Chapter 17: The Qian Kun Ring

  Opening up the cave mansion to cultivate, this is a divine ability that only Shenhaitian cultivators have. It's like having a Shenhaitian cultivator in the cave mansion, so they would have known about Gu Chen at the entrance of the cave mansion long ago.

  The cultivators of Shen Hai Jing don't need to use their eyes to observe and can perceive the changes in objects within a certain range through divine awareness.

  Gu Chen looked inside the cave, it was bright as day, there was a thick layer of dust on the ground, but not even half a footprint, nor any trace.

  Logically, at the entrance of this cave mansion, Gu Chen should have left quickly. He was just a ten-year-old boy with postnatal cultivation, even if there were divine sea realm cultivators inside who had seen him through their divine sense, they wouldn't bother with someone like him.

  However, Gu Chen looked at the situation in the cave mansion and not only did he not leave, but instead walked further into the cave mansion.

  All the way in, a string of footprints was left on the dusty ground.

  Gu Chen judged from the dust on the ground that this cave should be a dead end.

  What is a dead cave? A cave without an owner is a dead cave.

  Even if the cave's main reached the boundary of the Divine Sea, it is impossible to fly with utensils in one's own cave and walk without falling to the ground. If walking on the ground, there must be footprints on the ground.

  However, there was a layer of dust in the Huantian Cave Mansion, but there were no signs of anything walking through it, so Guchen judged that this was a dead mansion.

  Moreover, after Gu Chen shouted for over a dozen times in the Yin Yang Maze Heaven Array, no one responded. Gu Chen became even more convinced that this was a dead sect, and the master of the cave either left long ago or had been dead for a long time.

  An unowned cave mansion. Even if Gu Chen didn't have 500 years of past life experience, he would know what this means. It means that everything in this cave mansion belongs to whoever finds it.

  Everything in this cave belongs to no one, and anything Gu Chen discovers will belong to him.

  As he walked towards the cave, the mountain cave turned to the right and a huge cave hall appeared in front of Gu Chen. Three night pearls were placed on top of three stone tables around the cave hall, arranged in the shape of the character "pin".

  The light that illuminated the entire cave like daylight was emitted by these three night pearls, each of which was as big as an adult's fist and worth a fortune.

  Seeing the three night pearls, Gu Chen's heart was overjoyed. Just these three night pearls made the trip worthwhile. The Blood Crown Fox on his shoulder let out a surprised cry, its eyes filled with excitement as it stared at the night pearls.

  Gu Chen walked towards the cave, and as soon as he stepped inside, a fierce killing aura suddenly came from the left, piercing through his skin and flesh, pressing straight into Gu Chen's heart. Gu Chen was instantly drenched in cold sweat.

  The Bloodcrown Fox let out a mournful cry, apparently also affected by the killing intent.

  Guchen vaguely felt that there was a figure in the distance to his left, which was the source of this strong killing intent. Guchen secretly thought it was not good, as he had also sensed this same feeling when he was stared at by that middle-aged man from the Liu family at the auction house that day. However, the killing intent emanating from this figure was ten times, a hundred times stronger than that of the middle-aged man from the Liu family.

  With just one glance, Gu Chen felt as if he was surrounded by thousands of soldiers and horses, with blades and spears pressing in on him from all sides. The figure to his left had a cultivation level at least ten or a hundred times that of the middle-aged man from the Liu family, and was at least a God Sea Realm cultivator.

  The cultivator of the Innate Realm, Gu Chen, is not an opponent, let alone those in the Divine Sea Realm. With just a casual poke of his little finger, he can make him die a hundred times over.

  Entering someone else's cave without greeting is a great taboo for cultivators. The master of the cave will not be polite to anyone who dares to intrude into the cave.

  "Isn't it that the master of this cave has been staying inside for over ten years without ever leaving? Otherwise, how could there not be a single footprint on the dusty ground outside?"

  Gu Chen looked over at the figure on his left with a puzzled mind.

  "Alas..." Gu Chen patted his chest and let out a long sigh.

  That 'figure' was originally not a 'person', but a skull.

