Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 73: Stealing Treasures from the National Treasury
Xue Ke was thinking about these things in her mind. What should she do to ruin this marriage without affecting her reputation?

Tang San, who was standing opposite Xue Ke, was very unhappy about the rude questions Xue Ke asked, but he had seen the portrait of Princess Xue Ke at Tang Yuehua's place.

I know that the girl in front of me is the most beloved little princess of the royal family.

Therefore, Tang San could only suppress his dissatisfaction and pretend to be a gentleman and say something.

However, before Tang San could say anything, he found that Xue Ke had been standing there in a daze after she finished speaking, and he didn't know what she was thinking about.

Tang San felt that he was being ignored, and the dissatisfaction in his heart instantly turned into anger.

But Tang San was concerned about Xue Ke's identity, and the dragon beard needle hidden in his hand did not shoot out.

……

Outside the palace.

A dark shadow lurked in the pitch-black night and ran nimbly along the tall palace wall.

Somewhere in the palace, where the national treasury is located.

Lin Rong, dressed in night clothes, hid in the dark, using a mind mirror to observe the situation around him.

"Even though half of the guards were transferred away, I didn't expect there are still two teams of guards here."

"Fortunately, I was prepared."

After obtaining the second soul ring, Lin Rong already had a rough plan in his mind on how to obtain the Tiandou royal family's national treasure - the Vast Sea Universe Cover.

As the national treasure, the Hanhai Qiankun Water Cover has always been enshrined in the most central location of the national treasury and closely guarded.

And each of the guards responsible for guarding the national treasury is at least a three-ring soul master.

There are seven doors to the treasury, and each door requires seven keys to open.

Normally, without Xue Ye's imperial decree, it would be impossible to sneak into the national treasury and steal the Hanhai Qiankun Cover without alerting anyone.

But this is not a problem at all for Lin Rong, who has the ability to replace space.

For this purpose, Lin Rong selected a very valuable birthday gift on the day of Emperor Xue Ye's birthday, added a mark to it, and gave it away at the birthday banquet.

According to custom, valuable birthday gifts would be registered and stored in the national treasury.

In this way, Lin Rong can use space displacement to sneak into the treasury without alerting anyone.

In the dark night, Lin Rong quietly released the dragon soul of the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon and commanded with telepathy:

"Xiaoqing, after I perform the spatial displacement, remember to add a new mark to the object that was replaced, and then hide in the void with it."

The Nine-Curved Vine Dragon in the dragon soul state rubbed Lin Rong's face with its head to indicate that it understood.

Seeing this, Lin Rong stroked Xiaoqing's dragon head, and then a barely perceptible spatial fluctuation flashed by, and Lin Rong disappeared from the spot, replaced by an object wrapped in red cloth.

After the birthday gift was replaced, the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon on standby immediately grabbed it in its claws and marked it with its second soul skill, the Green Leaf Mark.

Immediately afterwards, the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon gradually became illusory, and finally disappeared in this dark corner, hiding in the void.

Inside the treasury.

The space wave flashed by, and Lin Rong appeared on an altar.

Looking around, everywhere you look is a dazzling array of rare collections.

Various rare jades, agate, pearl, amber, amethyst, jadeite...

There are also collections of weapons, armor, and more.

"As expected of the royal family, there are so many good things here."

"Unfortunately, most of them are mundane things. There is basically nothing that can help soul masters improve their strength."

After looking around, Lin Rong passed by the countless luxury goods around him and walked straight to the deepest part of the treasury.

It must be said that this treasury was built very large, and the internal structure was also very complicated. The treasury was filled with all kinds of rare treasures. At first glance, every collection room was exactly the same.

Fortunately, under the mirror of the heart, the subtle differences of all things cannot be hidden from Lin Rong's mind.

Even if you get lost in the treasury, one principle will not change.

The closer to the center of the treasury, the more precious the treasures stored inside.

As a hereditary duke, Lin Rong naturally knows how to distinguish the value of treasures, which is a compulsory course.

Relying on this method, Lin Rong wandered around in the treasury for a stick of incense and finally arrived at a collection room in the center of the treasury.

Central Collection Room of the National Treasury.

On the altar in the center, there was a brocade box covered with red cloth.

Lin Rong just stood at the door of the collection room and looked at it from afar, and the divine power born in his body began to throb slightly.

"That's right. Only things from God can make the divinity throb."

"The thing under that red cloth must be the Vast Ocean Universe Cover. No, it should be the Heart of the Sea God."

The core item of Poseidon's inheritance is not on Poseidon Island, but has become the national treasure of the royal family of Tiandou Empire. It is hard not to wonder whether there is any relationship between the royal Xue family and Poseidon.

"Could it be that the bloodline of Poseidon is the descendant of the bloodline left by the Sea God and the Queen, while the bloodline of the Xue family is the descendant of the bloodline left by the Sea God and the mistress?"

Given the love-brained nature of Douluo Continent, Lin Rong couldn't help but imagine a bloody plot in his mind.

"So, the Poseidon family inherited the Seagod Island, and the Xue family took away the Seagod's Heart and established the Tiandou Empire with the help of the Seagod?"

It’s no wonder that Lin Rong made such a guess.

The Xue family's martial soul, the Swan, is a high-level martial soul, but it has only just reached the threshold of a high-level martial soul.

Moreover, this swan martial soul is the purest swan, which means that the swan martial soul has no attack power and is a well-known vase martial soul among high-level martial souls.

Lin Rong put aside all distracting thoughts in his mind, strode forward to the center of the collection room, looked at the transparent light shield in front of him, and thought:

"Soul Guidance Device Defense Shield, the royal family has so many goodies!"

"However, the strength of this protective shield does not seem to be very good. It is only at the level of a third-ring defensive soul master using the third defensive soul skill."

Looking at the protective shield in front of him, Lin Rong suddenly had an idea. He raised his wrist, and more than ten golden particles flew out from the vine leaf jade beads.

The sky-blue soul power was injected into it, and the golden particles stretched out and turned into golden threads.

"Although Tang San has never used the Dragon Beard Needle in front of everyone so far, there will be such a day sooner or later."

"I don't know, when the royal family finds out that the dragon whisker needles Tang San used are the golden particles that appeared in the national treasury theft case, what will they think?"

Under Lin Rong's control, the golden threads turned into more than ten golden lights that shuttled back and forth on the defense shield, and shattered it into pieces in just a moment.

After Lin Rong withdrew his soul power, these golden threads turned into golden particles and fell to the ground.

"Got it!"

Lin Rong lifted the red cloth, picked up the brocade box and put it away, then rushed back to the original collection room without any hesitation and stood on the altar where he appeared.

There was another subtle spatial fluctuation, and Lin Rong disappeared here, and the birthday gift wrapped in red cloth reappeared on the altar.

Outside the treasury, in a dark corner not far away.

Lin Rong's figure flashed and he left the palace quickly.

In the manor, the old butler seemed to be sitting calmly in a chair waiting, until he saw the young master return safely, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground quietly.

On the other side, the palace garden.

Tang San was sitting at the banquet and talking with Xue Qinghe, when for some reason he suddenly felt a chill in his heart and had a vague bad premonition.

(End of this chapter)