Everyone felt a surge of excitement upon hearing about the possibility of treasure hunting. So, they continued forward, searching for valuables all around. As expected, before long, they found many divine weapons and sharp blades.
"Huh! There's something inside here!" Ye Fan suddenly exclaimed, looking at an ancient, pitch-black tree. His透视眼 (tòushì yǎn - clairvoyant eyes) could see something glowing within the tree trunk.
With a swish... he pulled out a dagger and sliced open the tree trunk. Immediately, a green light overflowed from within. It turned out to be a jade leaf.
"This should be a cultivation method!" Lu Fan took out the jade piece and said after examining it.
"Any cultivation method from a great demon king is incredibly powerful. It even has the potential for achieving sainthood!" Liu Ruyan said from the side.
"Let's forget about demonic cultivation methods! They're yours!" Lu Fan casually tossed the jade leaf to Zhan Tai Ruo Mei.
Zhan Tai Ruo Mei happily accepted it. The jade piece was very thin, and a small cut on her finger instantly released a stream of green light. Swish... the jade piece transformed into a beam of light and surged into Zhan Tai Ruo Mei's sea of consciousness.
"Master! I'm going to cultivate," Zhan Tai Ruo Mei said, immediately sitting down on the ground.
"Holy cow... then go ahead and cultivate!" Lu Fan knew that this demonic technique had likely triggered a barrier in Zhan Tai Ruo Mei's sea of consciousness, or perhaps awakened some of her memories.
Leaving Zhan Tai Ruo Mei, the group continued forward. A cave appeared ahead, and they entered it.
Inside the cave, the stone walls bore many traces left by weapons, clearly indicating that intense battles had taken place here. Indeed, halfway through, they saw two corpses. The two corpses were noticeably different, one appearing to be demonic and the other divine, both having fought to the death and perishing together.
"Wow! I found a jade piece too!" Ling'er said with some delight, pulling out a crystal-clear jade piece from beneath the divine corpse.
"Drip blood to recognize your master! It might be something good!" Liu Ruyan suggested.
Ling'er immediately dripped blood onto the jade piece, recognizing it as her master. Afterward, with a look of surprise and joy, she sat down in the cave and refused to move. Whenever there was an opportunity for improvement, one would seize it immediately.
The people here were not placed in coffins, perhaps because no one was left to bury them after the final battle. After searching, they found several sets of martial arts techniques and put them away. The group continued forward. Inside the cave, there were even more corpses. It was three divine beings and one demon, all having perished together.
The demon was tall and imposing, having died seated at the very back of the cave. From his appearance, it was evident that this was the corpse of the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Gods.
Li Jingjing immediately rushed over. Although there was no longer any affection, she still had to shed a few tears to show some respect. Then, as expected, she found a square jade piece on the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons. After dripping blood to recognize it as her master, she also began to cultivate.
The other three divine beings had likely intended to join forces to kill the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons, but they hadn't expected that even though he was injured, he was still too powerful, and they had sacrificed three lives.
Lu Fan removed three storage rings from the fingers of the three divine beings. Inside, he found some martial arts techniques and two magical treasures: one was the Thunder Fire Bell! The other was the Life-Seizing Lock Hook!
"Ruyan! You can take any magical treasures or martial arts techniques you like." Lu Fan placed all the items before Liu Ruyan.
"I'll take this Life-Seizing Lock Hook, and this set of swordplay also seems quite good!" Liu Ruyan chose two items.
"You all cultivate and improve yourselves quickly. I'll go look for the physical bodies of other demons. We'll return after you've finished cultivating. We'll bring back as many physical bodies as we can. The rest will have to return to find them themselves," Lu Fan said, then turned and left the cave.
Lu Fan walked forward alone, finding many things along the way. Suddenly, a vast expanse of tombs appeared before him. In front of each tomb stood a weapon—a saber, a sword, a spear, or an axe... It was clear that this was the true resting place of demons.
It seemed that the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons had buried all the great demons, and then he and the last great demon had died in the cave. He hadn't expected that the so-called demons would have such loyalty.
However, the space within the storage rings was limited. After taking out the God-Slaying Spear, Lu Fan only opened ten tombs and retrieved ten coffins. He placed the weapons inside the coffins and then stored them all in his storage ring.
Having completed everything, Lu Fan's gaze turned to the opposite side of the tomb complex. This was the resting place of demons, and also the ancient battlefield. Then, would the resting place of gods be ahead?
Hesitating for a moment, Lu Fan leaped forward and rushed towards the front.
He ran dozens of miles in one go. Lu Fan was suddenly shocked. As far as the eye could see, he saw several corpses. The corpses were also incorruptible, but they did not seem to have been properly buried. They lay as they were when they died.
"The so-called gods are nothing more than this!" Lu Fan stuck out his tongue and punched a huge pit in the ground nearby. After searching through them, he moved the corpses into the pit, buried them, and then erected the weapons placed beside them in front of the graves, just like the great demons.
What puzzled him was that these gods did not have many treasures on them, or rather, no particularly good treasures. It was easy to guess that after their deaths, they had already been robbed. Could it be that the treasures distributed by Patriarch Hongjun on the Treasure Distribution Cliff were taken from here?
Lu Fan continued to walk forward, burying any corpses he encountered. He buried over a hundred corpses along the way. As the sun began to peek out, Lu Fan suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon. The surrounding dark trees, upon seeing the sunlight, suddenly released an incredibly powerful primordial aura.
"This aura?" Lu Fan felt a very familiar sensation. Although he didn't know why it felt familiar, the feeling seemed to come from the depths of his soul.
Lu Fan quickly sat down and activated the Dragon Elephant Divine Art. With each inhale and exhale, the vast primordial aura merged into his body, and his body once again emitted streams of golden light. The two little figures in his sea of consciousness were also madly devouring it, seeming to particularly enjoy this kind of aura. The surrounding aura fluctuated with Lu Fan's breathing, forming gusts of wind.
Lu Fan sat there motionless, the golden light on his body flashing continuously. The surrounding primordial energy continuously poured into his body. The originally pitch-black trees gradually turned green.
It wasn't until evening, as the sun set, that Lu Fan let out a deep breath and opened his eyes.
"Master!"
"Master!"
The voices of Zhan Tai Ruo Mei and Li Jingjing came from beside him. Lu Fan looked up and saw that Liu Ruyan and the others were all nearby.
"Master! We were cultivating and saw streams of golden light flashing from this direction. We thought it was some kind of treasure, so we rushed over. We didn't expect it to be you, Master, practicing your cultivation. Master, your cultivation is so exaggerated; even your breathing creates strong winds," Zhan Tai Ruo Mei said, looking at Lu Fan with surprise.
"Uh..." Lu Fan felt a little embarrassed. This Dragon Elephant Divine Art was indeed that exaggerated!
"Xiao Fan! Let's leave this place!" Liu Ruyan suddenly said.