Time rewound to when Jiang Liu had been trapped in the underground space.
After wrapping several layers of Heaven and Earth Essence barriers around himself, Jiang Liu charged straight toward the staircase exit.
By then, the small door through which he had entered was already closing rapidly.
But before he could charge up the stairs, a weapon that appeared out of nowhere blocked his way.
The staircase that was fading away along the route was now covered everywhere with all kinds of attacking weapons.
From the might radiating from those weapons, it was clear that they were almost all divine artifacts.
Moreover, they were all divine artifacts with Artifact Spirits.
When he had packed up the treasure vault earlier, he had found it strange that he had not discovered a single weapon inside the Shang Family's treasure vault.
It turned out that the Shang Family had arranged all their divine artifacts here.
And this was the method they had prepared to prevent their treasure vault from being looted in one fell swoop.
One phantom after another of the divine artifacts appeared, wave after wave of formidable might emerged, and Artifact Spirits of various forms became clearly visible.
The moment these Artifact Spirits revealed their forms, they immediately attacked Jiang Liu.
Below, the entire underground chamber's surrounding walls had begun pressing inward even faster.
Therefore, he had no choice but to charge upward—and he had to be fast.
Although he did not know whether those walls would crush him,
he had no intention of gambling his flesh and blood on those odds.
Jiang Liu leaped into the air and raised the Godslayer Blade in his hand. Its blade aura emerged as it met a longsword head-on.
"Clang!" Blade and sword collided, their sharpness evenly matched.
However, the Godslayer Blade was being