"Then, wouldn’t this trip... an certain death." The young man was extrely worried.
"What are you afraid of? We are only responsible for helping that master open the underground palace entrance; we don’t have to go in. If indeed soone has to go in, there’s that master and the experts from the Heavenly Craftsman’s Mansion to back us up."
...
The Heavenly Craftsman’s Mansion?
Chen Ku hadn’t really heard much about these three words.
But looking towards the inside of the cave mansion, he saw many chanical Copper People and puppets inside, and a middle-aged man with a chanical arm, completely focused on crafting a chanism.
"Is this the master from the Heavenly Craftsman’s Mansion? It sounds similar to the chanical experts from the ’Mo family’ of my past life?"
Chen Ku recalled the Qilin Blood mory Inheritance, and it seed that on the map, there were marks of many chanical figures, vaguely suggesting the presence of a guardian.
His heart stirred, and he rembered this information.
He flapped his wings and flew towards the end of the passageway. Here, Chen Ku finally discovered the way these people dug; it turned out they were quarrying stone, with dozens of people holding diamond drills, quarrying the stones within the soil...
Chen Ku finally understood why Third Uncle said that this underground palace was like hollowing out a mountain. The mountain rocks served as barriers; no wonder Shangguan Yun took so long after capturing the Xu Family to dig through ninety percent of it.
It was truly ’mountain opening.’
The tiny bee that Chen Ku had transford into flew over the heads of the laborers, arriving at the surrounding stone walls at the end of the path, looking closely. He discovered that these stones were neatly aligned, like giant pyramid blocks, stacked together.
But upon seeing the final part, he beca delighted:
"There are gaps, gaps are good!"
Since the stone palace was crafted on the mountain’s exterior with external force, there were gaps in the stone blocks’ stacking, aning he could use the Earth Escape technique to burrow inside.
Whoosh~
A laborer was quarrying stone when he suddenly seed to see sothing in a flash, as if a stone seam had loosened...
...
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Chen Ku used the Earth Escape Skill, continually seeking gaps among the stone block barriers where Shangguan Yun had ninety percent dug through, constantly slipping in...
The tiny bee-sized body, in giant earth-toned stones, searched for gaps. If it weren’t for his strong mory, allowing him to recall routes...
The feeling was truly like a small man entering a giant-crafted enormous labyrinth, not to ntion the possibility of getting lost. The ntal oppression was terrifying.
...
Huff! Huff!
Not knowing how much ti passed, Chen Ku estimated he’d burrowed for over half an hour, suddenly, in front, there was light...
Imdiately, his tiny body flew out, plunging into a silver ocean.
[Beside the Diagram Master is an object eting the Sixth Transformation Map cultivation conditions: Ten thousand pounds of rcury]
[Do you choose to sacrifice?]
...
Once inside this silver ocean, Chen Ku’s first sensation was his body instantly activating the Five-colored Peacock’s [Uninjured by Gold] and [Immune to Water] abilities.
He then transford into a Five-colored Peacock, diving towards the ocean’s surface.
In no ti.
A Five-colored Peacock was seen flapping its wings and flying out above this vast silver ocean.
As it flew out.
Chen Ku finally understood why the Transformation Diagram reminded him of sothing nearby fulfilling the conditions for the Sixth Transformation Map cultivation. He beheld beneath him an ocean-like expanse of rcury, resembling an enormous lake, blocking a giant stone wall. At the lake’s end was a mythical stone pillar door, with a massive entrance behind it, standing ten zhang in height.
"So much rcury... it’s almost like the legendary underground palace of Emperor Qin Shi Huang!"
He was awestruck.
The rcury lake, if converted to silver taels, who knows how much silver it would be worth!
Only then did he have the sense to look at the Transformation Map’s reminder.
He suddenly discovered, due to the imnse rcury here, the Seventh Map’s cultivation conditions had also been triggered.
