"This, this is..."
Xu Fengzhi couldn't believe it. He had clearly led his men to search this area thoroughly before. How... how could this be...?
"Ayao? How... how did you know? This cave..." Xu Fengzhi looked at Ayao in shock. Among the people he brought before, there was even a Void Refinement stage elder who was proficient in restriction techniques, but even that elder had not discovered it. How... how did Ayao know?
“I could tell,” Ayao said.
"I didn't expect your restriction technique to be so powerful, Ayao," Xu Fengzhi praised sincerely.
Ayao said to him, "Let's go! Let's go inside!"
Xu Fengzhi considered calling the guards back, fearing there might be danger in the cave, but considering A Yao's actions just now, which clearly indicated she didn't want a third person to know, he gave up the idea.
A Yao's body soared into the air, transforming into a purple rainbow that shot towards the vortex. Xu Fengzhi transformed into a blue rainbow and followed behind her. After they both entered the cave, the blue vortex slowly shrank and finally closed up.
Although it was closed, ripples of blue light still appeared intermittently in the air.
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Inside the cave.
This is a medicinal herb field. The spiritual herbs planted in the field exude a rich spiritual energy of various attributes. This spiritual energy is so rich that it is almost tangible, like wisps of light lingering in the air, or perhaps it has turned into specks of starlight floating in the air.
Ayao and Xu Fengzhi stood in the herb field, Ayao looking calm. In her previous life, she had cultivated to the level of Immortal Emperor, and had seen everything. But this was the first time Xu Fengzhi had seen so many ancient spiritual herbs, each of which was over forty thousand years old.
Just smelling the medicinal fragrance made Xu Fengzhi feel his cultivation level increasing, and his heart was pounding wildly.
Ayao squatted down and looked at the tricolor lotus blooming beside her. Her long black hair fell down, making her skin look even whiter. Her beautiful face was a hundred times more beautiful than the blooming flower.
She picked a three-colored lotus flower, held it in her hand and played with it, and said to the shocked Xu Fengzhi, "Seeing is believing, I'll share half with you."
Xu Fengzhi looked at her, smiled, and said, "I can't accept something for nothing. I haven't helped you at all. How could I possibly accept these medicinal herbs?"
Ayao said, "That makes sense, then I'll take them all."
With a snap of her fingers, a storage bag floated in the air. Opening the bag, A-Yao flicked her sleeve, and all the spiritual herbs were uprooted and dumped into her storage bag like dumplings being dropped into a pot. After harvesting all the herbs, she looked at Xu Fengzhi and asked with a smile:
"You really don't want any at all?"
She shook the storage bag in her hand, her expression sly, as if she were teasing a cat.
Xu Fengzhi said, "You can keep it."
Aren't you tempted?
"My heart is fluttering."
“But you’re different from me, Yao. Your parents have eight children, while my parents only have me. Whatever I want, it will always be simpler for me than for you,” Xu Fengzhi said.
After hearing his words, A Yao remained silent for a moment. She walked towards the cave ahead, but after only a few steps, she suddenly tossed a storage bag to Xu Fengzhi, who instinctively caught it. The storage bag in his hand was cyan, not the same as the red storage bag A Yao had used to collect spiritual herbs.
Ayao looked at him and said, "I'll give you 20%, don't say I'm not loyal."
After saying that, she walked forward.
Xu Fengzhi, holding a storage bag, followed behind her with a faint smile on his face: "Actually, you really don't have to share with me."
"You're such a busybody, just take it if I tell you to."
"Ah Yao, you're so good to me."
"Don't overthink it. I'm giving it to you because I might need your help later."
"Uh-huh."
"You're not allowed to tell anyone that this is from you, not even your parents."
"Okay, I understand. I need to swear an oath with my Dao heart."
"Need not."
They stopped fifty feet away from the cave. Several skeletons lay in front of them. Ayao's pupils turned from black to gold as she saw the hidden restrictions set up around the area.
He snapped his fingers, and the sound echoed in the quiet space, like a boulder thrown into a still lake, creating ripples.
Wherever the ripples reached, all the hidden restrictions were revealed.
Layer upon layer of restrictive formations filled the void. Xu Fengzhi looked at the fallen skeletons; they had been dead here for countless millennia. He said:
"It turns out we weren't the first visitors."
That said, when he first came in, he used his divine sense but didn't even notice these skeletons. He only saw them when he got closer.
"Have you found any spiritual herbs over 100,000 years old in this secret realm?" A Yao asked Xu Fengzhi. This was his first time exploring a secret realm in its late stage, and given his status, he should know a lot. He might not know everything about which faction had obtained what, but he should know most of it.
"No," Xu Fengzhi said. "At least I don't know."
“This secret realm has a history of 500,000 years, and there are no medicinal herbs older than 100,000 years, which proves that someone must have been here before we discovered it,” Ayao said.
If one has the cultivation level of the Integration Stage, as long as they know the method to open it, they can open this secret realm by themselves.
"Five hundred thousand years? How did you know?" Xu Fengzhi asked in surprise.
Ayao smiled mysteriously: "Guess!"
Her smile was like a hundred flowers blooming, making Xu Fengzhi's heart flutter. He touched his nose and said, "I can't guess."
Ayao turned around and carefully examined the restrictions. Xu Fengzhi couldn't understand the restrictions at all, so he asked Ayao, "Are you confident about these restrictions?"
Ayao said, "It's no problem for me."
Turning around, she looked at Xu Fengzhi and asked him, "Do you have a powerful magical artifact?"
"have!"
Xu Fengzhi raised his hand, and a longbow appeared in his palm. The silver longbow was engraved with exquisite patterns, and the entire bow seemed to flow with the light of gemstones, surrounded by ethereal beauty.
This bow is named Crescent Moon. It is a celestial artifact that the sect leader of the Divine Dream Sect found in this secret realm. He gave this bow to Xu Fengzhi as a trump card to save his life.
Ayao looked at the man in front of her in surprise. "Hey! You didn't even hesitate? You just casually pulled out your cards, really..."
"Are you this honest with every woman you're attracted to?" Ayao asked.
Xu Fengzhi chuckled and said, "That's why I'm being so honest with you. What do you mean by 'every'? I've never been attracted to any other woman. Don't listen to their nonsense."
Ayao remained silent, looking at him with suspicion. Everyone says you're a womanizer, but you say they're just talking nonsense. It's hard to believe you!
However, at this moment, A Yao was too lazy to continue discussing this matter with him. She reached out her hand, and Xu Fengzhi smiled and placed the crescent bow in her hand.
Holding the Crescent Bow, A Yao floated up. Her hair moved without wind, and her celestial robes emitted a soft purple glow. Celestial power was released from her robes and condensed into the longbow in A Yao's hand. She drew the bowstring, and three arrows, as if formed from moonlight, appeared.
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