The Sect Master's Dead, So His Inheritance Is Mine, Right?

"We'll talk about it when we get back."

He turned around.

Lightning flashed beneath their feet.

It flew off in the direction it had come from.

Behind them, the Main Altar of the Black Demon Sect—half submerged at the bottom of the sea and half collapsed on the surface—began to slowly sink after losing its master.

The black buildings disappeared into the dark red sea.

Three thousand years of management.

A splash of water.

Su Zhan did not look back.

He's very fast.

But the Sect Master's dying words kept echoing in his mind.

"That thing... I wouldn't even dare touch it..."

The Sealing Formation of the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven.

Remaining energy: 17%.

Six months.

Su Zhan even faster.

Su Zhan's figure drew a purple-gold arc above the dark red sea of mist, moving so fast that the air currents pressed a long trench into the sea surface.

After flying for about a hundred miles, he suddenly slowed down.

It's not that I'm tired. It's just that an idea popped into my head.

"Did you guys notice something just now?"

There was a brief silence in my Sea of Consciousness.

[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: What?

"That old bastard's lair, which he'd built up over three thousand years, just sank into the sea."

[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: Yeah, it sank. What happened?

"Three thousand years of accumulated wealth— Cultivation Method, elixirs, materials, secret manuals—it's all inside."

There was another moment of silence in my Sea of Consciousness.

Then things exploded.

[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: Holy crap! Go back and get it!

[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: Turn around! Turn around! Turn around!

[Immovable Wisdom King Wall]: I felt that eating those metal fragments wasn't enough -- there must be better ones in the Treasury!

[Nine Heavens Divine Lightning]: Calm down. The Main Altar has sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the surrounding area is filled with highly concentrated liquid Devil Qi. If you go down, your movement speed will drop to less than half that on land.

[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: That's your problem. Liquid Devil Qi is like bathwater to me. I'm completely isolated, so you can eat it without worry.

[Ancient Life Tree]: (whispering) I want to go too... That Sect Master must have a lot of heavenly materials and earthly treasures in his collection, maybe even something that can replenish the Sealing Formation's energy...

These words brought Su Zhan to a complete halt.

The Sealing Formation energy is down to 170%, it won't last more than six months.

If the Black Demon Sect's Treasury truly contains some extraordinary treasures, even if it's just to slow down the decay rate, it's worth the risk.

"Go back."

Su Zhan changed direction, Purple-Gold Lightning drew a U-shaped bend in the air, flying back the way it came.

[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Boss, I laid out most of my silk threads in the Main Altar. Although the building sank, some of the silk threads are still buried in the ruins and haven't broken. I can sense their approximate location.

Where is the Treasury?

[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Directly below the main hall, on the third level of the seabed. I have a vague impression from the Soul Search Memory— the Sect Master's private treasure room was located at the deepest part of the entire Main Altar, with at least four layers of Restriction outside. However, the Sect Master is dead, and the Restriction should have lost their active offensive capabilities, leaving only passive defense.

Su Zhan flew back to the location where the Main Altar had sunk.

Only scattered black fragments remained on the surface of the sea, bobbing up and down in the waves. The buildings had been completely submerged.

He glanced down.

The black seawater was so thick it was almost like ink, making it impossible to see anything. But the remaining threads of the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock in the ruins sent back a signal— the Main Altar was sunk to a depth of about three hundred feet.

"Old Poison Master, how wide a range can you isolate the surrounding liquid Devil Qi?"

[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: It depends on my mood. If I open it to the limit, there's no problem with a safe zone of fifty feet in radius. But I have to operate it at full power, and I can't do anything else.

"That's enough. The rest of you are responsible for dismantling the Restriction and moving things."

Su Zhan a deep breath, stepped on the lightning, and plunged headfirst into the black seawater.

The feeling of being submerged in water is disgusting.

The liquid Devil Qi didn't feel like water—it felt more like putting your hand into a pot of uncooked asphalt. It was viscous, scalding hot, and had a corrosive, stinging sensation.

The purple light shield of the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon immediately expanded.

The purple qi pushed aside the surrounding Devil Qi, forming a spherical safe zone with a diameter of fifty feet. At the boundary of the sphere, the purple qi and the black Devil Qi constantly collided, devoured, and digested each other. The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon was both resisting and consuming the energy.