Chapter 274: The Inheritance of the First Generation Demon Lord, I am Rich!

"Ouch… It hurts to death…"

Gu Lan lay on the steps below the throne, groaning in pain while staring fixedly at Ye Hongzhuang out of the corner of his eye.

His heart beat wildly, as if it was about to jump out of his throat.

That dark golden Storage Ring was hidden in the deepest part of his Storage Pouch. If Ye Hongzhuang had seen his petty action just now, even if it was just suspicion, given the Female Demon Lord's personality of rather killing a thousand by mistake than letting one go, she definitely would have stripped him bare on the spot to search him!

"Step, step, step."

Ye Hongzhuang carried the blood moon demon sickle, stepping on the bone ash all over the ground, and walked toward him step by step.

In her slender and deep phoenix eyes, the fanaticism of just obtaining a peerless ominous weapon had not completely faded away. At this moment, she looked down condescendingly at Gu Lan, her gaze as sharp as a blade.

"What are you crawling around for beneath the throne?"

Ye Hongzhuang's voice was extremely cold, devoid of any emotion.

"Sovereign… This subordinate is wronged!"

Gu Lan shivered all over, quickly putting on a miserable appearance as if he was about to faint from pain. Clutching his chest and arms, he rolled around with difficulty on the ground.

"This subordinate was sent flying by that corpse just now, and several bones are broken. The ground is full of broken bone shards, which ache painfully. This subordinate just wanted to… wanted to crawl to the steps to find a flatter place to lean on…"

While speaking, Gu Lan very cooperatively coughed up two mouthfuls of bloody saliva, vividly portraying his exhausted and extremely miserable appearance.

Ye Hongzhuang narrowed her eyes and stared at him for a full five seconds.

To Gu Lan, these five seconds felt as long as a century.

Finally.

Ye Hongzhuang withdrew her gaze from him, glanced at the dilapidated black throne, and didn't find anything unusual.

In fact, this was also normal. That hidden compartment was extremely concealed. If Gu Lan hadn't been lucky enough to touch the mechanism, even if she had swept it with her Divine Sense, she would have thought it was just a solid piece of wood belonging to the throne itself. What's more, all of Ye Hongzhuang's thoughts were currently on the newly acquired blood moon demon sickle in her hand, so how could she have the leisure to carefully search a bunch of junk?

"Useless trash, killing a dead object made yourself into this state."

Ye Hongzhuang snorted coldly, the suspicion in the depths of her eyes dissipating, replaced by a trace of disgust.

With a flip of her wrist, she put the blood moon demon sickle into her exclusive storage space.

"Rumble—!!!"

At this moment, the entire underground mausoleum suddenly shook violently. Huge stones on the dome began to peel off in large pieces, and the blood pool below rolled frantically like boiling water, stirring up waves of blood tens of zhang high.

"The array core suppressing the demonic weapon has been broken, and this place is going to collapse."

Ye Hongzhuang's expression changed slightly, obviously not expecting the mausoleum to collapse this fast.

She walked quickly to Gu Lan's side, too lazy to even bend down. Directly extending one foot, she hooked Gu Lan's belt with the toe of her black gold boots, and forcefully lifted him up from the ground as if picking up a piece of weightless clothing.

"Let's go!"

Ye Hongzhuang grabbed the back of Gu Lan's collar, turning into a streak of black light. Before the mausoleum completely collapsed, she soared into the sky like a black lightning bolt, surging frantically outward along the passage she came from!

Gu Lan was held in her hand like a broken sack, his mouth filled with fierce wind, unable to even let out an exclamation.

But in his heart, he was laughing wildly!

He fooled her past!

This wave was simply textbook-level operation of seeking wealth in danger! Old Hag, you are complacent just because you got a broken knife, little do you know that the First Generation Demon Lord's real private stash has been completely wiped out by me!

Half an hour later.

Heavenly Demon Palace, Hidden Sword Pavilion.

"Bang!"

Gu Lan was thrown directly from mid-air into the courtyard by Ye Hongzhuang like throwing trash, smashing heavily onto the bluestone slabs.

"Heal your injuries properly in the pavilion and stabilize your Realm."

Ye Hongzhuang hovered in mid-air, looking down condescendingly at Gu Lan, who was grinning in pain on the ground.

