Reincarnation: The Soul of Dashul

"You...you...you...what kind of monster are you?"

At the entrance of the Artifact Hall in the Crystal Palace, the guardian gargoyle was utterly astonished. It was the soul of a level ten magical beast, and now, looking at the gray-robed mage before it, it felt itself trembling slightly for some reason.

"I already told you I have the special access mark granted by the librarian, but you still don't believe me!"

Leido didn't care. His Yuan Shi had already spread out, but there were very powerful restrictions in the Artifact Hall, so the Yuan Shi only had an effective range of less than ten meters, much smaller than when he was in the Library.

"Even with passage marks... it's impossible to push open the gate with just brute force, right? This weighs tens of thousands of pounds... is this even human?"

The gargoyle couldn't attack people with the pass mark. In fact, it had known all along that Leido had the pass mark, but it was so angry with Leido from the beginning that it deliberately made things difficult for Leido, but it could only talk the talk.

"It's your fault for not knowing the incantation to open the door. I was just... doing my duty, that's all!"

Unexpectedly, Leido did not play by the rules. When a normal person sees such an incredibly heavy door, with a guardian beast guarding it, what lunatic would directly try to push the door open using the most primitive method?

"Then you can guard the gate properly!" Leido's attention was already drawn to the interior of the artifact hall. Too lazy to waste any more words with the guarding monster, he casually tossed out a sentence and strode into the artifact hall, the wooden door closing automatically behind him.

Leido looked around and was stunned. He had thought that the Crystal Palace's artifact hall was the treasure trove of the entire Mount Everest Magic Academy and should be an ancient magic temple, but it was not like that at all.

Before him was a very spacious vaulted hall, decorated in a very simple style, without any ornaments. The walls, floor and ceiling were seamlessly integrated, and were ingeniously divided into countless closely connected transparent frames.

All the magic frames are the same size, each a cube with a side length of one meter. They are arranged neatly and orderly, looking like a huge glowing honeycomb, which is quite spectacular. Each frame contains an object, which is displayed in an orderly manner.

The entire hall has only one walkway at Leido's feet. It's like a suspended magic carpet that stretches from the entrance to the wall directly opposite. If you walk from one end to the other, you can see all the frames in the museum.

"There must be more than ten thousand items in this collection, right? They didn't even distinguish between magical artifacts and demonic artifacts... Are they deliberately trying to confuse people?" At first glance, all Leido saw were square frames, and he couldn't tell which items were magical artifacts and which were demonic artifacts.

Suddenly, hundreds of transparent frames flew out abruptly, intertwining haphazardly in the air like shooting stars leaving trails of light in the night sky. They then flew to different positions and embedded themselves into the six walls once again.

Only then did Leido realize that the frames were not fixed, but rather thousands of floating magical display cases. Under the control of magic, their order was automatically rearranged from time to time. It was a very tight protection system, and even the curators probably didn't know the exact location of a certain magical artifact.

Like the library, the artifact gallery was also perpetually illuminated by a magical glow. The transparent frames shimmered with iridescent light, making each artifact exceptionally bright, yet strangely blurry. Ledo was never able to make out the shapes of these artifacts.

"Such powerful interference restrictions, it's impossible to see these objects clearly! That's... the Iberian Lamp?" Leido finally spotted a familiar object, but the lamp's shape was extremely blurry. If Leido hadn't seen it before, he certainly wouldn't have recognized it.

When he first entered, Leido wanted to use his Yuan-Sense to scan all the artifacts and then use the Mountain and Sea Compendium to identify them all. However, each frame was protected by a powerful magical restriction, which severely interfered with his Yuan-Sense exploration, making it impossible for him to clearly detect any of the magical artifacts.

Even with the naked eye, some kind of magical mist was interfering, making it impossible for Leido to see the full appearance of the objects in the frame. As a result, the Mountain and Sea Compendium could not identify its information. He even tried the Echo Technique, but the energy waves were absorbed by the frame and could not be reflected back.

"Holy crap... isn't this what people mean when they say it takes three days to pick a lock yourself? Let alone a thief? How did those human-corpse puppets manage to steal the Angel's Heart so easily last time?"

Leido was astonished. How could a piece of the artifacts be so easily stolen from the museum with such layers of protection? Little did he know that the protective mechanisms he was seeing were all reset by the old sweeper after the Heart of the Angel was stolen.

"Something's not right... Is the teacher trying to trick me? I can't see clearly, and I can't find anything when I check... How am I supposed to choose a ritual implement? Am I only allowed to choose that lamp?"

Leido sighed, then paused slightly, and gave a wry smile. He had come to choose a magical artifact, but he couldn't even see the artifact clearly, so how could he choose one? His gaze returned to the Iberian Lamp.

"No, no, even if this thing is a powerful magical artifact, that lamp spirit has been trying to kill me. Isn't this just handing myself over to them?"

Leido shook his head vigorously, hastily rejecting the idea of ​​choosing the genie lamp. He was unaware that the guardian spirit of the Iberian genie lamp had already had one of its avatars killed by the Dragon God and was currently recuperating in the Ancient Tree Secret Realm, having no time to question him.

"My previous teacher taught me how to select magical artifacts, but that required using magical senses to perceive the artifact and then applying an elemental imprint to make it work for me... But here..."

The Yuan consciousness released by Lai Duo's power was less than ten meters away in the artifact hall, and he couldn't even sense the grid on the ceiling. He looked at it again and again helplessly, and for a moment he had no solution.

In normal circumstances, when teachers and students of the Mount Everest Magic Academy are allowed to enter the Crystal Palace Artifact Hall to select magical artifacts, they are accompanied by a caretaker throughout the process. The caretaker will also appropriately reduce the protective restrictions in the artifact hall to facilitate the selection of magical artifacts.

The old man sweeping the floor was in a very unstable mental state, sometimes lucid and sometimes confused. Before Leido could find out what was going on, he came to the museum by himself and was now staring blankly, at a loss for what to do.

Just as Leido was about to leave and invite the old sweeper to come another day, an idea suddenly popped into his head: "How about... we martial arts practitioners try our old method? Blood recognition... I'll use blood to identify treasure?"

Leido came up with a plan. He made a knife with his right hand, and a golden light flashed across the fingers of his left hand. A drop of blood spilled out and floated in the air. He controlled the drop of blood to shoot towards a square in front of him.

At the same time, Leido activated the Resonance Technique, found the energy frequency of the protective barrier, and successfully allowed the blood to enter and drip onto the magical artifact inside: "It actually worked! The old method still works!"

Leido's self-created Resonance Technique allowed him to easily pass through ordinary barriers, and his blood could naturally pass through smoothly as well: "This is... a shield-type magic artifact... I have the Black Flame Armor, this thing is useless... Release the contract..."

After the magical artifact was bound to him by blood, Leido naturally learned its appearance and function. However, he was not overjoyed; instead, his expression faltered slightly: "The method is feasible... but there are thousands upon thousands of magical artifacts. Choosing them one by one seems a bit foolish!"