"What is creature is the feather from? A blue bird or something?" Walking up to the altar, Xuan Hao cautiously inspected the blue feather laying on top of the altar before picking it up.
The blue feather had no special aura or hidden domain of some sort inside of it, the only thing special was its colour and the slightly chilly feeling it left when Xuan Hao picked it up and inspected it. Outside of this, Xuan Hao could simply not tell what was so special about the feather, for it to be on top of a clearly important altar of the temple.
"Perhaps it has something to do with the blue phoenix? An offering of sorts maybe? I do remember some religious orders sacrificed different kinds of things to their gods. From cattle and precious artifacts to humans…" Lifting the blue feather up into the air, Xuan Hao swung it around a bit to see if something would happen, but to his disappointment, him swinging it around did not cause the blue feather to do anything.
"Guess I will just keep it for now and try to figure out what it is when I return to the sect…" Putting the blue feather away, Xuan Hao was prepared to spend some time on the blue feather when returning to the sect.
After all, even if it looked like there was nothing special about the feather, it had still stayed in the temple for a long time and a normal feather would have long decayed by this point…
Preparing to leave the underground hall, as there was nothing other than the blue feather, altar and phoenix statue inside of it, Xuan Hao manged to spot a small ring laying on the floor towards the corner of the wall.
The inconspicuous ring immediately caught his attention as Xuan Hao picked it up and inspected it to find out if there was anything unusual about the ring.
"This is!" The moment Xuan Hao sent his divine sense out to probe the small ring, he immediately felt his divine sense being drawn inside it as the ring shone with a deep blue colour for an instant before returning to its former inconspicuous state.
"An interspatial ring?!" Indeed, the small inconspicuous ring was an interspatial ring!
Xuan Hao looked at the ring with a surprised and excited expression as he felt the connection that had been established between himself and the ring, with just a thought, he could easily access the space inside the ring. Withdrawing or storing items with just a thought.
Is there still something left inside the ring?
Calming down, the first thing Xuan Hao did was access the space inside the interspatial ring with his divine sense.
"Nothing…" Feeling himself becoming a bit depressed upon sensing the empty space inside the interspatial ring, Xuan Hao could not help but sigh at the sight of it.
What had he expected…? The person who took care of this temple most likely emptied everything precious inside already…
The interspatial ring was most likely useless to someone strong enough to take away an entire temple after looting the treasures inside.
Did this not mean he was picking up something that had already been thrown away by others…
"I swear… When I reach the Domain Lord Realm, I will also be able to make interspatial rings! When that time comes, I will make a few thousand interspatial rings and throw them at some random places with a note about not needing them anymore! Haha!" Laughing a bit to himself as he exclaimed this, Xuan Hao only thought about it for a moment before he left the underground room.
The construction of a single interspatial ring was not something cheap, this was also one of the reasons why people reaching the Domain Lord Realm would normally only construct one for personal use.
Half a step Domain Lords also had the ability to make interspatial rings, but the cost was way too high for someone still in the Nascent Soul Realm to bear. This in turn resulted in most interspatial rings being constructed by Domain Lords or those above.
Xuan Hao also knew… And that was why…
The sound of a new quest did not excite Xuan Hao for the first time, but instead made him think back to a certain day where the system had forced him to throw up blood…
Stopping in place, Xuan Hao did not move for a moment as he calmed down before entering his sea of consciousness to see the new system quest given to him.
[Limited Time Quest: You have found a brilliant way to recruit new potential disciples! Scatter 1000 interspatial rings around the world. The system will add a specific test to the ring that will test the potential future disciples. Interspatial Rings will only be counted towards the quest if they are scattered a certain distance away from each other. Timer will begin upon reaching the Domain Lord Realm!]
[Reward: vary depending on the amount of successfully scattered interspatial rings]
"…" This quest was so troublesome... Worst of all, it was his first limited time quest as well.
At least it seemed like the timer would only begin when he reached the Domain Lord Realm, so he could in essence delay his breakthrough to the Domain Lord Realm and stay stuck at the half-step Domain Lord Realm producing interspatial rings.
But who knew how long that would take? And what would he do if his disciples ended up surpassing him while he was busy making interspatial rings…?
Xuan Hao felt quite a dilemma when looking at the limited time quest.
Sure, he could ignore it, but the benefits for such a quest would definitely be good and might even be able to assist his cultivation on the long term!
"I should not delay my cultivation for the quest…" Coming to this decision, Xuan Hao decided that he would work hard to secure and create as many interspatial rings as possible upon reaching the Domain Lord Realm.
Work hard for the 10 years and scatter as many interspatial rings as possible, then return to relax at his pavilion teaching Qing Yi and Chu Yang from time to time for the next 100- No, next 1000 years!
Nodding his head approvingly at his own plans, Xuan Hao made his way out of the underground hall and back into the core area of the temple where he left Chi Hu earlier.