The coldness and darkness of the surroundings engulfed the two as they walked within the quiet mountain cave only the soft footsteps of two people could be heard.
The surrounding atmosphere caused the Fairy Doctor to instinctively hug herself. She raised her head and watched Xiao Yan walking slowly ahead of her. A brief hesitation later, she increased her pace and closely followed behind him. In this environment, only the young man in front of her gave her some sense of security.
After walking for over ten minutes in the quiet atmosphere, the Fairy Doctor started feeling that the insanely quiet atmosphere was unbearable. At that moment, however, the young man in front of her abruptly stopped.
"Ah…" The Fairy Doctor failed to react in time and knocked softly into Xiao Yan's back.
The intimate encounter caused the Fairy Doctor to take a step back with a red face as she embarrassingly said, "What are you doing?"
The earlier soft contact had also caused Xiao Yan to take in a deep and heavy breath. He coughed drily as he pointed towards a rock door where a faint yellow light was emitted and helplessly said, "It's a dead end."
Hearing this, the Fairy Doctor pressed her eyebrows together and took two steps forward. Facing the door, she said in a deep voice, "Behind the rock door ought to be our destination. If the ancient elder had built a cave here, I don't think that he would have created one that leads to nowhere."
Xiao Yan stepped forward and touched the rock door. After estimating its thickness, he slowly shook his head. "The rock door is very thick and requires the strength of a Dou Shi to forcefully break it."
"All that you know is how to use force. Look at the yellow light that is emitted from the rock door; this is obviously a ground element trap technique. If you pay more attention to the details, it isn't difficult to open it." After giving Xiao Yan a disparaging look, the Fairy Doctor placed her thin hand on the rock door which began to slowly move.
"You know about trap techniques? " Seeing the serious face on the Fairy Doctor, Xiao Yan could not help but curiously ask.
"It's just that I have read some books on trap techniques. I cannot be considered competent but it should not be a problem if I use it to probe around." The Fairy Doctor carelessly answered as her hand's action remained as graceful as ever.
Xiao Yan nodded his head but did not disturb her surveyance. His gaze moved away from the rock door and using a faint light, sized up the surrounding rock walls.
On the rock wall were some faint carvings. They had grown blurry but Xiao Yan could make out a couple of human shapes which were likely left behind by the cave owner.
"Found it!!" Just as Xiao Yan was studying the rock wall, the Fairy Doctor's happy voice prompted him to shift his gaze.
Beside the rock wall, the Fairy Doctor was already squated down; her thin hand was touching a small protruding spot on the rock wall. When she pressed on it, a creaking sound slowly echoed through the cave.
Watching the rising rock door, Xiao Yan came close and gave the Fairy Doctor a thumbs up.
Following the rising rock door, a faint light emitted from behind it, chasing away the darkness around them.
Seeing the bright interior behind the rock wall, the Fairy Doctor smiled but retreated two steps. Then she faced Xiao Yan, raising her chin and smiled, "Please, go in."
Shrugging his shoulders, Xiao Yan picked up a few stones and violently threw them into the cave. He felt slightly reassured when he did not notice any reaction.
"You're really an overly cautious person." Seeing that Xiao Yan did not forget to be careful even at this moment, the Fairy Doctor could only shake her head helplessly.
"Thanks for your compliment." Smiling indifferently, Xiao Yan stepped carefully across the rock door and entered the interior.
Seeing that Xiao Yan had stepped forward, the Fairy Doctor followed closely behind.
Upon stepping into the interior of the cave, their range of vision suddenly widened.
Beyond the rock door was an enormous room which appeared somewhat simple and empty. Mounted on the walls were Moonstones that were used as a source of light. At the center of the room was a chair that seated a skeleton with its fallen skull placed on its thigh bone. This scene, when viewed from this quiet atmosphere, appeared quite ghastly.
In front of the chair was a wide and long black stone table. Three locked stone containers were neatly placed on it.
Additionally, there were large numbers of shiny gold coins and other precious items in the other three corners. Just by the number of the gold coins, the total wealth in this room was over the hundreds of thousands.
