Chapter 546 - The Place of Opportunity is Called Tianlong
The last treasure, rather than calling it a treasure, could be better described as a stone tablet!
There wasn't a single word on the stone tablet.
But it emitted waves of ancient and ageless aura.
"!" He Yiming reached out and touched the stone tablet, feeling his own power being absorbed into it.
"Could this actually be a special artifact?" He Yiming didn't retract his hand but continued to infuse his cultivation power into it.
It was only after injecting the cultivation power of about ten early-stage Heavenly Dan Realm cultivators that the stone tablet stopped absorbing.
"Sizzle!" In the next moment, ancient characters slowly emerged.
He Yiming hurriedly looked at them.
"I am Cang Xuan Old Ancestor, at the Transformation Stage cultivation level!"
Seeing the first line of characters, He Yiming was shocked.
Could this be an existence at the Transformation Stage?
This guy had arrived at the Chaotic Star Sea at least a hundred thousand years ago. What had he come here for?
He Yiming continued to read.
"I deduced through a heaven-defying technique that there's a great opportunity in this plane. So, I spared no cost and arrived here!"
"To find this opportunity, I imparted some rudimentary cultivation methods to the creatures inhabiting this vast sea, those half-human, half-demon servants. I named them the Sea Clan!"
...
He Yiming was astonished once again.
So, the Sea Clan had existed a hundred thousand years ago, and they were actually the servants of this Transformation Stage powerhouse? They were probably used as tools to seek opportunities.
He Yiming continued to read.
"After spending a thousand years, I finally found the place of opportunity on a small island's depths! I named the island 'Tianlong'!"
"Subsequently, I left my servants to guard this treasure repository and decided to head deeper into the Tianlong Island!"
"This stone tablet was left behind for my descendants! Within the stone tablet, I sealed the records of various heavenly materials and treasures I've collected over the millennia! If my descendants come here, they can go to the depths of Tianlong Island to find me!"
...
Although the content of the stone tablet was not extensive, it contained a vast amount of information.
"No wonder the Sea Clan could open this gate. It turns out that they were once the half-disciples and servants of this Transformation Stage powerhouse!" He Yiming realized, but then a solemn expression appeared on his face.
"The depths of Tianlong Island?" He Yiming was learning about this for the first time. There was actually a tremendous opportunity there?
And it seemed that no one had returned here for over a hundred thousand years, and the Sea Clan had openly occupied it!
Obviously, after that Transformation Stage powerhouse entered that place of opportunity, he either died inside or met with an accident and never returned.
"Could it be... the place of opportunity mentioned by that Transformation Stage powerhouse is the same as the 'Ming' realm mentioned by Mu Xueying earlier?" He Yiming thought of Mu Xueying's words.
Mu Xueying had mentioned the 'Ming' realm, which opened every few years. It was inaccessible to those above the Heavenly Dan Realm and offered a heaven-defying opportunity for those in the Initial Sea Realm to directly enter the Heavenly Dan Realm.
It was said to be filled with countless heavenly materials and treasures, as well as relics from ancient times.
Moreover, if someone managed to survive and return, those in the Sea Wheel Realm would undoubtedly advance to the Heavenly Dan Realm, and those in the Heavenly Dan Realm would soon form their Nascent Soul.
Even the Yan Mo Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Temple had achieved his Heavenly Dan Realm breakthrough there and eventually stepped into the Transformation Stage!
"Since those above the Heavenly Dan Realm cannot enter, that Transformation Stage powerhouse, Cang Xuan Old Ancestor, probably used force to enter. And then... he might have been backlashed and died inside? Hmm, that's a possibility! No wonder those Transformation Stage powerhouses from the Upper Realm haven't come here. They're probably aware of this rule!"
...
He Yiming had many thoughts.
After all, if there were indeed many treasures within the 'Ming' realm, it would undoubtedly attract Transformation Stage powerhouses from the Upper Realm to come and occupy it or sweep it clean all at once.
However, obviously, no Transformation Stage powerhouse had done so.
This indicated that at least Transformation Stage cultivators couldn't forcefully enter the 'Ming' realm. Or...
Did those who forcibly entered the 'Ming' realm meet their doom?
"It's here!" After reading the stone tablet, He Yiming suddenly felt a massive influx of information. He immediately focused his mind and quietly absorbed this information.
This new influx of information was immense, even more extensive than the information contained in the jade slip given to him by Master Wang Yue!
There were all sorts of unimaginable heavenly materials and treasures and a lot of information on sixth and even seventh-grade spiritual materials.
Sixth-grade spiritual materials were needed by those in the Nascent Infant Realm, and seventh-grade ones were required by those in the Transformation Stage!
After spending about the time it took to burn an incense stick, He Yiming finally digested and absorbed this vast information.
As he opened his eyes, He Yiming's expression changed.
He was shocked.
While He Yiming was absorbing information, the golden-scaled Sea Clan member, Jin Chachacha, had slipped away into a corner at some point.
Moreover, he secretly activated an ancient formation.
At this moment, the light of this formation flashed, and it turned out to be a teleportation array!
"Hahaha!" Jin Chachacha chuckled with smugness, watching his figure about to disappear into the teleportation array.
He Yiming took action!
With a step of a thousand meters, He Yiming appeared in front of Jin Chachacha.
