novelraw Chapter 196 The Pavilion of Lost Interests was actually a storage room
Chapter 196 The Pavilion of Lost Interests was actually a storage room
Tong Yuheng performed a somewhat informal Taoist disciple's salute to the statue of Qionghua Yuanjun, then went to look around the main hall. Many statues were displayed on the altars on both sides, about twenty on each side, most of them female.
In front of the statues are their Daoist titles and positions within the sect; they were either ascended to immortality or died fighting for the sect. The Hua Ling Sect is a predominantly female sect. Considering what that divine soul said—that thousands of years had passed—Tong Yuheng suspected that this sect was founded during the matriarchal clan era.
There were no cultivation techniques, pills, or magical artifacts in the main hall, and it was unknown how many years it had been dormant there, but there wasn't a speck of dust inside!
She went out through the back door of the main hall and saw several buildings scattered behind it. These buildings were much smaller than the main hall, appearing to be two or three-story bamboo houses, exquisite and elegant. In front of the houses, green grass was lush and flowers were in full bloom, and a stream meandered around them, with layers of green bamboo providing shade—truly a tranquil place.
In front of several bamboo buildings were plaques bearing the names of various pavilions, including Cultivation Pavilion, Technique Pavilion, Talisman Pavilion, Elixir Pavilion, Magic Weapon Pavilion, Mission Pavilion, Relic Pavilion, and Library Pavilion. The characters were oddly shaped and unfamiliar to her, but with the information about the cultivation techniques passed down from the Qionghua Yuanjun, she surprisingly recognized them!
Tong Yuheng was overjoyed. The treasures stored here must be of high quality! She wondered if she could take a few magical artifacts out to use, so that she wouldn't have to worry about certain ancient martial arts families targeting the Tong family.
Cultivation techniques are a clear case of overwhelming force against ancient martial arts internal energy!
She excitedly entered the magical artifacts pavilion first, and saw a dazzling array of weapons, all of which were precious magical treasures capable of carrying mysterious energy! There were also many particularly beautiful magical artifacts in the form of women's jewelry, and she really wanted to get one for each member of her family!
What excited her even more was that some of these ritual implements were beautiful and had storage functions, such as belts, rings, hairpins, necklaces, and so on. They could store things—truly beautiful and practical treasures!
Tong Yuheng excitedly reached out to grab them, wishing she could grab ten or eight at once to give one to each of her mother and sisters! However, before she could even touch them, she was blasted away by a tremendous force!
"Snapped!"
"Ouch!"
Tong Yuheng was thrown hard to the ground and suffered internal injuries! A sharp pain shot through her chest, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood! She almost fainted!
"Is anyone here? You could have just told me not to take it! Did you have to be so ruthless?" Tong Yuheng was very dissatisfied. She didn't give her any hints at all. How was she, a newbie, supposed to survive?
Things here can't be taken, and I guess I can't take anything from the other bamboo houses either. It seems I can only admire them from afar. Tong Yuheng no longer dared to reach out casually, thinking to himself that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
So what can we do? Sigh, we can only look on with envy. But we should still visit them all and broaden our horizons, right?
With this in mind, she walked through all the bamboo houses. In the "Mission Pavilion," she saw many "Mission" signs hanging in different areas of the pavilion.
There were various types of tasks, including those for training, gathering, hunting, breeding, and crafting. She didn't dare accept any of them carelessly. What if accepting a task token meant she had accepted it, but failed to complete it and was then eliminated? She figured it was best to value her life.
Finally, she arrived at the "Pavilion of Lost Interests," wondering why such a place existed. Upon entering, she was astonished! The place was filled with all sorts of things, mostly items carelessly left behind by disciples—things that couldn't be exchanged for points. The Pavilion of Lost Interests was actually a storage room!
There is an area inside specifically for storing disciples' notes. It contains a large number of cultivation journals, personal experiences, and legends of the cultivation world. Most of them were engraved on jade slips using one's divine soul, while some were written on leather scrolls and bamboo or wooden slips, though these were less common.
The other areas contain various strange and unusual items that disciples obtained during their training, which they used to exchange for things they needed. Many of these items were acquired during their training in this secret realm.
Tong Yuheng carefully touched the bamboo and wooden slips inscribed with text, and was surprised to find that she could take them out and open them to read. She was delighted and began to read them.
Someone had written down their experience from novice to cultivator, and posted it here simply so that future generations would know of their existence. This inadvertently helped Tong Yuheng. She gained a great deal of cultivation knowledge from it, which was incredibly useful for a novice like her!
She stared at it for over ten hours straight, while in the outside world, less than an hour had passed. It seemed that the time multiplier was even higher than in her original planting space.
That's great! Now I'll have plenty of time to cultivate here!
Besides looking at the various journals, she also hoped to get her hands on some of the items inside. She gently reached out to touch them, but was blocked by an invisible barrier. Sigh, being able to even look at those journals is good enough; she shouldn't be too greedy!
After observing for quite some time, I finally understood the basic function and rules of the Qionghua Palace: it was a "trial realm" that the Hualing Sect opened periodically back then. Items obtained from the outside world or within this realm could be exchanged for elixirs, magical artifacts, materials, and so on in the other bamboo buildings.
Of course, accepting missions in the mission building also comes with corresponding rewards, or you can exchange them for items of corresponding value that you want. The building with various training grounds is not as small as it looks from the outside; it is actually quite spacious inside, with all sorts of training grounds maintained by special formations.
Such a powerful sect has vanished without a trace, and these treasures are now scattered among the common people. She's truly lucky to have obtained such an extraordinary and mysterious treasure.
Among the magical artifacts was the planting space she obtained earliest, which was meant for highly skilled alchemists to carry with them and could grow most kinds of herbs. It's likely that one of her female ancestors was a cultivator and passed it down as a family heirloom.
Based on the notes she read, she learned how to activate storage artifacts, which mainly use blood as a medium and mental power as a driving force, allowing inanimate objects to be moved in and out.
However, a planting space is a high-level magic treasure, and only those with spiritual roots can open it. Ordinary people can only use their blood and willpower to activate its limited storage function.
These advanced planting spaces are also very rare, which is why only another jade pendant was found in the artifact pavilion, demonstrating how extremely rare spatial artifacts are. She also didn't understand why her original planting space had merged and connected with the secret realm.