Female Novel
Chapter 1356
Chapter 1356, Divide Up
Space Rings weren't able to store everything without limit. If an item was too big or too heavy and exceeded the capacity of aSpace Ring, it could not be stored inside one. There were also some special treasures, such as the Sun’s True Essence YangKai and Yang Yan took from the Corpse Cave that could not be stored either.
The Sun’s True Essence couldn’t be placed into a Space Ring because the heat it gave off far exceeded what a Space Ringcould withstand. Once one tried, the Space Ring would be destroyed.
That was why Yang Yan spent a great deal of time and effort to refine a special storage ring for it.
Strictly speaking, the puppet in front of Yang Kai wasn’t too great in size, but since it couldn’t be put into a Space Ring, the onlyexplanation was that it weighed far more than Yang Kai estimated.
Realizing this, a trace of surprise flashed across Yang Kai's eyes.
Just when he was thinking about what to do next, Cai He and Du Si Si came over from where they had been meditating. Nowthat the battle was over, it was time to divide up the spoils. Everyone had seen how extraordinary this puppet was, so the ArrayMasters naturally didn’t want Yang Kai to reap all the benefits by himself and hastily ended their meditation to meet up with him.
“Brother Yang, this puppet is probably a work from ancient times and is of incredibly great value,” Cai He chuckled, his wordscarrying thinly veiled hidden meaning.
“En, if we can figure out how to operate it, it would become a massive boon,” Du Si Si’s beautiful eyes flashed with excitement.
Yang Kai stroked his chin as he looked at these two, not exposing their inner thoughts as he smiled and said lightly, “Are the twoof you interested in it?”
Cai He laughed awkwardly while Du Si Si just bluntly stated, “Of course. Who would want to miss such a good thing? Even if it’simpossible to figure out how to operate it directly, studying it should still yield some information on how puppetry in ancient timesworked. Others might not care, but | think Lian Guang would be incredibly interested in it.”
What she said held some truth. Such a puppet, regardless of its own value, had incredible worth as research material. If the LianFamily, known for their puppet techniques, heard about this thing, they would definitely go all out to acquire it.
“En,” Yang Kai gently nodded. Although Du Si Si had the demeanor of an arrogant young lady, after the three of them joinedforces in a life or death battle, Yang Kai’s opinion of her had improved somewhat. Pondering for a moment, he followed up, “Allthree of us made great efforts in this battle, but there is only one puppet, how should we allocate it?”
Cai He and Du Si Si looked at each other awkwardly, unable to immediately come up with any good ideas.
Seeing these two act like this, Yang Kai chuckled lightly and proposed, “Good, I’m not that interested in this puppet so | don’tmind giving it up. In exchange, | want that giant jet black stick. The two of you can discuss who this puppet will go to; of coursethere is also the Space Ring that dead Senior left behind to allocate.”
After the old woman was crushed to death, her Space Ring had fallen at the feet of the puppet. Yang Kai had never had achance to pick it up but now that actually came in handy as, together with the puppet and giant stick, there were three treasuresto divide among the three of them.
No one knew the complete content of her Space Ring, but what was certain was there was a bottle of the Life Revitalizing JadeCream in it.
“You want that stick?” Du Si Si glanced at the giant jet black stick and a trace of reluctance flashed across her beautiful eyes. Totell the truth, she also saw that the value of this giant stick was not under the puppet itself, so simply handing it over to Yang Kaiwas something she hesitated over. However, when she thought about what was inside the old woman’s Space Ring, herreluctance dissipated somewhat.
Cai He saw all this and quickly cut in, “Good, Brother Yang was also the main contributor in this battle, risking his life severaltimes, so this Cai has no objections.”
With him saying so, what else could Du Si Si do?
Yang Kai nodded in thanks before walking over to the giant jet black stick. After thinking about it fora moment, he reached outhis hand, placed it on the stick, then poured his Divine Sense into it to carefully examine it.
Ashort time later, Yang Kai’s expression changed and he poured a large amount of his Saint Qi into the giant jet black stick.
An incredible scene happened next. As Yang Kai infused his Saint Qi into it, the giant stick with a length of a couple dozenmetres and a thickness greater than a man’s height actually rapidly shrank and became only a metre or so long in the blink of aneye.
Cai He and Du Si Si, who were negotiating over the puppet’s and Space Ring’s distribution, saw this and couldn’t help gawkingfor a moment.
Yang Kai nodded in affirmation when he saw this. The first time he saw the puppet, there was no sign of this giant stick at all, butafter it crushed the old woman, it had suddenly appeared in its hand. At that time, Yang Kai wondered if this giant stick couldfreely change its size, and after trying it just now, he was able to confirm his guess.
Reaching out to pick up this black stick, Yang Kai’s face suddenly froze before revealing a look of pleasant surprise.
He found that he was unable to lift this stick at all, making him more certain that his decision to take it as his spoils of war wasright. Whatever materials this stick was refined from were certainly incredible.
The puppet had been destroyed, and with the techniques and knowledge of Shadowed Star, it was impossible to repair it, so itwas essentially useless. At most it could be exchanged for some Saint Crystals or treasures with the Lian Family. As for the LifeRevitalizing Jade Cream in the old woman's Space Ring... there was a good chance it was just a diluted byproduct. Yang Kaiwas almost certain that there was purer Life Revitalizing Jade Cream somewhere in that rockery.
Rejoicing in his heart, Yang Kai’s face remained indifferent as he used his Saint Qi and Divine Sense to wrap up this stick andmove it into the special ring Yang Yan had refined for him.
