Stellar Transformation-Chapter 455: Episode 14 - 28 Inner Sanctuary of Mishen Palace
"Leave some divine artifacts for those who come later," Qin Yu thought silently. If he kept hoarding and took away all the divine artifacts, future visitors would have none.
Qin Yu immediately sped up, his form turning into an afterimage.
The remaining path was even more winding, taking four hours. Qin Yu finally completely crossed the area covered by the Illusion Technique Restriction, and his Jiang Lan Realm now housed a total of forty-six divine artifacts.
There were several divine artifacts right within Qin Yu’s sight, yet he didn’t take them. Qin Yu didn’t want to take too many; forty-six divine artifacts, for the outer area of Mishen Palace, wasn’t much to speak of.
After passing through the misty realm of illusion restrictions, the view before him suddenly cleared.
About ten miles away from Qin Yu, there was a floating purple structure. This purple building was primarily made up of four palaces, each located in the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west, connected by walls, much like a courtyard house.
The four interconnected palaces floated in space.
"So this is the main body of Mishen Palace. I didn’t expect Mishen Palace to be formed by connecting four palaces," Qin Yu’s divine sense instantly covered the four palaces of Mishen Palace.
The size of Mishen Palace was not large.
The four palaces spanned only a few hundred meters in length, the entire body of Mishen Palace was much smaller than the Qingyu Immortal Mansion, but Qin Yu knew that Mishen Palace was extremely formidable because his divine sense could only linger around the perimeter, unable to penetrate even a step inside Mishen Palace.
"There’s only one entrance. I guess that Immortal Emperor Ni Yang entered and accidentally stepped on a divine world poison insect and lost his life," Qin Yu flew towards the entrance.
Mishen Palace, with its courtyard structure, had only one entrance. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
As Qin Yu approached the entrance, he began to be more cautious already. The death of Immortal Emperor Ni Yang had warned him; how could Qin Yu dare to be lax?
"Such an extravagant door, I guess not even an upper grade divine artifact would leave a mark on it," Qin Yu looked at the main entrance of Mishen Palace—a deep blue door resembling granite.
The door was currently wide open. Qin Yu carefully watched his steps, then took one step inside.
Inside Mishen Palace, for some reason, the divine sense was suppressed, and Qin Yu could barely extend his divine sense a few meters around his body. But Qin Yu didn’t know... Immortal Emperor Ni Yang had once been inside, but at that time, his divine sense couldn’t leave his body.
Earlier before entering, Qin Yu carefully observed with both his divine sense and eyes. However... the divine sense and eyes can deceive. As soon as Qin Yu stepped inside, he found the environment had completely changed, as if the stars had shifted; everything was different.
"Is this still the Mishen Palace I observed just now?" Qin Yu looked around in shock.
Mishen Palace was divided into four palaces. Based on Qin Yu’s external observation, each palace was about ten meters tall. However, as he stepped inside, Qin Yu realized... the ceiling of this grand hall was actually over a hundred meters high; he scanned his surroundings with wide eyes.
"Good heavens, how big is this Mishen Palace really? From outside, it only seemed to span a few hundred meters, but now it seems boundless," Qin Yu was somewhat shocked and, facing something inexplicable, dared not act rashly.
Telepathic Communication.
"Wu Lan, I’m already inside Mishen Palace," Qin Yu directly telepathically communicated to Wu Lan in the Jiang Lan Realm, who had a better understanding of Mishen Palace than Qin Yu could compare.
Wu Lan ceased cultivating.
"You’re already inside Mishen Palace? Good, are you in the Front Hall?" Wu Lan inquired.
"Front Hall? I’m not familiar with the names of the four halls of the Mishen Palace, but I’ve just entered the Mishen Palace. As soon as I came in, I found the interior to be much bigger than it seemed from the outside, and I dared not act rashly," Qin Yu transmitted telepathically.
Wu Lan immediately smiled as he transmitted back, "The four halls of the Mishen Palace are the Front Hall, the Transfer Hall, the Artifact Hall, and the Fire Refining Hall."
Wu Lan had stayed in the Mishen Palace before and was quite clear about it.
"The palace you have entered now is the ’Front Hall.’ Once you exit the Front Hall, you will step into the central courtyard. Um... once you get there, I will tell you more in detail."
However, Qin Yu cared not for the other halls and immediately asked, "Why is this Front Hall much bigger than it looked from the outside?"
