Mission: Seduce the Master!

The corners of Lyu Lyu's eyes were twitching uncontrollably. She was standing on the bare ground...

The floor of the first floor of the pavilion... was missing half of it! Lyu Lyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Meanwhile, in contrast to the girl, Xie Qing looked as if he had hit the jackpot.

His spatial ring was filled with more than tens of thousands of boards. Unfortunately, Xie Qing could not obtain any more physically.

However, that was enough for him to his heart's content! So, Xie Qing was satisfied.

Lyu Lyu came to her senses, and they together went to explore the first floor. It was extremely spacious. Even after walking two kilometers, they had not reached the walls.

"Who the hell was this built for? Giants?" Xie Qing thought and, remembering about "giants," his face suddenly became strange: "By the way, speaking of giants, do they... no, dude, chill..."

Xie Qing coughed and turned his gaze to Lyu Lyu. She was leaning towards the floor and picked up something.

"This..."

The girl was looking at the black stone in surprise. It was like an ordinary guy, but black and with grayish veins that covered the entire stone.

Xie Qing analyzed it several times but did not find any interesting properties, let alone any danger.

However, damn it, where the hell did this ordinary stone come from out of nowhere?

"Keep it in a spare spatial ring. Just in case, for safety reasons, keep it away from other things!" Xie Qing said.

The cultivation world was too complex and diverse. It was possible that this stone could help them with something, but if not, Xie Qing would simply throw it away.

At his words, Lyu Lyu nodded. The stone disappeared from her hands, having been placed in an absolutely empty spatial ring.

And so, they continued their walk.

And oh, what a wonder. After three hours, they found the walls. And with it, an enormous staircase.

"Well, fuck..."

Xie Qing had expected this, but nonetheless... The staircase, as expected, was also enormous!

Each step was a hundred meters high and about a kilometer wide. And Xie Qing began to seriously wonder who the hell this was built for.

From legends, he knew of the existence of giants. They were a peculiar race that was equated with an ancient bloodline, and in most cases, they were also called Deities.

However, these were legends. But Xie Qing shuddered with excitement at the thought that he had stumbled upon a trace of the past!

"Deities! Beings that have much in common with cultivators! They can create worlds, but unfortunately, they are too bound by the rules" Xie Qing remembered the information from the textbooks.

Climbing the steps was inconvenient and long, and they could not fly. So, the carriage came to their aid.

Getting into it, they flew into the air. It took them another hour just to climb to the second floor.

Landing on the floor of the second floor, Xie Qing could see the difference. This place was more furnished.

"Judging by the looks, this was a living room," Lyu Lyu commented in surprise, looking around.

"Cabinets, tables, there are even dishes on the table. Interesting... By the way, it smells like antiquity and unwashed socks here," Xie Qing thought, looking around.

The furniture was, to put it mildly, in a battered state. It seemed that if they touched them, everything here would turn to dust.

Xie Qing did not want this at all, as it would be too much of a pity to damage the heritage of the past.

So, they took every step with the utmost care. Xie Qing carefully watched to make sure he didn't break anything.

And when they began to wander around, they found many strange things.

"This? Eh... A strange kind of flower. It's dried up, but it has mostly preserved its appearance," Lyu Lyu muttered.

"It's like a rose, a lily, and a May bug combined in one body," Xie Qing commented.

"Not a very pleasant sight..."

There were also cockroaches. Huge, damn it, cockroaches!

Of course, they had long been dead, but nonetheless, they looked no less disgusting.

The body was twenty meters wide and forty meters high, which was not something to look at.

However, even so, Xie Qing was silent, realizing that this cockroach... had cultivation!

"Core Formation stage... possibly a bit higher. It's impossible to determine accurately since it's been dead for a long time. Nevertheless, this is impressive..."

Xie Qing remembered one saying. It is said that when a mortal becomes immortal, his pigs and chickens also gain immortality.

The same thing was happening here but with a cockroach.

Of course, they did not look at the huge disgusting cockroach for a long time.

Since the room was too large, Xie Qing finally thought of using the carriage. And this really sped up the process.

