Chapter 1093 "Sea Burial Tantra"

——The Secret Treasure of Heracle.

The largest treasury of the Millennium Empire of Herasil, a treasure coveted by countless adventurers.

At this moment it has been opened, appearing before Aiwass.

That is a huge wealth that can change the world - it is a wealth that is so abundant that it has completely lost its meaning to an individual, and it can save a country from danger and enable millions of people to live a happy life for thousands of years.

Yet, seeing this level of wealth, Aiwass felt a strange sense of emptiness. It was like seeing a mountain of banknotes in a bank vault and losing track of their value.

But gold of this level is just a "plastic wrap", a carrier of preservation technology.

After all, if the preservation spell were applied directly to a transcendental item, the power of the Twilight Path would permeate the item, causing unexpected changes. However, if the preservation spell were applied to densely packed gold, using it as a container to store the items within, the situation would be much better.

——The vault here is literally a "gold treasure house".

"...Are you saying that the real treasure is beneath the gold?"

Noelle twitched her fingers slightly after hearing what Aiwass said.

She wanted to use her alchemy to change the form of the gold - for example, turn it into liquid, fluid, or cast it into a completely new shape.

Changing the form of matter is the technique that the "Golden Stone Knight" is best at.

But when she used the gold, she felt the feedback was unusually dull, like the difference between using her hand or a little finger to move a stone slab.

The gold trembled slightly, disrupting its originally regular arrangement, just like neatly arranged fine iron needles being disturbed by a magnet.

"This is……?"

Noelle was stunned for a moment and subconsciously let go of her hand.

After the force she applied from the outside disappeared, the gold bricks slowly moved again on their own and returned to their original state.

"Gold is the representative metal of sand clocks. It contains a great deal of balancing power... I'm afraid it will have to be moved directly."

Aiwass said this and jumped down.

He reached out and moved the extremely heavy gold bricks away - Aiwass weighed them and found that each one weighed about thirty pounds.

After being taken out, the gold bricks still had a strong attraction, trying to return to their original position. It was not until Aiwass threw it into the gold pool that it landed safely next to Noelle.

After Aiwass uncovered five layers of gold, he finally saw an ancient stone slab.

It wasn't directly covered in gold, but rather placed within a half-meter-square cavity, like a coffin. The gold was held in place by a strange force, suspended in mid-air. The stone slab was also suppressed by the vast amount of gold, completely devoid of any spiritual energy, like an ordinary antique.

After Aiwass removed it, the words on it began to glow faintly. It trembled slightly, as if trying to escape from Aiwass's grasp. However, the force was too weak... probably no stronger than the strength of a seven or eight-year-old child. Aiwass was able to control it with one hand.

"This is……"

Aiwass realized that this was probably "a" tantric book.

He jumped back to the ground with a big jump.

Glancing at the gold on the ground, Aiwass pressed the stone slab with one hand and said to Noelle, "Let's get out first. I don't know how long Yulia can hold out... This is the first time we open the treasure house, so it's enough to take a look at what's inside."

"really."

Noelle nodded, waved his hand, and melted the gold bricks thrown by Aiwass into liquid, condensing them into a huge golden falcon, flapping its wings and following behind them.

Once out of the golden pool, the unknown force that constantly restored order also dissipated.

When they exited the portal, Yulia was still standing in front of the compass. She looked a little pale, but otherwise seemed to be in good condition.

"We're back."

Aiwass held the slate in his right hand and touched Yulia's head with his left hand. He asked, "How long can you hold on, Yuli?"

"It's relatively easy, and I should be able to last four times longer."

Yulia analyzed the situation and accepted Aiwass's treatment. Her wounds healed instantly, and her complexion became rosy.

She narrowed her eyes and rubbed her palm against Aiwas's, thoughtfully saying, "However, if it's paired with a priest... it should last a long time."

"Probably not."

Aiwass shook his head. "If my guess is correct...if the portal closes unexpectedly, it will most likely be fatal to the people inside."

There is no evidence for this, it's just speculation.

Because if not, it will be difficult to maintain the "sterile" environment inside.

