"Well... Treasures of this level are priceless and hard to come by. If I mobilize the Chu family's network and search for a month or so, I might be able to find it. But the time I have to take back the Chu family is too short after all..."
"Besides... those rare treasures will definitely cost a fortune, and there will be a lot of trouble in the end. It's not a good choice."
Chu Tianxiao sighed: "As expected... it's more fun to snatch the prince of destiny..."
Just as Chu Tianxiao expected, Chu He did not achieve perfect marrow cleansing when he entered Tongxuan, but rather a half-step perfect marrow cleansing that he achieved with a secret method. The three remaining marrow cleansing items were what he was "missing" from perfect marrow cleansing. Originally, given time, he would be able to use them up and complete perfect marrow cleansing... But now it seemed like this was a task that would never be accomplished.
Chu Tianxiao just glanced at the so-called half-step marrow cleansing secret method and threw it aside. It was a treasure in the eyes of ordinary people, but for Chu Tianxiao who practiced the ancient body refining technique, it was not only in conflict with it, but also useless.
Chu Tianxiao was very interested in the top-grade marrow cleansing pill prepared by Chu He, and he quickly put it away. At the beginning, Lu Meir gave him a top-grade marrow cleansing pill, which was enough for him to enter the perfect marrow cleansing stage, but later Chu Tianxiao obtained the ancient body refining technique, and that thing was not enough... So Chu Tianxiao used it before the decisive battle with Chu He, so now he really lacks a top-grade marrow cleansing pill required for the final stage of the ancient body refining technique.
"That's so thoughtful, cousin. You haven't even had time to use this thing yet? Haha, I accept it with pleasure."
Chu Tianxiao was not polite at all. After careful calculation, he realized that he was only two steps away from collecting all the materials needed to get started with the "Ancient Body Refining Technique".
"Only the Sky Rock Soul Stone and Feather Bone Thousand Scales are left... However, now is not the time to refine the body. If the interval is too short, I'm afraid something will go wrong."
Chu Tianxiao narrowed his eyes slightly and continued to look through Chu He's treasures. The richness of his collection also opened Chu Tianxiao's eyes slightly. He collected a lot of various things, and there were indeed many good things... However, the most valuable of them, apart from the Nine Marrow Cleansing Items and the Top Grade Marrow Cleansing Pill, seemed to be the pile of "secret books"...
"Hmm... The Great Slaughter Star Sword."
"The Secret Method of Combining Fate and Star..."
“They are all fragmentary insights and the thoughts written down by Chu He in his spare time… However, although these two things are good, they also have consequences. They can only be used as references for studying the Star Soul Sword Canon, but cannot be used directly… Haha, the more I read and understand these things, the more they will help me broaden my horizons in martial arts and create my own moves in the future!”
After taking a quick look, Chu Tianxiao put it away, and then his eyes fell on a small box.
Taking a closer look, this box was only one-third the size of an ordinary box. The entire box was made of jade, and there was a restriction on the lock. Even Chu Tianxiao took a lot of effort to crack it.
"It's obviously your Sumeru Ring. It's fine if it's just a jade bottle and a spirit box, but you actually made a box with so many restrictions... I want to see what the hell you, the prince of destiny, are up to."
With a thought, Chu Tianxiao pressed the box with his right hand, and as soon as he opened it, a bloody aura suddenly gushed out. Chu Tianxiao made a prompt decision, quickly opened the window, and waved the Star Moon Sword to scatter and blow away all the bloody aura. After a quarter of an hour, the bloody aura finally dissipated.
Then, Chu Tianxiao poked his head out and saw the bottom of the box...
There is nothing at all!
He frowned, reached down, fumbled around, pushed and pulled, and finally found a hidden compartment. He pulled open the lid of the compartment, only to see a hole several inches in size emerge.
Without hesitation, Chu Tianxiao reached down, grabbed something, and pulled it out fiercely. Then he took a closer look and found that it was a sheepskin scroll...
"Hmm... I heard that Master Chuhe has a bad temper and is a bit of a germaphobe. It's strange that such a dirty and old sheepskin scroll is treasured so highly..."
Chu Tianxiao narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly opened them.
"Hmm? A map?"
At first glance, it was a very crude map, with only a strange sword-shaped pattern on it as a mark. Apart from that, there were no other annotations, let alone words...
"This sword..."
Chu Tianxiao's pupils shrank slightly. The more he looked at it, the more familiar this sword looked. But he couldn't remember where he had seen it before...
