Jade Wave Cup

A ritual artifact like the Jade Wave Cup, ranked sixty-seventh on the Myriad Treasures Record, was not difficult to use. A search through the Protectorate Pavilion's archives would naturally reveal its powers.

Chu Liang did not rush to test it. Instead, he continued searching through the other belongings on the two demon corpses.

He pulled out two weapons. They looked rather old, and the materials should have been decent, but too many years had passed, and their forging methods were exceedingly outdated. In terms of quality, they were worth only a few hundred Sword Coins.

Over the long years, techniques such as divine abilities, spells, alchemy, formations, and artifact crafting had all continuously advanced in the cultivation world. Thus, ancient objects were often inferior to modern ones.

The reason those famous divine artifacts were usually ancient was that they had very likely fallen from the heavens in primordial times, or even earlier. They had never been forged by mortal craftsmanship, which was why the ancient could surpass the modern. Or perhaps some supreme materials were impossible to encounter again; once they had been used up in the past, they no longer existed in the present.

Ordinary ancient weapons like these were only still used by the Demon Race in the far west.

There was no other reason.

They were simply poor.

Aside from the weapons, there were several jade slips, recording some simple yet strange breathing techniques. They ought to have been inheritance arts of the Demon Race. To humans, they were exceedingly crude.

Only one map looked somewhat useful.

It had been drawn on beast hide using some sort of black pigment. Several locations were marked in vivid blood-red paint, accompanied by simple symbols and writing.

Wen Yulong roughly identified them. He could vaguely make out seven or eight