Sixth-Tier Magic Core and an Earth-Tier Fighting Skill!

Seeing this, Xiao Yang did not hesitate.

He stepped before the skeleton and respectfully bowed.

"Junior Xiao Yang thanks you, Senior, for these treasures!"

After paying his respects, he went to the flower bed nearby, intending to dig a grave for the man.

Xiao Yan came over to help as well.

Before long, the brothers had dug out a grave.

The two of them returned to the stone seat and carefully lifted it.

Just then, sharp-eyed Xiao Yang suddenly noticed a barely discernible mark beneath the skeleton.

This mark was somewhat similar to the one on the stone door outside.

Xiao Yang did not investigate it immediately. Instead, he and Xiao Yan first moved the skeleton into the grave and buried it.

After finishing, he grabbed Xiao Yan, who was about to leave.

"What is it, Brother Yang?"

Xiao Yang pointed at the stone seat.

"There seems to be something else here."

Even Yao Lao, standing nearby, became curious.

"Hm? There's something else?"

Yao Lao quickly extended his soul force toward the stone seat.

Soon, a trace of admiration crossed Yao Lao's face.

"What an ingenious mechanism."

Hearing this, Xiao Yang looked at Yao Lao curiously.

"Teacher, what do you mean?"

"How do we open it?"

Yao Lao pointed at the flower bed beside them.

"Actually, the mechanism beneath this stone seat is connected to the flower bed."

"At the very bottom of the flower bed, there is a gravity-sensing device."

"Only when it reaches that weight will the switch beneath the stone seat activate."

"Moreover, that weight must be roughly equivalent to that skeleton."

"Finally, you have to press that mechanism."

"This mechanism is extremely well concealed, and it is wrapped within the stone seat."

"The mechanism beneath the flower bed also extends several meters underground."

"Even I would not have detected it without deliberately examining the area."

With Yao Lao's explanation, Xiao Yang understood at once.

If he had not buried the skeleton, not only would he have been unable to see the mechanism, he would also have been unable to activate it.

Each step had been linked to the next.

At that moment, intense curiosity rose within him.

Just what was hidden beneath this stone seat?

"Teacher, is it dangerous?"

"Don't worry. Just press it. There's no danger."

After carefully inspecting it, Yao Lao had already more or less determined that the mechanism posed no danger.

Though Yao Lao said so, after Xiao Yang pressed the mechanism on the stone seat, he still swiftly retreated behind the gravestone.

As Xiao Yang pressed the mechanism, a sound came from inside the stone seat.

"Click!"

"Creak, creak, creak!"

The stone seat slowly began to rise.

Soon, a hidden compartment appeared before Xiao Yang.

The compartment was about a meter beneath the stone seat.

Without the seat rising, it would have been impossible to notice.

There was only a Storage Ring inside the compartment.

Xiao Yang carefully took out the Storage Ring.

He examined its contents.

The next moment, several scrolls appeared in Xiao Yang's hand.

They were actually pill formulas for several fourth- and fifth-grade medicinal pills!

Besides that, there were also the Alchemy Notes of the Heavenly Bright Pill Emperor!

He also saw some medicinal ingredients inside the Storage Ring.

Of course, a small portion of them had already lost their medicinal potency.

Most importantly, he found one Tier 6 Magic Core and three Tier 5 Magic Cores inside!

Xiao Yang's eyes were filled with excitement.

The day he gathered all the ingredients for the Marrow Cleansing Pill was not far away!

Besides those items, there was also a Fighting Skill scroll.

"Earth Tier, low-grade Fighting Skill—Burning Flame Palm!"

"It's actually an Earth-Tier Fighting Skill!"

Xiao Yan was equally excited as he looked at the scroll in Xiao Yang's hand.

Yao Lao leaned closer and glanced at it curiously.

"An Earth Tier, low-grade Fighting Skill?"

"It's passable."

Yao Lao's face was full of smugness.

"Don't even think about it. With your current cultivation, you can't use an Earth Tier, low-grade Fighting Skill at all."

"This Fighting Skill has rather high requirements. You must at least reach the Battler realm before you can begin trying to master it."

Hearing that, Xiao Yang was not particularly disappointed.

They had already obtained it. Sooner or later, they would be able to cultivate it.

However, a trace of frustration flashed across Xiao Yan's face.

"So we can only cultivate it after reaching the Battler stage."

"Teacher, don't you have any Earth-Tier Fighting Skills?"

"Even a sixth-grade alchemist had one. Surely you have some too?"

Upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, Yao Lao could not help rolling his eyes.

"How could I not?"

"It's just that if you two cultivate them now, you might end up playing yourselves to death."

"Are you sure you want them?"

As he spoke, a teasing glint flashed through Yao Lao's eyes.

"Hehe, then forget it."

Xiao Yan said awkwardly.

"Now that we have the treasures, let's hurry back."

"When we return, I'll have Ya Fei quickly search for the remaining medicinal ingredients so we can gather everything needed for the Marrow Cleansing Pill."

Naturally, neither Xiao Yan nor Yao Lao objected.

After taking down the Night-Shining Pearls in the cave, Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan headed outside.

Just as the two of them stepped out of the cave entrance—

"Rumble!"

The cave behind them rapidly collapsed.

In only an instant, the cave entrance was completely sealed off!

Yao Lao was not surprised in the slightest.

After all, he had noticed it earlier.

Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan quickly recovered from their shock as well.

After resting for a while, they hurried toward the Xiao Clan.

Compared with their journey there, Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan traveled back much faster.

They returned to the Xiao Clan in only a day and a half.

After returning, the two first went to inform Xiao Zhan.

Seeing that the two of them were unharmed, Xiao Zhan could not help breathing a sigh of relief.

"It's good that you're all right. Good, good."

At that moment, Xiao Yang willed it, and several scrolls appeared in his hand.

"Uncle, these are fortuitous opportunities we happened to obtain during this trip."

"Please copy them and place them in the clan."

Xiao Zhan instinctively accepted the scrolls.

The next moment, shock flashed across his face.

"Xuan-tier Cultivation Methods and Fighting Skills?"

"And most of them are even high-grade Xuan Tier?!"

"Did you two rob the library of some great family in the Imperial Capital?"

There was even a trace of confusion in Xiao Zhan's eyes.

How had these two little fellows, who were still at the Dou Qi stage, gone out for a few days and returned with several high-grade Xuan-tier cultivation methods and Fighting Skills?

Even the Xiao Clan only possessed one mid-grade Xuan-tier cultivation method and its matching low-grade Xuan-tier Fighting Skill!

Moreover, only the clan leader was allowed to cultivate them.

"Hehe, we just got lucky. Lucky."

Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan did not reveal anything about the Heavenly Bright Pill Emperor.

After all, the fewer people who knew, the better.

Xiao Zhan looked at the cultivation methods and Fighting Skills in his hands, a serious expression flashing through his eyes.

"Don't worry. I'll keep this secret well."

"I'll only allow clan members who can be trusted to cultivate these Xuan-tier cultivation methods and Fighting Skills."

Seeing how cautious Xiao Zhan was, Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan said nothing more.

As a clan leader, Xiao Zhan also understood the principle that a man's wealth could bring him disaster.

Then Xiao Yang took out two jade bottles.

"Uncle, take these two pills as well. They will increase your strength."

The two pills he had taken out were precisely Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills!