After refolding Duan Qidong's letter and placing it back into its original box,
Ling Wuyuan took out the map that had been stored alongside it.
He understood that this was the so-called second-stage treasure hunt quest.
What it depicted was precisely the detailed location of the Secret Vault mentioned in the letter, along with the actual method of entering and leaving it.
However.
The location was somewhat far away.
Far beneath the Azure Lake White Stream Palace Ruins in Cloud Ridge Province.
Ling Wuyuan definitely could not go there right now.
He was too young.
For a twelve-year-old little ghost to dare cross an entire province alone was more or less asking for death...
The classic case of fearing he did not stand out enough.
Besides.
Four thousand years was truly a long time. No one knew what exactly might have happened in between.
There were simply far too many variables along the way...
For example, Duan Qidong had made it clear in his letter that the seeds for his sect's revival left in the outside world were not limited to the spatial ring in Ling Wuyuan's hand.
Over those four thousand long years,
the rest of the inheritance had very likely already fallen into someone else's hands.
And after obtaining part of Azure Lake White Stream Palace's inheritance, those people would naturally be highly likely to head to the Azure Lake White Stream Palace Ruins and empty out that so-called Secret Vault...
Therefore, Ling Wuyuan did not actually hold overly high expectations for Azure Lake White Stream Palace's Secret Vault, which was said to contain the sect's supreme secrets and ultimate treasure.
He felt that successfully obtaining some of Azure Lake White Stream Palace's remaining inheritance already counted as extremely good luck.
He would not place too many expectations