Magical

Chapter Nine: Just Magical

"Lord Clan Leader, this way to the secret room, please enter." In the dark, eerie tunnel, a Rank Two elderly Gu Master walked in front, leading the way for Zaner.

Zaner looked at the cave-like place ahead of him. The cave wasn't completely dark; there were some lanterns on the walls, but the light they emitted was insufficient, creating such an eerie atmosphere that could be the main stage for a horror or mystery movie in his previous life.

Where was he currently? He was in the ancestral hall. Nah, it can't be called just an ancestral hall; it's the secret space below the ancestral hall where the clan's main Gu recipes, the research carried out by generations of clan members, and the historical documents of the clan are stored.

There were three underground floors below the ancestral hall, and above the primordial spring of the clan, each floor storing so many precious secrets of the clan that if exposed, the clan would surely be doomed.

They finally arrived before the first secret room. Zaner looked at the room and could guess which room it was...

The secret rooms that held all the Gu worm combination recipes of the clan and the clan's historical documents were not far ahead.

If it was any other person, they wouldn't be allowed to enter this place anytime; they could only enter here either after their successful ascension or through great contribution.

If it was a Rank One or Rank Two Gu Master, to look through the recipes, they would need to pay primeval stones or exchange using merit points.

But Zaner didn't require any of that. Why? Because he is the clan leader and mostly because he is the strongest. He could visit this place as if it were his house's backyard; he had the authority to look through. However, he still had to follow some rules; he couldn't just pick up everything from here and empty it.

This secret room was in the basement of the village, at a very hidden location. Even if the village were eradicated, this secret room would still remain.

Back then, the Ren clan's creator, the first generation clan leader, found a primeval essence spring inside this underground cave and thus decided to build his village here.

Through the generations of development and growth by the clan leaders, the Ren clan's underground cave had become the Ren clan's secret base.

Normally, ordinary Gu Masters did not have the rights to appear at this location. Only clan elders, the clan leader, and the Dark Hall's Gu Masters in charge of protecting the place had such authority.

Many Gu Masters had only been there once in their lives.

That was during the awakening ceremony, where the youngsters would come to the primeval spring sea, hoping to awaken their aperture.

Other than this, unless there is a special reason, entry to this underground cave is prohibited for all people. Even the Gu Master guarding the place is picked after careful consideration.

After all, the primeval spring in this underground cave is the entire foundation of the Ragner village. From the spring center, large amounts of primeval stones are produced, sustaining the Gu Master cultivation of the entire clan.

In the tunnel, two sets of footsteps could be heard.

Far away, the sound of river water flowing echoed — that was the underground river in the cave.

A moment later, the Gu Master leading the way brought Zaner to a rock door.

He patted his belly, and a Gu worm flew out of his aperture. As sparks flew, it knocked on the rock door.

The rock door's surface rippled, like a stone thrown into the water. Soon after, the rock wall blinked and gradually faded away, revealing the secret room behind.

The secret room's size was rather small, being only 669 m². Every few steps, there would be a rock table half the height of a person. Tens of rock tables had white jade plates on them, and on the plates rested a Gu worm silently.

These Gu worms had all sorts of colors, being around the size of a fist. They had very similar appearances to silkworms. On their heads, there were two compound eyes like bees or dragonflies. They were colorful and looked like shiny glass. However, the surface was not soft but covered in a layer of insect shell, and the shell even had a golden luster.

"Lord Clan Leader, if you permit, I want to go. I don't want to be a disturbance in the Clan Leader's profound action."

"Oh, how considerate of you. Yes, you may go..."

Zaner waited for a moment, just standing in one place, looking all over the secret room for a while. After a moment, he couldn't help but smile. "So peaceful... It has been quite a while since I got to enjoy this."

"Okay, let's look at all this," he began to recall the information of the novel. It wasn't too difficult for him, as he had almost four thousand and twenty years of experience.

"As per my knowledge, these are Rank Two Digital Shade Gu, all with recipes recorded in them. In the green Digital Shade Gu worms, almost all the Rank One recipes can be found. As for the red-black colored Gu, there are Rank Two recipes. White contains the Rank Three recipes, and orange has the Rank Four recipes. As for Rank Five, it is contained in the most central purple Digital Shade Gu worms."

Digital Shade Gu was a recording type of Gu worm. Just one step further in advancement, and it would be the Rank Three Photo-audio Gu.

After the Photo-audio Gu is refined, it not only can store a recording but can also record voices as well. In the novel, the Flower Wine Monk used a Photo-audio Gu to inform Fang Yuan of the inheritance details.

But to record recipes, voices are not necessary; thus, the Digital Shade Gu is enough.

Zaner slowly picked up one Gu in his hand with great care, knowing how fragile they were. He looked at the Gu in front of him with keen interest. This was the first time he actually saw a Gu that still had complete vitality left in its body and was not dead.

It looked like an insect but had a multicolor light in its lower part. Despite looking like an insect, it appeared so holy and beautiful.

"These small insect-like things can do such unimaginable things that were labeled as impossible in his previous life. How interesting... Just magical," he thought.