Wu Lan conveyed via telepathic communication, "The master of the Mishen Palace is an extremely formidable figure. When I was in the Divine World, I was just at the bottom layer, although I’m not very clear about the identity and strength of the master of the Mishen Palace. However, I know one thing... the master of the Mishen Palace is very strong, and his Mishen Palace is quite peculiar. The actual inner space is very large, much larger than what you see from the outside, tens of thousands of times larger, or even more."
"Could someone who descended from the Divine World to the Immortal, Demon, and Beast Realm be an ordinary person?" Qin Yu thought to himself, guessing that descending from the Divine World to the Immortal, Demon, and Beast Realm was definitely not something ordinary divine beings could accomplish.
"Is there anything I need to be cautious about while walking in the Mishen Palace?" Qin Yu inquired.
Wu Lan said via transmission, "There are no restrictions in the Front Hall of the Mishen Palace, and you can walk around freely. However, the Front Hall has many rooms, and when you enter a room, it’s best to rely on the Mysterious God Scroll, or else it’s easy to get lost in there."
"Get lost in a room?" Qin Yu was startled.
At the same time, Qin Yu glanced over, seeing the main hall at the very center and also three winding corridors, but he could not see any path leading to the courtyard.
These winding corridors were flanked by some rooms. Was he going to get lost in one of them?
"Qin Yu, don’t be careless. Because there’s nothing valuable in the great hall or corridors, there are no restrictions. However, each room contains some items, so you must be cautious," Wu Lan advised.
Qin Yu settled his mind.
There are items in the rooms? Qin Yu was secretly pleased.
First, Qin Yu carefully observed the main hall, which had red wooden chairs, and some decorative items were hanging on the walls, giving a natural feel.
Qin Yu walked over to a red wooden chair, grasped it with one hand, and forcefully twisted it.
"Such hard wood, this red wooden chair alone has a hardness that matches an Upper Grade Divine Artifact," Qin Yu found that he had to use all his strength for the chair to even tremble.
"Why didn’t Immortal Emperor Ni Yang take these chairs? The material of these chairs is impressive," Qin Yu wondered. He simply didn’t know... back then, Immortal Emperor Ni Yang was only thinking of entering those rooms to find treasures, not caring about these seemingly ordinary chairs.
Qin Yu looked at the main hall, "Alright, I’ll have a closer look later, let’s check those rooms first." Qin Yu chose a winding corridor and followed it.
The exterior of this palace was constructed from purple stones, but the interior was built with green stones.
As Qin Yu approached the first room, all that the Mysterious God Scroll had shown surfaced in his mind.
He pushed the door open, but Qin Yu could not see clearly what was inside the room. His divine sense penetrated up to a distance of ten meters, barely discovering a path of green stone slabs.
Yes, there was a path of green stone slabs inside the room.
He stepped in.
The scene immediately shifted, and the originally misty environment became completely clear. It was a very quiet courtyard, paved with blue stone slabs, and some stone stools were idle in the yard.
However, what caught Qin Yu’s attention most in the courtyard were the cages.
Each cage contained a Demon Beast. These Demon Beasts were bizarre in appearance, but each had reverted to its original form—there were insects, birds, mammals, and various strange Demon Beasts.
In front of each cage stood a stele.
"Pet ’Sharp Wings,’ from the Dinosaur Realm, the original form is a Sharp Wing Dinosaur." Qin Yu looked at the cage in front of him, which contained an animal resembling a bird and only half as tall as a human. Qin Yu was certain he had never seen this species in the realms of immortals, demons, and beasts before.
Qin Yu looked elsewhere.
"Pet ’White Fur,’ from the Green Realm, the original form is the cosmic beast ’White Fur.’"
"Pet ’Nine Beasts,’ from the Illusion Light Realm, the original form is an Illusion Demon Beast."
"Pet ’Five Claws,’ from the realm of immortals, demons, and beasts, the original form is the ’Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.’"
...
Stele after stele, cage after cage, were meticulously placed in various positions throughout the courtyard, each cage displaying the original form of the Demon Beast inside.
Qin Yu’s mind went blank for a long while before he could react.
"This, this place, a Pet Garden?" Qin Yu was dumbfounded. He had never imagined that this room would be a courtyard with so many cages.
"Wu Lan, I’ve entered a pet room; what’s going on?" Qin Yu directly communicated with Wu Lan through telepathy.
It took Wu Lan a while to respond, "Pet room? Qin Yu, did you enter a room with many cages containing various Demon Beasts?"
"Yes, what exactly is going on?" Qin Yu felt his breath becoming somewhat constricted.
Wu Lan communicated through telepathy, "This is the place where Ye Qu and I used to be. Back then, Ye Qu and I were also kept here as pets by the owner of the Mishen Palace."
