233: Chapter 233 Help Me Escape My Predicament, Share the Treasure

"You say there are real treasures here?" Jiang Changge spoke, his tone remaining flat, making it impossible to discern any emotion.

"Those stone galls, stone crystals, and stone marrow are all just scraps?"

Seeing that he had finally reacted, a trace of imperceptible joy flashed in the Void Shadow's blurry eyes, and it hurriedly replied: "Exactly. Those were merely dregs left behind in the stone pillars when my master extracted my Chaos Origin power to condense the stone forest."

"The real treasures are the Magical Artifacts my master used to suppress me back then, as well as the wisp of Chaos Origin remaining in my own bones."

"That wisp of Chaos Origin is the life essence from my prime. If you can refine it, your cultivation can increase by at least one major Realm, and you might even have a chance to step directly into the Immortal Realm."

Jiang Changge revealed a look of perfectly measured emotion and asked: "What are those Magical Artifacts?"

"The first one is called the mountain-suppressing seal." The Void Shadow's voice carried a hint of deliberate obsequiousness.

"It is a supreme treasure forged with Primordial Star Meteorite as its bone and chaos stone essence as its soul, its grade far exceeding the so-called Heaven Rank Magical Artifacts of your era. With one drop of the Seal, you can suppress mountains and rivers, and Seal the heavens and earth. If you can obtain it, there will be no one in this world you cannot suppress."

"The second one is called the void-breaking awl. It is a Magical Artifact specifically used by my master to break spatial Restrictions; nothing it cannot break, no barrier it cannot pierce. Any Restriction Formation is like a mere formality before it."

"This Magical Artifact is embedded between the third and fourth ribs on the right side of my skeleton. I can guide you to take this one first as a token of my sincerity."

The Void Shadow stopped here, seemingly observing Jiang Changge's reaction.

Jiang Changge nodded, his tone carrying a bit more perfectly measured interest: "It sounds quite good. However, to help you break free, what specifically do I need to do?"

"It is very simple." The Void Shadow's voice suppressed excitement, yet it still maintained that sincere tone.

"The chaos stone essence power within your body is the key to breaking this Seal. The Seal my master placed back then requires the power of Chaos as a catalyst to be undone."

"You only need to inject the power of the chaos stone essence into the Seal, and use the power of Chaos to operate the Seal in reverse to weaken it. Once the Seal loosens, I will be able to break free on my own."

"Of course, I will not let you give your effort for nothing." The Void Shadow added, its tone even more eager.

"Besides those three Magical Artifacts and the Chaos Origin within my bones, I also know many secrets from the Primordial Era, countless lost Cultivation Techniques and Divine Abilities, and the entrances to ancient ruins and Secret Realms hidden throughout the Xuanhuang World."

"As long as you help me break free, I can share all these things with you."

Jiang Changge's thoughts raced, but he remained calm on the surface, instead revealing a look of perfectly measured interest.

He pondered for a moment, as if weighing the pros and cons, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the Void Shadow and the giant skeleton several times before slowly opening his mouth: "Since that is the case, then please, Senior, guide this Junior to retrieve that void-breaking awl as a show of sincerity."

A trace of almost imperceptible triumph flashed in the Void Shadow's blurry eyes, but its voice still maintained that hoarse and sincere tone: "Good, good. Young man, you are indeed straightforward."

"Follow my skeleton to the right and go around the third rib. There is a groove buried by rubble there, and the void-breaking awl is embedded within it."

"However, you must be careful. My master placed a warning Restriction nearby back then. Although it has gone through long ages and its power is far less than before, for a Cultivator at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage like you, you still cannot be careless."

Jiang Changge nodded slightly, said nothing more, and turned to walk in the direction the Void Shadow indicated.

His steps were steady and composed, the xuanchen whisk swaying slightly in his hand, its silvery-white light steadily keeping the dense fog around him at bay.

The Void Shadow watched his back, greed and excitement that had been suppressed for who knows how many years surging in its blurry eyes.

After so many years, finally, an idiot has come who can help it break the Seal.

The aura of Chaos on that kid, though faint, was extremely pure—far purer than it had anticipated.

As long as he removes the mountain-suppressing seal and the void-breaking awl from those two eye positions of the Formation, the Seal will lose its Foundation. Then, it will be able to break free in one fell swoop, possess this kid's Physical Body, and be Reborn in a borrowed body.

Although a Tribulation Transcendence Stage shell is not top-tier, the power of Chaos within it is enough to restore it to thirty or forty percent of its prime. By then, no one in this Xuanhuang World will be able to stop it.

Jiang Changge went around the rib, which was as thick as a pillar supporting the sky, and sure enough, found a depression buried by rubble at the location the Void Shadow mentioned.

He waved his hand, brushing away the rubble to reveal a stone groove about half a foot deep below.

The inner wall of the stone groove was carved with dense runes. Those runes were identical to the ones he had seen on the ground at the bottom of the valley; they were all works from the Primordial Era, exuding an ancient and heavy aura.

And in the very center of the stone groove, a short, pitch-black cone was quietly embedded in the depression.

The cone was about a foot long, sharp at both ends and slightly thicker in the middle, its surface covered in fine, dark golden patterns, with light faintly flowing within them.

Jiang Changge did not rush to reach out and take it. His gaze swept back and forth over the runes around the stone groove for a moment, and he quickly discovered a dark red pattern hidden beneath the runes.

That pattern was extremely subtle; if not for his repeated probing using Star Web Myriad Phenomena, it would have been almost impossible to detect.

It was like a sleeping blood vessel, quietly lurking in the shadows of the runes, exuding a faint, warning aura.

This was the "warning Restriction" the Void Shadow spoke of.

Jiang Changge watched the dark red pattern for a few breaths, the corners of his mouth curling slightly upward.

It was indeed a warning Restriction, but its function was by no means as simple as just "warning."

With his attainments in the Dao of Formations, he could see at a glance that this Restriction was connected to the entire Seal Formation.

If someone who did not understand the method of breaking the Formation were to rashly trigger it, the entire Seal would be completely activated in an instant, at which point the intruder would be treated as a Formation-breaker and be subjected to the full-force strangulation of the Seal.

And if someone were to destroy it with brute force, the Seal would likewise be completely activated, but this time, without the assistance of the warning Restriction, the Seal would be unable to stop the impact from within.

In other words, whether triggered or destroyed, it was advantageous for the Void Shadow.

And its casual reminder just now, while seemingly well-intentioned, was actually secretly guiding him to choose the latter—to break the Restriction with brute force. This old thing's scheming was indeed deep enough.

Unfortunately, it encountered Jiang Changge.

Jiang Changge did not touch the dark red pattern, nor did he mobilize his spiritual power to forcibly break the Formation.

He simply raised his left hand, and a wisp of extremely faint grayish-white light appeared at the tip of his index finger; that was the power of Chaos he had refined from the chaos stone essence.