Chapter 286: If the person is incompetent, the treasure chest is also flavorless

On the road, Chu Danqing found the piece of equipment Yang Qianjing had left for him on Yang Taizhi's body; it was an Exemplary-tier piece of equipment.

【Twenty-Four Thread Puppet Jade】

【Type: Equipment · Jade Pendant】

【Quality: Exemplary】

【Durability: 38/100】

【Silk Puppet (Active): Consume 1 point of durability to release puppet silk threads and perform an attribute check on the target. If successful, permanently control the enemy as a living puppet. If failed, consume an additional 1 point of durability. Living puppet control limit: 24】

【Nourish the Self (Active): Consume 1 point of durability to grant 10% of the total attributes of all puppets to oneself. Lasts 5 minutes, cooldown 24 hours】

【Precious Jade Protection (Passive): For every living puppet present, self HP recovery efficiency +10】

【Way of the Living Puppet (Passive): Every time a living puppet kills a target, it can plunder a portion of soul power. When progress reaches 100%, quality increases. Quality progress: 11%, evolution count: 3】

【Equipment Requirement: Spirit 10 points】

Chu Danqing glanced at the equipment attributes and immediately saw the problem.

First, the bonuses were too weak; second, the equipment requirement was too low.

He suspected that Yang Qianjing might have lowered the equipment requirement through certain items, which had caused the equipment's attribute effects to be severely weakened or even disappear entirely.

Otherwise, given Yang Taizhi's attributes, how could he have equipped it, let alone used it so flexibly?

Even as a growth-type piece of equipment, it was ruined.

"Just using it to make up the numbers, I suppose," Chu Danqing muttered, then put it away.

Upon hearing this, Yang Taizhi was so angry his eyeballs bulged.

"This is a supreme treasure, my father..." Yang Taizhi immediately wanted to retort; in his view, this piece of equipment was the foundation of his rebellion.

However, Chu Danqing had no time to listen to this and instead asked: "By the way, does your father know the previous King of Cangying?"

Chu Danqing suddenly remembered that the death of Yang Qianyuan's father seemed to be related to the Apostles.

And coincidentally, Yang Qianjing had become a follower of the Apostles.

"Tell me, and I guarantee I won't speak ill of you when we see His Majesty later," Chu Danqing said honestly.

He hadn't intended to add fuel to the fire or speak ill of him anyway.

At first, Yang Taizhi was dismissive of Chu Danqing's words.

But then he thought, having one less person kicking him while he was down was a good thing.

"Yes, there was a period of struggle back then. I don't know the specific situation, but it is said that the previous King of Cangying lost."

"The King of Cangying lost a close friend, and only then did the matter come to an end," Yang Taizhi said, not knowing the details very well.

This was an old affair from over a dozen years ago, and Yang Qianjing had been extremely vague about it, so Yang Taizhi only knew a few scattered fragments.

After hearing this, Chu Danqing understood about seven or eight-tenths of it.

It was highly likely that the Apostle who wanted to take Yang Qianyuan's father away had a conflict of interest and ultimately failed to defeat the Apostle team Yang Qianjing was in, leading to their death.

Even the death of the Heavenly Pool Dragon stemmed from this, which was the source of the Heavenly Pool Dragon's obsession.

It was just that at the time, the Heavenly Pool Dragon didn't know this wasn't a struggle within the imperial family and simply regarded it as a power struggle.

At the time, another matter was involved: the rise of Yang Qianzheng.

From Yang Zhenhao's perspective, if there were no sons, the brother would succeed the brother; Yang Qianyuan's father was also of the 'Zhen' generation, so that conflict of interest back then also involved the struggle for the throne.

Yang Qianjing should have also been helping his father and the vassal kings of the 'Zhen' generation to seize power.

It was just unexpected that the final winner would be Yang Qianzheng, or rather, the court officials.

"Anything else?" Chu Danqing continued to ask.

Yang Taizhi shook his head: "Nothing else. These things were told to me by my mother."

"But even my mother didn't know much about what happened back then."

Chu Danqing had expected this; after all, it involved Apostles, and once people left, many things naturally faded away.

Not to mention that over ten years had passed since then; Yang Qianyuan hadn't even been born at the time.

Chu Danqing asked a few more questions, but Yang Taizhi couldn't answer them, and at this point, Chu Danqing realized the other party had nothing left to offer.

So he quickened his pace, taking Yang Taizhi to see Yang Qianzheng.

"You're back." Yang Qianzheng glanced at Yang Taizhi, who had been captured by Chu Danqing, his expression very calm.

This made Yang Taizhi feel exceptionally uneasy; if he had been furiously questioned as to why, he would have had a chance to defend himself.

Being ignored was a very dangerous behavior.

"Yes, how should we deal with him?" Chu Danqing asked decisively.

"Kill him," Yang Qianzheng said, bowing his head to continue correcting memorials, settling the outcome as lightly as a cloud.

Yang Taizhi's hair stood on end in an instant, and he hurriedly shouted: "The Ancestor's legacy, I..."

Before he could finish, Chu Danqing casually twisted his neck, while the Pure Yang Heavenly General used a sword to hack Yang Taizhi's Fluorescent Fish Dragon into meat paste.

【Mission complete, you have obtained: Paradise Points ×5000, Attribute Points +3】

On Yang Taizhi's corpse, an Exemplary-tier treasure chest with shimmering patterns appeared.

This made Chu Danqing calculate that he could earn another profit.

At the very least, there should be a Purple Mansion talent book.

