Chapter 603: Chapter 329: A Fox’s Toast and Punishment—Which Will You Drink?
Hoo...
A wild wind blew into the Bronze Hall.
Bai Mo tightened his windbreaker and smacked his lips.
"Should I buy a down jacket?"
Having cultivated to his current level, he wasn’t really afraid of the cold or heat... even a splash of molten iron couldn’t burn his skin. But it always felt like wearing season-appropriate clothes would make him feel more alive.
Whoosh!
Small and Big Eyes pounced up, burrowing into the master’s coat to warm him.
"Ying ying ying!"
Whoosh!
Butterfly Knot jumped onto the master’s shoulder, using its tail as a scarf for him.
"Ow ow ow!"
The two foxes were full of pride!
They weren’t afraid of the cold, and with their presence, the master didn’t need a down jacket!
Bai Mo grinned, reached out to pat the heads of his two disciples, then picked up the stone slab and continued reading the documents.
As he read, he clicked his tongue in amazement.
"This warehouse in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty really has some secrets..."
He had to admit, the Ancient Immortal Dynasty had many special occupations that far surpassed those of the present age, like... thieves!
[... The warehouse stored all the materials and treasures of the Pill Palace, the most important of the Pill Palace, coveted by countless thieves...]
[... The Immortal Dynasty thieves went through three stages. In the first stage, the thieves were skilled in Earth Escape Technique, Invisibility Technique, Wall-Penetrating Technique, and Floating Technique, capable of invading the treasure vault from all angles...]
Earth Escape?
Wall-Penetrating?
Seeing these words, Bai Mo already felt sorry for the Ancient Immortal Dynasty warehouse managers.
[... Various Holy Lands and the Pill Palace improved their warehouses, deploying Anti-Five Elements Arrays nearby, causing array prices to soar for a while...]
[... During this period, most thieves came from the Talisman Kingdom, where professional thief guilds, training institutions, professional talismans, and disposal channels formed a complete industry chain, making theft a significant industry in the Talisman Kingdom, even producing a Prince of Thieves...]
Seeing this, Bai Mo was even more dumbfounded.
Earth Escape, Invisibility, Wall-Penetrating—these strange Five Elements Techniques indeed belonged to the Talisman Path.
But the Talisman Kingdom, a dignified nation, could actually make such things its major industry?
And even produce a Prince of Thieves?
[... Fortunately later, the Emperor of the Talisman Kingdom recognized the error, repented, abolished the Prince of Thieves, and cracked down on the theft industry...]
Oh?
Recognized the error?
[... The Emperor of the Talisman Kingdom personally announced that henceforth, thieves would be classified as Fallen Immortals, with theft written into Celestial Law, after which the Emperors of the other eight kingdoms laid down their weapons...]
Bai Mo twitched his mouth.
So this recognition of error was only achieved with the help of the other eight Emperors.
[... A few hundred years later, new thieves emerged in the Nine Kingdoms. Major goods and treasures in warehouses often disappeared into thin air. Despite concerted efforts and investigations over twenty years, the truth remained undiscovered...]
[... The Cyan Emperor ascended the throne, and with ordinary grass listening, caught the thief, who turned out to be the Beast King’s Consort, raising eight hundred Earth-Swallowing Heaven-Devouring Rats...]
[... The Earth-Swallowing Heaven-Devouring Rats moved underground extremely fast, and their small intestines had the effect of containing Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed, often burrowing into others’ warehouses and swallowing all major goods in one bite...]
Ah?
The Beast King’s Consort?
Bai Mo looked at the stone slab in his hand, suspecting the content on it, "Maybe this is just a novel written by Marquis Qing Yue..."
[... The Emperor of the Beast Kingdom executed the Princess Consort, eliminating eight hundred Earth-Swallowing Heaven-Devouring Rats...]
[... The bloodline of the Earth-Swallowing Heaven-Devouring Rats had already spread among the populace, branching out...]
[... The Array Kingdom and the Artifact Kingdom began studying the space magic of "A Mustard Seed Containing Mount Sumeru" and soon made progress, successively launching similar products...]
"Ah?
"This... this thief princess consort created the Earth-Swallowing Heaven-Devouring Rats and even promoted the development of the Immortal Techniques of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty?
"The space magic of ’A Mustard Seed Containing Mount Sumeru’ started from here?
"Immortal Beasts with spatial magic are the second generation of thieves?"
Bai Mo felt dizzy.
He continued reading.
[... Spatial-type Immortal Artifacts became a craze among the Nine Kingdoms as soon as they appeared, with everyone from Princes to Marquises wearing Spatial Rings...]
[... Spatial Rings are carried around, containing enormous space inside, storing valuable and large cargos conveniently and safely...]
[... Occasionally, Spatial Rings would malfunction and wouldn’t open again, leaving the treasures and goods inside forever unretrievable...]
[... The Prince Lcao of Bo Kingdom experienced this; his Spatial Ring of ten years suddenly malfunctioned one day, making the treasures and goods within irretrievable...]
[... But his ring also contained the ashes of his late Princess Consort. Aggrieved by the loss, he mourned daily and nightly, pining himself into illness. Later, in his quest to retrieve his beloved consort’s ashes, he diligently studied divination and actually grasped the causal lines within folded space...]
Grasped the causal lines of folded space?
Is it difficult?
Was it initiated by Prince Lcao?
Bai Mo didn’t really understand, so he read on.
[... Tracing the causal lines to find his beloved consort’s ashes, he unexpectedly ended up at the Celestial Palace Treasure Vault of the Artifact Kingdom...]
Ah?
[... It turned out the so-called Spatial Ring malfunction was just a scam...]
[... Every storage space sold by the Artifact Kingdom had two exits, one being the ring and the other left in the Celestial Palace of the Artifact Kingdom...]
Hmm?
How did they all manage to outplay each other like this?
[... Although theft techniques advanced with the times, the technology for building treasure vaults also kept progressing. Each of the Nine Kingdoms developed unique treasure vaults using their own Immortal Techniques...]
[... Our Dan Kingdom developed a unique Treasure Vault Grass, possessing recognition, defense, and self-destruct functions...]
Oh?
[... All thirty warehouses of the Cyan Moon Pill Palace are equipped with Treasure Vault Grass, providing tight protection, absolutely foolproof...]
So meticulous?
[... There are also three hundred warehouses where the contents aren’t as valuable as the Treasure Vault Grass, so they’re left alone for now...]
Bai Mo set down the stone slab, really unsure how to comment.
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