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Following the Treasure Chest Radar, Xian Yu soon arrived before a complex of buildings in the northwest of the Great Warm Valley.

Xian Yu frowned. "Could it be underground?"

At this moment, in his eyes, the coordinate point on the radar map and the coordinate point of the Bronze Treasure Chest had completely overlapped.

Yet, there was no sign of any treasure chest in the surrounding area.

He glanced at his inventory; there were currently three empty slots. Ever since he had the Diamond Shop to purchase better healing medicines at any time, he had cleared out all the medicine from his bag.

Of course, being a thrifty person, he hadn't thrown away the medicine he brought from home, but instead found two large bags to pack them in and left them in his room.

"I suppose I'll have to look for a tunnel or something nearby." Sighing, Xian Yu began to wander around the area.

A few minutes later.

Xian Yu looked at the building complex before him, a guess forming in his mind: "Could the treasure chest have spawned in a basement someone built specifically? This place... it couldn't be that coincidental, could it?"

At this point, he wasn't about to keep looking for an entrance; what was the point?

With the dense, intricate maze of wooden thatched huts ahead, even if he searched them one by one, if the entrance were too well-hidden and he missed it, he would just be wasting time and effort running between houses.

So, after much thought, he decided to find a helper!

"Come out, Bai Xiaoqi!" After a burst of runes flickered on the ground, Bai Xiaoqi appeared before him in his combat form.

When he had fought the black-haired ninja from the Black Wind Stronghold, that guy named Heifeng, he had been far too arrogant. He had wanted to avoid relying on Bai Xiaoqi, thinking that as long as he had the vitality of the Eternal Spirit Blade, it wouldn't matter even if his heart were pierced.

However, facts proved that he had been too arrogant.

But in truth, every seemingly foolish action usually has a traceable cause.

When he was trapped in the illusion, the words spoken to him by the 'Three-Tailed Fox' within that illusion had indeed been quite demoralizing.

Whether it was a man's pride or a sense of rebellion, the fact remained that even when he and Heifeng were stabbing each other's hearts, Xian Yu had never once considered letting Bai Xiaoqi intervene.

The result was that he ended up severely injured...

So, one really shouldn't be too pretentious. When there is power available to borrow, one shouldn't rely on it too much, but one shouldn't resist it either; as long as one maintains the right balance, it is fine.

"Master, what is it?" The three-meter-long Bai Xiaoqi was always a shocking and powerful sight to behold.

"Call me Young Master!" Xian Yu curled his lip.

Bai Xiaoqi's large face instantly crumpled into a look of distress, but he remained very spirited: "Young Master... you summoned me, is there something you need me to do?"

Refuting was never an option—even if the boss was wrong, the employee who refuted him would surely be the one to suffer. The same applied to a wife, and the same applied to a master.

What a spirited realization.

"Hmm, my little Qi is getting more and more obedient. I'll open a female fox for you to reward you another day. First, dig up this ground for me; there should be a secret room or tunnel underneath. Your mother is down there."

"My mother?" Bai Xiaoqi looked bewildered. !?(?_?;?

"That's right, you popped out of a treasure chest, didn't you..."

With a cloud of dust filling the air, our excavator master began his work.

Each grab of those frying-pan-sized fox paws scooped up a large patch of soil, the sharp claws digging into the earth as if it were tofu.

Graduating from the Lanxiang school of digging, Bai Xiaoqi was highly efficient, and in less than five minutes, he had cleared the area.

Beneath a hole five meters in diameter and twenty or thirty meters deep lay a rock-constructed storage room, where a fox mother emitting a faint bronze luster was lying quietly.

"Xiaoqi, hurry and take me down to find your mother." Seeing the treasure chest, Xian Yu was already impatient.

Bai Xiaoqi: "..."

Xian Yu rode on the back of the Three-Tailed Fox. This was his first time riding Bai Xiaoqi; the brownish-red fur was soft, and the fur on those three tails felt as smooth as silk to the touch.

"Mmhmm... Master, don't touch there..." Bai Xiaoqi suddenly let out a soul-stirring moan... with a tremolo... and at a high pitch...

It gave Xian Yu such a jolt that he nearly fell off!

One had to know that when Bai Xiaoqi took human form, he was impossibly handsome, to the point where one couldn't distinguish his gender, and his voice was the same.

It was like that sweet, pleasant, neutral tone that not only didn't make one feel disgusted or repulsed, but made one want to hear more.

Perhaps this was the natural charm of the fox clan.

But damn it, using that voice to let out a moaning sound with a tremolo was simply too terrifying!!! It was practically a male-killer... oh wait, it might have the same effect on females too...

"Uh... I... I'm sorry. Is it because your tails are sensitive?" Xian Yu apologized for once, not only placing his hands properly but also shifting his body to stay as far away from those three tails as possible...

He was truly scared!

If he heard that sound a few more times, Xian Yu felt he might turn gay...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shiver.

"Xiaoqi is a male fox, Xiaoqi is a male fox... male... male..." After chanting this to himself a few times, he finally felt a bit better.

"Master, be careful, we're going down."

Soon, Bai Xiaoqi carried Xian Yu down into the underground storage room.

"Holy crap... this is..." Jumping off the back of the Three-Tailed Fox and landing on the rock floor, Xian Yu was shocked by the scene before him.

He had seen a hundred-pound bag of rice dumped on the ground, piled up like a small hill.

Yet, piles of gemstones covering an area this large were heaped into a mountain... would you believe it?

"I'm rich! I'm rich! I finally have money! If all these gems were converted into silver, it would probably be at least 50 million, right?" Xian Yu's eyes were practically glowing, looking every bit the miser.

"Notification: Large quantities of special energy crystals detected."

Just then, the voice of the Treasure Chest System rang out.

"Hm? Special energy crystals?" Xian Yu suddenly felt as though he had returned to the moment he first obtained the Treasure Chest System, and a foreboding premonition welled up in his heart.

"Ding-dong! This type of special energy meets the absorption criteria."

Xian Yu's heart skipped a beat, and his ominous premonition grew even stronger.

Having experienced the Treasure Chest System many times, Xian Yu had gradually figured out some of its patterns.

For instance, when he obtained something exceptionally good, the system voice would be followed by a showering-flowers.jpg dynamic effect, which appeared in his field of vision as a sky full of falling blossoms.

For instance, whenever the system voice was preceded by words like 'Notification' or 'Ding-dong', it was always important information. He hadn't yet grasped the specific difference between the two.

"Ding-dong! Commencing absorption of special energy."

"F*ck!!! Don't do this!!!" Hearing this, Xian Yu felt his entire world collapse, and he hurriedly shouted, "System, this is a violation! Where is the rule that says you can forcibly plunder a host's wealth without the host agreeing to a top-up!"

"..."

However, the system provided absolutely no response.

"Ding-dong! Commencing absorption."

"No!!! Don't do this!" Little student Xian Yu let out an extremely shrill, hysterical wail: "Don't you go turning from Tencent into NetEase!"

Tencent at least says: If you don't have money, go play with your mother!

NetEase: Play with your mother~