First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 226: The Crown Prince's Intentions

The deeper Shen Mo went into the underground palace, the more he felt that something was amiss!

The grand halls were arranged in a scattered and orderly manner, with pavilions and towers standing tall and majestic. It could be described as a palace every five steps and a pavilion every ten steps.

It felt like he had entered a giant maze, and for a moment, he couldn't distinguish the directions of east, west, south, and north.

Even his five senses and divine consciousness were confused!

It was probably due to the numerous formations and restrictions within the underground palace.

Shen Mo used his flawless divine eye, but due to the restrictions enveloping the entire underground palace, he couldn't fly very high.

He could barely explore an area within a mile!

His spiritual sense also faintly warned of danger, but upon careful examination, this warning disappeared.

The sound transmission talisman also lost its effect, causing Shen Mo to become even more worried.

He wandered between the halls and pavilions for half an hour.

Finally, he saw Chen Mengze and the others.

"Sister Chen..." Shen Mo hurriedly flew over and furrowed his brows. "Why are there only the three of you here? Where are Sister Jiang and Brother Li?"

Together with Chen Mengze were Yao Ting and Lu Ming.

Apart from the three of them, Shen Mo did not see anyone else.

"They should be nearby. You'll see when you come and take a look."

As they spoke, Chen Mengze led Shen Mo into a large hall in front of them.

"Huh?"

Soon, Shen Mo noticed that something was off inside the hall.

The furnishings and decorations resembled those of an official government office in the mortal world.

There was also a thin figure holding a jade plate, sitting high in front of the hall.

There was a restriction enveloping him.

On the jade plate, there was a flying sword displayed, its shape and aura indicating that it was a high-grade Profound Grade artifact.

"Second and third disciples, have you figured out how to break this barrier?" The thin figure was an old man dressed in official robes.

Obviously, like the previous Wei Bai, he was also a person who had been buried alive in the tomb and turned into a ghost.

Shen Mo didn't hesitate to use his spirit stones and directly used [Insight into All Beings].

[Ghost: Fu Zexian]

[Realm: Peak of the First Stage]

[Brief Description: This ghost was originally a person from the Zhongzhou region of the Chiyan Kingdom and a high-ranking official in the household department of the Liewu Dynasty.

At the time of the dynasty's downfall, he was saved by Crown Prince Yongzuo and buried alive in his tomb, turning into a ghost.

This ghost was skilled in extorting wealth from the common people. Apart from fighting with his ghostly body, he had no other means to deal with enemies.]

[Weakness: This ghost is greedy and afraid of death.]

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"Sister Chen, are you saying... that we just need to fill this jar with ordinary gold and silver?"

"Then the restriction in front of this ghost will automatically dissipate?"

Shen Mo tentatively slashed at the restriction in front of the old ghost a few times and found that this restriction was even stronger than the ones outside the underground palace.

Faintly, it was connected to the formations and restrictions of the entire underground palace!

It would be extremely difficult to break it with brute force.

From this point, Shen Mo speculated that Crown Prince Yongzuo seemed to allow outsiders to enter the underground palace.

Otherwise, they could simply raise the level of the restrictions outside to the level inside the hall.

Not to mention them, even if a few more Qi Gathering Realm peak experts came, they would not be able to break through the restrictions and enter!

And in the depths of the underground palace, each of these halls seemed to have similar arrangements!

To continue moving forward, they had to solve all the puzzles in each hall.

Of course, once they solved the difficulties, the restrictions on the ghost and the artifact would automatically dissipate.

At that time, they could collect the treasures inside.

"What does Crown Prince Yongzuo mean by arranging things like this?" Shen Mo pondered hard but couldn't come up with any clues.

According to common sense, there are generally two types of tombs where powerful individuals are buried, similar to the burial of the Bull Demon Venerable.

One type is to seek the inheritance of their legacy!

In their tombs.

There are basically no death traps or killing formations set up, but various arrangements are made with the purpose of assessing and selecting.

Another type.

They simply dislike others disturbing their peace.

There are many dangers in the tombs, and they will do everything possible to kill intruding cultivators.

The underground palace of Prince Yongzuo doesn't seem to fall into either of these categories.

Instead, it seems more like they want to use the hands of intruders to complete some kind of ritual!

At this moment, Lu Ming and Yao Ting have already left this grand hall.

They want to go to other grand halls and try their luck!

If it's easy to solve, maybe they can easily break the prohibition and obtain the treasures inside.

Li Zhong, Song Fang, Jiang Yingying, and Peng Chenshu have similar thoughts.

They also realize that there seems to be no danger here, so they act separately!

"When you weren't here, we entered many grand halls. Some of the prohibitions were easy to break, while others were similar to this one, more difficult." Chen Mengze casually spoke.

To say it's more difficult is not necessarily true!

But how could they bring piles of gold and silver with them while walking outside?

They simply occupied the space inside the Qiankun Bag for no reason.

Previously, Chen Mengze and the others had tried.

All the gold and silver on everyone's body, when added together, could only cover the bottom of the urn.

"If you have gold and silver or other items on you, you can give it a try! If not, then you can only go elsewhere." After Chen Mengze finished speaking, she left the grand hall.

She wants to go to other grand halls, try to break the prohibition, and collect treasures!

Seeing that there were only himself and the old man with a demonic charm left in the grand hall, Shen Mo no longer hesitated and took out the Soul Refining Banner.

Without even looking, he knew that the gold and silver in his Qiankun Bag couldn't possibly fill the iron urn in the grand hall.

Shen Mo estimated that in order to fill this urn and break the prohibition, he would need at least fifty thousand jin of gold and silver!

However, in his Soul Refining Banner, he had refined a golden ghost spirit.

Although it had been tainted by demonic energy and turned into a mutated demonic spirit, it still retained the Divine Ability to spit out gold ingots and silver ingots.

What it spits out is not real worldly gold and silver, but the transformation of its Divine Ability.

But how would he know if it would work without giving it a try?

Anyway, it wouldn't delay much time!

"Golden Mountain, spit out gold and silver ingots and fill this iron urn!" Shen Mo's mind moved.

The next moment, this golden and silver-clad ghost creature opened its mouth.

"Clang!"

"Clang clang!"

Ingot after ingot of gold and silver fell into the iron urn with a crisp sound.

In less than half a joss stick's worth of time, the gold and silver ingots filled the large urn, overflowing from the mouth of the urn and piling up.

"Pfft!"

The prohibition in front of the old man with a demonic charm suddenly dissipated.

And this former high-ranking official of the previous dynasty, now a demonic charm, seemed very satisfied with the mountain-like pile of gold and silver.

It nodded at Shen Mo, held the jade plate with both hands, and handed over the flying sword.

Shen Mo remained calm, and a sword qi had already slashed towards the old man with a demonic charm.

"Whoosh!"

The figure of the old man with a demonic charm instantly disappeared into the ground, disappearing without a trace.

His speed was so fast that even the sword qi couldn't catch up.

Only the flying sword, along with the jade plate, fell to the ground, making a crisp "clang" sound.

"It seems that Prince Yongzuo doesn't want to use us to kill this former high-ranking official!" Shen Mo pondered, then grabbed the flying sword on the ground with his five fingers.

Sweeping his divine sense, he discovered that it was indeed a high-grade Profound Grade flying sword, and its quality was quite good.

It had a "Burning" sword intent!

If it were placed in the Immortal Market Town, it could be sold for a very good price.

In this way, Shen Mo became even more curious about Prince Yongzuo's intentions.

(End of this chapter)