Hidden Map!

Ya Fei came before the mechanism lock and injected Dou Qi into it.

Her Dou Qi traveled through the mechanism in a special pattern.

Very soon, the three mechanisms opened one after another.

As the three mechanisms opened, the large door before them also slowly swung open with a click.

Xiao Yang discovered that there were indeed quite a few things behind the door.

Medicinal herbs, pills, magic cores, weapons, special metals, cultivation methods, Fighting Skills, and more—just about everything could be found here.

After roughly estimating their value, he found that the contents of the treasury alone might be worth several million gold coins!

And besides all that, there was also a small mountain piled high with gold coins!

Ya Fei led Xiao Yang to a shelf beside the entrance.

At the very top of the shelf sat a black wooden box.

Ya Fei took it down and opened it. Inside was a black Storage Ring.

"Here, this contains a small portion of the medicinal herbs you need."

Ya Fei handed the ring to Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang did not stand on ceremony and immediately inspected the herbs inside the ring.

Sure enough, it contained many of the basic ingredients for the Marrow Cleansing Pill, as well as a rare Body Tempering Spirit Fruit!

A trace of satisfaction flashed across Xiao Yang's face as he looked at the herbs inside.

"Not bad. How much are these?"

Ya Fei said with a smile.

"For the sake of our cooperation, I'll give you a discount. Nine hundred thousand gold coins."

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Yang took out nine Purple Gold Coin Cards.

Each of these coin cards held a value of one hundred thousand gold coins.

Ya Fei was right. Nine hundred thousand gold coins was indeed cheap.

Under normal circumstances, even one million two hundred thousand gold coins might not have been enough.

And some of these items might not even have been available for purchase.

"Thank you for this, Miss Ya Fei."

"I'll remember this favor."

Xiao Yang looked at Ya Fei and smiled.

That was exactly what Ya Fei wanted to hear from Xiao Yang.

Although it was widely acknowledged that Xiao Yang's cultivation talent was nothing special, Ya Fei always felt that he would become someone extraordinary in the future.

That was why she had used all the authority at her disposal to help Xiao Yang search for these medicinal herbs.

"Then if I run into trouble next time, I'll have to ask little brother Xiao Yang for help."

Ya Fei looked at Xiao Yang with a smile.

"I'll have to trouble Miss Ya Fei with the remaining medicinal herbs as well."

"If there's any news, please let me know."

Ya Fei agreed without the slightest hesitation.

"No problem!"

As she spoke, Ya Fei prepared to lead Xiao Yang out of the treasury.

But at that moment, Xiao Yang suddenly spotted a map lying on the ground nearby.

The map looked rather old and worn, and its material was nothing impressive.

Beside the map were mostly old, battered items.

There were broken weapons, as well as incomplete fragments of cultivation methods and Fighting Skills.

What drew Xiao Yang's attention was that he faintly sensed something strange from this map!

He immediately focused his attention on it.

[Worn Map (Level 4): On the surface, it records the location of a third-tier Howling Moon Wolf's nest, but it hides another secret within.

Usage: Follow the record to find the Howling Moon Wolf's nest, or peel away the shallow outer layer to reveal the blank map hidden inside.

Mix Moonlight Grass juice and Liuming Flower petal juice in a 2:1 ratio and apply it to the blank map to reveal its contents.

Owner: Mittel Auction House

Can be enhanced: No]

Xiao Yang's eyes shifted as he looked at the information.

He pretended to look curiously at the pile of scrap beside him.

"What are these things?"

Ya Fei glanced at them and explained.

"These are defective items collected by the Mittel Auction House. Their quality isn't particularly good."

"We generally don't put these up for sale."

"They might be recycled, or we might see whether any other value can be found in them."

"If there's anything you like, feel free to take it."

"Sometimes there might be a treasure hidden among them. This kind of treasure hunting is rather interesting."

Though she said that, the Mittel Auction House's appraisers were not paid for nothing.

Generally speaking, out of ten thousand defective items like these, there might not even be one buried treasure.

Hearing this, Xiao Yang pretended to squat down and casually picked through a few items.

"This is an incomplete Huang Tier mid-grade cultivation method. Practicing it could cause blockage in the meridians."

"This is a failed magic-core weapon. It doesn't even have a magic core embedded in it."

"This herb looks like Heaven Heart Grass, but it's actually Veil Heart Grass, a poisonous herb that closely resembles Heaven Heart Grass."

Each time Xiao Yang picked up an item, Ya Fei casually identified it.

She had basically appraised all the scrap here.

Then, Xiao Yang picked up the map he had noticed earlier.

"This map records the location of a third-tier Howling Moon Wolf's nest in the Magical Beast Mountain Range near Wutan City."

"However, that Howling Moon Wolf has already been brought back by the Mittel Auction House's hunting team."

Xiao Yang casually picked up several items, including that map.

"Can I take these back to study?"

Ya Fei looked at the pile of things in Xiao Yang's hands, which was not even worth ten gold coins, and replied casually.

"No problem. I hope you find a buried treasure!"

"When the time comes, give it to your big sister here, and I'll help you sell it for a good price!"

Xiao Yang did not stand on ceremony and directly stored all those items in his Storage Ring.

Then, he left the treasury together with Ya Fei.

After handing Ya Fei some outlines he had written during this period, Xiao Yang left.

He needed to cultivate on his own now, so he did not plan to continue writing.

However, the expansion of his taverns over the past few years had made this kind of story popular throughout the Jia Ma Empire.

Although other storytellers did not dare plagiarize because of the Mite'er Family, they could still write new stories in the same style.

Naturally, the best of them had been directly recruited into Xiao Yang's taverns.

So now, all he needed to do was hand the outlines directly to Ya Fei.

That way, he only needed to spend a little time to keep this business going.

The main reason he had not abandoned it was his connection with the Mite'er Family.

For the time being, it would be difficult for him to grow strong enough to disregard the Mite'er Family.

The Mite'er Family's channels were still quite useful.

After bidding Ya Fei farewell, Xiao Yang quickly returned to his private courtyard.

He took out the map and carefully spread it across a stone table.

Then, he took out a small knife and began carefully peeling away the map's outermost layer.

Inside was a layer of what looked like completely ordinary white cloth.

Even Xiao Yang could not see anything unusual about it.

He immediately began preparing juice from Moonlight Grass and Liuming Flower.

Both herbs were relatively common medicinal ingredients.

He had casually bought two plants on his way back.

After the two differently colored juices were mixed together, they became a small amount of pale green liquid.

Xiao Yang dipped a small brush into it and carefully applied it to the white cloth.

Very soon, the white cloth began undergoing a strange transformation!

A map slowly began to appear upon it!