The great opportunity that Ji Xuan had been longing for was ultimately snatched by Jun Xiaoyao.
If there wasn't anything good inside the box, it would be a disservice to all of Ji Xuan's painstaking efforts.
Jun Xiaoyao opened the box.
Looking inside, the first thing that met his eyes was an ancient, dark gold scroll, seemingly made of gold foil.
"What is this?" Jun Xiaoyao was slightly puzzled.
He opened the dark gold scroll.
Instantly, countless ancient characters floated before Jun Xiaoyao's eyes.
Each ancient character bloomed with endless divine light, as if they were stars in the heavens, revolving.
If it were an ordinary person, just a glance would blind them.
But Jun Xiaoyao was different. He possessed the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body. Golden light bloomed in his eyes as he scanned it.
This look made Jun Xiaoyao reveal an expression of astonishment.
For someone as calm and composed as Jun Xiaoyao to show such an expression, one could imagine the extent of his surprise.
"Could this be... one of the Nine Great Heavenly Books?"
Jun Xiaoyao was slightly stunned, also finding it hard to believe.
In the Immortal Domain, there was probably no cultivator who didn't know about the Nine Great Heavenly Books.
The Nine Great Heavenly Books were not written by humans, nor were they the inheritance of any lineage.
From the very beginning of the Nine Heavens Immortal Domain's existence, the Nine Great Heavenly Books had already existed.
Some said the Nine Great Heavenly Books were written by "Immortals."
Others said the Nine Great Heavenly Books were manifestations of the Heavenly Dao's rules.
In short, there were all sorts of sayings.
But one thing was certain: the Nine Great Heavenly Books were definitely not created by any single person.
Even Great Emperors would find it difficult to create them.
And the most precious aspect of the Nine Great Heavenly Books was that each book represented an ultimate.
For example, the Space Scripture, one of the Nine Great Heavenly Books, represented the ultimate of the Dao of Space.
The Time Scripture represented the ultimate of the Dao of Time.
The other different books all represented different ultimate Daos.
There were even rumors that if someone could gather all Nine Great Heavenly Books, they could merge them into one and walk a path to immortality.
It was precisely because of the various rumors about the Nine Great Heavenly Books that countless people were frantically searching for their whereabouts.
But throughout countless eons, let alone gathering all Nine Great Heavenly Books, even the appearance of one or two was a luxury.
Jun Xiaoyao had never expected that this wooden box would actually contain a Heavenly Book.
"Judging by its contents, it should be the Physique Scripture, one of the Nine Great Heavenly Books, the ultimate of the physical body," Jun Xiaoyao said to himself, a ripple of emotion in his tone.
Probably no one would see a Heavenly Book and not get excited.
Moreover, even more coincidentally, this book was the Physique Scripture, one of the Nine Great Heavenly Books, which happened to fit perfectly with Jun Xiaoyao's Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.
"First the God-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force, and now the Physique Scripture. Is this preparing me to become a Great Emperor of the physical body?" Jun Xiaoyao thought to himself.
However, what made Jun Xiaoyao frown slightly was that this volume of the Physique Scripture seemed incomplete.
It appeared to only be the upper scroll.
"That's right, the remnant soul of Yuan Tian Supreme previously said that the item was in the wooden box, and the rest might be in the lower realm continent."
"Does this mean that the lower scroll of the Physique Scripture is in the Ten Lands?" Jun Xiaoyao murmured.
This possibility was very high.
"It seems that in the future, I must make a trip to the lower realm. The Physique Scripture is too important to me," Jun Xiaoyao said.
His Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, plus the God-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force, plus the Physique Scripture, one of the Nine Great Heavenly Books.
After mastering them all, how formidable would his physical body be?
Even Great Emperors who attained the Dao through their physical bodies in the ancient era would probably be far inferior to him, right?
Inside the wooden box, besides the Physique Scripture, there was also a fragmented piece of bronze.
Compared to the Physique Scripture, this bronze fragment appeared very inconspicuous.
It didn't look like any kind of immortal gold either; it was very ancient and simple.
When Jun Xiaoyao held it in his hand, he was surprised to find that he couldn't crush this bronze fragment.
