Inside the Hall of Treasures.
Lei Zhan flipped through the Treasure Catalog page by page.
Cold-Dark Sword Formation.
It consisted of nine top-grade Earth-Grade flying swords, each forged from the precious Cold-Dark Yin Iron...
Though Daoist Sanshou had rated it a top-grade Earth-Grade treasure, its power alone surpassed that of an ordinary Heaven-Grade flying sword by a small margin.
Lei Zhan had spent years adventuring in the North Dark Sea, broadening his horizons when it came to magic treasures. A treasure like the Cold-Dark Sword Formation would fetch at least five thousand catties of Essence Liquid per sword at Tianbao Mountain. Since they all came from the same source, selling the complete set together would be worth sixty or seventy thousand catties of Essence Liquid.
Brocade Cloud Miasma... a top-grade Earth-Grade defensive magic treasure...
Hundred-Poison Immortal Binding Array... an Earth-Grade magic treasure formation...
Lei Zhan slowly flipped through the treasures, one by one. Thanks to the Yellow-Haired Great Bear's consideration, he could choose two treasures from among all the Earth-Grade magic treasures, so he took his time.
After all, the Hall of Treasures contained far too many magic treasures!
"Senior Big Bear." After flipping through the catalog for a while, Lei Zhan turned to the Yellow-Haired Great Bear.
"You know what I'm like, Senior. There are too many treasures in the Hall of Treasures. Instead of getting dazzled by all the choices, I'd rather have you narrow them down for me."
"My requirements aren't high. I like magic treasures that come in the biggest sets and are worth the most!"
The Yellow-Haired Great Bear's eyes widened. "The biggest sets? The most valuable? And you say your requirements aren't high?"
The Hall of Treasures was packed with treasures, but everything was relative. Those two requirements alone eliminated ninety-nine percent of its magic treasures.
The Yellow-Haired Great Bear shook his head and waved a paw. The Treasure Catalog in Lei Zhan's hands instantly became much thinner.
"These remaining treasures all come in large sets and are highly valuable. I've also included the rare materials suited to cultivating the second turn of your Star-Plucking Hand!"
Lei Zhan had consecutively cleared the fourth level of the War God Hall, and his God-Devil Body Refining had advanced to the Myriad Phenomena level. After choosing his treasures this time, he would never again have the chance to select Earth-Grade treasures. The Yellow-Haired Great Bear naturally couldn't be bothered to put in any more effort.
"Thank you, Senior Big Bear." Lei Zhan nodded, then reopened the Treasure Catalog.
"Yin-Yang Life-Death Array? Made up of one hundred and eighty top-grade Earth-Grade fire-attribute flying daggers and one hundred and eighty top-grade Earth-Grade water-attribute flying daggers?"
The first page of the catalog showed a magic treasure formation. Its three hundred and sixty treasures were all top-grade Earth-Grade magic treasures, and together they could form the Yin-Yang Life-Death Array, whose power was tremendous.
"Top-grade Earth-Grade water- and fire-attribute magic treasures would be perfect for my Water-Fire Grinding Disc." Lei Zhan nodded and turned to the next page. Based on his understanding of the Yellow-Haired Great Bear, the treasures recorded farther back in the catalog were more precious!
"Hm? This set is even more suitable!" Lei Zhan stared at the book in his hands, his eyes shining with excitement. "Earth-Fiend Primordial Chaos Sword Formation? A set of seven hundred and twenty Earth-Grade flying swords?"
Each flying sword in this formation was forged from the precious Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Jade and Earth-Fiend Gold Essence. Nearly every one of them could rival a sword from the Cold-Dark Sword Formation.
And since all seven hundred and twenty flying swords came from the same source, the Earth-Fiend Primordial Chaos Sword Formation was even more powerful than the Yin-Yang Life-Death Array!
However, the more magic treasures there were, the greater the demands on one's spirit to control them all.
Fortunately, Lei Zhan's spirit had already reached the divine sense level. Controlling more than seven hundred top-grade Earth-Grade flying swords at once would be strenuous, but it wasn't impossible.
Satisfied, Lei Zhan marked the set as a candidate.
His Qi Refining Path was no weaker than his God-Devil Body Refining, but it ultimately lacked a number of means. With this set of magic treasures, his Qi Refining Path's strength would improve greatly.
Flip—
Flip—
Lei Zhan quietly leafed through the catalog in the Hall of Treasures.
Before long, he found the Five Elements Essence suited to cultivating the second turn of his Star-Plucking Hand, just as the Yellow-Haired Great Bear had said.
"Three-Colored Profound Stone? It contains the essences of metal, earth, and fire?" Lei Zhan's hand stopped as he flipped through the catalog. "Only three?"
Whoosh!
The pages turned, and a strange object resembling jade marrow appeared before his eyes.
Sure enough, Lei Zhan thought helplessly.
"Azure Wood Ice-Heart Marrow?"
Lei Zhan looked up at the Yellow-Haired Great Bear. "Senior Big Bear, could these two rare materials... have been recorded incorrectly?"
"Hm?"
The Yellow-Haired Great Bear paused, then realized what Lei Zhan meant. He smiled at him.
"How were they recorded incorrectly? These two rare materials containing Five Elements Essence are precious to begin with. They're usually kept among the Heaven-Grade treasures. If you hadn't obtained my master's Star-Plucking Hand, I wouldn't have included them here at all!"
