#12 - Chapter 12 Ancient Jianmu Diagram

The Golden Sun Secret Realm was originally discovered by the Wang family. In addition, the Black Fire Daoist would deal with the tenth level Qi training demon beast with the highest cultivation in the cave.

Therefore, everyone had no objection to the Wang family taking 70% of the spoils.

[After deciding on the distribution plan, you and a group of rogue cultivators followed the Black Fire Daoist into the inner cave, located deep in the dense forest.]

[The entrance to the cave was extremely narrow, only allowing two or three people to pass through. However, once inside, it was as if you had entered another world. What you saw was a vast cyan palace.]

[Moreover, you could faintly smell the fragrance of medicine inside the cyan palace. This fragrance was very magical. After smelling it, your body felt lighter. After smelling it, some of the older rogue cultivators had fewer wrinkles on their skin.]

[All the rogue cultivators were very excited, believing that they had encountered a great opportunity this time. Perhaps what was in the cyan palace was no ordinary Evergreen Flower. Just smelling the fragrance had such a magical effect. They couldn't imagine what kind of magical effect it would have after taking it.]

"Everyone, don't get excited. Before entering this cyan palace and obtaining the Evergreen Flower, we still have to fight with the guardian demon beast."

It was the Black Fire Daoist who spoke. He pointed to the front of the palace, and sure enough, there was a faint roar of beasts coming from there.

[When the rogue cultivators heard the words of the Black Fire Daoist, they also paid close attention. To enter the cyan palace and obtain the Evergreen Flower, they indeed had to pass the guardian demon beast first.]

[After a while, the guardian demon beasts rushed out. There were more than a dozen of them. The leader was a strange demon beast with a tiger face and a wolf tail, a peak tenth level Qi training demon beast. The other demon beasts looked like they were of the same race as the leader, also with tiger faces and wolf tails, but their aura was not so strong. There were two ninth level Qi training demon beasts, and the others were around the seventh or eighth level Qi training, which was the same as the information the Black Fire Daoist had said earlier.]

[The battle went very smoothly. Only two rogue cultivators died. These tiger-faced wolf-tailed demon beasts were very weak in combat.]

[After about half an hour, you, a group of rogue cultivators, and the Black Fire Daoist killed all these tiger-faced wolf-tailed demon beasts.]

[After killing the guardian demon beasts, you entered the cyan palace. Following the fragrance of medicine for about ten minutes, you came to a palace. The fragrance of medicine was emitted from this palace. In the depths of the palace, there was a spiritual field.]

[This spiritual field was about five meters long and wide. The soil was cyan in color. On top of it, there were jade-like, crystal-clear, and completely cyan Evergreen Flowers growing. At first glance, there were actually more than twenty of them.]

"We're rich! There are so many Evergreen Flowers!"

[A rogue cultivator shouted excitedly. There were so many Evergreen Flowers in the spiritual field that it exceeded your imagination. There were actually more than twenty plants. Everyone's eyes widened. This was a huge fortune. Even if each person got one plant, it would be worth seven or eight thousand spirit stones.]

[Your attention was not on the Evergreen Flowers in the spiritual field. You were quietly observing the Black Fire Daoist from behind the crowd. You saw that the Black Fire Daoist's attention was not on the Evergreen Flowers either. Instead, he kept looking around the palace.]

[Sure enough, the opportunity that the Wang family wanted to seize in the Golden Sun Secret Realm was definitely not just the Evergreen Flowers. There was an even greater opportunity inside this palace.]

[You thought to yourself from the back of the crowd, observing the Black Fire Daoist's small movements.]

[After a while, the Black Fire Daoist's eyes locked onto the west side of the palace. There was a mural there. The mural depicted a towering giant tree, as well as countless mountain and sea giant beasts. There were also ten suns in the sky. In the center of the mural, there was a man bending over and shooting an arrow. The Black Fire Daoist walked straight forward and touched the mural, his eyes filled with ecstasy, and finally he began to laugh wildly. This laughter contained pride and incomparable excitement.]

[This wild laughter made a group of rogue cultivators a little stunned. Many people did not understand why the Black Fire Daoist was so excited. The opportunity was clearly the Evergreen Flowers in the spiritual field. Why was he holding a mural and laughing wildly?]

[Only you understood that the opportunity that the Black Fire Daoist really wanted to find in the Golden Sun Secret Realm had been found. This mural might be the opportunity that would help the Black Fire Daoist become a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator.]

[You also looked at the mural depicting the towering giant tree and the ten suns.]

[Was it this mural that allowed the Black Fire Daoist to become a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator?]

"Could this mural be the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting'?"

[After a short while, looking at the wildly laughing Black Fire Daoist, an old man in gray robes stood up from among the rogue cultivators. He looked at the mural with some suspicion. His cultivation was at the peak of the ninth level of Qi training, and he was also the person with the highest cultivation on the surface besides the Black Fire Daoist.]

"Grey Wolf, you are indeed knowledgeable, even knowing about the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting'."

"I have been to Central Province and do have some understanding of the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting'."

[The Black Fire Daoist and the old man in gray robes asked and answered each other. After that, the two of them talked for a few more words about the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting', and you also understood what the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting' was all about...]

[According to the old man in gray robes, the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting' was a top-grade Dao artifact refined by a top-notch refiner from the Wu Kingdom five thousand years ago. This Dao artifact was composed of ten murals. The ten murals depicted scenes of myths and legends that took place under the World Tree in ancient times. Each mural separately had the effect of a low-grade Dao artifact, and together they were a complete top-grade Dao artifact.]

"Congratulations, Daoist Black Fire, on obtaining a low-grade Dao artifact." The old man in gray robes cupped his hands and congratulated him. The other rogue cultivators also congratulated him, their eyes filled with envy.

No one had expected that inside this palace, besides the Evergreen Flowers, there would actually be a low-grade Dao artifact.

That was a Dao artifact!

A cultivator's magic weapon is divided into magic tools, spiritual tools, Dao artifacts...

A Dao artifact, even a low-grade one, is enough for Golden Core True People to fight over!

After congratulating the Black Fire Daoist, a group of rogue cultivators faintly surrounded the old man in gray robes, and some even had vigilance in their eyes.

After all, this was a Dao artifact, a great opportunity. No one could say for sure whether the Black Fire Daoist would kill them in order to prevent leaks?

"You are indeed vigilant, knowing how to band together. If it were just this low-grade Dao artifact, the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting', I really wouldn't have killed all of you."

"After all, I, Black Fire, have always been righteous and don't really want to kill innocent people..."

"But unfortunately, there is something inside here..."

The Black Fire Daoist suddenly turned cold, and he looked at everyone with killing intent.

Hearing this, the rogue cultivators paled, and the old man in gray robes glared: "Black Fire, what do you mean by this? Do you really want to leave us all here?"

"Your Wang family recruited us. If we hadn't blocked those dozen demon beasts just now, could you have come here? You are ungrateful!"

"Ungrateful?" The Black Fire Daoist sneered twice, "The cultivation world is where the strong are respected. What righteousness is there?"

"You people are too naive!"

[The Black Fire Daoist attacked. His strength far exceeded the expectations of all the rogue cultivators. The aura he emitted was even stronger than when he had just killed the tenth level Qi training guardian demon beast. He went straight for the old man in gray robes, who was at the peak of the ninth level of Qi training, and killed him with one sword.]

[A group of rogue cultivators panicked. Some wanted to escape, some tried to resist, and some cursed on the spot, saying that the Black Fire Daoist was faithless.]

[Even more rogue cultivators began to kneel and beg for mercy.]

"Don't kill me, I beg you, I promise not to reveal the information about the 'Ancient Jianmu Painting'."

A cultivator at the eighth level of Qi training knelt and begged for mercy.