Sacred Medicine Fragrance, Devil Race Bait

Shi Hao and the other three began searching the secret chamber ahead.

All the cultivation techniques and such had already been looted clean.

Only quite a few torn remnants were left behind.

It seemed they had been caused by the disciples who entered earlier fighting over them.

"Yu'er, check the secret chamber next door. There's something over there."

Mu Shuixian conveyed this to Hua Qingyu through divine sense.

"Senior Brothers, let's check next door."

Hua Qingyu said to Shi Hao and the others.

"Let's go. There doesn't seem to be anything here."

Hua Qingyu walked ahead alone, while Shi Hao called Lin Bai and Wang Teng over.

"Brother Shi, there doesn't seem to be anything good here. Why don't we check elsewhere in the secret realm?"

Wang Teng said in frustration. Had he known, he would not have wasted time here.

"Wait a little longer. Let's take another look."

When they entered the secret chamber next door, it was even more desolate and empty.

It was the sort of place where even a thief would weep and leave behind two spirit stones.

"Senior, there's nothing here at all!"

"Don't rush. There's an array here."

"Yu'er, open your sea of consciousness. Let This Emperor temporarily take control of your body and break this array."

Hua Qingyu obediently did as she was told. She trusted the senior within the ring very much. If the senior had wanted to harm her, she would not have lived to see this day.

Mu Shuixian entered Hua Qingyu's body through her sea of consciousness. When she opened her eyes, her entire bearing changed.

Shi Hao and the others saw this the moment they entered.

"Is Junior Sister breaking an array?"

"There's an array here too?"

With their cultivation, they could not sense it at all.

Her hands continuously formed seals.

"Break!"

Mu Shuixian shouted.

The array immediately dissipated, revealing the chamber's original appearance.

Jars upon jars of pills were neatly arranged on shelves, wafting bursts of medicinal fragrance.

"Holy shit! The pills were hidden by an array! No wonder there was nothing here."

"We're rich!"

Shi Hao and the other two stared at the sight in shock, crying that they were going to be rich!

Hearing them, Mu Shuixian turned and cast the three of them a sidelong glance.

"Junior Sister's gaze is terrifying!"

Cold! Indifferent.

"Junior Sister... are you all right?"

Why did it feel as though Junior Sister had become a completely different person?

Mu Shuixian immediately retreated back into the ring.

"I'm fine, Senior Brother."

"Let's hurry and gather the pills."

With that, Hua Qingyu went to search for the Sacred Medicine that could soothe the soul.

Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Wang Teng also began examining them one by one.

"This is actually an Exquisite Pill!"

"And Crimson Sun Pills!"

Wang Teng picked up several bottles of pills, sniffed them, and carefully studied their pill patterns before recognizing them. He spoke in shock.

Worthy of being a powerful Holy Land from the Middle Ages—these long-lost pills were all here.

"Senior Brothers, come quickly. There are words here."

Hearing this, Shi Hao and Wang Teng hurried over.

They found Lin Bai staring at a stone table, upon which several lines of words had been carved.

"I am the Pill Refining Elder of the Heavenly Dust Holy Land."

"In the first year of Heaven's Promise, the Devil Race launched a massive invasion of our Eastern Domain."

"Our Heavenly Dust Holy Land joined forces with the major powers to rise in resistance, but the gap in strength was too vast."

"We do not know how much longer we can hold on. To prevent those devils from destroying the Pill Hall of our Holy Land, I specially set up this array."

"If you are able to break this array, all the pills shall belong to you."

"The Devil Race... should have been driven back by now..." —Left by Mo Feng, Pill Refining Elder of the Heavenly Dust Holy Land.

"So the array was left behind by a Pill Refining Elder of a Holy Land."

Only then did Shi Hao and the other two understand.

This array had been established to guard against the Devil Race. Its grade was surely not low.

However, they did not ask how their Junior Sister could also break arrays.

Everyone had secrets in their hearts.

"I found it, Senior!"

