NOVPUBSpirit Taoist Sect, Heaven Silkworm Cave.
After resolving the troubles of the Xia Yan family, Su Changkong returned to the Spirit Taoist Sect.
The events in Great Flame City undoubtedly shook the human races of the Nine Nations. There was a strong person from the Ancient Holy Country overpowering the Entering Saint strong person from the Great Flame Royal Family, but the outcome was a mysterious strong person named ’Blade God’ arriving and effortlessly killing the invading foe!
Moreover, this Blade God was the recently famous master of Dao Wufeng, inciting astonishment!
"Killing Hong Mantian and Wang Zhongqiu, because of that incarnation of Qin Zhan, the Ancient Demon Sect will definitely become aware of this situation. But since they think ’Blade God’ is a Reincarnator and they aren’t justified, I estimate they won’t make a major move,"
Su Changkong mused silently in his heart.
Qin Zhan mistakenly thought he was a reincarnation of an ancient strong person, likely holding immense fear towards him, a Primordial Spirit of an old monster. Even a behemoth like the Ancient Demon Sect wouldn’t easily make enemies with him!
Su Changkong guessed that with Qin Zhan conveying this matter to the Ancient Demon Sect, they would not act rashly.
Even so, he must still be cautious!
"This harvest... it’s really too big!"
Only when Su Changkong returned to the Spirit Taoist Sect did he have the opportunity to thoroughly examine his gains.
The first was the Divine Seeds. Hong Mantian had three Divine Seeds on him. As for Wang Zhongqiu, he had a total of four Divine Seeds, three of which he cultivated himself, and one was not yet fully refined, similarly used to enhance strength and methods, like Su Changkong.
Divine Seeds, which Su Changkong himself didn’t need, could be kept to give one or two to the Spirit Taoist Sect, Giant Whale Gang, or could be sold when he went to the Ancient Holy Country in the future to exchange for cultivation resources, which Su Changkong would certainly not mind!
Besides this, there were other treasures within the storage treasures of Hong Mantian and Wang Zhongqiu. Wang Zhongqiu undoubtedly possessed wealth far surpassing that of Hong Mantian.
The first was the battle armor Wang Zhongqiu wore, which, though it had no resisting ability under Su Changkong’s Blade Soul, was actually a ’Divine Artifact’ crafted primarily from Divine Seeds, and its value was substantial!
"Ancient Saint Chronicles?"
Within Wang Zhongqiu’s storage bag, Su Changkong also found some books, one of which was named "Ancient Saint Chronicles," and he was quite interested in it, browsing through it.
This read completely immersed Su Changkong.
"The Ancient Holy Country, established on the foundation laid by the Nine Great Ancient Sages, has existed for over a hundred thousand years. The ruler of the Ancient Holy Country is ’Holy Emperor Jiang,’ a descendant of the bloodline of the First Saint among the Nine Great Ancient Sages..."
This "Ancient Saint Chronicles" was a book recording the power and history of the Ancient Holy Country, and Su Changkong saw many useful pieces of information in it.
After reading for a while, Su Changkong was amazed to the extreme. Though it was called the ten human nations, actually, the Ancient Holy Country far surpassed the other nine nations!
According to the records in the Ancient Saint Chronicles, the Ancient Holy Country had nineteen domains, each vast in territory and rich in resources, with the smallest domain being more than ten times larger than the total area of the nine human nations combined! There were complex powers in each, including various large sects and families, as well as ancient sects and clans with long inheritances! 𝑛𝘰𝑣𝘱𝑢𝑏.𝘤𝑜𝘮
The political situation in the Ancient Holy Country was also very complex. The official ruler came from the Jiang family, titled ’Holy Emperor,’ and the Jiang family naturally had an extraordinary origin as the surface ruler of the Ancient Holy Country.
The ancestor of the Jiang family was known as the ’First Saint’ among the Nine Great Ancient Sages!
To be crowned with the title ’First Saint’ showed just how majestic and terrifying this Ancient Saint was in his time, and his descendants naturally became the rulers of the Ancient Holy Country!
But in reality, the Jiang family had a profound heritage and immense strength, yet aside from the dominion in the ’Holy Emperor Region’ where the Jiang family resided, they didn’t have such strong control over the other eighteen domains. In these eighteen domains, other families and sects left behind by Ancient Saints existed, each like a small principality!
"Ancient Demon Sect, located in the ’Black Dragon Domain,’ was an ancient sect left by one of the Nine Great Ancient Sages, the Ancient Demon Saint, with a long inheritance, thirty-six peaks, and countless disciples and strong practitioners emerging endlessly."
In the "Ancient Saint Chronicles," Su Changkong also saw accumulated information about the Ancient Demon Sect. Indeed, this sect was a tremendously formidable one, reigning supreme in the Black Dragon Domain of the Ancient Holy Country.
After spending three days and nights, Su Changkong had browsed through the thick "Ancient Saint Chronicles," gaining a clear understanding of the Ancient Holy Country. This place was indeed a completely different world from smaller nations like the Great Flame Empire!
In the Ancient Holy Country, nineteen vast domains, rich in resources, and each ancient sect and ancient clan was unfathomable and had a long inheritance.
No wonder Hong Mantian and Wang Zhongqiu, these martial artists from the large sects of the Ancient Holy Country, completely disregarded the Martial Saints from these smaller nations, simply because the world they resided in was indeed incomparable to the nine nations!
"As a person... one shouldn’t be too naive and insular. Only by stepping out of this well can one witness the broader heavens and earth!"
Su Changkong felt quite moved. He could also somewhat understand why many Entering Saint strong persons from the nine nations had gone to the Ancient Holy Country and never returned.
It was like a person who lived in a big city experiencing the vast world outside, settling in it, and finding it very hard to return to a barren countryside.
Su Changkong stored away the "Ancient Saint Chronicles" and continued to search the other items in Wang Zhongqiu’s ring-shaped storage treasure, looking for useful treasures.
"What is this? Such abundant Spiritual Energy!"
Suddenly, Su Changkong’s eyes lit up. He saw a liquid-like substance in the storage space of Wang Zhongqiu’s treasure, colorless and transparent, yet seemingly containing the essence of heaven and earth, with visible Spiritual Energy swirling around it, which anyone at a glance could recognize as precious.
