Chapter 1 The Last Radiance

The cultivation in the Barren Fight Realm, at least below the Wuding Realm (realm of no fixed abode), doesn't extend lifespan.

Cultivators cannot increase their yang lifespan after breaking through the Mystical Realm, and naturally, there is no such thing as a more ethereal yin lifespan.

However, extraordinary cultivators' wills and thoughts far surpass those of ordinary people.

For ordinary people, the death of the physical body is the demise of the soul.

However, for transcendent cultivators above the Mystical Realm, it's not that simple.

In the Barren Fight Realm, the aurora is the destination of all transcendent souls. When cultivators die, the last radiance of their will and spirit gathers towards the north, merging into the aurora. Then, in the most dazzling instant, it explodes and returns to heaven and earth.

It is precisely because of this magnificent and magical scene deep in the far north that people can even see their deceased ancestors releasing their brilliance in the aurora, which is why the Liao people worship the Aurora Lord.

They regard death as returning to the embrace of the Aurora Lord.

According to my younger brother, Ye Chuqi, the only purpose of the aurora plate is to chase the aurora in the far north, leading those who manipulate it to witness the final splendor of all transcendent souls.

"The final bloom of transcendent souls is also the final bloom of spiritual light. For Mystical Realm cultivators who need to observe the radiance of human nature and feel the wonders of spirituality and the mind, there is no better magical treasure than the aurora plate."

"Of course, only in the Barren Fight Realm!"

"Obtaining the aurora plate and chasing the aurora, I can see countless souls, unreserved and defenseless, blooming their last light in the aurora. What takes ordinary cultivators a long time to accumulate, may be an instant gain for me. I can even accumulate a foundation in the Mystical Realm that far surpasses ordinary imagination." Ye Chuxiao, following the instructions in his memory, walked to the center of the three snow-capped mountains.

Hundreds of paper cranes, layered with paper talismans, flew out of Ye Chuxiao's sleeves, arranged themselves into eight rows, and disappeared into the still raging blizzard.

These paper cranes would form a talisman array in mid-air, integrating offense and defense.

Not only would they conceal the abnormality of opening the treasury, but they would also activate and expel anyone who approached or intruded.

After driving more than a dozen stronger jade talismans into the snow,

Ye Chuxiao finally activated the Imperial Jade Seal in his hand with true qi. The Xuan copper-made seal flew from Ye Chuxiao's palm and slammed heavily onto the snow-covered ground.

The ground shook violently.

The thick snow layer trembled violently, then cracked open a deep gash.

The spiritual light of the formation surged from the ground, enveloping Ye Chuxiao, seemingly identifying his aura.

After detecting that Ye Chuxiao possessed the aura of the Li imperial family, the formation dragged Ye Chuxiao into a specially created formation space.

The space as a whole looked like a frozen crystal, constantly exuding bone-chilling cold.

Various treasures hung on the ice walls.

For a moment, it was dazzling.

Even after experiencing the tests of the Six Doors treasury several times, Ye Chuxiao couldn't help but feel his heart race upon entering this treasury for the first time.

This feeling of being able to pick up treasures at will is probably similar to why many people like to watch beachcombing videos.

A large number of weapons, armor, magical treasures, elixirs, as well as some drawn talismans and crafted formation plates, along with more large siege and anti-enemy machines made by mechanists, were all displayed in this treasury, categorized and solemn.

Among them, large siege and anti-enemy machines occupied two-thirds of the treasury.

This was also easy to understand. These large siege and anti-enemy machines were useless to ordinary cultivators, but very useful to a country. Moreover, because of their size, ordinary storage tools usually couldn't carry them away. Even if they could, they could only carry one or two, which wouldn't help the overall situation much.

After Ye Chuxiao processed the Yuanyang ore, a large space was freed up in his storage ring.

Although siege machines couldn't fit in, powerful magical treasures, precious elixirs, stored talismans, and so on, could be packed in large quantities.

Opening the large wooden boxes in the back row of the treasury.

Boxes and boxes of fine spirit jade were shining brightly, making Ye Chuxiao dizzy.

Ye Chuxiao couldn't estimate how much spirit jade was stored here in an instant.

He could only sigh that it was indeed the collection of a country. Even the quiet accumulation of a small peninsula country like Northern Qin over the years should not be underestimated.

Thinking further, how much wealth has Daheng accumulated over a thousand years?

No need to say more, continue collecting!

After a round of collection, Ye Chuxiao almost took away the finest batch of treasures in the entire treasury.