Several eunuchs began to clean up the aftermath, and Chu Danqing asked: "If there's nothing else, I'll be heading back first."

"Yes, good, go about your business." Yang Qianzheng knew Chu Danqing's heart wasn't set on power, and he was very reassured by this.

He also needed people like Chu Danqing to help.

Someone with strength and no ambition.

As for needing resources? That was a small problem.

On the way back, Chu Danqing took the opportunity to open the treasure chest.

【You have opened: Treasure Chest (Exemplary Tier), obtained: Talent Book (Purple Mansion), Phantom Light Fish School Pot, Paradise Points ×2900 ×5】

【Phantom Light Fish School Pot】

【Type: Equipment · Accessory】

【Durability: 100/100】

【Quality: Exemplary】

【Fish Shadow in the Pot (Active): Consume 1000 mana points to summon 1 fluorescent fish shadow to circle around, can block 1000 points of damage. Lasts 15 minutes, cooldown 30 minutes】

【Netherlight Protection (Active): Consume 500 mana points to stimulate the dragon fish fluorescence, allowing all friendly summoned objects within 10 meters to gain deep-sea vision (ignoring dark environments). Lasts 24 hours, cooldown 10 minutes】

【Fluorescent Bubble Spit (Passive): The fish shadow can spit out fluorescent bubbles, dealing 1000 points of light-attribute damage to enemies】

【Wave of the Bai Longyu (Passive): When in a water environment, recover 1 mana point per second and increase movement speed by 5%】

【Equipment Requirement: Physique 15 points, Spirit 15 points】

Chu Danqing glanced at the equipment, summoned the fluorescent fish shadow to test it, and then threw it into his storage space.

It should also be True Spirit equipment, but it was of no use to Chu Danqing.

The fluorescent fish shadow was just like a ribbon; its greatest use was to block attacks, but because the fish shadow was just a ribbon fish, it was only an arm's length wide.

Its swimming speed wasn't slow, but its ability to block damage was truly limited.

It wasn't exactly flavorless, just not very suitable for Chu Danqing.

Keeping it to sell later, someone would definitely buy it.

The main point of dissatisfaction was that this fluorescent fish shadow had a time limit.

Chu Danqing preferred summoned object types maintained by mana points rather than those with cooldown times.

As usual, the most valuable item was the Purple Mansion talent book.

Halfway there, Chu Danqing turned directly to the treasury and opened the faction shop to choose an exchange.

"The spirit beast atlas of the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon, plus an Exemplary-quality spirit beast seal talisman, and then a series of Exemplary and Fine-tier resources needed for evolution."

"Finally... the spirit beast selection."

As Chu Danqing exchanged, the eunuchs in the treasury prepared the goods for him.

"I'll choose the Gold Money Carp," Chu Danqing quickly picked the spirit beast and sealed it with the spirit beast seal talisman.

The evolution path of the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon is Pearl Dragon, Treasure Qi Dragon, and finally Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon; the base can be either a fish or a snake.

It belongs to the orthodox path of dragon transformation.

In terms of ranking, the position of the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon is even above the Vast Heaven Overlord Halberd.

However, this is only regarding the spirit beast itself; after all, whether a spirit beast is powerful ultimately depends on the person.

Otherwise, even if one possessed the spirit beast atlas of the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon, one would have no way to complete the evolution.

"My lord, this spirit beast atlas of the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon is an imperial secret collection; do you have His Majesty's handwritten edict?" the treasury eunuch asked cautiously.

After all, Yang Qianzheng's Purple Mansion spirit beast was the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon, and he wasn't dead yet; Chu Danqing taking it directly might be taboo.

"You send someone to ask for a copy; I won't go," Chu Danqing said while copying the knowledge in the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon's spirit beast atlas, then added: "Then bring all the spirit beast atlases in the treasury; I will copy them."

He realized belatedly that these were all knowledge related to the summoning system; although limited to a certain species, there was no harm in learning them.

The treasury eunuch was speechless upon hearing this; what did he mean by 'you send someone to ask'?

That was the Emperor, a person who could take his life with a single word.

But he couldn't afford to offend Chu Danqing either, so he could only respond: "Yes, I will arrange it immediately."

He could only go to the Emperor himself to ask for instructions; as for Chu Danqing wanting to copy the contents of the spirit beast atlases, he could just order people to handle that.

Before long, the treasury eunuch returned and respectfully handed the Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon's spirit beast atlas to Chu Danqing.

Yang Qianzheng didn't care about such a small matter at all; it was just a spirit beast atlas, and the knowledge inside wasn't one-time use.

After giving it to Chu Danqing, he could just copy another one and put it back.

However, he didn't make things difficult for the treasury eunuch; after all, he had experienced the act of avoiding the taboo of the honored many times.

Ever since he became Emperor Anyong, no second Jade Spirit Treasure Dragon had been born.

In the past, Yang Qianzheng might have valued these, but now, after experiencing tempering and with little lifespan left, he viewed these things very lightly.

"The quantity seems to be small," Chu Danqing said, organizing the spirit beast atlases.

"My lord, the atlases that can be collected into the imperial treasury are all extraordinary spirit beasts. If you want inferior spirit beast atlases, I can take you to them," the treasury eunuch said hurriedly.

He didn't really want to take Chu Danqing there, but was explaining that trash couldn't enter the treasury, which was why the quantity was small.

Chu Danqing understood and refused: "No need, just copying the ones in the treasury is fine."

(End of chapter)