The Heavenly Position Imperial Decree and the Heavenly Position Sarira were both genuine. However, these two items were merely a facade, designed to make the outside world believe that these two treasures were the core of the Glazed Pagoda.
In truth, the true core of the Glazed Pagoda was obviously hundreds of times more valuable than these two items.
Although Lord Tiankun had not stated it outright, his tone had made it abundantly clear — the builder of the Glazed Pagoda possessed strength that absolutely surpassed the Heavenly Position realm.
That being the case, the true secret of the Glazed Pagoda was certainly not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
"Who would have thought that the secret of the Glazed Pagoda — what everyone has seen over the past hundred thousand years — was all merely superficial. The real secret has never surfaced at all!"
Jiang Chen sighed inwardly, though he felt this was only logical.
If the secret of the Glazed Pagoda had been exposed early on, the Glazed Pagoda would likely not have been able to stand for over a hundred thousand years without falling.
Setting aside everything else, even those hidden powerhouses of the Myriad Abyss Island who had surpassed the Great Emperor realm — if they learned that the Glazed Pagoda contained secrets surpassing the Heavenly Position level, they would absolutely come charging in at any cost.
However, the Heavenly Position Imperial Decree and the Heavenly Position Sarira alone were not attractive enough to the hidden powerhouses of the Myriad Abyss Island.
The Myriad Abyss Island was home to descendants of the ancient era. Throughout their long inheritance, Heavenly Position powerhouses were not rare there. A single Heavenly Position Imperial Decree held little appeal for the hidden powerhouses of the Myriad Abyss Island.
A Heavenly Position powerhouse could be achieved in two ways. The first was by cultivating one's own martial dao, comprehending the Heavenly Dao, and refining one's own Heavenly Position Imperial Decree.
The second path was to refine someone else's Heavenly Position Imperial Decree. However, refining another's Heavenly Position Imperial Decree meant there was no possibility of further progress for the rest of one's life.
Therefore, any powerhouse with ambition would absolutely never refine someone else's Heavenly Position Imperial Decree.
Only those Great Emperor powerhouses who knew they had no hope of advancing but whose lifespan was about to run out would regard the Heavenly Position Imperial Decree as a supreme treasure.
This was why the Heavenly Position Imperial Decree and the Heavenly Position Sarira on the Glazed Pagoda had remained intact all this time.
It was not that there had been no ambitious individuals, but those who eyed the Heavenly Position Imperial Decree and the Heavenly Position Sarira covetously simply could not enter the Glazed Pagoda.
The moment they set foot into the forbidden zone, they would be madly attacked by the terrifying restrictions inside the Glazed Pagoda.
Nearly every thirty to fifty years, some moth-to-flame ambitious soul would perish inside the Glazed Pagoda, and eventually, the entire human domain came to know that the Glazed Pagoda could not be forcibly breached.
Gradually, such incidents became fewer and fewer.
The Heavenly Position Imperial Decree was certainly tempting, but after over a hundred thousand years, it still sat safely within the Glazed Pagoda. What did that prove?
It proved that this item simply could not be obtained. Otherwise, it would have been snatched away long ago.
Even the successive Great Emperors of the Glazed Royal City — even a top powerhouse like the Peacock Great Emperor — would not have been able to obtain the Heavenly Position Imperial Decree, even on the day their lifespan ran out.
Because they, too, could not enter the Glazed Pagoda.
The restrictions of the Glazed Pagoda treated insiders and outsiders alike. Except for the once-every-sixty-years opening of the Glazed Pagoda, at all other times, whoever entered would be attacked by the restrictions.
Of course, Jiang Chen's situation was now different. He had entered the Six Palaces of Inheritance and obtained the Space-Time Seal, which meant he had already earned half the qualifications of a master.
Therefore, for the time being, he could enter at any time without issue.
But the prerequisite was that he had to possess the Space-Time Seal.
"Boy, safeguard your Space-Time Seal. Do not let it fall into the hands of those with impure intentions. Also, the Kunpeng bloodline I have given you — use it wisely."
Jiang Chen asked curiously, "Do these three drops of Kunpeng bloodline carry any special significance?"
"No particular significance. It was simply part of the wager between myself and the master of the Glazed Pagoda. However, each drop of Kunpeng bloodline can create a Heavenly Position powerhouse. This is Heavenly Position bloodline! Given the current weakness of the human race, you must use these three drops wisely. One day, when you become the master of the Glazed Pagoda, you will naturally need your own team and your own heritage of power. Therefore, you may use these three drops to recruit soldiers and buy support, to win the loyalty of followers and personal guards — or you may keep them to bestow upon your disciples and followers in the future. My advice to you can be summed up in four words: better to lack than to overuse!"
Better to lack than to overuse.
Jiang Chen pondered this and gained some understanding.
This was Heavenly Position bloodline. Any single drop placed within the human domain would inevitably trigger a bloody, violent struggle. For the sake of this Heavenly Position bloodline, any manner of human ugliness and depravity could come to pass.
Therefore, Lord Tiankun's words were undoubtedly a warning: he must choose his people carefully, and must not let those with ambition and impure intentions learn of this.
Otherwise, this bloodline might bring about his own destruction.
"There seems to be a bloodline power within you, boy, that is not inferior to the Kunpeng bloodline. This greatly surprises me. However, one can never have too much bloodline power. The physique of the human race is relatively weak — even extremely weak — among the ancient races. But the human physique has one advantage: its compatibility is exceptional. Any bloodline can be integrated by the human physique. In terms of bloodline compatibility, the human race is absolutely among the very best of all the ancient races."
The human race, as a species that could survive across the Myriad Heavens Planes, was not particularly powerful, yet it could thrive in every plane — all because this race possessed extraordinary bloodline fusion capability and incredibly tenacious bloodline power. Therefore, no matter how adverse the circumstances, they could always survive tenaciously.
Even as their bloodlines continued to merge, the lineage of humanity endured on without end.