Valuables and money were not something that Xiao Yan lacked and from the way these valuables were randomly placed, it seemed that their owner did not hold them in high regard either.
Xiao Yan shifted his gaze away from the shiny gold, moving them to the last corner of the room instead. Happiness surfaced on his face when he did.
The last corner of the room was a flower bed made by piling soil together. Within it grew numerous different flowers and plants that shrouded the flower bed with fragrances.
While staring at these plants, Xiao Yan and the Fairy Doctor hurried forward in unison. An ordinary person may not recognize these plants but they knew very well that these seemingly ordinary plants was worth more than the piles of gold in the room.
"Purple Blue Leaf, White Spirit Ginseng Fruit, Snow Lotus Seed…."
The Fairy Doctor blankly stared at the small flower bed. One by one, the names of rare and expensive medical ingredients secretly leaped from her red moist mouth.
"Ice Spirit Blazing Grass!"
As he swept his gaze across the flower bed, Xiao Yan suddenly pulled back his gaze and stared intently at the middle of the flowerbed where a red and white grass grew thought.
The leaves of this grass were separated into two colors. Its stem, which was white, was also covered with droplets of what appeared to be icy crystals while its reddish tips were like a ball of burning flame. The two opposing colors and elements had miraculously grown on the plant.
A faint mist surrounded this plant, giving it an appearance of floating amongst the clouds.
This strange grass was named 'Ice Spirit Blazing Grass', an exceedingly rare ingredient that was also a necessary ingredient for the 'Blood Lotus Pill'.
Xiao Yan stared at the medicinal grass. Two of the medicinal ingredients that for creating the is already in his hands. This gain filled Xiao Yan's heart with happiness.
"Do you also recognise this?" Eyeing at how Xiao Yan was staring at the Ice Spirit Blazing Grass, the Fairy Doctor asked.
"Um. This is something I need." Xiao Yan nodded his head before tilting to gaze at the Fairy Doctor.
"What an unlikable person. Choosing the most valuable one straight off the bat." Hearing Xiao Yan's words, the Fairy Doctor immediately raised her eyebrows and muttered in an unwilling manner.
Smiling, Xiao Yan waved his hand, "I've been searching for it for quite a while I will take this and As for the remaining medicinal herbs here, you will take two thirds and I will take the remaining one third."
Hearing Xiao Yan's suggestion, the Fairy Doctor nodded her head, the color of her face appearing slightly better.
Xiao Yan carefully dug away the soil surrounding the Ice Spirit Blazing Grass and finally placed the plant, together with the soil into a jade bottle.
"Hu…." Xiao Yan quickly stored the jade bottle into his storage ring before opening the corner of his mouth and smiling. After which, he handed the jade shovel to the Fairy Doctor indicating for her to dig out the medicinal plants.
The Fairy Doctor's eyes followed the Ice Spirit Blazing Grass as Xiao Yan stored it into his storage ring before unwillingly withdrawing her gaze. For someone like her who loved medicine, obtaining one exceedingly rare medicinal plant would make her far happier than obtaining hundreds of thousands of money or pieces of jewelry.
The Fairy Doctor sighed, feeling very vexed inside. Had this guy not accidentally discovered the secret on the cliff, all of this would have belonged to her. But now… alas, recalling this caused her to feel an urge to cry but her tears was not forthcoming.
"You should just go and die, bastard."
After cursing, the Fairy Doctor received the shovel from Xiao Yan and began to carefully dig out the precious medicinal plants from the flowerbed before placing them into the jade bottles.
After eyeing the Fairy Doctor digging out the medicinal plants, Xiao Yan's gaze once again roamed throughout the room but he spotted nothing of interest. Finally, he returned his gaze back to the three stone containers placed in the middle of the room.
Xiao Yan slowly walked towards the front of the stone table and touched the metal lock.
He felt some warmth as his skin made contact, causing him to frown. For it to be able to retain warmth over such a long time, the lock was definitely not made of an ordinary metal. It would be pointless to try to forcefully break it.
