Chapter 13
Lin Yibai was like a hamster that fell into a rice jar, his eyes were surprisingly bright, and he quickly shuttled through the treasure maze of the Tengyan ancestor.
This maze was far more magnificent than she had imagined: a high dome, inlaid with countless luminous pearls, cast a soft light, illuminating the entire space like daylight. The surrounding vine walls were carved with intricate runes, faintly radiating auras, clearly indicating the presence of a highly sophisticated protective formation. However, with the death of the Vine Nightmare Ancestor, these formations had lost their effectiveness, allowing her to penetrate unimpeded.
She was dazzled by the treasures all around her, and she regretted that her parents had not given her a few more pairs of hands.
She first pounced on the pile of gleaming weapons. After a brief search, she grasped a slender, light, flexible sword. The blade resembled a stream of flowing autumn water, shimmering with the faint glow of the moon. The hilt was inlaid with an ice-blue gem, engraved with the words "Sparse Moon." True to its name, the sword felt smooth and lustrous like the moon, yet hinted at a sharp edge. It was immediately clear that it was no ordinary item, perfectly suited for a woman.
"Nice sword!" she exclaimed in admiration. With a flick of her wrist, the soft sword transformed into a silver snake that slithered through the air, its tip trembling and sending a chilling chill through the air. Even a rookie like her could sense the powerful spiritual energy imbued within the blade. If this sword were available in the system store, it would cost at least 50,000 achievement points.
She smiled happily as she wrapped the soft sword around her waist. The soft sword body fit her waistline perfectly, as if it was tailor-made for her.
When she turned around, her eyes inadvertently swept across Yan Bujian who was regulating his breathing not far away, and suddenly a thought flashed through her mind: Should she find a magic weapon for him as well?
But as soon as this idea came to her mind, she quickly rejected it——
He was born with a sword bone, and he himself was the sharpest sword in this world. How could he look down on or use other weapons? Besides... She subconsciously touched her neck and couldn't help shuddering.
Why find him a weapon at this time? Will it make it easier for him to chop himself in the future?
She just shook her head in disgust, suppressed the thought, and rushed towards the bottles, jars and jade boxes that exuded a strong medicinal fragrance.
She casually opened a white jade box, and inside was a "flesh and bone Ganoderma lucidum" shaped like a baby and full of spiritual energy - she had seen it in the system store. This thing has the miraculous effect of bringing people back to life and turning bones into flesh. It needs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish for at least ten thousand years before it can mature. She didn't expect that there would be such a big one in this old ghost's nest!
Her eyes widened immediately, and she quickly packed it up and put it into her storage bag. Then she unscrewed the next cold jade bottle - inside it were several round, translucent, and clearly patterned "Nine-Transformation Soul-Restoring Pills" that could protect the body from decay and the soul from extinction for a hundred years...
The price of these miracle drugs in the store were all over 10,000 achievement points. She had always only dared to watch from afar and never dared to hope for them, but now they were piled in front of her like wholesale goods!
"I've made a fortune, I've made a fortune..." Her eyes were wide open, she was laughing like a fool, and she kept stuffing things into her arms.
However, the next moment, when her eyes glanced at an inconspicuous small black bottle, she suddenly paused, then suddenly picked up the bottle, turned around and ran towards the young man behind her.
"It's the Ten Thousand Year Stone Marrow Milk!" She rushed over to the young man, beaming with joy. He was sitting against the wall, his face frighteningly pale, the wound on his collarbone still horrific. She hurriedly handed the bottle to him, her voice brimming with joy, "This will instantly stop bleeding, regenerate new tissue, and stabilize your heart! You were just injured by that old demon and lost so much blood. Take this now!"
After she finished speaking, she uncorked the bottle and handed it to his lips. A clear and refreshing fragrance immediately overflowed.
Yan Bujian raised his eyes and glanced at her, his deep black eyes filled with complex emotions that were difficult to discern.
He didn't open his mouth for a moment, but he didn't refuse either.
Seeing this, Lin Yibai finally realized what was happening - although the two of them had escaped death and had become friends for life, the fragile alliance between them, which was temporarily formed because of a common powerful enemy, had collapsed the moment the old devil's soul was torn to pieces.
At this moment, she had no right, and no reason, to give him any more medicine. After all, she had tortured him in every way, and it was strange that he had agreed to cooperate with her before. How could he easily drink something handed to him by this "evil demon"?
A drop of marrow milk silently slipped from the bottle. Her wrist trembled and she subconsciously pulled it back.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, those few drops of elixir did not fall to the ground——
Yan Bujian leaned forward a little and gently covered the bottle mouth with his lips.
Then he tilted his head back slightly, his Adam's apple rolled, and swallowed all the ten thousand year old stone marrow milk.
Lin Yibai shuddered violently and retracted his hand as if burned. His eyes widened and he almost suspected that he was dazzled by the room full of precious light and was hallucinating.
He...drank it?
He actually drank it?!
