"You really can't remember what your relationship is with that old man?" On the way to the palace, Chen Qing couldn't help but send a telepathic message: "Could it be an old flame?"
"When did you become so gossipy?" Ziyue replied coldly.
His gaze, however, was fixed on the area surrounding the palace walls.
It felt so familiar; every brick and tile here was almost identical to what I remembered. Yet, even though I had been away from Cloud Capital for ten thousand years, this palace looked brand new, not at all old. Could it have been a replica of its original appearance, rebuilt entirely?
Ziyue couldn't remember what her role was in the palace. In her memory, the Warlock Dynasty was all about suffering, with all sorts of experiments, all kinds of pain from the body and spirits. Ziyue couldn't remember how many kinds of poison she had ingested, how many kinds of curses she had suffered from, or how many kinds of objects she had experimented with since she was a child.
Why are these experimental subjects so familiar with the imperial palace?
Did I ever serve in the imperial palace?
"I'm just concerned about you," Chen Qing said guiltily via telepathy. "This guy is an old flame. We can still try to build a relationship and win him over, right? Most of the people from the Warlock Dynasty are dead now. If the only Celestial Master successor is your old flame, we might be able to win over the remaining forces of the Warlock Dynasty. You've seen it yourself, with a great war looming ahead, having such a mysterious force to help us is very necessary."
"You're overthinking it," Ziyue said softly. "That old man is definitely not normal. Don't be too optimistic. I always feel like he's looking at me as if he's looking at some kind of treasure."
"Right?" Chen Qing squinted. Actually, he felt that compared to this old man, it was the Xiaopang Zhang Xiaoyun who looked like he had found a treasure when he saw Ziyue.
Moreover, given his age, he shouldn't possibly know Ziyue.
" The Treasure Artifact Palace is just ahead." Celestial Master Zhang excitedly pointed to a huge palace gate in front of him. Chen Qing looked over and saw that the gate was very tall, even taller than the Xuanwu Black Tortoise Gate, which was located in the Four Symbols position when entering the palace.
A huge Bagua (Eight Trigrams) symbol hangs at the entrance, its yin and yang fish seemingly alive, swirling and radiating a strange power.
Chen Qing looked over warily. He could sense that the yin-yang fish contained a great deal of energy, but he couldn't discern the nature of that energy. As the Lord of the Divine Path, he was extremely sensitive to the nature of energy, and the fact that he couldn't detect anything made him feel very insecure.
With a flick of his whisk, the old celestial master caused the yin-yang symbol to rotate rapidly, its black and white colors seemingly forming the myriad principles of the world. Chen Qing could clearly sense a strong energy fluctuation in the surrounding space, which Chen Qing confirmed when the palace doors opened.
This Warlock Dynasty possessed highly advanced spatial technology!
The world inside the gate is absolutely not the same as the world outside!
Chen Qing was quite certain of this.
He had been to the Void Zone with Kagura. It was a special space created by the guild using the world-changing methods of the third version, a space that could even reject the laws of the version. And here, it was the same; this space was completely isolated from the laws of the outside world.
The spiritual energy inside is incredibly potent, so much so that even the most concentrated spiritual field in Jiangnan, created by gathering Baiyu, wouldn't reach even one percent of its current concentration.
This level of strength represents the pinnacle of the region in version three.
Chen Qing stared at the scene, bewildered. It was hard to believe that the Warlock Dynasty actually possessed such a thing.
In a place with such a high concentration of spiritual energy, if Transcendent life forms were cultivated, many could probably be cultivated over the past ten thousand years.
Although he didn't know how these people did it, Chen Qing was becoming increasingly wary of the Celestial Master Mansion's power; the strength they possessed might far exceed his imagination.
"Hurry up and go in, the spiritual energy inside must not dissipate." The old man took the lead and stepped inside. Chen Qing hesitated for a moment, but Ziyue seemed to have no hesitation at all and followed him in directly.
Chen Qing saw this and ultimately followed behind. This guy was usually so steady, but today he was surprisingly cunning.
Can you remember these?
Upon entering this enormous palace, one is immediately struck by its dazzling array of objects. The vast palace is filled with all sorts of artifacts of various shapes and sizes, including floating sword racks, weapons imbued with immense Spirit Energy, floating talismans, stone statues imbued with consciousness, and even some living creatures.
For example, there are some fingers that look rather eerie and terrifying, a human skin mask with various expressions on it, and some strange-looking objects.
Chen Qing swallowed hard. This was even more exaggerated than the biological armory in the Dragon Palace. The items inside all possessed unique and immense power, and he felt that each one was no less powerful than the Mirror Demon in his hand.
Where did this Warlock Dynasty get so many of these things?
Even in the third edition, it's unlikely we'd see so many of these artifacts all at once.
Magical artifact!!
Chen Qing could almost immediately tell what these were at a glance. They were demonic artifacts that had lived for countless millennia and possessed their own consciousness. They were the kind of artifacts that would only appear in the third version of the rise of Artifact Demon. How did this Warlock Dynasty, which was born in an era of declining Earth Spirit, manage to acquire these?
Chen Qing knew these things well; if they weren't buried deep underground, they would have to be in the heavens. The mortal realm simply didn't have the ability to store them. It was only when the third version of the Star Age began that these artifacts descended from the sky. How could they all appear here?
Chen Qing recognized that many of the items inside were designed by him personally.
Ziyue recognized her too, but her face showed confusion.
She remembered something.
Originally, she was one of the test subjects. By chance, she came into contact with a magical artifact and showed extraordinary talent in controlling it. As a result, she was exceptionally brought to this Treasure Artifact Palace by the higher-ups.
Because of her background as a designer, she knew the properties of many objects, so during that period she successfully activated many of them, becoming the most valuable experimental subject at the time. Her treatment and status improved significantly, and many terrible experiments were suspended on her.
Instead, he forced himself to become familiar with the many objects inside.
Yes, she remembered. She was the top artifact master of the Treasure Artifact Palace, capable of using over a thousand top-tier magical artifacts within the palace, and was known as the First Artifact Spirit!
"Do you remember now?" The old master rubbed his hands together excitedly. "Do you remember these things? This, this, the Heavenly Evil Armor, your specialty used to be something you were very good at, remember?"
Ziyue looked over and saw that the Celestial Master was referring to a white puppet floating in the air. It was deathly pale and looked incredibly eerie, especially its eyes. They seemed lifeless, but if you looked into them, you would feel like you were being sucked in!
Heavenly Evil Armor.
When Chen Qing heard this name, his eyelids twitched involuntarily.
The development of the fourth version had little to do with me, because due to a personnel change at the time, I was transferred away from the project for a period of time, and almost had a falling out with the game company.
It wasn't until the game encountered numerous problems after its launch that the company's senior management reluctantly came to ask me to take over the project again. By the time I returned to the project, the fourth version was almost finished. I remember being very dissatisfied with it and planning to redo it, but the company felt the cost was too high and only wanted me to refine it myself.
The fourth version features the awakening of ancient artifacts and the descent of stars. The entire world will officially follow the stars, becoming travelers in the primordial world, and players will truly begin to fight against extraterrestrial demons.
Of course, that version never seems to have been enabled until he died of a serious illness.
This is probably why the world keeps Samsara the first three versions, and why the Four Great Guilds have been unable to unlock the fourth version.
But why is the fourth version of the Heavenly Evil Armor here?
How exactly did this Warlock Dynasty acquire this power?