Chapter 1010: Alliance Secrets, Sixth Layer (Three Updates)

Although Void-Rank Magic Treasures are rare, some have been left behind. Almost every one of them is treasured immensely by shattered nirvana Old Monsters, who will not use them lightly. After all, they cannot fathom the manufacturing principles of these Magic Treasures, let alone repair them. Thus, once damaged, they lose a great deal of their power.

In reality, some Sub-Void Nirvana Magic Treasures are not truly Sub-void nirvana; they still belong to the category of Void, just slightly more prominent, so people call them Sub-void nirvana. In truth, it is merely a vanity title.

For ordinary shattered nirvana Old Monsters, a Void-Rank Magic Treasure is already at the Peak; they would spare no effort to obtain one. However, for those Cultivators who stand at the Late Stage Great Perfection of shattered nirvana, while Void-Rank Magic Treasures are precious, having cultivated to their level, whether through seizing or searching, they are never lacking in this type of Magic Treasure.

In fact, they may not even value all the Magic Treasures in this world. What they pursue is to transcend the Second Step of cultivation and step into the legendary Third Step.

It is just that this Third Step is too ethereal; lost in the void, they cannot find the path ahead and can only silently wait for the Five Decays of Heaven and Man to arrive one by one. In the end, the waves wash away the sand, and they slowly return to the void and die.

For these Old Monsters who are already near-immortal, this is no longer just a pursuit of the power and cultivation required to reach the Third Step, but a desperate craving for life. Only by reaching the Third Step can they resist the Five Decays of Heaven and Man; otherwise, only death awaits them.

At this time, below the Lower Realm, a Cultivator accidentally came to the Alliance Star Domain. This person had not reached the Third Step, but had managed to survive the fourth decay of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man!

The Five Decays of Heaven and Man is a tribulation that shattered nirvana Cultivators must experience. Each time they survive one, their cultivation and strength increase countless times over. However, the difficulty of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man is too great; failure means immediate destruction of body and soul.

The reason this person could reach the fourth decay was precisely because he possessed a Magic Treasure. This Magic Treasure is what would later be known as a Nirvana-Rank Supreme Treasure! After subsequent research and investigation, the origin of Nirvana-Rank Supreme Treasures can vaguely be traced back to the primordial era, but such treasures are extremely rare to this day.

Nevertheless, those shattered nirvana Old Monsters discovered a type of item from various ancient ruins that surpassed Void-Rank Magic Treasures but were inferior to Nirvana-Rank Magic Treasures.

This is the Sub-Void Nirvana Magic Treasure!

Although this Sub-Void Nirvana Magic Treasure is not as extremely rare as a true Nirvana-Rank one, it is still pitifully scarce, and almost all of them have been obtained by those Cultivators at the Late Stage Great Perfection of shattered nirvana.

One of the standards for the Alliance Elder Council is to possess a Sub-Void Nirvana Magic Treasure!

The function of this treasure, besides its immense power, is to assist a Cultivator in surviving the Five Decays of Heaven and Man to a certain extent.

Sub-Nirvana-Rank Magic Treasures are also divided into Ranks, though somewhat ambiguously. Most are divided into the four levels of Low, Medium, High, and Perfection, consistent with traditional Magic Treasures. After all, these types of Magic Treasures are left behind by predecessors, and later generations do not know how to make them, let alone classify them in detail.

"It can absorb a Cultivator's killing intent, it can manifest illusions, it can produce such power… This treasure in Wang Lin's hand is at least a High Grade Sub-Void Nirvana Magic Treasure… It is even very likely to be a Perfection Sub-Void Nirvana Magic Treasure!" The village woman and beautiful matron gasped, deep wariness appearing in her eyes.

While these three had their own thoughts, the roaring outside the great hall appeared again. This time, it was extremely close. The black-clothed man jumped up without a word, rushing straight between the two statues, imitating Wang Lin's actions, and preparing to leave. Void Realm Child and the village woman and beautiful matron flew over as well.

At this moment, on the second layer of the Immortal Emperor's Immortal Cave, outside a pavilion near the center, a flash of purple light appeared, and Wang Lin walked out from within.

"A shattered nirvana Cultivator is actually so hard to kill. Even though Void Realm Child was heavily injured, he still didn't die!! And with that village woman and beautiful matron there, plus my current state…" After appearing, Wang Lin immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, his expression revealing rare exhaustion.

"However, this Iron Sword Magic Treasure exceeded my imagination; it actually has such power. If I could get all five Scabbards for the Iron Sword and use them simultaneously…" Wang Lin gasped and shook his head. If he used them simultaneously, he would probably be sucked into a dried-up husk in an instant!

He inserted the Iron Sword back into its Scabbard, put it into his Storage Pouch, took out some Medicinal Pills, and threw them into his mouth. Without waiting for them to digest, he gritted his teeth and sped forward.

He had been at the end of his strength just now, relying on the Aura of having heavily injured Void Realm Child to deter the black-clothed man and the village woman and beautiful matron. Otherwise, if those two had attacked again, Wang Lin would have undoubtedly died.

At this moment, he had no time to sit cross-legged and heal. Instead, he had to use his advantage of knowing the map of the Immortal Emperor's Immortal Cave to put as much distance between them as possible.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Lin wove through the numerous Restrictions on the second layer of the Immortal Emperor's Immortal Cave. He soon arrived at several Restriction eyes marked on the map. Upon looking, Wang Lin immediately confirmed his previous guess: someone had opened the Restriction eyes a step ahead and had entered one of the deeper layers.

Dragging his exhausted body, he rushed straight toward the center of the second layer, which was shrouded in mist. The structure of the first six layers of the Immortal Emperor's Immortal Cave was almost the same. Thus, with Wang Lin's familiarity, although his speed was much slower, he soon arrived at the center of the second layer, the entrance to the third layer.

At this moment, the black-clothed man, the village woman and beautiful matron, and the heavily injured Void Realm Child also arrived at the second layer.

The heavily injured Void Realm Child no longer had the dominance he had on the first layer; he stopped barging through the Restrictions and instead slowly groped his way forward. This gave Wang Lin enough time. In the great hall of the second layer, there were no statues, only nine stone candlesticks on the ground. Wang Lin put away his anxious thoughts, observed carefully for a long time, and gradually frowned.

But suddenly, his gaze fell on the ground around the candlesticks. There were some faint traces of movement. These traces were deep and shallow, clearly having been disturbed more than once, and they had left behind numerous misleading elements.

His eyes flashed, and Wang Lin squatted down to observe carefully. Gradually, his eyes brightened. In the center of these nine candlesticks, he sensed a trace of Sword Qi.

This Sword Qi was very ordinary; even if an outsider sensed it, they would only think it was residual Qi from someone trying to destroy the candlesticks. But for Wang Lin, this Sword Qi was of great significance.

"Senior Zhou Yi's Sword Qi… The Sword Qi he left here clearly indicates he has entered the third layer and beyond, but why would this Sword Qi be left here… Could it be…" Wang Lin's gaze narrowed. Throughout his rapid journey, his internal Yuan energy had recovered a little. At this moment, he waved his right hand, and the nine candlesticks in front of him all ignited with fire.

The moment the fire appeared, it immediately surrounded Wang Lin's whole body, taking him and causing him to disappear from this place, heading to the third layer.

Moving the position of these candlesticks was merely to confuse others. Even the traces on the ground were set up by his predecessor to attract the attention of later arrivals, causing them to ignore that these candlesticks needed to be lit.

Time passed slowly. In the blink of an eye, Wang Lin had spent two months in this Immortal Emperor's Immortal Cave. During these two months, he only had short periods of time to heal each day, and the rest of the time was spent shuttling through the layers.

The deeper the Restrictions of the Immortal Emperor's Immortal Cave, the more powerful they were. Sometimes, even with Wang Lin's knowledge of Restrictions, combined with the information in the map Jade Slip, it would take some time to pass through safely.

What was even more time-consuming was the palace at the center of each layer. Those palaces were like puzzles, requiring immense effort to find the entrance to the next layer.

If that were all, it would be fine, but the map Jade Slip introduced that from the fourth layer downwards, each layer had several Storage Spaces containing items. Wang Lin naturally did not want to miss them. Unfortunately, most of these places had been looted by others, but there were also a few that no one had been to, which Wang Lin moved entirely into his Storage Pouch. Thinking of his gains over the past two months, Wang Lin was very excited.

Even he was shocked for a long time by the items in those Storage Spaces along the way. For example, Immortal Jade; the Immortal Jade in Wang Lin's Storage Pouch now was enough to establish a School and supply its Disciples for a thousand years.

There were also numerous other items. In Wang Lin's view, these Storage Spaces were like storage points for the Immortal Emperor Qing Lin, clearly having some purpose.

Wang Lin did not know Qing Lin's purpose back then, but now these items had become his, which made Wang Lin excited for a few days. What made him even more excited was that, according to the Jade Slip, there were two teleportation points to Storage Spaces in the sixth layer.

One of them stored a large number of Immortal Pills and miraculous medicines from before the Immortal Realm collapsed. For Wang Lin at this moment, these medicines were more important than any Magic Treasure.

For two months, Wang Lin's cultivation had never fully recovered. The injuries to his Physical Body were no longer a problem due to the strong recovery ability of the Ancient God, but the loss of Yuan energy and the withering of his Primordial Spirit due to using the Iron Sword were hard to recover in a short time without medicine. Wang Lin's Storage Pouch was almost exhausted of medicine, and with danger everywhere, Wang Lin was determined to get this storage point of medicines.

On this day, at the edge of the sixth layer, a light flashed, and Wang Lin's figure walked out from within. The place where he was was surrounded by pavilions, as if it were a separately created garden. In front of him were rockeries everywhere, and a small river wound its way from the distance, the tinkling sound of water echoing all around, which sounded very relaxing.

"This is the sixth layer!" Wang Lin took a deep breath, looked around, and quickly merged his current location with the map Jade Slip. After a moment, he knew his correct position.

Looking to the right, determination appeared in Wang Lin's eyes, and in a flash, he rushed to the right.

"Those medicines, I must obtain them!" Wang Lin's speed was fast, passing through various Restrictions, but just then, he suddenly stopped and stared ahead.

"Someone is here!" Wang Lin had traveled from the second layer to the fifth layer, noticing many traces left by people, but he had not encountered anyone. Now, this was the first time he had sensed a person's presence below the second layer!

"Little brother, to be able to come here, not simple!" A voice with a hint of surprise drifted slowly from ahead.