Chapter 511: Chapter 430: The Sealed Entity Beneath the Bronze Sword Scabbard!

Su Yuan and his group, as well as An Xingran and Wu Luo True Monarch, didn’t stay long at the battlefield.

After finalizing the ascension plan, they quickly retreated back to the residence in Xiang Han Mansion, as if nothing had happened.

Before leaving, Taibai Phecda returned the bronze sword scabbard to Su Yuan.

They had just withdrawn when several powerful presences swiftly sped over from the direction of the Governor’s Mansion.

These were the Nascent Soul cultivators who had been previously detained in the Governor’s Mansion, drained of much of their cultivation.

After the array stopped, they broke the blockade at the fastest speed to find Nan Cang and demand an explanation.

All of this had to be explained by Taibai Phecda.

The explanation was not difficult.

For example, leaving the Governor’s Mansion abruptly was due to sensing Jia Fugui’s death, and following that clue to uncover Flame River’s plot.

For example, the devouring array spread across the entire Cold Plum World was secretly arranged by Flame River during his infiltration.

As for the array within the Governor’s Mansion? Naturally, it was also set up by Flame River after gaining my trust.

You ask how a Golden Core cultivator like Flame River could possess such capability?

It’s simple, the person is actually a strong Nascent Soul Late Stage or even Nascent Soul Peak expert in disguise, backed by a Divinity Transformation-level power, capable of achieving anything.

With these layers of explanations, those Nascent Soul cultivators could only choose to believe.

Because unlike Ruan Pingcui, they didn’t know about Nan Cang’s plan to devour Cold Plum World.

--Ruan Pingcui was prepared by Nan Cang as a furnace cauldron for his breakthrough, the intelligence she knows might not be known to other Nascent Soul cultivators.

Of course, it couldn’t be ruled out that among them were Nan Cang’s confidants, privy to some insider information... These needed to be scrutinized by Taibai Phecda one by one.

Even if someone sensed something amiss, as long as they weren’t given the chance to leave Cold Plum World to file a complaint, their suspicion was meaningless.

Moreover... As long as Su Yuan’s subsequent actions go smoothly, the Celestial Law World will soon be in chaos!

Inside the residence in Xiang Han Mansion.

Ye Muyu secretly went to the Flame Evil Sect to stabilize the situation, Wu Luo True Monarch went to speak with his daughter, seemingly fancying Motis and preparing to acknowledge her as his daughter... Ahem, accept her as a disciple.

In the room, only Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and An Xingran remained.

"Is this the Crown of Corruption, the Immortal Treasure of the Decaying Celestial Monarch?"

In front of An Xingran, two treasures quietly floated. One was a crown of golden red, and the other was an ancient-looking bronze sword scabbard.

These were the two treasures An Xingran wanted to borrow for perusal, and Su Yuan naturally exposed them to the other party for examination without hesitation.

He also hoped that they could identify something useful from these two treasures.

Especially the sword scabbard, which had an extremely mysterious origin.

Touching the Crown of Corruption with interest, An Xingran speculated:

"The fact that the Decaying Celestial Monarch sealed this damaged Immortal Treasure in the tomb, to suppress a doppelgänger created by the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, does this indicate that the Decaying Celestial Monarch was never replaced?"

Su Yuan thought for a moment and cautiously replied:

"The possibility of being replaced can’t be ruled out, but the probability is certainly lower than some of the other Divinity Transformation of the Ancient Cultivation Realm."

An Xingran nodded slightly and pointed to the bronze sword scabbard:

"Then the question arises, does the purpose of this sword scabbard resemble that of the damaged Crown of Corruption?"

With this statement, the expressions of Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi both tightened.

The process of acquiring this treasure was too hasty; they hadn’t truly considered this possibility before.

If this speculation holds true... then it could lead to great chaos!

"Jia Fugui was an experienced Nascent Soul; the time he acquired this bronze sword scabbard was undoubtedly much earlier than when Blood Soul True Monarch obtained the Crown of Corruption."

"If the being that was suppressed is still alive, then it’s very likely to have already left the place that suppressed it and is secretly plotting something!"

Su Yuan murmured, his voice somewhat dry.

He didn’t dare hesitate for a moment and immediately extracted Jia Fugui’s soul from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

An Xingran waved at the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and Jia Fugui’s digitized soul was pulled out, returning to its spiritual form.

The eternally eighteen-year-old girl’s fair little hand plunged into the soul, rummaging.

A few seconds later, she reinserted Jia Fugui’s soul into the Cyber Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

An image projection was emitted from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

It resembled an old photograph with a slightly distorted, ancient scene.

In the image, Jia Fugui, only at the Golden Core Stage, stumbled into a mountain cave while treasure hunting, finding a crack leading to a secret realm.

He ventured inside, discovering the secret realm to be barren, with only a mound resembling a burial mound.

On top of the mound, a bronze sword scabbard was slanted, the very same one now in Su Yuan’s possession.

After probing and confirming there was no danger, he took the bronze sword scabbard, and after some research, discovered its wonderful uses, elatedly running off.

At the end of the scene, just as Jia Fugui was about to leave through the secret realm crack, he seemed to hear something, abruptly turning back to look at the mound.

There was a slight crack appearing on it.

Jia Fugui shivered, not daring to stay any longer, and quickly fled.

The memory projection concluded.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi exchanged a glance, momentarily speechless.

The scenes just now were from an indeterminate number of years ago in Jia Fugui’s memory.

On the very day he took away the scabbard, the mound had shown signs of disturbance; with so many years passed, the being buried within was undoubtedly gone without a trace.

Su Yuan thought for a while, then said:

"Regardless, we need to check the mound’s situation; perhaps we can uncover the identity of the being that was suppressed."

"Even if we discover nothing, the abundant Primordial Tribulation Qi in the secret realm will be of significant use to me."

An Xingran: "I’ll go with you, even if there’s an ambush, we can escape at our leisure."

The three conducted another soul search, finding the location of the secret realm from Jia Fugui’s memories.

The secret realm was located in an unremarkable mountain forest near the capital of Cold Plum World.

After confirming the location, An Xingran asked Su Yuan to put away the Immortal Treasure and placed her hands on Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi’s shoulders.

In the next instant, they appeared at the entrance of the mountain cave housing the secret realm crack.

For An Xingran’s maneuver, Su Yuan wasn’t surprised; it should be a standard technique for Divinity Transformation cultivators. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

They walked deep into the cave, passing through a crack slightly larger than seen in the projection, entering the secret realm.

In the secret realm, the sky was perpetually in a state of dusk.

The twilight glow spread across the ground, making the solitary mound on this barren land stand starkly out.

At present, a long, wide crack had split the mound.

From one side of the crack began a trail of dainty footprints resembling those of a woman, stretching to where Su Yuan and company stood, ultimately vanishing at the crack’s exit.

The person had indeed left.

Su Yuan sighed, approaching the crack in the mound, and only after An Xingran confirmed there was no danger did he peer inside.

A neat, merely unsealed coffin came into view.

To Su Yuan’s surprise, something remained inside.

It was a sword, one broken down to just the hilt and less than a third of the blade.

Judging from the hilt’s style, this sword and the bronze scabbard were clearly a set.

What delighted Su Yuan even more was that the surviving part of the blade bore a character representing the sword’s owner.

"Law"!