Seeing Duobao Spirit Monkey so agitated, Bao Gu knew that this was definitely something left behind by the Grandmaster Xuantian.
If this truly was a relic of the Grandmaster, then figuring out what it was was not the priority!
She said to Duobao Spirit Monkey, “Little monkey, calm down, I’ll come over in a moment.”
She turned to Zi Tianjun and asked, “Master, how many people currently know about or have seen this large jade stone?”
After a brief pause, she added, “The four major forces that attacked Xuantian Sect were completely wiped out here; they will surely send people to investigate again, and it is very likely that they will launch a new round of attacks.”
Zi Tianjun pondered for a moment and asked, “Bao Gu, if you were the sect leader, given the current situation, how would you arrange Xuantian Sect?”
Without hesitation, Bao Gu replied, “Withdraw and hide. The current Xuantian Sect cannot afford to lose anyone; with our current strength, we absolutely cannot withstand a second attack from the four major forces working together. We must retreat before all parties figure out the details of Xuantian Sect.”
Zi Tianjun then asked, “How do we withdraw? Where do we go? After withdrawing, how do we settle? If dozens of young disciples do not have a stable place to land, once they encounter an attack, the last remaining seeds of Xuantian Sect will be lost.”
He paused, his gaze falling on the massive jade stone before them, and said, “Moreover, this object is heavily restricted and as stable as a rock; it is difficult to move, let alone to relocate.”
Bao Gu revealed her oversized storage bag in front of Zi Tianjun and said, “What if we move the disciples of Xuantian Sect and Lingyun Peak into here? What do you think, Master?”
Zi Tianjun already knew that Bao Gu possessed a treasure with a space similar to that of a small world, which was why he had called her here.
However, when a vast and boundless world suddenly appeared before him, he was still shocked.
He couldn’t even see what kind of treasure Bao Gu’s small world space was; he only saw a silent entrance to another world appearing in the air.
He probed his consciousness into that world, but found only emptiness.
Even Nanshan Yijian, upon seeing the small world space revealed by Bao Gu, couldn’t help but show a look of surprise.
Bao Gu said, “Although my oversized storage bag does not contain the sun and moon or spiritual energy, all plants and animals can survive inside, and it can hold anything. Master, what do you think about me putting the disciples of Lingyun Peak and the senior brothers and sisters of Xuantian Sect inside?”
Zi Tianjun looked at Bao Gu with a hint of curiosity and asked, “Oversized storage bag? Is that what you call this small world?”
Feeling a bit embarrassed, Bao Gu shrank her neck and pinched her ear, saying, “I don’t know its name; I just know it can hold anything and is particularly spacious, so I had to call it an oversized storage bag. Master, do you know what this oversized storage bag is called?”
Zi Tianjun thought to himself, “I haven’t even seen what your oversized storage bag looks like, how would I know its name?”
He asked, “Where did you get this oversized storage bag?”
Bao Gu briefly recounted how she obtained the oversized storage bag.
Zi Tianjun said, “I have never heard of such an item.”
Bao Gu then looked at Nanshan Yijian and asked, “Senior Nanshan, do you know the origin and name of this oversized storage bag?”
Nanshan Yijian replied, “Since Duobao Spirit Monkey knows the use of this item, it is clear that it also knows a thing or two about its origin; why not ask it?”
Bao Gu said, “I asked, but it didn’t tell me anything.”
Zi Tianjun said, “Time is of the essence. Bao Gu, go see if you can take this secret chamber left by the Grandmaster.”
Upon hearing this, Bao Gu realized that her master and the others must have tried to move this secret chamber before but failed; otherwise, they wouldn’t have set up a formation here and called her over.
She nodded in agreement, “Okay,” and leaped into the air, landing on the massive jade stone.
She found that the jade stone was about ten feet high, square-shaped with no gaps, and only had a formation pattern carved in the center at the very top.
Bao Gu suspected that this formation pattern was a teleportation array that could transport people into the jade stone.
