"You four need to be careful."
"Yes, Dad, we understand." The tiger led them directly to the foot of the mountain, glanced back at them, and continued onward—they were about to climb the mountain.
"Brother Zhang, should we continue following?"
"Of course, we're all here now."
After walking for another hour, the tiger led them to the entrance of a cave halfway up the mountain.
The tiger stopped, turned around, sat down, and looked at them.
Zhang Hongmei looked at it and asked, "Do you want us to come in?"
The tiger nodded.
"Is there any danger in there? I mean, are there any other animals inside?"
The miraculous tiger shook its head.
"Brother Zhang, shall we go in?"
"Let's go in and take a look."
“Okay.” After saying that, Zhang Hongmei summoned five powerful flashlights from her spatial storage, and then took one for herself as well.
"Let's go in, I don't think there's any danger."
"Hongmei, I'll go first."
Zhang Hongmei shook her head. "No need, Brother Zhang, I'll go first. Do the four of you feel any sense of familiarity, or is there some kind of calling us?"
All four children nodded. "Mom, it felt like coming home," Zhenye said after thinking for a moment.
"Yes, Mom, I feel the same way."
“Brother Zhang, I think this should be where the Cui family hides their treasure. Don’t worry, the five of us should be safe.”
“Okay, let’s go together.” Zhang Shouyi took Zhang Hongmei’s hand, and the two walked side by side, with the four children following behind.
"You four better watch out. Even if you can't sense any danger, stay focused."
"Yes, Dad!"
The high-powered flashlight was extremely bright, illuminating only a long, narrow passage. Both sides were excavated, showing clear signs of human intervention.
And there was no unpleasant smell inside. On the contrary, there was a breeze. It felt quite cool. I was covered in sweat from walking all the way here, but I felt refreshed in no time.
"Mom." Zhang Weiyu was about to speak, but stopped when he heard the echo from the mountain wall.
The family stopped talking and walked quickly forward.
After walking for about ten minutes, a stone gate appeared ahead.
When Zhang Hongmei saw this stone door, she thought of the cave where the gold was collected; it also had a stone door like this.
"Let's see if there's anything special on the stone wall."
Zhang Hongmei pointed directly at the stone gate and found the button.
"I've found it. All five of you need to be careful. I don't know if there's any danger if the door is opened."
Zhang Hongmei pressed the button with her palm, and the door opened with a loud bang.
A strong wind blew out from inside, and after waiting for several minutes, nothing dangerous happened.
"Let's go in." The family entered the cave and felt that the space was very large, but there were only a few stone boxes inside.
"Brother Zhang, look, isn't this stone box the same as the one that contained gold last time?"
"Yes, exactly the same."
"Let's open it and take a look."
Zhang Hongmei handed Zhang Shouyi a crowbar.
"Honey, you've prepared quite a lot."
While teasing Zhang Hongmei, Zhang Shouyi pried open the lid of the stone box.
Zhang Hongmei shone a flashlight inside and found it was still a wooden box.
Opening the wooden box revealed gold bars, but their purity was much better than the last one.
Then the other nine chests were opened, and they were all the same: gold.
“Brother Zhang, I don’t think this is right. It shouldn’t be just these things. Besides, there’s not much stuff here. It’s not worth keeping it here at all.”
Zhang Hongmei remembered that there was a mechanism underground in the cave last time. So she took a flashlight and looked down.
"Mom, what are you looking for?"
"I just wanted to see if there were any other traps. I always felt that the things in here were just illusions."
The four children also looked down at the ground, searching for any unusual spots.
Zhang Hongmei found the button on the wall. "I found it. Be careful, everyone stand in the middle."
Press it, and with a rumble, the opposite wall rose up, revealing a large hall inside.
It's full of boxes. Packed together.
When they opened them one by one, they found only gold, nothing else.
"Alright, let's put all the wooden crates away."
The six people worked very quickly, finishing dozens of boxes in half an hour.
Zhang Hongmei then put the stone boxes away and stacked them in the stone cave outside. The inside was now empty.
In the middle of the underground area, a button was found. This time, it didn't open anything; instead, a small box popped up.
Zhang Hongmei sat on the ground, and Zhang Shouyi even put a cushion under her bottom.
I held the wooden box in my arms, opened it, and inside was a book on top.
Zhang Hongmei opened it and found it was a letter, a very long one. After reading it, she understood why the Cui family, despite their abilities, had ultimately led to the downfall of their country.
They also knew that what lay below was the most precious thing in the Cui family: the cultivation method.
Zhang Hongmei thought to herself, feeling embarrassed, "Could it be possible to cultivate immortality?"
I saw a piece of leather inside that I didn't recognize. When I opened it, I realized it was a manual on breathing techniques. The letter said that practicing it could prolong life.
Below is another book, which records another set of cultivation methods. This is the real cultivation method for immortality.
However, it's unclear whether one can cultivate this skill. The letter stated there was nothing to test one's spiritual root, but one could cultivate according to the instructions, and if one had a spiritual root, one could enter the initial stage.
"Brother Zhang, shall we give it a try?"
“Sure. But could you send Tiger to deliver a letter? I’m worried they’ll be anxious. The letter said that if someone has spiritual roots, they’ll be able to sense it in two days; if not, we’ll give up after two days.”
"Okay, you write it, I'll go and deliver it to the tiger."
Zhang Shouyi's letter was addressed to A, instructing them to move freely within the area but not to go up the mountain, and to return in three days.
After finishing writing, Zhang Shouyi handed it to Zhang Hongmei with a handkerchief.
The six of them came out together, and the tiger lay down by the cave entrance. "Could you take this cloth bag to those people?"
The tiger lazily stood up, glanced at Zhang Hongmei, picked up the handkerchief, and left.
"Mom, isn't it too smart?"
"Yes, that's so clever."
"Alright, let's hurry up and go in and try it out, see if we can succeed." After saying that, Zhang Shouyi pulled his wife inside.
The family of six began to try to pose according to the images on the leather.
"Wait a moment, and each of you will have a cup of water." After that, all six of them sat down cross-legged and tried to sense the spiritual energy as instructed.
Zhang Hongmei thought to herself, "If this were in a spatial dimension, it would definitely be even faster, but this really can't be exposed."
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