Chapter 1 Jade Plate

The jade plate fit perfectly into the round hole, becoming the pupil of the three-legged golden crow.

The stone carving, more than ten meters high, trembled violently at this moment, as if it had been given a soul, possessed life, and awakened from its slumber.

Under the expectant gazes of everyone, the pupils of the three-legged golden crow slowly lit up with a clear light, gradually becoming richer and more intense, finally turning into a dazzling gemstone, illuminating the bottom of the dark and lightless pit as bright as day.

Asano Ryo asked, "Teacher, why did Takamagahara disappear?"

Kobe Ichiro was ecstatic, and laughed, "The weapons of ancient espers, their functions and costs must be slowly explored, it may not have only this one function." Saying that, he looked at Watanabe Yoshita.

Kobe Ichiro thought for a while, raised the bronze sword, and gently cut open his arm.

Instantly creating a deep, bone-deep wound.

Zhang Yuanqing understood what he meant and threw the magatama over.

Kobe Ichiro took the magatama, and saw the magatama light up with a soft green light, the wound on his arm quickly stopped bleeding, healed, and didn't even leave a scar.

"This healing effect has exceeded my limit." Yamagami Watanabe Yoshita said.

This item is also of Overlord quality.

At this time, Onodera Watanabe finally finished reading the bamboo slips and gasped. "This is a scout I made, it can work without a signal, and it's equipped with a strong light system and night vision device."

The next second, he entered a dark world, the only light source being two small drones.

"Whew~"

A fireball with a diameter of more than five meters rose, slowly rising into the sky, bringing jumping fire and scorching temperatures.

"Damn, it really is a Spirit Realm..."

"There's the aura of a tree demon, it's a powerful healing item, and also, the tentacles are hot, it seems to also possess the power of a Fire Master?" Watanabe Yoshita said.

Ryuzakiichi said, "It's obviously related to the depletion of spirit energy."

Zhang Yuanqing urged, "Let's go up the mountain, and see what your Amaterasu Omikami left behind here."

Kogori Magatsu was stunned for a moment, and uncharacteristically didn't make a fuss, but closed his eyes and pondered for a few seconds, then suddenly opened his eyes and laughed wildly:

"I understand, it can create clones, clones with the same strength as me, but without an item bar."

Immediately afterwards, the clear and dazzling light was completely restrained, condensing within the pupils of the three-legged golden crow.

The next second, a beam of light spewed out from the golden crow's pupils, shining on the rock wall, forming a six-meter-high gate of light.

Like a projector's light shining on a screen. "The Gate of Takamagahara!" Kobe Ichiro's breathing suddenly quickened, his steady and serious face revealing excitement and joy.

The deputy team leaders behind him also found it difficult to restrain their excitement.

Under the illumination of the slowly falling "sun", the group went up the steps, and with the physique and speed of saints, it took only ten minutes to reach the mountainside, stopping outside the building complex. These buildings were of brick and wood structure, with walls made of adobe bricks, wooden beams supporting the roof, and covered with black tiles.

Under the ravages of time, the beams and wood rotted, and the roof was dilapidated. Only the adobe walls still stood, but only ruins remained, with almost nothing intact. "After a simple exploration, the group continued to climb along the stone steps, the higher they went, the more exquisite the houses became.

Near the summit, there were pavilions like palaces, with bluestone foundations, fire-burned brick walls, soaring eaves, and stacked brackets, in the architectural style of a Qin dynasty royal palace.

There were not many such buildings, only a dozen in total, half of which had collapsed, and half of which were damaged, with only one or two remaining intact.

The utensils in the pavilions had long been severely damaged in the long years, and nothing of value was found.

"There are no bones, from the utensils remaining in the ruins, it can be inferred that the gods who lived here have already moved out." Ryuzakiichi frowned and said:

"Hopefully there will be gains at the top of the mountain."

The group passed through the building complex and headed towards the summit. After searching for so long without finding anything of value, the Chizuru Group's executives were a little anxious.

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Zhang Yuanqing could actually use Star Escape to travel, but in order not to stimulate the Chizuru Group's executives, he chose to accompany them.

Finally, half an hour later, they reached the summit.

This place was already out of the range of the flare's light, and the gradually dimming miniature sun was already under their feet.

Zhang Yuanqing, who possessed night vision, was the first to see the scene at the summit, and stood there dumbfounded.

"Hiss~"

A rapid and loud sound of breaking through the air rang out, Onodera Yoshita launched a second flare, and along with the bright light rising into the air, the Chizuru Group's executives also saw the scene before them.

They, like Zhang Yuanqing, stood there dumbfounded.

At the summit, there was an unimaginably tall bronze tree, its thick trunk like a city wall, the edges of which could not be seen, and complex patterns were engraved on it.

It had ten branches, each of which was unimaginably thick.

Looking directly at this bronze tree, a sense of vastness and boundlessness arose spontaneously, as if one had come to the abode of the gods.

