Eating and Taking, Tang Hao Really Was an Honest Man!

The box was an ordinary lead box, dark and dull, with old dust clinging to its edges.

At least, no matter how Li Yue examined it, she could not see what was valuable about it.

It looked like some cheap item casually forged in a blacksmith's shop.

Dai Mobai hooked his thumb beneath the edge of the lid and gave it a gentle push.

He opened only a corner.

Yet that tiny opening instantly changed Li Yue's expression.

A rich, almost viscous aura of life surged out through that narrow crack.

It was as though an entire forest in spring had been compressed into the purest wisp of air, then violently released.

With just one breath, Li Yue felt every cell in her body begin to cheer and leap.

It was as if warm spring water had washed through her limbs and bones, cleansing away every trace of fatigue from their days of travel in an instant.

Dai Mobai exerted force with his fingers and pushed the lid completely open.

A pillar of blue-gold light shot out of the box, streaking straight toward the stone chamber's ceiling before bursting apart like fireworks and illuminating the entire chamber.

Vast life energy endlessly poured from the box, wave after wave, washing over the stone walls like tides.

The concentration of life energy in the air had reached an unimaginable level. Li Yue felt as though she stood in an ocean of life, enveloped on all sides by warm vitality. Her entire body felt pleasantly warm, so comfortable that she wanted to close her eyes and fall asleep just like this.

She forced herself to stay alert and looked at Dai Mobai.

Dai Mobai reached into the lead box. When he withdrew his hand, he was holding a Soul Bone.

It was a right leg bone.

Its entire surface was blue-gold, smooth as jade, with golden patterns winding through it like blood vessels.

Those patterns were still faintly moving, as though they were alive.

The life energy emitted by the entire Soul Bone was more than ten times richer than what had just poured from the box.

"Well? Are you still disappointed now?"

Dai Mobai weighed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in his hand, then turned and smiled at Li Yue.

"Not anymore."

Li Yue shook her head, her gaze seeming nailed to the Soul Bone, unable to move away from it for quite some time.

After a pause, she asked again.

"I never expected there to be a Soul Bone in a place like this... How many tens of thousands of years?"

As she spoke, she moved closer to Dai Mobai.

Curiosity filled her clear eyes, and her earlier disappointment had long since been thrown to the winds.

Dai Mobai closed his hand, his five fingers firmly gripping the Soul Bone as he spoke slowly.

"One hundred thousand years. It came from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor."

The stone chamber fell silent for a moment.

Li Yue froze.

She blinked, her lips parting slightly. Several seconds passed before she uncertainly asked again.

"How many years?"

As she said this, she even tilted her head slightly, as though suspecting there was something wrong with her ears.

"Don't doubt yourself. You heard correctly."

Dai Mobai chuckled. He lifted his free hand and gently pinched her soft cheek.

"This Soul Bone is indeed one hundred thousand years old."

"It really is a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone?!"

Li Yue finally became certain that she had not misheard.

She instinctively covered her mouth, but her cry of surprise still slipped through her fingers.

Her eyes, usually as cold and clear as frost, were now opened wide, her pupils filled with disbelief.

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

She knew better than anyone what those words meant.

Across the entire continent, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were already legendary existences, while Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones were legends among legends.

Countless high-ranking Soul Masters might spend their entire lives without ever seeing one.

And now, Dai Mobai held a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone in his hand as casually as if he were weighing an ordinary object.

No wonder Dai Mobai had brought her all this way.

She had secretly wondered before what treasure they were searching for that was worth going to such trouble and traveling so far.

Now she understood.

If she had known there was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone here, even if the distance were ten times greater, the journey would have been worthwhile.

Dai Mobai held the Soul Bone in his hand, gently stroking its surface with his fingertips.

But he did not rush to absorb it. Instead, he turned and walked toward the small mound of earth at the center of the stone chamber.

Li Yue followed, her gaze falling upon the vivid blue Blue Silver Grass growing atop the mound.

Her attention had been completely drawn to the lead box just now, and she had nearly forgotten about this grass.

Looking at it again now, she suddenly realized something.

"Your Highness, is there something special about this Blue Silver Grass?"

She had noticed that ever since entering the stone chamber, Dai Mobai seemed no less interested in this Blue Silver Grass than in the Soul Bone.

"Do you remember who I said this Soul Bone came from?"

Dai Mobai did not answer directly, instead responding with a question.

"A Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor..."

Li Yue instinctively spoke the name.

As soon as the words left her mouth, her entire body went still.

The next moment, realization struck, and she sharply turned to look at the Blue Silver Grass on the mound.

"This Blue Silver Grass... It can't be the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, can it?"

Li Yue raised a hand to cover her slightly parted cherry lips, her lovely face filled with disbelief.

She looked at the Soul Bone in Dai Mobai's hand, then at the Blue Silver Grass atop the mound. Her mind could not process it for a moment.

"More precisely..."

Dai Mobai said with a smile.

"It is a seed left behind by the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor."

"A seed?"

Li Yue stared at the Blue Silver Grass on the mound in astonishment.

"Does that mean it can grow again?"

"It can."

He paused, then added.

"But it would take far too long, and I have no intention of letting it grow again."

As he spoke, Dai Mobai reached out with his free hand and grasped the roots of the Blue Silver Grass.

With a light tug, meeting almost no resistance, he pulled out the Blue Silver Grass by its roots.

A little damp black earth clung to its roots. Its fine root fibers were completely intact, curling slightly in the air.

Dai Mobai casually placed the Blue Silver Emperor seed into the lead box, closed the lid, and stored it in his Soul Tool.

He had already decided to give this Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor seed away as a gift, so naturally, he would not leave it here to sprout on its own.

After putting away the lead box, Dai Mobai's gaze once more fell on the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in his hand.

The golden patterns continued to flow slowly beneath the bone's surface. The life energy it emitted had grown even richer than before, as if the Soul Bone had instinctively reacted when the seed was taken away.

Noticing Dai Mobai's gaze, Li Yue spoke up on her own.

"I'll stand guard for Your Highness."

Her voice was quiet, but serious. As she spoke, her hand had already settled on the hilt of the sword at her waist, entering a state of alert.

"No need."

Dai Mobai shook his head, his tone relaxed.

"Didn't you say the scenery in the valley was beautiful? Go have a look. You may not get another chance in the future."

He tilted his head toward Li Yue, the corners of his lips lifting slightly.