Based on Aiwass's understanding of the First Red Prime Minister, if he truly had taken some treasure from this place, he likely wouldn't have left it so easily and cleanly. He most likely left something inside... like deliberately leaving the door open or opening a window from the inside to facilitate his sneaking in.

For example, leaving behind a follower, a blood slave, a mark, or even a part of one's own clone.

But when Aiwass entered, he found nothing. The place was shockingly clean and tidy. Even the traces of Hongxiang's rummaging were gone.

He must have deliberately left the gold behind, so that when the treasures were opened the next time, no one would guess where they were hidden. If that were the case, his footsteps in the "golden pool" would have left traces... but Aiwass saw nothing.

This means that the power of balance is very likely to equally eliminate everything within, ensuring that nothing remains. Although it is unknown whether this "elimination" is continuous or immediate, there is no need to practice it.

"...So, in other words, the wound cannot heal while replenishing blood?"

Yulia pondered.

As an alchemist, she immediately began to search for loopholes. "Can I just store fresh blood? If this blood doesn't work, is it because it's not fresh enough, or is there some other reason? Or maybe I can cultivate a replica embryo sac in vitro that can be used to provide fresh blood... No, that won't work. It might lead to the key being leaked."

"To be on the safe side, we could develop an alchemical concoction that could instantly restore blood without healing wounds. Alternatively, we could find a cursed weapon that would cause injuries to bleed profusely and resist normal treatment..."

Yulia muttered to herself.

"Let's not talk about that for now... look at this."

Aiwas handed the slate to her to look at, but Yulia didn't react at all.

"I remember that Yulia also has adaptability to the path of wisdom and the path of devotion, and I also have adaptability to the path of love."

Aiwass pondered, "Excluding the five paths of love, devotion, wisdom, balance, and transcendence..."

"There's also beauty, adaptation, authority, and dusk."

Yulia looked at the ancient text on the stone tablet, pondered for a moment, and then shook her head: "I think we can rule out the path of authority... At most, it can only be something from the path of power."

"Should I go get someone to test it?"

Noelle, who was standing by, also became interested.

Aiwass nodded. "It doesn't look like something from the Path of Beauty or the Path of Power to me... You can try it with someone who has adapted to the Path of Adaptation or the Path of Dusk to see if they react. As for this gold... you can keep it for now. After all, the Valentine family won't be collecting taxes anymore."

“…That’s not necessary.”

Noelle shook her head, her voice filled with confidence. "Regardless, there's no reason a high-ranking alchemist should be poor. This gold weighs nearly half a ton... Let it serve as the symbol of New Herasil."

"After all, it's the first batch of gold dug out from the Herasil Vault. Using it to build the New Herasil Empire is a symbolic act."

And soon, the test results came out.

This tantric book, written on stone tablets, does not belong to any current path, but it can faintly resonate with those who are transcendent on the Twilight Path.

——It is a secret sutra of the forbidden path, and its name is "The Secret sutra of Sea Burial".

One test subject accepted it and gained from it secret knowledge written in a cipher that did not belong to any language.

It records a forbidden love story between a snake and a bird——

A flying snake flew into a bird's nest, swallowed the bird's eggs, and hatched baby birds from its body.

The bird burst out of the snake's belly and saw the snake that swallowed it at first sight and fell in love with him.

The snake cared for the bird until it grew up. Eventually, the bird grabbed the snake and tore it apart from the sky. The snake's torn body turned into a sea of ​​blood, and the bird wept bitterly as it fell into the sea and drowned.

This tablet details the story of how the bird slew the feathered serpent, as well as the bird's final lamentable song. Reciting this song can transform a loved one's corpse into a sea monster. However, this technique requires a feathered serpent, making this lost secret technique meaningless.

...If nothing unexpected happens, this may be the secret of the birth of the sea monster clan.

But for some reason, this story gave Aiwass a strange sense of déjà vu.

Update completed!

For some reason, if I don't wear something thicker, I get a slight tingling sensation behind my chest. It's been going on for three days now. Wearing thick pajamas makes me sweat, but the tingling goes away. But if I take them off or change into thinner ones, the tingling comes back after a while... mysterious.

I checked and it seems I have anemia... I need to take some supplements (shaking my head)

(End of this chapter)