Opening the Treasure Chest

Chu Qing's prediction was correct. Less than an incense stick's time after he left, two figures flew over.

"The bodies are here!"

Chu Fan landed first, his eyes sweeping around as if searching for someone.

That junior sister Wen stood silently to the side, holding a strip of cloth in her hand.

Faintly visible on it were the words 'Night Emperor', fluttering in the wind.

After a while, Chu Fan found nothing and stared at the two charred corpses.

"It was the Night Emperor again... Who exactly is this person?"

Junior sister Wen didn't answer, just stared at the words on the cloth strip.

Seeing this, Chu Fan waited for a moment before asking:

"Junior sister, have you noticed anything?"

Junior sister Wen pondered for a bit, then said seriously:

"This person's handwriting... is really ugly."

"..."

Chu Fan seemed stunned for a moment, then let out a wry smile.

He was already used to his junior sister's personality and didn't take it to heart.

But thinking back to just now, he couldn't help but frown again:

"I don't know where those two crazy women came from, they're truly hateful! Thankfully the Night Emperor intervened and wiped out the Seven Iron Horse Thieves, otherwise if they had escaped, who knows how many more innocent people would have been harmed by them."

Hearing this, junior sister Wen thought for a moment and said:

"They were tricked."

Chu Fan nodded. After the two Seven Iron Horse Thieves left, they had exchanged blows for quite a while before Chu Fan found an opportunity to explain.

Through a series of questions and answers, Chu Fan quickly explained his background.

The two women immediately stopped fighting, and besides feeling ashamed, they were also furious, saying that those two thieves dared to deceive them and truly deserved death.

They would first go find the tracks of those two thieves and kill them, then come back to apologize to Chu Fan.

After saying this, they soared away and vanished in the blink of an eye.

It made Chu Fan so angry he almost jumped up and down on the spot... simply because the direction they chased was completely different from the direction the Seven Iron Horse Thieves had left in!

He wondered if these two were truly too foolish or if they had ulterior motives?

After that, he and junior sister Wen tracked them together, but halfway there, they saw the two horses with human heads hanging from them.

"Regardless, it's a good thing that the Seven Iron Horse Thieves have been apprehended."

Speaking of this, Chu Fan suddenly thought of something and asked:

"Oh right, junior sister, when we were chasing them earlier, how did you disappear when I turned my head? Where did you go?"

There was still no ripple on junior sister Wen's face as she said in a deep voice:

"I saw a flower between the mountain streams. It was blooming very brightly, so I went to pick it."

"...I shouldn't have asked you!"

Chu Fan clenched his teeth in frustration. If anyone else said that, it would definitely be a lie.

But junior sister Wen... never lied.

She was truly the kind of person who could do something like that.

Unreliable!

Utterly unreliable!

But Chu Fan was truly used to it.

Under Cui Bunü, the Divine Fist of Non-Anger from the Great Easy Sect, junior sister Wen wasn't the only unreliable one.

If senior brother were here...

Thinking of this, Chu Fan suddenly felt a toothache.

He sighed:

"No wonder Master clearly calls himself 'Non-Anger', but is angered by you guys every day to the point of jumping up and down..."

[One unopened martial arts treasure chest, open?]

In a cave on a desolate mountain, Chu Qing lit a fire and roasted meat while opening the system interface.

That prompt immediately popped up.

"Open."

Naturally, without any hesitation, Chu Qing immediately chose to open it.

He was really looking forward to seeing what could be opened from this second treasure chest.

And the notification followed.

[Opening successful, obtained movement technique: Golden Goose Technique!]

Strands of information poured into his mind like flowing water, and at the same time, his meridians and corresponding parts of his body felt slightly warm.

After a good while, everything subsided.

After sorting through the information, Chu Qing smacked his lips, feeling a bit regretful:

"...It's not an internal cultivation method."

What he was most looking forward to right now was being able to open a high-level internal cultivation method from this treasure chest.

Then he could soar to great heights with it, fearing no one.

Now that he had Ah Fei's Fast Sword, he was confident that in a one-on-one situation, even if the opponent's internal energy was superior to his, he could still kill them with a single strike.

But if he was surrounded, or if the opponent's internal energy was vastly different from his, then he would be in danger.

"Internal energy is still a weakness... However, the Golden Goose Technique, this movement technique, is also extraordinary.

"After achieving mastery, one can walk in the air for thirty-seven steps, but I just don't know how far I can go with my current internal energy?"

With a thought, he leaped up, like a young swallow returning to its nest, jumping out of the cave.

After his body landed, he pushed off the ground and leaped up again, tapping his feet repeatedly, walking in the air, and only ran out of energy after crossing about three zhang.

But at this point, his internal energy shifted, and with another leap in the air, he gained nearly another zhang in height, his body landing on a tree.

"The [Golden Goose Technique] isn't known for long-distance travel or speed, but the method of lifting qi while walking in the air is truly extraordinary.

"With this movement technique, many places that are difficult to cross can be swept over.

"It can be said to excel in its own way compared to my family's [Star Chasing Moon Catching Steps]!"

He turned his steps, and his body had already descended, returning to the cave:

"If this movement technique is used well, it can save your life at crucial moments.

"As for internal energy... I'll see if I can open one next time."

Thinking of this, he continued to roast meat. After eating his fill, he sat cross-legged and began cultivating the Ruoxu Scripture.

Over the past half month, the more he cultivated this Ruoxu Scripture, the more he felt its profoundness.

And he didn't know if his transmigration had also caused a certain degree of impact on his body, but the speed of cultivation in the past half month was much faster than the cultivation speed of the original owner in his memory.

He was already on the verge of the fourth level, and perhaps tonight he could step into the realm of the fourth level.

That night was uneventful. The next morning, Chu Qing opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing within them.

"The Ruoxu Scripture has entered the fourth level, and my internal energy has become a bit more profound.

"The internal energy of this cultivation method is continuous and unending. In short, it's durable.

"If someone else's internal energy is similar to mine, they would be depleted after fighting for an hour, but I can last for three hours with energy to spare."

With his internal energy advancing another level, Chu Qing felt quite pleased.

Breakfast was simply a few chicken heart fruits and the leftover meat from last night, which was enough.

After carefully wiping away all traces of his presence, he then continued on his way towards Heavenly Dance City.

He was now within the range of Heavenly Dance City, and with his leg strength, he could reach it in at most seven days.

And the journey along the way was relatively peaceful.

Heavenly Dance City's City Lord, Wu Ganqi, was a chivalrous person who governed effectively, and there were few instances of江湖仇杀 (jianghu feuds and killings) within his sphere of influence.

However, on the sixth day of Chu Qing's disguised journey, a small accident occurred.

He was less than a day's journey from Heavenly Dance City. Chu Qing was using his movement technique to travel through the forest. As he landed to catch his breath and was about to leap up again, he suddenly sensed something was wrong.

Less than three feet below his feet lay a corpse.

"Heavenly Dance Guard?"

Chu Qing instantly recognized that the clothes the person was wearing were those of a Heavenly Dance Guard.

"How could a Heavenly Dance Guard die here?"

Feeling surprised, he leaned closer to examine, but unexpectedly, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes!