The three giant pythons were dead, and Shi Xuan decided to explore their lair.

One explosive pill was thrown, and a large hole was blasted in the ground.

Following the direction where the three giant pythons appeared, Shi Xuan sent two puppeteers to clear the hole created by the blast, revealing a wide passage. Shi Xuan bent down and walked in.

The underground space is surprisingly large. The passage is man-made stone, and some parts have collapsed. The back part is probably broken open by a giant python, so it is quite narrow.

As Shi Xuan went deeper and deeper, the light gradually disappeared.

Shi Xuan took out the ritual implements for lighting and followed the passage to its deepest point.

Upon reaching the end of the road, Shi Xuan stared in astonishment at the magnificent underground palace before him, which bore no resemblance whatsoever to a giant python's lair.

The underground palace was entirely bright gold and covered an enormous area, stretching as far as the eye could see. Shi Xuan thought to himself, "Do these three demonic beasts actually live in such a luxurious palace? It seems they moved in midway and usurped its place."

Shi Xuan stood at the entrance of the main hall and used her divine sense to sense the area. She found that the area above and below were isolated from each other. Her divine sense could not reach the ground from above, and now that she was underground, she could not "see" the situation on the ground either.

Shi Xuan guessed that this hidden palace must have been built to better conceal itself. The problem is, the people who built the palace probably never imagined that it would eventually be occupied by three demonic beasts.

The doors to the main hall were open, revealing an interior that appeared old yet luxurious. The walls were inlaid with spirit stones and jewels, though the stones had largely lost their luster, likely due to the passage of time or the presence of demonic beasts cultivating there. A magnificent, high-backed throne stood upright in the very center of the hall, raised high on a stone platform, signifying the status of its owner. Apart from this, the hall was completely empty.

Behind the throne was a hidden door leading to the living quarters. The hidden door had not been disturbed; it seemed that the three giant pythons had only opened the first door and had been living in this hall all along.

Opening a hidden door was not difficult for Shi Xuan. She quickly opened the hidden door, which had an old smell about it, as if no one had visited it for a long time.

Shi Xuan waited at the door for a while until the musty smell dissipated before stepping into the hidden door.

There was a long corridor inside the door, with rooms on both sides. The first two rooms looked like living rooms, furnished with simple daily necessities.

Further on, there were several almost completely empty rooms, showing no signs of use whatsoever. Looking at the entire area, Shi Xuan felt as if a self-proclaimed king lived alone in this underground palace, without ministers, servants, or even a wife and children.

Shi Xuan walked along the corridor and after about ten empty rooms, he finally saw a furnished room.

There were some traces of practice, and several magical artifacts were placed on the ground. The artifacts were all of a high grade. The meditation cushion was made of spirit grass and was an eighth-grade magical artifact.

Shi Xuan put away the magical artifacts and continued forward, where he saw a study.

Jade slips and ancient books were piled up on the floor of the study. Shi Xuan picked up one at random, which contained a rare weapon-refining technique. He looked at another book, which contained an extremely profound cultivation method. All of these were good things. With the idea that good things should not be buried, Shi Xuan collected all these books and jade slips and threw them into the Silver Frost for the three craftsmen to sort.

The three people in the Silver Frost were at a loss for words. After several eighth-order demonic beasts, they were now being bombarded with high-level cultivation techniques.

Besides cultivation techniques, there were also some pill formulas, weapon recipes, talisman array blueprints, and some notes and experience manuals. The three of them were surprised as they sorted through the materials, thinking to themselves that Shi Xuan had probably robbed some sect...

After passing through these two rooms, at the deepest point there was only a circular hall. Shi Xuan suddenly felt a sense of familiarity. Apart from the high chair outside, everything else seemed very similar to the underground palaces of the [New Life] organization.

Both are connected by a long corridor leading to several rooms, ending in a spacious circular hall. The difference is that there are no eye totems here.

As Shi Xuan entered the hall, the first thing he saw was a skeleton lying near the edge of the inner wall.

A robe covered the skeleton; the robe remained pristine even after so many years, but the person had become nothing more than a pile of white bones.

Shi Xuan first cast a cleansing spell on the skeleton before approaching it to observe it closely.

This person must be the owner of this place. He must have lived a very comfortable life. The clothes and accessories he wore were all of the finest quality, and they are still as good as new even after so many years.

He had two storage rings on his fingers and a storage bracelet on his wrist, indicating that he was quite wealthy.

Shi Xuan didn't stand on ceremony with him; it was fate that she met him today.

She took all the storage rings and bracelets from the skeleton. The robe looked quite nice, but after taking the skeleton, it would be bare and unsightly, so in the end she left the robe for him.

Since the owner had been gone for too long, the storage space no longer had any divine sense restrictions, so Shi Xuan re-imprinted his own divine sense on all of them.

After everything was tidied up, Shi Xuan looked inside the storage space.

What she saw truly surprised her.

If the treasure found beneath the village of [New Life] last time was a small treasure, then the items stored in the storage ring on this skeleton are far more than that small treasure!

Not to mention the mountain of spirit stones, he has collected more than thirty Dragon Stone Grasses that Shi Xuan came looking for!

In his collection, there weren't many low-grade or common spiritual plant materials. Most of them were rare spiritual plants and rare minerals, such as the rare raw material for Nascent Soul Pill, Blue Glow Grass, which was hard to find outside. Here, he placed Blue Glow Grass like weeds.

To Shi Xuan's greatest surprise, there was even a Soul Gathering Stone among his collection!

"Senior Brother! Look what this is!" Shi Xuan took out the Soul Gathering Stone and tapped the Soul Nourishing Wood with it.

Lu Shenzhi emerged from the Soul-Nourishing Wood and was extremely surprised to see what Shi Xuan was holding: "This..."

He has been in a coma for over ten years, and he wants to wake up and live a normal life more than anyone else. But he also knows that the materials needed for his awakening are extremely rare, and his junior sister and master have been doing their best to find them for him.

He had thought he wouldn't be able to obtain this last Soul Gathering Stone until a year later, when the Outer Realm Arena settled its rewards. Who would have thought that a trip to the Qilin Secret Realm would bring such an unexpected surprise!