This ring was even capable of storing the Sun’s True Essence and Ten Thousand Year Ice Jade Pedestal, so it naturally had notrouble storing this strange stick.
While Yang Kai finished putting away the stick, Cai He’s and Du Si Si’s negotiations also concluded. Cai He walked over to theplace where the puppet originally stood and picked up the old woman’s Space Ring while Du Si Si took out a bracelet-like artifactand tossed it up as her pretty face flashed a look of joy. Mid-air, the bracelet rapidly expanded until it completely encircled thefallen puppet. Silk like threads of energy then began shooting out from the giant bracelet.
These energy filaments swiftly wrapped around the puppet, soon making it look like a giant dumpling, at which point Du Si Sishouted, “Seal!”
The countless silk threads instantly began pulling the huge puppet into the bracelet and it had been completely secured in lessthan ten breaths. The strange storage bracelet then shrank back down and flew back over to Du Si Si’s wrist.
Everyone was happy with the gains they made.
Yang Kai also had no plans of eating everything up on his own. This time, Cai He and Du Si Si limiting the puppet’s ability tomove really helped him a lot, so naturally Yang Kai wasn’t going to destroy the bridge after he crossed it.
As for which one of the three had gotten the best deal out of this, only the Heavens knew. In any case, after Cai He searched theold woman’s Space Ring, his face filled with joy, so obviously he was very satisfied with the result.
“Brother Yang, what should we do next?” It seemed that because of the previous battle, Cai He was now unconsciously treatingYang Kai as their group’s leader.
Hearing this, Du Si Si also turned her head and looked over.
Yang Kai pondered for a while before grinning, “Waiting here isn’t really an option, and since there’s only one exit, we have nochoice but to go through it. What’s on the other side of this gateway, or what dangers we might face, are impossible to tell, butsince this puppet was guarding it so tightly, there must be something good...”
Cai He’s and Du Si Si’s eyes both shined.
Yang Kai however quickly became solemn as he warned, “But where there are good things, there is definitely danger, so the twoof you should prepare yourselves.”
“Naturally. So Brother Yang's intentions are to continue exploring this place?”“Yeah. No matter what, we need to find a way to leave these Ancient Ruins, at least.”
Regarding Yang Kai’s decision, the two Array Masters naturally had no objections so the three of them rested a while tocompletely restore themselves before Yang Kai took the lead and passed through the round gateway.
Through the gateway, Yang Kai suddenly found himself in front of a straight corridor.
After sweeping the area with his Divine Sense and confirming that there were no immediate dangers, Yang Kai began walkingforward while maintaining a high level of vigilance.
The corridor wasn’t too long, only about a thousand metres in total, so it wasn’t long before the trio crossed it and arrived atanother hall.novelbin
As soon as he entered this hall, Yang Kai’s eyes shrank as he looked towards the centre spot with clear surprise on his face andcalled out, “Elder Qian?”
Cai He and Du Si Si heard Yang Kai call out like this and couldn't help smiling and quickly catching up with him. However, whenthey looked over in the direction Yang Kai was staring, bitter smiles filled their faces.
Over there, Qian Tong sat cross-legged, wearing an equally bitter smile as he stared back towards them.
Sitting beside Qian Tong was another middle-aged man who was a Second-Order Saint King. This man’s face was somewhatpale, clearly indicating that he had been injured. Yang Kai quickly judged that this person was the Artifact Refiner who followedQian Tong to this place.
Fei Zhi Tu had said that Qian Tong hadn't come here alone but had brought a Saint King Grade Artifact Refiner with him, hopingthat through this exploration, this middle-aged man would be able to become an Origin Grade Artifact Refiner to replace GrandMaster Ge Lin who recently died.
Next to Elder Qian and thismiddle-aged man was a StoneTablet. This Stone Tablet wasdensely engraved with countless tinycharacters. Even from fair distanceaway, Yang Kai@as'a to identifythegd characters as the sameunrecognizable ancient text they hadcome across multiple times sinceentering these Ancient Ruins.However, unlike all the other writingthey had encountered, the characterson this Stone Tablet had a strangecharm to them, almost as if onewould gain some kind ofenlightenment if they diligentlystudied them. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Most importantly though, aroundQian Tong were a dozen or sopuppets. Some of these puppets hadhumanoid appearances while othersresembled Monstenaéadrs but everyoheldf-t 9 was radiating a thickmalicious intent. Each of thesepuppets was clearly not affable andwere currently eyeing Qian Tong andthat Saint King Grade Artifact Refinercovetously; however, they currentlyshowed no intention to attack andwere simply surrounding them fornow. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
After probing these puppets lightly, Yang Kai felt the urge to curse.
Even if these dozen puppets weren'tas powerful as the giant one they hadencountered before, Ocoeewasn't reat.t made nse that QianTént}could only sit in place, notdaring to act rashly; if he did, thesedozen puppets would quickly tearhim and the middle-aged ArtifactRefiner to pieces. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
“How did you get here?” Qian Tong's voice was a little weak, but it didn’t seem he was in any kind of life threatening danger.Looking at Yang Kai and the other two young Array Masters though, clear surprise filled Qian Tong's face.“Elder Qian, these puppets...” Yang Kai didn’t answer immediately, instead concentrating solely on the dozen puppets.
“Don’t worry, they seem to only care about protecting this place. As long as you don’t come any closer, they won't attack. As forthis old master... en, with this Stone Tablet as a deterrent, they don’t dare to come close, so we won't die any time soon.”
Hearing this, Yang Kai's taut expression loosened. After taking a moment to gather his thoughts, he began explaining how FeiZhi Tu had recruited them to launch this rescue operation.