Shaking his head, Chu Tianxiao came to a conclusion: "Well... This should be Chu He's true destiny, something like a treasure map, but... This map doesn't have anything marked on it, not even a reference point, how can I find it?"
"… "
After thinking carefully for a while, Chu Tianxiao burst out laughing, thinking that Chu He was the true prince, and it must have been many years since he got this thing, but he still hadn't found the so-called treasure. He wanted to see through the key after just a few glances, but it was really foolish.
"But no matter what, this thing can be valued so much by the true emperor, the place marked must contain a treasure. From now on, it is necessary to pay attention to this..."
After thinking about it this way, Chu Tianxiao stopped worrying about it. After all, he had already gained a lot from Chu He, so he could just let fate take the rest.
Then, Chu Tianxiao opened the lottery interface of the Big Spendthrift System.
"Well... I spent 500 redemption points to get a gadget that subtly controlled the fire beast's self-explosion, manipulated the chaotic situation, and forced those people to fight... Now I only have one chance to win the gold lottery."
"The current amount of money lost is... 65 million... Well, let's just spend half of it."
With a thought, Chu Tianxiao put in more than 32 million yuan of money to lose, and saw the roulette wheel spinning rapidly. Not long after, the pointer stopped and got something.
"Oh? This is..."
Chu Tianxiao was slightly surprised when he saw the thing he had drawn. He saw a drop of something similar to a small water droplet floating in an ordinary jade box. It looked just average compared to other treasures, but after reading the introduction, Chu Tianxiao smiled with a playful smile...
"Gold-melting water..."
"… Well, this introduction… is simply a perfect match for the prodigal son."
Chu Tianxiao tapped his chin, and a plan gradually took shape in his mind...
"Hmm... The next situation is that most of the parties will enter the secret rooms to seek opportunities..."
The core of each Imperial Garden Contest is to strengthen oneself and eliminate the enemy, and finally seize the main building and the ownership of the Imperial Garden. However, the Imperial Garden Contest does not mean that you only need to concentrate on developing as a homebody. In fact, it involves all aspects. For example, the "secret rooms" that will appear like mushrooms after rain within a few days after the start of the Imperial Garden Contest are enough to break the homebody plan - because there are opportunities in these secret rooms, which can help to strengthen one's own power. If you can pass all of them in a short period of time, you can also get favorable conditions to compete for the main building... Of course, you can also insist on not going. The Imperial Garden Contest will not force anyone to go to the secret room, but in this way, it is equivalent to watching them enjoy the opportunity. Generally, only the "forces" that are beaten to an extremely unfavorable state at the beginning, and can only shrink to protect themselves, and will be easily surrounded and killed when they come out, will give up going to the secret room... However, even such "forces" make the decision to give up going to the secret room, which is absolutely rare... On the contrary, the crazy attempt to turn the tables is common in several Imperial Garden Contests, but very few succeed...
It can be said that the beginning sets the tone for the various forces in the fight for the Imperial Garden, and the secret rooms that are opened next are a benefit sent by the Imperial Garden to all forces. If they can seize it, the weak will have a chance to turn the tables, and the strong will have a chance to establish victory!
In addition, it should be noted that the Imperial Garden Contest generally does not kill competitors, but this is apart from the "Secret Room". In some places in the Secret Room, if you die, you are really dead... This is also one of the reasons why some geniuses choose to give up the Secret Room Contest... However, after so many Imperial Garden Contests, most of the geniuses who died in the Secret Room were not well-trained, and the number of geniuses who died in the Secret Room was very small. In addition, some Secret Rooms are cut off from the outside world, and outsiders cannot know what happened inside. They can only learn a little from the words of those people later...
"Well... Master Jin Ba was able to succeed once but not a second time, otherwise those geniuses would be real pigs... So, we have to go to the secret room."
"Then... um, I suddenly came up with a great way to break into a secret room. If I can use it next time, hehe..."
…
The next day, the battle for the Imperial Garden entered a new stage. After a chaotic battle at the beginning, Chu Tianxiao seized the observation tower, sat on the hilltop, and formed an alliance with the study. After the other side reacted, they acted quickly. Under the leadership of Feng Shiming, the three geniuses quickly reached an agreement and also formed an alliance. However, whether they could really "put aside their grudges with a smile" was something no one knew...
But no matter what, the confrontation between the two camps had already taken place, and small-scale battles had begun in various places since the morning. Most of them were tests, but the ferocity of each other also frightened the outsiders a little... After a few days, one day at noon, a series of heavy clicking sounds rang out in all directions, and many people were so excited that they blurted out words.
"The secret room is open!"