But before He Yiming could capture Jin Chachacha, their figures both flickered and disappeared on the spot.
Soon, He Yiming sensed a violent spatial fluctuation.
A terrifying crushing force swept over—it was the power of spatial compression!
"Boom!" He Yiming activated the Qing Emperor's Eternal Body and easily resisted it!
However...
"Crack!" Beside him, Jin Chachacha, at the Initial Heavenly Dan Realm, gave a crisp sound and was crushed into pieces.
After more than ten breaths, the surrounding light finally disappeared.
He Yiming opened his eyes and took a look.
He was dumbfounded.
He was actually standing atop a mountain that stretched for ten thousand meters.
Under his feet was a majestic mountain and river he had never seen before!
"Where the hell am I?" He Yiming realized he had been teleported, and the distance of this teleportation was absolutely astonishing!
But the problem was...
Where had he been teleported to now?
...
"Hahaha, these silly shrimps are going to kill the Sea Clan, while I come to loot the treasure repository! How delightful!" At this moment, a figure was rushing into the depths of the Sea Clan's royal palace.
And they were holding a map.
It was Beef Noodle Soup.
At this moment, the palace was filled with cries of battle, with remnants of the Sea Clan fiercely resisting and battling against the shrimp soldiers.
Seizing the opportunity, Beef Noodle Soup, using a topographical map drawn by the shrimp workers he had interacted with during his time in the Sea Clan palace, quickly arrived at the first treasure repository.
"WTF?" However, upon seeing this treasure repository, Beef Noodle Soup spat out blood directly.
The door of the treasure repository had been forcibly cut into several pieces.
Inside the treasure repository, everything was gone, swept away completely.
"Somebody actually beat me to it?" Beef Noodle Soup was stunned.
Damn, there was someone who took advantage of the chaos while he was clashing with the Sea Clan to enter the Sea Clan palace first and plunder the treasure repository?
"Hmph, there are three more treasure repositories left. I don't believe they've all been plundered!" Beef Noodle Soup wasn't convinced. Following the map, he quickly arrived at the second treasure repository.
"Damn!" However, with a curse, Beef Noodle Soup looked at the empty second treasure repository and could only turn around and continue running.
"Grass!"
"Day!"
...
Beef Noodle Soup was spitting blood figuratively. All the treasure repositories had been emptied by someone before him.
Not a single one was left.
This was just shameless!
Who on earth did this?
"Hmph! These guys probably don't know that the Sea Clan has a hidden, ultra-secret forbidden zone! Hehehe, it's a secret only known by shrimp leaders! This is the cleverness of a shrimp leader who overheard a high-ranking Sea Clan member chatting when they were on the toilet! These fishy characters probably have no idea!" Beef Noodle Soup suddenly felt relieved and then smirked.
So, he quickly rushed into the forbidden zone just plundered by He Yiming.
"I'll be damned!" Seeing the empty hall, Beef Noodle Soup knelt.
WTF?
All gone?
Who the hell did it?
They beat me to it, not only emptying the treasure repositories but also looting this forbidden zone?
If I find out who this is, I'll definitely beat the crap out of them!
Beef Noodle Soup checked around and found only a stone tablet without words and an ancient formation in the corner, whose purpose he couldn't fathom.
Everything else was gone.
Beef Noodle Soup was helpless and could only leave to meet up with the rest of the shrimp soldiers.
"Lord Shrimp Soup! We've achieved a complete victory!"
"Wow, there are treasures everywhere in the Sea Clan palace!"
"Lord Shrimp Soup, I found over thirty thousand spirit stones on the body of a noble Sea Clan member. We're making a killing this time!"
...
The shrimp soldiers were all extremely satisfied.
Only Beef Noodle Soup looked extremely annoyed.
It was over. This time he was at a net loss!
He hadn't even managed to get a taste of anything!
Should he open another bank and continue to fleece these shrimp soldiers?
"Lord Shrimp Soup, now that we have such power, can we consider overthrowing the Sea King? If we can find the missing Sea Prince, maybe we can support him to ascend to the throne and become the true ruler of countless shrimps in the Chaotic Star Sea!" At this moment, a shrimp powerhouse in the Sea Wheel Realm couldn't help but put forward a suggestion.
"???" Beef Noodle Soup was startled, only then recalling that when he first met Shrimp King, he had mentioned being the true prince of the shrimp race.
At the time, Beef Noodle Soup thought he was bluffing!
But what if it was true?
Ah, even if it wasn't, he should make it true!
"Right! Support the Sea Prince to ascend the throne, overthrow the original Sea King, make Shrimp King my puppet, and from then on, I can control the entire Chaotic Star Sea and rule over all the shrimp soldiers! Acquiring all the wealth and power accumulated by the Shrimp King family for countless years... brilliant!" Beef Noodle Soup's eyes gleamed, and he suddenly let out an evil laugh.
However, the more excited and greedy Beef Noodle Soup became, the more he didn't notice that the shrimp shell on his back was gradually merging perfectly with his own body. He didn't even notice the numerous black marks emerging on his abdomen, which slowly formed into something bone-like...
[Why hasn't anyone realized that Beef Noodle Soup was disguised as a shrimp and that even the upper echelons of the Sea Clan didn't see through it? This was foreshadowed before in the previous text, and the truth will be revealed in the upcoming chapters.]