Within the palace were countless strange flowers and exotic herbs, divine weapons and full sets of armor.
But Chu Qing had no interest in them.
In the end, he came to the study.
The study was enormous, with a vast collection of books inside.
However, most of the books had already decayed.
Most of those preserved intact were recorded on stone, alloys, and Golden Silk White Jade.
Chu Qing loved reading.
As he flipped through them, he found that the records were all extremely ancient.
Most of them contained secret accounts, history, and similar matters.
These things could not immediately increase his strength.
Yet he still read them with great relish.
What was interesting was this:
On a Golden Silk White Jade book, Chu Qing saw records concerning the Third Duke, Cangshen:
Heaven was brutal and tyrannical, seeking to carve up the continent, divide people into ranks high and low, and create barriers across the mortal world!
Led by the Third Duke Cangshen, some dukes could not bear to see all living beings suffer, so they raised the banner of rebellion!
Dukes such as Cangshen fought Heaven for an entire era. In the end, Cangshen and the other dukes were defeated and suppressed.
After that incident, Heaven no longer mentioned ranks high and low!
"Interesting!"
Chu Qing tossed the book onto his bundle, intending to pack it away and study it slowly after returning.
Soon, he found another record.
It documented some of the major wars between Cangshen and Heaven.
The wars mentioned beings such as Ancient Gods and Demons, Heaven-Defying Envoys, outsiders, Mythological Creatures, and Innate Gods and Demons.
One passage in particular struck Chu Qing as quite interesting:
It said:
Ancient God Fire led an army in battle against Heaven's Will and beheaded Heaven's Will at Stone Ridge