"This..." Lei Zhan was at a loss for words. The Yellow-Haired Great Bear truly was a Magic Treasure Spirit who had lived for countless ages; with a single remark, he'd left Lei Zhan speechless.
"Senior Big Bear, if all the Five Elements Essence were together, I might trade for it. But split up..." Lei Zhan shook his head and continued flipping through the catalog.
After a long while.
The catalog in Lei Zhan's hands reached its final page. "God-Slaying Ring!"
So there really was a God-Slaying Ring! Lei Zhan was delighted. Although Immortal Juhua had bestowed three treasures upon him, he could never have too many life-saving treasures.
The God-Slaying Ring was utterly unreasonable. It forcibly pulled an enemy's soul and true spirit out of their body—even the mighty divine demons whose souls had completely fused with their divine power!
"The God-Slaying Ring is a little trinket my master casually refined when he was bored."
The Yellow-Haired Great Bear looked at Lei Zhan, who had fallen into deep thought. "Though Juhua gave you several treasures, that Dao Talisman containing his full-strength strike is best suited for dealing with Qi Refining cultivators. Against powerful divine demons, it won't be nearly as effective."
"Mm." Lei Zhan nodded.
Divine demons at the Purple Mansion level could be reborn from a drop of blood, while the more powerful ones could split off an independent body from a single drop of blood or even a wisp of divine power.
If Immortal Juhua's full-strength strike couldn't annihilate the divine demon in an instant, then Lei Zhan himself would be the one to die next.
"Can this God-Slaying Ring kill Void Return divine demons?" Lei Zhan asked curiously. He knew that the God-Slaying Ring could leave Xiangliu Fang, an ancient divine demon at the Primordial Spirit level, completely helpless. But as for Void Return divine demons... Lei Zhan wasn't so sure.
"Kill Void Return divine demons?" The Yellow-Haired Great Bear's eyes widened. "Void Return divine demons can rival some Celestial Immortals. How could they be so easy to kill?"
"But..."
"Hm?"
Lei Zhan's eyes, which had just begun to dim with disappointment, instantly lit up.
"But what?" Lei Zhan hurriedly asked.
"Against a Void Return divine demon in its prime, the God-Slaying Ring naturally has less than a two-in-ten chance. But if you use it together with that talisman Juhua refined..."
"Juhua lived for several million years. If he unleashed his full strength, even an ordinary Void Return divine demon would have to pay a heavy price. Once that divine demon was gravely wounded, using the God-Slaying Ring would give you a fifty percent chance of killing it outright!"
"Of course, even with the God-Slaying Ring alone, divine demons below the Void Return level are certain to die!"
The Yellow-Haired Great Bear's eyes brimmed with confidence. His master was a True God born from Chaos, and most of the beings in the Star-Plucking Great World were divine demons. Naturally, he understood them very well.
More importantly, there were rare treasures in the Hall of Treasures capable of killing Void Return divine demons. But no matter how highly he thought of Lei Zhan, he wouldn't place any of them among the Earth-Grade magic treasures and rare materials.
Lei Zhan nodded. What the Yellow-Haired Great Bear had said had undoubtedly made his eyes light up.
With this combination of moves, he wouldn't be entirely helpless even against a Void Return divine demon.
Even if he couldn't kill it, the time he bought would be enough for him to crush the Great Teleportation Dao Talisman and escape somewhere safe.
"Have you decided?" The Yellow-Haired Great Bear looked at Lei Zhan.
"Senior, I'll take the God-Slaying Ring and the Earth-Fiend Primordial Chaos Sword Formation!" Lei Zhan said with a smile.
The God-Slaying Ring would greatly strengthen his trump cards. And even if he never used the Earth-Fiend Primordial Chaos Sword Formation, it would still be worth a hefty sum of Essence Liquid.
"Come." The Yellow-Haired Great Bear beckoned toward the space above them.
Deep in the empty space overhead, points of starlight began to descend one after another. Soon, they passed through the restrictions and appeared before Lei Zhan.
One was a magic treasure formation with a palm-sized formation plate. The plate was arranged according to the number of the Earthly Fiends. Countless tiny flying swords, each black with flecks of gold and reduced to the size of an embroidery needle, stood densely packed across it, radiating waves of astonishing power.
The other was an unremarkable-looking black ring. Divine Patterns coiled around it. It looked inconspicuous, but when Lei Zhan glanced at it, his spirit shuddered with alarm.
"All right. You've chosen your treasures. The next time you come, it'll be after you clear the fifth level of the War God Hall or advance your God-Devil Body Refining to the Primordial Spirit level." The Yellow-Haired Great Bear shook his head. "You said earlier that you wanted to go to Star Hall. Let's go together."
"Okay." Lei Zhan nodded and swept his sleeve, collecting both treasures.
It might be a long time before he came back again.
In the original novel, that Cold-Dark Sword Formation was said to cost ten thousand catties of Essence Liquid per sword. That feels way too outrageous! Though these top-grade magic treasures could rival Heaven-Grade magic treasures, they'd usually only match mid-grade ones. A mid-grade sword could be bought for three or four thousand catties of Essence Liquid. Even with the markup because a Myriad Phenomena True Person could use it, five or six thousand should be the absolute limit.
Ten thousand catties of Essence Liquid is enough to buy a top-grade Heaven-Grade treasure!
Also, I don't think seven hundred and twenty swords is anything special for a complete magic treasure sword formation! Even Immortal-Grade magic treasures come in complete sets of top-grade swords. I think one set had one thousand and eighty swords. I'm not making that up!