"Three days later, there is a big show that requires you, the Sword-Wielding Envoy, to personally take the stage. If your physique is still useless by then, this Sovereign will feed you to the dogs."

Dropping this cold and harsh threat, Ye Hongzhuang was anxious to refine the blood moon demon sickle and didn't stay for even a second longer. Turning into a wisp of black fog, she flew directly toward the secluded cultivation chamber of the main peak.

"Respectfully send off the Sovereign!"

Gu Lan lay on the ground, shouting pretentiously.

Until he confirmed that Ye Hongzhuang's aura had completely disappeared, he sprang up from the ground with a carp leap, just like a corpse coming back to life.

"Ouch fuck, my old waist…"

Gu Lan rubbed his back, but the smile on his face was brighter than a chrysanthemum.

Feeling a guilty conscience, he looked around left and right. Seeing that there was no one around, he instantly rushed into the underground secret chamber of the Hidden Sword Pavilion like a gust of wind.

"Rumble!"

The heavy stone gate closed heavily. Gu Lan still wasn't at ease, and directly placed dozens of soundproofing and defense Restrictions around the secret chamber in one breath.

After finishing all this, he let out a long breath of turbid air and sat heavily on the futon.

"I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich…"

Gu Lan's heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, and his hands trembled slightly as he groped out that ancient dark golden ring from the deepest part of his Storage Pouch.

This ring felt heavy in his hand. The surface had no fancy patterns, only a sense of profundity that made one's heart palpitate.

"As expected of something left behind by the First Generation Demon Lord, even my Purple Extreme Golden Core has developed a desire for it!"

Gu Lan took a deep breath, bit his fingertip, and dripped a drop of essential blood onto the ring. At the same time, he poured the Origin Devilish Qi of the ten-pattern purple extreme golden core inside his body into it without reservation.

"Hum—!"

The moment the Devilish Qi touched the ring, this dark golden ring, which originally had no fluctuations, suddenly erupted with extremely dazzling purple light!

It seemed to be verifying Gu Lan's qualifications.

When it felt that Ten-Pattern Purple Extreme Devilish Qi which was even purer and more overbearing than itself, the resistance force on the ring instantly collapsed, and a bizarre feeling of being connected by blood was directly established in Gu Lan's heart.

"The master recognition is successful!"

Gu Lan forcefully suppressed the wild joy in his heart and impatiently probed his Divine Sense into the inner space of the ring.

Just took one glance.

Gu Lan gasped a breath of cold air, and his entire person was completely stunned.

"Holy shit…"

Big!

Too fucking big!

Where is this a Storage Ring? This is simply a miniature Small World!

The space inside was as large as a dozen football fields, and what shocked Gu Lan the most were the things piled up in this space like small mountains.

Top-Grade Spirit Stone!

They were all Top-Grade Spirit Stones emitting extremely pure Spiritual Qi!

In the Cultivation world, a single Top-Grade Spirit Stone was enough to make ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators fight their heads off, and here, with a rough sweep, there were at least several million pieces! That dazzling spiritual light was almost going to blind Gu Lan's titanium alloy dog eyes!

"This First Generation Demon Lord is definitely a super wealthy tycoon reincarnated as a hamster!"

Gu Lan was so excited that his tears were almost falling down. With these Spirit Stones, he wouldn't have to worry about his future cultivation resources at all. Even if he chewed Top-Grade Spirit Stones like jellybeans, he could easily reach the Nascent Soul Stage!

Besides those mountains of Spirit Stones, on the other side of the space, dozens of rows of shelves made of Myriad-Year Dark Ice were neatly placed.

On the shelves, they were filled with various ancient jade bottles, Jade Slips, and weapons.

Gu Lan's Divine Sense swept across these shelves rapidly.

[Nine Deaths Soul-Returning Pill], [Heavenly Demon Blood-Bursting Pill], [Ancient Demonic Dragon Essential Blood]…

They were all top-tier Heaven And Earth Treasures that had long become extinct in today's Cultivation world! Taking out any single one of them could stir up a bloody storm in the Heavenly Demon Palace, and even Ye Hongzhuang would turn red-eyed with madness upon seeing them.

"I'm developed… This wave has really won overwhelmingly!"

Gu Lan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, forcing himself to calm down.

Although external items were important, he deeply knew that in this world of the jungle law, only one's own strength was the hard truth.

