Chapter Fifteen: The Peerless Treasure

  I suddenly had an epiphany, could it be that there is a group of underground secret rooms? The formation is under this, but the passage is in a distant garden. It's very likely, the more I think about it, the more certain I am, yes, it must be.

  I exerted my full spiritual awareness, carefully searching every nook and cranny...... A faint smile appeared on my face. Because I discovered that the fluctuations of the array in one place were particularly unusual, the surrounding array fluctuations were not as strong as this place, which must be the entrance to the secret passage.

  I flashed over in an instant and arrived at the place I had sensed earlier. Looking at the fake mountain in front of me, I couldn't help but laugh - this fake mountain was no match for me.

  Lingwu naturally passed through the fake mountain, and soon I figured out the secret of this group of secret passages.

  I gently placed my right hand on a stone of the artificial hill, and lightly rotated it. My spiritual awareness clearly sensed that the door bolt was coming out more and more. Suddenly, the stone bolt completely came out from the stone groove. I slightly used some force to push it, and the artificial hill retreated backwards, opening the door. It was that simple!

  I took a look at the situation in this passage, it's fine, there is no damage yet, it seems that I can save a lot of effort later on, the underground secret room I need, it's already available here.

  I strode inside, paying attention to the things in the house with my spiritual awareness: this room was full of food and grain, I reckon only the rice is still good, those vegetables are probably all rotten by now, after all it's been over a year; this room had some weapons too, they looked like pretty good stuff, but were useless to me; this room actually had clothes in it, no way, did this prince really live here?... Ah, I finally found something slightly useful, a box of silver and some silver notes, looks like he didn't get much from Li Si either, this prince is really incompetent!

  Finally, I found the place where the treasure was hidden.

  I gently pushed open the door, and a green jade table appeared in front of me. The entire table was made of high-quality green jade, which is a rare and precious stone. Such a large piece of jade used to make this table shows great extravagance. This table must be worth at least one million taels of silver. There seems to be a letter on the table, and I casually picked it up in front of me.

  Hello, destined person. I have never had children in my life, so I will leave my most precious treasure to you, a destined person! You must make good use of it, for its sake, I spent a lifetime of hard work! Alright, there is still a small test ahead, break through this formation and you can be its owner. Alright, the destined person wishes you good luck!

  I was overjoyed when I saw this letter, and the prince didn't even care about the green jade table, but he attached great importance to the things in the array. He said it was his lifelong heart's blood, and it seemed to be a treasure of the highest order. What is it? The number one divine sword in the world, Xuan Yuan Sword, the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe, tens of billions of gold, silver, and precious jewels, or perhaps an extraordinary treasure.

  I turned to face the small formation in front of me, the number one divine sword Xuan Yuan Sword, the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe, hundreds of millions of gold and silver treasures, or perhaps the ultimate rare treasure, they were all inside! My heart was a little excited, I excitedly stretched out my right hand, which was already trembling with anticipation. The True Essence had long since permeated my hand. At this moment, my right hand was already on top of the formation, and now all I needed to do was exert some force, slap my hand down, and I could break through the formation in front of me and obtain the astonishing treasures inside.

  I took a deep breath, calmed down my restless heart, and with a burst of energy from my right hand, I instantly withdrew the excess true yuan force in the blink of an eye to avoid damaging the treasures inside.

  I was shocked by what I saw in front of me, what is this?

  A box made of gold appeared before my eyes, a large box one meter long and one meter wide, completely made of gold. This box is absolutely not cheaper than that green jade table! This old guy, no wonder he's a prince, what a big hand he has! I'm getting more and more curious about what your things are.

  I suddenly opened the box cover and stared at the stunning treasure inside. I was stunned...

  It's indeed a treasure that shocks the world, but, but, it's of no use to me at all. Good heavens! Inside is actually the Eight Trigrams Diagram and the strongest attacking formation on the Qing Long Continent - the True Martial Seven Cuts Formation.

  The Zhen Wu Seven-Star Formation was created by Zhang Sanfeng, a high-ranking martial artist from thousands of years ago. He observed the Snake Mountain and Turtle Mountain in front of the statue of the True Martial God, thinking that these two mountains represented the harmony of yin and yang, the heavy and the light. After meditating for nearly ten years, he created a set of exquisite martial arts. However, the martial art evolved from the majestic momentum of the turtle and snake mountains was not something that one person could perform simultaneously. Therefore, he passed on seven sets of martial arts to his seven disciples, each with its own subtleties and wonders. When two people combined their forces, they were fully prepared for offense and defense, and their power increased greatly. When three people worked together, their power was twice as strong as when two people worked together. Four people were equivalent to eight top-notch martial artists, five people were equivalent to sixteen, six people were equivalent to thirty-two, and seven people were equivalent to sixty-four of the world's top martial artists striking at the same time.

  But however powerful it is, it's only in other people's eyes. In my mind, even a casual formation of the Tianxin Sect is more powerful than this True Wu Seven-Cut Array. Alas! Is that King teasing me? No, in other people's eyes, this is indeed a treasure that shocks the world! Is it the heavens playing with me, bringing me from the mortal world to heaven and then kicking me back down to hell? Alas...

