Chapter 920: Semi-Humanoid Chema Mushroom (First update, requesting everything)

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng looked at the Treasure Basin in his hand.

Creak, creak!

With just a gentle movement, the Treasure Basin emitted a faint sound, giving the impression that it might shatter at any moment.

Due to the demise of the Artifact Spirit, several significant cracks had appeared on the Treasure Basin, making it look dilapidated, and its aura had faded to the extreme.

This was unavoidable; the Artifact Spirit and the Strange Treasure shared a relationship where they prospered or perished together. Once the Artifact Spirit perished, the Strange Treasure would also suffer heavy damage, not to mention that the Treasure Basin was already in a damaged state to begin with.

Li Zhangsheng used his Mental Power to sense it and couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile; the Treasure Basin had dropped in rank once again, and now it was only at the level of a Lower-Grade World Wonder.

Yet, if Li Zhangsheng were given the choice again, he would still finish off the Treasure King. After all, in his eyes, the 'inheritance' of the Treasure King was certainly superior to the Treasure Basin in its prime, let alone a broken Treasure Basin.

Even though Li Zhangsheng only obtained a portion of the Treasure King's 'inheritance', its value in his mind was no less than a Zifu Qizhen-level treasure. The Treasure King's experience alone was enough to save him from taking many detours.

Li Zhangsheng attempted to refine the Treasure Basin, but as the Treasure King had said, it was impossible to refine.

Under these circumstances, he had no choice but to put the Treasure Basin into his Space Ring, intending to figure out what to do after returning.

Although the Treasure Basin was dilapidated, it had, after all, once been a Zifu Qizhen-level Strange Treasure; as long as one could pay the price, there was still a possibility of recovery.

At this time, Li Zhangsheng roughly reviewed the Treasure King's memories.

When his lifespan was nearing its end, the Treasure King, like many Kings, tried every possible means to extend his life and was lucky enough to find a Semi-Humanoid Chema Mushroom.

Low-grade Chema Mushrooms are mostly in the form of livestock, and eating them can prolong life; Middle-grade Chema Mushrooms are in human form, and it is rumored that eating them can grant immortality; Superior Quality Chema Mushrooms are in the shape of a horse pulling a cart, and legend has it that eating them allows one to engage in Cloud-Treading and achieve the body of an Earth Immortal.

The Semi-Humanoid Chema Mushroom is between the low-grade and middle-grade; although it does not grant immortality, its life-extending effect is certainly far superior to a low-grade Chema Mushroom.

Even though the Treasure King had consumed many Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures and spiritual pills that prolong life, developing an immunity to life-extending treasures, he estimated that this Semi-Humanoid Chema Mushroom could at least extend his life by fifty years.

Unfortunately, the Chema Mushroom is proficient in Earth Escape and can travel an Instant Thousand Miles. While the Treasure King was in pursuit, it was discovered by another Double-Character King.

The subsequent process was simple: neither wanted to give up the Semi-Humanoid Chema Mushroom, so the two Double-Character Kings had a disagreement that erupted into a great battle. In the end, the Treasure King was defeated and escaped with heavy injuries.

The Treasure Basin also suffered heavy damage, causing it to drop in rank.

The subsequent process was quite similar to that of Flame King Di Zhiyi, but the Treasure King did not have a soul-type World Wonder, and Possession of others had various drawbacks, so he decided to take a different path, wanting to live forever.

Thus, the Treasure King began to study the possibility of transforming into an Artifact Spirit, and in the end, he actually found a way and successfully transformed into the Artifact Spirit of the Treasure Basin.

It was just that compared to ordinary Artifact Spirits, the Artifact Spirit the Treasure King transformed into also had various drawbacks; although there was almost no limit to his lifespan, he was very unfree.

Before transforming into an Artifact Spirit, in order to repair the Treasure Basin, the Treasure King specifically found a hidden semi-plane to set up a Treasure Pavilion and produced a large number of Treasure King Tokens, inducing a large number of Stronger individuals below the King level to enter the Treasure Pavilion.

