Chapter 148: Wealth

Upon seeing Dugu Bo, both Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo were startled, feeling that Dugu Bo's condition was nearly twice as strong as it had been a few years ago; not only had his soul power increased, but his vitality had also grown significantly, and his entire appearance had recovered to look as if he had just entered his fifties or sixties.

Judging by the state he was displaying now, it probably wouldn't be difficult for Dugu Bo to live for another hundred years or more.

Ning Fengzhi stepped forward, greeted Dugu Bo first, and then greeted Zhou Heng. At Ning Fengzhi's invitation, Dugu Bo and Zhou Heng sat down at the table and chatted with Ning Fengzhi for about twenty minutes.

However, during the conversation, it was Zhou Heng who did most of the talking with Ning Fengzhi, while Dugu Bo was only responsible for nodding from the side.

After all, for Dugu Bo, things like using his brain were truly a bit difficult for him; after the polite conversation finished, the matter finally moved to the main topic.

Ning Fengzhi, along with the two Douluo, Sword and Bone, took Zhou Heng and his companion away from the hall and walked toward the depths of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After passing through several checkpoints and obstacles, they entered a secret chamber hidden deep underground.

The door to the secret chamber was guarded by four Soul Master-level Spirit Masters at the Soul Saint rank and eight at the Soul Emperor rank.

Perhaps because Ning Fengzhi had given notice in advance, when the group arrived here, the Spirit Masters all appeared very spirited, as if they had already prepared for battle.

After identity verification, the four Soul Saints took out their keys and, in coordination with the token in Ning Fengzhi's hand, opened the door to the secret chamber; what came into everyone's view were small mountains piled up from ores.

What was quite shocking was that even though they had been placed here for who knows how many years, when the door opened, a massive amount of soul power rushed out directly from inside, and the Spirit contained within almost gave Zhou Heng the illusion of suffocating.

Entering the door to look, on the left-hand side was a small mountain piled with large chunks of refined Refined Gold, and on the right was a small mountain piled with Mithril, also refined into standard cubes.

These two things belonged to the important materials for the main currencies of the Douluo Continent, Gold Soul Coins and Silver Soul Coins.

One gram of Refined Gold combined with various metals could produce dozens of Gold Soul Coins.

Mithril was much the same.

For these two gatekeeping mountains, Chen Ming made a slight estimation; they were worth at least five billion Gold Soul Coins or more, and the actual value would only be higher, not lower.

After seeing these two large mountains, Dugu Bo's mind went blank, and for a moment, he even forgot to breathe.

Looking further in, inside were large quantities of various rare metals; metals like Cold Iron and Flame Iron were just a small, least valuable portion of them, and the valuable ones were rare metals like Star Pattern Iron and Deep Sea Sinking Silver, which were generally calculated by the gram on the continent.

Things like gemstones could only serve as inconspicuous side dishes in this treasury; even the lowest quality piece among them could sell for hundreds of Gold Soul Coins in the outside world. If one found a skilled craftsman to carve it, it wouldn't be impossible to sell it for over a thousand Gold Soul Coins.

If any one of those piles of gemstone mountains appeared in the outside world, it would cause a certain fluctuation in the entire continent's gemstone market.

If half of the gemstones in the treasury were thrown out, the Douluo Continent's gemstone market would directly collapse completely.

Ning Fengzhi led the country-bumpkin-like Dugu Bo and Zhou Heng toward the inside; after walking past a large pile of rare metals and expensive gemstones of various attributes, Zhou Heng saw the truly precious things in this treasury.

Dragon Bones that had crystallized over the passage of time but were still emitting a faint dragon might, and several Dragon Eggs.

Like plants, rooted in the ground, coiling around stone pillars, breathing in and out the soul power in the air, the Living Metal was growing slowly at an extremely sluggish pace.

A broken spear tip embedded in a huge Purple Crystal containing Thunder Power; even without actively probing it, it was still emitting a faint pressure.

A half-section of a huge elephant tusk over two meters long, with a texture like white jade and stained with bright red blood at the top.

When one's gaze was fixed on the blood stained upon it, one could feel a thick killing intent.

Even among this pile of magical things, Zhou Heng saw four half-bird-shaped jade stones in the corner.

Each of them was about a person's height; although they looked like ordinary exquisite sculptures, they perfectly sealed thick vitality and soul power within them.

Even the bird-shaped jade stone that was missing half its body for some reason was constantly emitting soul power outward from the broken edge.

Zhou Heng wasn't sure about the ones in front, but those jade-like birds at the very back were clearly top-tier Spirit Beasts, the Jade Birds, which had completely turned into jade because their age had reached one hundred thousand years.

"The reputation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect being as wealthy as a nation is truly well-deserved."

As wealthy as a nation?

If these things were taken out, let alone being a rival nation, with the capabilities of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, it wouldn't be impossible to establish another smaller country outside of the Heaven Dou and Xingluo Empires.

Zhou Heng finally understood why the Spirit Hall wanted to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect during the Soul Hunting operation, why the emperors of the Heaven Dou Empire would go to befriend the successive Sect Masters of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and why even Qian Renxue had to have Ning Fengzhi serve as the Imperial Tutor.

The treasures of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could no longer be described simply by using money.

Having been a porter on the continent for these years, it was clear that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's collection contained things that shouldn't belong to a Spirit Master.

Although this was clearly just a warehouse for collecting gemstone-type and metal-type materials, and not the truly secret forbidden area of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

But any single item among them, if thrown out onto the continent, would be enough to stir up a bloody storm across the land.

To put it bluntly, although the one-hundred-thousand-year-old fully jade-ified Spirit Beast Jade Bird was indeed very precious, that was true.

But compared to those other things, the Jade Bird seemed to really have no presence at all.

On the crystallized Dragon Bone, the broken spear, and the blood-stained half-elephant tusk, Zhou Heng clearly felt the sensation of Divine Power.

Even though Zhou Heng considered his current composure to be excellent, looking at Ning Fengzhi, who wore a faint smile on his face, he still couldn't help but feel a sense of shock in his heart.

Of course, shock was shock, but while feeling shocked, Zhou Heng also understood that these things placed in the depths of this treasury were all theoretically very valuable, but things that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had absolutely no way to handle with their methods.

Not to mention the three items carrying Divine Power; basically, normal Spirit Masters had no way to use them.

Just that Living Metal—in this era where soul guidance technology was still on the Sun Moon Continent, it couldn't be put to any normal use at all; with the blacksmithing methods of the continent, these things could only be wasted in vain.

As for those few Jade Birds?

They looked very tempting, as if they were gift packages that would burst out a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Ten-thousand-year Spirit Bone upon being opened, but in reality, they were not.

The petrified Jade Birds were, to a certain extent, already dead; the soul power, soul bone, soul core, and vitality within their bodies had all condensed into a lump, and conventional methods could not separate them.

Once one attempted to use external force to break the petrified bodies?

Whoa, then all the treasures would naturally be ruined.

Just looking at that half-section of the Jade Bird remains, Zhou Heng could imagine the pain the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect felt when they looked at these petrified one-hundred-thousand-year

Spirit Beasts placed before them and were unable to use them.

"I wonder if there is anything in my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's treasury that His Excellency Dugu and little friend Zhou Heng need?" Ning Fengzhi smiled proudly and said to Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo.