["Boom!!"]
[You kicked the Daoist temple's mountain gate flying, sending it straight up to heaven.]
["Old hag! Your grandpa is here!!"]
[You're the cleverest one, aren't you.]
[Before storming the temple, you first found an Exotic Beast lair nearby and stacked 「Heartsteel」 up to ten thousand layers.]
[It took a long time, but it was absolutely worth it.]
[You discovered that after breaking through to a new realm, the maximum stack count of 「Heartsteel」 remained at ten thousand layers, with no further increase.]
[The number of racial talents 「Calamity of Ten Thousand Races」 could carry simultaneously hadn't increased either—still ten.]
[You guessed that growth-type trait tags might have their limits, or perhaps they required other stimuli to grow again.]
[With 「Only the Essence Remains When Concentrated」, you didn't let your body grow to the size of ten thousand layers either.]
[After all, you had no idea if the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and the others were inside the temple. With such a massive form, you might accidentally injure your allies.]
[The moment you broke through the gate, you alarmed the temple's servants and the Old Hag's disciples.]
[The entire temple was instantly covered in a layer of red light.]
[Countless sharp blades and knives rained down from the sky, sweeping toward you.]
[「Reverse Engineering」 let you see that this was a high-quality third-grade killing formation—Thousand Blades!]
[Even you couldn't lay out a formation like this.]
[You naturally didn't dare to be overconfident.]
[But you still let out a cold snort, dismissing it with contempt.]
[Then you pulled out a divine artifact—the Celestial Empress's bellyband!]
[You spun the bellyband above your head like a handkerchief in a folk dance, opening it like an umbrella to deflect all the attacks from the killing formation.]
["Who are you?! Why are you forcing your way into my 'Myriad Treasures Temple'!"]
[Someone was loudly interrogating you.]
[You gave the crowd a sidelong glance and said coldly.]
["I've come to take back what's mine! You'll live if you don't resist."]
[These people still didn't realize the gravity of the situation.]
["How arrogant! Fellow disciples, join me in defending the temple!"]
[You weren't a murderous person.]
[But you gave them a chance, and if they insisted on seeking death, you couldn't be blamed.]
[Just as Chen Two had discovered during his long-term surveillance, every single person in this temple had at least one Spiritual Treasure.]
[Spiritual Treasures were good things in the Real Realm.]
[Ordinary cultivators could only use magical artifacts.]
[High-quality acquired Spiritual Treasures could be auctioned off.]
[However, acquired Spiritual Treasures didn't have Artifact Spirits either, even the best legendary acquired ones.]
[You'd heard that innate Spiritual Treasures had Artifact Spirits, but you hadn't seen a single one yet.]
[Spiritual Treasures were indeed impressive in power.]
[For example, the temple's senior disciple was holding a pitch-black fire poker, and from it could spew what was called 'Triple-Origin True Fire.']
[Even though you cultivated a fire-element technique and had the Flame Clan talent, this flame could still injure your flesh.]
[What's more, after being injured, you could clearly feel that the self-healing from 「Wolverine」 had slowed down, as if wounds caused by 'Triple-Origin True Fire' were harder to heal.]
[There was also a female disciple holding an oilpaper umbrella.]
[With every opening and closing of the umbrella, she could silently flicker in and out of existence around you.]
[It wasn't invisibility—it was more like phasing. She used this trick to dodge many of your attacks.]
["Good, good, good! As expected of the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess! Even the stuff her disciples use is this good! Wonderful! It's all mine now!!"]
[You let out a great shout, stomped your feet, and the entire mountain trembled!]
[「Civil War God」!]
[「Calamity of Ten Thousand Races」!]
[「Qilin Arm」!]
[「Serious Punch」!]
[Spiritual Treasures were good, but the people using them were too weak—they couldn't stop you in your prime at all.]
[The one with the highest cultivation was the senior disciple, at the early Core Formation realm.]
[The rest were only at the Qi Transformation realm, or even lower.]
[Clearly, even the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess, who had scraped together plenty of resources with her artifact-forging skills, couldn't mass-produce Core Formation cultivators.]
[Core Formation required talent.]
[These disciples under the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess generally had low immortal roots.]
[From what was seen on Fortune Star and Blazing Star, humans with high immortal roots simply didn't grow up.]
[Single-handedly, you tore the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess's temple apart.]
[The temple wasn't big, but the formations laid out inside were numerous and varied.]
[But you were strong enough to brute-force your way through, and with 「Reverse Engineering」 exposing the formation structures, the formations barely hindered you.]
[There had originally been sixty-seven people in the temple. After a fierce battle, only ten remained, barely alive, kneeling and begging for mercy.]
[Three people had used the wonder of their Spiritual Treasures to escape during the chaos.]
[You searched the temple from top to bottom but didn't find your stuff.]
[You patted down all the corpses too, but still found nothing.]
[None of them had storage pouches, so they carried little on them.]
[From this battle, you gained nine Spiritual Treasures, eighty-nine magical artifacts, some Source Stones, and some cultivation-assisting pills.]
[A copy of the «Essential Artifact Forging Techniques» personally compiled by the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess.]
[A number of cultivation techniques practiced by the temple's disciples, including Qi Refining Arts, spells, killing moves, and so on, but you didn't see any Divine Arts.]
[There were also a large number of artifact-forging materials in the temple's warehouse, including some treasure-grade materials.]
[Additionally, you discovered that in the Old Hag's study, there was a massive collection of books related to human culture.]
[There were books on literature, on architecture, on agriculture, and so on—a wide variety.]
["No wonder she could build a Daoist temple like this in the Real Realm, where human culture is rarely seen."]
[You noticed that all these books were 'banned books.']
[How could you tell they were 'banned books'?]
[Because on the title page of each book, there was a red stamp with two big characters—Banned Books!]
[Below those two big characters was a line of small text noting the stamping institution—the Holy Dragon Society.]
["Holy Dragon Society... what's that?"]
[You had never actually heard of the Holy Dragon Society before, but you had heard of the Holy Dragon Clan.]
[You wondered if there was a connection between the two.]
[Looking at the ten people kneeling before you, you asked calmly.]
["I saw some of you using divine marks earlier. Why didn't I find any cultivation methods or teaching materials related to divine marks?"]
[Someone answered tremblingly.]
["Only the senior disciple and a few personal disciples were qualified to learn divine marks from the master. The master taught through oral instruction.]
[The master said that humans were forbidden from mastering divine marks, and even after learning, they couldn't use them in public."]
[You nodded.]
["I have a few things that your master stole from me. They look like this."]
[You took out a picture book, inside which were drawings of all the Immortal Artifacts the Myriad Treasures Child Goddess had stolen from you.]
["Have you seen them?"]
["Y-yes, we've seen them..."]
["Where are they?"]
["The back mountain... the Spirit Nurturing Pool in the back mountain..."]
["Spirit Nurturing Pool? Take me there!"]
[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner was definitely suffering the Old Hag's torment right now, maybe even beyond recognition!]
[Buddies, don't be afraid! Your bro is here to save you!]

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