Ye Chen watched the small cauldron floating in the void.
This cauldron was palm-sized, a four-legged square cauldron with a lid tightly fastened on top.
Looking at the body of the cauldron, it was engraved with strange characters that were neither used in the Cosmic Sea nor in the other major universes, totally indecipherable.
More special was the cauldron being shrouded in a faint mist, which seemed even more mysterious than the Chaos Qi Ye Chen had absorbed.
After examining the small cauldron for a few breaths, Ye Chen pinched a spell in his hand, and unrivaled Divine Power converged towards the small cauldron, attempting to remove the lid.
Ye Chen’s current Divine Power was extraordinarily strong, yet it couldn’t even budge the lid in the slightest.
Seeing this situation, Ye Chen wasn’t discouraged but instead showed a look of realization.
"This small cauldron, from the Cosmic Emperor’s soul memories, also showed that even the Cosmic Emperor could not easily open it, let alone my current state."
"To open this cauldron, either attaining Star Lord Level combat power or, as sensed when the Cosmic Emperor first acquired this cauldron, finding three materials to open it is necessary."
"These three materials are the Absolute Divine Fire, Nine-Source Water, and Immortal Chaos Wood."
"But these three things, it’s said, can only be found within the Chaos Void. I’m afraid it won’t be easy for me to locate them anytime soon."
Ye Chen sighed for a moment before putting away the small cauldron.
This cauldron was evidently extraordinary; even if Ye Chen couldn’t open it now, obtaining such a treasure was a major gain, as it’s something countless Cosmic Emperors would vie for, indicating that something valuable is inside.
Though Ye Chen cannot currently venture to the Chaos Void to find those three materials for opening the cauldron, it doesn’t mean he won’t collect them one day in the future.
After securing the "Chaos Cauldron," Ye Chen’s gaze shifted to the "Refining God Chart" beside him.
This time, with a move of Ye Chen’s spell, the Refining God Chart was directly activated by him, and several items flew out from it.
The first item was a treasure shaped like a flower basket.
The second item was a broken blade.
The third item was seven Copper Coins.
Ye Chen drew these three items before him and, after closely observing them, began testing these treasures with Divine Power and Divine Soul.
These three items were among the many treasures found in the Cosmic Emperor’s Refining God Chart.
Moreover, these particular treasures, known as Ancient Chaos Treasures, were not specially refined by the Cosmic Emperor for use within the Primal Beginning Universe but were treasures discovered by the Cosmic Emperor there.
The Cosmic Emperor had never used these three treasures, and they contained incredible powers within.
With the Chaos Cauldron and Refining God Chart in his possession, Ye Chen dared not casually use other things from the Cosmic Emperor due to the attention of pursuing Cosmic Emperors. These three never-before-used Ancient Chaos Treasures were suitable for Ye Chen to use against his enemies.
After recognizing and thoroughly understanding the powers of these three Ancient Chaos Treasures, Ye Chen put them away instead of placing them back into the Refining God Chart.
Then, Ye Chen continued observing the other items left by the Cosmic Emperor in the Refining God Chart.
Even if it wasn’t convenient to use other things, Ye Chen first needed to understand them.
If faced with a true life-and-death crisis, he wouldn’t care about exposure or attention from other Cosmic Emperors—he would use these items when necessary.
After sitting in this realm for several days, Ye Chen finally gathered everything and left this place.
Returning to the familiar domain of the Chaos Ghost Mist, Ye Chen continued walking towards the central region of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone.
Perhaps Ye Chen spent too much time testing the Cosmic Emperor’s Refining God Chart treasures, as he encountered no other adventurers within the Chaos Ghost Mist.
Not only did he meet no one else, but Ye Chen also faced no other dangers in the mist.
Heading towards the central region, after several more days, Ye Chen eventually saw an ancient giant gate from afar.
"According to the map, entering the central domain of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone from the periphery involves passing through one giant gate after another. Passing through these gates, you officially step into the central domain of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone."
With a movement of Divine Light in his hand, the map of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone issued by Lord Emperor Xuan appeared in Ye Chen’s hand.
"The central domain area corresponding to this giant gate in the Chaos Ghost Mist is known as the ’Great Hanging Forest.’ It’s also a dangerous realm."
With a frown, Ye Chen looked at the giant gate ahead.
Unlike the periphery of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone, which contains four types of domains—safe, dangerous, death, and unknown domains—the core area has far fewer safe domains. Dangerous domains and death domains are more prevalent, and unknown domains may even appear.
As for the core innermost territory of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone, it is the Death Realm and unknown territories. Even the Cosmic Emperor would not dare to venture in recklessly, and the Divine Master Overlords and below are even less daring to enter this time.
