Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 360 Evil Emperor Relics
Huang Sixi was only a few steps away from the stone gate.

He knew that there was a mechanism hidden inside the door and this area was not safe.

He gently stroked her back and gestured, "There is a movable passage under the door, which is connected to an underground river. I will go down to explore the way first, and then take you over after I break the mechanism."

Kanan was still buried in Huang Sixi's arms, her starry eyes half closed, immersed in the tenderness with Huang Sixi just now. Even her ears were red, she was breathing heavily, and unable to speak.

She now felt that the whole world had disappeared, and only Huang Sixi was left holding her tightly. This sweet and affectionate feeling made her feel like she was sitting on clouds, and the feeling of intoxication struck her heart directly. She really didn't want to be separated from Huang Sixi for a moment.

Huang Sixi felt the exquisite and graceful curves of her body revealed by her plain clothes. She was so charming and touching that Huang Sixi felt pity for her. He also couldn't bear to part with her.

But the ground was full of mud and there were sharp rocks all around. Huang Sixi had to bend his head to avoid hitting his head against the wall. There was a bottomless abyss next to him. This was not a good place for romance.

Kanan noticed that Huang Sixi kept looking around, and gradually calmed down.

She moved her pretty face away from Huang Sixi's arms, smoothed her hair, and whispered softly, "My dear, please go and check on the door. Qian'er is waiting for you."

She received Huang Sixi's smiling response, then looked at him lovingly as he jumped into the door. Immediately, an unpleasant squeaking sound of the pulley rubbing against the granite could be heard from below.

Just as Huang Sixi said, there was a movable passage under the door arranged by the mechanism.

Kanan took a few steps forward and stood by the door, stretching her head to look down. It was pitch black and empty until Huang Sixi fell to the ground and lit the tinder.

She was shocked to find that underneath the door was actually an underground cave several dozen feet high. At the end of the activity passage was hanging a fishing net, and underneath the net was a river pool.

Huang Sixi cut open the net and climbed up along the cave wall for more than ten steps. He found a button embedded in the cave wall. As the sound of the mechanism rang, the stone wall caved in, revealing a square hole.

A faint green light emanated from the cave.

Huang Sixi stuck torches all over the stone walls at the edge of the cave, then shouted upwards, saying that the environment was now safe.

Without saying a word, Kankan jumped down and was jolted in the activity channel as if riding a roller coaster. After a moment, her body suddenly flipped into the air and she fell headfirst into the fishing net.

Before she could look around at the terrain, her wrist was grabbed by Huang Sixi.

She felt Huang Sixi coming, and took the opportunity to throw herself into his arms, wrapping her arms around him like an octopus, tightly around Huang Sixi's neck.

In such a deep abyss underground, her only sense of security lies in Huang Sixi.

Huang Sixi held her and climbed up the cave wall. After entering the cave entrance, they both came to a corridor that could accommodate ordinary people walking upright.

Only then did Kankan land barefoot.

When Huang Sixi was hugging her just now, he noticed that the back of her feet was smooth and said casually: "You are not wearing shoes!"

Wan Wan smiled faintly: "My dear, have you just discovered it now?"

She was wearing a plain long dress that covered her feet, so it was impossible to see whether she had shoes on.

She looked towards the end of the corridor and pointed over there: "What is that? It's shining brightly!"

Huang Sixi led her inside and said, "It should be the lighting gem. As long as we open the stone door surrounded by the gem, we will open the treasure house."

When Xianxian heard this, she seemed impatient and rushed to the door first.

This is actually a solid iron door with six shining green lighting beads inlaid on both sides of the door. Although the brightness is not particularly strong, it is enough for Huang Sixi and Kankan to see the scratches on the iron door clearly.

"Huh? There's writing on the door!"

On the smooth granite wall on one side of the iron gate, someone had carved a line of words with a sharp knife. It read: "The Korean Rakshasa woman has been here!"

Huang Sixi was thoughtful: "This should be left by the Korean swordsman Fu Jun'er. She learned the treasure map of Yang Gong's treasure house from Yang Xuangan and came here to look for it herself. Later, she was killed by Yu Wenzhi in Jiangdu. Before she died, she revealed the whereabouts of Yang Gong's treasure house to Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling!"

Since Yang Xuangan's death, Fu Jun'er is the only explorer who has visited Yang Gong's treasure house.

Xianxian asked hurriedly: "Did she take the holy relic away?"

Huang Sixi shook his head: "Probably not! The storehouse where the evil emperor's relics are hidden requires two people to open it together. She broke into the treasury alone and there is no way she could open the storehouse!"

When Fu Jun'er arrived, she only took away a batch of jewels from Yang Gong's treasury, but not too much.

She was a Korean and had no confidants in Chang'an. She could not carry many things with her, let alone move a large amount. Otherwise, once the forces in the city were alarmed, Yang Gong's treasure house would be exposed to the world.

Therefore, Huang Sixi was not worried about the treasure hidden in the warehouse being lost.

Huang Sixi asked Kankan again: "Why are you called Holy Relics?"