The Treasure Basin could repair itself or even advance by Devouring treasure Qi, so the Treasure King began to target these Stronger individuals, wanting to plunder their treasures to repair the Treasure Basin.

He had set up a Seal Heaven Lock Earth Forbidden Array in this Treasure Pavilion. This was an ancient Forbidden Array, and with the Treasure Basin as the eye of the array, the power of the Forbidden Array was greatly increased. Even though the energy in this semi-plane was Sparse, it was still enough to suppress top-tier Pseudo-Kings.

The Treasure King did not wipe out all the Stronger individuals who entered here. His principle was to eat the big fish and release the small ones, and he would place some treasures from the big fish whose treasure Qi was not sufficiently Vigorous in the Treasure Pavilion for these small fish to choose and take away.

Not only that, the Treasure King would occasionally activate another Forbidden Array to randomly cast some Treasure King Tokens into the continent.

Ironically, more than three hundred years had passed, and the number of treasures in the Treasure Pavilion had not decreased; instead, it had become more and more.

During these three hundred years of repairs, the Treasure King had repaired the Treasure Basin to a top-tier Mid-grade World Wonder. Just as he was about to succeed, Li Zhangsheng arrived.

Originally, in the Treasure King's plan, after fully repairing the Treasure Basin, he would start the next step of his plan to allow the Treasure Basin to take human form, return to the continent in a human body, and then go find his Demon Pets.

Because the energy in this semi-plane was Sparse and also had to supply the Seal Heaven Lock Earth Forbidden Array, the Treasure King could only keep his Demon Pets on the continent.

Given the cultivation realms of these Demon Pets, most of the Treasure King's Demon Pets were likely still alive.

Although the Treasure King had transformed into an Artifact Spirit, his soul had not yet undergone Annihilation; it had only changed form. He still maintained a connection with his Demon Pets, but due to the drawbacks of transforming into an Artifact Spirit, the connection between the two was much weaker, and even if the Treasure King allowed the Treasure Basin to take human form in the future, he would no longer be able to contract Demon Pets.

Even though there were many drawbacks, compared to a nearly limitless lifespan, transforming into an Artifact Spirit was not necessarily an ineffective method. Even Li Zhangsheng felt a bit tempted after seeing it, let alone others.

It must be said that the Treasure King was truly a genius of the highest order.

Flame King Di Zhiyi and Spirit King Liu Yongtu were both exploring the path of Possession that their predecessors had walked, at most improving it slightly, but the Treasure King had created the method of transforming into an Artifact Spirit from scratch; the gap was not just a little bit.

Unfortunately, the Treasure King did not want to become Li Zhangsheng's 'old grandfather' and wanted to harm Li Zhangsheng, which led to his own Annihilation.

To repair the Treasure Basin, one must consume the Treasure of the treasures; the higher the grade of the treasure, the more treasure Qi it usually contains.

It was just that after the treasure Qi was devoured, the grade of the treasure would also drop, or even become waste.

And to restore the Treasure Basin to its prime, even if Li Zhangsheng took out all the World Wonders on his person for the Treasure Basin to absorb, it might not be enough to repair it.

Naturally, Li Zhangsheng could not do that, but he already had a method in mind for dealing with the Treasure Basin, and he would implement it in the near future.

In the Treasure King's memory, there was also a method to close the Seal Heaven Lock Earth Forbidden Array.

After closing the Seal Heaven Lock Earth Forbidden Array, Li Zhangsheng swept the Treasure Pavilion clean. Except for some treasures that underwent Annihilation, all other treasures became his collection.

Besides this, Li Zhangsheng pinched a few Seal Techniques, and the massive Treasure Pavilion began to shake, becoming smaller and smaller, until it was finally taken away by Li Zhangsheng.

This was also a Strange Treasure of a not-low grade, and it was also equipped with a Seal Heaven Lock Earth Forbidden Array, which could be used for living, as a vehicle, and even to fight enemies at critical moments.

After confirming there were no omissions, Li Zhangsheng activated the Treasure King Token and returned to the Dangkang Necklace Space.

(End of this chapter)