Chapter 922: Five Qi Facing Origin

After finishing the inventory of his gains, Li Zhangsheng sat cross-legged on the ground, closing his eyes to digest the memories of Treasure King Mo Tu.

The harvest this time was immense; the greatest gain was undoubtedly a portion of Treasure King's memories, with everything else being secondary.

Even if it were only a portion of his memories, it still surpassed the inheritance of the first-generation Principal; merely "viewing" a portion of Treasure King Mo Tu's memories once took over two hours.

Of course, during this process, Li Zhangsheng also took the opportunity to filter out some useless memories regarding eating, drinking, and bodily functions; such memories were of no use to him, and absorbing them might even potentially alter his personality.

Among these memories, what left the deepest impression on Li Zhangsheng was the series of methods for "Artifact Spirit Transformation" summarized by Treasure King, which also included several supporting Secret Techniques.

Fortunately, "Artifact Spirit Transformation" was not incomplete, which instead made Li Zhangsheng overjoyed.

Although "Artifact Spirit Transformation" was temporarily useless to him, Li Zhangsheng could not guarantee that he would live forever, or that he might not die unexpectedly along the way; perhaps in the future, he too would become an Artifact Spirit just like Treasure King.

Besides this, if a Demon Pet were to accidentally die, Li Zhangsheng could use the Original Light to nourish the Demon Pet's soul and then convert the Demon Pet's soul into an Artifact Spirit.

Of course, these could only serve as backup measures.

Apart from "Artifact Spirit Transformation," Treasure King actually possessed several methods for Possession, but they all contained significant flaws.

These Possession methods shared many similarities with Flame King Di Zhiyi's "Art of Crossing Tribulation and Feigned Death" and Spirit King Liu Yongtu's "Bloodline Possession," yet they also had some differences; it could be said that each had its own strengths and weaknesses.

If these Possession methods were summarized, refined, and improved, it would be possible to develop a more excellent Possession method.

Unfortunately, Li Zhangsheng was still very young and had no need to spend a large amount of energy summarizing Possession methods that were temporarily useless to him.

Besides these, there were naturally a large number of Demon Taming Arts and Secret Techniques, though many were incomplete.

What made Li Zhangsheng happy was that among them was a relatively complete Top-tier Demon Taming Art.

This was a Top-tier Demon Taming Art named "Five Qi Facing Origin," whose grade was similar to "Styx," and it existed with a not-insignificant gap compared to "Zhou Tian Star Dou."

Even so, this "Five Qi Facing Origin" had a full eight levels, enough to cultivate to the Double-Character King stage; in terms of value, it was likely not much worse than a Lower-Grade World Wonder, which showed its preciousness.

In addition, there was another complete Top-tier Demon Taming Art.

Fleeting Moment: Top-tier Secret Technique, temporarily increases a Demon Pet's speed by onefold; the duration depends on the user's realm.

Both are speed-type Secret Techniques; the Advanced Secret Technique "Swift as Wind" can only increase speed by fifty percent, while the Top-tier Secret Technique "Fleeting Moment" increases it by a full onefold; the gap between the two is self-evident.

Of course, the consumption of a Top-tier Secret Technique is also greater.

As for special training methods, Treasure King had a full three, but the only pity was that all three were incomplete.

However, one of them had a completeness of over eighty percent, so there was a possibility of making up for it; the other two were both less than fifty percent, but one could still absorb their essence to improve the effects of similar special training methods.

Apart from these, the rest were all memories such as secret anecdotes, experiences, and insights.

Due to the special nature of the Treasure Basin, Treasure King Mo Tu liked to collect treasures, wanting to upgrade the Treasure Basin to the Langhuan Supreme Treasure stage.

During this period, Treasure King Mo Tu even handed two World Wonders to the Treasure Basin to absorb.

Unfortunately, despite exhausting several hundred years of time, Treasure King only barely managed to upgrade the Treasure Basin to the Zifu Qizhen level.

As an upgradeable World Wonder, the conversion efficiency of the Treasure Basin was simply appalling.

During his treasure hunts, Treasure King Mo Tu naturally encountered many battles, competing for treasures with other Kings and Double-Character Kings, but more often he fought with wild Spirit Beasts that guarded the treasures, which also gave him extremely rich combat experience.

Although most of the battles were one-sided, they still benefited Li Zhangsheng greatly.

What Li Zhangsheng focused on most was that in Treasure King Mo Tu's memories, there were also some clues about the Xuan Emperor Mausoleum; crucially, they were different from the clues obtained by the seventh-generation Principal. By reflecting on both, Li Zhangsheng could basically determine the general area of the Xuan Emperor Mausoleum.

The so-called general area here was as large as an entire province; to narrow down the scope, more clues about the Xuan Emperor Mausoleum were needed.

Besides the clues to the Xuan Emperor Mausoleum, Li Zhangsheng also found some ancient secret anecdotes related to the Star Palace and the Star Emperor.

When the world was first created, there was a Star Palace on every Zhou Tian star, until the Star Emperor appeared and used great power to shift these Star Palaces to the Heavenly Realm, forming the Zhou Tian Star Forbidden Array, wanting to monopolize the Heavenly Realm.

As for what happened later, Treasure King Mo Tu was not clear; he only knew that a war that swept across the world occurred at that time, eventually leading to the fall of the Star Emperor and the sealing of the Heavenly Realm.

Most crucially, Treasure King Mo Tu knew the then-brilliant and talented Hundred Victories King; through his deliberate befriending, the two had a good friendship.

Regarding the truth of the Hundred Victories King's fall, Treasure King Mo Tu's key memories were incomplete; he only knew that the Hundred Victories King was competing for the Imperial throne with the Xuan Emperor, who was a Double-Character King at the time.

In the end, the Xuan Emperor successfully stepped onto the Imperial throne and has now even become the Xuan Emperor among the Three Sovereigns, which can be described as being at the height of his power. Yet the then-more brilliant and talented Hundred Victories King ended in death, though he left behind an inheritance, which ultimately benefited Li Zhangsheng.

However, Li Zhangsheng obtained the Hundred Victories King's inheritance and had a deep connection with the Hundred Victories King; even though the Hundred Victories King had long since fallen, he still had to bear the karma.

Li Zhangsheng was full of curiosity about the struggle for the Imperial throne back then, but after searching through Treasure King Mo Tu's memories, he did not find the conditions for advancing to Emperor Rank.

But if nothing unexpected happened, the conditions for advancing to Emperor Rank were likely quite harsh.

The secret anecdotes Treasure King knew were not few, but he had been trapped in a demi-plane, causing these secret anecdotes to basically be three-hundred-year-old history.

With so many years having passed, the vast majority of the secret anecdotes could only serve as interesting stories, and the remainder might not necessarily be useful.

In addition to these gains, Treasure King himself was an experienced Refining Master, and many of the treasures in his Treasure Building were his own works.

Among them, that Thunder Emperor Noon Sword was his representative work.

Although Treasure King was at best just entering the stage of a Refining Master, some of his refining techniques also benefited Li Zhangsheng greatly; if he could fully digest them, it might allow Li Zhangsheng to step into the stage of a Grand Refining Master in one go.

In the time that followed, Li Zhangsheng began to work hard to digest Treasure King's memories.

(End of this chapter)