Stone Cave Stone Tomb (Part 2)

Golden light filled the entire cave. It came quickly and vanished just as fast. Inside the treasure chest, only a pale golden scroll floated above it.

"What is this?"

Looking at the scene before her, Xiao Yi Xian could not help thinking of the legendary treasure chests from games in her previous life. Incredible!

Every dungeon had to have treasure—ordinary, refined, legendary divine artifacts, and the like.

Xiao Yi Xian eagerly opened the scroll, but after one glance, her eyes filled with disappointment. This cultivation technique really was that sonic Dou Technique.

She could not possibly have a girl like herself use a "roar," could she? Just imagining that scene seemed a little ungraceful.

Xiao Yi Xian's face was full of unwillingness as her eyes swept the surroundings. She carefully circled the burial chamber once, but finding nothing left her disappointed.

Could so-called destiny truly just be destiny?

She had checked every blind spot, yet there was not even a hidden compartment. This was truly absurd. Was there no such thing as bowing three thousand times to receive an unmatched divine technique?

"Mm, wait, bowing?"

Xiao Yi Xian seemed to think of something. She moved aside the skull of the stone tomb's owner and lightly touched the faint markings beneath the seat.

Crack~

The stone chair opened, revealing a pale brown box. Just looking at the box, one could tell it was extraordinary.

The markings around this stone tomb showed that it had existed for a very long time, yet this wooden box was preserved as though its wood had just been cut down.

"It's definitely a treasure!"

A brilliant light shone in Xiao Yi Xian's eyes as she eagerly pulled the wooden box out from the stone chair.

A box over a meter long appeared before Xiao Yi Xian. Strange patterns were carved across its pale brown surface, yet they resembled living runes.

"This..."

Looking at the runes before her, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly recalled something. The novels had once mentioned that the Dou Qi Continent had been immensely prosperous in ancient times, with countless paths flourishing.

There were formations, alchemy arts, puppetry, and all manner of other disciplines. One Dou Di after another had risen into existence.

Yet no one knew what had happened. The Dou Dis had fallen one after another, Origin Qi had vanished completely, and after the era of the last Dou Di, Tou She Ancient God, no Dou Di had ever appeared again.

These runes in particular felt very similar to something she had seen in her previous life. Moreover, the ones carved into this wood were very likely a formation.

If it was a formation, then the inheritance left by this ancient tomb's owner could not possibly be so little.

Formations had been lost long, long ago. Unless this ancient tomb had existed since ancient times, and its final owner had come here again before his death to leave behind his inheritance.

But then why was there no inheritance of formations?

Xiao Yi Xian shook her head. She stopped dwelling on things she could not understand and eagerly examined the wooden box.

There were seams around the box, but no matter what she did, she could not open it. There were also straps on the back, as though it could be carried on one's back.

"Mm?"

Xiao Yi Xian thought for a moment. Treasures generally either had to be refined or claimed through a blood oath. After hesitating, she carefully bit her finger and squeezed out a drop of crimson blood.

Drip!

The blood landed on the strange patterns and vanished in an instant. At the same time, Xiao Yi Xian felt a familiar sensation arise within her mind.

Another strange memory appeared in her mind. This wooden box had been passed down since ancient times, while the owner of this stone tomb had merely encountered it by accident.

The scattered bones around Xiao Yi Xian belonged to an unfortunate man. He had originally been a Dou Huang expert of the Jia Ma Empire, admired by countless people. However, his good fortune did not last. With his lifespan nearing its end, he had no choice but to wander the continent until he reached this place, already on the verge of death.

That Dou Huang could only come to the top of this cliff with a heart full of despair. He personally built himself a stone tomb, then accidentally dug up this wooden box while excavating it.

He knew it was an incredible treasure and wanted to return it to his family, but he had little life left and no strength to go back.

Helpless, he could only roughly arrange the cave before leaving the Dou Qi Continent with endless regret and heading into the hell of this world.

After receiving this memory, Xiao Yi Xian did not know what to say. At the moment of his death, he had encountered a tremendous opportunity, yet he had no life left to enjoy it.

This wooden box was a sword case, created by a Dou Zun in ancient times. The formation on the sword case absorbed the surrounding Dou Qi, keeping this treasure as pristine as ever.

Caressing the sword case, she knew she had struck gold. She had not expected that this Dou Huang had unearthed such an inheritance before his death. Thinking about it, she felt somewhat envious. Why could she not dig something like this up?

How prosperous had ancient times been? How vast was the Dou Qi Continent? Yet the great gap that had appeared back then had never been recorded.

She had only obtained this sword case because of her sharp eyes. Who could have imagined that the owner of these bones had been so sinister, hiding it here?

If she had not suddenly remembered something, she probably would have passed it by as well.

Xiao Yi Xian slung the sword case onto her back. It was just a little shorter than her height, barely stopping short of the ground.

"Come!"

Xiao Yi Xian murmured softly. The wooden panel atop the sword case suddenly vanished, and a streak of white light shot out, landing before her.

Because she had claimed it with blood, the Dou Qi within her body seemed to have formed some sort of connection with the sword case on her back. Every time the Dou Qi in her body completed a cycle, it also circulated through the sword case once.

There was even an image of the sword case in her mind. With a single thought, the sword within could emerge.

Looking at the sword embedded in the ground before her, Xiao Yi Xian could not hide the smile on her lips. Her eyes curved into crescents as she beamed at the silver-white sword.

Xiao Yi Xian pulled out the sword. Its silver-white blade was still as bright as ever, so clear that she could even see her delicate face reflected in it.

Two characters from an unknown era were carved upon the blade, but she knew they were the words "You Su."

Holding the sword, she could not help making a flourish with it before reluctantly returning it to the sword case.

She had truly come to the right place this time. As expected, transmigrators always had some sort of cheat. She did not have a system or anything like that, but what she had obtained now was not bad either.

This sword case was a treasure that could conceal one's aura. Otherwise, why had Yao Chen failed to sense it with his soul power in the original story?

According to the inheritance's information, that Dou Zun had been a proud genius of his era. Otherwise, he could never have created such a treasure.

She turned back to look at the completely emptied stone tomb, then left the place. Within the entire ancient tomb, only an empty stone chair and a small mound of earth stood in the center.

In her eyes, this sword case was even more precious than Heavenly Flames. This trip had absolutely been worthwhile.

Xiao Yi Xian arrived atop the cliff and smiled faintly at Xiao Lan, who was still waiting there. With a cry, Xiao Lan flew into the sky.

Standing atop Xiao Lan, Xiao Yi Xian felt the fierce winds around her. Everything that had happened before seemed like a dream.

Xiao Lan stopped high in the sky. Silver moonlight shone upon Xiao Yi Xian, and at some unknown moment, a sword had appeared in her hand.

Pale violet light flickered amid the stars. As for the cave behind her, if fate allowed it, she would return someday.