"There’s a shortcut and you didn’t use it, insisting on stupidly bombarding that gate’s restriction. Luckily, I realized it in time!"
With Divine Sense immersed in the Essence Spirit Pearl of the Shadowless Mountain Penetrating Beast King, Ye Zhen sped through the underground like a fish, swiftly navigating while bitterly smiling!
Indeed, each hall had Formation protection, and the gates even had stronger restrictions. To enter, one must first smash the gate’s restriction with brute force.
But Ye Zhen didn’t need to!
The Ye Zhen, who mastered the Earth Escape Skill, could freely come and go from twenty meters below ground!
The gold element Formation that countered Earth Escape was like a massive encirclement at a depth of twenty meters underground, densely layered with a potent force of the gold element, preventing any martial artist who mastered Earth Escape Divine Ability from entering.
However, since Ye Zhen was already inside, he could move freely within this twenty-meter depth, unable to leave, yet any hall he wished to enter or exit was at his will!
When he thought through this point, Ye Zhen almost jumped up in elation.
In such circumstances, weren’t the treasures within this Ten Thousand Beast Hall at Ye Zhen’s disposal?
Even Niu Xiaotian, the Sect Leader of the Beast Taming Sect who was once regarded as the most perceptive leader under the skies, probably couldn’t have imagined today’s scenario.
The formation that defended against the Earth Escape Divine Ability was effective, but it couldn’t stop Ye Zhen from scurrying in and out of the various halls.
In the Alchemy Hall’s location, which sat at the crossroads of four halls, Ye Zhen could use the Earth Escape Skill to sneak into two other halls in less than a Hundred Breaths of time.
Regrettably, the other two halls were empty, one’s purpose unclear, yet the name of another hall made Ye Zhen pause.
"Beast Punishment Hall!"
Divine Sense swept over it, and finding no Guardian Puppets in this Beast Punishment Hall, Ye Zhen then emerged from underground.
The moment he surfaced, a layer of bone fragments and bone powder covered from above, and an extreme stench of blood permeated throughout the hall!
The instant he was fully out, Ye Zhen was stunned!
"How many Demon Beasts had to be killed for it to be so... spectacular... horrendous..."
Within this Beast Punishment Hall, in an area of about two thousand meters around, nearly every corner was layered thickly with bones, teeth, skulls, and finger bones from various Demon Beasts...
The thinnest areas had bone fragments about a foot thick, and in the thickest areas, piles of white bones reached up to a meter.
One horrifyingly intimidating torture device after another lay buried amongst the white bones, creating a particularly ghastly and sinister atmosphere.
While inside this Beast Punishment Hall, Ye Zhen’s ears seemed to hear the screams of tens of thousands of Demon Beasts.
The Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten in Ye Zhen’s arms hadn’t come out, but just the feeling alone made it shiver in terror.
It was the lingering resentment of tens of thousands of tragically killed Demon Beasts!
After quickly circling the place, and finding nothing of use, Ye Zhen nearly fled from this Beast Punishment Hall.
The feeling in this Beast Punishment Hall was too horrifying, causing discomfort throughout his body!
Entering the ground again, he instantly felt much better.
Within a few breaths, Ye Zhen had escaped to the deepest hall at the crossroads; Hundred Poisons Master Lan Shuiqiao was still vigorously bombarding the restrictions on this hall.
However, after such a long time of bombarding, the hall’s door restriction had become quite weak, it wouldn’t be much longer before Lan Shuiqiao could enter!
As he passed by, a thought suddenly struck Ye Zhen.
If Lan Shuiqiao could harvest the fruits of his labor, why couldn’t Ye Zhen pluck Lan Shuiqiao’s fruits, ensuring a silent gain!
Thump thump thump!
The moment Lan Shuiqiao intensified her bombardment on the hall door’s restriction, Ye Zhen escaped beneath the hall.
Divine Sense carefully sweeping through, Ye Zhen was greatly shocked, "Another Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppet!"
In a corner of this hall, a Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppet stood silently in the corner like a statue.
Although the Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppet was terrifying, with the experience from last time and the aid of Ye Zhen’s Heart Sword Golden Light, in just a few breaths, Ye Zhen had another Spirit-Sealing Puppet Orb in his hand.
A flash of light, and the Spirit-Sealing Puppet Orb along with the corpse of the Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Puppet were taken by Ye Zhen.
This hall, akin to the Alchemy Hall, had its four walls completely covered with dense Cold Jade Boxes, only these were comparatively smaller, none exceeding a foot square!
He opened one, empty!
Opened another, still empty!
After flipping through over a dozen Cold Jade Boxes and finding them empty, just as Ye Zhen was about to give up in disappointment, one of the randomly opened Cold Jade Boxes suddenly revealed two egg-sized, shiny objects!
"Demon Pills!"
"Heavenly Level Middle Grade Demon Pills!"
Ye Zhen was overjoyed, this time, at least he wouldn’t return empty-handed; two Heavenly Level Middle Grade Demon Beasts’ pills, once taken outside, would have some value!
Thrilled, Ye Zhen began searching from one box to another, occasionally finding several Cold Jade Boxes storing Demon Pills and even encountering a few Heavenly Level High Grade Demon Beast’s Demon Pills.
This place was the Demon Pill storing site of the Beast Taming Sect. At its peak, it stored hundreds of thousands of Demon Pills, but over the Sect’s decline in the past few centuries, many of the stored Demon Pills here had been used.
Just before its destruction, nearly ninety-nine percent of the historically stored Demon Pills were consumed!
What remained, although few, were substantial for Ye Zhen personally.
