Chapter 15 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The light element illuminated the place.

About nine feet into the cave, a stone bed occupied a sizable part of a corner. A stone box, which was half a meter wide and one meter long, lay in front of the stone bed. The quaint-looking box was filled with shiny, pebble-sized crystals.

“I found this cave a long time ago. Every time when Father came, I wanted to tell him about this. But he left just as quickly as he came. I didn’t get a chance to tell him.”

“Your father must have something important to do, so he couldn’t stay for too long.” Wutian comforted her.

“How do you know, Wutian? Father said that, too, every time. But I wish he could stay for a few days.” Shishi looked up with a hint of disappointment in her pinky face.

“Because everyone has something to do. Don’t you need to take care of Flora?” Wutian comforted the girl, patting her on the head. He then came up in front of the stone box, picked up a crystal, and carefully studied it. He gradually furrowed her brow.

The crystal was angular like a diamond, extremely beautiful and mesmerizing. He suddenly sensed warm energy pouring out from the crystal into his hand before gathering in his Sea of Qi.

“The Essence elixir!” Wutian was stunned. This warm energy felt exactly the same as what Little Tian refined. Not only that, it was even purer and more powerful.

Putting down the Essence elixir, he stomped his feet on the ground. It felt solid. He then thoughtfully walked to a wall, the surface of which looked smooth and even without a single crack. As he reached to touch with his hand, a layer of lime peeled off.

Wutian scanned around and had figured out something.

This was a strange cave. It looked as if someone had dug out a space inside a giant rock. He suspected that this was the place where the ancients practiced their cultivation. Because this was ironstone, which was tougher than black iron, it took a thousand years for its compound to weather into a fine powder.

“Did you find anything else when you first discovered this cave?” asked Wutian.

Shishi put her hand under her chin and thought for a moment. “I remember I found a skeleton. I pitied it and so buried it outside.”

“So, that was really the case.”

Wutian was curious and carefully studied every corner of the cave. If the ancients had cultivated in this cave, they must not just leave behind these Essence elixirs. There must be something else, something precious.

Little Tian was overjoyed, jumping onto the Essence elixirs, eyes darting around, drooling. At last, it lay on them with its leg crossed. Its eyes moved as it kept an eye on Yi. Apparently, it wanted to keep the things to itself.

It seemed that it was not only gluttonous but also greedy.

Yi rolled its eyes with his chin raised, looking at Little Tian in disdain as if saying that it could have them all as those beards were worthless in its eyes.

“What are you looking for, Wutian?” Shishi was baffled at seeing Wutian paced around.

“I am looking for treasures.” Wutian knocked about and searched around without looking at her. He did not want to leave an inch of the cave unsearched.

Shishi chortled, finding it amusing. “This is a cave of the dead. How could it contain any treasure?”

“Not really. Look at these Essence elixirs; they are good stuff. Just that you don’t know. By the looks of things, there must be something else.” Wutian was unashamed of his intention. He came to the stone bed and lay with his face down to rummage underneath it.

“I think I have found something.” He felt something at the bottom, solid and cold. “Can I borrow your light, please, Shishi?”

Shishi went up curiously. She lay down on her stomach, reached her hand under the bed so the light would illuminate the space inside.

“Eh, there is really something!” Shishi was surprised, wanting to take it out. But her hand was too short to reach the thing.

“Can you give me a hand, Little Tian?” Wutian called for help, as he could not reach with his hand, too.

Little Tian scurried over immediately at the mention of treasures. Its slender eyes scanned around and instantly brightened up. It went under the bed in excitement, but when it emerged, it looked unenthusiastic. It quickly dropped the thing to the ground and climbed back up on the stone box.

It was an ordinary-looking ring, blackish and old. The coating on the ring seemed to have peeled off. There was no ornament, just three characters engraved on the surface. These characters were twisty and hard to read.

“This ring looks horrendous.” Shishi puckered her mouth. Women like things that are beautiful. So, she was no exception.

Looking at the ring for a long time, Wutian still could not work out what it was about and felt disappointed. At first, he thought he had found a treasure, but it turned out to be just an ordinary item. He had not given up. He searched around again. At last, he found nothing and threw in the towel.

Probably the owner of the cave was not some powerful figure, so naturally he had nothing precious with him. He tucked the ring under his clothes and took his next course of action.

There was no treasure, but those Essence elixirs were not a bad finding either. After being stored here for a thousand years, the Essence content of the elixirs was concentrated and pure. If he consumed all of them, he might boost his cultivation to another level.

“Caw, caw!” But Little Tian would not comply. It lay on them and looked at him threateningly, as if telling him that these things belonged to it and no one could take them from it.

“Let go, Little Tian, you shouldn’t keep them to yourself.” Shishi was amused, going up to trying to pursue it. But Little Tian was unimpressed like a miser, it was adamant not to let go of its private possession.

“Get the hell out of here!” Blue veins popped up on Wutian’s forehead, his face darkening as Little Tian vehemently resisted.