Hu Nansheng and two others couldn't understand what everyone was saying. They were unaware of the secret chamber of the Flying Spirit Sect and simply followed the others obediently.
"Leader, it's right here."
After a while, Li Lin, along with Zhou Yuhou and Zheng Ying, reached behind the main hall of the Flying Spirit Sect. They hadn't expected that behind this hall lay a hidden world, with a secret mechanism concealed behind a huge stone wall.
Zhou Yuhou fumbled on the stone wall for a while and, after opening the mechanism, a passage wide enough for two people emerged from the ground.
The group entered the passage. Hu Nansheng and his companions were the most surprised, while Li Lin was also somewhat astonished. Inside the passage, a hundred-meter-long underground railway was flanked by thick stone walls, which were adorned with many luminous pearls spreading a soft glow.
"We're here," Zheng Ying announced, standing in front of a huge stone wall covered with a thick layer of dust. In the middle of the wall was a pattern identical to the seal of the Flying Spirit Sect leader.
"To open the secret chamber, you need three keys and the sect leader's seal. Otherwise, forcing it open will cause the chamber to explode into pieces," Zhou Yuhou explained. He blew on the stone wall, dispersing the dust and revealing four holes.
Three keyholes surrounded a slightly larger hole, making everyone feel a bit nervous. What could the Flying Spirit Sect have left from its heyday?
"Let's get ready to open it," Li Lin said, taking a deep breath, his nerves tensing.
Zheng Ying and Zhou Yuhou each took out a three-inch-long key and inserted them into two of the keyholes in the stone wall, followed by Li Lin who put the key he got from Huang Haibo into the remaining keyhole.
Zhou Yuhou and Zheng Ying slightly turned the keys to the right.
"Click, click..."
Suddenly, a clicking sound came from the wall, followed by a strange glow appearing on it.
"Leader, quickly put the sect leader's seal in, or the chamber will explode," Zheng Ying told Li Lin.
Without hesitation, Li Lin, already prepared with the sect leader's seal, placed it towards the glowing hole in the center of the stone wall.
"Hiss, hiss..."
As soon as the sect leader's seal was placed into the hole, it seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, immediately emitting a dazzling light, followed by the entire wall and the Flying Spirit Sect's insignia.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a loud rumbling echoed throughout the stone cave. As the rumbling continued, the stone wall slowly rose, revealing a small gap that grew larger with the sound, reaching a person's height in just a moment.
"Clang..."
The movement of the stone wall stopped with a huge rumble, shaking the entire cave. The wall was about ten meters wide and presumably weighed thousands of pounds.
"Wow..."
As the stone wall opened, a 300-square-meter stone room appeared before everyone. Seeing the items inside, everyone couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, including the Poison Commander, as they were all stunned.
The large stone room was filled with jade slips, scattered on the ground and emitting dazzling light. At first glance, there were at least ten thousand of them, surrounded by various elemental energies. Being cultivators, everyone knew these jade slips contained martial arts techniques. The sheer number of these martial arts jade slips exceeded everyone's imagination.
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The group excitedly entered the stone room. Along one side of the wall were several huge jade boxes, each about one person tall, all carved from jade.
"Leader, these are Chen-level and Xing-level martial arts techniques."
"Xing-level early-stage fire-element techniques."
"Xing-level mid-stage water-element techniques."
"Xing-level high-stage earth-element techniques."
"There are also Yellow Level early-stage techniques!"
Zhou Yuhou, Hu Nansheng, Chen Xinjie, and others rushed to the pile of jade slips to check them. They found techniques of all elements, sending them into a frenzy. Nothing made a martial artist happier than obtaining martial techniques, especially with the inclusion of Yellow Level early-stage techniques among them.
"Leader, come and see this," the Poison Commander called Li Lin to the jade boxes on the wall, addressing him formally in the presence of others.
"Damn, we're rich..."
The Poison Commander opened a jade box, which was filled with densely packed pills, resembling a box of candies. This box was about a person's height and several meters wide. By volume, it contained nearly ten thousand pills.
The pills in this box were all second-grade, each averaging around 300 gold coins in price. This single box was worth three million gold coins. Gold coins were just numbers, but it's not easy to find tens of thousands of pills even if you have the money.
The rich aroma and energy of the pills filled the stone room. Zhou Yuhou, Zheng Ying, and others were also attracted.
Li Lin then opened eleven jade boxes in succession, each revelation more shocking than the last. The second to the sixth boxes all contained second-grade pills.
The seventh to ninth boxes contained third-grade pills, and the tenth and eleventh boxes were filled with precious medicinal herbs, also worth millions of gold coins, used for crafting third and fourth-grade pills.
The value of the third-grade pills was staggering, averaging several thousand gold coins each, with the high-grade ones being the most expensive. Li Lin estimated that these three boxes of third-grade pills were worth over 150 million gold coins.
The six boxes of second-grade pills were also valued at nearly 20 million gold coins. Adding the tens of thousands of martial arts techniques, whose levels had not been fully assessed yet, the total value was astronomical.
"There's also a storage ring." In the deepest part of the stone room, a protruding stone on the central wall held a black storage ring.
Li Lin walked over and picked up the storage ring, realizing it was an unclaimed object, which could be bound with a drop of blood and accessed with a thought.
After binding it with his blood, Li Lin was astonished at the contents of the storage ring. It contained the true treasures left by the Flying Spirit Sect. The stone room's contents paled in comparison to what was inside the ring. The storage ring contained 500 fourth-grade early-stage pills, 300 mid-stage, and 100 late-stage pills. The value of these 800 pills was terrifying.
A fourth-grade early-stage pill was worth over 100,000 gold coins each, with mid-stage pills averaging 200,000 gold coins, and late-stage pills reaching at least 400,000 to 500,000 gold coins each. The higher the grade, the more exponentially expensive they became.
In addition, the ring contained 100 fifth-grade early-stage pills, 50 mid-stage, and 10 late-stage pills.
The value of a fifth-grade early-stage pill was almost between 800,000 to 1 million gold coins, with mid-stage and late-stage pills being even more expensive.
There were also ten sixth-grade pills in the storage ring, all early-stage but still incredibly valuable.
The ring also contained numerous jade slips of martial arts techniques: 30 middle-stage and 10 high-stage Yellow Level techniques. Their value was immeasurable, as such high-level techniques were rarely sold.
"There are also spiritual techniques..." The storage ring contained several jade slips of spiritual techniques, mostly mid and high-stage Xing-level, with the highest being a Yellow Level early-stage technique.
Spiritual techniques were rare, and the fact that the Flying Spirit Sect had left behind several of them was remarkable.
Besides these items, the storage ring contained nothing else, but these items alone were more precious than all the treasures in the room.
After a moment, Li Lin composed himself and pocketed the storage ring, but his mind was still in shock.
"Organize everything. None of what's here should be spoken of outside, or there will be no mercy," Li Lin warned Hu Nansheng and the others. If word got out about these treasures, it could bring disaster upon the Flying Spirit Sect.
The sect's rule of not opening the secret chamber unless absolutely necessary was probably due to fear of the disciples not being able to keep this fortune safe. If opened carelessly and word got out, the Flying Spirit Sect would face countless powerful enemies.
"Yes, Leader," Zhou Yuhou, Hu Nansheng, and the others agreed, well aware of the consequences. These treasures could easily attract the attention of first-rate forces in the ancient domain.
"Kid, the real show was in the storage ring, right?" the Poison Commander communicated telepathically with Li Lin.
Li Lin nodded with a smile, not hiding the truth from the Poison Commander. Indeed, the real treasures were in the storage ring.