Xiao Yan scanned around. His eyes soon fell onto the skeleton seated behind the stone table. When he lowered his gaze, his eyes brightened as he found three black keys hanging from its hand.
Rubbing his hands, Xiao Yan stepped forward and stared at the skeleton and then lowering himself he grabbing the keys and pulled lightly.
"Crack…" Due to the years that had passed, the small force managed to break the skeleton's arm, causing it to fall.
Seeing the broken skeleton hand, Xiao Yan smiled before bowing to the remaining skeleton. After which. Xiao Yan bent to pick up the broken arm, intending to replace it.
Xiao Yan's hand wrapped around the skeleton arm when his eyebrows suddenly rose. He could feel that the weight of this bone was a little unnatural…
From the corner of his eyes, Xiao peeked at the Fairy Doctor who was carefully digging up the medicinal plants before returning to the skeleton bone in his hand. His eyes saw at the top there was a small scroll hidden within the gap of the bone. Eyeing the stealthily hidden scroll, Xiao Yan moved his finger involuntarily reaching inwards and swiftly pulling out before throwing it into his storage ring.
Only after the scroll was in his storage ring did Xiao Yan sigh in relief. He swept the dust from the skeleton arm before placing it back on its original position, Xiao Yan grinned, flung the keys in his hands and slowly headed to the three stone containers on the stone table.
Xiao Yan carried the keys to the boxes and once again, he touched the warm metal lock.
Tilting his head and glancing at the Fairy Doctor who had finished digging out all the medicinal plants, he smiled and said, "Hurry over here."
"At least you have some sort of conscience to call me."
The Fairy Doctor raised her nose, carried the ten plus bottles in her chest and placed them on the stone table. Finally, she unwillingly handed Xiao Yan six jade bottles : "Hey, these are yours."
Xiao Yan received them with a smile, took a brief glance and stored them into his storage ring. The Ice Spirit Blazing Grass was already in his hands so the other valuable medicinal plants were not very important to Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan waved the three black keys in front of the Fairy Doctor and smiled: "Then I will be opening them."
"Open them!" After throwing Xiao Yan an irritated look, the Fairy Doctor quickly slotted the jade bottles around her waist and chest. Immediately, her narrow waist appeared much fuller than before.
Xiao Yan licked his lips as he stared at the stone containers. He selected one of the keys, lifted the first lock and carefully inserted it.
"Clang…" Suddenly, a light clear noise was emitted from within the room, prompting Xiao Yan's to become silent.
"It's unlocked." Seeing the lock's shackle being launched from the lock, Xiao Yan said.
"Hurry up and open it." The Fairy Doctor's face was full of desire and happiness as she said in an impatient voice.
Xiao Yan glanced at the anxious Fairy Doctor but did not heed her call. Instead, he grabbed her hand and stepped back. He then lined up his palm with the box and unleashed an intense force from his palm which lifted the lid of the stone box.
After the lid was lifted, Xiao Yan waited a moment longer and sighed in relief after seeing that there was no reaction. Glancing at the Fairy Doctor who had her hands around her chest while coldly staring at him.
"If you are thrown into the Magic Beast Mountain Range, I think that you will have a happier time living there than in the outside world. The reason being that even those Magic Beasts are not as careful as you are." The Fairy Doctor curled her lips and said.
"I share the same thoughts." Xiao Yan laughed and said.
After throwing a cutting gaze at the shameless man beside her, the Fairy Doctor walked towards the stone table. She looked into the opened stone box and was shocked.
With a face filled with joy, she quickly reached her hand into it and retrieved an ancient rainbow colored scroll.
"A Poison Book that records the methods of making poison." The Fairy Doctor said while flipping open the scroll and said with a smile.
"A Poison Book?" moving his gaze, Xiao Yan took the scroll from the Fairy Doctor's hand and glanced through it.
Seeing the few words written on the side of the seven colored scroll, Xiao Yan said : "Rainbow Poison Book? This is good for you. Alright you can take it, I don't have time to master this."
