Here it comes!
Hearing Yang Zheng's words, Su Nan didn't need to guess what Yang Zheng wanted to say.
Sure enough, Yang Zheng said, "Tomorrow night, the passage between the Demon World and the real world will open. It is very likely that there will be King-level demons appearing. I hope that you can help to restrain them when the time comes."
"If there are King-level demons appearing, I will naturally take action," Su Nan replied without saying much.
He left the Fragrant Pavilion.
Su Nan released his avatar and entered the Treasury of the Demon Slayer's Division in the identity of Wang Nan.
After confirming his identity, he easily entered the Treasury.
Su Nan didn't rush to the Sun Essence Stone but wandered around the Treasury as if he was browsing.
After a while, he finally arrived at the innermost part of the Treasury, in front of the shelf where the Sun Essence Stone was placed.
After hesitating for a moment, he chose the metal box that contained the Sun Essence Stone.
"Are you sure you want to choose this one?"
Seeing Su Nan choose the Sun Essence Stone, the old man guarding the Treasury flashed an imperceptible hint of surprise in his eyes.
Su Nan didn't pay attention to the old man's surprise. Zhang Yang had just left, and he had come right after. Without guessing, the old man would definitely think that they knew each other, but he could never imagine that they were the same person.
"Elder, I'll take this one. I have a feeling that what's inside is destined for me."
There were many valuable items in the Treasury, and there must be treasures worth more than the Sun Essence Stone. It might not be cost-effective to exchange them for the Sun Essence Stone with a casual pick, but what he needed was the best.
The old man looked at Su Nan with a meaningful look but didn't say anything more. He opened the metal box.
With the Sun Essence Stone in hand, Su Nan left with satisfaction.
"The array plate for refining the Great Sun's Fire of Interception requires more than just this Sun Essence Stone as a material. It also needs many auxiliary materials, but fortunately, those materials are not rare, and you should be able to buy them at the Celestial Palace."
"It seems that the Celestial Palace also has a business of refining weapons and treasures. I wonder if they can refine the array plate?"
Changing his appearance, Su Nan turned into an ordinary martial artist and headed straight for the Celestial Palace.
He not only needed to purchase the other materials for refining the array plate but also needed to exchange all the demon corpses he had killed, which belonged to Wang Nan, for essence blood.
Last time, Wang Nan had killed more than sixty Xuan-level demons, and with this mission and the demons he had killed in his daily tasks these days, the number of Xuan-level demon corpses on him had reached more than ninety.
Even though most of them were in the early stage of Xuan-level, it was still a huge number.
In addition to that, there were also several King-level demon corpses.
The old wolf guarding the Treasury, who had been killed by Wang Nan at the beginning, the three King-level demons killed in the Divine Ruins with the help of Zhou Lingyin, the mid-level King-level demon killed in this mission, and the two early-stage King-level demons killed in today's daily tasks.
A total of seven corpses.
One was at the peak of King-level, one was in the mid-level King-level, and the rest were in the early stage of King-level.
In the end, he obtained more than one hundred and thirty drops of Xuan-level essence blood and eleven drops of King-level essence blood.
The essence blood that had been completely consumed was instantly replenished to an unprecedented number.
"These essence blood should be enough for a while."
After that, he spent ten drops of Xuan-level essence blood to purchase the remaining materials needed for refining the array plate.
"Young man, what do you want to refine?"
Su Nan arrived at the area for refining treasures, and a middle-aged man who had been dozing off on a rocking chair stood up as soon as he saw someone coming.
"I want to refine an array plate."
"Refining array plates of different levels has different prices. If you don't have the materials, we can also provide them. May I ask what kind of array plate you want to refine, young man?" The middle-aged man smiled and asked.
"I want to refine an array plate that can summon the Great Sun's Fire of Interception."
"Summon the Great Sun's Fire of Interception? What kind of array plate is that?" The middle-aged man was puzzled, obviously he had never heard of such a formation.
"That is a...," Su Nan explained the information related to the formation in the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra.
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man's eyes showed surprise. "There is such a formation!"
Then he said strangely, "Even if you can really summon the Great Sun's Fire of Interception, what's the use of it? According to what you said, the Great Sun's Fire of Interception summoned will only be bound to the array plate. Once the array plate is activated, won't you burn yourself to death?"
"You don't need to worry about that. Just tell me if you can refine it," Su Nan naturally wouldn't say that he was going to use it to burn himself.
"Of course, we can! However, the main materials needed for this array plate of yours..."
