Chapter 1045: Rich Harves (2/2)

Even before Xiao Chen entered the Heavenly Starry Ocean, he had heard of the might of the Northern Sea Alliance.

Xuanyuan Zhantian shook his head and replied, “Naturally, they do not count. They are just an alliance of many factions. Of course, they are no weaker than the Holy Lands. There are also some ancient n.o.ble Clans that are as strong as the Holy Lands. However, they are too closed-off and cannot be considered Holy Lands in my opinion.”

After Xuanyuan Zhantian said that, he sighed. “Nowadays, this very vast Heavenly Starry Ocean has millions of sects and billions of islands. They fight each other for resources and territory, with the Holy Lands taking the lead. It is very chaotic, and no one is willing to submit to another.”

Xiao Chen smiled and said, “It is indeed quite chaotic. There are Immortal Holy Lands, ancient n.o.ble Clans, large factions like the Northern Sea Alliance, as well as other factions that rose up later.”

Xuanyuan Zhantian glanced at Xiao Chen and smiled. “Speaking of chaos, this matter is related to you. When the Azure Emperor destroyed the Sea Monarch Palace, with the Dragon’s Gate’s original strength, they could have suppressed all the Holy Lands. However, the Azure Emperor mysteriously fell, and the Dragon’s Gate was destroyed. Hence, the Heavenly Starry Ocean turned chaotic.

“If you can rebuild the Dragon’s Gate and reach the same heights as the Azure Emperor, you might be able to bring peace back to the Heavenly Starry Ocean.”

Unexpectedly, there was such a matter. Xiao Chen was unwilling to delve into this, so he changed the topic. “Let’s talk more about that Heroes Pageant. Why is the Lunar Palace organizing this?”

Xuanyuan Zhantian did not find this tiresome, so he carefully explained everything in detail. Xiao Chen finally understood the ins and outs of the Heroes Pageant.

The Lunar Palace’s position was extraordinary. Even though they were not ambitious, they were extremely strong and well-respected.

Initially, when the Lunar Palace organized the Heroes Pageant, it was for the sake of selecting outstanding talents from the entire Heavenly Starry Ocean to compete with the Immortal Cultivators of the Penglai Sea.

The battles between the youths were used to resolve conflicts and disputes between the Heavenly Starry Ocean and the Penglai Sea.

However, now, the Penglai Sea took the stance of hiding themselves and shunning the world, so they rarely entered into any disputes with the Heavenly Starry Ocean. Hence, the initial rationale behind the Heroes Pageant no longer existed.

The current Heroes Pageant was just an opportunity for the outstanding talents of various places to stand out from the rest, for the various Holy Lands to bare their teeth and fight for prestige.

Furthermore, in every Heroes Pageant, the Lunar Palace would take out extremely valuable prizes for the aggrandizement of the Heroes Pageant, deeply imprinting this event in everyone’s hearts. Thus, its popularity spread to the four major sea domains, the Eastern Sea, Southern Sea, Western Sea, and Northern Sea. Hence, it was now named the Four Seas Hero Gathering.

Xuanyuan Zhantian said, “There is still one year before the Heroes Pageant starts. You can come and partake in the festivities then.”

Xiao Chen shook his head and said, “I am not too interested in this. There are still many dangers waiting for me at Heavenly Star Island. I have to think of ways to quickly raise my strength.”

Xuanyuan Zhantian knew that Xiao Chen’s words were true. After chatting for a long time, they performed cupped-fist salutes and took their leave of each other.

On this trip to the treasure mountain, the two gained many benefits. They needed to find a place to organize these benefits and could not spend too much time chatting.

Actually, you can go and take a look at the Heroes Pageant. The Lunar Palace had lots of female disciples! Ao Jiao teased from the Immortal Spirit Ring.

Under Ao Jiao’s management, the most precious Spirit Tree in the Immortal Spirit Ring, the Lunar Ca.s.sia Tree, looked like it was going to bloom again.

Of course, this was largely due to Xiao Chen infusing a Peak Spirit Vein into the Immortal Spirit Ring.

“I’ll think about it later.”

Xiao Chen was currently very busy. He already took out the ten jade strips from the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion. Now, he sent in his Spiritual Sense and anxiously checked them, hoping to find Profound Martial Techniques suitable for himself.

“Profound Spear Technique—Heaven Burning Spear Technique!” Xiao Chen shook his head and set this jade strip aside. Clearly, he could not cultivate this.

Sword Technique, Staff Technique, Spear Technique… In the blink of an eye, Xiao Chen tossed five or six jade strips to the side. He could not use them at all. He could not help showing a somewhat disappointed expression.

“Profound Saber Technique, Thousand Frost Battle Snow.”

Xiao Chen’s face lit up in joy. There finally was a Profound Saber Technique. He was starting to think that the ten jade strips did not contain a single Saber Technique. If that was so, he would be very unlucky.

Furthermore, this was an ice-attributed Saber Technique, something that he lacked. This Thousand Frost Battle Snow came at a good time.

Xiao Chen carefully placed this jade strip away and checked the remaining three, only to find them not useful to him.

However, that was fine as well. Finding a Profound Martial Technique that matched him was already a good result.

As for the remaining nine, after making copies, he would be able to sell them for sky-high prices no matter where he auctioned them.

One Profound Martial Technique would definitely fetch at least one million Black Astral Coins and possibly much higher.

Then, Xiao Chen flipped his palm. A spatial ring appeared. This was the spatial ring of the loose cultivator Gao Yangyu. Xiao Chen was already extremely proficient in killing people and taking their treasures.

The instant he killed Gao Yangyu, he had silently taken Gao Yangyu’s spatial ring.

After all, Gao Yangyu was a quasi-Emperor. He should be able to bring Xiao Chen quite a pleasant surprise.

The only unfortunate thing was that the Azure Emperor’s saber light was too horrifying. It had not even left any dust from the eight quasi-Emperors; naturally, there was no hope for their spatial rings.

Otherwise, if Xiao Chen could have collected the spatial rings of all eight quasi-Emperors, then the already wealthy Xiao Chen would have become even richer.