Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 121 Treasure Vault, Spirit Gathering Pool
Su You had already learned about the Dream Butterfly Sect's library; it contained at least several billion kinds of books.

To put this into perspective, you must know that the total number of books in the Void Heaven Sect is estimated to be only a few million.

With so many ancient texts, even if the Tower Spirit were to scan them, it would take countless years.

"It seems I need to find a way to improve the Tower Spirit's abilities," Su You pondered.

In the past, before he obtained the Dream Butterfly Sect's inheritance, Xiao Bei's abilities would have been barely sufficient for his needs.

But now that Su You has taken over such a high-level inheritance, he needs a more powerful tower spirit to help him sort and manage it.

However, the enhancement of the tower spirit is not such a simple matter. It also requires spiritual materials. It is unknown whether the Dream Butterfly Sect's treasury has what he needs.

"I hope there are still some useful things left in the treasure vault," Su You thought with anticipation.

He didn't know how many treasures the Dream Butterfly Mirror had devoured during its self-repair process, or whether it had left him with any treasures.

With a thought, Su You arrived at a magnificent mountain peak.

This is the true location of the Dream Butterfly Sect.

The area that Su You had just entered, including those four mountain peaks, was only a very small part of the Dream Butterfly Mirror's Lesser Thousand Worlds; most of the space was separated.

The Dream Butterfly Sect is located entirely within this area.

Standing atop the mountain, Su You could clearly see the surrounding mountains vying for supremacy, tens of thousands of towering peaks all part of the Dream Butterfly Sect.

However, hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and these cave dwellings and the like have long been abandoned.

In particular, the spiritual energy within the minor world is constantly being drawn out by the Dream Butterfly Mirror to repair itself, causing many formations to be unable to continue operating.

Only the most core areas within the sect have maintained the formation.

Su You walked forward several dozen steps and saw an ancient bronze gate.

Aiming at the bronze gate, a beam of light shot out from the sect leader's ring on his finger, and the gate slowly opened.

The Dream Butterfly Sect's treasury is divided into three layers. The outermost layer stores treasures from the first to the fourth tier, the middle layer stores treasures from the fifth and sixth tiers, and the innermost layer contains the sect's most precious treasures, mostly from the seventh and eighth tiers.

Upon entering, one is greeted by a towering sandalwood shelf, hundreds of meters high, upon which are neatly arranged jade boxes, each with its name carved above it.

There are probably millions of such jade boxes on a single wooden frame.

There are more than twenty such wooden frames on the outer layer.

Su You picked one up casually; it was labeled as a first-tier water-attribute ore, Red Rock Iron.

I picked up a few more jade boxes, all of which contained minerals, all of the same standard.

Su You examined the wooden shelf closely and discovered that it was filled with mineral treasures.

"So many treasures! This is going to be a fortune! And this is just the outer layer." Su You was quite excited.

They immediately ran to the other wooden shelves and found various types of pills, elixirs, talismans, and so on.

He eagerly opened a jade box containing a type of pill, which contained a first-tier Qi-strengthening pill.

"Each jade box is actually a huge storage space. There are more treasures than I imagined!" With a thought, Su You poured out the pills inside.

One by one, the pills, resembling pebbles and completely devoid of medicinal properties, were poured out.

Millions of pills, each the size of a pebble, fell to the ground.

"No way! It's completely devoid of medicinal properties?" Su You flew to the top of the wooden shelf, where fourth-grade pills were stored.

The pills inside were poured out, and like first-tier pills, they had all lost their medicinal properties.

Hundreds of thousands of years is enough time to change the world.

Not to mention these kinds of pills.

Although these elixirs are well stored in jade boxes and protected by a treasure vault, they can only be stored for a maximum of several thousand years.

After all, the Dream Butterfly Sect is a very large sect with many disciples, and its pills are used very efficiently. Every time a batch of pills is distributed, a new batch is stockpiled.

Normally, very few items in the outer warehouse are stored there for more than a thousand years; most of them are used up and then new supplies are stored again.

