CHAPTER 1627: CHAPTER 372: THE RUINS (PART 4)

"Huh? Over here, it seems like a ruin." Linghu Gudu pointed at the depression revealed after the sand particles exploded, speaking as he curiously walked over.

After entering the relics, Cao Zhen began to advance steadily from one mountain peak to the next. As he entered the rooms and passed the trials, he would acquire the houses, and a mist would appear on the mountain peaks. Entering the mist would instantly transport him to the next mountain peak without him having to travel physically from one peak to another.

His efficiency was exceptionally high. In just a single day, all of the houses disappeared completely.

"Boom!"

As the hundredth house fell into Cao Zhen’s hands, the entire relic began to shake wildly.

In the central area of the relic, a phantom of a large hall slowly emerged. The hall looked dilapidated, with parts of the roof collapsed and the area behind it scattered with broken walls and ruins.

Yet, despite its state, the hall still emitted radiating multicolored rays, illuminating the entire relic.

Faintly, the sounds of scholars, celestial music, and the roars of a hundred beasts echoed, and in the very center of the hall was a semi-transparent jade stone inscribed with two large characters—[Hundred][Teachings]!

These two characters gave an illusion of containing infinite transformations, as if this single character embodied a hundred different doctrines!

Upon closer inspection, one could see that there were some marks in the middle of the character, indicating that there should have been another character before the calamity that destroyed it.

Looking at the state of the hall, it was clearly the hall of a Great Teaching. However, the Great Teaching suffered some catastrophe, during which the middle character was obliterated.

Even though half of the hall seemed destroyed, the power emanating from it was still immensely terrifying.

Cao Zhen felt that none of the treasures he had encountered could compare to the aura of the hall in front of him!

At this moment, everyone in the relics was gazing towards the hall.

"Is this the greatest treasure of the relics appearing?"

"So soon, the great treasure of the relics has appeared?"

"It must be because of Cao Zhen, Sect Leader Cao!"

"Why does this hall look familiar to me?"

"Hundred Cultivation Sect!"

Suddenly, some people in the crowd exclaimed in surprise.

"This is the hall of the Hundred Cultivation Sect, and it was the treasure, the Hundred Cultivation Profound Hall! It’s an Earth Level low-grade treasure!"

"Earth Level treasure!"

"What? This is an Earth Level treasure!"

Immediately, someone in the crowd shouted in disbelief, "How can an Earth Level treasure appear in a relic when the masters of the Indestructible Period have not yet awakened?"

Yet, no sooner had the doubts been voiced than someone beside them countered, "There’s no mistake. I once read about the Hundred Cultivation Sect; their treasure, the Hundred Cultivation Profound Hall, is indeed an Earth Level low-grade treasure, and its aura is indeed terrifying!"

"Although it is an Earth Level low-grade treasure, the hall is clearly in a state of extreme disrepair. Whether it can be used at all is a question, and if it can be activated, it might only exhibit half the power of a complete hall!"

"The Hundred Cultivation Sect was also a miscellaneous sect Great Teaching. I recall the sect was eradicated after failing to pass the first million-year Sect Tribulation, right?"

"So, after the Hundred Cultivation Sect was destroyed, their hall was directly taken by the Heavenly Dao. This time, the relics that descended during the sect tribulation of the Hundred Peaks Sect seem to be based on the treasures of the original Hundred Cultivation Sect? After all, many of their treasures disappeared together, presumably also taken by the Heavenly Dao."

"It seems so. Although I didn’t find any treasures myself, I heard that someone did find treasures, and those treasures seemed to be from miscellaneous sects!"

"No matter what, even if this treasure is severely damaged, it’s still an Earth Level treasure. Even if it cannot be activated, melting it down for materials could be exchanged for a Mysterious Rank treasure!"

"Everyone has a chance to obtain such a treasure!"

"Charge!"

Upon seeing the hall in the void, everyone went madly charging in its direction, for this was an Earth Level treasure!

Cao Zhen looked at the distant phantom as he also rose, flying towards the treasure.

However, at the next moment, a figure ascended from below the treasure, reaching out to grab it directly.

She wore black clothes with black hair and carried a long knife on her back.

"Yan Yourong."

Yan Yourong, Duo Duo, and Linghu Gudu had just finished slaying the bizarre insects. Before Linghu Gudu could inspect the depression, the palace rose into the air directly from the recessed ground.

Without any hesitation, Yan Yourong made her move.

Cao Zhen watched his disciple from afar, noticing that Yan Yourong had visible wounds on her body, and her face was slightly pale.

He had arranged for Yan Yourong and Duo Duo to accompany Linghu Gudu. With their combined strength, and seeing Yan Yourong injured, it was clear that fortune came with risks — truly perilous indeed.

In the next instant, the hall was grabbed by Yan Yourong, and it rapidly shrank, falling into her hands in the blink of an eye, then thrown into her Qiankun Bag.

The crowd was completely dumbfounded from a distance.