Zhang Ling sneered and carefully examined the ancient treasures within the light screen. Since he couldn't penetrate them with his divine sense, he had to rely on his eyes to judge their strength.
There were only about twenty ancient treasures sealed within, but they came in various forms, including those with offensive and defensive capabilities, as well as some whose power was unclear.
After observing for a while, he first eliminated the sword-like ancient treasures.
He didn't lack offensive means at the moment, and having another treasure of this type wouldn't significantly enhance his strength. Other types of ancient treasures would be more useful to him.
Next, Zhang Ling set his sights on defensive ancient treasures and those that might possess special powers.
After carefully assessing the strength of the treasures, about fifteen minutes had passed, and he had selected a few items.
A red and black incense burner, he couldn't tell what material it was made of, but upon sensing it, he could smell a faint fragrance.
Smelling this fragrance, Zhang Ling felt a sense of intoxication, and some illusions appeared before his eyes. This treasure might have a hallucinatory effect.
There was also a cyan small drum, which emitted a low drumming sound with slight vibrations. Sound wave-based treasures like this were usually quite powerful.
The most favorite item was a fist-sized, multicolored, translucent bubble, with many spiritual patterns flowing on it.
This thing constantly changed its shape, without a fixed form. It looked quite strange. Things like this, with uncertain forms, were often the most peculiar, and might have some special uses.
Of course, besides these three favorite treasures, there were also a golden bronze mirror, a small black tower, and five-colored bronze rings, among other ancient treasures that looked quite powerful.
Zhang Ling's gaze moved back and forth between these treasures, hesitating, unsure of which one to choose.
And on this fifth floor, besides these ancient treasures sealed by the light screen, there was nothing else. Even the spiritual vortex leading to the upper and lower levels was gone, as if there were no other exits here.
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and released an iron-clad puppet.
This was a first-order humanoid puppet. Its eyes lit up, and it strode towards the light screen that sealed the treasures.
The puppet passed through the light screen without any hindrance, and reached out to grab the incense burner and the multicolored bubble.
But before Zhang Ling could command the puppet to retreat, he heard a booming thunder sound, and saw a flash of cyan light, the puppet disappeared. Even the wisp of divine sense attached to the puppet was directly annihilated.
That cyan light seemed to be a bolt of lightning.
Although Zhang Ling was expressionless, he sighed inwardly, knowing that using other means to assist in obtaining treasures would probably not work. This lightning came quickly, without a trace, and destroyed a puppet.
A first-order puppet was insignificant to him, but it also showed that there were powerful restrictions here.
Once you try to covet treasures, you will attract powerful attacks. If it were other places, with his strength, he might have been able to take a few more treasures by other means.
Just now, even his late-stage Golden Core realm strength hadn't reacted, which shows how powerful the restrictions here are. It seems he can only honestly choose one treasure.
Zhang Ling smiled helplessly, and once again focused his gaze on the few treasures he liked, judging the strength of these treasures back and forth.
Soon after, he had a target. He glanced at the many treasures, and his gaze locked on the translucent colored bubble.
As for the other treasures, he could only sigh helplessly.
Having made a decision, Zhang Ling waved his hand, and a cyan-black vine stretched out from his left arm, wrapped around the colored bubble, and landed in front of him.
As soon as this treasure fell into his hand, Zhang Ling felt the surrounding air tighten. Before he could react, the light and shadows in front of him flickered, and a layer of five-colored mist rose.
The mist instantly enveloped his body, turned into a whirlwind, spun a few times, and then dissipated, leaving no trace of Zhang Ling.
After a dizzying spin, Zhang Ling appeared in another place.
Looking around, he was now standing on a wide staircase. Above him were sections of extending stone steps, out of sight, and below him was the same. The outside of the steps was shrouded in a mist, as if he were on a heavenly staircase.
Obviously, when he obtained the treasure, he was instantly teleported away from the Treasure Light Pagoda.
Although he didn't know where he was now, there were no other dangers around, and Zhang Ling relaxed. His gaze fell on the colored bubble in his hand, and he looked at it carefully.
This thing was the size of a fist, light and floaty. His divine sense was unobstructed, and he could immediately observe that this treasure was shrouded in a layer of Five Elements spiritual power.
Could it be a Five Elements treasure? Zhang Ling muttered.
Most magic treasures and artifacts are single-attribute treasures.
Even if some treasure refining materials are special and have several spiritual powers, generally, the successfully refined treasures will also combine with other attributes of materials to refine treasures that are more inclined to one attribute, or one or two attributes.
This is to maximize the power of the treasure.
Treasures with all five elements of spiritual power are not non-existent, but such treasures, due to the relatively balanced spiritual power, are often not very powerful. And most of them are biased towards auxiliary types.
Of course, there are also some powerful five elements treasures, such as the Five Elements Jade, the Five Light Mirror, and the Five Color Mud, which are all legendary five elements treasures.
But these extremely powerful five elements treasures were rare even in ancient times. Zhang Ling didn't believe that the strange bubble in his hand was such a powerful treasure.
Stroking the translucent colored bubble in his hand, Zhang Ling was still quite expectant of the power of this treasure. He immediately put some spiritual power into it. Instantly, this treasure became completely transparent, as if there was nothing in his hand.
But in his divine sense, this treasure was still held in his hand, emitting a faint five-colored spiritual light, as if he was holding only a ball of spiritual light.
Zhang Ling frowned slightly, unable to figure out what power this treasure had. With a slight thought, he mobilized more spiritual power and injected it into this treasure.
After more than ten breaths, this treasure had not been activated, and was still constantly absorbing his spiritual power.
The power of the several ancient treasures in his hand was not small, even the black stone mirror that released Water-Geng Divine Lightning, with his current late-stage Golden Core realm strength, could be fully activated in seven or eight breaths with full power.
But this treasure in his hand had not yet been activated. Zhang Ling was both surprised and expectant.
An ancient treasure that is so difficult to activate must have some special power. He wanted to see what kind of power this treasure had.
After another ten breaths, Zhang Ling's eyes flashed, and he urged the magic in his hand. The transparent bubble instantly merged into his palm. Like a layer of strange film, it quickly covered his whole body.
