Qin Fengming was sincerely grateful to this female cultivator. If not for comprehending the rippling light spirit patterns on her body, remaining here safely would have been absolutely impossible, let alone descending to the bottom of the cavern to investigate its secrets.
With utmost respect, Qin Fengming bowed and extended his palm again.
This time, the layer of rippling light on the female cultivator's corpse still surfaced, but it merely appeared without blocking Qin Fengming's palm.
A mass of gentle energy lightly lifted the corpse and cautiously stored it inside the Xumi Cave Dwelling's space. This place was unsuitable for burial. Qin Fengming planned to leave and bury the female cultivator somewhere peaceful, offering her some consolation.
Just as Qin Fengming stored away the corpse and was about to rise and investigate the boulder, his gaze suddenly caught sight of a fist-sized hole in the stone ground beneath the female cultivator's corpse. A lustrous mass of energy lay dormant inside that hole.
Qin Fengming's eyes instantly widened, and his heart pounded like thunder.
Although he had yet to see clearly what was inside the hole, Qin Fengming was already certain that whatever lay within was definitely the most precious item on that female cultivator.
The environment here was harsh, with terrifying fusion-sealing energy and gravity running rampant. The storage items on the female cultivator's body had already been solidified and lost their function, so the items within could not possibly have survived. Thus, Qin Fengming had not desecrated her corpse to search for treasures.
But now, since the female cultivator had so carefully guarded a hole beneath her body, one could guess without thinking that whatever was stored within had to be extraordinarily precious to her.
Watching the hole, Qin Fengming did not move for a while.
Instead, he carefully