Chapter 486

"This is a Wu Dao Pill—consider it your reward for this mission."

"I dare not…"

Qiao Feng immediately refused.

"Before this mission, the Fourth Dragon Head already rewarded me with one Po Yuan Pill."

"Enough! Take it."

Senior Xiaoyaozi flicked his finger, and the Wu Dao Pill slipped into Qiao Feng's hand.

"Li Qinglu, from today, you are one of the Great Dragon Head's serving maids."

"Later, go to the flower pavilion and report to Young Lady Jiang Yuyan."

Li Qinglu ranked thirty-sixth on the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers List; all who saw her silently praised her.

Senior Xiaoyaozi muttered to himself internally.

"Qiao Feng brought back Li Qinglu again, and she's one of the Seven Stars of Canglong—when the Great Dragon Head returns, there will surely be further rewards."

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Li Qinglu couldn't help but feel disappointed.

Before coming, she had thought she would immediately meet the Great Dragon Head, who had slain one hundred thousand Qie Xie soldiers with a single sword.

Instead, she hadn't even seen the man, and her status was merely that of a serving maid.

But since she was here, she would make the best of it.

"Being a serving maid to the Great Dragon Head isn't something just anyone can do."

Di Shitian, old and shrewd, saw right through Li Qinglu's thoughts and gently reminded her.

He too muttered to himself internally.

"Even with my status and strength, I am merely a servant."

"Is this one of the Seven Stars of Canglong—the Fang Ri Tu?"

Everyone's gaze was drawn again to the bronze box.

The bronze box was small in size and light in weight.

After all, the shy Li Qinglu had carried it without effort.

The box appeared extremely ancient, its surface bearing a strange rabbit pattern.

"Exactly!"

Li Qinglu immediately nodded.

"After the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers List introduced me, this box suddenly appeared in my hands."

"So it must be the Fang Ri Tu!"

"Good! Let this old man take a look."

Senior Xiaoyaozi nodded and waved his hand.

The bronze box moved without wind, flying into Senior Xiaoyaozi's hands.

He held it with one hand and reached with the other to touch the lid, intending to open it and see.

What exactly was this Canglong Seven Stars, said to contain astonishing power?

Before acting, he prepared himself mentally for the possibility it wouldn't open.

Yet the box opened effortlessly at his touch—the large bronze box was completely empty!

"What's going on?"

Di Shitian and the onlookers exchanged puzzled glances.

Had the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers List rewarded them with nothing but this bronze box?

"Could there be a mechanism inside?"

Everyone immediately thought of this.

Since four of them had rich experience, they all activated the Famen they knew to dismantle traps.

They sought to unlock the mechanism on the bronze box.

Yet no matter how they triggered it—even by inputting true qi—the box remained utterly unchanged.

Not a single alteration occurred.

"What's going on?"

After half a day of fruitless effort, Senior Xiaoyaozi and the others reluctantly gave up and turned to Qiao Feng and Li Qinglu.

Li Qinglu immediately explained:

"I don't know either! Since this box came into my hands, I never dared to open it."

An innocent man is guilty merely for possessing a treasure!

Li Qinglu naturally understood this principle.

Thus, even though the bronze box was awarded to her by the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers List, she hadn't dared to even glance at it.

"When I first received this bronze box, I also opened it."

"Just like all of you, I assumed it concealed some hidden mystery."

"On the way back, I tried at least sixty different methods to bypass its mechanism—yet nothing changed."

Qiao Feng was upright and honest; if he said this, then the box's strangeness must be inherent.

Senior Xiaoyaozi closed the lid, baffled, and turned to Er Yue.

"Er Yue, do you know how to unlock the secret of this bronze box?"

Er Yue Hall is the Qinglong Society's twelfth hall, specifically responsible for gathering intelligence and spying.

Thus, its master, Er Yue, knows more strange secrets than anyone in the Qinglong Society except Ximen Wudi.

"The Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon are said to be a tremendous power sealed away by Zhou Wenwang."

February recalled for a moment, then casually began to explain the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon.

"Legend has it that after Zhou Wuwang seized the realm by relying on the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon—"

"—to prevent this power from falling into the hands of those who harbored ill will toward the Zhou dynasty, he summoned the National Preceptor Jiang Ziya."

"Using a great divine ability, he split the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon into seven."

"Then he selected seven people, each responsible for safeguarding one of the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon."

"Judging by the current situation, since we opened the bronze box and saw nothing—"

"—there are only two possibilities."

"Either all seven of the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon must be present together before this tremendous power can be unsealed."

"Or it requires the corresponding keepers, or their descendants, to unlock the secret within."

After the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon appeared in the world this time, February hurried to gather related intelligence.

Even though much of this intelligence was hidden deep within the Great Qin palace.

He still managed to find most of it.

Though it might not be complete, it was definitely far better than what other factions had.

Using this intelligence and material, February made the corresponding deductions.

"So that's how it is."

Senior Xiaoyaozi and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then send this bronze box into the Divine Armory Hall and have it kept safe for now!"

Since there was no way to know the secret of the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon for the time being, this Fang-Ri Rabbit naturally had to be stored somewhere.

The Divine Armory Hall was the place atop Azure Dragon Peak where all manner of divine weapons were stored.

Each one had a dedicated squad responsible for guarding the Divine Armory Hall.

Placing the Fang-Ri Rabbit bronze box there would also be safe!

"Good! I'll go right now."

Upon hearing this, Qiao Feng picked up the bronze box and prepared to leave.

"Wait! Altar Lord Qiao, what did you feel about that sword strike?"

What Di Shitian most wanted to know was actually this.

Although he did not specify, everyone knew—

—what he wanted to know was naturally that sword from beyond the heavens that came from the Sword Realm, at the northern border pass of Western Xia.

Upon hearing this, Qiao Feng laughed heartily.

"Under that sword strike, I couldn't feel the power too clearly, after all my cultivation is too low."