Zhang Yuanqing estimated that if the bronze tree was regarded as an ordinary tree, then humans would be ants, about that proportion.

"My God, what a magical creation, this is something that human craftsmanship cannot achieve, compared to it, the ancient buildings that exist in human civilization are simply not worth mentioning." Onodera, who was a Fang Shi (Warlock), murmured. "Is this a creation of Amaterasu Omikami, or..." Kobe Ichiro was silent for a moment, his voice low: "The thing that the First Emperor yearned for?"

Onodera shook his head: "I don't know, my heart has been deeply shocked by it."

While the two were talking, Zhang Yuanqing had already shifted his gaze from the bronze tree, and saw a figure vaguely sitting cross-legged under the tree. It was too far away, and even with night vision, he couldn't see it clearly. "There's someone under the tree," he said.

The group came to the tree, and the first thing they saw was a bay of dried-up deep pool, the bottom of the pool was dark, with jagged rocks, and the bottom could not be seen.

A corpse sat cross-legged by the pool, its robes rotten and covered in dust, with a scroll of bamboo slips lying across its knees.

In front of the corpse, there were three items: a two-foot-long bronze sword, the body of the sword covered with bronze rust and engraved with patterns; a brass mirror, without a handle, the surface of the mirror covered with a layer of ash.

The last item was a curved magatama, with tassels eight feet long, coiled around the magatama.

Zhang Yuanqing heard the sound of hurried breathing, coming from the executives of the Chizuru Group. "It's really here, the legendary Three Sacred Treasures are really here." Kobe Ichiro was ecstatic, strode forward, and picked up the bronze sword.

While Kogori Magatsu and Watanabe Yoshita each picked up the brass mirror and magatama.

Zhang Yuanqing and Onodera simultaneously reached for the bamboo slips on the knee.

"I am a scholar, let me look at the bamboo slips." Onodera said.

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and retracted his hand.

The latter nodded his thanks, carefully picked up the bamboo slips, put them on the ground, and carefully unfolded them. "Without item attributes, it should be the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi..."

When he said this, Kobe Ichiro's expression was a bit complicated.

The era when the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi appeared, Japanese katana had not yet been born, katana were improved from the Tang dynasty horizontal sword.

It would be strange if the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi was in the style of a katana.

But to be honest, the bronze sword was really not the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi in his mind.

He suppressed his complicated emotions, held the bronze sword, and tentatively swung a sword towards the distance.

In an instant, a vast white sword energy rolled out, rushing out dozens of feet before dissipating.

The sharpness of the sword energy made the hairs on the backs of everyone present stand on end.

Kobe Ichiro was stunned.

Ryuzakiichi's eyebrows jumped wildly, and he said ecstatically: "The sharpness of the sword energy is comparable to Yan Shi (Puppet Master). This is an Overlord-level item."

As a swordsman, he could not unleash such dense and powerful sword energy.

Kobe Ichiro cheered up: "With this sword, even an Overlord can resist one or two. Kogori-kun, Watanabe-kun, what about you?"

Kogori Magatsu wiped the dust off the mirror, looked at himself in the mirror, and frowned, "How do you use this thing?"

As soon as the words fell, the mirror flashed with brilliance, and a touch of yellow light popped out, landing next to Kogori Magatsu, turning into another Kogori Magatsu. The two were exactly the same.

The Fang Shi (Warlock) Onodera Yosuke said:

"Everyone, don't worry, I'll send a robot in to take a look first."

After saying that, he took out a mechanical box half a man's height from the item bar, and with the slight sound of hydraulic release, the lid of the mechanical box popped open, and two small drones flew out, suspended in the air, the propellers buzzing incessantly.

"Wearing this jade pendant can ward off evil, resist the intrusion and possession of resentful spirits, and restrain mental control skills, including but not limited to illusions, plus a powerful healing function, it is a top-quality auxiliary item." Zhang Yuanqing finished appraising.

As for whether there were any other functions, it was temporarily unknown, even so, these three items were all top-quality among top-quality.

Kogori Magatsu held up the fireball, looked at the world in front of him, and muttered to himself.

Everyone also borrowed the firelight to see the scene in the distance clearly. At this time, they were at the foot of the mountain, standing on mottled and cracked stone steps, the stone steps extending towards the summit, extending towards the end of their vision. The fireball's lighting was limited, and they couldn't see clearly beyond a hundred meters.

But one thing was certain, this was not Mount Fuji, but an independent small world, just like a Spirit Realm instance.

That's not right, I remember the old bastard said that the ancient Spirit Realms were paradises in the traditional sense, that is, today's scenic spots and historical sites, and Spirit Realm instances are two different concepts... Zhang Yuanqing frowned.

But the Takamagahara in front of him was obviously more like a Spirit Realm instance, rather than the so-called paradise, just without a "Spirit Realm task."

