Soul Emperor Awakening

"You want to buy our maps? It’s not that we’re unwilling to sell, but they’re useless. You still want to buy them to study them? Have you figured something out?" Liao Yuan said in a low voice. He wasn’t so naive. Most people would be thrilled to have someone buy their trash, but they weren’t most people.

Taking them back to study was one thing, but they’d already been judged as worthless. Spending money to research them meant you were either a fool or you had figured something out. They certainly didn’t think he was buying them for a collection; they had zero value as collectibles. They weren’t some precious artifacts, just useless maps.

Zhang Bin watched Lin Xuan with great interest, curious to see how he would respond. They weren’t short on money. They figured Lin Xuan couldn’t offer a very high price anyway. For a piece of junk, he might offer a few hundred or maybe a thousand Primordial Stones, an amount they had absolutely no interest in. They’d rather take the maps home to prop up a wobbly table.

And if he did offer an extremely high price, that would only make them more suspicious that Lin Xuan had figured something out.

"Alright, you caught me. I did figure something out!" Lin Xuan admitted frankly. "But you can only see it if you have all three maps together. Why don’t you give them to me? My cultivation is the lowest; I definitely can’t get away."

He was so blunt, his answer was rather unexpected. They thought he would try to cover it up or make some excuse, but instead, he admitted it directly.

"All three maps together... That’s a possibility. In that case, I’ll give you mine first. Here, give it a try." Zhang Bin was quite agreeable. After all, they hadn’t found anything so far, but all three maps together might be different. They had only ever looked at them individually. Perhaps putting them together would reveal another path.

After he spoke, Zhang Bin glanced over at the Liao Brothers to see how they would respond.

The Liao Brothers hesitated for a moment before tossing their map to Lin Xuan. Since they couldn’t figure anything out, they might as well let the one with the lowest cultivation give it a try. With his Low Cultivation, they weren’t worried about Lin Xuan escaping their grasp. Sometimes, the person with the lowest cultivation was the one who could be trusted with the most, precisely because they were so easily overlooked.

"Thank you both for trusting me. I’ll try piecing these maps together now and see if I can figure anything out." Lin Xuan smiled, taking the three maps and laying them out on the ground. Everyone stared intently at the maps. What effect would piecing the three maps together have?

The moment he pieced the three maps together, they began to emit a faint golden glow. The map, originally in three pieces, now started to fuse, becoming a single, whole entity!

In that instant, Lin Xuan suddenly grabbed Wei Song from beside him and sprinted toward a nearby corner without the slightest hesitation. No one had time to process what was happening. The map hadn’t even fully merged, so why had Lin Xuan run? ’Could it be that something is about to happen?’

Sure enough, once the map finished merging, a beam of light suddenly erupted from it. It shot in the direction Lin Xuan had run, slamming heavily onto the ground. In the blink of an eye, a Teleportation Array materialized. By that time, Lin Xuan had already dragged Wei Song into it, and before anyone could react, they had vanished from sight.

"Damn it, we’ve been played! That kid didn’t just ’figure something out’—he knew exactly what was happening the whole time!" Zhang Bin cursed, quickly leading his people to charge into the Teleportation Array. Fortunately, the array wasn’t a one-time use, otherwise they would have been in a murderous rage.

Before they even reached the Teleportation Array, two figures shot past them into it, disappearing from sight. As assassins, the Liao Brothers were astonishingly fast, entering the Teleportation Array even before them!

"Damn it, those two bastards are fast! Hurry and catch up!" Zhang Bin cursed again. The further behind they were, the less likely they were to find anything good.

None of them had expected to be played, and so ruthlessly, by a kid with the lowest cultivation! If they had actually sold the maps, they would have truly given this opportunity away.

As they all vanished into the Teleportation Array, a red figure emerged from a corner at the edge of the Demon Fox Ruins. "They actually pieced the map together and entered the location of the Secret Treasure," the figure said anxiously. "This is a disaster. I must hurry back and inform the Fox King!" With that, the figure disappeared on the spot to report the news.

「Meanwhile」 The moment Lin Xuan emerged from the Teleportation Array, he was already dragging Wei Song forward at an astonishing speed. He had activated his Cyan Cloud Step, unleashing his Elemental Power to its fullest without a shred of hesitation.

"Keep up with me!" Lin Xuan urged, his eyes constantly scanning their surroundings. They were in an underground passage, but every tunnel held treasures. To put it simply, this place was a genuine vault!

Along the way, he could see rooms displaying Weapons and even Elixir Pills, but he completely ignored them, heading straight for the correct path! This place was exactly as the map had shown, indicating where each room was without the slightest deviation.

This was the true continuation of the map. It could only be accessed through a Teleportation Array, and the three maps had to be merged to serve as the key.

"B-Brother Lin, how did you know that piecing the three maps together would activate a Teleportation Array?" Wei Song had yet to recover from his shock. It had all happened too suddenly.

"I just gave it a shot. Who knew it would actually work?" Lin Xuan said in a low voice. "Don’t think about it too much, just follow me. If we’re slow, they’ll catch up." His eyes flickered, searching for the one true path.

Of course, he hadn’t just "given it a shot." How could a random guess reveal the true Teleportation Array? He had sprinted to the array’s location before it had even activated. Anyone who wasn’t a fool would realize he already knew its position.

He knew the location because he had his memories, which was far more direct than relying on a map. The map didn’t indicate a precise spot, but his memory was different—it laid out the entire situation perfectly.

Lin Xuan wasn’t afraid of exposing himself; what they thought was their own business. If he had been any slower, things would have become very troublesome. The others would have gotten there first, making it impossible for them to enter. They might have even been killed. Therefore, being the first one in gave him the biggest advantage.

Initially, he had wanted to buy the maps and activate them after the others left. But they would never have sold. A low price was out of the question, and a high price was even more impossible. If he couldn’t give them a reason, they would have just turned and left. Then, without the maps, he wouldn’t be able to open this place, which would mean wasting a perfectly good opportunity.

"It’s right ahead—the Treasure Chamber of the Demon Fox Race!" Lin Xuan’s eyes lit up. He was finally going to see the Secret Treasure of the Demon Fox Race!