To confirm her guess, she looked at the coordinates of the formation pattern but found that there were no coordinates at all; there wasn’t even a place to carve coordinates, nor were there any spirit stone holes to activate the formation with five-element stones.
She looked up at Zi Tianjun and said, “Master, this formation is different from the ones we usually see.”
Zi Tianjun replied, “It is much more complex and profound than the teleportation arrays we commonly use. Try using your five-element true qi to activate the formation on the jade stone.”
Upon hearing this, Bao Gu mobilized the true qi in her dantian, injecting it into the formation in the order of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, but found that the formation did not respond at all.
She looked up at Zi Tianjun and called out, “Master, the five-element true qi is ineffective.”
As soon as she spoke, she noticed that both Zi Tianjun and Nanshan Yijian were looking at her with strange expressions.
She thought, “Could it be that I did it wrong?”
and quickly clasped her hands, saying, “Please guide me, Master. How should I use the five-element true qi to activate this formation?”
Duobao Spirit Monkey raised its paw and slapped its forehead while covering its eyes, looking as if it couldn’t bear to watch Bao Gu’s performance.
Zi Tianjun’s face turned pale and then flushed, wishing he could find a hole to hide in.
Nanshan Yijian sat cross-legged and said, “Bao Gu, don’t rush; take your time.”
Bao Gu weakly called out, “Master,” looking pitifully at Zi Tianjun.
Zi Tianjun sighed heavily and said, “Bao Gu, you have the five spiritual roots, so you need to cultivate the five elements together.”
Bao Gu replied, “Yes, I have cultivated the five elements together.”
If she hadn’t cultivated the five elements together, how could she release five types of true qi by herself!
Zi Tianjun asked, “Bao Gu, don’t you know that the true power of cultivating the five elements together lies in the unity of the five elements?”
Bao Gu looked at Zi Tianjun with a blank expression.
Zi Tianjun asked, “So you have never practiced the unity of the five elements?”
Bao Gu shook her head.
Zi Tianjun said, “If injecting the five types of true qi separately into this formation could activate it, wouldn’t it be easy to just find a few cultivators with different attributes?”
Bao Gu smiled awkwardly, not daring to look at Zi Tianjun anymore.
She looked down at Duobao Spirit Monkey standing in the formation and said, “Little monkey, this is a good thing left by the Grandmaster, right? You must know how to move it, hurry up.”
Duobao Spirit Monkey shook its head vigorously, indicating that it couldn’t move this thing either.
Bao Gu asked, “Then do you know what this is?”
Duobao Spirit Monkey nodded vigorously.
It scratched its head, suddenly slapped its forehead as if it remembered something, and quickly turned its back to Bao Gu.
Bao Gu called out in confusion, “Little monkey.”
Duobao Spirit Monkey ignored her.
Zi Tianjun said to Bao Gu, “Try using your small world to see if you can take it away.”
Following his instructions, Bao Gu directed her oversized storage bag towards the massive jade stone, but the jade stone remained completely still as if it were fixed in place, its surface shimmering with a faint glow, making it seem as if it were in another space.
She thought that since this item was left by the Grandmaster, the Xuantian Sword in her dantian should also respond, but the sword showed no reaction at all.
Duobao Spirit Monkey let out a “squeak” and anxiously scratched its head.
Bao Gu squatted down to look at Duobao Spirit Monkey, but it turned away again, refusing to let her see it.
Suddenly, its eyes lit up, and an extremely old and tattered scroll appeared in its arms, which it presented to Bao Gu like a treasure.
Bao Gu took the tattered ancient scroll and saw that the folded parts were damaged, and the edges were frayed, with the most ridiculous part being a clear mark in the center where a table leg had pressed down.
Bao Gu had no doubt that Duobao Spirit Monkey had pulled this ancient scroll from under the table leg.
She carefully opened the ancient scroll.
Although the scroll was damaged, the leather was extremely resilient and sturdy, seemingly treated specially.