"Do you sense the location of the treasure?" Lyu Lyu asked, looking out the window.

"Presumably, the top floor," Xie Qing answered, scratching his head: "Moreover, the detector has found half-functioning formations. We need to be careful"

Two hours were needed here to fly to the staircase to the third floor. Xie Qing was still impressed.

"This place is really very mysterious. I can't even guess why this pavilion is here. And how the hell did they manage to fit such a huge space here?" Xie Qing muttered.

"Well... Deities..." Lyu Lyu could only give such an answer.

"Ah... Divine nonsense... I understand you"

Xie Qing sighed. It was too hard for a mortal, let alone one as young as him, to process so much information.

He had not thought that the journey would take him so much time. Moreover, they had not encountered a security system. This was alarming.

And not in vain was Xie Qing being careful.

With a metallic clang, an enormous semi-transparent blade flew through the spot where Xie Qing's carriage and Lyu Lyu had been a second earlier.

Xie Qing had reacted in time, so they, as well as the carriage, were not harmed.

"What an old-fashioned... but dangerous trap," Lyu Lyu said nervously.

"Indeed..."

Xie Qing smiled bitterly. It was good that his reaction speed as a swordsman was good, so it was not difficult to dodge.

However,

"Strange. The entrance to the third floor seems to be destroyed?" Xie Qing thought, raising an eyebrow: "The vision says one thing, but the sixth sense is the other..."

What he saw was a staircase leading into the darkness. The vision said that there was nothing there, but the sixth sense, on the contrary, was firmly standing its ground, hinting to him the way to the treasure.

Xie Qing could only sigh. The space in which they were located was too mysterious.

However, the road of adventure led them on. It was too late to retreat.

So, with the utmost care, activating their sixth senses to the fullest, they moved forward.

Climbing the stairs, even taking into account that they were in the carriage, was a long process. Xie Qing, in such times, carefully looked around.

He noticed that the walls were made of some unknown material to him.

"By the feel, it's somewhat like immortal stone..." Xie Qing thought.

He had previously tried to get a little of the stone for research, but even his sword could not leave a scratch on the wall.

***

Finally, after three whole hours, they reached the third floor. And what they saw was too amazing.

"A huge throne room!" Lyu Lyu exclaimed in admiration, looking around.

Indeed! A throne room! It seemed as if time had stopped, and the aura of greatness of those days had been preserved in this place.

However, despite its beauty, the throne room - the walls, the floor, and the armor in the corners - looked battered. It felt as if they could turn to dust with just one touch.

A huge and long red carpet, with many holes and stains, stretched all the way to the throne, which stood on a small platform, to which three steps led.

Next to each step was a throne, but of a much smaller size. Notable was that the backrest was shorter, and the upholstery was made not of red, but of blue velvet.

"Is this some kind of tradition?" Xie Qing wondered.

"Yes. I read somewhere that among the Deities, in the royal family, it was customary to dress strictly in certain colors," Lyu Lyu said, and squinted her eyes: "Red is the color that symbolizes the king. Blue is his wife. Green is their offspring. And yellow, pink, brown, silver, and gray are the ranks of the nobles."

"Who would have thought that the Deities are also bound by the noble ranking system," Xie Qing muttered, distorting the corners of his mouth.

Xie Qing had always thought, in his representation, he had representation that the Deities were beings who were not interested in power and everything that was connected with it.

However, the fact that they had found something so historical could become a good reward. For historians, of course.

But Xie Qing was focused on something else. He had discovered that somewhere behind the throne was what he had come all this way for!

"It's there!" Xie Qing said after making a few preparations. He looked at Lyu Lyu and, with a serious expression, said: "We need to be careful"

"Understood!"

Step by step, they approached the throne. Their steps echoed, it was so quiet and deserted here.

Taking two steps forward... Xie Qing froze. He felt a slight chill run down his spine.

So, he decided to immediately tell Lyu Lyu about this.

"Something's wrong! We need to..."

However, when he turned around, Lyu Lyu was gone. The young man could not help but frown.

"Damn it!"