Elsewhere.

Hua Qingyu held a bottle of pills in her hand and said happily.

A Sacred Medicine—the Soul-Soothing Saint Pill.

It could nourish and stabilize the soul. It was a rare treasure, and even the mighty Heavenly Evolution Holy Land had only the one bottle in her hand.

There were only three pills in the bottle.

Hua Qingyu placed the Sacred Medicine into the ring and handed it over to Mu Shuixian.

Using her magical power, Mu Shuixian transformed all three pills into medicinal energy, which continuously nourished her soul.

"Not bad. This Emperor's soul has become somewhat more solid."

She could now wield the strength of a Saint. Previously, she could manage it at full force as well, but afterward, she would have to sleep for a long time before recovering.

"Senior Brothers, how is it going?"

"Have you packed up the pills? Let's go."

Having finished her task, Hua Qingyu walked over to Shi Hao and the others.

She saw that they had divided the pills into one large share and three smaller shares.

"Junior Sister, you're here. Brother Wang and we discussed it. You broke this array, so you'll take the large share, while the three of us divide the rest equally."

Seeing that she could not persuade the three of them, Hua Qingyu did not press the matter and silently put away the pills.

In any case, she had already decided to hand them all over to the sect.

Shi Hao and Lin Bai thought the same way.

Their master had shown them great kindness and had even passed down peerless cultivation techniques to them. They had to contribute to the sect.

"Then there's nothing left here. Let's go."

After gathering their things, the four of them headed outside.

Wang Teng called back the disciples from his sect as well.

"Senior Brother, what did you find?"

"Ahem, I came back empty-handed this time."

"Here, this is for you."

Upon hearing his Junior Brother's words, that Holy Land Senior Brother handed him a cultivation technique manual.

"Ah, thank you, Senior Brother."

"But Senior Brother, if you give me the technique manual, what will you use?"

"Ah, anything will do for me."

That Senior Brother strode forward, inadvertently revealing the five cultivation technique manuals tucked at his waist.

Shi Hao's group emerged from the palace.

This time, not only had they returned laden with gains, the disciples of the Eastern Profound Holy Land had found quite a few things as well.

This was the famous method of picking up overlooked treasures.

Of course, whether that method worked depended on the location. If the place was no good, no amount of searching would find anything.

Places like the Technique Hall and Pill Hall, though—even after being looted, there would still be something left behind.

"A Saint's inheritance has appeared in the east!"

"Holy shit! What are we waiting for? Hurry over! If we get there late, someone else will beat us to it!"

Hearing this, Wang Teng casually grabbed a man who was sprinting past.

"What the hell is wrong with—"

The man was about to curse, but when he saw who stood before him, he promptly swallowed the words at his lips.

After some friendly questioning, they learned what had happened.

No one knew who had been spreading the word everywhere, claiming that a Saint's inheritance had appeared within the ruins of a palace to the east.

Everyone who received the news hurried in that direction.

"Since that's the case, let's go take a look too, Brother Shi."

Wang Teng turned to Shi Hao and the others.

Shi Hao keenly sensed that something was wrong.

Who would see a Saint's inheritance and then tell everyone about it? Especially in this secret realm, where everyone was a competitor!

It was as though someone had deliberately drawn everyone there.

"Something's not right, Brother Wang. This matter probably isn't simple."

Lin Bai and Hua Qingyu had noticed it as well. They were all clever people, and a single hint was enough.

As for the disciples rushing there, were they fools? Would they fail to notice?

Of course not. It was simply that a Saint's inheritance was too tempting!

Had they not heard: if one hears the Way in the morning, one may die in the evening without regret?

"Brother Shi, I know what you're worried about."

"But there are so many of us, and we have geniuses like you, Brother Shi, as well as disciples of my Holy Land. There shouldn't be any force in this secret realm that we can't handle."

It would not hurt to try their luck.

They did not think in any other direction.

Even if someone was luring them over, they assumed it was the work of some faction that had entered the secret realm.