Gu Qingshan made his way forward through the tunnel.
Before long, the passage opened up into a broad chamber, where dozens of piles of objects were stacked like mountains.
Everything had been dumped together in a chaotic mess.
Clearly, no one had come to sort through it in a long time.
Gu Qingshan wandered around, rummaging through the piles for something useful.
"What a mess..."
He couldn't help muttering.
—Ding-level was the lowest-grade treasury, and this was a free bonus. It probably didn't have anything good anyway.
Gu Qingshan wandered from pile to pile. After quite a while, he finally spotted a set of armor that was barely worth a second look.
He casually pulled it free and held it up to examine.
He already had a sword and God of Death Summoning. Maybe he should get himself some armor?
Suddenly, the World-Defining Divine Sword spoke in his mind:
"Careful. Someone's watching this place."
Gu Qingshan kept his expression neutral, staring at the armor as if he were interested.
"Oh? How can you tell?" he asked in his mind.
"Have you forgotten? I can see everything hidden in the void. There are several concealed arrays here, and people inside them are keeping watch," said the World-Defining Divine Sword.
Gu Qingshan understood.
The sword had a divine ability that let it see what had happened in any place and everything hidden in the void. It was called Illumination.
That was how it had found the ones hiding there.
Even a Ding-level treasury was guarded this closely—
It seemed that the Yellow Springs gods didn't want to sort through the vast quantities of heretical treasures. Instead, they had simply stationed a few people here to keep watch, so they could be notified at once if anything valuable turned up.
Besides, if someone