Qin Yu fell silent, but he could sense the bitterness in Wu Lan’s voice.
"The owner of Mishen Palace likes to keep pets and especially enjoys collecting exotic pets from various places. I remember... back then, many from the Divine World would come here with great respect, presenting exotic pets to the owner of Mishen Palace, hoping for his assistance. And I was captured by a powerful being from the Divine World and then presented to the owner of the palace," Wu Lan sighed deeply.
Qin Yu understood.
"When he’s bored, the owner of Mishen Palace usually plays with a pet cage in his hand. Each of these pets is exceptionally rare, many from other cosmic spaces, and even in those places, they are considered exceedingly rare," Wu Lan lamented.
Qin Yu understood this because he had seen one of the pets, which surprisingly was the Super Divine Beast, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, from the realm of immortals, demons, and beasts.
"Back when Immortal Emperor Ni Yang entered this room, he released Ye Qu and me, but with his abilities, he couldn’t take more," Wu Lan sighed, "Qin Yu, if you can, I hope you can free these Demon Beasts."
After a moment of contemplation, Qin Yu replied, "Alright."
The safe path indicated by the Mysterious God Scroll allowed only the central path of blue stone slabs to be safe; any paths closer to the cages were constantly shifting. Qin Yu carefully made his way closer.
"Retrieve." With a mere thought, Qin Yu directly took the cage into the Jiang Lan Realm.
Continuing like this, Qin Yu collected more than eighty cages in one breath, each containing a Demon Beast of considerable strength, although none reached the Divine Realm. Most were at the level of a Demon Emperor, and there were even some at the level of Demon King.
"After finishing the tour, I’ll break open those cages," Qin Yu decided to just collect all the cages for now, at the same time memorizing everything written on those eighty-odd steles with his Divine Sense. Afterward, Qin Yu left this ’Pet’ room.
The owner of the Mishen Palace knew how to enjoy life.
There was a room for pets and also one for plants; the latter was a vast garden filled with all sorts of rare and exotic herbs. Some of these rare herbs inevitably delighted Qin Yu as well.
After leaving the plant room, Qin Yu randomly chose another room to enter, a room without any illusions, just a room. However, everything inside this room was untouchable.
The room contained sculptures made of stone shaped like dragons and wood shaped like humans; in short, naturally formed art sculptures, which astonished Qin Yu—each artwork was accompanied by an informative description all naturally formed. Clearly, these items were extremely precious even in the Divine World.
Only the upper echelons of the Divine World could afford such indulgences.
Qin Yu understood that these things were definitely useful in the Divine World.
When Qin Yu tried to collect them using the Jiang Lan Realm, he discovered that these artworks seemed to be protected by a Restriction and even the Jiang Lan Realm couldn’t take them in. In the end, he had no choice but to leave the room reluctantly.
"Was that wooden sculpture really the same color as jade? Is it wood? Could it be that the owner of the Mishen Palace got the description wrong?" Qin Yu still envisioned the jade-like wooden sculpture shaped like a cute rabbit in his mind.
Walking along the corridor, Qin Yu looked at the remaining three rooms on this corridor.
"Which one should I enter now?" Qin Yu kept his Divine Sense active; in this Mishen Palace, his Divine Sense could only cover a ten-meter area.
"Alright, that one." Qin Yu picked a room and headed towards it but only took a few steps before suddenly stopping.
Qin Yu’s gaze shifted abruptly to a sculpture on the corridor wall.
"Not right." Qin Yu observed the sculpture meticulously with his Divine Sense. With his current understanding of space, he could feel that the space where the sculpture was located was somewhat special, as if the space here... had folded.
He took out a long sword-shaped Divine Artifact and tried touching that bizarre sculpture with the Divine Sword.
No sooner had the tip of the Divine Sword touched the sculpture than the space violently twisted and simultaneously—
"Creak~~~~" A noise sounded, and a wall in the corridor suddenly began rising upward, revealing a door that had been hidden there; evidently, there was another concealed room.
A path emerged in Qin Yu’s Mysterious God Scroll at that moment; Qin Yu held his breath, took a step, and passed through the doorway. As soon as he entered, the scene changed abruptly, but with his experience, Qin Yu remained calm.
"Rumble~~~~" A loud rumbling sound arose.
"A waterfall?" Qin Yu stared at the scene before him, startled. He saw a waterfall hundreds of meters high crashing down from above, striking a massive pool below and sending up countless splashes of water.
(Chapter three ends here, and that’s today’s update completed~~~)
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