[Beside the Diagram Master is an object eting the Seventh Transformation Map cultivation conditions: One hundred thousand pounds of rcury]
[Seventh Transformation Map cultivation conditions: One hundred thousand pounds of rcury, One hundred thousand taels of Pure Gold, Ten thousand pounds of Gold Silk Jade, Ten strands of Evil Qi at the Five Realms, One Ultimate Skill to Perfection, One Spirit Jade]
(Note: Completing the Seventh Map will awaken the Diagram Master’s second great divine power ’Evil Summoning Banner’)
Chen Ku was both surprised and thrilled.
He had learned before that the Transformation Diagram would grant a divine skill every ’three’ and ’seven’ of its sequences, just like his fetus transformation refining shape.
Now, the details of the Seventh Map were finally revealed.
"Evil Summoning Banner?"
His first thought was of the supre magical treasure that Wa Emperor used to command legions of demons, but isn’t this a magical treasure, not a divine skill?
"Evil Summoning Banner? What does it do? Could it summon demons to serve as their master?"
With too little information, it was impossible to assess.
He had to focus on the cultivation conditions for the Seventh Transformation Map.
"Pure Gold?"
Chen Ku sucked in a cold breath.
Given his current societal status, he had so understanding of the currency of the upper echelons. As the saying goes, ’Gold is never truly gold, nor is man perfect,’ Pure Gold is rarer than gold. Generally, it’s not ford naturally but refined postnatally, primarily used by so Taoists when practicing alchemy.
Gold, refined to its purest extre, becos a dicinal ’Pure Gold.’
The ’dicine’ here refers to ’pill.’
Golden Core alchemy using tals like gold, silver, lead, and rcury.
In the dicine King Hall, they had similar alchemical thods, but nowhere near enough to use such precious ’dicinal materials’ as Pure Gold, mainly because the dicine King Hall didn’t possess any ’pill prescriptions’ involving Pure Gold.
"Pure Gold is like Silver Essence, estimating that ten taels of gold are needed to refine one tael of Pure Gold, one hundred thousand taels of Pure Gold... my, oh my..."
Chen Ku felt that he could never earn that much money in Baojiao County in his lifeti.
As for Gold Silk Jade, it was even more expensive.
And Spirit Jade, Chen Ku had never even heard of.
Yet.
Looking at the already satisfied condition of one part of the Sixth and Seventh Maps.
rcury, ten thousand pounds of rcury, one hundred thousand pounds of rcury...
It turned out that the underground palace’s periter only redid the ’moat’ as a burglary prevention asure.
"The gold and silver precious tals needed by the Transformation Diagram may be unattainable by ordinary ans in my lifeti, but... if I could obtain the ’Hero King Treasure’ inside this underground palace, everything would be different."
Chen Ku gazed at the silver ocean below, decisively stating:
"Sacrifice! Sacrifice as much as needed!"
Boom!
Boom!
Instantly, along with the Transformation Diagram’s ’Void Devouring,’ that ocean-like rcury lake instantly lost forty to fifty tons of rcury...
Causing the entire rcury lake’s surface height to drop by roughly a foot.
[Diagram Master has t 5/6 of the conditions for Sixth Transformation Map cultivation]
[Diagram Master has t 1/6 of the conditions for Seventh Transformation Map cultivation]
Chen Ku saw that the Sixth Transformation Map was just one condition away from awakening its completion: "a Top Quality Transformation at the Fourth Realm."
At this ti.
He cautiously looked toward the underground palace entrance because standing there was a three-zhang-high bronze giant, holding a Floral Axe, stately as a heavenly god.
"That..."
If he hadn’t eavesdropped on the conversation between the uncle and nephew geomancers outside the underground palace entrance, Chen Ku might have thought it was just a statue, but now he was quite certain:
"It’s a bronze chanical puppet!"
Considering this underground palace was crafted by at least a Fourteen Realms hero, the strength of the bronze puppet he left behind...
Chen Ku swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
He speculated:
"Seventh Realm? Eighth Realm? Ninth Realm? Or even higher?"
However, having reached here, being trapped at the gate by this puppet would be a joke.
"Let’s see if the clone can get through..."
Chen Ku stretched out his palm, blew out a breath, releasing the bee incarnation, sending it ahead to scout. If the bee could pass, so could he.
If the bee couldn’t pass, only a bee incarnation would be lost.
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