Soul Emperor Martial God-Chapter 687: Ancient Relics

According to rumors, the unnamed ancient relics were discovered in the Demon Beast Forest.

However, until today, no one has been able to locate them.

Xiao Yi and Du Youyou were walking in the forest, occasionally catching glimpses of Martial Artists darting through swiftly.

"Xiao Yi, we have walked for nearly an hour. Do you think we can find the ancient relics?" Du Youyou asked.

"It’s only been half an hour. Ancient relics aren’t something that can be so easily found," Xiao Yi said indifferently.

Another half-hour passed.

Xiao Yi suddenly halted.

"Hmm? A Prohibition Barrier?"

"Prohibition Barrier? Where?" Du Youyou looked around in confusion.

She was at the Mystic Breakthrough Realm and had already mastered the use of Prohibition Barriers, albeit weak ones.

"Break." Xiao Yi uttered a low shout, sending out a streak of Sword Qi.

Swish... the Sword Qi vanished into thin air in front of them, like a clay ox entering the sea.

"It really is here." Xiao Yi felt delighted.

There indeed was a Prohibition Barrier ahead, but its mechanism was extremely sophisticated.

That’s why Du Youyou couldn’t sense it.

Although Xiao Yi’s cultivation had greatly diminished, his realm remained, enabling him to discover it.

"Break." Xiao Yi uttered again, concentrating a streak of Sword Qi at his fingertips for several seconds before releasing it.

A hissing sound.

It pierced through like thin paper.

The surrounding scenery suddenly changed drastically.

The trees, flowers, and the open space in front were all gone.

In their place was a faint crack.

"Let’s go." Xiao Yi said, flashing into the crack.

Du Youyou followed.

At the instant the two entered the crack, it vanished instantly.

The surroundings also returned to their original state.

...

Upon entering the crack, the first thing that came into their view was a gigantic palace.

The palace stretched endlessly, and above it, there was an expanse of boundless dark clouds.

"Is this the ancient relic?" Du Youyou asked curiously.

Xiao Yi frowned. He had entered several cave mansion relics before.

Mostly, they featured palaces lined up in rows.

To only have a single palace like this time was unprecedented.

Of course, this palace, as well as this relic, was much larger than any cave mansion relics he had visited before.

"Xiao Yi, I heard that any cave mansion would have Guardian Demon Beasts."

"Isn’t it going to be very dangerous inside?" Du Youyou asked nervously.

This eerie relic and the bizarre aura around it made her somewhat afraid.

"Being an ancient relic, how could there still be demon beasts? If there are any, they’ve all turned into ghosts," Xiao Yi responded calmly.

"Ghosts?" Du Youyou widened her eyes, gasping in shock.

"Ah." Xiao Yi shook his head helplessly. "Let’s go."

They walked towards the palace in front.

Before the palace.

Xiao Yi looked at the plaque above the entrance.

The plaque had no text, but there was a strong force of Martial Arts Rules.

"Hmm?" Xiao Yi expressed a slight astonishment.

If he wasn’t mistaken, this force of Martial Arts Power was left by the owner of the palace before his death.

And it belonged to the Martial Arts practiced by the palace’s owner.

"Heh." Xiao Yi chuckled lightly.

This unknown ancient being had not left his name on his palace, but instead, he left his Martial Arts Power.

It was indeed interesting.

Xiao Yi sensed briefly, yet he could not discern what kind of Martial Arts Power it was.

This proved that the realm of the palace’s owner before his death, was far beyond his own.

"It seems this truly is an ancient relic," Xiao Yi nodded.

He pushed open the grand doors of the palace.

Whoo...

An ancient breath rushed towards them.

Inside the palace, what came into view were thousands of courtyards.

However, each courtyard was uniformly jet-black, as dark as thick ink, dazzling to the eyes.

Xiao Yi briefly sensed again.

Each courtyard had its own Prohibition, including this entire palace.

But clearly, this palace had existed for many years, and much of the Spiritual Energy inside had dispersed.

Thus, the prohibitions here had also weakened significantly.

That was why this relic had been discovered.

Of course, because of this, Xiao Yi had easily broken the Prohibition Barrier and entered.

