Su Ze felt the humidity rising. This secret passage should have been built under the pond. Su Ze used the flame to illuminate his surroundings.
He continued walking, looking for the entrance to the palace.
...
At the edge of the pond, none of the disciples of the Golden Light Sect were in a hurry to get into the water. They looked coldly at the disciples of the other sects around them. Zhang Ge, who was in the lead, suddenly had a new idea.
He called over a few people and whispered, "Do you see those people? They are all disciples of the Pillheart Sect. Push them into the pond and see if there are any dangerous things inside."
The disciples nodded and immediately hid behind the three Pillheart Sect disciples like cats. The moment they turned their heads, the Golden Light Sect disciples behind them immediately kicked them into the pond.
When the three Pillheart Sect disciples reacted, they were already swimming in the water.
A female disciple with a delicate face coughed a few times and pointed at the Golden Light Sect disciples on the shore. She cursed angrily, "Do you want to die?! Are you trying to incite a full-scale war between the Pillheart Sect and the Golden Light Sect by turning hostile so quickly?"
"That's right! You asked us to scout the way, so it's obvious that you want to make things difficult for us! Do you want to completely shed all pretense of cordiality?"
"Ah, we just slipped! It's not a big deal, how would entire sects start fighting over this?" Zhang Ge said with a cheeky smile, "Ah, hurry up and go ashore! It won't be good if you catch a cold later!"
"You..."
The female disciple slapped the water angrily, causing quite a big splash.
Zhang Ge was about to speak again, but when the words reached his throat, he froze up. He looked behind the three Pillheart Sect disciples in the water for a moment and immediately shouted, "Quickly, get out of the water!"
As soon as these words were said, the three Pillheart Sect disciples in the water felt a chill spread from the soles of their feet to their entire bodies. They lowered their heads in fear.
The originally dark green surface of the water was now covered by a layer of black shadows.
"Ah!"
Three miserable cries rang out, and a huge mouth that blotted out the sky appeared, instantly swallowing the three people in the water.
The moment the huge aquatic demonic beast returned to the water, it instantly stirred up a tsunami-like wave. The wave surged to the shore, and all the disciples fell to the ground.
The surface of the water returned to silence. If not for the cloud of crimson in the water, perhaps no one would have thought that a pond could actually harbor such a ferocious beast.
"An... Emperor Realm Demon Beast." Zhang Ge swallowed his saliva. He suddenly felt a lot less confident. At the same time, he was glad that he was not the one who had gone into the water. If not, he would probably be dead by now!
"Not this way. It's suicide!" Without any hesitation, Zhang Ge led his disciples to another route in the bamboo forest.
The disciples of the other sects sat on the ground, terrified by the sudden appearance of the giant beast.
...
On Su Ze's end, he smoothly found several exits.
He randomly chose an exit and directly pushed the door open.
When he opened his eyes again, what Su Ze saw was a golden room filled with shelves.
On one of the shelves, there were bottles of sealed medicinal pills.
"Tier 2 Perfect Body Tempering Pills." Su Ze walked to the side of a shelf and picked up a bottle. He unscrewed the lid and immediately, a fragrance unique to only medicinal pills rushed into Su Ze's nose.
"They are all intact and flawless. They have been preserved for at least three hundred years. However, the effects of the pills have not regressed. They can still be consumed!"
Su Ze, who had master-level refining knowledge, immediately analyzed the pills.
There were five Perfect Body Tempering Pills in this bottle, and there were more than a hundred bottles of identical bottles on the entire shelf!
"This is mine." The corners of Su Ze's mouth curled up. When his gaze once again swept across the shelves, the corners of his mouth could not help but rise further up!
There were several hundred shelves in this entire room!
A single shelf contained a hundred bottles of pills. Based on a rough calculation, there were at least 30,000 to 40,000 pills in this room!
Su Ze quickly checked the labels and discovered that although these medicinal pills were all tier 2 or tier 3, they were all of outstanding quality and above!
"Heavenly Thunder Emperor, did he enslave a group of Master Alchemists?" Su Ze sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Even if this was an accumulation over a thousand years, it was still very terrifying!
After all, if one wanted to refine medicinal pills of outstanding quality and above, one needed time to accurately grasp the temperature and the quality of the medicinal ingredients!
Generally speaking, it was not easy for an ordinary alchemist to refine a pill of Superior quality and above in a day!
This was a massive fortune!
Even the Pillheart Sect's inventory might not match up to this!
Now, these medicinal pills only belonged to Su Ze alone!
Su Ze casually swallowed all the body tempering pills in his hand. From now on, he could really eat medicinal pills like candy.
Although these pills didn't have much of an effect on him, Su Ze would happily take whatever that came his way.
Su Ze immediately got to work. He took out the ten interspatial rings he had prepared beforehand and put all of the pills into his interspatial rings.
After a short while, one interspatial ring filled up. This was only a quarter of the room.
If there were so many treasures in just one room, what about the other rooms?
Su Ze remembered that the system had mentioned an armory and a medicine storehouse. It could all make him very rich very quickly!
"Would ten interspatial rings even be enough?!" Su Ze looked at the ring that was filled to the brim and couldn't help but worry if he had enough space for all the treasures of the mansion.
...
After working diligently, all the medicinal pills in the room were emptied out. This had already filled up four of his interspatial rings.
Su Ze looked at the empty ring in the room and nodded his head in satisfaction. Then, he continued down the secret passage again and prepared to continue his work.