"Tell me the location of the underground storage rooms and the numbers of every vault holding Chinese cultural relics."
The curator began mechanically reciting a series of details-the entrance to the underground storerooms, the layout of the corridors, each vault's number, and an inventory of the types of relics inside.
Tianyi withdrew his hand, crouched slightly where he stood, and pressed both palms against the floor.
Magnet Release chakra surged from his palms, seeping down through the seams in the marble floor, through the concrete, through reinforced steel plates, and into the underground vault complex spanning tens of thousands of square meters.
His perception unfolded like a map. The location of every vault, every metal cabinet door, and the outline of every relic rapidly appeared in his mind.
He pressed his palms together, and his chakra erupted.
The floor began to tremble and heave. Then the heavy metal vault doors underground were forced open from the outside by the power of Magnet Release.
Metal hinges twisted with piercing shrieks, and the heavy blast doors slid apart, exposing the storage shelves and densely packed racks of relics within.
Bronze ritual vessels, Warring States jade, Song dynasty porcelain, Ming and Qing paintings and calligraphy, Tang tri-colored pottery, Buddhist statues, calligraphy copybooks, ancient texts-tens of thousands of Chinese cultural relics sealed away in climate-controlled storerooms.
Drawn by gravity, they slowly floated upward, rising through the corridors, passing through floors and ceilings, and emerging one by one from cracks in the ground to join the ever-expanding mass of relics suspended in the center of the exhibition hall.
Thirty-two thousand pieces.
From the pre-Qin era to the Ming and Qing dynasties, from bronze to silk, from vessels to paintings and calligraphy-a vast collection of cultural heritage filled the air above the entire hall, slowly revolving