The great opportunity that Ji Xuan had been yearning for was ultimately snatched by Jun Xiaoyao.
If there wasn't anything good inside the box, it would have been a waste of Ji Xuan's efforts.
Jun Xiaoyao opened the box.
At first glance, what caught his eye was an ancient-looking dark golden scroll, seemingly made of gold leaf.
"What's this?" Jun Xiaoyao was slightly puzzled.
He opened the dark golden scroll.
Instantly, countless ancient characters appeared before Jun Xiaoyao's eyes.
Each ancient character radiated endless divine light, like stars in the sky rotating.
If it were an ordinary person, just one glance would blind their eyes.
But Jun Xiaoyao was different. As the Ancient Sacred Body, his eyes emitted golden light, sweeping over the text.
Upon this look, Jun Xiaoyao's expression turned to one of surprise.
For someone like Jun Xiaoyao, who usually maintained such a calm and composed demeanor, to show such an expression, one can imagine how astonished he must have been.
"Could this be... one of the Nine Celestial Books?"
Jun Xiaoyao was slightly stunned, hardly daring to believe it.
In the Immortal Realm, there probably wasn't a cultivator who didn't know about the Nine Celestial Books.
The Nine Celestial Books were neither written by humans nor were they the heritage of any particular lineage.
They had existed since the beginning of the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm.
Some say the Nine Celestial Books were written by "immortals."
Others say the Nine Celestial Books were manifestations of the rules of the Heavenly Dao.
In short, there were various theories.
But one thing was certain: the Nine Celestial Books were not something that any single person could create.
Even a Great Emperor would find it difficult to create them.
The most precious aspect of the Nine Celestial Books was that each book represented an ultimate form.
For example, one of the Nine Celestial Books, the Space Book, was the ultimate in spatial laws.
The Time Book was the ultimate in temporal laws.
The other books each represented different ultimate principles.
There were even rumors that if someone could collect all Nine Celestial Books, they could combine them to forge a path to immortality.
It was because of these various rumors about the Nine Celestial Books that countless people were frantically searching for their whereabouts.
But throughout countless eras, let alone collecting all nine books, even finding one or two was a luxury.
Jun Xiaoyao never imagined that this wooden box would contain a Celestial Book.
"Judging by its contents, this should be the Body Book among the Nine Celestial Books, the ultimate in physical form," Jun Xiaoyao muttered to himself, his voice unable to hide his amazement.
Probably no one would remain calm upon seeing a Celestial Book.
And what's more coincidental was that this book was the Body Book among the Nine Celestial Books, perfectly matching Jun Xiaoyao's Ancient Sacred Body.
"First the Divine Elephant Prison-Subduing Technique, and now the Body Book. Is this meant to help me become a Physical Body Great Emperor?" Jun Xiaoyao thought to himself.
However, what made Jun Xiaoyao frown slightly was that this volume of the Body Book seemed incomplete.
It appeared to be only the first half.
"Right, earlier the remnant soul of the Yuan Tian Supreme Being mentioned that the thing was inside the wooden box, and the rest might be in the lower realm," Jun Xiaoyao murmured.
"Does this mean the second half of the Body Book is in one of the Ten Lands?"
This possibility was quite high.
"It seems I'll definitely need to make a trip to the lower realm in the future. The Body Book is too important for me," Jun Xiaoyao said.
His Ancient Sacred Body, combined with the Divine Elephant Prison-Subduing Technique, and now one of the Nine Celestial Books, the Body Book.
Once he mastered all of these, how formidable would his physical body become?
Perhaps even the Great Emperors who attained the Dao through physical cultivation in ancient times wouldn't be able to compare to him.
Inside the wooden box, besides the Body Book, there was also a fragment of an incomplete bronze piece.
Compared to the Body Book, this bronze fragment seemed very unremarkable.
It didn't look like any kind of immortal metal, appearing very plain and ancient.
Jun Xiaoyao held it in his hand and was surprised to find that he couldn't crush this bronze fragment.
Jun Xiaoyao's current physical strength was incredibly powerful. While he might not be able to crush immortal metals, he could easily break ordinary royal weapons.
