Golden light filled the entire cave. It came quickly and vanished just as fast, leaving only a pale golden scroll floating above the treasure chest.
"What is this?"
Seeing the scene before her, Xiao Yi Xian could not help thinking of the legendary treasure chests from the games in her previous life. This was incredible!
Every dungeon had to have treasure—ordinary, exquisite, legendary artifacts, and the like.
Xiao Yi Xian eagerly opened the scroll, but after one glance, her eyes filled with disappointment. This Cultivation Method really was that sound-wave Dou Technique.
She could not possibly make a girl like herself use a "roar," could she? Just imagining the scene seemed rather unsightly.
Xiao Yi Xian's face was full of reluctance as she stared intently around her. After carefully circling the tomb chamber once and finding nothing, she was disappointed again.
Could it be that so-called destiny truly was nothing more than destiny?
She had checked every blind spot, yet there was no hidden compartment. This was absurd. Was there no "bow three thousand times and receive an unrivaled divine technique" here?
"Hmm, wait. Bowing?"
Xiao Yi Xian seemed to think of something. She moved aside the skull of the tomb's owner and lightly touched the faint patterns beneath the seat.
Crack~
The stone chair opened, revealing a light brown box. Just looking at the box told her it was extraordinary.
The patterns around the stone tomb showed that this place had existed for a very long time, yet this wooden box was preserved as though it had just been cut from a tree.
"It's definitely a treasure!"
A bright gleam shone in Xiao Yi Xian's eyes as she eagerly pulled the wooden box out of the stone chair.
A box over a meter long appeared before Xiao Yi Xian. Strange patterns were carved into its light brown surface, yet they seemed like living runes.
"This..."
Looking at the runes before her, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly recalled something. The novels had once mentioned that the Dou Qi Continent had been extraordinarily prosperous in ancient times, with countless paths flourishing.
Formations, alchemy, puppetry, and all kinds of other arts had existed, while Dou Di after Dou Di had risen into the world.
But for some unknown reason, the Dou Di had fallen one after another, and Origin Qi had nearly vanished completely. After the era of the last Dou Di, Tou She Ancient God, no further Dou Di had ever appeared.
In particular, these runes looked very much like something she had seen in her previous life, and what was carved into this wood was very likely a formation.
If it was a formation, then the inheritance left behind by this ancient tomb's owner could not possibly amount to so little.
Formations had been lost long, long ago. Unless this ancient tomb had existed since ancient times, and its final owner had come here again before dying to leave behind an inheritance.
But then why was there no inheritance of formations?
Xiao Yi Xian shook her head. She stopped dwelling on things she could not understand and eagerly examined the wooden box.
There were seams around the box, but no matter what she did, she could not open it. There were straps on its back as well, as though it could be carried.
"Hmm?"
Xiao Yi Xian thought for a moment. Treasures generally required either refinement or blood recognition. Gritting her teeth, she carefully bit her finger and squeezed out a drop of crimson blood.
Drip!
The blood fell onto the strange pattern and vanished in an instant. At the same time, Xiao Yi Xian sensed a familiar feeling in her mind.
Another strange memory appeared in her mind. This wooden box had been passed down since ancient times, while the owner of this stone tomb had merely been an accident.
The Bone Dry scattered around Xiao Yi Xian belonged to an unlucky man. He had been a Dou Emperor, but with his lifespan nearing its end, he had wandered the continent until he reached this place and was about to die.
That Dou Emperor had then come to the top of this cliff, built a stone tomb with his own hands, and while digging, had accidentally unearthed this wooden box. Though he knew it was a treasure, he had little life remaining.
After casually arranging things, he had left the Dou Qi Continent and gone to the hell of this world.
After receiving this memory, Xiao Yi Xian did not know what to say. He had encountered a heaven-sent opportunity at the brink of death, yet he had not had the life left to enjoy it.
This wooden box was a Sword Box forged by a Dou Venerate in ancient times. The formation on the Sword Box absorbed the surrounding Dou Qi, keeping this treasure as pristine as ever.
Touching the Sword Box, she knew she had struck gold. She had not expected that Dou Emperor to dig up such an inheritance before his death. Thinking about it, she felt somewhat envious. Why could she not dig one up too?
How prosperous had ancient times been? How vast had the Dou Qi Continent been? Yet the gap that had appeared back then had never been recorded.
She had only obtained this Sword Box because of her sharp eyes. Who could have imagined that the owner of those Bone Dry remains had hidden it here so sinisterly?
If she had not suddenly remembered something, she likely would have passed it by as well.
Xiao Yi Xian strapped the Sword Box onto her back. It was slightly longer than her height, barely short of reaching the ground.
"Sword, come!"
The wooden panel atop the Sword Box suddenly vanished, and a streak of white light appeared before her.
Because she had recognized it with her blood, the Dou Qi within her body seemed to have formed a connection with the Sword Box on her back. Every time the Dou Qi in her body completed a circuit, it also made a circuit through the Sword Box.
Even the image of the Sword Box lingered in her mind. With a single thought, the sword inside could emerge.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at the sword embedded in the ground before her. The smile at the corners of her mouth could not be concealed, her eyes curving into crescents as she gazed happily at the silver-white sword.
Xiao Yi Xian drew the sword. Its silver-white blade was still as bright as ever, so clear that she could even see her delicate face reflected in it.
Two words from some unknown era were engraved upon the blade, but she knew they read: "You Su."
Holding the sword, she could not help twirling it in a flourish before reluctantly returning it to the Sword Box.
She had truly come to the right place this time. As expected, transmigrators always had some kind of cheat. She did not have a system or anything like that, but what she had obtained now was not bad either.
This Sword Box was a treasure capable of concealing its owner's aura. Otherwise, why had Yao Chen failed to sense it with Soul Power in the original story?
According to the information in the inheritance, that Dou Venerate had also been a peerless genius. Otherwise, he would never have created such a treasure.
She glanced back at the completely emptied stone tomb, then left. Within the entire ancient tomb, only an empty stone chair and a small mound of earth stood in the very center.
To her, this Sword Box was even more precious than Heavenly Flames. This trip had absolutely been worth it.
Xiao Yi Xian returned to the cliff and smiled faintly at Xiao Lan, who was still there. With a cry, Xiao Lan soared into the sky.
Standing atop Xiao Lan, Xiao Yi Xian felt the fierce wind around her, as though everything that had happened before had been nothing but a dream.
Xiao Lan stopped high in the air. The silver moonlight shone upon Xiao Yi Xian, and at some unknown moment, a sword had appeared in her hand.
A pale violet glow flickered in and out beneath the starry sky. As for the cave behind her, if fate allowed it, she would return someday.
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