Under the excitement, it took just Hundred Breaths for Ye Zhen to flip through all the Cold Jade Boxes in the Demon Pill Hall; altogether, he found four hundred seventy-four Demon Pills.
Among them, two hundred ninety-one were Heavenly Level Lower Grade Demon Pills, one hundred sixty-eight Heavenly Level Middle Grade Demon Pills, and only fifteen were Heavenly Level High Grade Demon Pills.
In terms of wealth, this was an extraordinarily vast fortune.
A Heavenly Level Lower Grade Demon Core typically sold for thirty to fifty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals, while a Heavenly Level Middle Grade Demon Core’s price had already surpassed one hundred thousand.
All considered, this was definitely a fortune worth tens of millions of Mid-grade Spirit Crystals.
If Ye Zhen could sell all these Demon Cores in a short time, he would be wealthy enough to rival nations.
In that instant, Ye Zhen suddenly and thoroughly understood the meaning of ’power and influence’ that Sect Leader Jian Qianxiong had previously mentioned!
On the path of Cultivation, the more one advanced to the later stages, the more important power and influence became!
Even a genius at the Establishment King level required countless Cultivation resources to build up, and those vast amounts of Cultivation resources could not be obtained by an individual alone.
Just like Ye Zhen, who had struggled for years and had only a few million Mid-grade Spirit Crystals, which also involved a certain degree of luck, most of which came from the dead’s wealth.
But what about a Sect?
Just a remnant resource from the Beast Taming Sect had enabled Ye Zhen to amass a fortune that rivalled nations, several times more than what he had accumulated over the previous decades.
And that was just a small portion of the Beast Taming Sect’s remaining resources.
Not to mention a grand sect in its prime like the Sun and Moon Divine Sect.
The Sun and Moon Divine Sect currently held seventeen branches, with a total congregation of over a million, including over two hundred thousand members above the Soul Sea Realm!
Suppose, just suppose, these two hundred thousand Soul Sea Realm Martial Artists generated an average of ten Mid-grade Spirit Crystals in pure value per day, that would make two million Mid-grade Spirit Crystals in one day.
In one year, that would amount to seventy to eighty million Mid-grade Spirit Crystals!
A person, even if they were to split themselves into eight parts, couldn’t possibly earn as much wealth!
Moreover, with the Sect’s efficiency, an ordinary member of the Soul Sea Realm would definitely generate a value well above ten Mid-grade Spirit Crystals per day.
"It seems, once I get out of here, I need to do something within the Divine Sect...."
Bang!
Suddenly, a loud boom came from outside the door, startling Ye Zhen from his thoughts.
"Humph, eat dust!"
With a cold snort, Ye Zhen’s figure abruptly sank and he vanished in an instant!
No more than ten breaths after Ye Zhen’s figure had disappeared, the great doors of the Demon Pill Hall were pushed open, and Hundred Poisons Master Lan Shuiqiao, slightly weary, entered the hall.
Even though her Cultivation had reached the Peak of Eighth Stage of Vein Forging Realm, the continuous and intense bombardment still taxed her significantly!
"Hmm, no guardian puppets?"
Her gaze swept around, and disappointment glimmered in Lan Shuiqiao’s eyes.
In the Ten Thousand Beast Hall, halls that actually contained treasures were guarded by guardian puppets; finding none here suggested this hall might be of little value.
"Eh, that’s not right?"
Her gaze fell on several Cold Jade Boxes on the walls, causing Lan Shuiqiao’s expression to change again, and she immediately dashed over.
"Hmm? The scent of Demon Cores? There’s still a trace of Demon Core scent here?"
"Is this the Demon Pill Hall?"
Startled, Lan Shuiqiao quickly checked all the Cold Jade Boxes, her expression became extremely solemn.
"Someone has been here!"
"And they killed the guardian puppet with hardly any cost?"
In a corner, Lan Shuiqiao noticed some fresh stone chips, and her expression immediately became extremely puzzled!
"Both doors to this hall were clearly closed; how could someone possibly get inside?"
"Moreover, I was right outside, and I didn’t sense any noises of a fight!"
"Who could have such vast Divine Abilities to take the items before me? Those Demon Cores, not to mention, the puppet...."
Lan Shuiqiao’s long eyebrows immediately furrowed into a "川" character, "None among us has such an ability; could there be other experts who have infiltrated this place?"
As doubts filled her mind, Lan Shuiqiao, frowning, walked toward another door of the grand hall — this hall had two doors.
Underground, Ye Zhen, sensing Lan Shuiqiao’s appearance through his Divine Sense, nearly burst out laughing.
I got your fruits picked; now that I picked yours first, let’s see how you feel!
The next moment, Ye Zhen keenly noticed Lan Shuiqiao heading toward another door at the other end.
While Lan Shuiqiao once again began pounding furiously at the restriction seal of another door from the inside, Ye Zhen had already passed swiftly underground and after traversing a long corridor and another empty grand hall, he suddenly discovered a different pathway.
On either side of this distinct pathway, every hundred meters, stood a ten-meter-tall bronze beast head, fiercely overlooking the path.
At a glance down the road to its end, there stood over a hundred massive bronze beast heads, framing the grand hall in between with an extraordinarily imposing presence!
"Could this be the main hall of the Ten Thousand Beast Hall?"
Moved by the thought, Ye Zhen traversed underground in a few breaths to the front of this imposing hall, but the moment he arrived in front of this grand hall, his expression suddenly froze, almost exclaiming aloud.
"Yangh Yiguan!" (To be continued. If you like this novel, welcome to qiidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)

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