Cooperating with Little Fairy Doctor to Enter the Cave

"Hold out your hands. I'll bandage them for you." Wu Changqing glanced at Little Fairy Doctor's scraped, bloodied hands. They looked quite pitiful.

Little Fairy Doctor hesitated for a moment, but in the end, she obediently held out her hands.

Wu Changqing took out a clean strip of gauze and carefully wrapped it around her hands.

But when he touched the wounds, Little Fairy Doctor still instinctively flinched and drew back her hands.

"It'll hurt a little. Bear with it."

"Mm..."

Little Fairy Doctor found the feeling somewhat strange.

Usually, she was the one saying such things to others.

Now, someone else was saying them to her.

She had never expected a day like this.

Before long, Wu Changqing had bandaged both of her hands.

Of course, his bandaging skills were rather mediocre. He simply wrapped up the wounds and tied a knot.

It was far inferior to the way Little Fairy Doctor usually dressed the mercenaries' wounds.

But Little Fairy Doctor did not dwell on such trivial details. Instead, she thanked him politely.

"Senior, thank you."

Wu Changqing did not look very old, probably only two or three years older than her.

But he had just formed Dou Qi wings.

Although Little Fairy Doctor was not skilled in cultivation, she knew the basics. Anyone capable of forming Dou Qi wings was at least a Dou King.

So, calling him Senior could not be wrong.

"No need to be polite. I just happened to pass by. What's your name?"

"My name is Little Fairy Doctor."

Just as expected!

Wu Changqing had already guessed it was her. This merely gave him final confirmation.

After coming out from the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range,

he and Yun Yun had temporarily gone their separate ways precisely because he had come looking for Little Fairy Doctor.

"Little Fairy Doctor, is it? Climbing around here all alone in the middle of the night—are you practicing your rock-climbing skills, or do you think you're too lucky to die?"

He adopted a scolding tone, making Little Fairy Doctor lower her head like a child who had done something wrong.

"Senior, I wasn't..."

She had come here because of the treasure in the cave.

The two of them were standing right at the cave entrance!

But Little Fairy Doctor did not really want Wu Changqing to know there was treasure inside.

After all, no one wanted to share their own good things with others.

"There's nowhere to go for help out here. I'll take you back up."

"Um, there's no need, Senior. I have my own way of getting up." Little Fairy Doctor hurriedly refused.

She had finally managed to get down here. If she went back up now, would all her effort not have been for nothing?

"Your rope is hanging over there where you can't reach it, and your hands are injured. How are you going to get up?"

"Also, do you see that cliff over there?" Wu Changqing pointed toward a nearby cliff, where several snakes whose colors closely matched the rocks clung to the surface.

If one did not look carefully, they would not be visible at all.

"There are two Rock Snakes there. Their nest is probably nearby too."

"They've already noticed us. If you stay here alone and wait for them to crawl over, your body should be enough to fill their bellies." Wu Changqing deliberately tried to frighten her.

As expected, Little Fairy Doctor trembled, her face turning somewhat pale.

Of course, she had heard of this kind of magical beast.

If there had only been one, she could have dealt with it using the medicinal powder she had prepared.

But there were two of them. She definitely could not handle them alone.

"So, do you still want to stay here by yourself, or will you come up with me?" Wu Changqing handed the difficult choice to Little Fairy Doctor.

Little Fairy Doctor lightly bit her thin lip, struggling inwardly.

In the end, she could only make her choice helplessly. "Senior, I actually came here to look for treasure. There must be something good inside this cave."

"Could I ask Senior to take me in with you? We can split whatever is inside."

She truly could not bear to give up the treasure before her.

But she did not dare remain here alone either.

So the best solution was to share the treasure in the cave and enter together with Wu Changqing.

Hearing this, Wu Changqing merely raised an eyebrow slightly.

But this was all within his expectations.

"Fine, but we can't split it evenly. Sixty-forty. You get forty, I get sixty." If he did not make some demands, would that not make this senior seem too easygoing?

"Alright." Little Fairy Doctor agreed immediately.

Having reached an agreement, the two turned to face the cave entrance behind them.

With a casual wave of his hand, Wu Changqing sent out two whirlwinds that cleared away all the trees and rubble before them.

Then Little Fairy Doctor took out a fire starter to provide light, and the two advanced together.

After walking for quite a while, Wu Changqing, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped.

Little Fairy Doctor, who had been following behind him in a daze, failed to stop in time and bumped into his back.

Her chest pressed directly against him as well.

She hurriedly took a step back, her pretty face flushed crimson. "Senior, why did you stop...?"

"There's no path ahead."

A heavy stone door stood in front of them.

Little Fairy Doctor hurried forward to inspect it.

"This stone door could not have been built here for no reason. There must be something good behind it."

"And there seems to be some kind of mechanism on the door. We should have to find the trigger mechanism to open it."

She examined it with great interest, wanting to show off a little before Wu Changqing.

Yet before she could find the mechanism to open the door,

Wu Changqing casually traced a few lines with one finger. The heavy stone door collapsed at once, sliced apart with a clean cut!

Could a mere stone door stop a Dou Emperor?

People would die laughing if they heard that.

Little Fairy Doctor stood beside him, her mouth hanging open in shock.

Then, remembering that the man before her was at least a Dou King, she obediently closed her mouth.

What kind of mechanism could stop this Senior?

Behind the stone door was a spacious stone chamber. Several moonlight stones for illumination were embedded in the surrounding walls, making the chamber quite bright.

A chair stood in the center of the chamber, with only a skeleton remaining on it. It appeared to be the owner of this stone chamber.

Before the chair stood a bluestone platform, upon which rested three locked stone boxes.

In another corner stood a flower bed, where all kinds of medicinal herbs grew.

The moment Little Fairy Doctor saw those herbs, her eyes immediately lit up, and she hurried over.

"Purple Blue Leaf, White Spirit Ginseng Fruit, Snow Lotus Seed..."

The high-grade medicinal herbs made her eyes shine.

"Senior, these medicinal herbs..."

Little Fairy Doctor had not forgotten her agreement with Wu Changqing and asked for his opinion.

"They're all yours. As for the items in these stone boxes, they'll all be mine for now. If necessary, we can trade later." Wu Changqing was not an alchemist, so he had no use for those medicinal herbs for the time being.

"Alright, thank you, Senior!" Little Fairy Doctor was overjoyed and hurriedly crouched before the flower bed to begin digging up the herbs.

But Wu Changqing's gaze was not on the three boxes atop the bluestone platform. Instead, he looked at the skeleton.

"The fragment of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame map... it should be here, right?"