  A skull sat cross-legged on a magnificent long chair, draped in a black cloak, its empty eyes staring at the entrance of the cave, exactly where Gu Chen was standing.

  "A corpse's gaze, yet it has the pressure of a Divine Sea Realm cultivator. In front of this skull, there are at least Divine Sea Realm Qi Refining stage cultivators. Indeed, this is a dead mansion, and the yin-yang maze outside is a death array."

  Gǔ chén jiàn rén yǐng zhī jǐn shì yī gè pī zhe hēi sè kàn de lóu lóu, xīn zhōng de liáng yì lì jiǎn, wǎng dòng fǔ kǒu zǒu le yī duàn jù lí, lí kāi le dòng tīng rù kǒu chù lóu lóu liǎng yǎn xiàng duì de wèi zhì, nà gǔ qī lì de shā qì guǒ rán xiāo shī.

  Gu Chen's gaze left the skull and swept to the side, where the stone wall on the right of the skull had been hollowed out into a bookshelf shape, divided into three layers, with many things placed on each layer.

  Law instruments, talismans, books... and some miscellaneous materials filled the three layers of stone shelves.

  Gu Chen was overjoyed, the relic left behind by the great master of Shen Hai Jing was certainly no ordinary item.

  Gu Chen immediately walked towards the stone frame, but did not become complacent and careless. Instead, he proceeded cautiously and slowly forward, carefully observing the situation around the cave hall to avoid any sudden changes.

  Walked to the stone frame, nothing happened, it seems that the owner of this cave mansion only set up a mysterious array outside the cave, but there is no deadly ban inside.

  The master of the cave may think that those who can pass through the Yin-Yang Confusion Heaven Array are at least in the Golden Elixir Realm of the Spiritual Ocean, and setting up a ban would not have any effect. In any case, he will die soon, and leaving the things in the cave to others after his death is also acceptable.

  It's not a cultivator who forcibly breaks through the formation to enter the cave, but rather an expert in formations. The restrictions he set up are also useless. The master of this Kunlun Cave is also a formation master, and leaving the legacy to a formation master can be considered as having a heritage.

  The master of the Dongfu never expected that after breaking the Yin-Yang Confusion Heaven Array, the one who entered the Huangtian Dongfu was just a ten-year-old boy, and Gu Chen had taken advantage of him in vain.

  Gǔ Chén's first glance fell on the stone shelves, where there were dozens of magical instruments, including all sorts of types. There were even two sets of alchemy equipment and utensils. Gǔ Chén was just thinking about how to obtain a dan furnace and utensils, but here were two sets already prepared, which made him extremely delighted.

  Most of these magical instruments are low-grade, but there are also five mid-grade ones.

  Five pieces of medium-grade artifacts, the legacy treasure of the three major Xiu Zhen families in Le Shui City, are just medium-grade artifacts after all.

  However, Gu Chen's eyes were not attracted by the two sets of dan furnaces, utensils, and five pieces of middle-grade artifacts, but instead stared fixedly at a black cuff among the many artifacts, letting out an exclamation: "Qian Kun Cuff...?"

  In Gu Chen's eyes, compared to the Qian Kun Chui, all these magical instruments put together were nothing but trash, not even worth one percent of a single Qian Kun Chui.

  Qian Kun Chui is different from many attacking, defensive and flying instruments. It is an auxiliary instrument: a spatial instrument.

  Qian Kun Chui is a magical artifact, but it's not just an ordinary artifact. As the user's cultivation level increases, it will undergo changes, with its internal space becoming larger and able to hold more items.

  Moreover, if the user's cultivation reaches the Divine Sea Realm, they can also cultivate the Qian Kun Ring to become a magical treasure, not only increasing its space but also possessing special effects with attack and defense functions.

  The乾坤镯 is in the state of a magic tool, like other magic tools, it is an ownerless object, anyone who gets it can use it. When it is in the state of a treasure, like other treasures, it is an owned object, if not the master of the treasure, no one else can use it.

  But the Qian Kun Chui and the Fa Bao are different, after the master of the Fa Bao dies, the spiritual nature of the Fa Bao still exists, if others want to use it, they must first practice and transform the original spiritual nature in the Fa Bao. However, when the master of the Qian Kun Chui dies, its spiritual nature immediately disappears and reverts back to a magical tool state.