He locked his gaze on a red sandalwood offering table in the very center of the space.

There was nothing else on the table, only a pitch-black Jade Slip was enshrined. This Jade Slip emitted an extremely ancient and desolate aura, and even faintly, the sound of a demon god roaring came from inside.

With a thought in Gu Lan's mind, he took that black Jade Slip out from the ring.

As soon as the Jade Slip started in his hand, it was icy and bone-chilling, as if a ten-thousand-year iceberg was sealed inside.

Gu Lan pressed it against his forehead, and his Divine Sense slowly probed inward.

"Boom!!!"

An extremely massive torrent of information instantly rushed into Gu Lan's mind like a breached flood!

If he hadn't devoured Thousand Illusions Demon Lord's Divine Soul before, and his Divine Sense strength was comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage, this single strike would have definitely blown up his brain!

A moment later.

Gu Lan suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils filled with fanaticism and shock.

"Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body?!"

This turned out to be a top-tier Body Refining Cultivation Technique lost since ancient times!

This Cultivation Technique did not Cultivate spiritual power, only cultivating the Physical Body!

At the beginning of the Jade Slip, the First Generation Demon Lord left an extremely arrogant note:

"I created this technique to temper the Physical Body with the ultimate power of Yin and Yang! On the day of the Major Achievement of the Nine Revolutions, the Physical Body becomes a saint! One can tear apart the Void Realm with bare hands, and shatter stars with a punch! No matter what kind of Spells you have, I will break them with a single punch!"

"Those who Cultivate this Cultivation Technique must simultaneously possess the Top-grade Pure Yang Body and utmost Devilish Qi of Yin, and neither of the two can be lacking, otherwise they will surely die from their bodies bursting!"

Seeing this, Gu Lan almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

Pure Yang Body? He had it! And it was the best among the best!

Utmost Devilish Qi of Yin? That ten-pattern purple extreme golden core in his Dantian was simply the top-tier source of Devilish Qi in this world! Coupled with the auxiliary tempering of the Green Lotus Core Flame and Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

This "Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body" was simply tailored for him!

"No wonder that corpse's bones were so hard, not even strange fires could blast them to pieces. So it practiced this thing!"

Sharp light burst from Gu Lan's eyes.

Although his current cultivation had reached the Early Golden Core Stage, in this Heavenly Demon Palace crowded with experts, this bit of strength was far from enough. That crazy woman Ye Hongzhuang might turn hostile at any time, and the Righteous Path side couldn't wait to skin him and pull out his tendons.

He urgently needed a trump card that could instantly elevate his combat power!

"There is no time to lose, Cultivate it now!"

Gu Lan didn't hesitate at all, directly drawing out a bottle of [Ancient Demonic Dragon Essential Blood] exuding terrifying blood-qi power from the dark golden ring, as well as a large pile of Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

He opened his mouth and directly poured a whole bottle of Demonic Dragon Essential Blood into his stomach.

"Boom!"

The moment the essential blood entered his stomach, Gu Lan's body seemed to have turned into a powder keg about to explode!

That violent power from the ancient demonic dragon rampaged frantically in his Meridians, attempting to tear apart his flesh and blood.

"Suppress it for me!"

Gu Lan roared angrily, his eyes instantly turning crimson red.

Following the circulation route of the "Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body", he frantically circulated the Purple Extreme Devilish Qi and Pure Yang power within his body.

"Crackling!"

Inside the secret chamber, Gu Lan's entire body's bones began to emit dense popping sounds like roasting beans.

On the surface of his skin, strips of purple-gold demonic patterns began to spread frantically, and even his muscles were constantly tearing and reorganizing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Extreme pain made his entire body tremble, sweat pouring down like rain.

But he clenched his teeth tightly, not only not stopping, but instead frantically absorbing the Spiritual Qi emitted by the surrounding Top-Grade Spirit Stones, replenishing the consumption of his Physical Body's transformation.

First Revolution!

Second Revolution!

The aura on Gu Lan's body was climbing step by step at an extremely terrifying speed!

One day, two days, three days!

Until the late night of the third day.

"Rumble—!!!"

Inside the underground secret chamber of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, a loud noise like a muffled thunder suddenly erupted!

A pillar of blood-qi smoke terrifying to the extreme directly penetrated the thick stone walls, faintly forming a dark red phantom above the Hidden Sword Pavilion!