Xia Feng brought five people out. The sun was shining brightly outside, and everyone couldn't help but break out in a thin layer of sweat on their foreheads.
Ning Biqiao glanced at Bai Yihan next to her and asked.
"Is Bai Shaoyuan really alright? The technique recorded in the gold foil is not simple."
"Since you're worried, I'll take you to find it after you've meditated and rested for a while."
Then he took the five people to a deserted cave nearby. Long Yuanling took out some pills for the five people to heal their injuries. Xia Feng only had some superficial injuries, and his internal injuries had recovered as early as when he broke through.
Watching the sun setting outside, Ning Biqiao and the others could no longer hold back, and even Bai Yihan urged them on.
"Everyone has almost recovered, so let's go."
Xia Feng didn't say much, and immediately led everyone to practice light skills and float above the canyon.
An hour later, when the setting sun painted half the sky, everyone came to a dark cave. Xia Feng took the lead. It was very clean inside, and you could see traces of someone cleaning it before.
As they went deeper, they saw candles flickering on both sides of the cave. Then they came to a stone chamber. Xia Feng smashed the stone door with one palm, revealing Bai Shaoyuan, whose face was pale. He actually looked a little old at this moment.
He held the gold foil tightly in his hand, staring fiercely at Xia Feng and the other six people who suddenly appeared, but he sat cross-legged on the bed with his back against the stone wall without moving, or he was too weak to move.
Xia Feng took a look at his weak breath and his scattered internal energy, and suddenly he understood.
"You have practiced the mental method on the gold foil!"
Bai Shaoyuan stared at Xia Feng intently. It was the young girl in front of him who completely ruined his plan and seriously injured him.
If he hadn't luckily encountered the exit mechanism, he would probably have died in the secret room.
He thought it was God's blessing that allowed him to escape with the treasure at the critical moment. When he came to the secret room prepared in advance, he was desperate to practice the superior mental method.
However, he did not expect that not only did his injuries worsen, he could not withstand the force, and most of his dantian was directly damaged, completely cutting off his retreat.
He glared at Xia Feng and said, "You know this method cannot be practiced."
Xia Feng did not deny it, because this was not a martial arts technique, but a method of cultivating immortality.
Xia Feng didn't know why there was a method of cultivating immortals here, but if one wanted to cultivate immortals, one needed spiritual roots. If one didn't have spiritual roots or the spiritual roots were not right.
In mild cases, the Dantian is damaged, and in severe cases, life may be lost.
The most important thing is that Bai Shaoyuan is already in his forties or fifties. Even if he has a rare spiritual root, it has long been contaminated by turbid air for so many years and has long disappeared.
Coupled with the reasons of this world, the final result is bound to be failure.
This is also the reason why Xia Feng dared to let him take the gold foil away, because he was sure that he could not practice, and forcing him to practice would only seriously hurt himself.
The mummy in the coffin before also failed to cultivate successfully. It was too late to regret at the last moment and left a line of words.
"I killed my beloved wife and son, but in the end, it was all in vain. It's too late to regret. I can only beg them to wait for me. I hope that future generations will cherish the people in front of them."
Bai Yihan looked at Bai Shaoyuan, who was now heartbroken.
"Have you ever regretted anything? You pushed the Bai family into ruin and killed your mother. How can you face the ancestors of the Bai family?"
But Bai Shaoyuan was no longer angry at this time, but looked relaxed instead.
"I just regret that I didn't succeed. Otherwise, the Bai family would have regained its glory in the martial arts world and no other family would have been able to resist it."
"Although I failed, the Bai family still has you. This means that my momentary weakness allowed the Bai family's bloodline to continue. I am worthy of the ancestors of the Bai family."
But he didn't mention Bai Yihan's mother at all.
Bai Yihan clenched the long knife in his hand and finally took Bai Shaoyuan's life. He watched Bai Shaoyuan breathe his last quietly, and in the end, Bai Shaoyuan actually had a smile on his face.
"Mother, I have avenged you!" Bai Yihan said in his heart, but it was bitter.
The gold foil turned into ashes in Xia Feng's hands.
"Since it is a scourge, let it disappear completely to prevent it from causing trouble in the martial arts world in the future."
This treasure hunt finally came to an end, but out of the four hundred people who came, only less than twenty were left, and only two people from the Demon Sect escaped.
The martial arts world has suffered heavy losses this time, and there shouldn't be any more disturbances in the short term.
The six people gathered together. Long Yuanling had just made an antidote for the silk thread and put the antidote in Zhu Zi's hand.
Xia Feng took out the remaining five-colored lotus.
"Everyone, take whatever you want."
But everyone watched this without moving. Ning Biqiao looked at everyone and then spoke slowly.
"I've always told you that I'll reveal my identity when I have the chance. Junior Sister Zhu should have guessed it already."
"I am the daughter of the former Demon Cult leader, Ning Xiuyong, but our relationship as father and daughter is not good, and we are not even familiar with each other. I have never seen what my mother looks like since I was born.
I only occasionally heard from the servants that my father had someone in his heart and that my mother had used some tricks to get pregnant with me. Until my father died, I didn't know whether the story was true or not.
But before he died, he left me a Yuan Chu Dan, which contained half of his power, and a Demon Cult Jade Pendant, which could mobilize some of his former followers."
After she finished speaking, Ning Biqiao felt light and cheerful. She had nothing to hide, and she no longer needed to hide in front of everyone. After going through so many things, everyone had already become friends who shared life and death.
Qi Zong couldn't help but ask, "Then why is my mother's hairpin in the secret collection?"
Ning Biqiao shook her head. "I don't know. My relationship with my father is very cold. Sometimes I don't see him for half a year."
"Could it be that the person your father loves is your mother?" Long Yuanling said jokingly to ease the atmosphere.
But unexpectedly, both of them changed their expressions. Could it be that they were related by blood? After all, Qi Zong never knew who his biological father was.
Although the two had never made their relationship clear along the way, they both understood each other's feelings. They tacitly agreed to get married after Qi Zong rescued his mother.
Seeing that the atmosphere became even more tense, Long Yuanling couldn't help but smile awkwardly.
But unexpectedly, a black shadow rushed towards Qi Zong. Xia Feng swept his fingertips over and caught the dart with a piece of paper on it.
Ning Biqiao rushed out to check the situation, but only saw a back.
Qi Zong saw the familiar logo on the dart, hurriedly took it from Xia Feng's hand, and couldn't wait to open the letter.
On it was the letter sent to him by the group that kidnapped his mother.
"If you want to redeem your mother, you can exchange the five-colored lotus and longan treasures from the secret collection. Come to the Haoke Teahouse, twenty miles east of the city, in three days. If you see anyone else, wait for them to collect your mother's body."
Qi Zong's face changed immediately. This treasure hunt originally relied on Xia Feng, but now he wanted to exchange the treasure she had fought so hard to obtain for his mother's life. He didn't know how to start.
But Xia Feng still pushed the thing over.
"Saving people is important. These are just dead things."
Qi Zong clasped his fists and said, "I will never forget Junior Sister Zhu's life-saving grace."
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