Shock washed over her like a tide, sweeping away all her rationality. She felt her mind buzzing, leaving only a blank and disbelief.
Wasn't he afraid that she'd poisoned it? Wasn't he afraid that this was her new torture trick?
After swallowing the elixir, a gentle yet powerful vitality instantly unleashed within Yan Bujian's body, flowing to every part of his body. His pale complexion noticeably brightened, and even his breathing became more even. Even the hideous wound at his collarbone stopped worsening at a noticeable rate, with tiny granulations forming around the edges and slowly healing.
The name of miracle medicine is indeed well-deserved.
But at this moment, Lin Yibai had no time to marvel at the effect of the medicine. Her entire mind was captured by Yan Bujian's unexpected behavior.
She opened her mouth, but found that she could not make any sound. She only felt her cheeks burning and her heart beating like a drum, thumping in the silent maze, so clear that it was frightening.
Yan Bujian did not look away immediately after swallowing the drop of stone marrow milk.
He still looked at her, his eyes were deep, like an ancient well, but with undercurrents surging.
Lin Yibai came back to his senses and saw that he was still staring at him. His face immediately turned red as if it was burning. He hurriedly said, "You rest for a while, I'll go do some shopping," and then ran towards the old demon's storage room as if fleeing.
Original place.
Yan Bujian's gaze was still fixed on the girl, with complex emotions surging in his eyes.
Why did he drink it? Even he himself couldn't figure it out at this moment.
Only after she turned her back to Yan Bujian and hid behind a pile of gleaming ores did Lin Yibai's pounding heart finally calm down. She subconsciously touched her still burning cheek, her heart already in a turmoil.
He drank it... He actually drank it?
This thought kept coming back and forth, lingering in my mind, and was accompanied by a strong sense of unreality.
This was so strange. It completely didn't fit with Yan Bujian's cold, vindictive personality, and it was even more incompatible with their life-or-death relationship. It wasn't that long ago that he had looked at her with eyes filled with frost and hatred, as if even one more word to her was a dirty word.
But just now... he drank the medicine she handed him without any hesitation?
Could it be that because they had experienced life and death together, his opinion of her had changed slightly? Did he think that maybe she wasn't that bad after all?
But the thought barely entered her mind before she shook it off with a fierce shake of her head. "Lin Yibai, wake up!" she warned herself fiercely. "Don't forget what you did to him in the dungeon! The pain of being devoured by insects can't be easily erased. He's a future Immortal Lord, a man of unwavering resolve and a clear sense of vengeance. How could he possibly trust you so easily?"
But then I thought: That's not right, there was indeed no murderous intent or hatred in his eyes just now...
"That must be your illusion! Or maybe his injury hasn't healed yet, and he doesn't want to cause any more trouble for the time being!" Another villain seemed to jump out of her mind, spitting at her sharply.
After a long time, she was still confused and shook her head irritably, deciding not to dwell on this issue anymore.
No matter what, it was a good thing that Yan Bujian didn't refuse the medicine. At least...at least it meant that he didn't hate her so much that he wanted to kill her immediately, right?
Her face remained expressionless as she took a deep breath. Her most urgent task was to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—the treasure trove of Tengyan Patriarch was right before her eyes. These were the foundations of her future survival in this perilous world.
She patted her face, cheered herself up, and her eyes once again flashed with the excitement of robbery. Then she threw herself into the great "shopping" business again, her eyes scanning the pile of shiny treasures below with burning eyes.
After collecting many precious treasures, Lin Yibai was already sweating profusely. She panted, rolled up her sleeves and wiped the sweat from her forehead, looking at the almost empty maze in front of her, with a look of satisfaction on her face.
However, just as her gaze passed by something, she was suddenly startled.
"This...was there this thing here just now?"
I saw a piece of dead vine lying quietly in an inconspicuous corner in the distance.
The withered vine was about the length of a finger, dark gold in color, and simple in shape. It seemed lifeless, but Lin Yibai was inexplicably drawn to it and walked towards it intently. After gazing at it for a moment, she slowly leaned over and picked it up.
The moment she grasped the withered vine—
Yan Bujian, who was regulating his breathing on the side, suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze like lightning, shooting straight at the object in her hand!
At that moment, the long-dormant sword bone within him spontaneously resonated with a subtle longing. An instinctive intuition told him: This was no ordinary withered vine! If he could refine it, it would be of immeasurable benefit to his future cultivation!
The treasures of nature and earth belong to the strong, which is the law of nature.
The thought of snatching it arose almost instantly. However, just as his eyes swept across Lin Yibai's profile, which was filled with pure joy due to his abundant harvest, and looked into those clear and bright eyes without a trace of haze, his originally tense heartstrings inexplicably relaxed.
Thinking of how she had fed him the healing medicine without hesitation and now had her back to him defenselessly... the thought that had surged into his mind turned around and was finally suppressed silently by him.
He closed his eyes again and chose silence.
...Just give it to her.
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