Jun Xiaoyao's current physical strength was so formidable. Not to mention crushing immortal gold, but at least ordinary King and Marquis-level weapons could be easily shattered.
Yet this seemingly inconspicuous bronze fragment was extremely sturdy.
"A bit strange. I'll show it to grandfather and the others later." Jun Xiaoyao put away the bronze fragment.
Next, he took out the Saint King's hand bone and the five dragon bones.
Jun Xiaoyao had already separated the Saint King's hand bone.
The entire hand bone was as white as jade, imprinted with complex Dao patterns.
Even just placed there, it exuded the pressure of a Saint realm.
The reason Ji Xuan was able to stand out among the prodigies was largely due to this Saint King's hand bone.
A single hand bone could create a powerful prodigy.
But Jun Xiaoyao had no intention of integrating the hand bone into his own arm.
The thought of integrating someone else's bones into his own body was unsettling.
Moreover, Jun Xiaoyao's Desolate Ancient Sacred Body was already one of the strongest physiques. When fully grown, it would be countless times stronger than a Saint King's hand bone.
There was absolutely no need to abandon the essential for the superficial.
"Although I won't integrate it into my own arm, I can use it to forge a magical artifact," Jun Xiaoyao said to himself.
He planned to forge the Saint King's hand bone into a weapon.
As for the five dragon bones.
Jun Xiaoyao planned to reward the four ancient dragon bones to Jun Zhangjian and the others.
After all, they had also contributed greatly in the Yuan Tian Secret Trove.
The benefits that should be given, should be given.
As for the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone, Jun Xiaoyao would naturally refine it himself.
Subsequently, Jun Xiaoyao directly summoned the Hell Furnace and drew the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone into it.
Instantly, billowing essence qi surged.
The power contained within the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone was immense. If Xiao Chen had obtained it, it could have directly caused him to undergo a great transformation.
But now, it all benefited Jun Xiaoyao.
Cracking sounds like popping beans came from within his body; those were giant elephant particles awakening one after another.
Eighty thousand...
Ninety thousand...
In the end, within Jun Xiaoyao's body, one hundred thousand giant elephant particles completely awakened!
Jun Xiaoyao's entire body surged with golden divine radiance!
Behind him, an incomparably solid, almost tangible golden divine elephant appeared. Its trunk curled, and it let out a long cry to the sky, possessing the momentum to suppress the eight desolations and roar down the stars!
The God-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force, at this moment, entered the first stage of minor completion.
With every move, Jun Xiaoyao unleashed a divine power of one billion jin, capable of shattering stars with a single punch and collapsing ancient mountains!
"Truly worthy of being a Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone. This energy is too immense," Jun Xiaoyao sighed.
After the God-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force transformed, the next step was to transform the giant elephant particles into dragon-elephant particles.
Dragon-elephant particles were ten times stronger than giant elephant particles.
That is to say, if Jun Xiaoyao converted all the giant elephant particles into dragon-elephant particles, then his physical divine power would increase tenfold.
That would be ten billion jin of divine power!
It was terrifying just to think about it.
Furthermore, the benefits brought by the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone were not limited to this.
Because within the Ancestral Dragon Bone, there was Ancestral Dragon blood marrow.
This energy, combined with the dragon qi in Jun Xiaoyao's body, caused his dragon scale inner armor to undergo another transformation.
Jun Xiaoyao slightly activated it, and a slender azure-gold dragon armor that fit his body perfectly condensed.
This dragon armor was more than ten times stronger in defense than the previous dragon scale inner armor.
Jun Xiaoyao, clad in the dragon armor, had less of a banished immortal's仙气(immortal aura) and more of a war god's cold arrogance and dominance.
At this moment, he looked more like the True Dragon Son of Heaven of the Ancestral Dragon Nest than Long Haotian and the others.
"This dragon armor, let's call it the Azure Sky Ancestral Dragon Armor," Jun Xiaoyao said with a faint smile.
Originally, this Azure Sky Ancestral Dragon Armor should have been a technique that Xiao Chen could condense.
But the dragon qi and the Supreme Ancestral Dragon Bone were both snatched by Jun Xiaoyao, so it ended up benefiting Jun Xiaoyao instead.
(End of this chapter)