Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury

"Create your own martial art?"

Cang Yinyue did not believe Li Musheng in the slightest. Creating a martial art was no easy feat.

Setting aside those rare, supreme secret manuals, even ordinary cultivation methods and martial skills were only created through the painstaking efforts of highly accomplished martial arts masters and predecessors, consuming a lifetime of energy—or the efforts of several generations, even dozens of generations.

Li Musheng was only twenty years old. Even if he had begun training in martial arts from the womb, his martial arts foundation was nowhere near enough for him to create a martial art of his own.

Besides, that acupoint-sealing technique from earlier had been extraordinarily formidable. Cang Yinyue was certain it could not possibly have been his own creation. He had likely obtained it through some chance encounter.

At that moment, Li Musheng raised his head and shrugged.

"I knew you wouldn't believe me, but that's the truth."

Then he waved the wooden box in his hand before Cang Yinyue's eyes.

"Tell me about this thing first. I never expected that old man Yu to have really hidden away such a treasure."

Yet Cang Yinyue merely gave a cold snort and did not answer.

She only closed her eyes and tried to mobilize the martial true qi within her dantian, attempting to break through the sealed acupoints across her body.

However, she soon discovered in shock that even her dantian had been sealed. She could not circulate even a trace of true qi.

Seeing Cang Yinyue run into a wall, Li Musheng's heart stirred. He deliberately put on a stern face and said,

"It's useless. Only I can undo those acupoints. I don't want to be a villain, but I'd advise you to cooperate obediently. Otherwise, I can't guarantee I won't do some strange things."

As he spoke, his eyes traveled up and down her body. But as though he had recalled something, he suddenly lost interest and withdrew his gaze.

At the sight, a flicker of killing intent flashed through Cang Yinyue's clear eyes. In an icy voice, she asked,

"You saw my face?"

Li Musheng froze slightly, then sighed.

"Ah, you found out. But I wasn't trying to discriminate against you."

The killing intent in Cang Yinyue's eyes grew even stronger, almost tangible.

To her, Li Musheng claimed he was not discriminating against her, yet his behavior just now had betrayed what he truly thought!

"Don't look at me like that. It's terrifying."

Li Musheng spun the six-sided wooden box around his fingers like a basketball, then looked at her earnestly.

"I just think it's a pity. Miss Cang is clearly a beauty in the making, yet someone subjected you to tattoo punishment and carved the word 'lowly' onto you. It was truly far too cruel."

Cang Yinyue stared at Li Musheng without blinking. After several breaths, she simply closed her eyes and said,

"I'll give you the item. If you still intend to go to Shangyang City, then release me. If not, killing me now would make no difference."

"There's no need for that, no need at all."

Li Musheng shook his head repeatedly.

"How can anyone leave things unfinished halfway through? I think I can still fight for that Seventh Prince identity."

Hearing this, Cang Yinyue snorted coldly, abruptly opened her eyes, and said,

"Then undo my acupoints now."

"No problem, but... you have to tell me about this box first."

Li Musheng suddenly caught the spinning wooden box between his fingers, stopping it before Cang Yinyue's eyes.

Cang Yinyue narrowed her eyes. She looked at the wooden box in silence for a moment before suddenly asking,

"Do you know of the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury?"

"What is that? It sounds pretty impressive, though." Li Musheng looked puzzled.

"The Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury is a secret vault left behind by the Apocalypse Emperor, the founding emperor of Great Qi. Some say it contains the divine martial arts and peerless pills that allowed the Apocalypse Emperor to reach the pinnacle of martial arts. Others say it holds gold, silver, and treasures rich enough to rival a nation. Still others say it contains everything—that whoever obtains it can possess the entire world."

Cang Yinyue spoke slowly, her gaze fixed on Li Musheng.

"Yet for a thousand years, no one has ever known what exactly lies within."

Li Musheng stroked his chin thoughtfully.

Of course he knew of the Great Qi Dynasty.

It had been an exceptionally rare golden-age dynasty, its reign stretching on for a full thousand years. Back on Blue Star, he had never seen a feudal dynasty with such longevity.

However, Great Qi had been destroyed a hundred years ago. Its vast territory had been carved up among the current five great dynasties, and Great Li, where he now was, was one of them.

As for the Apocalypse Emperor, he was even more extraordinary. The world hailed him as an emperor without equal through the ages, and the achievements he had established in his lifetime shook the past and dazzled the present.

His most important achievement had been driving out the Man and Huang races, ending the thousands of years during which the human people had suffered invasion and enslavement at their hands.

Furthermore, the Apocalypse Emperor had been a heaven-sent martial arts prodigy. His cultivation had been unmatched beneath the heavens. In his era, the entire martial world could only gaze upon his back...

As Li Musheng pondered this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

The Apocalypse Emperor had truly reached the pinnacle of martial arts. Perhaps he had even touched the realm beyond transcendence.

He immediately stood up in excitement, flicked a finger to undo Cang Yinyue's sealed acupoints, then grabbed her hand and said,

"Let's not go to Shangyang City for now. Take me directly to find the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury. I'm more interested in that."

Cang Yinyue had just been released from her sealed acupoints and was stunned for a moment.

But very quickly, a sharp gleam surfaced in her phoenix eyes.

Her martial true qi shot through her meridians in an instant and gathered in her palm. With lightning speed and without the slightest hesitation, she launched a sneak attack at the back of Li Musheng's neck.

Yet the next moment, she discovered that she could not move again.

The situation was exactly the same as before.

"Miss Cang, why did you attack again? Good thing I reacted quickly."

Li Musheng shook his head as he held her hand, while Cang Yinyue was visibly furious and remained silent for a long while.

Seeing this, Li Musheng began earnestly trying to persuade her to take him in search of the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury.

Cang Yinyue grew impatient with his persuasion and directly poured a bucket of cold water over him.

"You think a single wooden box key of uncertain authenticity is enough to obtain the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury?"

Li Musheng's expression froze. "This wooden box could be fake?"

Cang Yinyue glanced at the six-sided wooden box.

"I'm not sure. The information obtained by the Scum River Seven Bandits was unreliable. They killed many people over this thing before finally finding it at the Yu Family Martial Arts School today."

"Also, as far as I know, there are seven keys to open the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury. Only by gathering all seven can the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury be opened."

Li Musheng's heart sank.

This plot seemed strangely familiar. Gather seven Dragon Pearls to summon a divine dragon?

He secretly mocked it to himself. His earlier excitement gradually cooled, and after thinking for a moment, he sat back down beside the campfire and played with the wooden box in his hand.

"I have a question. Since that secret vault was left behind by the Apocalypse Emperor, and more than a thousand years have passed, could someone have opened it long ago?"

Hearing this, Cang Yinyue cast Li Musheng a glance.

"No one should have obtained the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury yet. From what I know, the closest anyone came to opening it was a hundred years ago. That was the last emperor of Great Qi, who gathered all seven keys."