Is Uncle Here?

The heavy stone door slowly shifted open, and murky air drifted out from within. This made Du Ping'an even more certain that this was the secret his master had hidden away, a place only disciples recognized by him could enter.

With that thought in mind, Du Ping'an picked up the lit oil lamp beside him and carefully made his way down.

The floor was spotless.

The rocky passage was likewise immaculate, and even looked somewhat new.

Someone probably cleaned it regularly.

Du Ping'an came up with an explanation in his mind.

After following the passage for a while, the space ahead suddenly opened up. Inside was a circular underground secret chamber, roughly a hundred square meters in size. Stone display cases lined the surrounding walls, and each one held a weapon.

Du Ping'an counted them and found thirteen weapons in total.

Life Demons!

Although he had never opened the wooden box in his father's possession before, Du Ping'an recognized the origins of these weapons at first glance when he saw them again.

"There are actually so many Life Demons! This must be the accumulation of several generations of the daoist temple."

A flicker of eagerness passed through Du Ping'an's eyes.

From his father's accounts, he already knew the value of Life Demons and understood just how difficult it was to capture one. The wooden box currently hidden by the Du Family had only been seized because the important figure behind his father had personally acted. More than twenty experts had participated in that mission.

Five of them had even been first-rate experts!

More than half of those people had died or been injured just to obtain that box.

His father was merely keeping it for the time being, taking advantage of being local insiders. The important figure behind him would