Chapter 253: Entering a Secret Place Means Getting Rich (Part 1)

In the secret place, there seemed to be only five large mantises as guardian beasts, and no other living creatures. There was no movement until both of them entered the palace.

Sun Qingxue seemed to be a little scared by what had just happened. Even after entering the palace, she still carefully opened the protective magic weapon, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

The same goes for Yang Chen, but it's much better than Sun Qingxue. After all, Jin Zhong will appear as long as he thinks about it, and will actively absorb attacks, which gives Yang Chen a lot more to rely on.

The palace is very large, and there seems to be an underground spiritual vein here, causing the spiritual power in the secret place to be much higher than outside. I think it is precisely because of this reason that those big praying mantises can survive until now.

However, what is strange is that this sect has been extinct for at least ten thousand years, but those giant mantises have lived for tens of thousands of years and are still in the Nascent Soul stage. This is really confusing. Since it is impossible to advance to the Mahayana stage, it is obviously abnormal to still have such a long lifespan.

But now is not the time to investigate these reasons. We have already entered the main hall, and it would be unreasonable not to search extensively.

There is a hall at the entrance of the palace, with several doors around it. However, in the hall, it is empty except for one well. A thick spiritual power overflowed from the well, which was clearly a spiritual vein outlet. However, there is no dust-proof formation here. There is dust everywhere. If you step on it, it will be within a few inches.

There are no markings on the several gates. It seems that we can only go in one by one to investigate. Yang Chen scanned it with his consciousness and signaled Sun Qingxue to put away the flying sword. It is indeed a bit tiring to wield a self-defense magic weapon while wielding a flying sword at the level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

This time, Yang Chen was supposed to be training Sun Qingxue, so it was naturally Sun Qingxue's choice. Sun Qingxue happily opened the first door on the right, and Yang Chen walked in first, blocking Sun Qingxue behind his body.

This room looks like a study room, with bookshelves lined up on one of the surrounding walls.

However, there are only a few hundred jade slips covered with dust on the bookshelf and nothing else.

There used to be a mark of hanging calligraphy and painting on the wall next to it, but now it is empty, with only a broken scroll that is too rotten to read.

Sun Qingxue curiously walked to the bookshelf and reached out to pick up a jade slip. As a result, as soon as my hand touched the bookshelf, the bookshelf turned into a pile of dust. Dissipated with a bang. Fortunately, Sun Qingxue had been using protective magic weapons and retreated in time, so she was not surrounded by the rising smoke.

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the jade slip. Sun Qingxue reluctantly used her spiritual sense to explore the contents of the jade slip, but found that she could not understand what was recorded in it. The kind of curved writing is just like the one on the secret key.

Thinking about it, Sun Qingxue handed the jade slips to Yang Chen. While Yang Chen was investigating, she stepped forward, collected all the jade slips scattered among the powder on the bookshelf, and sent them all to Yang Chen.

"These are the inheritance of this sect's skills." Yang Chen read a few articles and shook his head: "There are many fallacies in the ancient skills and they have no reference value!"

Just like in the cave in Qingqiong, these exercises are somewhat outdated and can no longer be compared with the current system of exercises. It doesn't even have reference value.

"It's useless for me to hold it anyway. Brother Yang, you should put it away!" Sun Qingxue knew that she didn't know these, so she gave them all to Yang Chen. When it comes to Kung Fu, there are hundreds of thousands of Kung Fu in the Qingyun Sect's Sutra Pavilion, so why should we refer to Kung Fu that existed thousands of years ago?

Yang Chen also collected them indifferently. These things still have some value as antiques. If someone wants to sort out the changes in practice techniques, these are valuable information, but if they want to practice, they are just looking for trouble.

The two looked around the room for a while, but found nothing worth taking away. Then they turned back to the hall and continued to enter the second portal.

As soon as you enter the door, you are faced with a huge embroidered cauldron that is more than two people tall. It is almost unnecessary to ask, this must be an alchemy room. On the other side of the wall are small stone compartments, which should contain things, but these things are covered with dust, and it is difficult to tell what they are for a while.

"Brother Yang, you are familiar with alchemy, so you should come and take a look!" Sun Qingxue looked at this scene and pushed Yang Chen forward.

Yang Chen was not polite. When it came to alchemy, there was no one in the world who had more knowledge than him, so he walked to the front without hesitation.

When he walked to the giant cauldron and stretched out his hand, Yang Chen touched the "Qihang has no watermark" on the cauldron and penetrated it with his spiritual consciousness, and soon got the result. At Sun. Qingxue said: "This alchemy furnace is of average quality, but the materials are pretty good. Just put it away!"

If Yang Chen can say that the material is good, then the material must be good. Sun Qingxue stepped forward happily and received the giant cauldron into the Qiankun bag. Then he watched Yang Chen walk to the stone grids over there, reaching out to inspect them one by one.

Most of what was buried in the dust in these grids were medicinal materials. However, after spending tens of thousands of years here, it has long since turned into powder, and together with the dust, it is impossible to tell them apart.

I searched several grids in a row and it was still the same. In ten thousand years, even the rarest elixir turned into dust. But apart from the big cauldron, there was nothing worth taking in the room.

The third door seemed larger than the others and seemed to lead to the master's room. However, as soon as Yang Chen entered, he saw a pair of big staring eyes almost right in front of him. Yang Chen was horrified. He quickly held the Bright Light Sword in his hand and blocked Sun Qingxue from outside with one hand.

Just as he was about to take action, he found that the other party was motionless. After taking a closer look, I realized that it was just the body of a large praying mantis. With his spiritual sense, Yang Chen quickly discovered that there were more than twenty corpses of large praying mantises in this room.

This is the only spotless room here. There are more than twenty large praying mantises lined up in a row, almost all in the same posture. The huge body, supported by six legs, stood steadily, like a stone sculpture.

"Oh my God!" Sun Qingxue also came in. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement.

Yang Chen now knows why there are five large mantises in the Nascent Soul stage outside. Presumably, the original guardian beast gave birth to the little mantis when it felt that its life span was coming to an end. Then the little mantises grew up generation after generation, reaching the Nascent Soul stage. No wonder Yang Chen was attacked as soon as he came in. It turned out that these mantises didn't know the rules at all.