Ye Chen moved with nimble steps, swiftly traversing the treasury as his gaze swept around, easily absorbing the information about various treasures.
Although the Yellow-grade Treasury was the lowest rank, the treasures within could still be considered precious, and there were some he needed.
For instance, relatively rare spiritual herbs and even rarer Heaven and Earth Treasures were preserved in jade boxes, their medicinal fragrance permeating the air. Naturally, their medicinal age generally did not exceed a hundred years, but the required military merit points often started at one or two thousand.
Even treasures like the Sky Feather Fruit, which could heal Primordial Spirit injuries, required over five or six thousand military merit points.
"Hmm, even the Flying Cloud Fruit is here. The Flying Cloud Pill, primarily refined from this spiritual fruit, can make the body more than twice as agile once consumed. However, a Flying Cloud Pill made from a Flying Cloud Fruit less than a hundred years old can only be effective for those below the fifth heaven of the Demigod realm."
Ye Chen scanned the numerous treasures and also discovered some surprising ones, but overall, they weren't of great use to him at his current level.
At his stage, ordinary treasures were mostly useless, mere trifles.
However, during this time, his hunter's heart was stirred, and he saw a few items he liked. He exchanged them using military merit points, totaling less than ten thousand. For someone with over nine million military merit points, this was merely a drop in the ocean!
He then left the Yellow-grade Treasury and entered the Mysterious-grade Treasury. Comparatively, the treasures in the Mysterious-grade Treasury were of a higher grade. Whether Heaven and Earth Treasures or other items, their quality was more than a notch above that of the Yellow-grade Treasury.
Similarly, Ye Chen selected quite a few treasures here, all of practical use. Among them were several Heaven and Earth Treasures, a few pill formulas, and numerous spiritual herbs. The required military merit points generally ranged around two to three thousand, but the total still amounted to nearly two hundred thousand.
He had selected many spiritual herbs. Although he possessed far more precious treasures, mostly thousand-year Heaven and Earth Treasures, and even a Ten-Thousand-Year Medicine Treasure—all sourced from the most important medicinal garden left by the September Great Power on the King's Ancient Path, which he had taken out completely, soil and all—these spiritual herbs were not for his own use. They were for the three hundred Primordial War Cavalry. He had discovered a Foundation Establishment Pill formula for tempering the body and refining bones. The Heaven and Earth Treasures and spiritual herbs he selected from the Mysterious-grade Treasury were key components for this purpose.
Regarding alchemy, even in this life, he hadn't been involved with it for a long time. Originally, he was supposed to participate in the Dragon Phoenix Alchemy Gathering on the Tian Du Continent, but due to the war between the two realms, it was ultimately halted.
Now, he planned to refine a batch of pills to help the three hundred Primordial War Cavalry build a better foundation, then teach them the Human Yuan Body Art and the first thirty-six diagrams of the Tyrant Heaven Refining Saint Art.
Although both body-tempering methods were extraordinary, they were truly useful only before reaching the Divine Transformation Realm. After reaching the Divine Transformation Realm, the body-tempering effects of both methods would weaken many times over.
The truly profound aspects lay in the later methods.
Once mastered and supplemented with Saint's essence blood for body tempering, he believed the overall strength of the three hundred Primordial War Cavalry would advance further, perhaps even allowing them to rival invincible Saints of the ninth heaven.
After leaving the Mysterious-grade Treasury, he arrived at the Earth-grade Treasury.
The treasures in the Earth-grade Treasury were far fewer than in the previous two treasuries. Probably, the entire treasury contained no more than a thousand items in total, but they were undoubtedly much more precious.
Heaven and Earth Treasures over a thousand years old were placed on the treasure shelves.
There were even treasures seven or eight thousand years old, each radiating extraordinary divine radiance and emitting an intoxicating fragrance that captivated the mind. They were sealed in mutton-fat jade boxes to lock in their intrinsic essence and prevent the loss of medicinal properties.
A glance at the required military merit points showed they generally started at least at a hundred thousand, with some even requiring two to three hundred thousand—an astronomical figure for ordinary soldiers.
Unfortunately, Ye Chen already had them, and he possessed far more precious ones.
Ye Chen's gaze swept around, and he even saw rare treasures like Silver Snow Divine Iron and Starry Blue Silver, divine materials for forging Saint Lord-level Dao weapons.
There were scrolls of cultivation notes stored, containing insights from at least super Divine Transformation experts, and even precious notes and realizations from Demi-Saints and Saints.
There were various powerful cultivation methods and divine abilities, as well as several Demi-Saint Dao weapons, and even a few damaged Saint weapons on display. Naturally, the required military merit points were quite high, often amounting to hundreds of thousands.
There were even several Great Dao Saint weapons stored, their auras restrained but their divinity intact, valued at over a million military merit points.
Unfortunately, Ye Chen possessed even more powerful Saint Lord-level Dao weapons, five of them at that.
"Hmm, there's even Star Sand. It's said to be divine sand formed from the essence of stars beyond the domain. Once refined and scattered, it can manifest a field of stars to trap powerful enemies and refine them using the divine might of the stars."
Ye Chen sighed as he looked at the shimmering divine sand in a treasure chest, weighing several dozen catties and valued at eight hundred thousand military merit points.
But he paid it no mind. He wasn't particularly interested in divine materials for forging Dao weapons.
