"Zhuzhu, let's go in and take a look." Zhou Yuanyuan was a little curious. There was such a large futon in the bedroom, and there was a secret passage underneath it. No matter how she looked at it, she felt like there was some big secret buried underneath.
The Chaos Pearl led the way, and within half a minute, it encountered another forbidden object. This time, with Zhou Yuanyuan's permission, the Chaos Pearl devoured it. This forbidden object wasn't high-level, and the spiritual energy contained within wasn't enough for the Chaos Pearl to fill. However, the Chaos Pearl seemed delighted nonetheless. It felt that its master still loved it the most.
Xiaoyu was too lazy to compete for favor with Chaos Pearl. This time, she let Chaos Pearl fantasize about all kinds of beautiful things in his mind without pouring any cold water on him.
After the Chaos Pearl resolved the restriction, Zhou Yuanyuan followed the Chaos Pearl into the dark secret passage.
"Zhuzhu, has your body always been this color?" Zhou Yuanyuan asked, gossiping for the first time as she watched the Chaos Orb blend into the darkness. Zhou Yuanyuan, Xiaoyu, and the Chaos Orb all communicated through their spiritual senses, so they didn't have to worry about being discovered.
After witnessing the Chaos Pearl's conceitedness, Zhou Yuanyuan had been curious about why the Chaos Pearl had turned its true form so black. Didn't you see Xiaoyu, even without her true form, transform herself into a white and tender kitten, looking incredibly adorable?
"No! Master, Zhuzhu used to be pink, which was not domineering at all. That's why I found a piece of black jade and ground it into powder and blended it with the other colors. Master, isn't Zhuzhu's color very cool and beautiful?" When Chaos Pearl saw Zhou Yuanyuan asking about what it was most proud of, it quickly twisted its round body and said happily.
Grinding black jade into powder? Xiaoyu was so angry that her teeth started itching. What a spendthrift! Zhuzhu was such a spendthrift! Black jade is a rare refining material, capable of creating large storage spaces. The Chaos Pearl already has its own trial space. Even if it were to fuse with a whole piece of black jade, it wouldn't create an additional space, other than changing the Chaos Pearl's color.
Xiaoyu felt that it had to control the Chaos Pearl's "wasteful" behavior in the future, and any good things it found should be left to its owner, and the Chaos Pearl would never be allowed to "waste money" again.
Chaos Pearl didn't know that Xiaoyu had labeled it a "spendthrift". It only felt a chill enveloping it, and it couldn't help but shiver and stopped.
"Zhuzhu, what's wrong?" Zhou Yuanyuan saw the Chaos Pearl floating in front of her, looking as if she was facing a great enemy.
"Master, it's okay." Chaos Pearl just felt a murderous aura, but after it stopped, the murderous aura disappeared.
"Let's go, Zhuzhu. I feel something calling me from the front. Xiaoyu, do you think there are many treasures here?" Zhou Yuanyuan saw that Xiaoyu had not spoken for a long time, so she deliberately looked for Xiaoyu to talk.
Walking in the dark and narrow secret passage, although Zhou Yuanyuan could see the surrounding environment clearly, she still felt depressed. Zhou Yuanyuan felt that making appropriate jokes and chatting could also release the depressed feeling in her heart.
"Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle..."
Before Xiaoyu could say anything, the noise from the front grew louder. Zhou Yuanyuan could hear it clearly this time. It was the same sound she had heard when the Chaos Pearl had just uncovered the cushion. It was a bit like the sound of boiling water bubbling.
The secret passage was not long. After walking about ten steps, Zhou Yuanyuan arrived at a secret room.
This is a strange secret room.
Zhou Yuanyuan said that this secret room was strange because there was nothing in it except three rectangular pools made of bluestone.
"Xiaoyu, this place is so strange! So many pools, are they for bathing or raising fish?" Zhou Yuanyuan was genuinely stunned. Where was the treasure room she'd imagined? Why was it like this?
Zhou Yuanyuan couldn't help but release her spiritual sense and searched every corner of the secret room.
No signs of any restrictions were found, nor did they indicate any secret passages leading to other places. It seemed that this secret room was the ultimate location of the secret passage.
Zhou Yuanyuan and Chaos Pearl were both utterly disappointed. Where were the promised magic weapons? Where were the promised spirit stones? Why was there nothing?
Is that Taoist Baopu really crazy? He even set up two prohibitions to hide such a shabby place? Zhou Yuanyuan rolled her eyes in anger.
The three pools were the same size, about one meter wide, two meters long, and about fifty centimeters deep. Huh? How did Zhou Yuanyuan know so much? Because one of the pools was dry, empty.
The water in the second pool looked a light brown, and there was still nothing in it.
The water in the third pool was dark brown, bubbling. The sound Zhou Yuanyuan had just heard must have come from this pool.
"Master! This is a medicine pool." Xiaoyu observed it for a moment and came to this conclusion. It was no wonder Xiaoyu hesitated; this pool was different from the one she remembered. In her memory, the medicinal juices used by monks to cleanse their marrow and remove hair needed to be stored in pools carved from a solid block of white jade to achieve their maximum effectiveness. The materials used to construct these pools were utterly inferior. Calling them sapphire was an overstatement; in reality, they were little better than ordinary bluestone.
Xiaoyu was sure that they were now in Jinping Peak, which belonged to Taoist Baopu's territory.
Is Baopu Taoist a pauper? Or is there nothing good in this world of cultivation? Xiaoyu thought about this, and suddenly felt that her "Jade Life" was filled with gloom. Without magic weapons and spirit stones, when would the master ever be able to cultivate to the Spiritual Transformation Stage?
The medicinal concoction bubbling in the pool gave off an unpleasant odor. Xiaoyu carefully identified it: red dingcao, first-grade incense, bone-strengthening grass, tendon-stretching grass, and pulse-cleansing grass... The concoction contained more than a dozen marrow-cleansing and hair-removing herbs! Why wasn't there the scent of thousand-year-old chalcedony? Xiaoyu was a little surprised.
The medicinal properties of the dozen or so herbs are very strong. If there is no neutralization of the thousand-year-old chalcedony, this pool of medicinal juice will be no less painful to the user than a steel knife scraping bones. The pain of slow slicing is not something that ordinary people can endure.
There was a faint smell of blood floating in the air, mixed with the strong smell of medicine, but Zhou Yuanyuan could still smell it.
Following the smell of blood, Zhou Yuanyuan saw something in the corner of the medicine pool.
The reason why it was called a thing was because Zhou Yuanyuan was not sure whether the thing she saw was a person, because "it" was half floating on the water, curled up into a ball, and motionless.
"Xiaoyu, what is that?" Zhou Yuanyuan exclaimed.
"Master, it's a person, a person who is not in human form." Xiaoyu carefully identified it and finally found that the "thing" was actually a person.
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