Once unfolded, the characters and illustrations on it were still clear, and most of the damage was at the corners, with the foldable damage being able to connect.
On the left side of the scroll was a picture, at the top of which was a row of buildings that looked remarkably like the Lingyun Peak before its destruction.
Below this building complex was a room with extremely simple furnishings, just a mat, but on one side of the room was a door, behind which was a staircase leading down.
This staircase extended downward towards the east, connecting to a square house located beneath the main hall of the building complex, where there was a formation pattern similar to a teleportation array in the center of the house.
Comparing the “house” at the bottom of the scroll with the massive jade stone beneath her feet, Bao Gu found that they were almost identical, with the only difference being that she couldn’t see what was inside the massive jade stone, while the drawing showed a bookshelf inside with jade slips on it.
Bao Gu thought, “Could it be that the massive jade stone beneath me is a library?”
She quickly looked at the text on the right side of the scroll, but found that the seemingly written characters were all crooked and unfamiliar, making them completely unrecognizable.
She had no choice but to hand the scroll to Zi Tianjun and ask, “Master, do you recognize the characters on this?”
Zi Tianjun glanced at Bao Gu and asked, “Don’t you think these characters look familiar?”
Bao Gu shook her head.
She didn’t think the crooked characters looked familiar; she didn’t recognize them, and they didn’t recognize her either.
Zi Tianjun sighed heavily and said, “These are runes, evolved from the characters of formation patterns.”
At this moment, he didn’t have the time to teach her about runes.
After looking at the runes on the ancient scroll, he said, “This is a message left by the Grandmaster Xuantian. He predicted that Xuantian Sect might face a great calamity, and to prevent the inheritance from being cut off and his lifelong skills from being lost, he wrote down all his knowledge and buried it in Lingyun Peak for the fated person to inherit. This scroll records the method to access this Xuantian library.”
Bao Gu asked, “Master, how do we open this Xuantian library?”
Zi Tianjun replied, “The one who can gain the recognition of the Xuantian Sword and become his disciple is the fated person; simply place the Xuantian Sword into the formation pattern to begin accessing the Xuantian library.”
Bao Gu’s heart sank; the Xuantian Sword was like an ancestor, and it never listened to her commands.
Zi Tianjun knew that Bao Gu’s cultivation was currently too weak to use the Xuantian Sword.
He looked at her with a hint of resentment and said, “There is another way.”
Bao Gu quickly said, “Master, please tell me.”
Zi Tianjun said, “Awaken the sword intent of the Xuantian Sword hidden within you, and use the sword energy of the Xuantian Sword to activate this Xuantian library, temporarily bringing it into your dantian. When you reach the Nascent Soul stage and can barely use the Xuantian Sword, you can then use it to open the Xuantian library.”
He thought about how long it would take for Bao Gu to reach the Nascent Soul stage and felt a pang of pain, almost wanting to spit blood for the sake of preserving the Xuantian library, which had already suffered heavy losses.
Bao Gu felt extremely embarrassed and lowered her head, saying, “Master, I’ve tried many times. Not to mention awakening the sword intent of the Xuantian Sword, if it weren’t for the fact that it always kicks my flying sword out of my dantian, I wouldn’t even feel its presence.”
Zi Tianjun felt an impulse to slap Bao Gu dead.
Bao Gu lowered her head as much as she could.
Nanshan Yijian secretly shook his head.
Zi Tianjun waved his sleeve and sent a stream of spiritual energy into Bao Gu’s dantian, and a powerful sword intent instantly surged out from her dantian.
Bao Gu suddenly felt an unmatched power, as if a single sword could break through mountains and annihilate thousands of troops.
She felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, shivering from the cold, but the moment her mind moved, that feeling disappeared.
Immediately after, she felt the ground beneath her feet give way, and she let out a scream, falling to the bottom of the pit without even having time to draw her flying sword, landing flat on her face.
Zi Tianjun almost wanted to curse, “What a disgrace,” but he held it back.