Therefore, no one could have predicted that the sect would suffer a devastating blow in such a short time.

If the spirit of the Dream Butterfly Mirror were still alive, simply sealing off the treasure vault would extend the time even further.

However, the spirit of the Dream Butterfly Mirror has been destroyed, and Chen Hao cannot accomplish this task using only the sect leader's ring.

Moreover, Chen Hao could only watch as these treasures slowly lost their effectiveness over time.

Sure enough, as Su You continued to open other types of treasures, such as jade boxes containing spiritual medicines and jade boxes containing talismans, the contents also lost their effectiveness and even turned to dust.

However, when Su You opened the spirit ore and magic artifact treasures, they were all empty.

Even the residue was gone, clearly indicating that it didn't disappear over time, but rather that someone took it away.

"Chen Hao must have taken it," Su You thought to himself.

In the memory, Chen Hao seemed to have invested a large amount of magical artifacts and spiritual minerals in a certain place, trying to extract their essence to repair the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

"Damn it! I'm not going to end up with an empty treasure vault, am I?" Su You said helplessly.

Inheriting such a rich and profound treasure trove should have made developing it a piece of cake for Su You, but now...

"Hopefully, there are still some treasures left in the central and inner treasuries. Surely not all the treasures will be useless." Su You didn't stay in the outer treasury either.

Although there are many jade boxes here, it is estimated that the contents inside are all destroyed.

I'll clean them up when I have time later. After all, these jade boxes are quite valuable, with large storage capacity, and they have a preservative effect on spiritual herbs and elixirs.

After walking for several kilometers, Su You saw another bronze gate and skillfully opened it with the Sect Leader's Star Ring.

The treasure trove in the middle layer doesn't have the same exaggerated quantity as the outer layer.

After all, fifth- or sixth-tier treasures are considered quite valuable anywhere.

The treasure vault consisted of only a wooden frame, on which were probably tens of thousands of treasure boxes.

This time, Su You began to open the treasure boxes one by one to examine them.

Upon opening the first treasure box, they immediately reaped a reward: tens of thousands of fifth-tier pills.

The medicinal effects of these pills had not completely disappeared; a trace remained.

Su You quickly performed a hand seal to assess how much of the elixir's medicinal properties remained.

"What a pity, what a pity. Although this pill still has some medicinal effect, it's only comparable to a mid-stage third-tier pill," Su You sighed. However, something is better than nothing.

Moreover, he can also use third-tier pills.

These tens of thousands of fifth-tier pills were all pills that could enhance magical power, which was just right for Su You.

With so many pills, there shouldn't be any problem for him to break through to the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

The remainder can also be used to train subordinates.

Moreover, Su You has not yet received an alchemy inheritance. If there is a way to restore the efficacy of pills there, then these pills can play an even greater role.

One by one, the jade boxes were opened. As expected, fifth and sixth-tier treasures were different. Even after hundreds of thousands of years, they still retained some of their effects and did not become completely ineffective over time.

Only elixirs have lost their effectiveness.

As for spirit ore and magic treasures, there were none inside either; they must have all been taken by Chen Hao to repair the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

Although there were some regrets, the gains this time were still acceptable, and Su You was satisfied.

This time, the mid-level treasure vault yielded about a million fifth and sixth-tier pills. Of course, most of them were missing their medicinal effects. He didn't touch these pills and stored them here for now, hoping to see if there would be a way to restore them after he received the alchemy inheritance.

These things can only be best preserved in the treasure vault, placed in jade boxes; there is no need to take them out.

If needed, he can come and pick it up directly.

After seeing the contents of the middle treasure vault, Su You became even more curious about the contents of the inner treasure vault.

Opening the door to the inner vault, this time there were no wooden shelves inside.

There are only a few hundred stone platforms inside.

On top was a jade box carved from purple jade.

Clearly, the jade boxes containing the treasures here are of a much higher quality.

They opened the jade boxes one by one, which contained dozens of seventh and eighth-tier materials, including pills, spiritual herbs, jade talismans, puppets, and materials from demonic beasts.

