Suddenly the entire sky darkened, and daytime turned into night.
A huge, bright moon hung high in the sky, its mirror-like surface shrouding A Yao behind her. Its gentle light enveloped the earth, and the longbow and arrows in her hands reflected the moon's brilliance, as if countless luminous ribbons were swirling around the longbow.
call out!
A sound that seemed to pierce the air rang out.
The moonlight-like arrow shot downwards, leaving a beautiful trail.
The three arrows aimed at the three points of the barrier ahead and hit their targets simultaneously. Then, the earth shook violently, and all the barriers collapsed in an instant, falling to the ground like a rain of light from the void. In the rain of light, a girl in purple slowly floated down, her appearance pure and beautiful, truly like a fairy descending to earth.
The night disappeared, and the day reappeared.
Xu Fengzhi was still staring at A Yao, until A Yao came closer and punched him.
"What are you doing?" Ayao threw the longbow in her hand to him.
Xu Fengzhi caught the crescent bow and said with a smile, "Ayao, you are so beautiful."
A vein bulged on Ayao's forehead. This guy...
Smooth talker, yet he claims he's not romantic at all—what a joke!
"Do I need you to tell me I'm pretty?" Ayao said.
Xu Fengzhi's smile suddenly widened: "Ayao, you're quite unmodest."
"What's there to be modest about? There's nothing to be modest about."
As Ayao spoke, she walked forward. After taking two steps, she said to Xu Fengzhi, "After you go in, don't release your divine sense casually, otherwise you may trigger the restrictions inside."
Xu Fengzhi nodded.
The two walked forward and stopped beside the skeletons. The storage bags on the skeletons hadn't been taken. With a wave of her hand, six storage bags floated up. She used her divine sense to examine their contents and collected them all.
Xu Fengzhi naturally had no objection to this.
After taking the storage bag, A Yao waved her hand, and the blood jade bracelet emitted a bright light, turning the bones into ashes inch by inch.
Who knows who might come here in the future? The remains of Nascent Soul cultivators are quite useful. Ayao felt that since she had taken their storage bags, she shouldn't use their remains to create corpse puppets; otherwise, it would be too much. So she let the remains of these cultivators return to dust.
She and Xu Fengzhi continued forward and entered the cave. The cave had a total of seven chambers. Upon entering the first chamber, they found it to be very spacious, but it had been uninhabited for tens of thousands of years, and thick dust covered everything.
Ayao and Xu Fengzhi glanced around at the rows of ebony shelves, which held various items—bottles, jars, and materials for refining weapons. They carefully examined them and concluded that the first cave chamber didn't contain anything of great value, except for a piece of Heavenly Crystal. This Heavenly Crystal could be incorporated into weapons to increase their attack power.
Ayao accepted the Heavenly Crystal.
Next, they arrived at the second cave chamber, which was also very spacious. There were many ancient books and jade slips on the shelves inside. Ayao picked up a bundle of jade slips at random, opened them and looked at them. They contained some insights on weapon crafting and cultivation, which she naturally had no use for.
She said to Xu Fengzhi, "If you're interested, these are all yours."
At a glance, these insights and experiences seem to have been left by a Mahayana cultivator, which would be of great benefit to Xu Fengzhi.
"You don't want it?" Xu Fengzhi asked.
Ayao said, "It's useless to me."
Xu Fengzhi was surprised by the answer. Useless to her? He suddenly felt that A Yao in front of him was hiding many secrets. Whether it was her restriction techniques or her attitude towards these treasures, he felt that the girl in front of him was not a teenage female cultivator.
"Then I won't stand on ceremony," Xu Fengzhi said with a smile, putting all the ancient books and jade slips here into his storage bag.
No matter what secrets A-Yao hides, she is still A-Yao. His love for her will never change.
Then the two of them went to the third cave chamber. The third cave chamber had a restriction, but this restriction was not as strong as the one outside the cave. A Yao broke it with a wave of her hand. As soon as the restriction was broken, she felt a chill. The third cave chamber was covered with frost. Upon entering, she found a bed of cold jade.
This jade bed is not made of ordinary jade, but rather carved from jade that has been frozen for ten thousand years. Such jade beds are very rare.
The jade bed had a bluish hue, and wisps of cold air rose from it. Xu Fengzhi looked at A Yao and said, "A Yao, you have a water elemental root, so this jade bed will be of great benefit to you."
Water and ice spiritual roots are practically the same type of spiritual root. In her previous life, A Yao primarily cultivated water and ice attribute techniques in the early stages. The Lu family has the most members with water and ice spiritual roots, and their cultivation techniques are mainly based on these two attributes. The Lu family possesses many jade beds, but none are made from ten-thousand-year-old ice jade.
Xu Fengzhi has a wind spirit root, so this cold jade bed is of little use to him.
With a wave of her hand, A Yao put the Jade Bed into her storage bag. Then the two of them went to see the fourth and fifth cave chambers and obtained some pills. In the sixth cave chamber, A Yao saw a seven-stringed zither placed on a stone table. The zither's stand was made of paulownia wood and had Vermilion Bird totem and various inscriptions on it.
Its name is: Vermilion Bird Harp.
However, this Vermilion Bird Zither did not possess the true soul of the Vermilion Bird. There was only a Vermilion Bird feather embedded in the zither stand. Ayao was very disappointed: "I thought there was a celestial artifact with so many restrictions placed on the outside, but it turns out to be just a minor celestial artifact. Is it really necessary?"
This Vermilion Bird Zither is not a celestial artifact, but only a secondary celestial artifact.
Xu Fengzhi chuckled from the side, "There's another cave room; perhaps there will be an unexpected surprise."
Ayao put away the Vermilion Bird Zither and followed Xu Fengzhi to the front of the last cave chamber. This last cave chamber was sealed with a powerful barrier, and the layers of light screens blocked divine sense. Standing at the entrance of the cave chamber, one could not see what was inside at all.
Ayao gestured for Xu Feng to step back, then stepped forward herself. Her hands moved swiftly, forming hand seals. As her fingers became blurry, spells and halos were cast from her hands, causing various reactions in the light screen in front of the cave. The screen flashed with different colors, and finally, with a loud bang, it shattered like porcelain.
The moment the barrier shattered, a terrifying and malevolent aura burst forth from within, filling the entire cave with dark purple mist and a pungent, fishy smell. A deafening roar followed as a giant python opened its blood-red maw and lunged at A Yao.
A Yao remained expressionless and retreated rapidly, like a backward purple meteor, shooting back a distance of twenty zhang.
A giant python, shrouded in dark purple mist, smashed through the cave and rushed out like a madman, twisting its massive body, which was tens of meters long. The python exuded the pressure of the early stage of the Void Refinement Realm. Xu Fengzhi opened his eyes, his heart filled with horror. He recognized it as a wild beast, the Black Jade Serpent.
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