Devour

Chapter 360 Treasure House

The Black Blade Flying Armor slowed down and approached the village entrance.

Cheng Bai said leisurely: "Look! Someone has set up a formation on the village road."

Li Tong chuckled and said, "Good eyesight! This is called the 'Endless Formation', a fourth-level high-quality formation. Once you step into the streets, you will fall into an endless maze illusion and become a sitting duck for assassins hiding in the dark. We don't even touch the ground, and the planner's efforts were wasted."

Zhai Xufei replied, "Just fly all the way over there from the air."

Ningxiang couldn't help but ask, "But where is the destination? We can't just keep flying."

Cheng Bai looked down at the endless stream of villages, activated his Phoenix Force to search for any movement near and far, raised his eyebrows and made a decision: "There is no one in the village... No! There is still one living person. Let's go to the largest house on the right."

Jinlian looked into the distance with her eyes and agreed, "It is obviously more majestic and spacious than other houses. There is an inscription on the lintel: 'Cangzhen Tower'."

Cheng Bai happily said: "What a great place! It must have what we want."

Li Tong praised: "Dabai's vision is getting more and more powerful. He can see that this building is the core of the Endless Formation."

"What?" Cheng Bai was quite surprised that the blind cat caught a dead mouse, and then he suddenly realized: "It is precisely because it is the center of the formation that there are people guarding this place to control the formation to kill. As long as we kill that person, the formation will naturally fall apart!"

Looking at the building from afar, the tall halls and wide buildings are deep and steep, with flying eaves and steep cliffs. There is a faint bloody smell surging in the window, and there is a circle of solid protective walls outside.

A closer look reveals that the building has only four floors, with a hip roof and gables decorated with exquisite pediment, which contrasts sharply with the hipped roof houses that can be seen everywhere around it, making it look extraordinary and imposing.

The Black Blade Flying Armor slowly landed on the roof of the Treasure House and stopped steadily.

Under the protection of the Shengjin Pagoda, Cheng Bai held the inheritance cube in his left hand to guide the direction and walked out of the observation deck first. His teammates came out one after another behind him, standing on the roof and looking around, taking in the tranquil scenery of the village.

Cheng Bai used his mind to store Kong's Black Blade Flying Armor in his sea of consciousness and whispered, "Most people explore by climbing from the bottom floor to the top floor, but we're going the other way! There are enemies lying in ambush inside, so be alert."

The people in the building seemed to have noticed that the enemy had invaded the Treasure House, and they kept muttering, "Attack quickly! We are reacting too slowly..."

Before he finished his words, a series of subtle "chi chi chi" sounds were heard, and several ingenious mechanisms hidden in places on the roof started to work, shooting many sharp arrows at the crowd.

The small surprise attack trick could not faze the heroes present.

Zhai Xufei lowered his nine heads and blew, sending out more whirling wind blades. Before the arrows were fully shot out, the continuous wind blades cut them off one by one like chopping melons and vegetables, destroying all the arrow holes on the roof and making the mechanism completely ineffective.

Beitingjun chuckled and said, "Ha! A child's toy? Very interesting."

Kua E's breath sank slightly, and his weight suddenly increased. With a loud bang, he stepped on the roof and fell to the fourth floor. The others followed suit, carefully using magic weapons to protect themselves, shattering the glazed tiles on the roof, and then jumped into the building.

Everyone appeared at once, and the powerful invasion frightened the formation leader hiding on the fourth floor so much that he panicked and protected his head and face, fearing that he would be hit by the falling bricks and tiles.

Cheng Bai recognized this person and immediately teased him, "Elder Li Fengrun, I haven't seen you for a long time and you look quite well. Why can't we see any other living people in your village?"

"Living...living people? No...no living people, only...ghosts...ghosts!" Li Fengrun stuttered and looked strange. He suddenly pinched his throat and made a strange gurgling sound. His tongue stretched out long and his neck became twice as thick.

Cheng Bai was impressed by this move and reminded everyone, "Toad Kung Fu!"

Jinlian landed on the floor, picked up a small piece of glazed tile debris with her bare hands, and exerted her strength to flick it out. With a light "puff" sound, it hit Li Fengrun's Yintang acupoint between his eyebrows.

This acupoint is actually the vital point of Toad Kung Fu, and it hit him on the spot, deflated like a balloon being punctured.

With a gurgling sound, a large bubble came out of Li Fengrun's mouth and burst with a "crackling" sound. Then his whole body trembled and shook a few times, and he fell to the ground and fainted.