As for the mountains of gold, silver, and treasures, antique calligraphy and paintings, extravagant jewelry, and equipment sufficient to equip a high-quality cultivator team of thousands of people, Ye Chuxiao only selectively picked some and put them into the spare storage tools he had purchased on the Good Fortune Boat.

However, the loading capacity of these storage tools was limited, so not much could actually be stored.

They were far inferior to Ye Chuxiao's usual storage ring.

The essence of storage tools is to carve Sumeru formations inside sturdy materials, magnifying a small internal space through formations combined with runes. Ye Chuxiao's storage ring, in the island world with extremely high rune technology, was already top-notch, so ordinary storage tools couldn't compare.

Even so, its storage space was only about the size of half a basketball court.

Of course, ordinary storage tools cannot be stacked.

The idea of placing more storage tools inside one storage tool to serve as a mobile human-shaped treasure trove is good, but difficult to achieve.

Sumeru formations interfere with each other. If too many are placed in close proximity, they will become entangled and cause the formation to become chaotic.

As for those magical treasures with stronger storage effects, even capable of containing a small world, they do exist, but their basic structure and formation reasons are different from ordinary storage tools.

They no longer rely on carving Sumeru-like formations within materials.

Instead, they are naturally extraordinary due to the differences in their materials and formation.

For example, the Daheng imperial family possesses a human seed bag made of the skin of an ancient Bashe snake, which can not only hold a large number of inanimate objects but also living beings.

As long as a master carries the human seed bag, a team of thousands or tens of thousands of people can appear anywhere in the world in a very short time.

This is one of the reasons why Daheng is so vast, yet can suppress rebellions everywhere at all times.

What it relies on to form is not the carving of Sumeru formations, but the ancient Bashe snake's own physical divine power.

Even after the ancient Bashe snake died and its skin was peeled off, most of its physical divine power was preserved by people through various means, remaining on its scaly skin.

Such treasures have an absolute difference compared to ordinary storage tools.

Although Ye Chuxiao now has some wealth, he is still slightly unable to afford such treasures.

It's too unworthy to directly spend Dao rhymes to buy them on the Good Fortune Boat.

Ye Chuxiao could possibly exchange his current wealth for a lower-end similar item, but in essence, it's just a tool to assist in cultivation needs, so it's unnecessary to invest all his wealth.

"There are no secret cultivation classics of the Li imperial family, nor is there an aurora plate, or any really good stuff hidden at the bottom... It seems there's a secret chamber in this treasury." Ye Chuxiao looked around the treasury, searching for other hidden secret chambers.

As for the specific structure and environment inside the treasury, they didn't exist in Li Shangcheng's memory.

After all, this is the Li imperial family's secret treasury, and of course, the most crucial parts cannot be known to everyone.

"My younger brother didn't participate in the treasury competition, but only heard about it from others later."

"The group of people who competed for the treasury back then didn't use the key to enter the treasury as 'civilized' as I did, but directly uprooted the entire mountain, overturned the earth, shattered the formation space, and plundered everything."

"To put it professionally, I am now a tomb raider, while those cultivator groups who plundered the treasury belong to the mountain-moving lineage." Ye Chuxiao's thoughts stopped there, because he couldn't find any other traces or entrances, and was forced to... also join the ranks of mountain movers.

A Yuanyang Thunderfire Pellet appeared in Ye Chuxiao's palm.

With the Nine Deaths Demonic Art protecting him, Ye Chuxiao wasn't worried about whether collapsing the treasury would crush him to death.

The Yuanyang Thunderfire Pellet in his palm was thrown out smoothly.

The thunderfire pellet, like a fire-red transparent marble, directly smashed onto the transparent ice crystal wall.

Comparable to a full-force strike from a Wisdom Realm cultivator, and a thunderfire-attribute thunderfire pellet, it exploded violently.

A massive amount of golden-red flames, amidst an extremely noisy light and flame effect, raged and filled the entire space within sight.

Those large siege and anti-enemy machines, whose materials weren't actually very good, collapsed and fell apart under the power of the thunderfire pellet, suffering severe damage.

And Ye Chuxiao was also dodging the engulfment of the light and flame effect in the relatively small space.

Once this thing leaves your hand, it's out of control. If used improperly, it's a self-destructive weapon.

After a violent explosion, shaking, and burning, most of the ice crystal-like space collapsed. Ye Chuxiao crawled out from a pile of rubble, shaking off the ice shards and debris from his body.

Looking up, he discovered half a faintly visible cave entrance under an ice wall not far away.

Walking to the entrance of the cave, he poked his head in.

In a pool of deep blue liquid, an ice lotus was waiting to bloom.

