Cave, Mysterious-Tier Alchemist!

[May of the eighth year, you continue carefully exploring the inner region of the Medicine King Mountain Range.]

[On this day, you discover a cave situated on a cliff face, accidentally found because you were being pursued and hunted by fierce demonic beasts.]

[With a demonic beast chasing closely behind you, you have no choice but to step alone into this pitch-black cave.]

[You take a Moon Firefly Stone out from your storage bag and, relying on its faint glow, proceed with extreme caution.]

[Along the way, you trigger several traps, but fortunately your Golden Core Stage cultivation protects you, and you manage to resist them.]

[Even so, a hidden arrow strikes your right arm, causing a severe injury. You hurriedly sprinkle healing powder onto the wound, grateful that the arrow was unpoisoned or you might have perished right here.]

[After a brief treatment, you continue walking deeper into the cave.]

[Finally, after some time, you arrive at a rather spacious cavern, which you surmise must be its core.]

[You begin exploring your surroundings.]

[In the very center of the stone chamber, you discover a skeleton, and you can still sense spiritual energy radiating from the bones. The deceased's cultivation must also have been in the Golden Core Stage, and likely far higher than yours—at least a Golden Core Middle Stage or even Late Stage expert.]

[There are no discoveries anywhere else in the stone chamber.]

[Before the skeleton, you find a storage ring; apart from this, there is nothing else in the entire room.]

[Only after properly burying the skeletal remains do you dare to open the storage ring.]

[Inside the storage ring, you find some medicinal pills, a spirit sword, and several jade slips.]

[You begin inspecting them one by one.]

[The medicinal pills are all Mysterious-Tier pills,