  Gu Chen reached out and grabbed the Qian Kun ring. If this Qian Kun ring was an object of the deceased Dong Fu master, then it should be in a state of being a magical instrument now.

  He infused his true energy into the Qian Kun Ring, and Gu Chen's consciousness immediately 'saw' the space inside the ring. It was a small space that was only about five feet in length, width, and height.

  The initial space of the Qian Kun Chui should be 1*1*1 foot, Gu Chen's current cultivation is Post-Heavenly Five Layers. Although his physical body can reach the realm of Post-Heavenly Seven Layers when running the Tian Gang Quan Ti Great Method, the true energy cultivation in his body remains at Five Layers.

  The space of the Qian Kun Chui increases with the user's cultivation, Gu Chen has a post-heavenly five-layer cultivation, so it naturally has a space that is five times larger than what a post-heavenly first layer cultivator would have.

  The Qian Kun Chui is a magical artifact, but it's different from other artifacts. Cultivators in the Post-Heaven realm can also use it, whereas artifacts for attacking, defending, and flying require one to reach the Pre-Heaven realm and produce Pre-Heaven True Qi within their body before they can be used.

  Wear the Qian Kun bracelet on your right wrist, and it will automatically adjust to a comfortable size.

  Looking at the five mid-grade artifacts on the stone rack, Gu Chen stretched out his right hand and silently chanted: "Receive..." The five mid-grade artifacts on the stone rack immediately disappeared, and Gu Chen's consciousness entered the Qian Kun Ring space. Sure enough, all five mid-grade artifacts had been stored inside.

  Having obtained the Qian Kun Bracelet, Gu Chen was overjoyed. In his past life, he had reached the Golden Elixir period of the Divine Sea realm before obtaining a single Qian Kun Bracelet. This life, he had only cultivated for five layers in the post-heavenly realm and yet he already possessed one. The contrast between the two lives was truly too great. In his past life, Gu Chen had lived a lonely and bitter life, as if he were a calamitous star descending into the world. But this life, everything would change.

  There were still dozens of inferior artifacts left, but Gu Chen only chose two practical artifacts and two sets of pill furnaces and utensils. All the artifacts were stored in the Qian Kun Ring, while the other inferior artifacts were not even worth looking at. The space inside the ring was too small, and storing them would take up too much space.

  After finishing the magical instruments, Gu Chen shifted his gaze to the books beside him. Each book was a volume of magical formulas, ranging from postnatal cultivation methods for refining the body to prenatal cultivation methods for refining Qi, totaling around 70-80 volumes. There were even two middle-grade magical formulas that could cultivate one's Qi to the level of forming an embryo in the spiritual ocean.

  Guchen took a look and found that the post-heavenly realm, pre-heavenly realm's gongfa and fa jue were all ordinary. Guchen then selected a few slightly higher-level gongfa and two medium-grade fa jue and stored them in the Qiankun ring.

  The law decisions in the Qiankun bracelet may not be able to enter Gu Chen's eyes, but they are much better than the Gu family's kung fu. Gu Chen had planned early on that when his father became the head of the Gu family, with these kung fu and law decisions, he could lead the Gu family to a higher level in the world of cultivation.

  Practicing these skills, some ancient families have achieved the cultivation of Shen Hai, and can become a feudal lord, developing into a large family of immortal cultivators.

  In addition to the law enforcement equipment and secret books, there were also many exercise equipment and array materials. These things were very messy, and Gu Chen didn't need any exercise equipment or array materials for the time being. He took a glance without understanding, and his gaze moved to the top layer of the stone frame, where many talismans were placed.

  There are dozens of ordinary Qing Shen symbols, hemostatic symbols, dust-removing symbols, flight symbols, evil-repelling symbols, Taiyi symbols, and fierce fire symbols... In addition to these ordinary talismans, there are also three explosive flame symbols and one soul-lowering symbol.