"The prohibitions in here have weakened a lot with the scarcity of Spiritual Energy, so the danger should be fairly low."

"However, the measures left by the ancient powerhouses are not to be taken lightly."

"Be more careful later, and if we don’t run into any special prohibitions, there shouldn’t be much of a problem."

Xiao Yi specifically instructed, to prevent Du Youyou from acting recklessly.

"Okay," Du Youyou nodded and asked, "So what do we do next?"

"It’s simple, find the main courtyard among these thousands of courtyards," Xiao Yi said.

Du Youyou’s eyes lit up, "So basically, we are going treasure hunting."

"Yes," Xiao Yi nodded.

The two began weaving through the thousands of courtyards.

More than ten minutes later, they had explored five or six palaces, but with little to show for it.

They were just ordinary Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and their Spiritual Energy had been exhausted.

It wasn’t until two hours later that they began to find some small gains.

"Xiao Yi, what is that?" Du Youyou pointed at a dark object in front of them and asked.

Ahead was a small Prohibition.

Wrapped inside the Prohibition was a cluster of pitch-black toxic gas.

Within the toxic gas, there was an open book.

Xiao Yi glanced at the content of the book for a few moments, "It’s a seventh-grade Alchemist book, recording some Seventh-grade Pill Recipes and refining medicine experience."

"A seventh-grade Alchemist book?" Du Youyou’s face lit up with happiness.

Xiao Yi said, "To take out the book, we must first remove the toxic gas."

"This must be a test, testing whether an Alchemist is worthy of this book."

"Ah?" Du Youyou looked worried, "Seventh-grade poison, how could I solve it?"

"Master, could you help me take it out, please?"

Xiao Yi rolled his eyes.

Throughout the journey, he had become accustomed to Du Youyou calling him ’Master’ when she needed something and ’Xiao Yi’ when she didn’t.

But thinking it over, Du Youyou did after all save his life, rescuing him from the eastern seas.

So he didn’t hold it against her.

Moreover, Du Youyou was only seventeen years old this year.

His age was indeed greater than hers, so he reluctantly accepted the title of ’Master.’

A burst of Primordial Power concentrated in Xiao Yi’s hands.

Soon, the toxic gas gradually dissipated in front of them.

Xiao Yi took out the book and flipped through it a few times.

"Impressive," Xiao Yi couldn’t help but exclaim.

Some of the pill recipes recorded in the book were even unknown to him.

Clearly, this Alchemist book was an ancient tome.

However, as Xiao Yi was not particularly interested in seventh-grade refining medicine experience, he gave the book to Du Youyou.

Du Youyou treasured it like a gem and placed it into her Qiankun Bag.

Another hour passed.

They had now searched hundreds of palaces.

Along the way, they began to find some Sixth-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

And these Treasures were all wrapped in Spiritual Energy Restrictions, their medicinal strength intact.

After searching hundreds of palaces, they had gathered a heap of Sixth-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

They had also acquired a few Mid-grade Spiritual Artifacts and two High Grade Spiritual Artifacts.

"Xiao Yi, we’re rich," Du Youyou was completely satisfied.

Xiao Yi, however, furrowed his brows, "It’s an ancient relic after all, why is it so modest?"

"Xiao Yi, do you think the Alchemists of ancient times all used these mats to refine medicine?"

Du Youyou unknowingly had walked to a mat in the courtyard and casually sat down.

In an instant, clack, clack, clack...

The entire palace began to tremble violently.

The scenery around them started to change.

Du Youyou, frightened, ran back to Xiao Yi’s side, worried, "Xiao Yi, did I cause trouble?"

"No," Xiao Yi’s face brightened, "You’ve found the main courtyard."

Just at that moment.

Outside the courtyard, a series of voices came.

"What’s going on? We’ve searched hundreds of courtyards and found nothing, it’s like everything has been looted."

"Brother Xu Nan, don’t worry, Elder Xun is guarding the entrance to the relic, no one else can come in."

"We’re the only ones here in the relic, we can search slowly."

Outside the courtyard, it turned out to be a group from the Wind Dance Sword Sect.

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