Kankan couldn't help but smile: "The correct name is Holy Relics!"

She introduced it to Huang Sixi with a smile: "This relic was originally a symbol of the status of the Holy Emperor of the Holy Extreme Sect in ancient times. However, the disciples of the Holy Extreme Sect and the Holy Emperor were too cruel and would hurt people's lives at any time, which led to the outsiders calling them the Evil Extreme Sect and the Evil Emperor. Over time, the Holy Relic got the nicknames of the Evil Relic and the Evil Emperor Relic! My dear, do you think there is anyone in the world who would consider himself to be from the evil sect?"

Huang Sixi thought that this was a very true statement. The Demon Sect was also the name for the outsiders, and the people within the Demon Sect called themselves the Holy Sect.

Xianxian patted the iron door in front of her and asked: "How should this door be opened?"

Huang Sixi reached out and grabbed the iron ring in the door: "This ring is the key to open the door."

Kanan saw Huang Sixi pull out the door knocker, revealing the iron chain connected to the ring.

Huang Sixi then began to turn the door knocker using his left and right hands alternately.

When it was the third turn, a loud and clear "click" sound came from inside the iron door, like a sliding buckle being triggered.

Huang Sixi immediately pushed the iron gate forward, and the door moved and slowly opened.

"My dear, there is a way!"

Kanan stretched her head to look inside the door, but Huang Sixi stretched out his arms to hold her in his arms. He shook his cloak and exhaled his internal energy to form a shield that protected her tightly.

Before she had the chance to ask about the situation, she heard the sound of an arrow breaking through the air.

This is an extremely long and thick fine iron arrow, launched by a mechanism spring button. It is much more powerful than an ordinary feather arrow. The whistling wind it creates when it breaks through the air is particularly harsh in this silent underground space.

Huang Sixi felt that it was not safe to protect his body with only his true qi, so he drew out his Dragon Subduing Sword and chopped all the approaching iron arrows into pieces.

When the arrow formation ends, the mechanism stops turning completely.

Huang Sixi then took off his cloak.

Qianqian looked forward and asked, "Is it safe now?"

Huang Sixi responded.

He raised the fire-light, stepped into the door and went deeper inside.

Kankan held his arm and stayed close to him.

As the firelight illuminated the environment inside the door, Kanan found that they were in a spacious sealed warehouse. There were vents at the four corners of the roof, so that the air in the room was not turbid, but rather fresh.

There were more than a dozen wooden boxes placed in a row on both sides of the room, and there were dozens of weapon racks against the wall, filled with various weapons.

Xianxian was delighted at first: "Is this the treasure house of Yang Gong's treasure house?"

Her joy quickly faded away: "But the treasure is too small!"

There have long been rumors in the martial arts world that the weapons stored in Yang Gong's treasury are enough to arm tens of thousands of soldiers, and the gold, silver and treasures are comparable to the treasury of the Sui Dynasty.

But the treasure house that Qianqian had seen so far was far different from the treasure house of Yang Gong that she had imagined. She first walked to the wooden boxes and opened the lid of one of them. Inside the box were calligraphy and paintings, antiques, and other things that looked very valuable.

However, this batch of treasures was like the antiques collected from some wealthy families. Even if they were shipped abroad, there was no way to spend them. The antiques had to be sold for gold and silver before they could be circulated and used.

As the saying goes, gold is valuable in troubled times, and treasures are valuable in prosperous times.

Given the current turbulent situation in the world, the collection is almost worthless.

Kanan counted and found that there were a total of fifteen boxes of collections here. If they were placed during the Kaihuang period of Yang Jian, they might be priceless, but now they are insignificant. All the boxes of collections combined are not even as valuable as the dozen or so illuminating beads outside the door.

Kankan suddenly showed little interest.

She came to the weapons rack and found that the weapons stored there were all ordinary stuff. They were very old and had all become rusty and moldy. No one would want them even if she gave them away.

She couldn't help but ask Huang Sixi, "My dear, what's going on? Even if these weapons are not rusty, they can only arm a few hundred soldiers at most. Is this really the world-famous Yang Gong treasure house?"

After Huang Sixi entered the room, his mind was no longer on the collections and weapons. Instead, he went around the corner and knocked on the wall, as if he was looking for some secret door.

Hearing Xianxian's reply, Huang Sixi waved to her: "Xian'er, come here."

Xianxian stepped closer. Seeing that Huang Sixi was behaving strangely, she guessed, "My dear, is this a fake warehouse to cover up the truth?"

She also tapped on the wall with her fingers, just like Huang Sixi did, "Is Zhenku actually hiding behind the wall?"

Huang Sixi smiled approvingly at her: "It is indeed true, the real Yang Gong treasure house has not yet been opened! There are two movable walls in this storehouse, and there is an 'interlocking' mechanism. Two people must activate the movable wall at the same time for the secret door to open! This is one of the movable walls, Xian'er, you stay here and control it!"

Huang Sixi walked to the opposite wall.

The two people were several feet apart and needed to turn the buttons on the movable wall at the same time.

