The Demon Slayer Martial Saint Begins with Insect Refining

Chapter 397 The Great Li Treasure Vault
In the Dali Treasury, Su Yan handed the token to the chief eunuch in charge.

The old man in blue robes examined the treasure carefully and nodded slightly: "Champion Marquis, please enter. The treasure vault has seven floors in total. There are no restrictions on the grade of the treasures on each floor, but they are all rare treasures from all over the world. With this token, Champion Marquis, you can choose any item from the sixth floor down."

Thank you, senior.

Su Yan clasped his hands slightly and then strode into the treasure vault.

As the old man in blue robes said, the treasure vault is not entirely divided by grade. Some treasures that are only of the second or third grade are sometimes listed in the second or lower levels because of their scarcity.

On the sixth floor, there may also be items of lower rank but extremely mysterious.

However, for Su Yan, the reward he received was one Saint-grade item and three King-grade items.

【Molten Giant Scorpion: 0/3 (Evolution Stage)】

[Transformed Materials: Lava Mountains, Celestial Fire, Mysterious Star Core]

【Wind and Thunder Insect: 0/3 (Evolution Stage)】

[Transformed Items: 100,000 Spherical Thunder Essences, Wind and Thunder Divine Dragon Wood, Wind and Thunder Skywing Lion]

After the auction, Su Yan's Molten Giant Scorpion and Wind Thunder Insect had already been enhanced by the two rare and precious materials, the Spirit-Melting Fire Heart Lotus and the Azure Gold Thunder Tree, and were only one step away from the transformation stage.

In the treasury of the Demon Suppression Guard, he obtained the inner core of the Thunder Beast and the Flame Core of the Lion King.

Both are rare treasures among fourth-tier natural materials, and they are very compatible with the Molten Giant Scorpion and the Wind and Thunder Insect, which naturally pushes their strength to the transformation stage. Now they can come to the Great Li Treasure Vault to find suitable transformation materials.

The Wind and Thunder Insect originally had a third-tier bloodline. Although it had not yet undergone a metamorphosis, with the cleansing power of the Ferocious Insect Cauldron and the supply of Su Yan's pills and rare treasures, its strength had reached about the mid-stage of the fourth tier.

However, this is now a transformation of bloodline, which is simpler than the transformation of the Lava Mountain Giant Scorpion.

"The spherical thunder spirit is formed in the storm and thunder. It is not of high grade. What is rare is that it is not easy to preserve and needs to be collected by oneself. I'm afraid that the Wind and Thunder Winged Lion may not be in this treasure vault. I wonder if the Wind and Thunder Divine Dragon Wood is available."

Wind and Thunder Divine Dragon Wood, a fifth-grade low-level natural treasure, carved by wind and thunder, shaped like a coiled dragon, with few leaves and branches, yet its roots can penetrate mountains.

The Wind and Thunder Insect has only this one molting item with the highest rank; even the Wind and Thunder Winged Lion is only a fourth-rank disaster beast.

However, the molted offspring of the Lava Mountain Giant Scorpion made Su Yan's scalp tingle.

The Molten Mountain Giant Scorpion has evolved from the initial Fiery Scorpion to the Crimson Armor Mad Scorpion, the Flame Armor Demon Scorpion, and finally the Molten Mountain Giant Scorpion. Its bloodline is now that of a fifth-tier wild beast, and it is also the bloodline of a giant spirit beast.

The level of materials required for bloodline transformation is now extremely high.

"Mysterious Mountain Star Core, a sixth-order sacred item. It is a meteorite from outer space, containing rules, which fell to the ground and condensed over countless years into a strange earth vein spiritual mountain. Only by combining the power of the earth veins and the stars can it become the Mysterious Mountain Star Core. I wonder if the Great Li Treasure Vault has this."

Materials like the Xuan Shan Star Core have reached the threshold for refining Saint-grade Dao Weapons.

If those martial saints had been found, they would have already forged them into their own saint-grade Dao weapons; how could they have remained until now?

Compared to the Xuan Shan Star Core, the Lava Mountain Range and the Heavenly Fire are perhaps slightly easier to obtain.

The lava mountain range has no specific grade; it is a volcanic mountain range that gathers endless fire spiritual power.

Finding lava mountains isn't difficult; the challenge lies in determining just how many lava mountains the giant lava scorpion needs.

As for the latter, it is a fifth-order king-grade divine fire.

As Su Yan stepped into the Dali Treasure Vault, his true essence and divine sense were suppressed within his body.

The restrictions within the treasure vault are no weaker than those in the Demon Suppression Guard's treasury, and they seep into your body like a curse, recording what you come into contact with.

"In such a fantastical world, the importance attached to the treasure vault is even more stringent than that of the various warehouses in my previous life, which can be considered another form of surveillance."

Su Yan started his search from the first floor, heading straight for the exchange items.

They didn't linger on anything else; once they found nothing they wanted, they immediately moved on to the next place.

The first floor of the Dali Treasure Vault is extremely spacious, divided into areas such as spiritual artifacts, rare items, metals and stones, and precious plants. It mainly contains third-tier items, but there are also extremely rare second-tier and first-tier items.

Many of the medicinal herbs that Su Yan knew about for alchemy could be found here.

"No matter how strong a sect is, it is limited to a prefecture or county, and ultimately the number of people under its jurisdiction is not as great as that of a dynasty." Sects are based on martial artists, and when martial artists gather together, they form the power of a sect.

While sects may protect the people under their rule, they are ultimately not as powerful as dynasties.

It is precisely this difference that makes a dynasty more powerful than a sect in terms of resource gathering and personnel mobilization.

The treasures were dazzling; to put it bluntly, there were enough items here to turn several martial artists into martial saints.

As Su Yan passed by the third and fourth floors, many things caught his attention, and some even tempted him.

Fortunately, he remembered that his purpose was to find the metamorphosing organism.

So we arrived at the fifth floor.

The rare and precious materials on the fifth floor have become much scarcer, as have the other treasures.

Apart from a few rare items that were included, the rest are mostly Tier 5 items.

"Fifth-Tier Beast King Corpse"

Once Su Yan reached the fifth floor, he headed straight for the area of ​​rare and precious materials.

His gaze swept over the many treasures, and his eyes lit up immediately. Sure enough, there was a fifth-tier beast king's corpse here.

Behind a barrier that resembled a transparent screen, the corpse of a Purple Lightning Tiger was suppressed.

Though its head and body were severed, the tiger's eyes, though dead, still held a formidable power, radiating an awe-inspiring aura.

"This Purple Lightning Tiger is at least at the late stage of the fifth rank."

Su Yan sensed the strength emanating from him and couldn't help but make a guess in his mind.

He had already prepared a trap to fight the early-stage fifth-tier beast king.

As long as he gets his grandmaster involved, with his strength and his own restraint, it might not be impossible for him to kill the Beast King.

The only risk is that the Beastmasters are never isolated entities; they are all interconnected. Taking rash action could easily have far-reaching consequences.

However, it seems that we can save a lot of effort now.

Without much hesitation, Su Yan took out the token, opened the restriction, and put the beast king's corpse into his storage ring.

With the Beast King's corpse, the Blood Bone Centipede King only lacks one more thing in its metamorphosis—the Golden Relic.

"Golden relics are not rare and precious materials, but they should be considered a type of rare object..."

With a try-it-out mentality, Su Yan went to the area of ​​rare items. He started with the first item, the Soul Sealing Diagram, and kept searching until he reached the last area. Suddenly, a ray of golden light flashed before his eyes.

He looked closely and immediately his face lit up with joy. Before him was a piece of jade that looked like milky white.

A seven-colored halo, tinged with golden light, shimmered and surrounded the area, radiating a peaceful power.

"Golden Relic"

Su Yan was overjoyed; he had finally collected all the molted remains of the Blood Bone Centipede King.

He immediately accepted the golden relic, which was indeed obtained from the Buddhist kingdom and was transformed from an abbot of the Dhritarashtra Temple.

Today, the Chiguo Temple has been razed to the ground, and the golden relics were naturally not spared either.

Su Yan then patrolled the fifth floor again, but found no trace of the Heavenly Flame. However, he did find the Wind and Thunder Divine Dragon Wood in the area of ​​rare and precious materials.

With the Wind and Thunder Divine Dragon Wood included, Su Yan's exchange quota for royal items has already been used up.

"Next is the sixth floor."

(End of this chapter)