On one side of the ice lotus was a stone platform.

On the stone platform, a jade slip storing information, several bottles sculpted from top-grade ice jade, seemingly preserved with great care, were presented, and on the edge was a sword with an astonishing aura, but it was incomplete, its spirituality chaotic. It seemed that two completely different spiritualities were entangled in this sword. Reckless use would be implicated by these entangled spiritualities.

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"Where's my aurora plate?"

"Could there be another secret chamber?" Ye Chuxiao first went down into the cave.

He first collected the several bottles of elixirs, then picked up the jade slip and placed it on his forehead.

After a moment, Ye Chuxiao suddenly understood.

This jade slip stored a large number of secret classics of the Li imperial family, but of course... Ye Chuxiao didn't think much of them.

Compared to a large sect like the Original Purpose Church that spanned the heavens and myriad worlds, the so-called accumulation of the small Li imperial family could only be regarded as a resource for 'accumulation'.

Ye Chuxiao possessed many secret techniques and spells passed down from the Original Purpose Church, so of course, he looked down on these Li imperial family's secret books.

And in addition to the Li imperial family's secret books, it focused on describing the ice lotus growing in the ten-thousand-year ice green liquid and the sword with a mottled aura.

"So, it's the aurora plate!"

"This name... is really indescribable. Who would have thought that the aurora plate would look like an ice lotus flower?"

"It can only be said that the person who named it had malicious intentions," Ye Chuxiao thought.

"This name is misleading people. If you look for it in the shape of a plate, you won't find it even if you break your head."

"After this treasure belongs to me, it can't be called such an unreliable name as the aurora plate anymore. It has to be called 'Phoenix Bicycle'." Ye Chuxiao took out three more Yuanyang Thunderfire Pellets, placed them according to their positions, and then picked up a talisman brush, dipped it in spiritual ink, and began to write and draw in the surrounding air.

This ice lotus was obviously not fully mature.

The most crucial function it possessed, chasing the aurora, was not fully activated either.

Forcibly picking it would greatly reduce its effect.

No wonder the Li imperial family would leave such a treasure idle instead of using it to cultivate imperial talents.

However, the Li imperial family had no way to ripen this ice lotus, but that didn't mean Ye Chuxiao didn't have a way either.

In the Three Yang Talisman Diagram he obtained from the妖女Yao Nu Ying Shu, there was a 'Three Yang Derivation' talisman array that could use three treasures full of yang energy as the array core to suppress and activate all the vitality in the array.

This talisman array is usually used to squeeze the vitality of the surrounding environment to quickly recover from injuries.

Ye Chuxiao possessed the more effective Nine Deaths Demonic Art and also had the Strong Life talent, so he originally thought he wouldn't need it.

Putting it here, using Yuanyang Thunderfire Pellets as the array core to activate those ten-thousand-year ice green liquid that nurtured the ice lotus would only have a stronger effect.

Ye Chuxiao was confident that within three days, he could prematurely ripen this ice lotus, which would take at least another ten years to complete.

After finishing the array drawing, Ye Chuxiao didn't activate it immediately.

Although this place was located in the far north wilderness, which was originally a dead place, the Three Yang Derivation absorbed and transformed was not vitality in the simple sense.

It would also consume the accumulation of earth qi in one place, belonging to the aggregation of several years of breath into a short moment.

When activated, the commotion would inevitably be slightly larger.

Ye Chuxiao had to make sufficient preparations in advance.

A large number of talismans were scattered.

And he also used twelve Three Yang Thunderfire Pellets as array eyes to set up a series of 'Four叠Die Three Yang Ten Thousand Fire炎燚Yan Yi Array' around the perimeter. Anyone who rashly breaks into the array, even if their cultivation reaches the Wisdom Realm, would be easily burned into ashes if they were not careful.

Talisman cultivators and formation cultivators are often inseparable, and their methods have many similarities and proximity, so formation cultivators sometimes practice talisman cultivation, and vice versa. Once they have enough time and materials to prepare, it's commonplace to eliminate and defend against enemies across realms and exceeding numbers.

After making sufficient preparations,

Ye Chuxiao returned to the treasury again and activated the Three Yang Derivation Array.

At the moment the array started, the original peaceful, deep, and icy ice liquid actually began to boil.

And the ice lotus growing in it emitted a dazzling glow, like the aurora.

At the same time, the blizzard began to become increasingly turbulent within a hundred miles around the treasury, gathering into a huge blizzard tornado, enveloping the area.

From farther away, it was not difficult to see the abnormality formed by the gathering here.