Chapter 680: The Azure Wave Lamp
For an enchanted tool like the Azure Wave Lamp, ranked sixty-seventh in the Catalog of the Mortal World's Ten Thousand Treasures, there was no concern about not knowing how to use it. Chu Liang just needed to search through the books in the Hall of Conservation, and he would naturally develop an understanding of the lamp's powers.
Chu Liang did not rush to test out the lamp. Instead, he continued to see what else the two demons had kept in the storage bag.
He pulled out two weapons. They looked quite old, but they were made of pretty good materials. However, their age could not be overlooked; the craftsmanship showed that the swordsmithing techniques that had been used to make them were very outdated. In terms of quality, they were worth only a few hundred sword coins.
As the years passed by, cultivators continued to make progress in many aspects of the immortality cultivation world, such as divine techniques, arts, and skills, pills, alchemical cauldrons, enchanted formations, enchanted tools, and so on. That was why ancient enchanted tools were often inferior to those of the present.
There were exceptions to that. Many of the famous legendary artifacts were very old too, but that was because they had likely fallen from the heavens during the ancient times or even earlier, rather than having been crafted by mortal hands. That was why they were superior to modern ones.
Another exception was ancient enchanted tools that had been made with rare materials that had since become unavailable, making it impossible to reproduce an enchanted tool of the same quality or above.
As for ordinary ancient weapons like these, only the demons of the Far West would still use them. There was only one reason for that—the demons were poor.
Aside from the weapons, there were a few jade slips. Some simple but unusual breathing techniques had been recorded on them. These were likely part of the demons' cultivation legacy, which appeared rudimentary by human standards.
There was only one item in the storage bag that seemed potentially useful—a map.
The map had been drawn on animal hide using black ink. Certain locations had been marked in blood-red ink, accompanied by simple symbols.
Wen Yulong examined the map briefly and recognized the eight marked locations: the Verdant Foxhills, the Great Marshlands, the Desolate Plains, the Abyss of Wrath, the Mount Thunder, the Frostveil Tundra, the Emerald Forest, and the Temple of the Demon God.