"Indeed, with such aptitude, perhaps you truly are capable of reviving the splendor of the Heavenly Soldier Su family of the past."
Chu Fengmian looked at Su He and spoke with a smile.
His relationship with the Heavenly Soldier Su family back then was quite good, and seeing the decline of the family now left Chu Fengmian a bit wistful.
Nonetheless, Su He’s talent was considered extremely outstanding among the family heads of the Heavenly Soldier Su family throughout the generations.
"Come, I’ll take you to a place."
Chu Fengmian looked at Su He, his eyes flickering, and suddenly he spoke as if recalling something.
Su He stood up and quickly packed up her things, ready to leave.
Su He would execute Chu Fengmian’s words without any doubt.
If Chu Fengmian wanted to harm her, he could have had enough opportunities to do so countless times before; moreover, with Chu Fengmian’s current strength, squeezing her to death would be as easy as killing an ant.
However, Chu Fengmian passed on the art of forging to her, enabling her to become a master of artifact refining, which was undoubtedly far more powerful than her arduous practice of martial arts.
Thus, there was no need for her to question him.
The two left the cave and flew all the way in one direction.
Along the way, Chu Fengmian was walking and stopping as if searching for something.
Gradually, the surroundings became filled with barren mountains rarely seen by people, with no trace of human presence, and were extremely desolate.
No martial artist was willing to set foot in this place.
Gradually, at the end of the mountain range, there appeared a mist-covered peak.
When Chu Fengmian and Su He stepped into it, suddenly the surrounding space began to swirl, revealing a dense white mist before them.
This mist was unfathomable, and looking into it, one could not see what lay behind.
"Senior, what is this place?"
Su He scrutinized their surroundings and couldn’t help but look toward Chu Fengmian.
This peak was evidently quite eerie, and the two of them seemed to have been walking in place, like a maze of sorts.
This left Su He curious as to why Chu Fengmian had brought her to such a place.
"This is a holy land of the Heavenly Soldier Su family from the past. Although the Su family was destroyed, this place should have remained."
Chu Fengmian spoke without lifting his head, his eyes still scanning the surroundings, as if probing for something.
"A holy land of our Su family?"
Su He was bewildered, gazing at the countless balloons of white mist, yet to voice her confusion again.
Suddenly, Chu Fengmian gathered spiritual power and forcefully struck forward with his palm, dispersing all the white mist around them.
Before them appeared a giant bronze door, exuding an ancient aura, untouched for at least ten thousand years.
"Drip your blood on the door."
Chu Fengmian looked at Su He and spoke.
Su He nodded, stepping forward, and with a move of spiritual power, she cut open a slit on her finger.
A drop of blood flicked from Su He’s fingertip onto the bronze door.
Under this drop of blood, countless ancient runes condensed on the bronze door, containing a power even Chu Fengmian could not break.
This bronze door was a masterpiece of the Heavenly Soldier Su family, far beyond the strength of heavenly spiritual artifacts, imperceptible even to beings that surpassed life and death.
Only a disciple of the Su family could open it, no one else could enter.
As the myriad runes solidified, the bronze door opened slowly.
Chu Fengmian and Su He stepped inside, and immediately upon entering, Chu Fengmian saw behind the bronze door a vast courtyard.
There were at least a hundred palaces within; the largest palace housed an underground fire that erupted suddenly, with a towering furnace as high as ten people above.
The underground fire was contained within this enormous furnace, upon which nine massive dragon heads were carved, each lifelike and indistinguishable from a real dragon head.
"The Nine Dragons Cauldron, this treasure is indeed here, untouched by the Seven Great Sects!"
Upon seeing the Nine Dragons Cauldron, Chu Fengmian couldn’t help but sigh. This cauldron, the ultimate treasure of the Heavenly Soldier Su family, though not an ultimate Immortal Soldier, held value no less than one.
Virtually all the renowned spiritual artifacts refined by the Heavenly Soldier Su family came from this Nine Dragons Cauldron. The three most important aspects of refining a spiritual artifact: the material, the artifact refiner, and the furnace.
The Nine Dragons Cauldron was the most perfect kind of furnace for refining spiritual artifacts, without which the Heavenly Soldier Su family would not have been what it was.
Though the Seven Great Sects destroyed the Su family and obtained the art of artifact refining, none in the Nine Domains created a second Heavenly Soldier Su family.
What was missing was this Nine Dragons Cauldron.
"Is this where our Su family’s holy land used to be?"
Su He surveyed everything around, her gaze filled with profound shock.
The hundreds of palaces were more magnificent than the Wang family of old, especially the warehouses, filled with artifact refining materials, wealth beyond imagination.
"Indeed, this is one of your Su family’s holy lands."
Chu Fengmian looked at Su He’s astonished expression and couldn’t help but sigh.
Though Su He was a descendant of the Su family, she wasn’t aware of what the family’s former glory looked like, which surpassed any imaginable splendor.
The Su family of old had dozens upon dozens of holy lands, some even grander and more glorious than this.
But those holy lands likely fell into the hands of the Seven Great Sects long ago, leaving none behind.
Only this one, this holy land, remained unknown even to most of the Su family disciples.
Chu Fengmian had discovered it silently back then, and even he would’ve been ignorant of another holy land of the Su family.
"Here, you can thoroughly pursue your path of artifact refining. There’s an endless supply of materials for you to use."
Chu Fengmian looked at Su He and spoke.
"This way, I can leave without worry."