Hengsheng sat on the throne in the Maker Mansion’s throne room, having a serious expression as his eyes scanned the message display before him. Once he finished reading, he nodded and spoke to Blue, who was in the system world.
"Blue, this is all we have?" Hengsheng asked.
"Yes, master. Unless we have to go to the Ninth Heaven, which is likely to have more information about them," Blue replied, disappointed that she could not help more.
Hengsheng frowned in disappointment, since the information about the Nine Heavenly Treasures they had gathered was far more limited than he had expected.
"Never mind then... Thanks for your help," Hengsheng said.
"With pleasure, master," Blue replied, turning her attention back to the system world.
"How disappointed…" Hengsheng murmured while deep in thought.
It had been a month since Hengsheng returned to the Maker Mansion.
From the first day until now, Hengsheng has asked Blue to gather all the information his company has collected and collect more from outside about the myth of the Nine Heavenly Treasures.
However, the results were disappointing—most of the information turned out to be false or mere stories created for entertainment.
The ones that seem to be true are limited, with no detail.
Only a few of the Nine Heavenly Treasures' names are known to the Seventh Heaven, such as the Immortal Killing Axe, the Elixir of Immortality, or the Immortal Dao Mountain.
That last name is the same one people on this continent used to refer to his Endless Wealth Peak, mistakenly believing it to be the Immortal Dao Mountain when they witnessed it descend from the sky upon his arrival to this realm.
At that time, he did not conceal the mountain due to his own carelessness, causing a huge commotion in the southern part of the continent.
He had to spend several months spreading a rumor that the appearance of the Immortal Dao Mountain was fake.
Thinking back on it, he couldn't help but feel a chill. Not only had loose cultivators roam about following the rumor here and there, but he even spotted some Grand Unity experts joining the search for his mountain.
Anyway, that day had already passed.
Hengheng thought about the Heavenly Treasure he had experience with.
The Tenth Heaven, which Yunsu possesses, is one of the Nine Heavenly Treasures whose names are unknown, but it has been referred to as the Embodiment of the World.
The closest accurate reference about this treasure found in any records was a vague line: 'The Embodiment of the World will bestow you the entire world.'
While somewhat accurate, it is not in the way most people would expect.
Over the past month, he and Yunsu had already conducted multiple tests to the Tenth Heaven.
He now mostly understood what it could do, what kind of powers it held, and just how broken this Heavenly Treasure truly was.
Even though he now understood its true value, he didn’t feel sad about Yunsu snatching it from him. It was truly a valuable and powerful treasure, but it held no value to him.
Not only was it of no value to him, but to make matters worse, it also caused Yunsu to spend less time with him.
Yunsu, who was usually by his side, was nowhere to be found—she wasn’t in the mansion or even in this vast Seventh Heaven, as she was currently staying within her private world, Tenth Heaven, which existed in another dimension, the dimension within the stone.
That's right, the Tenth Heaven was essentially similar to his system world: a private, dimensional world.
Inside the stone slab, the Tenth Heaven appears similar to the other Heavens of the Nine Heaven Realm—a vast, flat realm filled with nature and life, under its owner's absolute command, which is Yunsu.
Unlike his system world, where he was a supreme being wielding absolute power over everything, the Tenth Heaven did not grant Yunsu supreme power while she was within it, but something similar.
Even though her cultivation realm and power remained the same, her will could move Heaven.
Her will became Heaven's will of the Tenth Heaven itself—the hidden heaven within the stone moved according to her commands absolutely.
She could command the Tenth Heaven to give birth to natural treasures—whether of Mortal, Earth, Heaven, or even Divine grade, all can be born.
She could command it to gather all kinds of Qi within the Heaven and Earth of the vast heaven to support her cultivation.
She could command it to form natural formations—any type she desired. Even a Dao Field was within its possibility.
She could even command the flow of time within the Tenth Heaven, making it run faster or slower relative to the outside world at her will.
It was a heaven-defying treasure that granted its possessor access to endless resources of all kinds—even the most valuable one, "Time"—all at their disposal.
The endless resource aspect of this Heavenly Treasure was similar to the Endless Wealth Peak under Blue's Supreme Administrator System, using Origin Energy to generate resources endlessly.
However, like his cheat system, system world, or origin energy, the Heavenly Dao would not allow such a cheat to run wild, ruining the balance of the world without limitations.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Treasure restrictions were not as severe as those placed on his own system-based power.
Yunsu could share the resources within the Tenth Heaven with Hengsheng while he was inside it.
He could use those resources to create artifacts and bring the finished products outside without issue; no heavenly tribulation will strike upon the artifacts like the one crafted using Origin Energy-based material.
However, natural treasures, craft raw materials, or living beings could not be taken out—they would simply disappear once outside the Tenth Heaven.
This was the only limitation that the Tenth Heaven had.
Also, there was another limitation, though not exactly a limitation; it was a difference that set the Tenth Heaven apart from his Endless Wealth Peak.
While his Endless Wealth Peak, using an Origin Energy, could instantly create things, the Tenth Heaven followed the path of the Grand Dao.
The natural treasures within the Tenth Heaven were not magically bypassed all required processes and created instantly, but were born through natural processes, which required time.
If Yunsu wanted to command the Tenth Heaven to give birth to a natural treasure, she would need to accelerate time within the Tenth Heaven while remaining outside to obtain that treasure as soon as possible.
However, the rate at which she could accelerate time depended on her cultivation realm.
Presently, she is a Rank 4 Spirit Beast; she could accelerate or decelerate time up to 1,000 times.
This meant that if a treasure required one million years to form, she would have to wait 1,000 years in the outside world to obtain it.
However, this is not a problem for them for now, since the treasures that require such a long time to form are usually Divine Grade treasures with a high energy level, which are not needed for Hengsheng's or Yunsu's cultivation at their current cultivation realms.
Besides, they did not need a resource from the Tenth Heaven in the first place, since they already had Endless Wealth Peak as a resource point.
The Tenth Heaven, for Hengsheng and Yunsu, is just a vast garden—a new playground—holding little value in their path of cultivation.
"How did this thing even end up on the island of pirates anyway?" Hengsheng murmured.
He had no idea how such a heaven-defying treasure could have been lying among the peddlers on the ground, unnoticed for who knows how long.
Did someone place it there?
Did it come with the storm?
Or had it always been there all along, hidden in plain sight?
All he knew was that it now belonged to Yunsu.
He would ensure it stayed that way, protecting it as if it were his own.
Thinking about Yunsu, he found himself missing her—it had already been a day since he last saw her.
Hengsheng opened his dimensional map and saw a blank spot at one location within the mountain. That was where the Tenth Heaven—and Yunsu—were.
Hengsheng had already figured out the blank spot on the dimensional map that led him to the Tenth Heaven.
The blank spot on the dimensional map was the result of the Heavenly Treasure's concealment barrier, which completely hid all traces of its presence.
No divine sense or divination method could penetrate, as if nothing existed there.
However, his dimensional map somehow countered that concealment barrier, revealing the hidden veil as a blank spot.
It was a silly flaw in a heaven-defying treasure, but he couldn’t blame it.
After all, his dimensional map wasn’t a product of this cultivation world. It was normal for such a mistake to occur when facing his system’s power.
Hengsheng wondered—what would have happened if he hadn’t found it first, but the pirates had?
A chill ran down his spine at the thought.
It would have been a disaster if those wicked pirates had gained access to unlimited resources.
Only now did he realize that eliminating the Pirate King early hadn’t just saved the millions of weak and innocent of this kingdom—it had also saved his own ass from being beat by them.