Chapter 344: Chapter 343: Ancient Treasure
According to the Spirit Race Ancestor, not obtaining a Divine Rune meant not receiving this place’s recognition, which meant he had failed.
’Looks like I won’t be able to become the Spirit King?’
Yi Tianyun shook his head. ’If that’s really the case, then I won’t be able to complete the mission? But why would the system give me a mission like this?’
’Is this supposed to be an increase in difficulty? I have to become the Spirit King even if I don’t get recognized?’ Yi Tianyun frowned. ’If that’s the case, the difficulty is truly immense.’
How could he become the Spirit King without recognition? Both the Spirit Race Ancestor and he himself had already said it: if he couldn’t gain recognition, the title of Spirit King would not be his.
’Or is it because I’m a foreigner that I can’t get recognition?’ Yi Tianyun considered this but quickly dismissed the idea. There had been a Spirit King from a Foreign Race a long time ago, so the notion that foreigners couldn’t be recognized was clearly false.
He frowned, carefully surveying the area, completely unsure where to begin. ’What are the conditions for receiving recognition?’
He looked at the stone wall and immediately used the Eye of Investigation to inspect it. The details of the place quickly appeared before his eyes.
"First Grade Divine Rune: Enhances the effect of Elixir Pills. When successfully engraved on an Elixir Pill, it can increase its effect by ten percent."
"Third Grade Divine Rune: Enhances weapon damage. When successfully engraved on a weapon, it can increase its damage by ten percent."
"Second Grade Divine Rune..."
...
One by one, the Divine Runes revealed their effects under the Eye of Investigation. But Yi Tianyun didn’t want to see these individual runes; he wanted to see the stone wall as a whole! When he looked, however, all he saw was a dense cluster of Divine Runes, which meant nothing to him.
’Do I have to look through all of them to understand what this is?’
After a moment’s thought, Yi Tianyun quickly backed away, returning to the main entrance. He took in the entire stele with his gaze and activated the Eye of Investigation again.
"DING! Successfully discovered the Overlord Stele (Ancient Level Treasure). Gained 5,000,000 Experience Points, 100,000 Madness Value, and 100 Reputation Points!"
Overlord Stele: A stele engraved with most Divine Runes up to the Master level. Its size can be altered. It can be used to suppress all Divine Runes up to the Master level, disabling their arrays or the runes themselves. While within its range, the user’s success rate for engraving Divine Runes up to the Master level is increased! With the corresponding Divine Rune Stone, it can instantly engrave a Divine Rune up to the Master level; without the stone, this is not possible. Cooldown: one week.
’This is an Ancient Level Treasure?’ Yi Tianyun was stunned. He was truly shaken by this information. Its effects were quite astonishing. Not only could it suppress other Divine Runes, but it could also increase his own engraving success rate. Most importantly, it could instantly produce a Divine Rune up to the Master level!
Whatever rune you wanted, it could be imprinted instantly, just like a photocopier. Press it onto a Divine Rune Stone, and a Divine Rune would appear. The speed was absolutely astonishing. The only drawback was that the resulting Divine Rune was of a normal grade, not multi-layered.
Instantly imprinting an attack Divine Rune would be quite effective, allowing for an immediate attack. And it could change size... This really was a miraculous treasure.
’This was probably left behind by the Spirit Race’s ancestors, but no one knows how to use it... And it needs Divine Rune Stones? I suspect the reason no one gets recognized is a lack of Divine Rune Stones.’
Yi Tianyun had a strange expression on his face. If that were the case, it would be quite bizarre. Divine Rune Stones were essentially the same as Divine Rune Paper, only far more precious. They were a special type of Spirit Stone that looked like jet-black rocks. They couldn’t be used to absorb Spiritual Power for cultivation and were only used for Engraving Divine Patterns.
He carefully looked around, but there were no Divine Rune Stones here, so he couldn’t test his theory.
Still, what he wanted more was to take the Overlord Stele for himself. He just didn’t know how to control it.
He walked up to the Overlord Stele, placed his hand on its surface, and began to channel his Spiritual Power into it. As he did, the Divine Runes on the stele began to light up rapidly, starting from the bottom and quickly spreading to the very top.
Soon, the entire stele was illuminated, appearing before him like a monolith of light. He didn’t know if this would work, but he had to try.
"Collect!"
Yi Tianyun shouted, and the entire stele erupted with a dazzling radiance. In the next moment, it shot out a beam of light that enveloped him, making him feel pleasantly warm. It was the same special feeling as before.
After a moment, Yi Tianyun felt a connection form with the stele. He quickly opened his palm and roared in a low voice, "Collect!"
Immediately, the stele began to shrink rapidly, contracting until it was the size of his palm—a drastic change from before. It was heavy in his hand, easily weighing several thousand pounds. This thing alone was heavy enough to crush someone to death.
It seemed that even after shrinking, its weight remained astonishingly high; it hadn’t gotten any lighter.
’Not bad, not bad. It seems this is how you make it recognize a master. As long as you fill it with Spiritual Power, it acknowledges you. The difficulty wasn’t too high.’ Yi Tianyun nodded in satisfaction.
The Overlord Stele was quite impressive. He was especially satisfied with its effects. While not exactly heaven-defying, it was certainly not bad.
He then looked ahead. With the stele gone, a new path was revealed, leading deeper underground. A faint green light emanated from below, giving Yi Tianyun a very comfortable feeling. He sensed that the warm light from before had also come from deep within the earth.
’I never thought there would be another path behind this stele. No one has ever been able to remove it, so I guess they never realized the stele itself was a Treasure, huh?’ Yi Tianyun shook his head. If not for his Eye of Investigation, he would never have known.
Others were even more clueless; they must have thought it was nothing more than an ordinary stele.
Without much more thought, he started down the path. He wanted to see what lay at the bottom, and whether it was good or dangerous, he had to find out.
The deeper he went, the more he could feel a warmth washing over him. The sensation was very comfortable, with no hint of danger. This was another reason he was eager to investigate further; perhaps he would unearth something.
When he reached the very bottom and stepped through the entrance of the cavern, the view suddenly opened up before him. What greeted his eyes was a large green crystal. It seemed to contain a dense Power of Life, which flowed out of it in a constant stream, making him feel as if he were being bathed in a spring breeze.
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