Mystical Pagoda

Chapter 10: Mystical Pagoda

Feng Ming Xiu looked around confused when she saw that she suddenly appeared in an unfamiliar place. She saw a board above her head that had a few words on it and it was mounted on two pillars.

The words said 'Mystical Pagoda'.

"Mystical Pagoda?" Feng Ming Xiu looked around the area.

There was a very eye-catching pagoda that Feng Ming Xiu noticed right away.

There were also four courtyards; two of which were placed on either side of the pagoda.

Feng Ming Xiu first explored the place where she was. She came across a herbs field, where many rare and common herbs were growing.

After exploring, Feng Ming Xiu entered the pagoda. Feng Ming Xiu was surprised when she saw the library of books in front of her. She looked around and took a random book from the section marked armament books. She opened the book and saw pictures of armaments that had long disappeared. The book described how the armaments were made and who made them.

Feng Ming Xiu didn't stick around this level for long and went to the second level. Feng Ming Xiu was once again surprised. On this level, there were shelves upon shelves of array of stones of different tiers placed in order on the shelves.

"Is this a treasure trove or something? But the items look new..." Feng Ming Xiu muttered this and had no intention of looking around and went to the third level. This level was filled with alchemy-related things. There were isolated rooms with alchemy furnaces, shelves upon shelves of herbs, and pill bottles.

Feng Ming Xiu went to the next floor and assumed that it would be filled with things related to the beast tamer profession. And as she expected, there were beast tamer-related things. There weren't much on the floor though-just empty cages and a few rooms.

Feng Ming Xiu wasn't surprised by this and went to the fourth floor. This floor had many rooms and Feng Ming Xiu went into one of them. She immediately felt pure and dense spirit energy as she entered the room. "Ah...now that I think about it, when I entered this place, I felt dense spirit energy even denser than outside, and the spirit energy in is denser than the outside of the room."

Feng Ming Xiu left the room and pondered. "Just what is this place?"

Feng Ming Xiu went to the fifth floor. As she was climbing the stairs, she saw a door. "There wasn't a door when I came up the other floors." Feng Ming Xiu didn't think much about it and tried to open the door but it won't open. She tried to shoot her spirit energy at the door, but it bounced back. Feng Ming Xiu managed to move away in time before her spirit energy hit her.

"My spirit energy bounced back...?"

"Of course, it bounced back. You're too weak." Feng Ming Xiu look in the direction where she heard the voice and saw a little boy in the air.

"What did you say?"

"I said that you are too weak to go further." The little girl repeated herself.

"...Who are you?" Feng Ming Xiu asked the girl another question.

"I am the artifact spirit of this place. My name is Li Heng Jie." Li Heng Jie looked at Feng Ming Xiu proudly as if waiting for praise.

Feng Ming Xiu didn't say anything and lowered her head. 'He's an artifact spirit? I know that artifact spirits appear only when the armament is strong enough and the armament master who made it is at least at an Ancestor rank armament master. But Ancestor rank armament masters have long disappeared after the fight with the ruler of the Demon Realm, the Demon Empress, and the ruler of the Human Realm, Zhou Ling Weizhe against the outsiders, The Three Devil Kings.'

'The highest rank that we have on this continent is Senior rank. But even that is difficult to get to. And in the continent where master said she came from, which Yanlin continent, the highest they have is Supreme rank. But that is difficult to get to as well. Even if there are Ancestor ranked armament masters, their probably in hiding somewhere.'

Seeing that Feng Ming Xiu had her head down, Li Heng Jie went up to her and asked, "Hey, master, is something wrong? Why aren't you talking?"

"Master? You called me master?" Feng Ming Xiu finally looked up.

"Of course I did. What else did you hear me say?" The child looked at her as if she was stupid.

"Um..."Feng Ming Xiu didn't know what to say to the little boy. "Uh... what is this place?"

"Ah, didn't you see the name of this place above your head when you came in here?" Li Heng Jie looked at Feng Ming Xiu in confusion.

"Um, yes I did see it."

"So why did you ask?"

"..."

"..." No one said anything and the two just looked at each other.

Feng Ming Xiu finally broke the silence and asked, "How did I become your master?"