night pearl, this warehouse was only one-eighth the size of the military warehouse, but it contained a total of eight mahogany boxes of different sizes.
Although we are modern people, we cannot help but admire the ingenuity and craftsmanship of the entire Yang Gong Treasury. It is simply a huge underground project similar to the pyramids. However, if it were not for the full support of Yang Su, who was in power at the time, and Chang'an was a city under construction, no one could have built a treasury underground so secretly.
Zhang Xuanning opened the lid of the first box and found several neatly folded sets of clothes inside. This was probably for Yang Su to use in an emergency to escape and hide from others. He already knew this, but the key was the two masks under the clothes. Zhang Xuanning of course knew that they were made by Lu Miaozi. He was overjoyed and quickly put them in his bag.
There is no such thing as disguise in this world. This kind of mask is already the pinnacle of this world, and it is impossible to be so good that even acquaintances cannot recognize it.
When the others were opened, two boxes were found to contain rare treasures of real value, most of which were royal collections. Each piece was worth a fortune. Zhang Xuanning could not help but be dazzled and felt that these two boxes should be no less valuable than the so-called treasure house of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Of course, in terms of practicality, the warehouse in the armory that is specifically used to store gold is more practical. The gold inside is all gold bars, and no one knows how many there are. The entire property in Yang Gong's treasury can indeed be raised to the level of influencing the rise and fall of a country, because these materials can enable a force to raise an army without levying taxes for a few years. How amazing is this.
There were also five boxes full of various weapons. No matter whether they were swords or shields, they were all very famous. They were obviously the magical weapons from past dynasties collected by Yang Su. Any one of them would be a rare treasure that martial artists dreamed of. After carefully checking one by one, he finally found a piece of soft armor.
Of course, there is no truly invulnerable armor in this world, and any armor is of little value to innate masters, because armor cannot truly defend against the transmission of innate true qi. However, this kind of soft armor, if worn under clothes, can also defend attacks from ordinary weapons and reduce the damage of true qi. It can be said that with it, as long as you don't encounter top masters, you can naturally get considerable protection.
Zhang Xuanning immediately took off his outer clothes and put on the soft armor inside, then took out a mask and put it on his face. Once this kind of mask is stuck on, it cannot be removed by washing your face normally. Even your pores can sweat. It is really amazing.
After patrolling a few more times, a crazy idea flashed through his mind. After a few circles, the idea became stronger and stronger. Finally, his eyes focused and he made a decision.
According to the rules of this world, if you practice martial arts too late, it will be difficult to gain insight into the higher realms. Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling should have achieved nothing. Although they had the secret of immortality, which allowed them to partially overcome this constraint, they always started too late. They would never have had any hope of reaching the realm of a grandmaster in their lifetime. However, they came across a piece of Hedi Jade, which naturally transformed and expanded the meridians in their bodies, allowing them to make rapid progress in their martial arts practice.
But this progress will slow down at a certain time. In the original world, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling relied on the essence in the evil emperor's relics to finally break through the shackles and lay the foundation for becoming a grandmaster.
Zhang Xuanning's body has been practicing superior martial arts since childhood. Although he lost his internal energy due to possession of another's body, his foundation is still there. Therefore, he does not need the Changsheng Jue and He Di Bi to break through. He is also qualified to reach the level of Zhu Yuyan, the Four Great Saint Monks, and even the level of grand masters such as Ning Daoqi and Shi Zhixuan.
However, there is no such thing in this world that one can increase one's skills by a certain number of years all at once, so one must still practice slowly. No matter how good Zhang Xuanning's foundation is, it is difficult for him to make rapid progress - now he is only third-rate or second-rate, which is several levels away from the first-rate, or the master.
If one practices in the conventional way, even if one obtains the best martial arts in the world immediately, one must accumulate for more than five years to excel and reach the top level or even the master level. This is an unprecedented speed.
However, the world is in such chaos. In five years, the cauliflower will wither. Do we have to wait until the world is settled by then and then make a last-ditch effort?
In his previous life, he had been bedridden due to illness, and his lifelong dreams had become a passing dream. If he were an ordinary person, it would be fine and he would have just accepted his fate. However, he was a very smart and wise man, but he had been depressed all his life. All the wisdom he knew was useless. After years of accumulation, his mind had already become perverted.