Zi Xuan sneered and said, "Toad Kung Fu is a high-level martial art. It is considered powerful in the mortal world, but it has many flaws in the eyes of the sages. If the technique is broken, you won't be able to use it for the time being."

Jinlian said indifferently: "Let him lie on the floor for a few days."

Cheng Bai asked Li Tong: "Have we broken the endless formation now?"

Li Tong patiently explained the secret: "Without a controller, the formation no longer actively attacks, but it has not been truly dispelled. The core of its endless operation lies in careful arrangement. Disturbing certain key objects in the building can completely break the formation."

"The name of the Treasure House is well-deserved. It does hide many good things. Come and have a look." Cheng Bai looked around for treasures and quickly walked to a set of yellow dragon-patterned treasure chests.

The material of the cabinet for storing items alone was very expensive. It was carefully made of large pieces of golden wood, and the finely carved partitions were divided into nine grids. In each grid, a demon beast's inner core was quietly placed, shining faintly under the illumination of multiple moonstone lanterns.

Li Tong identified the types and said excitedly, "They are all Ice Demon Shark Inner Pills, nine in total."

Deep in the icy and frigid North Sea, there lives a legendary undersea overlord - the Ice Shark. Just one of them is enough to terrify all creatures in the water.

Upon hearing this, Jinlian's beautiful eyes flashed with envy, and she smiled and said, "The elite hunters of the Ranger Club can do anything, whether in the sky, on the ground, or in the sea. They can even capture Garuda birds, but it is extremely rare to hunt down an Ice Demon Shark."

Cheng Bai's appraisal was correct, and he was overjoyed and said, "It contains three runes: Ice Shield, Swift Shadow, and Blood Thorn Armor. It is very suitable for refining robes and armor."

He took away the nine inner pills and the exquisite treasure chest without hesitation, and said loudly: "Dear elders and fellow Taoists, there are nine chests on this floor, one for each of you. If you like any treasure, just put it in your own pocket. I will accept it with pleasure!"

Everyone understood: "You have sharp eyes, so you must act quickly!"

Wen Jin moved lightly to one of the golden-threaded royal wood dragon-patterned treasure boxes, picked up the plump fruits stored inside and looked at them carefully, and said with a sweet smile: "I like this batch of goods - Emperor Rest Fruit, a third-level high-quality spiritual medicine, which is very beneficial to physical strength and energy."

Jinlian occupied another treasure box and said thoughtfully, "Saint Lord Baidi and Sister Minjin both have good taste. I like this treasure."

Others did not recognize the thick strips piled on the grid, but Cheng Bai was an expert and was slightly stunned after taking a look. They were clearly a bunch of cut and dried iron bull whips.

Cheng Bai couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly, and laughed dryly twice, "Hehe... Sister Lian is far-sighted, and the products of affection are indeed good nourishing things!"

Jinlian stuffed all the iron bull whips into the Xumi mustard seed as fast as the wind, muttering to herself, "Of course it's great! Once you refine the Emperor Pill, your value will skyrocket, and many wealthy customers will compete to buy it."

Cheng Bai suggested inexplicably, "What Sister Lian and Elder Wen Jin have obtained can be used to refine the same elixir. Why not cooperate in the future?"

The two girls secretly agreed after hearing this.

Zixuan jumped off Jinlian's shoulder and landed on the floor. She quickly ran to the treasure chest opposite where the carefully selected jade rough materials were displayed. She stretched out her little paw to hold it down, grinning and said, "I want this pile of big blood jade materials. Nine pieces together weigh at least 400 kilograms! They are worth as much as the inner elixir of the Ice Demon Shark."

Cheng Bai calculated silently and thought to himself, "What a shrewd old witch, with a sharp eye and accurate judgment. On the other hand, Sister Lian probably doesn't understand the market situation, and might end up with the last one."

Zhai Xufei was very smart and sharp-eyed. He grabbed a treasure chest full of refined spiritual essence pills. He hid boxes of pills in his Dantian Qi Sea, muttering with satisfaction: "Hehe! This batch is really good stuff. It is most practical for replenishing vitality and mana. They all belong to me!"

Bei Tingjun walked slowly to a treasure chest filled with jade bottles, took out a small and exquisite pearlescent shell from his arms, gently opened the huge space inside, and stored all the bottles and jars in the cabinet in an orderly manner.

As she took the food, she whispered to herself, "Things in exquisite containers must be good stuff, right? Hmm... I've heard the name somewhere before. Seven Flowers and One Core Cream?"

The treasure chest beside Kua E's side was not yet full, and contained eight transparent water tanks filled with some kind of pure liquid. He looked down at the seal label, hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I am short of inventory items, can you help me put them away?"