CHAPTER 48: RUIN EXPLORATION - STRANGE MURAL

With ease, Jun Wu bypassed the array formation protecting the mansion and began to explore.

Although the mansion lost all its previous grandeur, from the structure and the stone statue in front of the mansion,

He could see this old mansion once belonged to a powerful clan.

His feet were quick, he moved from one building to the other. Apart from crumbling paper and clothes that turned to dust any time they were touched, he did not find anything that caught his eye.

However, he was not surprised. Who knew how long this place had been like this.

He arrived at a courtyard which was quite different from every other part of the mansion.

Jun Wu saw the dried pond, the crumbling bridge, and the stone pavilion in the distance.

This alone showed this courtyard belonged to an important person in the clan.

Quickly, he entered the house and began to search. Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks and looked at an ancient mural on the wall.

He stared at the mural for a few minutes but could not wrap his head around it.

The mural depicted an ancient tree that reached through heaven. But that was not what caught his eye, he noticed the material had yet to decay from the passage of time.

He reached out his hand and touched it. Everything was smooth, and pure energy entered his body.

Hmm?

He creased his brow and his eyes widened. He realized his cultivation had improved a bit.

"Strange..." He looked at the mural once again but did not find anything unusual about it.

Without hesitating, he took the mural from the wall and prepared to leave.

His instinct told him this was a great treasure.

Just then, he noticed a small hidden compartment located where the mural was.

He pressed the hidden compartment, and a small hole appeared on the wall.

Inside the hole was a small pouch etched with strange runes.

Looking at the runes, Jun Wu was dizzy for a moment. He shook his head and averted his gaze from them.

’What a complicated rune!’ He exclaimed inwardly.

He picked up the pouch and looked at it carefully. The pouch did not have an opening; everything was sealed.

Confused, he checked the pouch once more but could not see any opening.

Why would they hide it if it was of no use?

The more he thought about it, the more he found it impossible for the pouch to be ordinary.

"I’m missing something." He mused. "Let me see if I can find out something from the ancient memory."

He closed his eyes and began to go through the ancient soul memory. The memory was jumbled together, filled with many inexplicable scenes.

Some were life-and-death battles while some were sex scenes.

Just when he was ready to give up, he found something like the pouch.

He stopped skimming through the scene and watched how the strange pouch was used.

"So that’s how it is used." He mused with a look of realization.

Whoosh!

The moment he sent a portion of his Qi into the pouch, a strange space appeared in his perception.

Looking at the strange space, he understood what this pouch was.

This was a spatial pouch.

Slowly, a grin crept up to the corner of his lips. This just came right on time.

Inside the spatial pouch, there were only a few things inside.

There were weapons, pill bottles, spirit stones, and two manuals.

He willed it, and a weapon appeared in his hand. It was a black sword covered in runes.

Merely holding the sword, he knew this was unlike any other he had ever seen.

Also, his gut told him the sword was higher than a Mortal Grade Weapon.

’Is this a Spirit Grade Weapon?’ He was not even sure.

But he did not have to worry, everything now belonged to him.

He took out the pill bottles but was disappointed.

The pills had lost their vitality, turning into dregs.

Although it was a shame, he did not think too much about it.

He took out the manuals. One was a cultivation technique, while the second was an offensive skill.

Just reading the cultivation technique manual, he realized this was superior to anything he ever knew.

[Do you want to deduce this manual?]

Looking at the system notification, Jun Wu had a faint smile tugging at the corner of his lips.

With such a high cultivation technique, the system could still be simplified further, making it more powerful.

Even though he wished to simplify the technique, he controlled the impulse.

He was not in a hurry and could take his time. With that thought, he closed the notification and returned everything into the spatial pouch.

His eyes lingered on the hundreds of shiny spirit stones and he couldn’t help but laugh happily.

Quickly, he threw the Ruin Beast Core into the spatial pouch and prepared to place the strange mural inside, only to notice he couldn’t.

"What’s going on?" He wondered.

He tried many times, but the mural would not enter the spatial pouch.

Left with no choice, he could only carry the mural. As for abandoning it, the thought never appeared in his mind.

With such a high harvest, his steps were light, filled with anticipation.

Half an hour later, he came out of the mansion with a light smile on his face.

From this mansion alone, he had gained a lot. He found a lot of Mortal Grade weapons and spirit stones.

But his greatest gain was the spatial pouch. With such an artifact, he did not have to worry about others discovering his treasure.

With the spatial pouch kept beneath his robe, he only carried the strange mural and left the mansion.

"I hope my luck will be this great in the building I search." He mused and quickened his steps.

Walking on the narrow road, covered in broken bricks and filled with craters.

On both sides were crumbling buildings, with the air reeking of desolation.

The few buildings standing bore the traces of battles.

Just as Jun Wu prepared to walk deeper into the ruin,

He encountered another group. Instantly, the two sides stared at each other, and unspeakable tension grew with each passing second.