The demon beast materials inside—just by opening the jade box, Su You felt an immense pressure pressing down on his spirit. If it weren't for the sect leader's star ring automatically protecting him, he probably would have been driven to mental collapse by this aura.

Furthermore, even with Su You's magic, he couldn't determine how much medicinal value remained in the pills here.

However, it will definitely be far more than fifth- or sixth-tier pills.

After all, seventh and eighth-grade spiritual herbs can already be preserved, and the medicinal properties of the herbs are only reduced by about half. The preservation effect of pills is definitely better.

As for spirit ore and magical artifacts, not a single one remained.

In summary, the inner treasury is the most valuable, but it is also the one that Su You can least utilize.

Even if the pills here are well preserved, they are not something he can use.

It's even impossible to sell it, since no one can afford such a small interface, and no one can use it.

However, having gained something is better than gaining nothing, and it's already quite good that the most valuable treasure was preserved.

After all, these things are things that money can't buy. Once Su You's cultivation level improves, these things will become his greatest treasures.

Although somewhat disappointed that there were no treasures I could use, the result was still acceptable.

Moreover, the Dream Butterfly Sect has treasures in more than just its treasure vault.

Although the Dream Butterfly Sect is a weapon-refining sect, it also has buildings such as a spirit herb garden.

However, the herb garden has been neglected for hundreds of thousands of years, so it is unknown how many of the herbs inside are still alive.

With a flash, Su You arrived at the spirit herb garden.

Sensing the rich spiritual energy within, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, the spiritual energy in the herb garden is still intact. This means that even if no one takes care of it, some of the herbs can still survive." Su You breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Hao managed to leave behind something of value.

Having such a spiritual herb garden would be extremely helpful for Su You himself, as well as for the development of the sect.

Upon entering the herb garden, one finds the fields densely covered with medicinal herbs, many of which are intertwined and vying for nutrients.

“This…” Su You was somewhat surprised.

He hadn't expected this situation to be like this.

After careful observation, Su You was able to identify some of the different types of medicinal herbs and finally understood why the herbs in the herb garden were growing so wildly.

Every medicinal herb has its own growth period. Not all medicinal herbs can grow indefinitely. If they are not harvested in time after a certain number of years, they will disperse their medicinal properties into a large number of seeds.

This herb garden has been neglected for hundreds of thousands of years, and most of the herbs have reached the upper limit of their growth period more than once.

And because no one picked them, they all turned into many seeds and grew anew.

This has resulted in different medicinal herbs being intertwined in the herb garden, with many herbs even competing for nutrients.

The sheer number of medicinal herbs inside exceeded the limits of the herb garden's capacity, and a large portion of them would inevitably die in the struggle for nutrients.

"What a waste! It's such a waste!" Su You said, feeling a pang of heartache.

These are all his wealth; each elixir is extremely valuable. It would be such a waste to squander them through internal strife.

Although he wanted to organize the spirit herb garden, Su You currently knew too little about these spirit herbs and did not have the methods of a spirit plant master, so he could only let the spirit herbs in the garden develop on their own for the time being.

Fortunately, it can now be confirmed that this is a huge fortune, and one that he can utilize, which is good news.

After inspecting the herb garden, Su You arrived at the most important place inside the Dream Butterfly Mirror, which was also the key to repairing the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

This is a chaotic space containing a huge pool of water, from which faint flashes of spiritual light emanate.

This is not an ordinary pool, but a spirit-extracting pool, which can extract the essence of spirit ores, magical artifacts and other materials.

Its original purpose was to refine magical artifacts and upgrade their quality.

However, all the essence refined now has been used to repair the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

The faint glimmer of spiritual light in the pool indicates the presence of ores of rank eight or higher, as well as some valuable magical artifacts. These are not things that the Spirit Extraction Pool can extract in a short period of time.

Even after hundreds of thousands of years, the essence inside has not been completely extracted.

If we can absorb all the essence of these treasures, we can restore a large portion of the power of the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

(End of this chapter)