Galaxy of Giant Ships: Starting with Data-Driven Warships

Chapter 61 Mysterious Heavenly Relics

In the blink of an eye, the once unattainable celestial palace was fully displayed before Chen Yao's eyes.

Upon seeing the entire celestial palace, Chen Yao found it hard to believe that it could be connected to the "Inheritance Site of the Divine Transformation Sect".

The main body of the Heavenly Palace is constructed entirely of a certain bluish-gray stone. There are no carved beams or painted rafters, no magnificent gold and jade decorations, only the mottled marks left by time on the bluish-gray stone walls.

A pale golden light curtain descended from the main gate of the Heavenly Palace, rippling gently like a water curtain; it was the final identity verification.

The Sky Patrol slowly descended. In the main control room of the warship, Chen Yao took a deep breath, then turned and walked towards the hatch.

"Patrol the skies, remain vigilant, and if any abnormalities are detected, immediately close the hatches and control the warships to create distance."

【Received, Captain.】

Although his intuition told him that there was probably no danger, Chen Yao still made the most cautious arrangements.

He did not leave the warship, but stood at the open hatch, wearing a second-generation exoskeleton armor. Inside the exoskeleton, the close-fitting rattan armor that Xiaoxing had transformed into had already covered his entire body.

As the Sky-Piercing Ship slowly moved its hull, the light curtain descending from the Heavenly Palace quickly landed on Chen Yao.

The next second, Chen Yao felt an indescribable energy envelop his entire body, like some kind of sophisticated detection instrument, "examining" him from head to toe, from his physical body to his soul, inside and out.

[Identification in progress...]

[Pure human bloodline detected...]

[Orange Seed of Fire Detected...]

[Detected Tier 1 Guidance Technique of the Fireship System...]

Amidst the series of notification sounds, the originally emotionless, mechanically synthesized voice gradually began to change, and Chen Yao even seemed to hear a hint of... disbelief?

[A true captain of the Flame of Fire... are you a descendant of the Flame of Fire Ancestral Domain?]

Before Chen Yao could reply, a terrifying force descended upon the Sky Patrol.

After the world spun around, the Sky Patrol had already appeared inside the Mysterious Light Palace.

The celestial palace that had given him endless imagination over the past few months was now completely overturned.

There were no star-studded artifacts or dazzling array of mineral materials as one might have imagined. Instead, dozens of stone chambers of varying sizes were carved out along both sides of a long corridor, and even the irregular fragments on the stone doors had not been properly polished.

"It seems that the Xuantian Sect elder who managed to escape back then also suffered irreversible injuries..."

As he pondered to himself, Chen Yao turned his gaze to the end of the corridor.

More specifically, I was drawn to the crystal ball that sat quietly on the stone platform at the end of the corridor.

As the Sky Surveyor fired a tractor beam, the crystal ball was quickly captured by the warship.

Before long, the Sky Survey successfully completed the analysis of the information inside the crystal ball.

"I am the seventy-third elder of the Xuantian Sect, with the Daoist name 'Xuanqing'."

"In the 848th year of the Multidimensional Calendar, the Blood Wolf Clan, a level-six alien civilization, launched a massive invasion. The Nascent Soul True Venerables in our sect fought desperately with the help of the planetary array, and I was able to break through with a portion of the sect's resources."

"However, the Blood Wolf Clan pursued us for decades, and my fellow disciples perished one by one. In the end, only I remained, carrying the last of our inheritance, and escaped to this place."

"He used his remaining body to set up the Mysterious Heaven-Covering Star Array, sealing off this star system, and then burned his last bit of life force to construct this trial space, awaiting those who come after him."

"Those who have entered the Heavenly Palace, you must be a member of the Starry Sky Human Race, receiving the legacy of my Xuan Tian. I hope that you will one day enhance the prestige of my human race."

After reading the information in front of him with a sigh, Chen Yao remained silent.

After making a silent vow, his gaze was drawn to another object that was quietly floating behind the stone platform.

Unable to define what it was, Chen Yao only saw a black dot, but the energy fluctuations it emitted were beyond imagination, and a large amount of energy was constantly gathering towards it, only to disappear in an instant.

Feeling that this object was not simple, Chen Yao did not rush to examine it, but instead turned his attention to the stone chambers on both sides.

As he explored each room, the secrets hidden within these stone chambers gradually came to light.

The first room is the training room.

The stone chamber contains dozens of jade slips, most of which are first- to fourth-order cultivation techniques and secret arts, as well as various inheritances such as talismans, formations, and alchemy. Although the grades are not high, they are complete in variety and system.

What surprised Chen Yao the most were the two martial arts techniques.

There is a fifth-tier cultivation technique called [Mysterious Heaven True Skill], which can be cultivated to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm. It comes with two accompanying secret techniques, [Mysterious Heaven Escape Light] and [Mysterious Heaven Hand Seal], as well as the method for refining the natal magic weapon [Mysterious Heaven Bell].

The other technique, though also a cultivation method, is a rather rare array-based technique called the [Mysterious Heaven Array Canon]. This technique is a sixth-tier technique, which can be cultivated to the late stage of the Void Reversal realm. It also comes with two powerful supporting secret techniques, the [Mysterious Heaven Combination Array Foundation] and the [Mysterious Heaven Array Body], as well as the method for refining the [Mysterious Heaven Array Plate] natal magic weapon.

These two secret techniques are quite valuable; Chen Yao estimated that they could be exchanged for several thousand points of family merit.

The second, third, and fourth rooms are all medicine rooms.

Each stone chamber contained hundreds of bottles of elixirs, but what pained Chen Yao greatly was that these elixirs had long lost their medicinal properties over millions of years, leaving only some dried dregs.

Fortunately, a number of elixir recipes and refining tips were preserved in good condition, recorded on a jade slip on one side.

However, more than 90% of them were common pills in the cultivation world, such as the Spirit Restoration Pill, Foundation Establishment Pill, Golden Core Pill, and Nascent Soul Pill, which the Chen family did not lack and were not of great value.

Rooms five through ten are the materials room.

This place really caught Chen Yao's eye.

The materials room mainly contains spoils of war seized by the Xuantianmen from the Blood Wolf Clan battlefield—materials such as Blood Wolf Clan fur, bones, claws, and blood, as well as a small portion of rare minerals, spirit wood, and spirit bones.

Although most of them have lost much of their spiritual essence over the long period of time, they still retain considerable value.

The most precious of them are three drops of carefully sealed source blood from the fifth-tier Blood Wolf Lord.

What is the source blood?

Source blood is extracted from the complete corpse of a creature, containing all the essence of that creature in its lifetime. Only one drop can be extracted from a single creature, making it ten or even a hundred times more precious than essence blood.

Finally, there are the talisman room, the magic weapon room, and the rare object room.

The talisman room contained a considerable number of talismans stored in the source, but unfortunately, they all lost their spirituality over time. In the end, Chen Yao only managed to select five that were still relatively well-preserved.

Three Tier 3 talismans: two "Mysterious Heaven Lightning-Attracting Talismans" and one "Vajra Body-Protecting Talisman".

A fourth-tier talisman: The Golden-Splitting Heavenly Blade Talisman

A fifth-tier talisman: Minor Void Teleportation Talisman