Su Nan didn't waste any words and took out the Sun Essence Stone and the various auxiliary materials.
When the middle-aged man saw the Sun Essence Stone the size of a human head, he gasped, "Is this... the Sun Essence Stone?"
"I wonder how much essence blood is needed to refine such an array plate?" Su Nan asked.
"With this Sun Essence Stone of yours, it's enough to refine two array plates. If you're willing to sell the remaining Sun Essence Stone to me, I won't charge you any fees, and I'll even give you a hundred drops of Xuan-level demon essence blood!"
"Two?" Su Nan's eyes lit up and he said, "No need, since it's enough to refine two, then I'll refine two."
Two array plates would be perfect, one for the real world and one for the game world. This way, he could practice in both the game and the real world.
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man looked a bit disappointed and said, "To refine two array plates, it will cost twenty drops of Xuan-level demon essence blood."
Twenty drops!
Su Nan frowned slightly. Just a moment ago, he thought his essence blood would last for a long time, but it turned out to be used up so quickly.
Twenty drops of essence blood, even though it only accounted for one-sixth of his total essence blood, one had to know that it would take hunting twenty Xuan-level demons to obtain that much.
For other players, it was definitely a sky-high price!
Refining an array plate cost twenty drops of essence blood, and after it was completed, sending it back to reality would probably require a substantial amount of essence blood as well. After all of this, how much essence blood would he have left? It was hard to say.
At this moment, the middle-aged man said, "I can refine the array plate for you, but I don't know the array patterns on it. You'll have to draw them yourself. You need to wait here, and when the structure of the array plate is mostly refined, I will call you."
"Alright."
Su Nan nodded and handed over the twenty drops of essence blood. The middle-aged man took the materials and turned to enter a hidden room.
Next, he would have to wait.
Of course, Su Nan wouldn't just wait idly. His gaze turned to the divination.
"This is perfect. I can use this opportunity to gather information about the Lost Land."
Since he was going to the Lost Land, he naturally needed to gather as much information as possible.
There was also the mysterious desert mentioned in the previous divination, which could turn him into sand silently. He needed to find a way to deal with it, or else entering would be a death sentence.
"You have come to the Celestial Palace to exchange for information about the Lost Land."
"After paying twenty drops of Xuan-level essence blood, you have successfully obtained the information you wanted."
"However, to your disappointment, the Lost Land is isolated from the world, and even the Celestial Palace doesn't have much information about it."
"You have learned that the entrance to the Lost Land is in the Longji Valley of the Lingchang County in Yinsong Prefecture."
"The Lost Land has existed since ancient times and is known for having no way in or out. Some have speculated that the space where the Lost Land is located is not in this world, but in an unknown world."
"The reason for this speculation is that the energy in the Lost Land is completely different from the energy in this world. Even King-level powerhouses cannot gain the recognition of the energy there and cannot break through."
"Strangely, that space also lacks the spiritual essence of heaven and earth."
"Different energy?" Su Nan was surprised.
The Divine Ruins had no energy of heaven and earth, while the Lost Land had energy of heaven and earth, but it was completely different from the energy in this world.
If that was the case, then the speculation that the space of the Lost Land was in another world was indeed possible.
However, the lack of spiritual essence of heaven and earth in that space was perplexing.
"The Lost Land is very large, equivalent to the size of an entire prefecture in the Eastern Chen Province."
"The spatial passage into the Lost Land is one-way, only allowing entry but not exit. Due to this characteristic, the major forces in the Eastern Chen Province use it as a prison for martial artists on the verge of losing control."
"After thousands of years of development, a new order has already been established within it, with millions of people living and forming forces led by families."
"Because of the scarcity of demons in it, the number of martial artists practicing bloodline cultivation is extremely small."
"According to rumors, someone in it has developed a bloodline technique that can enhance the physical body. When cultivated to the highest level, it can possess strength comparable to the peak of the mortal realm."
The information about the Lost Land ended here.
After reading it, Su Nan suddenly had a thought:
"Cultivating to the highest level only equals the peak of the mortal realm?"
"Isn't this a low martial world?"
Without demons, the possibility of practicing bloodline techniques was naturally cut off, and the danger factor plummeted.
From the information he had now, Su Nan could already imagine that most of the Lost Land consisted of ordinary people without merged bloodlines, and there were probably not many Spirit-level martial artists.
If he were to enter, even if he couldn't dominate, he would definitely be one of the top existences.
But the problem was, without demons, how could he complete tasks when he entered?
"It's a pity that there is no information about that desert here."
