Chapter 726 - 726 Nine Provinces Cauldron (2)
The fake Golden Duke’s figure flickered. In the blink of an eye, he had already arrived at the end of the scorching passageway.
“Although I’m not used to using the power of Anduin Gold, the power of the moves I use is similar to his.”
“This beam of light did not hold back. It was enough to pierce through ten mountains. The distance that it extended underground was enough to cross the entire Grace House farm.”
However…
Jiang Li looked at the flat metal surface beneath his feet.
The distance he had crossed just now had already exceeded the diameter of the entire Grace House. Logically speaking, he should have seen the edge of the bottom of the cauldron long ago.
But now, he was still standing on it.
This was different from what he had discovered with the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra.
There was already a deviation in space and distance.
Thinking back, he had indeed felt something strange.
It should be that after he took the first step at the bottom of the cauldron, the space was modified.
It was indeed not so easy to use such a stupid method to enter.
However, Jiang Li did not want to wait until the next time.
This was because this huge cauldron was not as deep as he had imagined.
The Armored Troll Court had long known how magical this land was. Logically speaking, it was impossible for them not to send people to check.
As long as they checked, they would definitely discover this huge cauldron.
It was very likely that just like the Dragon Transformation Island’s Xuanyuan Tomb, this ruin had long been discovered by those Armored Trolls.
Now, Jiang Li only hoped that the ruins left behind by the three emperors were stronger than the Epang Palace and could protect the inheritance that he deserved.
He raised his hand again, and the straight light track continued to extend forward, burning the rocks into nothingness.
Jiang Li followed the passageway that was opened, flying as he continued to fuse the passageway.
The speed at which it advanced was actually very fast.
However, Jiang Li still took more than an hour to reach the bottom edge of the cauldron.
It could be seen that the space held up by this huge cauldron was much larger than the Yin Burial Coffin and Epang Palace.
Since there was a boundary, there was no need to be afraid of not touching it.
However, when he did these things, the energy fluctuation could not be concealed at all.
He was on tenterhooks, afraid that the Queen would come and find trouble with him.
Fortunately, the stitched monster was sufficiently powerful, and the two sides were locked in battle. They did not have the time to pay attention to Jiang Li.
Following the thick patterns on the cauldron wall, he continued to dive deeper.
The deeper he went, the harder the soil and rocks became.
The moisture level of this continent far exceeded that of the Azure Cloud Continent. Along the way, he encountered several underground rivers which caused him quite a bit of trouble.
The speed at which Jiang Li fused out the vertical passageway became slower and slower.
This time, Jiang Li spent an entire four hours touching the inverted cauldron mouth.
They were finally here!
Jiang Li changed direction again and found the horizontal position before digging towards the mouth of the cauldron.
However, the subsequent discovery made his mood gradually heavy.
As he approached the mouth of the cauldron, he felt a huge space ahead.
However, during this process, he did not encounter any obstruction.
This was not good arrogance.
The current him had the appearance of an Armored Troll, not a human.
Even so, it was not stopped. In other words, if the Armored Troll came here in such a simple way, it would also not be stopped.
Coupled with the fact that this huge cauldron could not be considered to be hidden at all, Jiang Li already had a bad feeling.
Soon, his right hand that was continuously releasing light tracks felt empty in front of him. The last rock was pierced through by him.
Jiang Li stepped in with trepidation.
A rock was kicked by him, and the sound of collision spread out.
After the ripples of sound were accepted by his ears, the outline of this space slowly outlined in Jiang Li’s consciousness.
It was empty and lonely.
Another small sun appeared in his hand and he threw it above, emitting a warm and bright light.
Tens of thousands of years later, it lit up this space again.
Just as he had imagined, this was a huge cauldron.
There were many patterns carved on it. The style was ancient and could be traced back to the Primordial World.
It recorded a large number of images from the conflict between the tribes of the human race a long time ago, to farming and planting seeds, to offering sacrifices to the world and seeking immortality.
