Chapter 910: Inheritance |
The institution responsible for handling storage and retrieval of items in the Great Hall of Affairs is called the Collection Chamber.
By simply paying a storage fee, one can freely store and retrieve items inside.
It's somewhat similar to the mortal world's bank, but this is Heavenly Palace, with official guarantees from Heavenly Palace, so there are no security concerns.
The puppet brought Meng Zhang to the Collection Chamber.
Meng Zhang presented the token representing Taiyi Sect.
Smoothly, Meng Zhang obtained a large jade box.
The predecessor of Taiyi Sect, who stored items in this jade box, had paid a storage fee for two thousand years in advance.
Since the items were stored in this jade box, it has only been about twelve hundred years.
Of course, if the later generations of Taiyi Sect come too late and the previously paid fee is insufficient, the Collection Chamber can keep the items for an additional one thousand years.
But if it exceeds one thousand years, the Collection Chamber gains the right to dispose of the item.
The Collection Chamber acts fairly; before the two-thousand-year deadline, Meng Zhang took the items and received a full refund of the excess storage fee after settlement.
Meng Zhang obtained a palm-sized cyan talisman made of an unknown material.
This is the official voucher issued by Heavenly Palace. With this voucher, one can obtain pure jade inspiration within Heavenly Palace.
Most of the time, such vouchers can be used as currency among high-level cultivators.
With this talisman in hand, Meng Zhang can exchange it for eight hundred strands of pure jade inspiration.
Now, relying on the legacy of his ancestors, Meng Zhang finally has his first capital.
This can not only support his daily cultivation but also serve as capital for future business ventures.
When taking out the jade box, the Collection Chamber thoughtfully provided a small room for Meng Zhang to handle the items inside.
Entering the unmanned room, Meng Zhang glanced around, made sure there was no surveillance, and then opened the small jade box.
Inside the jade box, there are three items.
One of them is a golden talisman.
This is a land contract that records a property within Heavenly Palace.
With this land contract, Meng Zhang gains legal ownership of this property.The second item is a jade slip.
Meng Zhang released his Divine Sense and carefully read the contents inside the jade slip.
Inside the jade slip, there were details about Heavenly Palace.
It included a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Heavenly Palace, such as how to serve Heavenly Palace, how to obtain various benefits from Heavenly Palace, and so on.
Compared to Xu Kong Zi's previous introduction, it was incredibly detailed and more than a hundred times more informative.
After reading the recorded contents, Meng Zhang immediately transformed from a newcomer who had just entered Heavenly Palace into an experienced veteran who had been in Heavenly Palace for many years.
Although some changes might have occurred over time, leading to inaccuracies in the experiences of previous generations, the overall direction remained unchanged.
Moreover, those who mingle in Heavenly Palace are at least cultivators of the Primordial Spirit True Monarch level. Considering their lifespans, a little over a thousand years is not considered a very long time.
Heavenly Palace itself has a history as ancient as the rule of human cultivators over Grand Dust World.
A little over a thousand years is probably just a fleeting moment, and significant changes in various aspects of Heavenly Palace are unlikely.
Meng Zhang himself deeply understood that Grand Dust World was not like the fast-paced world of his past life.
In many places, customs and habits remained unchanged after thousands of years.
With startup capital and rich experiences, the current Meng Zhang has enough confidence to thrive in Heavenly Palace.
He not only aims to earn enough cultivation resources for himself but also seeks benefits for his sect.
Meng Zhang couldn't help but wonder if among the Taiyi Sect's predecessors, there was someone proficient in the art of divination, capable of foreseeing everything and making preparations in advance.
The Taiyi Sect's inherited scriptures that Meng Zhang received were not complete, and there was no inheritance of the art of divination.
His own Grand Evolving Fortune, a celestial divination technique, was obtained by chance and had no connection to Taiyi Sect.
Meng Zhang speculated that among the Taiyi Sect's scriptures that he hadn't obtained, there might be a profound inheritance of the art of divination.
After reaching the Primordial Spirit stage, Meng Zhang's art of divination had encountered a bottleneck and didn't progress along with his cultivation.
Even though his Spiritual Awareness was exceptionally keen, and his impromptu abilities were still effective, he found it challenging to proactively predict people and things at the level of Primordial Spirit.
Meng Zhang decided that when he had some free time, he would thoroughly search for other Taiyi Sect's inherited scriptures.
After reading the contents of the jade slip, Meng Zhang shifted his focus to the third item.
It was a bead about the size of a finger, dim and lightless all over.This is the Light and Shadow Inheritance Bead, which contains preserved information from the Cultivation World.
The level of the Light and Shadow Inheritance Bead is much higher than the jade slip; it can only be crafted and read by cultivators at the Primordial Spirit level or above.
Judging from the crafting method of this Light and Shadow Inheritance Bead, it is a secret technique of Taiyi Sect.
The significant difference between the Light and Shadow Inheritance Bead and the jade slip is its ability to encrypt information.
Without the corresponding decryption method, even a cultivator with great power at the Return to Emptiness stage would be unable to read the information stored inside.
As the Sect Master of Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang has read all the available scriptures of the sect.
He is well acquainted with the ciphers and encryption methods passed down in Taiyi Sect.
In the Cultivation World, ancient and powerful sects like Taiyi Sect often create ciphers.
The crucial parts of Taiyi Sect's inherited scriptures, especially in the core inheritance, are often written in ciphers.
Without mastering the corresponding ciphers, even if the inherited scriptures are lost outside, outsiders cannot understand them.
While this practice ensures the confidentiality of their inheritance, it also creates difficulties for future generations.
Meng Zhang now faces a problem.
The ciphers and encryption methods he knows are insufficient to read the information within this Light and Shadow Inheritance Bead.
He knows that Taiyi Sect has lost too much knowledge and heritage due to past calamities. Even as the Sect Master, he has no solution to this.
He can only carefully put away the Light and Shadow Inheritance Bead and hope that Shou Zheng or Xu Kong Zi might be able to decipher its contents.
Apart from these three items, the jade box is now empty.
The jade box itself is a standard one provided by the Collection Chamber, with nothing special about it.
After sitting in the room for a while, organizing his thoughts, Meng Zhang left the place.
Instead of rushing to the Great Hall of Affairs to receive tasks or the like, Meng Zhang decided to settle down first.
Now, he is preparing to claim the property left by the Taiyi Sect predecessors.
After reading the information in the jade slip, Meng Zhang is already very familiar with the geographical situation of Heavenly Palace.
Being thrifty, he hesitates to use the teleportation Formation and decides to travel on foot.
After all, although Heavenly Palace is vast, the space open to the public is still quite limited.
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