  The Blood Crown Fox had been sitting on Gu Chen's shoulder, seeing Gu Chen staring at the stone pedestal for a long time, it felt bored and jumped down from Gu Chen's shoulder, walking away with a curious gaze.

  Gu Chen's mind was all on the array of talismans, and Huojiao jumped down, saying casually: "Don't run around randomly, some places in the cave may have powerful restrictions."

  In his past life, Gu Chen lived to be 500 years old. As a great master of the Fate Spring Realm, he made significant contributions in various fields such as alchemy, formation, artifact refinement, and talismans... with alchemy being his greatest achievement, followed by formations and artifact refinement, and talismans being the least.

  Three Blazing Inferno Talismans, Gu Chen still recognized them.

  One low-grade, one mid-grade, and one high-grade, all are extremely powerful spirit symbols. The low-grade corresponds to the middle period of the Pre-Heaven Realm, the mid-grade corresponds to the late period of the Pre-Heaven Realm, and the high-grade corresponds to the Fetal Formation Period of the Divine Sea Realm.

  If these talismans were also practiced by the master of the cave, then this master of the cave was extremely accomplished in terms of talismans, and even had top-grade spiritual talismans that could be used against cultivators at the Divine Sea realm.

  That low-grade Spirit Sealing Charm, which is on the same level as the low-grade Exploding Flame Charm, was something that Gu Chen from his past life wouldn't have even bothered to look at. But for the current Gu Chen, it's a treasure that he can't get enough of.

  Not to mention these few talismans, the entire Heavenly Gate Cave Mansion is completely not worth mentioning for Gu Chen, a great cultivator of the Netherworld's Spring Realm in his past life. However, for the current Gu Chen, it is entirely a great treasure trove.

  He couldn't help but think that if he brought the Dry Heaven Hoop from his past life back to the present, he wouldn't need to worry about any other treasures in this lifetime, as the Dry Heaven Hoop would be the greatest treasure of all.

  However, Gu Chen was content with himself returning to the age of ten and having a large number of Xian Tian Fa jue in his mind. The experience of his previous life had already satisfied him, and the乾坤镯 of his previous life was just an occasional fantasy, not greedy or dissatisfied.

  Three Blazing Inferno Talismans and one Soul Descending Talisman were all stored in the Qian Kun Bracelet by Gu Chen. The remaining Clear Spirit Talisman, Hemostatic Talisman, Dust Removal Talisman, and Flight Talisman were also taken in by Gu Chen. Anyway, these talismans didn't take up much space, dozens of them stacked together were just a small pile, not even comparable to the size of a piece of equipment.

  The entire stone frame had three layers, ritual objects, books of secret recipes, talismans... everything that Gu Chen thought was worth looking at was all stored in the Qian Kun Bracelet. At this time, Gu Chen's gaze moved to the skull again, or more accurately, the cloak on the skull.

  The owner of the cave's physical body had completely rotted away, leaving only a skeleton, but the cloak on his body showed no signs of damage, clearly not an ordinary object, possibly a treasure.

  For Gu Chen now, any high-quality magic weapon is a treasure, and he naturally wants to study it carefully.

  As for the skeleton of the cave master, Gu Chen had no fear at all. The skull's gaze was piercing and oppressive, and there was also a lingering aura from when the cave master was alive. As long as Gu Chen didn't stand in the direct line of sight of the skull, he wouldn't be affected by the killing intent.

  Gu Chen walked step by step slowly towards the long chair where the skull was sitting, and as he got closer to the skull, he also saw clearly that the cloak was not made of fabric, but was woven from black feathers.

  The items made from the fur or bones of a demon beast are usually special instruments with certain effects, which are more practical than ordinary instruments.

  It seems it's indeed a good treasure... Gu Chen's mouth curled up into a smile as he continued forward.

  Squeak...

  Suddenly...

  The Bloodcrown Fox let out a mournful cry.

  Gu Chen was shocked, turned around to look, but didn't see the shadow of the Blood Crown Fox. The voice came from the right side of the cave hall. Gu Chen looked over and only then discovered that on the right side of the cave hall there was another mountain cave leading elsewhere.

  Gu Chen immediately turned around and walked towards the cave on the right side of the Dong Hall.