On the four walls of the inner cauldron, in the middle of the carvings of those humans, there were also four floating words carved in ancient text: “Cauldron Suppressing the Nine Provinces”!
If not for the fact that he had obtained the merit runes of the Xuanyuan Clan in the Xuanyuan Tomb, Jiang Li would really not have recognized the words of that era.
After understanding it, he was even more shocked.
“This thing is actually the Nine Provinces Cauldron!”
The treasure of the human race, the Nine Provinces Cauldron!
In the first year of the Xia Dynasty, Great Yu stopped the flood and became the ruler. He divided the world into the Nine Provinces.
Later on, his son, Xia Qiling, used the copper of the Nine Provinces to forge nine cauldrons.
He carved the famous mountains, rivers, and places in the world into the bodies of nine cauldrons, using each cauldron to suppress a continent.
At that time, the human race was flourishing. Immortals and Gods did not disturb them, and evil was eliminated.
At that point, the Nine Provinces Cauldron was able to resist Connate Cardinal treasures at its peak!
It was a top treasure of the human race.
The Nine Provinces Cauldron corresponded to the Nine Provinces.
Jiang Li even suspected that the collapse of the Cultivationless Age was because of the suppression of these nine cauldrons that the four continents did not completely shatter. Instead, they were divided into nine that had survived until now.
A part of this Nine Provinces Cauldron should also be in the Azure Cloud Continent.
However, it should be in the Central Region.
He, who had always been in the Eastern Region, did not have the chance to see it.
Holding the small sun and walking around the Nine Provinces Cauldron, Jiang Li obtained two bad news and two good news.
One of the bad news was that he did not see any treasures left behind by the previous Human Emperors.
The second bad news was that he did not see any treasures, but he saw many footprints that did not belong to him. Those footprints belonged to at least twenty different creatures.
There were the claws of the Armored Trolls and the footprints of humans. Moreover, the duration of the footprints was very different.
This meant that twenty people had already entered this place before him.
Even the original things inside had long been plundered clean.
This really disappointed the current successor of the Human Emperor.
One of the two pieces of good news was that this was not the Fire Cloud Cave.
Therefore, it was fortunate that the ultimate inheritance of the Human Emperor that Jiang Li yearned for was still there.
The second good news was that the people here could not take away this strongest and most precious treasure, the Nine Provinces Cauldron itself.
Although the human race had fallen and had experienced the Cultivationless Age, causing this cauldron to no longer have much strength, it was still not something that the cultivators and monsters of this era could shake.
Jiang Li took out a mirror and returned to his human form.
Then, he eagerly cut open his palm.
He used his spiritual qi to open the wound to prevent it from healing too quickly. He reached out and pressed the wound that was constantly bleeding onto the inner wall of the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
Swoosh!
The huge bronze cauldron shook slightly.
With Jiang Li’s palm as the center, circles of light spread out.
The Nine Provinces Cauldron would indeed react to the Human Emperor’s Blood Qi.
However, after another half an hour of blood, Jiang Li retracted his palm in disappointment.
As expected, he was not the Human Emperor after all and was not qualified to use and move the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
He could only give up for the time being.
However, since the information left behind by Fuxi pointed to this place, it meant that he must have placed something important here.
After that, he might have to go to the Queen’s treasure vault.
The thing inside was most likely obtained by the Armored Troll Court.
Perhaps he could find some of the things passed down by the Human Emperor.
After failing to find the treasure, Jiang Li had no choice but to return the same way. He shattered the passageway and spent some time before finally returning to the ground.
What he did not know was that there was actually something under the cauldron.
A cloud of dust rolled up and transformed into an old human figure.
The human figure stepped forward and dabbed his fingers in the blood left on the ground before sending it into his mouth.
After tasting it with a nostalgic expression for a moment, his empty eyes revealed a hint of surprise, thought, hatred, and finally excitement.
After that, he transformed into an imperceptible wisp of dust that followed closely behind Jiang Li.