Zhang Ling shook his head with a look of regret, giving up on the idea of taking those puppets, and passed through the layer of light at the palace entrance, entering inside.
As soon as he entered, he was stunned.
The environment inside was different from what he had imagined, not the spacious environment one would expect after entering a typical palace.
He found himself in a circular space of about ten zhang, surrounded by several square doorways about a zhang in size, each covered with a layer of light.
Apart from that, the surroundings were dark, as if a layer of flowing mist covered the space.
When he probed the surroundings with his divine sense, it was immediately repelled. Clearly, there were powerful formations and restrictions in place.
Zhang Ling withdrew his thoughts and dared not wander around, lest he trigger any mechanisms or restrictions. Standing on the spot, he glanced at the square doorways, each with golden ancient characters inscribed beside it.
After identifying them, he was immediately overjoyed.
The square doorway directly in front of him was inscribed with the ancient immortal characters for "Spiritual Herbs," and the doorway to the left was inscribed with "Spiritual Pills."
Spiritual Herbs, Spiritual Pills, Spiritual Treasures, Cultivation Methods, Secret Techniques. A total of five doors, making it easy to recognize what was stored inside each.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but be overjoyed, it seemed this was truly a treasure trove. He began to consider which one to choose.
According to the information he had obtained from the stone tablet not long ago, each cultivator who came here could only choose one type, and only one item. This required careful consideration.
After a moment, he walked towards the light door with the inscription for "Spiritual Treasures."
In Zhang Ling's mind, this place had existed for so many years, and many cultivators must have come and gone. The spiritual herbs and spiritual pills were probably exhausted, and entering those two light doors might yield nothing.
As for cultivation methods and secret techniques, he didn't lack those. That left only the spiritual treasures as an option.
After all, this place looked like a place similar to a sect's scripture pavilion or treasure vault. The treasures inside might have already been taken. Whether there was anything left was another matter.
Holding the Heavenly Abyss Token, Zhang Ling passed through the light door without any hindrance.
Various colors of light flickered before his eyes. After a moment, Zhang Ling recovered and found himself in a white, hazy space.
This space was not large, about twenty zhang in size, with a layer of mist flowing around it. Even the ground beneath his feet was white and indistinct, lacking the structure of soil or floor, as if he were standing in the clouds.
Standing on it felt the same as standing on solid ground, without any discomfort.
In the center was a tall white jade tower, with a layer of five-colored runes flowing over it. It was very dazzling.
This jade tower had six floors and was over ten zhang tall. When his divine sense swept over it, it was met with a white, misty scene, unable to probe the conditions inside.
However, with the naked eye, he could see some of the internal conditions.
The bottom three floors of the jade tower were empty, without anything. The treasures that might have existed there had probably been taken away. The fourth floor had some blurry shadows of magical artifacts such as sabers and swords, appearing to be fifty or sixty items.
The fifth floor also had more than twenty rays of precious light, indicating that treasures existed there, while the sixth floor was dark and unclear, making it impossible to see what was inside.
Zhang Ling circled the jade tower a few times and found that the tower had no doors, but after approaching within three zhang of the tower, the surrounding environment changed.
The originally cloud-flowing space suddenly revealed several jade walls, and bright jade floors emerged beneath his feet. Several rows of empty shelves also appeared before him.
Seeing this strange scene, Zhang Ling became cautious, thinking that he had fallen into an illusion. But he soon discovered that it was not an illusion, and the surrounding jade walls were substantial, not illusory.
After a little thought, he roughly guessed what was happening. If he was right, he was now inside the white jade tower.
Without knowing how, he had entered the jade tower. Zhang Ling couldn't help but sigh, the methods of ancient cultivators were indeed extraordinary. This jade tower might be a spatial treasure. Of course, whether it was or not, he couldn't be sure. It was also possible that it was a space formed by the power of formations.
But now was not the time to think about these things. He looked around and walked directly towards the corner of the left wall. There was a spiritual light vortex about a zhang in size there.
After entering, he found that the surrounding environment had not changed much, but the space seemed to be smaller. It seemed that his guess was correct, he had reached the second floor of the jade tower.
Then he went to the third floor, and the space was indeed smaller. Then, after passing through the vortex again, he arrived at the fourth floor, and immediately saw four or five rows of shelves, with items such as sabers, swords, shields, and spears placed on them.
These items were all covered with a faint layer of spiritual light. This was not the spiritual light of these treasures themselves, but the light of the restrictions here.
After looking at them for a few moments, Zhang Ling knew that the information he had received before was not false. Entering this place, he could only choose one treasure to take away.
He walked to the front of these treasures and checked them one by one. As he checked them, Zhang Ling frowned.
These treasures were all ancient treasures, but they were not the ancient treasures that he imagined would be much more powerful than ordinary magic treasures. The ancient treasures in front of him were only equivalent to ordinary magic treasures in terms of power.
Moreover, there were several of each of these saber and sword ancient treasures. They seemed to be standard weapons, without any special power. It seemed that these things were similar to the ordinary treasures distributed by the sect.
He naturally didn't like these ordinary ancient treasures. Zhang Ling sighed and walked up to the fifth floor.
The space above was a little smaller, but unlike the lower floors, there was a cylindrical light curtain in the center, covering a large area of space, with more than twenty treasures floating inside.
Among them were ancient treasures of ordinary styles such as sabers, swords, and shields, as well as strange-looking treasures such as copper seals and ancient mirrors.
Seeing these, he was overjoyed, knowing that these were the fine ancient treasures.
He released his divine sense to probe these treasures. It was also blocked by the layer of light curtain. Obviously, these treasures were not easy to take.
While he was thinking about how to take the treasures, the light curtain covering the many treasures suddenly flickered a few times, and a line of ancient characters appeared. This line of ancient characters was in gold and silver, with a dozen or so characters.
Just as Zhang Ling was about to identify the meaning of these ancient characters, he saw these ancient characters blur and transform into gold and silver streamers, shooting towards him.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Ling frowned slightly, but did not move his position. The streamers then entered his brow. Immediately, an old voice entered his mind.
After pondering for a moment, he digested the information.
It turned out that this tower was called the "Treasure Light Tower," and there were a total of four. The one he entered was just one of them. The four Treasure Light Towers had the same function, which was to store ancient treasures.
These treasures were originally used to reward cultivators. The purpose was to get cultivators to kill more desolate beasts.
But now, it seems that the cultivators who come here only want to take the treasures.