Bao Gu quickly got up, dusting off the dirt from her clothes.
She saw that her master’s expression was quite grim, and she felt guilty, not daring to look up.
She probed into her dantian again but still couldn’t find any trace of the Xuantian Sword; instead, the previously large Xuantian library had shrunk to the size of a mung bean floating in her dantian.
Zi Tianjun looked at Bao Gu with a conflicted heart, wanting to cry but having no tears.
So many good things left by the Grandmaster Xuantian had fallen into Bao Gu’s hands, yet she couldn’t use any of them!
Bao Gu didn’t dare to look at Zi Tianjun; she looked down at Duobao Spirit Monkey and asked, “Little monkey, did the Grandmaster leave anything else in Lingyun Peak?”
Duobao Spirit Monkey scratched its head, tilting its head in thought, then continued scratching its head.
Seeing Duobao Spirit Monkey like this, Bao Gu knew that the little monkey probably also forgot.
She was afraid of missing something, so she looked at Zi Tianjun weakly and said, “Master, to avoid leaving behind the treasures left by the Grandmaster in Lingyun Peak, should we dig up Lingyun Peak as well?”
Zi Tianjun stared at Bao Gu for a few moments and nodded vigorously, saying “Hmm.”
He called Feng Yi back and instructed him to arrange for Elder Niu to take the disciples to collect the scattered remains around Lingyun Peak, while he and Feng Yi would dig the mountain and move it into Bao Gu’s oversized storage bag.
Even a cultivator at the Transformation Stage couldn’t uproot Lingyun Peak.
Feng Yi’s idea was to cut Lingyun Peak and move it into Bao Gu’s oversized storage bag.
Zi Tianjun was worried that Lingyun Peak was too large and that Bao Gu’s cultivation was too weak to fit it into her oversized storage bag.
He thought it would be better to break Lingyun Peak into smaller pieces and move them in bit by bit, while also checking if there were any treasures buried by the Grandmaster beneath Lingyun Peak.
Feng Yi agreed with Zi Tianjun’s suggestion, and then he rolled up his sleeves and summoned his sword to join Zi Tianjun in cutting the mountain.
After cutting out a large chunk, he threw it into Bao Gu’s oversized storage bag, occasionally finding some items and tossing them into his own storage bag.
Nanshan Yijian, sitting cross-legged nearby, was left dumbfounded, his tightly pressed lips twitching repeatedly.
Seeing her master and uncle digging so vigorously, Bao Gu used her oversized storage bag to catch the massive stones they were throwing over, silently forgetting that she could use the technique to move mountains and seas to avoid embarrassing her master and uncle.
Her cultivation was weak, and she couldn’t exert such great powers to move the entire mountain into her oversized storage bag.
The techniques Duobao Spirit Monkey passed on to her were also not applicable everywhere.
She kept glancing at Duobao Spirit Monkey, wanting to ask, “Little monkey, do you have the ability to move this mountain into my oversized storage bag?”
But she didn’t dare to ask; seeing how her uncle and master were excitedly digging up good items, who would dare to stop them?
She estimated they would get angry and hit someone.
Bao Gu had to admit that even a dead camel is bigger than a horse.
Who would have thought that beneath Lingyun Peak, there were many caves, secret chambers, alchemy rooms, and artifact forging rooms left over from years past?
Although most of the items had rotted away, the caves and secret chambers had collapsed, and the formations and restrictions set up back then had all been destroyed, some things would not decay, such as metal and stone materials for forging, some ancient treasures, and materials used for setting up formations.
However, it was indeed distressing that Xuantian Sect had fallen to the point where the sect leader and the elder of the punishment hall had to personally dig for the foundation of their “ancestral home” to seek “treasures.”
If the Grandmaster Xuantian were aware, he would probably shed tears of blood.
Yet, the items that her master and uncle dug up were indeed good items that could be sold for a lot of spirit stones and could significantly enhance the strength of Xuantian Sect.