  I should have thought of it earlier, the treasure in this king's eyes is actually the formation. This king is extremely fond of formations after all. It's just that I was too greedy and my clear mind was blinded for a moment.

  Forget it, today's harvest is already very good. The Qingyu table and the pure gold box are worth millions of two white silver coins, although they can't be exchanged for silver coins in a short time, at least there is some money in one secret room. Most importantly, this secret room is even better than what I wanted to build, and it will save me a lot of money too.

  I left the secret room with 30% regret and 70% consolation.

  I walked into the hall and was surprised to find that everyone was waiting for me here. My two apprentices were almost in tears.

  "Master, you've finally come back! Do you know how much I and Second Brother have missed you? Waaahhh...!" Li Da said, getting choked up as he spoke, and actually started crying.

  I looked at my second apprentice, who was also staring at me with tears in his eyes. I was so touched, never expecting that my apprentice would be so sentimental about me. I said emotionally:

  "Good disciple, I'm really touched! I didn't expect that after leaving for just a while, you'd be so concerned about me. Hey, Wang Ge, what are you guys laughing at? Are you jealous of me having such a good disciple? You're still laughing, the more I talk, the happier you laugh. Ah! You're laughing again." I widened my eyes and glared at them, how dare they treat me like this, I'm the current master of the manor after all!

  "Zhang Yu, why are they laughing?" I asked Zhang Yu beside me. Because I felt like something was off, and it seemed like I had become a clown.

  "Master, you just entered the formation and they were about to run wild. According to your orders, I made them stand there without moving or speaking until you returned. And Master, you've been inside the formation for three hours now, and they've been standing here for almost three hours too." Zhang Yu carefully told me everything that had happened.

  I was furious, I had lost so much face, just thinking about how I felt earlier made me want to go crazy, looking at Li Dali and Li Erli these two guys, they were still pitifully staring at me.

  "You two, add another two hours to your shift. The rest of you come with me to Fengyu Building for dinner. Zhang Yu, when you get back, bring them two portions of food, if they haven't finished their three-hour shift, they're not allowed to eat." I said loudly and walked out without looking back, ignoring Li Da and Li Er's pleas for mercy. Wang Ge and the others walked past them one by one, casting sympathetic glances at them. Zhang Yu walked past them and casually dropped a sentence.

  "Both of you stand up straight for me, if you don't stand properly, I won't give you dinner."

  "Brother Wang, I've completely figured out the layout of the manor. After dinner tonight, let's call some servants back and have them start renovating the entire estate again. There are also some important matters to discuss when we return to the manor tonight." I said as I walked with Brother Wang on our way to the wine house.

  "Yes, young master, I will definitely handle things well." Wang Ge said to me.

  "Alright, Brother Wang handles things and I'm most at ease. Oh, I have something to discuss with Uncle Zhang, you go ahead first!"

  I walked quickly to Zhang's side, smiling and said: "Uncle Zhang, after you finish dinner today, go to the auction house in Beijing and book a top-quality jade stone for me. Buy it at 60,000 taels per piece, as many as there are, don't worry about the money, because tonight when I return to the manor, I will create an unparalleled Biyu."

  "Really, you're going to create a piece of unparalleled Biyu jade tonight? You're not just teasing me, are you?" Uncle Zhang still couldn't believe that I was about to create a supreme piece of Biyu jade. Although he had been looking forward to seeing the birth of the Biyu jade since arriving in the capital, now that his wish was finally within reach, he found it hard to believe it was real.

  "Uncle Zhang, don't be suspicious, have I ever told you a lie? Tonight, you will see the birth of Wu Hui's Bi Yu!" I said with a confident face, saying something that seemed impossible to others.

  Uncle Zhang didn't know what to say anymore, and after being choked for a long time, he finally came up with a sentence. "Can this jade be given to me to carve?"

  I gazed at Uncle Zhang and smiled: "Of course, I carved it for you. Who else is worthy of carving such a treasure besides you?"

  Uncle Zhang thought for a moment and agreed. In the industry of jade carving, who else was more qualified than himself? However, he still felt grateful to Zhang Xingfeng in his heart.

  ......

  After having enough wine and food, only Wolf's mother and I returned home. Wang Ge and Yu Jie summoned the others, Zhang Da Shu, Wolf, and Zhang Yu went to the auction house in Beijing together. My two apprentices were still suffering from hunger and pain. I walked into the manor gate, strolling with Wolf's mother on this stone bridge. The sky was already dark, the moon had long been hung in the sky, the rippling clear water in the artificial lake reflected the beautiful shadow of the moon. My mood also became very good.

  I saw my two senior apprentices still standing in the center of the hall, motionless. As soon as they saw me from afar, both of them immediately revealed expressions of unbearable pain. Looking at my two apprentices, I really had nothing to say, who made me their master after all!

  "Never mind, you two don't have to stand up. Ah Yu might come back very late today, I've already brought your meals here, just eat them. If something like this happens again in the future, I will not be lenient." I threw down the meals on the table and walked towards the formation.