After thinking for a few seconds, he thought of a possibility, in the distant ancient times, such as the mythological era, such as the pre-Qin era, cultivators possessed the ability to open up the world.

And in the Song dynasty where the old bastard lived, Overlords were already the top tier, so they did not possess this kind of ability.

If this guess was true, then the instance was not unique to the Spirit Realm, but after reaching a certain level, every profession could open it up, could do it.

This also explains why the Teleportation Jade Talisman can enter some low-level instances. Because the essence of the instance is a kind of spell or ability, rather than a spectacle unique to the Spirit Realm.

"I just don't know if the one who opened this place was Xu Fu or it already existed in the mythological era, by the way, why hasn't this place been included in the Spirit Realm?" As Zhang Yuanqing thought in his heart, he heard a rapid and loud scream.

A line of fire quickly rose into the air, suddenly expanding in the deep dark sky, turning into a miniature sun, bringing light to this world.

Kogori Magatsu immediately dissipated the fireball, saving spirit energy.

Light filled this world, allowing everyone to finally see the nearby and distant scenery clearly.

This was a towering solitary mountain, even more majestic than Mount Fuji.

Although Overlord-level items are indeed very precious, these guys look like country bumpkins... Zhang Yuanqing complained silently. "Let me see." Kogori Magatsu said quickly.

Yuanshi Tianzun (Primordial Lord of Heaven) said in a hoarse voice:

"It's not a Fire Master, it's the power of the Sun."

Asano Ryo translated simultaneously.

The power of the Sun? Kobe Ichiro's eyes lit up, the power of the Sun was the signature ability of the Sun Wanderer, domineering and fierce, symbolizing the blazing sun.

"Let me see it." Zhang Yuanqing stretched out his hand. "This..." Watanabe Yoshita cast an inquiring look at the team leader.

Kobe Ichiro hesitated slightly and nodded: "Please appraise it, Yuan Shi-kun."

Zhang Yuanqing took the magatama handed over by Watanabe, feeling the slightly hot touch on his fingertips, he understood.

Onodera Yosuke introduced his work with great pride, put on high-tech glasses, and manipulated the small drones to fly towards the light gate.

Apart from being not very good at fighting, the Fang Shi (Warlock)'s role far exceeds other professions, and can be called the strongest support, followed by the Musician... Zhang Yuanqing looked at the two small drones entering the light gate, and couldn't help but think of the Xiahou family.

After the Yayama Naval Battle instance ended, he sent a gang invitation to Xiahou, but it was rejected.

The pride of being the protagonist prevented him from becoming someone else's minion.

Zhang Yuanqing quietly activated his Star Eyes, examining the faces of each person, and did not see any signs of bloodshed.

He then took out the Ghost Mirror from his backpack and looked at himself in the mirror, his face was normal.

The mountaineering backpack contained various items, including the Ghost Mirror, Yin-Yang Dharma Robe, Little Pumpkin, Skate Shoes, and Gale Gloves.

If the Chizuru Group's executives went back on their word, he would try to wipe out the enemies.

Confirming that his face was normal, he put away the Ghost Mirror and waited for the investigation results with everyone. A few minutes later, Onodera Yosuke, wearing sunglasses, suddenly murmured: "Unbelievable, unbelievable..."

The impatient Kogori Magatsu asked quickly, "What did you see? Is there any danger inside?"

Onodera Yosuke took off his sunglasses, his face still showing shock, and said: "Team leader, no danger has been found for the time being, you can go in..."

After saying that, he sighed: "So Takamagahara is a Spirit Realm."

Takamagahara is a Spirit Realm? What nonsense, if Takamagahara is a Spirit Realm, we wouldn't be able to enter without a mission. Zhang Yuanqing frowned secretly.

Kogori Magatsu was the first to lose his composure, strode towards the light gate, and rushed into it.

Seeing this, Kobe Ichiro led the executives to follow closely behind.

Below the mountain was an endless wilderness, dotted with dry riverbeds and lakes, without grass or vegetation, a dead silence.

There were also no plants on the mountain, dense building complexes could be seen halfway up the mountain, becoming sparser as one went higher.

The stoic and taciturn Ryuzakiichi said, "This is a dead world, judging from the remaining traces, it was suitable for living in the past. According to legend, the gods lived in Takamagahara, and mortals were only allowed to enter it when they received sacrifices."

The gods should be referring to Xu Fu, the accompanying Lingjing Xingzhe (Spirit Realm Walker), and the virgin boys and girls? Zhang Yuanqing guessed in his heart.

What a powerful function! The eyes of the Chizuru Group's executives lit up.

After the executives entered the light gate, Kobe Ichiro stopped at the door, turned around and said:

"Yuan Shi-kun, please!"

He's afraid that I'll take the opportunity to remove the jade plate and trap them inside? How cautious... Zhang Yuanqing used a Star Escape to arrive in front of the light gate and took the initiative to step in.

ps: I'll update with the typos fixed later.