Chapter 406: Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart

Two hours ago.

Xiao Han, having re-condensed a set of plain white robes, once again resumed his usual light and breezy appearance before others, revealing nothing unusual.

He stood up unhurriedly from the Shadow Demon Sect plaza, which had already transformed into a Snow Domain.

The mission to resolve the Shadow Demon Sect headquarters was complete; naturally, the next step was the moment to harvest the fruits.

In just over ten minutes, Xiao Han successfully appeared before the Shadow Demon Sect treasury.

Gazing at the treasury gate that fit perfectly into the mountain wall, Xiao Han's eyes were, without him realizing it, completely filled with golden light.

Using the Sect Master token scavenged from Ying Wuyi to open the gate, the sight that met his eyes left Xiao Han dumbfounded.

Various Spiritual Artifacts were tossed casually in the corners as if they were worthless; the dozens of black shelves that came into view were uniformly filled with all sorts of implements: weapons, Pill Cauldrons, Spirit Talismans, spiritual herbs, ores...

The richness of the collection of a sect that held some reputation even in the Da Qian World truly opened Xiao Han's eyes, and what surprised him even more were the several Array Diagrams found among them.

They were all level-nine Array Diagrams, capable of creating existences comparable to Earth Sovereign powerhouses when deployed. There were even two Intermediate Spirit Arrays, which were extremely precious.

However, only the Array Diagrams attracted Xiao Han's attention slightly.

Afterwards, without even lifting his head, Xiao Han continued to head deeper; unlike the glitz and glamour of the outermost perimeter, the further in he went, the dimmer the surrounding light became, appearing eerie and cold.

As his footsteps went deeper, the sound of gurgling water was faintly transmitted to his ears, and Xiao Han felt joy upon hearing it.

His pace quickened slightly, and a massive waterfall appeared before Xiao Han's eyes.

A Spirit Power waterfall formed entirely of Supreme Spiritual Liquid hung in mid-air like a galaxy from the nine heavens, continuously pouring into the liquid pool spanning several thousand feet below.

The abundant spiritual energy brought by the Supreme Spiritual Liquid gave the entire space a sense of clarity, making one feel relaxed and happy.

Looking at the Supreme Spiritual Liquid emitting an alluring aura, even with Xiao Han's composure, he could not help but have his breathing become much heavier.

Xiao Han roughly estimated that there should be over one hundred million units of Supreme Spiritual Liquid in the Shadow Demon Sect treasury.

As a sect force whose business spanned several continents, the financial strength of the Shadow Demon Sect was quite trustworthy; after all, the profession of an assassin inherently possessed the characteristics of high risk and high reward.

Precisely because of this, although the consumption of Supreme Spiritual Liquid was not small, the Shadow Demon Sect still had quite a lot of stock, but now it had all become cheap for Xiao Han.

Feeling completely satisfied, he sealed all the Supreme Spiritual Liquid into specially made vessels and looked around again.

Although there were many of these things, when it came down to it, they could not be considered unique; almost every force at the same level as the Shadow Demon Sect had quite a lot of stock.

Over the years, if one were to say the Shadow Demon Sect did not have any truly good things, Xiao Han naturally would not believe it.

And the facts did not disappoint his expectations; in a hidden corner sharing the same room as the Supreme Spiritual Liquid, Xiao Han discovered several stone platforms, each holding a box.

Xiao Han walked straight toward the only jade box among them, picked it up, and then frowned.

He tried weighing it a few times; the weight of it surprised him quite a bit. With Xiao Han's strength, he actually felt it was heavy when picking up the jade box, which was truly rare.

Suspiciously opening the jade box, the cold air that rushed out made Xiao Han feel somewhat comfortable; he looked closely...

He gasped.

Staring with glowing eyes at the colorless liquid that completely filled the jade box, Xiao Han subconsciously held the jade box steady with both hands.

Good things must not be wasted like this!

Following this came intense excitement; at this moment, a thin layer of frost slowly condensed in various parts of the treasury, but Xiao Han, completely unaware, stared quietly at the colorless liquid that emitted a thick chill and was as heavy as a mountain.

"Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart!"

The moment he saw this object, this name echoed in Xiao Han's heart.

Nine Nether Jade is a type of precious jade in the Da Qian World; its chill is bone-piercing, capable of making people feel as if they have fallen into the Nine Nethers. If one is not prepared, even a powerhouse at the third level of the Spirit Soul Difficulty would instantly turn into an ice sculpture upon contact, and even their Spirit Soul would not be spared.

Its violent and erosive biting chill is highly regarded by Supreme Realm powerhouses who cultivate ice-attribute Spirit Power, and it is also a cultivation material for the Heavenly Jade Dharma Body, which ranks sixty-third.

Dozens of catties of Nine Nether Jade, when refined through special methods, can yield one drop of the extremely precious Nine Nether Jade Marrow.

If Nine Nether Jade only holds attraction for low-level Supreme Realm powerhouses, Nine Nether Jade Marrow is enough to drive high-level Sovereigns crazy; in fact, just a few dozen drops of Nine Nether Jade Marrow can allow a Supreme Realm powerhouse stuck at the threshold to advance further.

If Nine Nether Jade Marrow is a man-made supreme treasure, then the Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart is a gift from heaven and earth.

Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart, a top-tier cold-attribute supreme treasure, formless and colorless, produced within ultra-large Nine Nether Jade mineral veins.

Taking the box in Xiao Han's hand as an example, if it came from the same Nine Nether Jade mineral vein, the Nine Nether Jade reserves of that vein would be an astonishing number.

To put it bluntly, with the scale of the Shadow Demon Sect, they were fundamentally unqualified to occupy this mineral vein; those qualified would be forces at least at the Heavenly Sovereign level.

Therefore, in Xiao Han's view, this Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart should have been obtained by the Shadow Demon Sect by accident; even so, this one box of Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart alone was enough to be worth more than all other harvests combined.

These Nine Nether Jade Marrow Hearts could completely and easily push Xiao Han from the Supreme Seventh Layer to the Earth Sovereign, and there would even be a surplus.

Besides assisting in cultivation, the formless and imageless Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart is the perfect material for creating a Holy Artifact from scratch.

Although the Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart is formless and imageless, it can be shaped by cold-attribute Spirit Power; even without the intervention of a Spirit Artifact Master, weapons purely crafted from it, aside from lacking various auxiliary effects, can have all indicators comparable to a true Holy Artifact.

What satisfied Xiao Han even more was that the strength of this kind of weapon was entirely linked to the strength and quality of the shaper's Spirit Power.

When it came to the strength and quality of cold-attribute Spirit Power, at the same level, Xiao Han truly had not met an opponent, and his Spirit Power would also become increasingly pure and powerful with the growth of his strength.

This was equivalent to Xiao Han being able to obtain a growable Holy Artifact, the kind that could be wielded like an extension of his own arm; this point was very important.

Whether in the Dou Qi Continent or the Da Qian World, Xiao Han was accustomed to using long spears condensed from Dou Qi and Spirit Power to fight.

It was not a personal quirk, but rather that there were fundamentally no weapons that met his usage conditions; the strength of the weapons he could find was completely incomparable to those condensed from pure Spirit Power, and over time, Xiao Han had no choice but to give up the idea of searching for weapons.

Yet he never expected that after the dark willow and bright flowers, there would be another village; this was like being sent a pillow when he was sleepy.

He closed the jade box again, even carefully placing several seals on it, and put it away.

He cast his gaze toward the black box next to the jade box; having had a surprising start, it directly maxed out Xiao Han's psychological threshold. Although they were all treasures rarely seen in the outside world, Xiao Han did not have the same excitement as before.

Until Xiao Han opened the last wooden box...

Half an hour later, Xiao Han walked out of the treasury as if nothing had happened, pinched an incantation with his hands, and accompanied by a loud boom, the entire mountain range where the treasury was located disappeared instantly, and a black Palace appeared in Xiao Han's hand.