Chapter 1065: Chapter 1065: Earth Origin Meditation Mat

Wang Chen took a deep breath and gave a bow to the cultivator seated on the ground.

“Youngster Wang Chen pays respects to the senior.”

He said in a deep voice, “This junior has come to explore the ancient Cave Mansion of the predecessors, finding this place must be fate. Should there be any offense, I ask for the senior’s forgiveness.”

Saying this, Wang Chen once again saluted respectfully.

While the other party had been sitting in meditation for who knows how many years and couldn’t possibly revive to cause trouble,

Wang Chen felt that respecting the predecessors was also respecting oneself!

And just as his voice faded, the grey-robed cultivator suddenly opened his eyes!!

Wang Chen felt a chill run down his spine, instinctively forming a Sword Art with his hands, only to see the other’s body collapse silently into dust in the blink of an eye.

A desolate aura, indescribable in words, echoed in the chamber for a long time.

Wang Chen bowed down: “Junior, respectfully sends off the senior!”

“Dust to dust, earth to earth, may the lost soul return to the thick earth…”

He murmured the Rebirth Mantra softly, his heart filled with peace and serenity.

The desolate aura filling the chamber gradually dissipated with the incantation, until it vanished completely.

Wang Chen exhaled a long breath and took out a jade box from his Cangqing Ring, used for storing Spiritual Materials, then gathered all the ashes from the ground into the box.

What the nameless cultivator left behind for Wang Chen were a ring, a meditation mat, and a copper plaque.

Wang Chen set the three items aside, then using the Mudstone Technique, he constructed a small stone tomb, placing the jade box with the ashes inside before sealing it.

He also erected a stone stele in front of the tomb.

Since he did not know the identity of this senior cultivator, he left the stele blank for the time being.

After handling the aftermath, Wang Chen picked up the meditation mat from the ground.

He was startled!

Among the three relics left by the predecessor, the meditation mat was the largest but the least conspicuous.

Because the ring was clearly a Sumeru Ring, capable of containing all things, there was no doubt that it held many treasures within.

And the copper plaque, with its ancient design and complex runic inscriptions, was clearly not ordinary.

The meditation mat, however, appeared utterly plain; even after Wang Chen had cleaned all the ash from it, it still looked old.

Yet the moment he touched it, Wang Chen knew he had misjudged!

The material with which the meditation mat was woven was unknown – the whole of it was dark brown, each strand thickly coated, but it didn’t shine with any luster.

The long years hadn’t erased it but instead bestowed upon it an indescribable sense of historical depth.

The instant he touched it, Wang Chen felt a Qi of Clarity surge into his body!

A Fourth Order Spiritual Treasure!!

It turned out to be an extraordinarily valuable Fourth Order Spiritual Treasure.

He had struck it rich.

A strong sense of joy surged in Wang Chen’s heart.

In the Haotian Realm, Third Order Magical Treasures were considered high-tier mainstream magic artifacts, and a Golden Core True Person having three or four of these treasures would be considered to be living comfortably.

As for Fourth Order Spiritual Treasures, a Nascent Soul True Monarch possessing one or two was considered quite remarkable; they still mainly used Magical Treasures.

This was because creating Spiritual Treasures not only required a Grandmaster Level Artifact Refiner, but also very rare and precious materials, which one couldn’t amass without a considerable fortune.

More importantly, the emergence of a Spiritual Treasure inevitably faced Heavenly Tribulation, thus the likelihood of failing at the last moment was quite high!

Now, Wang Chen had acquired a Spiritual Treasure for free – the nearly twenty thousand points of Fate Blessing truly were powerful.

From this, he could infer that the cultivator who transformed into eternity here must have been someone above the Golden Core tier.

Wang Chen, couldn’t put down the meditation mat as he played with it; he tried to infuse his mana for its consecration and refinement.

To his surprise, he easily imprinted his own Dharma Seal upon it!

That was because inside the meditation mat, there were no restrictions or remnants of the original owner’s seals, likely due to the ruthless passage of time that had eroded them away.

Moreover, as a meditation mat belonging to magic artifacts for auxiliary cultivation without any offensive capabilities, it was relatively low-end in the entire magic artifact system. Consequently, the consecration and control were comparably much simpler.

However, Wang Chen soon discovered that this meditation mat was truly worthy of being a Spiritual Treasure.

Firstly, it had an effect similar to a Spirit Gathering Array. No matter where it was placed, as long as there was nature’s spiritual energy in the surrounding space, sitting on it would activate its power and continuously gather spiritual energy for absorption into the body.

If placed directly on an Earth Vein, the spirit gathering effect was immensely powerful; not only would Golden Core cultivators find it sufficient for their cultivation needs, even Nascent Soul True Immortals would be fully satisfied!

It was incomparable to those portable Spirit Gathering Formation Plates.

This was extremely practical for Wang Chen.

From then on, during his travels and training, carrying this meditation mat with him would be akin to bringing a high-tier Spirit Gathering Array!

Secondly, the meditation mat also had the effects of focusing the mind, calming the qi, and protecting the Divine Soul. Meditating on it would ward off Evil Wraiths or inner demons, greatly reducing the risk of cultivation deviation.

This too was an incredibly potent capability.

Finally, by activating the array embedded within the meditation mat, it could also form a powerful protective barrier around it.

This ensured safety during cultivation and prevented one from being easily ambushed by enemies!

Wang Chen took almost two hours to figure out the capabilities of this “Earth Origin” meditation mat.

Without surprise, its name appeared in the equipment slot of the Cultivation Panel.

However, presumably due to a long period of disuse, the mat’s spiritual luster had faded considerably, requiring gentle nurturing to return it to its optimal state.

Despite this, Wang Chen had a change of heart.

Upon discovering that the mat was a Fourth Order Spiritual Treasure, his first thought was to take it to the Four Seas Commerce Association for trade, guessing it could offset the unpaid seventy percent material debt.

Wang Chen’s biggest problem would be solved.

But now, his thoughts were different.

It would be too much of a pity to trade away this Earth Origin meditation mat, keeping it for his own use was the most correct decision.

Such a treasure was something one could only stumble upon by chance!

After some contemplation, Wang Chen stored away the Earth Origin meditation mat and then picked up the copper plaque.

However, after a period of study, he was rather disappointed.

This copper plaque was not any kind of treasure, but rather an array instrument used to control the Cave Mansion Array.

Having this copper plaque made Wang Chen the new master of this place.

Upon further exploration, Wang Chen found that the array built into this cave mansion was actually situated above a small Earth Vein, and the spot where the meditation mat had been placed was precisely the spring of spiritual energy.

But after endless years, this Earth Vein was nearly completely exhausted, and the self-operating Cave Mansion Array, which had been running for who knows how many years, was close to collapse.

This was the root of why Wang Chen could be teleported here–the majority of the pre-set mechanisms of the array had failed.

And Wang Chen had no capability of restoring this array, so what use was holding onto the array instrument?

It wasn’t entirely useless, as he could still use the copper plaque to teleport out.

That was all.

Actually, even without the copper plaque, exiting wasn’t a difficult task for Wang Chen!

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