After some negotiation, they reached an agreement: each faction would send one Foundation Establishment Cultivator to break the restriction, and whatever they obtained would be divided into three shares.
The Wang Family sent Wang Xianbin, while the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and the Golden Saber Sect each sent one person.
The three of them simultaneously brought out Dharma Artifacts and attacked the restriction. No one knew how many years the restriction had existed; little of its power remained. Before long, it was broken, revealing a cave entrance several zhang wide before them.
Wang Xianbin released a Puppy Puppet Beast and sent it charging into the cave. Nothing unusual happened.
The cave was only a little over a hundred zhang deep. On the ground sat a humanoid skeleton cross-legged, draped in a tattered azure robe. Its left arm was missing, and the bones around its heart had been shattered.
Wang Xianbin concluded that the owner of the cave abode had suffered severe injuries in life and found this place to recuperate, only to die when the wounds proved too grave.
A Cyan Storage Pouch hung from the skeleton's waist. Few people in the cultivation world still used storage pouches; they had switched to Storage Pearls instead. The owner of the cave abode was certainly not a cultivator of this era.
The Puppy Puppet Beast rushed before the remains, clamped the storage pouch in its jaws, and gave it a light tug. The skeleton collapsed into a heap of white bones that scattered across the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
They carefully searched the cave but found nothing else, then left together.
Back outside, Wang Xianbin seized the Cyan Storage Pouch in full view of everyone and shook it downward. After a sweep of azure rosy cloud, a large pile of