"All right. Leaving them in the estate would only mean letting them gather dust. If you need them, feel free to pick whatever you like. As for the fate stones, you can decide how much to give me. Consider it repayment for saving my life, Priest Xia." After saying this, Cheng Lie led us back to her cave abode.
She might have been beautiful, but beneath her refreshing appearance was a hint of sternness. Compared to Fenggu's cave abode, hers was worlds apart. Aside from the basic facilities needed for daily life, there was almost nothing meant for enjoyment. Thus, all sorts of ores, food, medicinal herbs, and even rare and bizarre treasures of heaven and earth—things that looked strange and whose names we could not even identify—were piled all over the cave abode.
Seeing us carefully stepping over those treasures, Cheng Lie gave an awkward smile and said, "I don't spend much time in my cave abode, so I casually tossed the treasures I found inside. Please forgive the spectacle, fellow Daoists. Everything is here; I didn't deliberately hide anything."
"Fellow Daoist Cheng Lie is simply acting according to her nature. There's nothing wrong with that. We came to seek treasures, not to pay you a formal visit, so you needn't worry about our feelings," Meng Shuang said with a hearty laugh, though he could not look happy. This meant there was no profit to be had.
Cheng Lie led us around the donut-shaped cave abode and showed us the treasures scattered throughout it. Neither Xue Qingcheng nor I, and not even Meng Shuang, could find anything particularly special.
That was because although there were plenty of materials here, most were ordinary native treasures from the Magic Beast Divine Domain. Some of the ores were rare, but not rare