Path to Heaven
chapter-203

Chapter 203: Mount Mang Tribe Ruins

Some period later, Wei Suo stealthily exited the secret passageway of the junk room in another courtyard.

After confirming there weren’t any cultivators present with his divine sense, Wei Suo produced a ruby globe that sealed Black Drillworms. He then activated his True Flames to thin out the walls of the ruby globe before hurling it into the secret passageway. Following that, he took out the flying sword burnt by Glimmering Yin Sand previously, before circulating his true energy in and ultimately collapsing the passage entrance.

Wei Suo wasn’t in a rush to leave the place. Instead, he fished out the Blood Feasting Artifact Dagger and the white jade talisman of the Jin Clan’s ancestral hall for a look.

“Eh?”

Wei Suo’s eyes flickered with astoundment.

Previously, the tiny black dagger seemed to be forged with essence metal. Yet upon closer inspection, Wei Suo could tell this foot long black dagger wasn’t forged with metal. Instead, it was a bone artifact. The shape of this dagger was ordinary, but its surface was coated with minute malevolent skull talismanic patterns.

Moreover, there was a faint crimson shimmer, as though the dagger was filled with fresh blood.

Wei Suo attempted channeling his true energy in. Very quickly, the dark glow of this dagger was exuberated, while the crimson glow flooded towards the dagger tip; congealing into a blood red pearl.

Wei Suo’s eyes flushed with delight as he immediately halted his true energy. The blood red pearl was then instantly sucked back in by the black dagger and assimilated within.

“What exactly is this artifact? How strange, even I haven’t seen it before.”

The Old Man couldn’t resist his urge to ask as he observed Wei Suo.

“This artifact is incredibly peculiar. Its true might is only Half-Spirit Class. However, upon killing a cultivator, it could absorb the cultivator’s life source and true energy before sealing them inside the artifact. It can then be condensed into a blood pearl when facing other foes. No wonder it is called the Blood Feasting Artifact Dagger.” Wei Suo explained while examining the black dagger.

“The stronger the cultivator that was slain, the deadlier the congealed blood pearl would be. Just with Zhang Wuya’s Heavenly Circuit Stage level 1 cultivation, the congealed blood pearl was already nearing the might of a mid grade Spirit Class artifact. Now that it contains the blood of a Thought Division Stage level 1 cultivator, who knows how strong it is. I’m guessing it can go against a high grade Spirit Class artifact.”

“Seems like this is a dreadful artifact of a devil sect!” The Old Man sucked in a breath of cold air. “Could it be that loose cultivator is a major demon figure of a devil sect?”

After a while later, the Old Man called up excitedly, “This artifact can be used repeatedly. Wei Suo, hurry and kill some cultivators here, then this dagger will be minimally equivalent to a high grade Spirit Class artifact. Furthermore, this weapon is like a nail. In hindsight, it appears like a Half-Spirit class artifact where your opponent will treat it lightly. When the blood pearl is released, even a true mid grade Spirit class artifact will find it hard to defend against!”

“I’ve checked, this artifact can only store the blood pearl of a single cultivator. Only after releasing it, can it absorb another’s blood source and true energy.”

“So it is restricted,” The Old Man replied regrettably. “I wonder if it can be used to absorb a demonic beast’s blood source and true energy.”

“We’ll only know after trying.” Wei Suo quickly stored the tiny black dagger into his Treasure Receiving Pocket. Although it was restricted, the level capability of this artifact in slaying a cultivator absolutely couldn’t be evaluated in the same way as other grades. Like right now, the blood pearl of a Thought Division Stage level 1 cultivator could possibly equate to a high grade Spirit Class artifact. This was already an exceptional outcome for Wei Suo.

It was no wonder Jin Qiao’er dared to negotiate with him. It wasn’t that she held any formidable defensive artifacts. Nevertheless, even after witnessing Wei Suo’s methods, she still could rely on the potential of her artifact to kill Wei Suo.

Naturally, Wei Suo wouldn’t squander away the blood pearl of a Thought Division Stage level 1 cultivator and test its effects on demonic beasts instead.

After storing the dagger, Wei Suo proceeded to investigate the ancestral white jade talisman with his divine sense.

“Mount Mang…..Daomaster Ghost Captor.”

Wei Suo soon spewed out those words.

Jin Qiao’er really wasn’t lying. The jade talisman indeed recorded the location of a cavern abode and the details of relevant forbidden restrictions.

After a brief browsing, Wei Suo understood why the Jin Clan had to placed such significance on this ancestral hall jade talisman.

The contents of this jade talisman resembled an incomplete map, detailing sporadic information. Evidently, those places were the areas that Jin Clan members had explored previously, indicated the various strengths of forbidden controls and dazzling visuals of the different places. As for the majority of places, there was still no method to resolve those forbidden controls.

Though it appears the Jin Clan members had been exploring this cavern abode, they only managed to uncover a few insignificant spots; thus, detailing only a few safe paths in.

With each expedition, the Jin Clan member would record their encounters in the jade talisman. Hence, this jade talisman could be deemed as a journal of consecutive generations of the Jin Clan.

The predecessors advanced dauntlessly in waves, allowing their descendants to have a better life. The more they did, the safer the entrance of their descendants became while the higher the chances of acquiring benefits.

It was a pity, the Jin Clan predecessors couldn’t foresee that in this generation, Granny Jin and JIn Shenxuan would start an unquenchable internal conflict, which eventually led to the jade talisman falling into Wei Suo’s hands.

As for this jade talisman, the members of Jin Clan ultimately failed to clarify the owner of this cavern abode. It seemed that the name Daomaster Ghost Captor was merely a title seen during an exploration. According to the practice of the cultivation world, grand cultivators of the Golden Dan Stage or higher would be hailed as Daomasters. Hence, the Jin Clan members guessed that this grand cultivator of at least the Golden Dan Stage was Daomaster Ghost Captor.

“What, Wei Suo, the place detailed in this white jade talisman is called Mount Mang and mentioned the name, Daomaster Ghost Captor?” The Old Man immediately gasped in shock upon hearing Wei Suo mumbling those two names.

“Why? You know the place?” Wei Suo’s heart was stirred as he retracted his divine sense. “You can use your divine sense to examine too, look for yourself.”

A green light instantly shone out from Wei Suo’s chest and onto the white jade talisman. Soon after, the green light was retracted. Instantaneously, the Old Man called out.

“A bunch of witless Jin Clan cultivators! That isn’t the cavern abode of what Daomaster Ghost Captor, its the remnant land of the Mang Tribe!”

“Remnant land of the Mang Tribe?” Wei Suo immediately inquired. “What kind of sect was the Mang Tribe?”

“The Mang Tribe, in the ancient cultivator world, was initially just a mediocre sect. Legend has it, once upon a time, two great ancient cultivators battled; resulting in the heavens collapsing and the earth crumbling. Eventually, seven heavenly domes were created. The Mang Tribe cultivators possessed some relations with the cultivator who created the seven pieces of the Heavenly Dome, and gained certain benefits. Thus, they shockingly took a generation to transform into a major sect, specializing in various nefarious arts and diabolical bone artifacts. However, the sect was ultimately trampled by an unprecedented beast horde that happens only once in many millenniums. Nevertheless, that happened several thousand of years before I was created, even I do not know where that sect was previously located. The Mang Tribe earned its name from Mount Mang. Doesn’t your map of Duanlong Cliff also indicate a place known as Mount Mang no? Although this Mount Mang isn’t the Mount Mang of old, it still demonstrates how illustrious the Mang Tribe was previously. Those Jin Clan peeps really have dog shit luck to fortuitously stumble upon the remnants of an ancient sect.”

“Wei Suo, the jade talisman indicates the location between the Heavenly Profound Continent and the Cloud Spirit Continent. You must definitely explore the place! The Mang Tribe is similar to the Cyan City, sects that produced glorious Divine Mystic Stage cultivators. Perhaps the place may even present Path or Mystic Class artifacts! As compared to what loose cultivator’s cavern abode, this is absolutely much better!”

“Old Man, do you know how to break through the forbidden controls of this Mang Tribe?” Wei Suo was incredibly moved by the Old Man’s words and asked.

“I only know the formation array guarding the Mang Tribe is called the Thousand Ghost Soul Garisson Grand Formation. I also know some of the forbidden controls inside,” the Old Man answered. “However, the Mang Tribe possessed many unique forbidden controls that I am clueless about.”

“Since that’s the case, we can only leave it to the distant future. Safety is still the priority, we ought to visit places of guarantee first.” Wei Suo smiled bitterly. He now understood the green gowned Old Man pretty well. Evidently, the Old Man wasn’t excessively confident, otherwise, he would be bragging about him being the best.

“Good, at the most we can scout out the place first and make preparations to proceed with caution.” The Old Man excitedly announced.

Wei Suo nodded and adorned his Concealment Robe once again. He pushed open the door and quietly flew up to the rooftop of the house in this courtyard.

The majority of cultivators had congregated at the bottom of the nine storey building in Jin Villa. It seems like not a single had entered so far.

After a faint sigh, Wei Suo fixated his gaze on the treasury courtyard that Jin Qiao’er mentioned earlier.

Although he had already gained quite a handful of advantages, he still fell short of spiritual stones; insufficient for him to breakthrough to the Thought Division Stage.

Since the Jin Clan cultivators hadn’t entered the nine storey building yet, it meant they still needed to discover Jin Shenxuan’s death before searching the whole building. Thus, Wei Suo probably had adequate time to infiltrate the treasury and acquire his spiritual stones.