Chapter 764: Chapter 764 – Scepter
“Corpse?” Chen Heng frowned.
It was not a big deal to find a corpse in this place. After all, it was a relic from the past, so it was normal for there to be some remains from the past. However, this place was the Golden Palace’s core. Therefore, its identity should not be so simple for the corpses here.
Chen Heng looked forward. Golden light illuminated, and a golden throne was placed quietly before Chen Heng’s line of sight, looking exquisite. It should have been forged from gold-like metal, looking gorgeous.
A corpse sat on the throne, not knowing how long it had been dead, but it had now become a skeleton. The skeleton was wearing a tattered royal robe. Despite traces of decay on its clothes after so many years, the workmanship looked exquisite, unlike an ordinary costume.
Chen Heng glanced at it casually and soon noticed a key point. A golden scepter stood quietly in the corpse’s hand.
‘That is…’ Chen Heng was stunned, looking at the golden scepter before him, then quickly recalled.
Based on the last illusion, this was the Golden Scepter in the hands of the old king. Yet, Chen Heng didn’t expect it to be here.
‘Since the Golden Scepter was here, then...
This corpse should belong to…’ This thought flashed through Chen Heng’s mind, and his gaze focused on the corpse.
Under his gaze, the corpse was illuminating. A wave of golden threads seemed to be surging from it. An inexplicable dignity was emitting inevitably from the corpse and had not dissipated even after so many years had passed.
Chen Heng could accurately feel it. This aura was majestic and gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity as if he had met his own family. The resonance of the bloodline still existed even after so many years and was still working.
“What a pity.” Chen Heng looked at the corpse before him, feeling a little regretful.
Besides the Golden Scepter in the corpse’s hand, some other things on its body seemed to be valuable treasures. However, these treasures seemed to have withered after a long time, destroyed, and could not be used anymore.
Even this corpse’s value was not that great. Due to the huge interval, the loss of divinity was too great and could not be used anymore. It was not nutritious. Even a person like Chen Heng, who was not picky about food, would not be able to devour this.
This was such a pity. Otherwise, with this corpse’s identity when it was alive, the power contained within the corpse would most likely be significant, enough to improve Chen Heng’s bloodline a little.
‘Nonetheless, having this scepter was not bad.’ This thought flashed through Chen Heng’s mind.
He silently walked forward, took the scepter from the corpse, and held it in his hand. The Golden Scepter looked a little old, but when Chen Heng held it in his hand, a wave of the Sun’s power surged from within his body onto the golden scepter.
A faint light immediately appeared from the Golden Scepter and shone in all directions, illuminating the entire palace. The palace was initially dark with no light, but it was as bright as day now.
This was only the instinctive reaction of the Golden Scepter. Chen Heng could still feel the changes in his body when he held the scepter. The Sun’s bloodline in his body was boiling as if an inexplicable power was emerging from the Golden Scepter and blessing his body with more power. A brand new power was brewing. The power he could obtain would be considerable once it exploded.
“Not bad.” Holding the scepter in his hand, Chen Heng nodded in satisfaction.
He was aware of the scepter’s value, at least equivalent to a high-grade magic tool, which was extremely rare in the World of Gods. Moreover, this was only the current state. This scepter seemed to have been damaged back then. As a result, its power was not complete and had not fully recovered.
It would slowly be nourished by the Sun’s power after some time, allowing it to recover fully. There would perhaps be more surprises by then.
From its looks, this Golden Scepter should have been a keepsake of inheritance even during the Sun Empire’s heyday, when only the king could have it. Yet, unfortunately, it was lost in this ruin. It was just that he did not know which king of the Sun Empire had fallen here.
Chen Heng thought as he turned to the side and carefully examined the other corpses. Other than the king’s corpse, other corpses were scattered around, and all should be from the royal family.
In the past, when the Sun Empire was at its peak, the royal family were the only people who could approach the King of the Sun. An ordinary person would be unable to withstand it if he came before the King of the Sun. Even his eyes would immediately be ignited by the divine fire and turn into a pile of ashes.
However, although he was a royal, the corpses around him were not from the Sun Royal Family. Instead, there were all kinds of royal bloodlines. One of them even had the bloodline of the Violet Royal Family, which was not inferior to Chen Heng himself.
Chen Heng could not help but feel a little regretful that so many royal family members had died here. It was a pity that these royal family members’ corpses could not be used anymore after such a long time but only had some collectible value.
Chen Heng did not care about these corpses’ existence. Instead, he continued to move forward. However, unfortunately, there was still a path behind this hall. Contrary to Chen Heng’s expectations, even he could not enter the next path.
There was a golden gate, looking similar to the Golden Palace’s Golden Gate in the outside world, but it was smaller and much more exquisite. However, it was far more powerful than the forbidden power in the Golden Palace. Chen Heng could not help but frown. It was the primogenitor.
He felt a holy aura before this golden gate, carrying a power similar to the Sun’s bloodline. The only holy power that could undoubtedly exist in this world and was related to the Sun’s bloodline was only the legendary God of the Sun.
In the legend, the God of the Sun had fallen into a deep sleep in ancient times. Then, his body turned into the sun and illuminated the entire world. Then, he faced the Silver Moon that the God of the Silver Moon transformed. Together, they were some of the strongest Heavenly Gods in this world.
This gate had traces suspected to be left behind by the God of the Sun.
