Using some kind of special spiritual arts technique, Qian Renxue was able to take back her form as the crown prince and we seperated slightly as I wore a hood to hide my appearance slightly as we entered one of the secret royal entrances into the palace.
As Qian Renxue in the form of the crown prince Xue Qinghe led me into the palace with the many servant's merely bowing at seeing the prince and not questioning him.
"We are coming up to the treasury. I will say that you have the right to take any one thing from the treasury to the guard. And once we enter the treasury we will be free to loot it." Qian Renxue's heavily modified voice rang out with my lips twitching at the male voice speaking from what I knew was a very beautiful woman.
"The guard won't be able to monitor us?" I asked curiously with the prince snorting and saying coldly.
"No, only the royal family, the treasurer, and the royal tutor have the right for an accounting of the treasury."
She waved her hand slightly and I took it as a reminder of how many ears might be listening to us currently so I kept silent as we kept moving through the large and ornate halls of the palace until we went down a couple flights of stairs to reach the treasury.
Sitting in front of a large golden door that had a massive dragon embossed on the door was a man sitting crosslegged with his eyes glowing as he sensed us approaching. "Master Xue Qinghe, do you need something from the treasury?" The older man asked quietly.
And as his spiritual senses naturally scanned us to see if we were imposter's or wearing facial masks or the like. I could feel this man was already on the edge of his lifespan even if his spiritual energy had him probably around level 80 or something.
"I have made a deal with this man for him to take a single treasure from the treasury in return for a favor he did for me and the royal family, senior. Open the treasury for me." She said firmly but politely to the old man.
The old man gave me an inspective look before humming and saying calmly. "I see... Very well, then good luck finding what you need or desire young man."
With that he clapped his hands together and I raised an eyebrow as a sort of magical glyph that wasn't something you would typically see here in this universe bloomed to life beneath him with tendrils of spiritual power reaching the large dragon door.
The door rumbled before opening up slowly with a loud groan with the old man relaxing and saying calmly. "Go on ahead Master Xue, take your companion in. I will need to close the treasury behind you as you well know."
The crown prince nodded with us both walking into the treasury with the door shutting behind us with a loud rumble with Qian Renxue humming as she pushed a tablet in the wall and lights filled the tunnel we were in.
"Come, follow my footsteps on the tiles. The other tiles are trapped." She said casually as she began carefully walking across the highly engraved floors that depicted dragons and swans reminding me how the royal family's Martial Spirit was the Holy Swan.
And after a couple minutes of deadly hopscotch of all things... We entered the royal treasury with the illusion of Xue Qinghe falling from her form with her tossing her blond hair behind me. "Behold! The stores of wealth for the Heaven Dou Empire!"
The Treasury itself was like five hundred meters long, and thirty meters tall with hundreds... If not thousands of cabinets, lines of boxes and crates, and on the right side were stacks of precious metals and ores that had powerful spiritual aura's coming from them.
"Well well... Alright Qian Renxue, let's get the heavenly herbs and natural treasures first. Then we can get the precious ores, materials and then the stores of spiritual techniques." I spoke as I took in the treasury.
There was a pause before she raised an eyebrow and asked in confusion. "You don't want to get the spiritual coins and other treasures of material value first?"
I just shook my head and said honestly. "Nope, I am robbing them of treasures that can directly help me. Sure the spiritual coins have some spiritual energy that can help me cultivate a bit. But my goal isn't at all to tank the Heaven Dou Empire's economy."
Her golden eyes searched mine for a moment before she shook her head with a small smile and said. "Very well. You go ahead and collect what you will. I will be collecting the light and holy based treasures for myself."
To which I nodded, as I had... Literally zero use for those things actually funny enough. And neither did any of waifus either.
I went over to the large line of specilized jade cases that contained the various preserved herbs and after reading the notes on them... I just tossed the entire cases, scaffolding and all into my spatial storage to be sorted later.
All so I could easily keep the notes on the materials on hand with myself being able to see Qian Renxue's wry expression before she called out flatly. "How much spatial storage do you even have Jake?"
And without an ounce of shame I called out. "I have five times the space of this treasury in my pocket demension I keep within my soul! So I have plenty of room haha!"
I then went over to the special ore and refined metal section and snagged all of it as well. As god knows if I ever decide to pick up blacksmithing or get a blacksmithing waifu at some point.
To say nothing of it's value that could be used in order to fund my own faction I was going to bring into the world back in DXD.
And from there, I just... Cleaned out the treasury of things I could use and collect like special spiritual arts, techniques, and most importantly some copies of Martial Souls combination arts that allowed multiple people to come together to make a combination of their martial souls in a giant powerful avatar.
Sure that may not be too powerful if I tried to combine with Mashu, Mami, or the vampire quintupplets for now... But I would gain a fuck load of raw power and holy energy should I merge one of my Martial Spirits with Qian Renxue while we fought together.
Quite similar to when Sasuke would overlay his Susano in Naruto's Kurama form with them combing their abilities.
"Alright, you ready to try to get to the Spirit Hall Treasury?" I asked Qian Renxue as she approached me.
She nodded before she chewed on something internally before she spoke. "Your spirit beasts have a strong control over mental energies right? Could they take my memories of the Spirit Hall Treasury and we just teleport there with your special spatial abilities?"
I considered it and I realized that she likely woudn't be able to get me into the treasury so easily with how her placement in Spirit Hall's ranking was murky to say the least.
But either way Tian Meng the dream worm chuckled and said easily from within my soul. "Partner, put your forehead to hers so I can transfer the memory she is holding up to you."
I paused at that before relaying that to Qian Renxue who flushed deeply and whispered. "It's already almost a kiss... That is too much isn't it?"