Yet this seemingly unremarkable bronze fragment was extremely sturdy.
"It's a bit strange. I'll have to show it to Grandfather and the others later," Jun Xiaoyao said as he put away the bronze fragment.
Then, he took out the Saint King's hand bone and the five dragon bones.
Jun Xiaoyao had already separated the Saint King's hand bone.
The entire hand bone was as white as jade, inscribed with complex Dao patterns.
Even just sitting there, it exuded the pressure of a Saint realm.
The reason Ji Xuan could stand out among the geniuses was largely due to this Saint King's hand bone.
A single hand bone could create such a powerful genius.
But Jun Xiaoyao had no intention of fusing the hand bone into his own arm.
The thought of fusing someone else's bone into his body was unsettling.
Moreover, Jun Xiaoyao's Ancient Sacred Body was already one of the strongest physical constitutions. When fully developed, it would be incomparably stronger than the Saint King's hand bone.
There was no need to abandon the essential for the trivial.
"Although I won't fuse it into my arm, I could forge it into a magical artifact," Jun Xiaoyao mused.
He planned to craft the Saint King's hand bone into a weapon.
As for the five dragon bones.
Jun Xiaoyao intended to bestow four of the ancient dragon bones to Jun Zhiangjian and the others.
After all, they had contributed greatly in the Yuan Tian Secret Realm.
The rewards they deserved should be given.
As for the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone, Jun Xiaoyao naturally kept it for himself to refine.
Then, Jun Xiaoyao directly summoned the Hell Smelting Furnace and absorbed the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone into it.
Instantly, surging waves of essence energy erupted.
The power contained within the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone was incredibly strong. If Xiao Chen had obtained it, it could have directly caused him to undergo a great transformation.
But now, it all benefited Jun Xiaoyao.
Inside his body, crackling sounds like popping beans could be heard. That was the sound of one giant elephant particle after another awakening.
80,000...
90,000...
In the end, 100,000 giant elephant particles fully awakened within Jun Xiaoyao's body!
Golden divine light erupted from Jun Xiaoyao's entire body!
Behind him, an incredibly solid golden divine elephant appeared, as if it were real. Its trunk curled as it raised its head and trumpeted, seeming to have the power to suppress the eight wilderness and roar down the stars!
At this moment, the Divine Elephant Prison-Subduing Technique entered the first stage of small success.
With every movement, Jun Xiaoyao could unleash ten billion jin of divine power, enough to shatter stars and collapse ancient mountains with a single punch!
"As expected of the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone, this energy is too immense," Jun Xiaoyao sighed.
After the transformation of the Divine Elephant Prison-Subduing Technique, the next step was to convert the giant elephant particles into dragon-elephant particles.
Dragon-elephant particles were ten times stronger than giant elephant particles.
In other words, if Jun Xiaoyao could convert all his giant elephant particles into dragon-elephant particles, his physical divine power would increase tenfold.
That would be a hundred billion jin of divine power!
The mere thought of it was terrifying.
Moreover, the benefits brought by the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone didn't stop there.
Because within the Ancestral Dragon Bone was hidden the Ancestral Dragon Blood Essence.
This energy, combined with the dragon qi in Jun Xiaoyao's body, caused his dragon scale inner armor to undergo another transformation.
Jun Xiaoyao slightly activated it, and a set of slender cyan-gold dragon armor conforming to his body immediately condensed.
This set of dragon armor was more than ten times stronger in defense than the previous dragon scale inner armor.
Jun Xiaoyao, clad in dragon armor, lost some of his immortal-like ethereal aura and gained more of a cold and domineering air of a war god.
At this moment, he looked even more like the true dragon prince of the Ancestral Dragon Nest than Long Haotian and the others.
"Let's call this dragon armor the Azure Sky Ancestral Dragon Armor," Jun Xiaoyao said with a faint smile.
Originally, this Azure Sky Ancestral Dragon Armor should have been a technique that Xiao Chen could condense.
But since both the dragon qi and the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone were snatched by Jun Xiaoyao, it ended up benefiting Jun Xiaoyao instead.