"Such a huge palace—there can't really be nothing here, right?"
Having gained a great deal from the Treasure Pavilion, Xiao Han found it hard to accept that this enormous Hetian Jade Palace contained absolutely nothing.
After searching seven or eight rooms in a row, Xiao Han still found nothing—not even the lowest-grade piece of Mortal Equipment.
Back in the Treasure Pavilion, although most of the items had been damaged beyond use due to the passage of time, at least the items were still there. Yet this palace had nothing at all. That was a little too unreasonable.
Since the items in the Treasure Pavilion had not been taken, it meant no one had entered this cave dwelling before Xiao Han's group arrived. Yet this palace contained nothing. There was only one explanation: since its construction, this palace had never been put to use. It had merely been built as an ornament.
Indeed, Xiao Han thought that was the explanation most consistent with the facts. Otherwise, how could one explain the complete absence of anything in the palace? Still, the countless martial artists outside the palace, frozen in fleeing poses, lent this place an inexplicable air of strangeness.
"This isn't normal!"
Although there was nothing in the palace, Xiao Han instinctively felt that it was definitely not normal.
Xiao Han looked toward another area of the entire Floating Mountain. It was a Feng Shui Treasure Land known as Nine Dragons Spitting Pearls. Aside from this palace, it was the other mysterious place his divine sense could not probe.
Xiao Han finally understood why the martial artists of the Imperial Extremity Sect had abandoned this magnificent-looking palace and headed for the still-unknown Back Mountain.
The Imperial Extremity Sect's martial artists must have entered this place earlier. After finding nothing, they had gone