Although this kind of perversion is usually hidden in his heart, it actually affects his judgment everywhere.
Especially when it comes to big events and big decisions, his abnormal nature is more evident - calmness under the craziest conditions, and craziness under the calmest conditions.
Although he knew that it would take him several years to slowly absorb the relics, he gritted his teeth and smiled grimly.
"I am a madman from Chu, singing phoenix songs and laughing at Confucius!" He was already thinking of Jie Yu, a madman from Chu. When Confucius passed through Chu, Jie Yu, a madman from Chu, visited Confucius's door and said, "Phoenix, Phoenix, why has your virtue declined? The past cannot be changed, but the future can still be pursued! Enough! Enough! Those who are in politics today are in danger!"
What this sentence means is that the politics of Chu was unstable, but Confucius was lobbying everywhere for his political ideas. There was no hope of salvation in the chaotic times, but Confucius was thinking about promoting benevolent politics everywhere.
Since he compared himself to Chu Kuangren, he certainly didn't care about worldly affairs. He knew that 90% chance of absorbing evil energy would lead to madness, but after calculating the consequences and meditating on the Day-Changing Method, he had already made up his mind.
Only by breaking down and then building up, and surviving in a place of certain death, can one achieve the miracle of transcending bondage. Although evil energy is terrible and may even make the body full of wounds, it is equivalent to being under extreme pressure all the time. It is indeed possible to achieve a breakthrough in a short period of time. Once one wakes up from the madness of evil energy, one will be able to achieve achievements that others find hard to believe.
Of course, it is also possible that there is no return, that one becomes completely crazy and it is difficult to truly wake up, but what does that matter?
Life and death to me are like a floating boat. If I can’t cross the river, what does life and death matter to me?
At that moment, he mobilized his internal energy and directly touched the evil emperor's relics.
With a loud "boom", a boundless evil energy rushed up. Even though he was prepared, his brain still felt like being struck by lightning. The huge and unmatched evil energy was released like a mountain torrent, rushing up along his hands. Although he had been practicing since he was a child and each of his meridians had been very wide, it was still difficult to make up for the consequences of the evil energy rushing around.
The evil spirit was like a raging sea, and he himself was like a solitary boat. Zhang Xuan concentrated his mind and tried to resist the sea. Everything he heard and everything he thought about were lost. There were only huge waves in the sky, groans in front of him, and even the illusion of hell. He took it for granted. He had died once, and many things were unimaginable for a person who only lived once.
But even so, he could not sense anything else, and did not know that in a moment, the evil energy had already penetrated his meridians. The meridians were forcibly penetrated by the extremely vast airflow, and then the meridians began to collapse. Blood oozed from the nose, mouth, and even the ears and eyes, and the pores of the skin were broken.
Such a powerful and vast convection current moved a trace of the essence in the evil emperor's relics. He felt another "boom" and the Niwan Palace located between the eyebrows in the brain, which is where the essence is located in the human body, suddenly moved violently. A bit of the essence in the relics went up and stayed in it. Almost at the same time, Zhang Xuanning stood up and shouted loudly, and the Day-Changing Method he had prepared broke out of his body.
As the day changed and the flow broke, the relic's essence was already agitated, and wanted to follow the connection upwards, but this interrupted the connection with Zhang Xuan Ning. At this moment, Zhang Xuan Ning felt the evil energy roaring wildly in his body and rushing straight up.
"Boom!" Zhang Xuanning's meridians trembled together, and his consciousness was hit hard. For the first time, he had to fall into darkness. In the moment of coma, he calmly knew that he had indeed gone crazy, but wasn't this the path he had chosen?
Being able to inherit the madness of dozens of evil emperors, I am really looking forward to it. If I can wake up, then what kind of madness will I have? In a flash of lightning, he thought so.
The phoenix is reborn from the ashes once every 500 years. In Egyptian mythology, the immortal bird Phoenix flies in front of the sun with a golden symbol on its wings, which means - these are the wings that carry neither heaven nor earth, but my own blazing fire.
In his previous life, these words had made him intoxicated and confused. He savored them over and over again and could no longer accept himself - if he could not be reborn like a phoenix, then he would simply degenerate into a demon or a reptile and rot in the stench of madness and mud. He only asked for kindness in return, so why complain even if he experienced a hundred deaths!
This was his last thought before he fell into darkness.
