She looked up, only to see the plaque above the vermillion gate, emblazoned with the words ’Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage’.
The Penalty and Confiscation Vault is one of the treasuries within the Inner Palace, responsible for storing confiscated governnt assets and fine collections.
In contrast, the Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage is used for those exceptionally precious confiscated items.
Ji Qianqian’s gaze was sharp, yet held a hint of doubt.
She recalled the scene when her senior brother Xiaao Hongchen first led her into the Palace City.
Back then, she sensed that sothing within the ’Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage’ was beckoning to her.
The attraction was so intense that every ti Ji Qianqian entered the vicinity of twenty miles around the Capital City, she would resonate with that thing.
Yet Ji Qianqian had never had the chance to see what it was.
She started as a low-ranking mber of the Heavenly Jinyi Guards, and even now she was rely a small Deputy Commander, without the qualification to enter the ’Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage’.
However, she ca here not solely for the item that attracted her.
The saying goes, ’To achieve the best in one’s work, one must first sharpen one’s tools’.
She knew there were several powerful magic artifacts in the ’Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage’, ones that over the past decade, the Heavenly Jinyi Guards had confiscated from notorious criminals and river and sea bandits, and were stored there.
Among them, one weapon was particularly suitable for her, and could also help her disguise her identity.
Divine Grade relics above the Second Grade, except for those sects’ uniquely designed Sect-Protecting Magical Artifacts, are usually refined with heart’s blood, making it difficult for those not of the sa bloodline to wield them.
However, by chance in her youth, Ji Qianqian acquired a Divine Item from the Ancient Era that allows her to replace the Essence Blood imprint within an artifact, thus refining a First Grade Divine Treasure as her own.
Ji Qianqian glanced at the plaque and directly pushed open the vermillion door, stepping inside.
Due to the shifting situation, Ji Qianqian was no longer inclined to hide her figure or cover her tracks, choosing the fastest and most direct approach.
She wanted to seize the item before the turmoil at the Imperial Prison subsided, safely escape from the palace, and then find a suitable opportunity to complete her All Heavens Secret Ceremony.
The Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage had five layers.
Under usual circumstances, when Ji Qianqian entered through the main entrance, the guards would react swiftly, encircling her.
But today, there was no movent from these guards.
All of them were entrapped in Lu Chen’s dreamscape, completely unaware of Ji Qianqian’s intrusion.
Nonetheless, all the Prohibition Techniques within the Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage were fully activated.
First ca waves of mighty Thunderbolts, followed by exceptionally sharp Wind Blades, blasting towards Ji Qianqian, then countless arrows of formidable power launched from small openings in the walls from all directions, hundreds and thousands, continuously.
Ji Qianqian’s figure flickered like a phantom, leaving most Thunderbolts and Wind Blades behind.
Even if she couldn’t dodge them, Ji Qianqian was unfazed, confronting them with sheer Sword Intent.
"Eyes disregard the four seas!"
The power of those Thunderbolts and Wind Blades equaled the full-force strike of a Third Grade master. Although the arrows were slightly less powerful, they were dense like rain.
Moreover, the higher Ji Qianqian climbed, the stronger the Forbidden Technique beca.
Yet, Ji Qianqian’s Twin Blades were able to slice away and repel them, or even forcibly erase them!
Her Nine Refinents of Extre Essence Purple Gold Body emitted a layer of golden Outer Firmant. Though not as overwhelmingly potent as Chu Xisheng’s Twelve Layers of Outer Firmant, Ji Qianqian combined it with her own Invincible Blade Intent, making it extrely hard to shake.
The belief resulted, Only Invincible!
Ji Qianqian took just a few breaths to ascend unimpeded to the fourth layer. Soon, in a corner of this fourth layer, she found the item she desired.
It was a purely silver-white longbow, adorned with various fierce beast reliefs.
Including Ya Yu, Zaochi, Nine Youths, Big Wind, Feng Xi, Asura Snake, and the ’Nine Suns’ at the very center—these were the fierce beasts and gods that the Shooting God Dayi had hunted in the past.
These reliefs were imnsely mysterious, with an enchanting design, yet it had no bowstring.
In Ji Qianqian’s eyes, a strange glow appeared.
This was precisely the Divine Weapon ’No-stringed Blade Bow’ of Gong Guanghan, ranked third on the Black List.
This bow’s tier was Lower First Grade, having the bow without a string, and could split into two battle blades.
It was crafted by Gong Guanghan, who exhausted a lifeti’s savings and enlisted a great Artifact Refining master to forge it.
However, this top assassin who frightened high officials and nobles lost his forr caution, and rely two years later, he was entrapped by the Jinyi Guards.
In the past, Ji Qianqian had coveted this item but was constrained by insufficient status and rits to exchange for it.
Luckily, the Inner Palace had never found a suitable Artifact Master to dismantle it into materials, so it remained stored in the Penalty and Confiscation Special Storage.
And now—
Ji Qianqian raised her hand without hesitation, seizing it forcefully.
Prohibition Techniques here imdiately unleashed dozens of enormous Fla Dragons, scorching her with fiery breath.
The ’No-stringed Blade Bow’ resisted with all its might, instantly sprouting countless phantom arrows, bombarding Ji Qianqian.
Yet Ji Qianqian was utterly fearless.
Her golden Outer Firmant stood unwavering, braving the flas and arrows, ringing with resounding ’ding ding dong dong’ sounds as sparks burst forth.
At this mont, Ji Qianqian had already taken out a Jade Talisman with reddish-golden sheen, and crushed it with one hand.
It was evidently the Divine Grade Heavenly Gang Skill—Stealing Heaven and Changing Day!
Crafted by an Eternal God imitating a Human Clan Technique, yielding a powerful Jade Talisman!
Once this skill was unleashed, the Heavenly Rules in the vicinity were disrupted, and the ’No-stringed Blade Bow’ firing arrows fell silent.
In the blink of an eye, Ji Qianqian used her own Essence Blood Divine Soul to replace the Essence Blood imprint that ’Heavenly Shooting God Killer’ Gong Guanghan had left within the bow.
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