For him, he firmly believed that one's own treasure body was the most powerful Dao weapon. Cultivated to the extreme, it could shatter everything; what need was there for other magical instruments?
However, he did discover pill formulas for several types of pills here.
Finally, he left the Earth-grade Treasury and stepped into the Heaven-grade Treasury.
The Heaven-grade Treasury was the hall within the entire treasury palace that housed the most precious treasures. Each item was truly priceless in the world, treasures that could move even Saint Lord-level existences.
The space of the Heaven-grade Treasury was vast and expansive, but at the same time, it was quite empty. In the enormous treasury, only a handful of about a dozen divine radiance clusters floated in the void.
All treasures were enveloped by these divine radiance clusters, flowing with powerful divine traces and Dao principles, rigorously protected.
Ye Chen even saw a figure deep within the treasury, clad in a gray robe, silent and without the slightest fluctuation.
If not for Ye Chen's keen perception, an ordinary person, or even a Demi-Saint, might not have been able to detect this figure's presence, as it seemed to merge with the void.
This person was terrifying. Ye Chen's intuition told him that this person was probably not weaker than a Saint, and might even be stronger. This was likely the guardian of the Heaven-grade Treasury, protecting the safety of all supreme treasures within.
Whoosh—
At this moment, the gray-robed figure opened its eyes. There was no dazzling light, no terrifying fluctuation spreading—just silence as it looked at Ye Chen. Its gaze was infinitely profound, as if containing an endless abyss that could absorb one's Primordial Spirit, causing palpitations.
Ye Chen gave it a slight smile without uttering a word.
The gray-robed figure's calm gaze seemed to ripple slightly, stirred by Ye Chen's composure, but it still remained silent.
However, its aura had already locked onto Ye Chen. If he dared to snatch treasures from the Heaven-grade Treasury, it would strike with a thunderous blow.
Ye Chen smiled faintly. He didn't particularly care. Stepping into the void, he slowly walked toward those divine radiance clusters, his gaze shining with divine radiance as he began to scan the treasures within the thirteen divine radiance clusters.
Beside each divine radiance cluster stood a stone stele with an inscription providing a detailed explanation of the supreme treasure within.
But when he scanned the first divine radiance cluster, he couldn't help but be shocked. Within this cluster was a Dao-mark divine bottle, woven from incredibly profound and extraordinary divine Great Dao traces. It was extraordinary; if it exploded, even a Saint would perish.
What was even more astonishing was that the Dao-mark divine bottle contained not ordinary Saint's essence blood, nor even Saint Lord-level essence blood, but the Great Dao Blood of a Heavenly King Invincible.
With the naked eye, one could see countless Dao mark laws flowing within the Great Dao Blood, and Order Divine Chains interweaving within the blood, like a crimson divine flame leaping, emitting terrifying blood energy fluctuations.
He couldn't help but draw a slight cold breath. This was only the first treasure he had seen, yet it was such a rare and priceless Great Dao Blood. The treasures in the Heaven-grade Treasury were unexpectedly astonishing.
He couldn't help but check the military merit points required and immediately felt his scalp tingle—it was as high as eight and a half million military merit points, outrageously expensive.
With his military merit points, he could barely afford one bottle, and he probably wouldn't qualify for the subsequent treasures.
But upon careful thought, it made sense. After all, this was the essence blood of a Heavenly King Invincible, not ordinary blood. It contained fragments of that Heavenly King Invincible's laws and Order Divine Chains, making it priceless in the world.
"The treasures here were all obtained during the most terrifying Domain Wars in ancient times, acquired at great cost, so they are naturally precious."
From the deepest part of the treasury, the aged gray-robed figure spoke, offering this explanation.
Hearing this, Ye Chen nodded lightly.
He had some understanding. In history, there had been several of the most terrifying ancient Domain Wars, called the Dark Domain Wars, which occurred in the very distant ancient past.
In those most terrifying Dark Domain Wars, countless experts participated—not just Saints, but even Saint Lord-level existences were not the strongest. There was even participation from Heavenly King Invincibles, involving battles that spanned the six great domains.
In those few wars, each one shattered heaven and earth, devastating vast mountains and rivers across countless miles, causing the suffering of billions of living beings.
Even powerful Demi-Saints fell continuously, many Saints perished, and even mighty Saint Lords were not spared. Several Saint Lord-level figures from each great domain died, their blood staining the Domain War battlefield.
It was said that even Heavenly King Invincibles were no exception. Several fell on the Domain War battlefield, their blood splattering the earth and dying on the spot, causing unprecedented shock.
Legend has it that the blood-stained earth of the Domain War battlefield and the blood-colored leaden clouds that never dispersed in the sky over countless years were formed during those terrifying Domain Wars.
It could be said that those few wars were the most tragic in history. Because each one involved the fall of Heavenly King Invincibles, they were called the Dark Domain Wars.
According to the description on the nearby stele, this cluster of Great Dao Blood was refined during the third Dark Domain War. A Heavenly King Invincible from the Qingyang Domain side, despite suffering severe, near-fatal injuries to both form and spirit, slew a Heavenly King Invincible from the Tianhe Domain and forcibly refined this essence blood.
Naturally, this couldn't be all of that Heavenly King Invincible's essence blood. Otherwise, it would far exceed a mere eight million military merit points; it might be worth ten times more.