Hidden Treasure, Hidden Treasure, and More Hidden Treasure!

"Looks like there's no need to limit my sights to the Northwest Continent."

"I can ask the clan whether there are any missions in the Black-Corner Region."

"The Black-Corner Region is the most chaotic place on the Dou Qi Continent. Finding an excuse to go there won't be difficult."

"If all else fails, I can spend a few days as a student in Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy and get myself an identity."

Feng Qing'er was secretly delighted. This was an excellent opportunity to approach Xiao Ting ahead of time in a reasonable manner.

However, she would have to wait until she met Cao Ying in the Dan Region and confirmed her suspicions.

If there really were others with Notebook Copies, she would have to think carefully before acting.

Should she hide in the shadows and quietly seek opportunities, or expose herself like Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian for the sake of Plane Blessing?

At the same time, Cao Ying, Medusa, Yun Yun, and the others all had thoughts of their own.

Xiao Ting knew nothing about any of this.

After recording the Notes in a single thought, he walked to a spot in the newly opened area and turned the Moonlight Stone embedded there.

Bang!

The wall to one side trembled, and a thick stone door slowly shifted aside.

"There's more!?" Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian looked at each other.

They had thought the Tomb Raiding Records in their hands was the final gain from this trip.

"There is indeed more, though perhaps there isn't." Xiao Ting answered calmly. "I just realized that the cave we're in doesn't resemble a cave residence carved into a cliff by some expert. It seems more like a side burial chamber of a small Tomb Mansion."

"The skeleton outside knew the art of observing qi, yet used it for tomb raiding."

"He must have discovered a cave in the cliff by chance, then forcibly carved out a passage connecting it to this side chamber."

"The end of the original cave was the mechanism stone door we encountered outside."

Of course, Xiao Ting was not making this up. The detailed Tomb Mansion map granted by Plane Blessing had marked it clearly.

The Tomb Mansion they were in had two side burial chambers, as well as a main tomb chamber.

"Let's go."

Xiao Ting took the lead and entered the passage.

Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian immediately followed, using the light emitted by the Moonlight Stone to examine their surroundings.

Before long, the three arrived in a great hall. Above the hall was a star map fashioned from luminous pearls.

Several skeletons lay in the center of the hall, each with a Storage Ring on its hand.

Xiao Ting stepped forward and collected the Storage Rings. "These people were likely companions of the skeleton in the side chamber. They helped capture a Fifth Rank magical beast to create that Flight Dou Technique."

"In the end, they either fell out over the division of spoils or encountered some accident, and all died here."

"The one in the side chamber was the final victor, but he was also severely injured, which was why he died there."

No one knew the truth, but Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian felt that Xiao Ting's guess was correct.

The great hall was large, but it had only three entrances. One of them led to the side burial chamber they had come from.

After searching the skeletons and confirming that nothing had been left behind, Xiao Ting led them into the adjacent entrance.

They soon arrived at another side burial chamber. Its furnishings and layout were identical to the one containing the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, but nothing had been left behind. It was completely empty.

"It was cleared out by those people outside."

The three returned empty-handed. After going back to the great hall, they headed toward the final entrance, only to return after walking for a short while.

Xiao Ting explained to the two women, "This is the proper entrance to the Tomb Mansion. It's filled with all kinds of mechanisms, so there's no need for us to take the risk."

"Then where is the main tomb chamber?" Xiao Yi Xian instinctively asked.

Xiao Ting and Xun'er did not answer. At the same time, they turned to look at the side of the great hall that had only sculptures and no doorway.

Dragon Transformation Seal!

Xiao Ting raised his hand and formed a seal.

Dou qi circulated within him, surging out in great quantities and transforming into a thunder dragon covered in flames.

The energy of heaven and earth passively empowered it as the flaming thunder dragon rushed toward the wall covered in carvings.

Boom!

The scene Xiao Yi Xian had imagined, with the sculptures being destroyed, did not occur. The imposing flaming thunder dragon struck the sculptures and was directly devoured whole.

Immediately afterward, the sculptures began to change, eventually transforming into a passage of text.

[Yin-Yang Unification Art]: A dual-cultivation auxiliary secret art. When practiced jointly by a man and a woman whose hearts are connected, it doubles the effectiveness of their own cultivation techniques...

Xiao Ting: "..."

Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian: "..."

None of them had expected the final reward to be a dual-cultivation secret art.

Its effect was actually to enhance the cultivation efficiency of one's own technique. Judging from the effect alone, it was extremely good.

If a pair of Dao companions cultivating High Xuan Tier techniques practiced this art together, it would be no different from cultivating a Low Earth Tier technique. It would be enough to defy fate and change their lives.

"Memorize the technique. It'll come in handy someday," Xiao Ting said to the two women.

Xun'er: ?

Xiao Yi Xian's pretty face flushed. She could not help feeling that Xiao Ting was hinting at something.

After the two women memorized the technique, Xiao Ting punched a certain character.

The next moment, the starry ceiling above began to move, swiftly transforming into something resembling a bridge of stars.

At the end of the star bridge appeared a crystal Coffin suspended by chains. A skeleton could be seen lying within it.

Below the crystal Coffin was a thread, and at the bottom of the thread hung a Storage Ring.

"Looks like this senior was terrified that someone would dig up his Coffin." Xiao Ting leaped high into the air and took the Storage Ring.

A sweep with his soul power revealed several hundred thousand gold coins, some scrolls, and a pile of empty porcelain bottles inside.

There was also a sheet of paper bearing the Tomb Mansion owner's account of his life.

During his lifetime, he had been a peak wood-element Dou Wang. When he was preparing to break through to the Dou Emperor realm, he had been betrayed by his Dao companion.

After killing his Dao companion and her adulterer, he dragged his heavily injured body back to this cave residence left behind by an expert, which he had discovered in his early years. He converted it into his Tomb Mansion and died here.

Most of the scrolls contained wood-element Dou Techniques, along with several volumes of Notes on planting and cultivating spiritual herbs.

"These things were practically prepared for you." Xiao Ting handed all the wood-element-related items to Xiao Yi Xian.

Although Xiao Yi Xian possessed the Woeful Poison Body, she also had wood-element dou qi within her. Otherwise, she could not have become a physician.

"After all, Xiao Yi Xian found this cave residence," Xun'er said with a smile.

Having claimed every benefit in the Tomb Mansion, the three chatted and laughed as they returned to the original burial chamber.

Xiao Ting once again stood before the skeleton, resting his hand against his chin as he pondered.

"What is it, Brother Xiao Ting?" Xun'er asked curiously.

"Don't you feel like something is missing?" Xiao Ting asked.

"What's missing?" Xun'er blinked.

She did not feel that anything was missing.

Hadn't they taken all the benefits?

"The skeletons in the great hall had Storage Rings."

"The Tomb Mansion's owner also had a Storage Ring."

"What about him?"

Xiao Ting raised a question that made Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian suddenly understand.

Normally, if someone discovered this Tomb Mansion, entered it, and obtained three stone boxes, gold and silver treasures, and medicinal ingredients, they would think that was everything. They would not find it strange that the skeleton's owner lacked a Storage Ring.

Someone with sharper eyes might even discover the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map hidden within the skeleton's bones, making them even less likely to think further.

And after discovering the area where the Tomb Raiding Records had been placed, they would completely overlook the Storage Ring.

Bang!

Xiao Ting moved the skeleton aside and picked up the seemingly ordinary cushion it had been sitting on.

After feeling around for a while, he found a Storage Ring inside the cushion.

Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian: "..."

There really was one!