"Really ! Thank you you know due to my elemental affinity, I cannot become an alchemist so I can only rely on these things." A dejected expression appeared on the Fairy Doctor's face after she spoke. It was clear that her greatest desire was to become an alchemist and not a Poison Master that people both hated and disliked.
The Fairy Doctor felt a deep relief in her heart upon hearing Xiao Yan's words and gave the latter a grateful nod.
Xiao Yan touched his face and shifted his gaze towards the second stone container. He inserted a key in and slowly probed the interior.
The key in his hand was slowly being inserted deeper into the lock.
Xiao Yan rubbed his lips together, rotated his wrist and smiled: "It's opened."
Following Xiao Yan's voice, the tightly shut stone box began to slowly open.
Under the light of the Moonstones, everything in the stone box was immediately revealed to Xiao Yan and the Fairy Doctor.
"Another scroll?" Fairy Doctor seyebrow said seeing a black scroll that was placed in the box.
He reached his hand into the box, took the scroll out and flipped through it. Finally, his gaze paused on the small words at the edge of the scroll: "High Xuan Flying Dou Technique: Eagle Wing."
"Flying Dou Technique? What is that?"
Seeing the name for the first time, the Fairy Doctor blinked her eyes doubtfully. She had heard of Attack Dou Techniques, Defense Dou Techniques, Agility Dou Technique and many others but it was the first time she had heard of a Flying Dou Technique.
"As the name suggest, this Dou Technique can allow a person to fly in the air." Xiao Yan explained.
"Fly? Isn't that something that requires the strength of at least a Dou Ling?" The Fairy Doctor displayed an initial shock at the explanation before appearing confused.
In the Dou Qi continent, only with the strength of a Dou Ling can one leave the ground and fly for a short distance. Only after one's strength had reached that of a Dou Wang or Dou Huang can one use the Dou Qi to form a pair of energy wings on one's back.
These wings would enable them to overcome their bond to the ground and fly amongst the clouds.
As for the Flying Dou Techniques, they were a strange secret technique that could enable the practitioner to form two small extensions that protruded from the veins on one's back.
With these two extension, one would be able to form a pair of wings and fly in the air even if one did not possess the strength of a Dou Wang.
Flying was something that was a great temptation to many. In order to fulfill this temptation, many strong people put in all their effort to reach for the unreachable dream of becoming a Dou Wang. At the same time, there were also many who wanted to find a shortcut by finding this rare and valuable Flying Type Dou Technique.
Xiao Yan held the black scroll in his hand.
"I know. This goes to you right?" Having observed Xiao Yan's action, the Fairy Doctor understood his intention and said before he says something.
"Haha, You readed my mind." Xiao Yan said while laughing.
"There's still one more. Let's hurry. We will leave once we open it." the Fairy Doctor shifted her gaze to the last stone box and urged.
"Hum." With his two acquisitions, Xiao Yan held the last key that was not used and prepared to open the stone box.
The spacious room once again became quiet. Just as Xiao Yan bent his body and was about to open the box, he suddenly stiffened. He quickly turned around and said.
"Someone's coming!"
"What?" Hearing the words, the Fairy Doctor was also shocked. An instant later, she shook her head: "That's impossible. Only the two of us know about this place."
"I have not misheard. There are quite a few people." Xiao Yan looked at the Fairy Doctor while saying it. A coldness flashed in his eyes.
"You suspect that I have called these people over?"
"It doesn't matter how they got here we need to open this box." Xiao Yan attempted to insert the key in his hand into the lock but in his anxiousness, he repeatedly failed to do so Xiao Yan grabbed the stone box with both hands in an attempt to lift it. Unfortunately, he found that the container was stuck onto the stone table.
He said: "They are here."
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, the Little Doctor quickly directed her gaze towards the rock door. Her ears had also picked up the sound of footsteps approaching.
"Ke ke, Fairy Doctor. Thank you for leading the way. It seemed that the information we managed to get was true."
Over ten figures slowly entered from the darkness outside the door while the familiar and pleased laughter echoed within the room.
"Mu Li!"
Upon hearing the voice, the Fairy Doctor immediately clenched her teeth tightly.