Opening Treasure Chest

Chu Qing's guess was correct. Less than the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn after he left, two figures came flying.

"The bodies are here!"

Chu Fan landed first, his eyes scanning the surroundings as if searching for someone.

The Junior Sister Wen stood silently to the side, still holding a strip of cloth.

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

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

"It's that Night Emperor again... Who exactly is this person?"

Junior Sister Wen didn't answer, her gaze fixed on the words on the cloth.

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

"Junior Sister, have you noticed anything unusual?"

Junior Sister Wen pondered for a moment before seriously replying:

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

"..."

Chu Fan seemed taken aback for a moment, then let out a wry laugh.

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

However, recalling the events just now, he couldn't help but frown:

"I don't know where those two crazy women came from, they're truly detestable! Fortunately, the Night Emperor took action and wiped out the Iron Horse Seven Bandits. Otherwise, if they had escaped, who knows how many more innocent people they would have harmed."

Junior Sister Wen heard this and said after thinking for a moment:

"They were tricked."

Chu Fan nodded. After those two Iron Horse Seven Bandits left, they had fought for a while longer. Chu Fan finally found an opportunity to explain.

Through a question-and-answer session, Chu Fan quickly explained his origins.

The two women immediately stopped fighting. Filled with shame and anger, they declared that the two bandits deserved to die for deceiving them.

They said they would first go find the bandits' tracks, kill them, and then come back to apologize to Chu Fan.

With that, they leaped away and vanished in an instant.

Chu Fan was so angry he almost jumped on the spot... because the direction they chased off in was completely different from the direction the Iron Horse Seven Bandits had gone!

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

Afterward, he followed Junior Sister Wen to track them. But halfway there, they saw the two horses with human heads hanging from them.

"Regardless, the Iron Horse Seven Bandits being executed is ultimately a good thing."

As Chu Fan said this, he suddenly thought of something and asked:

"Right, Junior Sister, when we were chasing them earlier, why did you disappear in a blink of an eye? Where did you go?"

Junior Sister Wen's face remained impassive, and she said in a deep voice:

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

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

Chu Fan gritted his teeth in anger. If anyone else had said that, it would undoubtedly be a lie.

But Junior Sister Wen... never lied.

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

Unreliable!

Extremely unreliable!

However, Chu Fan was truly used to it.

Under Cui Buno, the Wrathful God Fist master of Taiyi 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, despite calling himself 'Un-angry,' is angered to the point of jumping every day by you all..."

[One Martial Arts Treasure Chest unopened, do you wish to open it?]

In a cave in the desolate mountains, Chu Qing started a fire to roast meat while opening the System interface.

This prompt immediately popped up.

"Open."

Without any hesitation, Chu Qing immediately chose to activate it.

He was very curious what could be inside this second treasure chest.

The prompt followed immediately.

[Activation successful, obtained Lightness Skill: Golden Goose Skill!]

Threads of information poured into his mind like a stream, and at the same time, his meridians and corresponding body parts felt a slight warmth.

After a while, everything subsided.

After organizing the information, Chu Qing smacked his lips, feeling a hint of regret:

"...It's not an Internal Energy Technique."

What he was most looking forward to now was obtaining a powerful Internal Energy Technique from this treasure chest.

Then he could soar to the heavens and fear no one.

With the Swift Flying Sword in his possession, he was confident that in a one-on-one fight, even if his opponent's Internal Energy Technique was superior to his own, he could kill them in one blow.

But if he were surrounded, or if the opponent's Internal Energy was vastly superior to his, then he would be in danger.

"Internal Energy Technique is still my weakness... However, this Golden Goose Skill is also extraordinary.

"Upon reaching mastery, one can walk on air for thirty-seven steps. I just don't know how far I can go with my current Internal Energy?"

With a thought, he leaped into the air, like a young swallow returning to its nest, leaping out of the cave.

When his body landed, he pushed off the ground and rose into the air again, his feet tapping repeatedly, walking on air. He covered about three zhang before his strength gave out.

But at this point, he changed his internal circulation, leaped into the air again, covering nearly another zhang in height, and landed on a tree.

"[Golden Goose Skill] doesn't excel in travel or speed, but its method of drawing energy to walk in the air is truly extraordinary.

"With this Lightness Skill, many impassable areas can be crossed in a single leap.

"It complements my family's [Star Chasing Moon Following Steps] perfectly, as each excels in different areas!"

He shifted his footing, and his body landed, returning to the cave:

"If this Lightness Skill is used well, it can save my life at critical moments.

"As for the Internal Energy Technique... I'll see if I can get one next time."

With that thought, he continued to roast meat. After a satisfying meal, he sat cross-legged and began cultivating the Void Scripture.

Over the past half month, the more he cultivated this Void Scripture, the more he felt the profound intricacies of this Internal Energy Technique.

And he didn't know if his transmigration had also had some effect on his body, but his cultivation speed over the past half month had been much faster than the original owner's in his memory.

He was now on the verge of the fourth level, and perhaps tonight he would break through to the fourth level.

Nothing noteworthy happened that night. The next morning, Chu Qing opened his eyes, and a sharp glint flashed within them.

"The Void Scripture has entered the fourth level, and my internal circulation has become even more robust.

"This Internal Energy Technique's internal circulation is continuous and unending. In simple terms, it's durable.

"If others with similar Internal Energy Techniques to mine were to fight for an hour, their energy would be depleted, but I could last for three hours and still have strength to spare."

With his Internal Energy Technique advancing another level, Chu Qing felt quite pleased.

For breakfast, he simply ate a few Chicken Heart Fruits and the leftover meat from last night.

After meticulously erasing all traces of his presence, he then continued on his way to Heavenly Dance City.

He was now within the territory of Heavenly Dance City, and with his walking speed, he could arrive in at most seven days.

The journey along the way was relatively peaceful.

The City Lord of Heavenly Dance City, Wu Ganqi, was a righteous man with effective governance. Within his domain, incidents of Jianghu vendettas were rare.

However, as Chu Qing, disguised, traveled for the sixth day, a minor accident occurred.

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

Less than three feet beneath his feet lay a corpse.

"A Heavenly Dance Guard?"

Chu Qing instantly recognized the uniform the person was wearing as that of a Heavenly Dance Guard.

"Why would a Heavenly Dance Guard be dead here?"

Surprised, he moved closer to examine the body, but unexpectedly, the corpse's eyes suddenly snapped open!