‘Was there anything related to the God of Sun behind this gate?’ This thought could not help but flash through Chen Heng’s mind as he stood outside the gate.
The God of the Sun was the world’s top primogenitor. In terms of level, he was probably not inferior to a high-level God like the God of Shadow. Things left behind by such an existence were not something Chen Heng could covet, let alone those people from the King’s Council. Hence, it was not strange that the people from the King’s Council could not enter this golden palace.
Chen Heng moved forward, activating the Sun’s bloodline in his body to resonate with the golden gate, attempting to use the Sun’s bloodline as the key to enter.
Sensing the Sun’s bloodline in his body, the Golden Gate began to glow slowly, and its patterns began to change gradually. Finally, a complicated and mysterious mark began to appear, engraved on it, appearing somewhat mysterious. A vast majesty spread invisibly as if a Heaven God was descending. It worked but was not enough.
When Chen Heng activated the Sun’s bloodline in his body, he could feel the golden gate’s response before him, but there was still a long way to go before he could open this golden gate. Just his bloodline level was not enough to open this gate. He needed a higher level of bloodline authority.
Chen Heng gave up on trying after realizing this, but there was no other way. His current power could not break through the method left behind by the primogenitor, so he could only enter according to the method given by the other party. Furthermore, the method should be simple to enter this gate, as long as there was enough bloodline concentration.
After experiencing several upgrades, Chen Heng’s current bloodline was not inferior to that of a pure direct descendant of the royal family. However, even if the former direct descendant prince of the Sun Empire came, his bloodline might not be better than Chen Heng at this moment. This was undoubtedly not enough before the primogenitor. It still needed to be higher.
‘Seems like I won’t need to think about it for a short time.’ Chen Heng thought, “But after that experiment is completed, I can come back and try again.”
According to Chen Heng’s deduction, as long as the King’s Council’s experiment was completed, there should be another huge upgrade for his bloodline. When that time came, perhaps the density of his bloodline would meet the conditions to open this gate, though it might still not be enough.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Heng turned around and left. Before leaving, he had ransacked this golden palace and almost taken everything with him. That kind of skillful action made people dumbfounded and moved. He came empty-handed but left with so much harvest, which resulted only after a few days.
Chen Heng believed that he would be able to find more things if he had more time to stay. Yet, unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time. Based on his calculation, he had already delayed quite a bit from Jameson’s proposed timeline. It would be hard to explain if he continued to delay. Thus, he left the gods’ graveyard and returned to the World of Gods.
No one seemed to have noticed his departure. In the City of the Sun, everything in the original place fell into silence again with Chen Heng’s departure, as if nothing had changed. Only occasionally, some inexplicable voices could be heard in the Golden Palace.
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Early in the morning, the sun illuminated brightly.
Chen Heng rode to the town, where he met Jameson. The town was as it had been before, shrouded in a mist that obscured its view. A bonfire was burning in the center of the town, emitting an invisible force, sustaining the town’s existence and dispelling the fog outside.
“Kling, you’re here.” Jameson looked at Chen Heng, walking towards him from the outside world with a smile, “You’re very late.”
“I’m sorry.” Chen Heng bowed apologetically and said to Jameson, “I had some private matters on hand and accidentally delayed, so I came a little late.”
“It’s about that Grissom guy, right?” Jameson smiled at Chen Heng’s explanation and said directly.
Chen Heng was shocked when he heard and met Jameson’s kind gaze, then he finally nodded, “Indeed. Before I left the minaret, I tried experimenting on Mr. Grissom, hoping to help him solve his problem, resulting in the delay.”
“Did the experiment fail?” Jameson asked.
Chen Heng did not speak but remained silent. Then, he lowered his head and tacitly agreed.
Jameson shook his head and continued looking at his appearance, “There’s no need for that. I roughly understand what happened between the two of you. To a certain extent, Grissom can be considered one of your kin. So it’s only normal for you two to form a friendship.
As for the experiment’s failure, there’s no need to be sad. Even if you don’t carry an experiment on him, it’ll still be difficult for him to survive these few years. So, you’re just helping him get out in advance.” He spoke softly as he looked at Chen Heng, who had his head lowered and consoled him.
From its looks, he had a pretty good grasp of the minaret’s intelligence and already knew what Chen Heng had done there. Nonetheless, this was also related to the fact that Chen Heng did not want to hide it from the beginning.
Jameson did not care about what Chen Heng had done. In his opinion, it was perfectly normal for Grissom’s experiment to fail. When Grissom had just gotten into trouble, all the researchers in the King’s Council had studied his problem and tried to come up with some solutions. However, these solutions proved to be ineffective in the end.
Jameson was not confident that Chen Heng could do something that the King’s Council could not do on his own. Therefore, failure was only normal. However, he still comforted Chen Heng, saying this was not his problem.
“Speaking of which, Grissom was also my friend back then. He was once someone who had hopes of becoming a member of the Council.” Jameson’s face was filled with regret as he mentioned Grissom, and he could not help but say, “The reason why he became like this is precisely because of the failure of the Saint Child Plan.”
“Now, Kling, you will also participate in this experiment.” He could not help but pause. Then, he looked at Chen Heng before him and said seriously, “After seeing Grissom’s ending, are you still willing to participate in the Saint Child experiment? If not, it’s still not too late to regret now.” Again, he said, looking at Chen Heng.