Shi Xiong took them to pick two treasures of the Black Bear Clan as compensation because Zhou Yuanyuan returned the Qiankun Mirror.
"Hmph!" Hu Sanniang snorted, but didn't dwell on this topic any further. Every demon tribe has its own treasure hiding place, so it's not surprising that they don't tell others about it. Even Hu Sanniang herself wouldn't tell Shi Xiong where her fox tribe's treasure is hidden, right?
Shi Xiong took Zhou Yuanyuan and Hu Sanniang around for more than half an hour before they arrived at a cave.
The cave looked quite large. The two wooden doors inlaid with copper nails alone were as tall as two Zhou Yuanyuans. Three large Sanskrit characters were inlaid on the top of the cave: Treasure Cave.
Zhou Yuanyuan wanted to laugh. Didn't Stone Bear say the treasure cave was a clan secret? Then why did he put his name on the top of the cave so openly? Was he afraid others wouldn't know there were treasures inside? This was really funny.
At this time, Shi Xiong had a solemn expression on his face. He first put his hands together and muttered a few words to the wooden door, then took out a jade token that was one inch wide and three inches long from his arms.
After Shi Xiong injected his spiritual power into the jade token, he muttered a long incantation. The thick door of the cave slowly opened.
"Fairy, this is the treasure trove of our bear clan. You and Sanniang come in. Remember, each of you can only pick one treasure, otherwise you will not be able to leave." After seeing the door open, Shi Xiong wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned to Zhou Yuanyuan and said.
"Yes, yes! It's the same in our clan, we have restrictions!" Before Zhou Yuanyuan could say anything, Hu Sanniang explained. Generally speaking, each demon clan's treasure vault is only open to the younger generation of the clan. Therefore, there are more or less restrictions on the amount of treasures each person can take out of the treasure cave to prevent greedy people from taking more than they deserve.
Zhou Yuanyuan nodded without saying anything. To be honest, Zhou Yuanyuan hadn't expected Shi Xiong to be so generous as to take her and Hu Sanniang to the treasure house to choose for themselves. However, it was hard to refuse such a kind offer. If it was really useful, Zhou Yuanyuan wouldn't hesitate.
Zhou Yuanyuan wandered through the empty stone chamber, feeling somewhat disappointed. From the outside, the gate to the treasure cave looked both ancient and majestic. But once inside, it was nothing like what Zhou Yuanyuan had imagined. There were no night-shining pearls, red corals, or anything like that. There was no glittering jewels or glittering gold. The so-called treasure cave was nothing more than a stone chamber spanning over a thousand square meters. The rough walls were dotted with a few shelves, each as tall as a person, topped by four or five layers of partitions, each filled with jade boxes of varying sizes.
Zhou Yuanyuan casually picked up the jade box closest to her, opened it, and saw a small grass that was almost drying up inside.
"Wow! Shi Xiong, you liar! Last time I asked you for a shapeshifting grass, how dare you lie to me?" Seeing the grass in Zhou Yuanyuan's hand, Hu Sanniang yelled at Shi Xiong angrily, almost scaring Zhou Yuanyuan. Shapeshifting grass is a treasure of the demon clan. It can allow the demons who have just awakened to intelligence to maintain their human form and not change between human and animal forms at regular intervals. Hu Sanniang once asked Shi Xiong for it for a demon from her clan more than three hundred years ago.
"Sanniang, I got this shape-shifting grass two hundred and eighty years ago. I was thinking about your clan..." Shi Xiong was so frightened by Hu Sanniang that he hid behind Zhou Yuanyuan. His words were a little vague, but Hu Sanniang understood. Not long after Hu Sanniang asked Shi Xiong for the shape-shifting grass, the entire Qingqiu fox clan suffered a fatal blow. Except for Hu Sanniang who ran away to play in the mortal world, the entire clan was slaughtered, and even the newborn fox cubs were not spared.
This incident was the pain that Hu Sanniang buried in her heart. Shi Xiong and Hu Sanniang had been together for so many years, so of course he knew to avoid it.
"Sanniang, since it's useful to you, keep it!" Zhou Yuanyuan stuffed the jade box into Hu Sanniang's arms. From the conversation between Hu Sanniang and Shi Xiong, Zhou Yuanyuan guessed that Hu Sanniang might have some secrets.
"Alas! It's a pity that I can't use it now." Hu Sanniang held the jade box in her hand in a daze for a while, and then put it back to its place. Hu Sanniang was already the last Qingqiu fox in the world. From now on, no little fox would ever be able to use this transformation grass. It would be useless for Hu Sanniang to take it. It would be better to leave it here. Shi Xiong's people will always need it one day.
"Don't be sad, Sanniang! One day, your tribe will regain its former glory," Shi Xiong fumbled to comfort Hu Sanniang. Truth be told, the news of the Qingqiu Fox Clan's genocide unleashed a wave of bloodshed throughout the demon world. For unknown reasons, many tribes were wiped out overnight. Only the Black Bear Clan, fortunately protected by a barrier, survived.
Shi Xiong and Hu Sanniang thought of the bloody storm hundreds of years ago, and couldn't help but feel sad in front of each other.
Zhou Yuanyuan looked at the shelves one by one. The jade boxes were filled with either grass roots or tree barks, as well as some strange animal teeth. According to Xiaoyu, these were treasures that the demons could use for advancement, and they were of no use to Zhou Yuanyuan at all.
At this time, Xiaoyu's voice rang out in Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness: "Master, in front, please walk to the left."
Xiaoyu felt a little excited. She felt that there was something her master needed here.
Zhou Yuanyuan followed Xiaoyu's instructions and stopped in front of a pile of junk five minutes later. It was indeed junk. In a corner of the treasure room, there was a small, shapeless pile of objects, covered in dust so thick that if Xiaoyu hadn't pointed it out, Zhou Yuanyuan would have mistaken it for a small mound of dirt.
"Oh my! I'm so sorry, I forgot fairies are not demons. The things on the shelf are useless to you. Although this pile of junk has been there for thousands of years, there might be something in it that a fairy can use!" Shi Xiong saw Zhou Yuanyuan standing in a daze in front of the small mound, and then he came to his senses and ran over to explain: "The things here are all spoils captured by our warriors from the monks. Anyway, we demons can't use them, so we just left them here, hehehe..."
Shi Xiong really didn't think about this. To the demon race, the things on the shelves were treasures, but to the cultivators, it seemed that this pile of "garbage" was more to their taste.
Zhou Yuanyuan waved her hand, stopping Shi Xiong from saying anything. Whether Shi Xiong had truly forgotten or was just trying to make fun of her, Zhou Yuanyuan didn't care. At this moment, Zhou Yuanyuan's eyes were drawn to a dark bead in the pile of "garbage."
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