Not long after, the bronze ancient door suddenly trembled. Then, the star map on the bronze ancient door connected, and everyone present felt a moment of dizziness. Soon, the bronze ancient door disappeared, and a mirror-like surface, resembling ripples on water, appeared before them.
"Alright, I've broken the formation."
Ning Beichen remained very calm, as he had seen plenty of such things in the Grotto-heavens and Blessed Lands of his own world. He wondered if this place was a Grotto-heaven or Blessed Land.
Although Ning Beichen had sensed the palace beneath the desert through the sand demon's heart and naturally assumed it was the sand demon's palace, he was now beginning to doubt it.
Unless the sand demon knew formations, it wouldn't have been able to enter this place.
However, regardless of his guesses, he would know once he went in to take a look.
As for Yang Qianrou and the others, this was their first time seeing something like this, and they couldn't help but feel nervous and afraid. Staring at the water-ripple-like mirror, they didn't know what to do.
At this moment, Ning Beichen took the lead and stepped into the water ripples. After a ripple, Ning Beichen disappeared without a trace.
Yang Qianrou and the others exchanged glances and also entered the water ripples.
Yang Qianrou and the others experienced a discomfort akin to weightlessness, but this discomfort quickly disappeared, and they found themselves in a grand hall. Ning Beichen was already in front of them.
Ning Beichen was admiring the palace's architectural style. It was very peculiar, somewhat resembling the ancient Chinese imperial palace architecture of his world, but with significant differences. Only a small portion was similar.
"Did people from his world build this place?"
Ning Beichen couldn't help but think.
"Heavens! This is the ancestral inheritance land!"
Those who followed Ning Beichen into the palace became excited upon seeing the place.
"The ancestral inheritance land?"
Ning Beichen was somewhat surprised upon hearing their conversation.
"Don't you say you know this is the ancestral inheritance land?"
Ning Beichen asked them.
"Although we haven't been to an inheritance land, people who have emerged from inheritance lands have described the situation. The architectural style they spoke of is just like this place," Yang Qianrou said to Ning Beichen.
"Then it seems this is another, undiscovered ancestral inheritance land," Ning Beichen analyzed after listening to her.
"That's likely the case. Those who emerged from the ancestral land trials never mentioned that there was an inheritance land beneath the desert. It seems we are the first to come here."
Yang Qianrou and the others were very excited.
This was because the items in the already discovered inheritance lands had essentially been taken by others. Even if they went there, they might not find anything. However, this was an undiscovered inheritance land, so how could they not be excited?
As Ning Beichen explored the palace, he felt increasingly strange because the traces left behind were too familiar to him.
If it weren't for the presence of Yang Qianrou and the others beside him, Ning Beichen would have thought he was still in his own world.
"It's a heritage stone."
After everyone entered one of the palace's rooms, Yang Qianrou and the others excitedly pointed at a pile of jade stones placed in front of them and shouted.
Ning Beichen, however, heard about heritage stones for the first time. He walked over and picked up a heritage stone to examine it. Although Yang Qianrou and the others' eyes were fixed on the heritage stones, they dared not approach them without Ning Beichen's permission.
"Isn't this just ancient jade used to impart cultivation techniques?"
Ning Beichen was naturally no stranger to this. He had found quite a few of them in the Grotto-heavens and Blessed Lands of his own world.
However, these heritage jade stones usually didn't contain anything too profound. He wondered about the quality of those here.
Ning Beichen picked up a heritage jade stone, placed it in his palm, and used his spiritual power to interact with it. Following that, a sword technique appeared in Ning Beichen's mind.
"Azure Frost Swordplay."
A complete sword technique appeared in Ning Beichen's mind, along with images of the original owner performing it.
Ning Beichen memorized it after watching it once. However, the Azure Frost Swordplay was very ordinary, at least for Ning Beichen. It was completely incomparable to his Songshan Sword Art.
Moreover, the Azure Frost Swordplay existed in his world, and could even be found on the internet. It was common stuff, not a rare sword technique.
It was just that in his world, there were very few people who knew martial arts, and even fewer who possessed internal energy. Unlike this world, where people were blessed by nature and almost everyone cultivated.
After Ning Beichen used the heritage stone, the stone in his hand immediately turned to dust, rendering it unusable for repeated use.
Ning Beichen then picked up another heritage jade stone and interacted with it using his spiritual power.
This time, it was also a cultivation technique. The name of the technique was Eighteen Falls of Touching Clothes. Ning Beichen was also very familiar with it, and he had even practiced it before.
However, the Eighteen Falls of Touching Clothes recorded in the heritage jade stone was much more complete than the one he had previously practiced, and it also included a secret circulation route for true qi.
After Ning Beichen finished reading, he immediately supplemented his previously learned Eighteen Falls of Touching Clothes, and its power greatly increased.
However, after looking at two or three heritage jade stones, Ning Beichen lost interest. These were all mortal martial arts below the Mortal Transformation realm, and they were of no use to Ning Beichen.
"You all come and choose. Each of you select a few heritage jade stones," Ning Beichen said to Yang Qianrou and the others behind him.
"Thank you, Captain."
Yang Qianrou and the others said with extreme excitement.
In fact, as the captain, Ning Beichen had killed all the Golden Scale Beasts and brought them into the ancestral land for trials. He had already shown them immense kindness.
Even if Ning Beichen had kept all these heritage jade stones for himself and left none for them, they would have had no complaints.
Little did they know that Ning Beichen wasn't being generous; he simply didn't care for these heritage jade stones. If these heritage jade stones were truly valuable, Ning Beichen wouldn't have been so generous.
While everyone was selecting heritage jade stones, Ning Beichen began to survey the surroundings. He discovered that although there were many items here, they were all below the Mortal Transformation realm.
It wasn't that these items weren't precious.
If Ning Beichen still had the cultivation of a Grandmaster, these items would have been very useful to him.
However, he was now at the Mortal Transformation realm, and these items were dispensable "chicken ribs" to him, so he naturally didn't care for them.
"People in this world call this place the ancestral land. What is an ancestor? It naturally refers to the ancestor of the forebears, the ancestor of the progenitors. Could it be that this world was originally created or established by people from his original world who came here?"
Ning Beichen pondered in his mind, as he had found too many things related to his own world in this world. In other words, it was both strange and familiar.
Therefore, Ning Beichen became even more curious about the Central Continent and was determined to go and see it.