If Huang Sixi visited alone, he would not be able to open the secret door.

Following his order, he and Kankan operated the mechanism at the same time. With a "pop!" sound, a stone door suddenly sank into the wall of the room, revealing a familiar corridor.

Just like when the two of them climbed up to the cave entrance from the fishing net just now, a misty light shone out first.

At this moment, green light was also emanating from the stone gate.

Holding torches in hand, the two men explored inside along the stone-paved floor. After walking dozens of steps, they found an iron door with lighting beads inlaid on both sides.

This door is the real entrance to Yang Gong’s treasure house.

After Huang Sixi opened the door, he did not encounter any arrow array mechanism again.

What appeared before my eyes was a small stone chamber with a radius of ten steps.

In the center of the small room, there is a well-like facility with a large capstan on top of it, and a small piece of iron chain as thick as a child's arm is wound on the capstan.

This is the main control room of Yang Gong’s treasury.

Huang Sixi stepped forward to move the winch, and Kankan watched from the side. They heard a series of clanging sounds of chains colliding, and an iron gate weighing more than a thousand pounds on the front side of the winch opened.

Kanan's beautiful eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but walk through the gate and into a huge round stone chamber.

There is a round stone table in the center, with eight stone chairs placed around the table.

On the table is a map of the treasure house with rich illustrations and detailed explanations, which shows the connection between the treasure house and the passage of Chang'an City on the ground.

Before Xianxian could take a closer look at the map, she looked away and found that there were four ordinary wooden doors around, leading to four treasure rooms. Flint, tinder and paper coal had been prepared under the table in order to light the eight wall lamps evenly distributed on the walls around the room.

Kanan lit the wall lamp casually.

When the light source was lit and illuminated the stone chamber, Huang Sixi also walked in from the main control room.

The two searched room by room, and were amazed by the amount of treasure hidden in the room.

Yang Gong's treasure is indeed worthy of its reputation.

There were four stone chambers, each of which was a hundred steps wide.

Three of the rooms are used to store weapons, and the last one is used to store gold and silver.

All weapons are wrapped in special oilcloth to prevent corrosion and rust and placed in thousands of sturdy wooden boxes.

Huang Sixi and Kankan roughly estimated that there were more than 3,000 hard bows and countless arrows. Other weapons such as armor, swords, spears, swords, and halberds could easily equip an army of 10,000 people.

After checking the treasure, the two men returned to the round room and sat down at the stone table, still looking unsatisfied.

Qianqian sighed softly, "That powerful official Yang Su is quite capable. He actually hid so many high-quality weapons in the basement under Chang'an City. It has been more than ten years and no one has discovered them!"

However, no matter how many weapons there are, they seem to be meaningless to those who are not striving to dominate the world.

Xianxian looked at Huang Sixi and said, "Sir, the weapons and treasures have been found, so where is the holy relic hidden?"

Huang Sixi pointed to the stone table in front of him: "It's right under the table!"

Huang Sixi grabbed the edge of the table with both hands and pulled it upwards.

There was a sound of wheels rubbing against each other under the round table, and Huang Sixi rotated the table to the left again.

The floor next to the table sank, revealing a narrow hole.

Looking down, Qianqian said hurriedly, "Here is a small copper jar with a lid!"

"Take it out! The jar contains the evil emperor's relics!"

Huang Sixi was dragging the tabletop and had no way of bending down.

Kanan used both hands to move the copper jar out.

As Huang Sixi deactivated the mechanism on the stone table, Kankan also carefully placed the copper jar on the table.

The 'Evil Emperor's Relics' that have been famous for hundreds of years have finally come to the time to reappear in the world.

This "Evil Emperor's Relic" originated in the Han Dynasty.

The first generation owner was the Ancient Evil Emperor Xie Bo. In his search for ancient medical books, he accidentally discovered a mysterious burial object in an ancient tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Xie Bo lived in an era when Confucianism was the only school of thought that was respected.

He was dissatisfied with the suppression of his own Taoist tradition and became cynical. He hoped to use the knowledge of ancient medicine to decipher the magic classic "The Great Method of Planting Demons in the Heart of Taoism".

On his way to find a doctor, he discovered the relics of the Evil Emperor. At that time, the relics were hidden under the neck of the tomb owner. They were covered with blood spots and crystal mottled. The texture was classified as citrine, but because of its similar appearance to the relics, it was also named as relic.

After long-term experiments by Xie Bo, he discovered that the Evil Emperor's relics had the unique ability to absorb and store human true energy and vitality. Before he died, he injected all his true energy into the relics.

His successors in the Demon Sect used the same method of infusion.

Passed down from generation to generation, it is impossible to verify how many demon cultivators’ true power is stored in the evil emperor’s relics, but it is definitely so deep that it is unimaginable.

This characteristic is exactly the same as the Canglong relic that Huang Sixi encountered in the Fengyun Jianghu. As long as the remaining true power in the relic is absorbed, the martial artist can instantly make rapid progress in cultivation and surge in internal strength.

(End of this chapter)