Madam, You Wouldn't Want Your Son to Be Tortured to Death, Would You?

After parting ways with the Blood War Mercenary Group, Su Luo took out a rope he had prepared in advance from his Soul Tool, while Su Muyue readied her Flying Soul Tool in case anything went wrong.

Flying Soul Tools were far too unknown to the people of this world, and they also looked far too much like Flying Dou Techniques. To avoid being spotted by certain people and becoming the target of schemes, it was best not to use the Flying Soul Tool unless necessary.

After tying the rope to a sturdy tree, Su Luo gave it a hard tug.

"Good. The rope is strong enough for ordinary situations."

The fact that four stages of Dou Qi combined with his strength as a Soul Master had failed to snap the rope proved that it could bear the combined weight of both Su Luo and Su Muyue.

After tying the rope around both their waists, Su Luo grabbed Su Muyue, and with Su Muyue taking the lead, they set off in search of the cave.

After several minutes of exploration, the two quickly discovered the cave entrance.

Just as they found the cave, a Rock Snake that had concealed itself against the cliff wall opened its jaws and lunged at them, seemingly intending to swallow them whole.

Su Muyue merely glanced at it. Then, five Soul Rings—two yellow, two purple, and one black—appeared around her. As the fifth Soul Ring lit up, a giant eagle with a wingspan exceeding eight meters flew out from a door. Its talons clamped tightly onto the Rock Snake that had suddenly attacked, then tore hard, ripping the snake apart like a spicy strip.

Immediately afterward, the giant eagle's claws tore open the Rock Snake's head. Their luck was pretty good—they had even obtained a magic core.

Casually storing the magic core in her Storage Soul Tool, the two headed into the cave.

At the cave entrance, Su Luo took out a fire starter and gently blew it alight. Besides providing illumination, it also confirmed that there was enough oxygen inside.

Although the cave in the original story did not seem to lack oxygen, there was nothing wrong with being cautious.

The two walked silently through the cave for more than ten minutes before finally stopping in front of a stone door that emitted a faint yellow glow.

Su Luo then began searching around for the mechanism. He soon found a tiny protrusion beneath the stone door and pressed down hard with his finger. A series of creaking noises slowly echoed through the cave.

As the stone door rose, a faint glow shone out from within, dispersing the surrounding darkness.

Su Luo then picked up several stones and casually threw them through the doorway a few times. After confirming that there was still no problem, the two cautiously stepped inside.

The moment they officially entered through the stone door, their view opened up. The glowing stones embedded in the walls for illumination, the skeleton seated in the center of the stone chamber, the three stone boxes, and the hundreds of thousands—perhaps even millions—of gold coins were all clearly visible.

"This gloomy feeling... is this really not some Evil Soul Master's inheritance site?" Su Muyue frowned slightly. As someone from the Douluo Continent during the era of Peerless Tang Sect, her definition of Evil Soul Masters was extremely broad.

The original story had clearly stated that someone with a Crow martial soul had been labeled an Evil Soul Master merely because it was black, despite having little to do with darkness. That showed just how obsessive Douluo Continent Season 2 had become about classifying Evil Soul Masters.

"It's only because this senior has passed away. As for the gloomy feeling, there's really no helping it. He couldn't exactly leave himself out under the blazing sun."

As he spoke, Su Luo walked over to the nearest pile of gold coins and waved his hand. The vast number of coins was stored in his Storage Soul Tool. This was not Xiao Yan and the Little Fairy Doctor's expedition from the original story. Su Luo and Su Muyue did not need to consider how to divide the loot—whether Su Luo took it all or Su Muyue did, the result would be the same.

After storing away the easiest-to-collect gold coins, Su Luo did not hurry to gather the herbs. Instead, he surveyed the entire stone chamber before finally turning his gaze toward the three stone boxes.

The keys were not difficult to find—or rather, their owner had never intended to hide them. Su Luo and Su Muyue soon spotted the three keys in the skeleton's palm.

After a brief hesitation, Su Luo took out three incense sticks from his Storage Soul Tool and lit them with the fire starter.

"Please forgive the offense. We have no intention of disrespecting you, Senior."

After bowing three times to the skeleton seated on the stone chair, Su Luo planted the incense sticks in the ground and carefully reached for the three keys.

Once he had taken the three keys, Su Luo's gaze naturally drifted to the Nether Flame Demonic Fire Fragment Map lying beside them, between the skeleton's arms.

Carefully taking out the fragment map, Su Luo bowed to the skeleton three more times.

"I'm sorry. My deepest apologies."

Even after bowing several times in succession, Su Luo still felt somewhat guilty. Though he had lived two lives, public safety in his previous life had been far too good, and he was only nine years old in this one. Faced with a skeleton, even though he had mentally prepared himself, he could not help but feel afraid.

"Clack."

As Su Luo continued bowing, the sound of something falling to the ground suddenly rang out in the empty cave, startling both Su Luo and Su Muyue. Cold sweat instantly soaked through their inner clothes.

There was no other reason. In this gloomy environment, with a skeleton right beside them, the sudden sound was simply too terrifying.

"This... is this a Storage Ring?"

After the fright passed, Su Luo looked toward the source of the sound and discovered a Storage Ring that appeared to be of quite good quality.

"That makes sense. There's no way all these gold coins were carried here bit by bit right before death. Someone at this level couldn't possibly not have even one Storage Ring."

Su Luo looked up at the cave ceiling. Some of the stones there seemed to have softened after coming into contact with the incense he had just lit, eventually squeezing this Storage Ring out from between them.

"So, was this something Medicine Elder had left behind because he didn't care for it, or had too little time passed for Medicine Elder to examine it?" Su Luo wondered inwardly.

Considering that Xiao Yan had been chased so desperately back then that he had not even had time to open the third box, Su Luo was more inclined toward the latter.

Silently putting away the Storage Ring, Su Luo used the three keys to open the stone boxes one by one.

Su Luo kept the two Dou Techniques, Eagle's Wing and Raging Lion's Roar. As for the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, he only glanced at it before immediately locking the stone box once more.

Without Medicine Elder's protection and without the Little Fairy Doctor's Calamitous Poison Body, touching the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture would be nothing but courting death.

"Not bad. Quite a bountiful harvest."

Tossing the Storage Ring in his hand, Su Luo was very satisfied with this unexpected gain.

"Hehe, it certainly is a bountiful harvest. But not for you—it's for me, Mu She."

The moment Su Luo finished speaking, a figure walked into the cave. It was Mu She, the former leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

"Hehe, Madam, you wouldn't want your son to be tortured to death, would you?"