The information given by the Celestial Palace seemed extensive, but there was nothing substantial that could help him.
His gaze turned to the divination again, and after some thought, he divined again.
This time, he didn't divine the Lost Land but focused on how to continue merging bloodlines when bloodlines were not completely fused.
Unfortunately, the Celestial Palace didn't have a solution either.
After a moment of silence, Su Nan continued to divine. This time, he divined about the Heaven's Gate!
The human crisis mission was completed, and he had already obtained three Heaven's Gate Keys, but he still didn't know what the Heaven's Gate was.
To his surprise, the Celestial Palace did have information about the Heaven's Gate, but the price was incredibly high, requiring five drops of King-level demon essence blood.
"You have consumed five drops of King-level demon essence blood and obtained information related to the Heaven's Gate."
"However, to your disappointment, there is very little information about the Heaven's Gate in the Celestial Palace, only two short sentences."
"You have learned that the Heaven's Gate appeared in ancient times, and it is rumored to be a gateway to the heavenly realm."
"However, when the Heaven's Gate appeared in ancient times, it brought a great catastrophe to the human race. Many powerful beings perished in that catastrophe."
"Two sentences for five drops of King-level essence blood? This Celestial Palace is really greedy!"
Looking at the information given by the divination, Su Nan furrowed his brows.
"A gateway to the heavenly realm? Catastrophe?"
"That so-called heavenly realm couldn't be the world where the Heaven Clan is located, could it?"
Mu Ran, he thought of a daring possibility, his expression becoming serious.
If the Heaven's Gate connected to the heavenly realm was truly the world of the Heaven Clan, then the explanation for the catastrophe brought about by the opening of the Heaven's Gate became clear.
Without a doubt, that catastrophe was the one that led to the destruction of the Heavenly Dynasty.
"If this is true, what does the game intend to do by awarding me the Heaven's Gate Keys?"
They couldn't possibly want him to open the Heaven's Gate, right?
Su Nan couldn't figure it out.
"I hope I'm wrong. Maybe the Heaven's Gate Keys that open the Heaven's Gate are not the same as the one leading to the heavenly realm."
He shook his head silently, no longer dwelling on it.
Half an hour later.
The refinement of the array plate was finally nearing completion. The middle-aged man walked out of the secret room and called Su Nan inside.
Upon entering, Su Nan discovered that this secret room was vast and had a massive furnace, various forging tools, and several craftsmen busy forging something on one side.
"The two array plates have been mostly constructed, and all that's left is to inscribe the array patterns. I will now teach you how to inscribe them."
With the guidance of the middle-aged man, Su Nan spent a long time inscribing the array patterns on the array plates.
This process was quite lengthy.
It took another half an hour before the array patterns on the two plates were finally inscribed.
In the end, two array plates that could accommodate one person each were successfully forged.
"Very well, now you only need to transport them to reality, and you can start practicing the Great Sun Body Scripture."
Su Nan was satisfied as he put away the array plates.
Not leaving the Celestial Palace immediately, he went to the place where demon scriptures were sold.
He already had four ancient demon essences but lacked the corresponding demon scriptures.
Four Xuan-level demon scriptures, plus one demon essence of ten drops, meant he had spent forty drops of Xuan-level essence blood.
Now, the quantity of Xuan-level demon essence blood had been reduced by half!
"This essence blood is too easy to spend!"
He had bought what he needed, obtained the information he wanted, and had no reason to stay any longer. Su Nan left the imperial city directly.
"Yinsong Prefecture is north of Zhongtian Prefecture, and I will pass by Qianshou Town. I wonder if Old Yang's demons have left or not?"
Now that he had the array plates for summoning the Great Sun Fire, he needed to involve demons in the process, just like before.
"If those demons have left, I'll have to capture any random demon."
His blood imprint could continue to be condensed, and it had not reached the limit yet. If necessary, he could brand another demon with his imprint.
"Li Hao should still be in Yinsong Prefecture. I wonder if he has completed the mission."
Su Nan thought of Li Hao again.
Li Hao had told him earlier that he had received a first-tier three-star mainline mission.
To complete the mission, Li Hao did not go to Zhongtian Prefecture like other players but chose to stay in Yinsong Prefecture.
Calculating the time, it had been almost a week, and Su Nan didn't know how far Li Hao had progressed in his mission.
"If I can successfully resolve the issue of demonic energy this time, maybe I can go help that kid when I return."
Half a day later.
Su Nan returned to Qianshou Town once again.
(End of this chapter)