Pursued by the Top Grade Saintess after Engagement Annulled-Chapter 344 - 340: The Precious Little Casket

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang’s expression showed evident confusion as he turned to look at the purple divine crystal in Xia Feng’s hand, hesitating before speaking.

"It’s in a nearby divine essence mountain range, where upper-grade divine marrow was previously used and buried in the gathering spirit land."

"Now it seems that after so many years of nurturing, there’s a faint sign of transforming into top-grade divine marrow."

He picked up a piece of purple divine crystal: "This is produced from the Purple Crystal Divine Vein; it should also rival the top-grade divine crystal."

Xia Feng stored the purple divine crystal into his storage ring, correcting him: "It’s still a bit short of matching the top-grade divine crystal, but it is pretty good."

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang scratched his head and handed the purple divine crystal to Xia Feng.

"What are your plans, my lord?"

Xia Feng looked at him for a moment but did not answer the somewhat inquisitive question, instead continuing to ransack the secret chamber’s treasure vault.

As he searched, he complained: "Tsk, is there nothing good here?"

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang’s expression was somewhat embarrassed, thinking that even this Fourth Branch’s vault of the Dongfang Clan held items already precious to him.

"What sort of good things does my lord desire?"

Xia Feng thought for a moment: "Divine marrow, ancient divine artifacts, powerful divine techniques, and other special items, perhaps?"

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang’s face showed a distinctly helpless look: "My lord, aren’t you making it difficult for me?"

"Divine marrows are surely planted to form divine veins for continuous development."

"As for ancient divine artifacts, if the clan leader had one, why would he send people to snatch the ancient divine artifacts from you two?"

He sighed slightly before continuing: "But there are divine techniques; some are stored over in the Library Pavilion."

Xia Feng’s eyes lit up significantly, leaving Xia Tianming to tidy up the remaining odds and ends there.

Then, he followed Dongfang Zhuangzhuang to the Scripture Pavilion.

Although there were many seemingly interesting divine techniques there, Xia Feng held nameless divine techniques, the Heaven-Burying Divine Technique, and the Supreme Technique, so...

He felt slightly indifferent and couldn’t help but be a bit disappointed when he looked over these.

Beside him, Dongfang Zhuangzhuang spoke nervously: "My lord, that’s... that’s all there is."

Xia Feng considered: "You said earlier that divine marrow had been buried."

"Is there any way to retrieve the buried divine marrow?"

He spoke more and more possibly to himself: "If only it were possible to extract the divine marrow from within the divine vein."

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang hesitated, then instinctively said: "But..."

"The divine marrow in that area has been Nurtured for so long it’s beginning to elevate to top grade. If extracted now, it might revert to its original grade."

"Moreover, when you move it to a new location, it will take a considerable time to form a new divine vein."

"Only then can you resume extracting divine crystals." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Xia Feng visibly hesitated.

He wanted to bring several divine veins back to Great Xia so the divine power in the Lower Realm would be more abundant, making it easier to birth new martial gods.

Saying it wildly, Xia Feng even thought of dismantling every divine vein from the Infinite Divine Domain back to Great Xia.

Though it was merely a thought.

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang spoke at the opportune moment: "I recall there are several ordinary divine veins nearby."

"Hmm, I’ll fetch a rough distribution map for my lord later."

"Four or five medium-to-lower grade divine veins, plus another upper-grade divine vein, all can be dismantled."

"As long as you enter the center of the divine vein and find a way to sever the surrounding divine crystals, you can extract the core divine marrow."

"Divine marrow looks much like divine crystal, but the surrounding divine power and state make it easy to distinguish between divine crystal and divine marrow."

As the two talked, Xia Feng kept storing all the divine techniques into his storage ring.

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang led him to Dongfang Changming’s bedroom.

"I heard the clan leader seems to have a private stash, but I don’t know the exact location."

"I only roughly know that it should be in his bedroom."

"I haven’t heard about what’s inside either."

His sincerity made Xia Feng, who followed behind, somewhat doubtful: "Why are you so cooperative? Many things, like the private stash in the bedroom, I wouldn’t have known if you hadn’t mentioned it."

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang paused, his expression suddenly becoming odd.

After a long while, he spoke up: "Perhaps, I don’t particularly like them either."

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang did not elaborate on the story, but Xia Feng could roughly guess a bit.

Not-so-clever, a child, albeit with decent talent, still somewhat naive.

He likely hadn’t been bullied little by other family members in the past.

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang pushed open the bedroom door as Xia Feng took in the sight of the lavishly decorated room and slightly curled his lips.

Divine sense wasn’t much use at this moment, so Dongfang Zhuangzhuang began to explore the room with Xia Feng.

As they explored, Dongfang Zhuangzhuang continued briefing Xia Feng on future matters.

"If my lord spares me, I plan to head towards the Dongfang Clan’s main house and report the situation here."

Seeing Xia Feng’s slightly narrowed eyes, he added: "Of course, I’ll use getting lost as an excuse, circling around various places."

At this point, he paused: "Haha, I probably won’t even need an excuse; without a travel permit, I doubt I could find the main house from here."

Xia Feng was rummaging through cabinetry and spoke unpleasantly: "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Dongfang Zhuangzhuang coughed: "The Fourth Branch has been annihilated by my lord, surely the main house and other branches will know."

"To avoid losing face before the other three clans, the main house will surely dispatch the Eastern Divine Guard Squad to hunt you and that other lord down."

He scratched his head: "I just figured, my lord shouldn’t mistake me for being the informant then."

"The main house has its own information channels and location detection methods."

His voice dwindled: "So, earlier I suggested my lord to visit the Purple Crystal Divine Vein because of this."

"The divine power of divine crystals within the Purple Crystal Divine Vein is potent, effectively masking their location detection."

Xia Feng nodded in contemplation, and just as he was lost in thought, his palm suddenly touched an empty box.

He arched an eyebrow, immediately regaining focus to look at the box.

The box wasn’t large but appeared quite valuable, with a faint divine power seal on it, seemingly meant to prevent others from opening it.

With some interest, Xia Feng let Dongfang Zhuangzhuang continue searching while he began examining this box.