The Last Treasure Chest

After following the herb-gathering party for about half a day, they finally stopped to rest.

The herb-gathering area was nearby, so there was no need to press any farther in.

Yun Shu hid in the shadows and watched the entire party come to a stop, then suddenly froze.

"If this is the herb-gathering area, then is that cave nearby..." Yun Shu had no map on hand, so he had no idea whether this was the herb-gathering area Xiao Yan would visit later on...

"Forget it. I'll look around. It'd be best if I find it, but there's no loss if I can't for now..." Yun Shu concealed his aura, circled around the party, and headed deeper into the Monster Mountain Range...

"Damn it... Without this compass, I probably wouldn't even be able to tell east from west." Yun Shu held a compass as he moved through a dense forest...

Strangely enough, compasses actually worked in this world. The directions were somewhat off, but thankfully, the needle remained fixed. Though it did not point south, it still kept Yun Shu from getting lost in this place.

Not long after entering the forest, he spotted a faint light ahead. Yun Shu cautiously approached it, only to discover upon emerging that a sheer cliff lay before him.

"Looks like I came to the right place!" Yun Shu's lips curled upward at the sight.

"Flying Dou Technique, hundreds of thousands of Gold Coins, here I come..."

Yun Shu took a submachine gun out of his Storage Space. He had less than one magazine of pistol ammunition left. He planned to conserve the pistol, which was better suited for sneak attacks, since he still could not fight a Dou Zhe.

Holding the submachine gun, Yun Shu paced along the edge of the cliff, searching for the cave.

Half an hour later...

"Seriously, it's in this damn place?!" Yun Shu finally found the cave dwelling from the original story, but it was nowhere near where he had first reached the cliff. It was probably three to five kilometers away.

Along the way, Yun Shu had also encountered the lustful first-tier magical beast, the Combining Ape. Thankfully, he had the Divine Concealment Art, which could hide his aura...

"I wonder if that Rock Snake is here..." Yun Shu remembered that there had been a Rock Snake at the cave entrance at this point in the story, but this was several years before the plot began. That Rock Snake should not have been here yet...

"Alright! Looks like I overthought it!" Yun Shu had barely poked his head down for a look when he spotted a Rock Snake baring its fangs and flicking its tongue at him.

"Even if I can't kill you, the impact should be enough to knock you off the cliff, right?" Yun Shu raised the submachine gun and fired directly at the Rock Snake...

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat...

With one magazine, Yun Shu successfully blasted the Rock Snake off the cliff.

"Should I make some Dou Qi-style modern firearms... The kind that fire Dou Qi bullets..." Yun Shu raised an eyebrow at the submachine gun's effectiveness.

Imagining a future battle, Yun Shu stood before an enemy with a high-grade Heaven-tier submachine gun in hand, watched the big boss curl his lips, and then said to him, "Sir! Eat shit..."

"Forget it..." Yun Shu was speechless at the absurd image.

After dealing with the Rock Snake, Yun Shu climbed down using the vines on the cliff and landed at the cave entrance.

After clearing away the debris blocking the entrance, Yun Shu took out a flashlight and walked inside. Though it was daytime, the cave was set into the cliff face, so even the sunlight could not reach its depths...

Before long, Yun Shu saw the stone door blocking his way. He already knew exactly how its mechanism worked. He stepped directly on the raised switch in the ground, and a burst of creaking rang out as the stone door slowly rose before him.

As the stone door rose, the flashlight in Yun Shu's hand illuminated the stone chamber inside. What entered his sight was a huge pile of Gold Coins, gleaming with golden light beneath the beam.

"I'm rich!!" Yun Shu walked in with a grin. He was not worried about any traps here; Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor had already tested them for him.

The first thing Yun Shu did after entering was store all the Medicinal Herbs scattered across the floor, along with the pile of Gold Coins, in the System Space.

Some Medicinal Herbs needed to be stored in jade bottles to remain perfectly preserved, but Yun Shu was different. Time did not flow inside his Storage Space, so once something was placed inside, it would remain forever frozen in time.

So there was no need to worry about damaging the Medicinal Herbs.

After putting away all the Gold Coins and Medicinal Herbs, Yun Shu looked at the skeleton before him and the three treasure chests in front of it.

Yun Shu directly reached out and snapped off the skeleton's arm that held the keys. There was a remnant map of the Purification Lotus Demon Fire inside.

After taking the remnant map from the severed arm, Yun Shu did not inspect it. He was not cultivating the Flame Devouring Art anyway, so no matter how many Strange Fires there were, he would not be able to absorb them.

He kept the remnant map because Yun Shu considered that he might obtain something powerful from the system in the future. Perhaps it could help him subdue a Strange Fire...

But for now, that was basically impossible.

"Next, it's time to open the treasure chests!" Yun Shu held the three keys and began trying them one by one. Finally, he opened the first treasure chest.

"The Seven-Colored Poison Manual? Looks like I opened them in the same order as Xiao Yan..." Yun Shu found that the first chest he opened was actually the same one Xiao Yan had opened. He had thought it would be the treasure chest containing the Battle Skill Lion's Roar.

After casually placing the Seven-Colored Poison Manual into his Ring of Holding, Yun Shu opened the second treasure chest. As expected, it contained the Flying Dou Technique, Eagle Wings!

However, considering where he was, it was not convenient to learn the Battle Skill here, so Yun Shu temporarily stored it in his Storage Space.

He would deal with it after returning.

As for the last treasure chest...

Judging from the treasures, herbs, and Strange Flame Remnant Map in the owner's arm bone that had been left in this cave, its owner had definitely been an alchemist.

Since he had been an alchemist, then why had he left behind a sound-wave-attribute Battle Skill? There was only one possibility: this treasure chest did not merely contain the Battle Skill Lion's Roar. It also held the fire-attribute cultivation method the alchemist had practiced in life, along with other fire-attribute Battle Skills!

It was only because the leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group and his son, who had violently broken open this treasure chest, were not fire-attribute cultivators that they could not practice them!

But they also dared not let their subordinates practice high-level cultivation methods and Battle Skills. They feared their subordinates would surpass them in strength after cultivating them, so they destroyed all the fire-attribute cultivation methods and Battle Skills.

Furthermore, Mu She's words could prove that the stone box had contained more than one Battle Skill or cultivation method.

Mu She's exact words were: "Thanks to you and Little Fairy Doctor, the third stone box in that cave happened to contain a high-level Battle Skill suitable for me."

The key words were "happened to contain one," which showed that there had been more than one inside.

Therefore, there was more than enough evidence to show that this stone box contained multiple Battle Skill Cultivation Methods!