Relatively speaking, although the central territory is more dangerous than the periphery, most people still want to venture in.
After all, the chance of finding precious treasures in the central territory is much higher than in the periphery.
Having come to the Thirteenth Chaos Zone with great difficulty, these adventurers naturally want to gain more rewards.
The "Great Hanging Forest" in front of Ye Chen is one of the dozen or so dangerous territories in the central region of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone. Although it’s not a safe region, it’s not the more terrifying Death Realm either.
Now, beside the Life-saving Scroll, Ye Chen has also refined many new treasures, significantly enhancing his strength, giving him more confidence to explore these regions.
In the earlier ventures in the outer areas, Ye Chen had already gained many good items, including the Refining God Chart and Chaos Cauldron left by the Cosmic Emperor, and three Black Extreme Ghost Flowers each worth three million rotten gold points.
Under these circumstances, Ye Chen would certainly not waste the opportunity to venture into the central region.
After a slight frown, Ye Chen strode toward the giant gate ahead, and then his figure disappeared within it, completely entering the Great Hanging Forest of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone’s central region.
The Great Hanging Forest is vast to the extreme.
The scope it covers even extends to over a dozen peripheral areas. All the giant gates in the periphery of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone lead to the Great Hanging Forest.
In a region in the eastern part of the Great Hanging Forest, Qianli Youyou was frustrated to the extreme!
"I’m just an Earth Divine Venerable, I really shouldn’t have entered the central region of the Thirteenth Chaos Zone recklessly, really shouldn’t have entered this Great Hanging Forest!"
"Knowing well that this is a dangerous realm, with dangers that even Divine Masters and Overlords might not handle, why did I risk entering?"
"It’s all because I was too lucky in the outer regions at first, directly transmitted to a safe area, and unexpectedly obtained many treasures and spirit materials, making me lose my head."
"Didn’t expect that as soon as I entered this Great Hanging Forest, I encountered such danger!"
Looking towards Qianli Youyou, one can see he is completely protected by a huge light shield, seemingly formed by the power of a scroll.
And outside the light shield, seven fearsome demon beasts resembling tigers and Tibetan mastiffs were surrounding Qianli Youyou, occasionally attacking the defensive light shield around him.
Tibetan Mastiff Beasts!
These demons, by appearance, were indeed one of the several hundred kinds of demons documented to reside within the Great Hanging Forest, known as Tibetan Mastiff Beasts.
Judging by their aura, these demons all possessed combat power at the ninth-level Divine Master level.
It’s truly Qianli Youyou’s bad luck. According to the map, Tibetan Mastiff Beasts are cavern-dwelling creatures of the Great Hanging Forest, rarely appearing in the forest. In the eastern region of the Great Hanging Forest, they are the most formidable demons, but if they don’t show up, the area is quite safe.
Who would have thought that this deliberately chosen safe route would lead Qianli Youyou to encounter Tibetan Mastiff Beasts out foraging, facing seven at once?
With seven ninth-level Divine Master beasts, Qianli Youyou absolutely had no power to contend against them.
Under such life-and-death circumstances, Qianli Youyou could only bring out his Divine Master level Life-saving Scroll.
Although Qianli Youyou’s Life-saving Scroll is also at the ninth-level Divine Master level, he knew it could not handle so many demons when facing seven ninth-level Divine Master Tibetan Mastiff Beasts.
He could only activate the defensive power of the scroll, hoping to hold on with its power.
But under these Tibetan Mastiff Beasts’ continuous attacks, the power of the Life-saving Scroll was depleting rapidly, and Qianli Youyou’s face kept turning paler.
He could feel that he could at most hold on for a few more hours before the scroll’s power would be entirely exhausted.
This was especially since these Tibetan Mastiff Beasts seemed to taunt him upon seeing the scroll being used, not attacking with full force, just slowly wearing down its power. Otherwise, if all seven beasts attacked at full strength, the scroll might shatter in the very next moment!
In such circumstances, Qianli Youyou could only pray for the scroll to last a bit longer, and hope for other powerful adventurers to come to his aid.
But what drove Qianli Youyou to the peak of despair was that, upon trying to drive the ’Spirit Communication Clasp’, he could not sense others in his team. No sign of his own team, nor any other teams.
Seeing his Life-saving Scroll nearing its limit, the more his heart sank.
Qianli Youyou suddenly noticed that the seven Tibetan Mastiff Beasts surrounding him seemed to sense something. They all turned their heads sharply to look towards a certain direction.
Qianli Youyou quickly looked in that direction.
Then, he saw a very familiar figure appearing in that territory. After glancing at the seven Tibetan Mastiff Beasts, that figure looked over at him.