Chapter 501: Opening the Cenotaph, the Celestial Empress's Relics!

【The first thing you must do upon arriving at Blazing Star is to go to the Celestial Empress's cenotaph and retrieve the several relics imbued with Celestial Emperor power hidden within.】

【Compared to the sixth simulation, your arrival time at Blazing Star hasn't come any earlier—in fact, it's a few years later.】

【But there are still ten years before the Celestial Empress's cenotaph is discovered by others.】

【Actually, from the last simulation, you know that it wasn't that the cenotaph was "discovered by someone," but rather that it was never well-hidden to begin with.】

【In all the endless years before, no one had found it because remnants of Celestial Emperor power still lingered there, making it impossible to detect.】

【But as time flowed on, in recent years, the Celestial Emperor's residual power has grown too weak—discovery was only a matter of time.】

【"Xuan Nu Town is at..."】

【Even though you remember every detail of the sixth simulation perfectly.】

【The problem is your landing point has changed.】

【You truly have no idea how to get to Xuan Nu Town anymore.】

【The best approach is to return to the Star Harbor where you landed in the last simulation, then read through the sixth simulation's memories and retrace the route step by step.】

【"I guess I'll ask around for directions to the Star Harbor. The sense of direction you have in space is completely different from after you land..."】

【You're not in a hurry.】

【No matter how big Blazing Star is, even if you had to run, you could circle it several times in ten years. You'll definitely open the cenotaph before anyone else.】

【However, your luck is still quite good.】

【You were already planning to take a detour to the Star Harbor, but unexpectedly, you run into someone along the way.】

【All-Knowing, that broad-bodied, fat fellow from the Green Skin Race who stands twice as tall as a human, the guy who claims to know everything about every matter big and small on Blazing Star.】

【You didn't notice him because of the Divine Sense ability attached to the Traffic Light, nor did you spot him while flying at high speed.】

【Rather...】

【Low-level Jiahao Behavior detected, Jiahao points +10!】

【"Eh?"】

【You circled around the area a few times, and the notification tone kept ringing. Before long, you'd racked up 100 points.】

【And in the process, you spotted All-Knowing.】

【Nearby was a tea pavilion where a dozen or so passersby were sitting around drinking tea and resting.】

【All-Knowing was right by the main road, riding his five-meter-tall Great Fat Pig mount, talking to a horse.】

【"Old Horse, you want to go home, is that right? Heh, of course, I know where your home is. See that sun up in the sky? As long as you keep walking toward it, you'll make it home!"】

【Everyone in the tea pavilion turned to look at All-Knowing.】

【All-Knowing clasped his fists toward the people in the tea pavilion and smiled with an air of ease.】

【"You flatter me, you flatter me. Indeed, I do possess some understanding of horse language."】

【The passersby exchanged bewildered glances.】

【"Who asked him?"】

【You watched from the side, taking it all in.】

【"Truly Jiahao, as expected."】

【Since you'd run into All-Knowing, there was no need to take a detour. You could just have All-Knowing lead the way.】

【You strode over.】

【All-Knowing had just settled into the tea pavilion and ordered a bowl of tea and some food.】

【He was about to pay when you slapped a few Source Stones down in front of the shopkeeper.】

【"This brother's bill is on me."】

【Seeing someone treating him, All-Knowing immediately greeted you with a smiling face.】

【He was just about to open his mouth to give thanks when he noticed that the person treating him was a human.】

【"Tsk, what rotten luck."】

【"All-Knowing, I need to get to Xuan Nu Town. Lead the way."】

【All-Knowing wasn't the least bit surprised that you recognized him. In his mind, he deserved this level of fame on Blazing Star.】

【"Human, do you think buying me, All-Knowing, one meal is enough to order me around? Hah, ridiculous."】

【You channeled your divine power and threw a punch through the air, punching a clean hole straight through All-Knowing's pig mount.】

【"Consider that a bonus dish."】

【The passersby in the tea pavilion all fled in terror.】

【All-Knowing stared at you—a man who resorts to violence the moment words fail—his expression frozen for a full half-minute before he spoke.】

【"We leave now."】

【To speed things up, you directly transformed into a dragon and took flight.】

【All-Knowing certainly wasn't qualified to ride on your back. You bound him with the Immortal-Binding Rope, grabbed him with your dragon claws, and carried him along like a kite as you both flew toward Xuan Nu Town.】

【"Oh my! So you're a lord of the Holy Dragon Clan after all! Why didn't you say so earlier! I'd go through fire and water for you, my lord!!"】

【"I'm not Holy Dragon Clan! I'm human!"】

【"But your, this..."】

【"Just a minor Divine Art."】

【"Don't you know? In our Celestial River local galaxy, impersonating the Holy Dragon Clan is a capital offense—the kind where your entire family gets executed for nine generations!"】

【"Let them execute away."】

【All-Knowing couldn't understand how you could be so bold.】

【Even though he could sense he was no match for you, it wasn't like you were strong enough to ignore the Holy Dragon Society entirely, right?】

【"Elder Brother, what's your esteemed surname?"】

【"Chen!!"】

【"Surnamed Cheng, and you can turn into a dragon... Cheng... Long?"】(Note: "Chen" sounds like "Cheng" in "Jackie Chan's" Chinese name, and "Long" means dragon.)

【With All-Knowing's directions, you arrived at Xuan Nu Town.】

【The Treasure-Sniffing Nose had already led you to the precise location of the cenotaph.】

【It lay directly beneath the Xuan Nu Temple at the center of this small town.】

【You tried digging through the earth, but encountered some resistance.】

【It seemed you'd need to attack with full force to break through.】

【But once you cut loose, it would be hard to guarantee the safety of the town's residents.】

【If it weren't for the fact that most of the residents in this town were humans, you would have just gone ahead and done it.】

【"Everyone, evacuate the town!"】

【You stood high in the sky and announced in a clear voice.】

【No one paid you any attention.】

【You retrieved a bag of gold from Pot Heaven space.】

【"Anyone willing to leave the town, come take one piece of gold!"】

【The crowd immediately scrambled and fought over it, then grabbed their families and vanished at lightning speed.】

【All-Knowing watched the now-empty town and gave you a thumbs up.】

【"Very efficient! Though I wonder, my lord, what exactly do you plan to do? Occupy this podunk little town and crown yourself king?"】

【You ignored him, directly channeling your divine power into a punch that blasted the foundation of the Xuan Nu Temple.】

【"My apologies for the disrespect!"】

【Digging up a grave may be immoral, but if you didn't do it, the Alien Races would come dig it up in a few years anyway.】

【Rather than letting the Alien Races benefit, it was better to pass the Celestial Emperor's relics into the hands of human descendants.】

【You successfully opened the Celestial Empress's cenotaph. A beam of crimson light shot straight toward the heavens, heat waves sweeping across every direction. The surrounding temperature was high enough to set dry grass ablaze on its own.】

【Good thing you'd evacuated the townsfolk beforehand—otherwise, the residual Celestial Emperor power released when the cenotaph opened would have killed every resident in town on the spot.】

【All-Knowing scrambled and crawled to get far away.】

【"Good heavens! Such a phenomenal sight—this must be a Supreme Treasure emerging into the world! A major event, a major event! As expected of me, All-Knowing—I know about everything!"】

【The cenotaph wasn't large.】

【It contained only one burial chamber and a single coffin.】

【Inside the coffin, there was no corpse or skeleton—only a set of robes, a laurel crown, a pair of boots, a mirror, and a Jade Slip.】

【It looked as if, at the moment of her death, the Celestial Empress had left behind the clothes she was wearing and the mirror she used daily, and then her body simply vanished.】

【You took a sniff, and your eyes couldn't help but widen.】

【"Aside from the Jade Slip recording the Slash Three Souls technique, everything else is a Supreme Treasure!"】