The Arch-Enemy Must Not Become a Wife-Chapter 38: Banner of the Human Emperor

The middle-aged scholar looked somewhat disappointed upon hearing this, but he still had a good first impression of Chu Xuan.

After a few casual exchanges, Chu Xuan confirmed that he was indeed his granduncle, the Supreme Elder of the sect, Li Fanzhou.

"It’s always good for a young person to read more books. What do you want to read here?"

After Chu Xuan roughly stated his request, Li Fanzhou pointed out the specific bookshelf, what floor, which row, and slot, explaining it clearly, saving Chu Xuan the trouble of searching.

The Scripture Repository has its own grotto heaven. Following the elder’s instructions, Chu Xuan walked forward a few steps and saw rows of bookshelves neatly arranged within the tower.

Looking back, Li Fanzhou was already nowhere to be seen.

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According to the importance of the books, ordinary disciples can only read the first three levels of Taoist scriptures, with different permissions required for each further level.

This of course wasn’t a problem for Chu Xuan, who began reading from the first level.

To prevent his granduncle from watching him silently, Chu Xuan pretended to start with cultivation-related Taoist books, reading for a period before gradually moving upward.

His main focus was to search through miscellaneous books recording various magical artifacts of the cultivation world.

Even if an elder noticed, at most they would just advise Chu Xuan to focus on cultivation and not pay too much attention to external items, without suspecting anything else.

Among these texts, Chu Xuan searched the indexes thoroughly, prioritizing pages that recorded magical artifacts such as banners, canopies, and flags.

And his goal was clear: to directly look at the "Celestial Tier Treasures" category, believing he could quickly find traces of the Six Souls Banner.

But unexpectedly, despite going through various magical artifact books, he couldn’t find it at all.

It is generally understood that when recording magical artifacts, there wouldn’t be deliberate discrimination against demonic artifacts. Precisely because they are used by demonic practitioners, they should be clearly recorded, preferably with illustrations, so future generations can specifically target and make defenses against them.

According to Chu Xuan’s thinking, something of the Six Souls Banner’s level shouldn’t possibly remain unnamed??

Could it be that it has never appeared in the world? Impossible, Ji Mingyu recognized it at a glance.

Could it not be a celestial tier magical artifact? Possibly, maybe it is misunderstood by the world, or maybe it doesn’t inherently possess such a high rank.

Thinking of this, Chu Xuan no longer focused solely on the celestial tier grade, but searched sequentially by heaven, earth, mystic, and yellow tiers.

And he didn’t only fixate on the name "Six Souls Banner"; what if the world called it the "Emperor’s Banner"?

What do you mean this Emperor’s Banner spews black smoke and emits green light?

Nonsense, this is obviously the Hongmeng Purple Qi, the moral golden light.

In any case, even if the name doesn’t match, a match in physical description would do as well.

This search left Chu Xuan dazzled. Although flag-type magical artifacts are not as numerous as sword-type artifacts in the cultivation world, they are still a major category, especially since various flags are often needed when setting up formations.

Chu Xuan read from dawn to dusk before finishing the investigation of the first three tiers.

He then spent an entire day to check the yellow tier, which had the highest number and most miscellaneous types, combing through all flag and banner-type magical artifacts in the entire library, almost fainting from it.

In the end, nothing!

No matter whether it was the name or appearance, none matched the Six Souls Banner perfectly, although there were plenty of Ten Thousand Soul Banners and White Bone Banners.

Chu Xuan couldn’t care less about whether Li Fanzhou might be curious, lying on the floor with a vacant stare amidst stacks upon stacks of books, almost getting buried in them.

"Where exactly is the problem?" he murmured almost inaudibly.

"No way!" Chu Xuan suddenly thought of something, reshelved the surrounding books one by one, then ran to the sixth library level to specifically search for books recording "Immortal Artifacts."

If it’s not a magical artifact, then it might be an immortal artifact. It certainly couldn’t be the most basic level magical artifact, right?? Stop joking.

The "Immortal Artifact Record" had many vaguely described entries, and being a thin volume, it was easy to search through.

There were indeed some flag and banner-type immortal artifacts, like the "Innate Five Flags," aligning with the innate five-element attributes, totaling five pieces.

Many five-element flag magical artifacts in the world were crafted in imitation of these five immortal artifacts, and they were quite powerful, capable of forming a large five-element attribute formation when all five were deployed.

But there was no Six Souls Banner...

With a dazed look, Chu Xuan closed the Immortal Artifact Record and returned it to the shelf.

At this moment, Li Fanzhou’s voice leisurely drifted over from the horizon, "What are you looking for?"

Having spent two days and nights here and specially searching for flag and banner-type magical artifacts, even a fool could see that he had a specific goal.

Actually, Chu Xuan stopped concealing his actions as he vaguely sensed he might have been looking in the wrong direction.

The Six Souls Banner might not be as "renowned" as he imagined. Ji Mingyu’s immediate recognition didn’t prove anything.

If Chu Xuan’s parents treated this treasure as a last-resort asset, considering it their lifeline and rarely taking it out, who would know of its fame?

Even if used, almost everyone who saw it was probably deceased, so who could know?

Besides, as Chu Xuan recalled, in "The Investiture of the Gods," this was clearly a curse-type magical artifact with a simple usage method:

Write the names of enemies on the six banner tails, up to six people simultaneously;

Then, worship with talismans and seals day and night. Once this is done, shake the banner to harm the lives of those six, even saints at the Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian level are unlikely to escape, making it immensely powerful.

If it could curse from a distance, this treasure wouldn’t even need to be used face-to-face. Someone might die under the Six Souls Banner without even knowing how they died.

If this theory holds true, Chu Xuan wouldn’t need to dread asking others about the Six Souls Banner, as others might know nothing at all.

Finally waiting for Li Fanzhou to ask proactively, Chu Xuan then saluted and said:

"Reporting to Granduncle, this disciple has a mortal vendetta with a demon, but does not know the person’s name or details of their life, only that they hold a black soul banner."

"Thus, this disciple wanted to focus on this aspect but found nothing after searching endlessly."

Li Fanzhou still did not reveal himself, his tone calm: "What kind of magical artifact, describe it specifically."

Chu Xuan had already prepared his statement and ultimately did not mention the words "Six Souls Banner," only roughly describing its appearance and brilliance.

Li Fanzhou remained silent for a moment, seemingly pondering.

In the end, he still said, "Never seen or heard of it. Not every cultivator likes to boast and show off their magical artifacts."

"With just such clues, you might as well go and individually review all the famous demonic cultivators of the past millennium in the cultivation world."