Subduing It, Thirteen Treasure Stashes!

"Golden Rat Shedding Its Shell!"

A cloud of illusory mist exploded. The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat's body wriggled free of the demon claw's restraints like a slick white snake.

Its entire body turned into a streak of golden light and plunged straight into the mountain of Wild Stones!

As Treasure Seeking Spirit Rats—an exceedingly rare species even in the Great Wilderness—their clan possessed little combat ability. But when it came to staying alive, they had honed the art to the pinnacle of perfection!

Though it was merely a great demon of the Dharma Form Secret Treasury, even supreme experts of the Nirvana Realm could do nothing to it!

If it truly set its heart on fleeing, no one could catch it!

It was just a pity about the fortune it had amassed over hundreds of years!

"Natural treasures can be found again after they're gone! But if my little life is gone, then everything is truly gone!"

Gritting its teeth, the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat, now transformed into an utterly ordinary Wild Stone, kept burrowing downward. Once it reached the bottom, it even melded into the rock. The entire process was soundless, without leaking the slightest trace of aura!

"I drill, I drill! Huh? Why can't I drill any farther?"

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat raised its head in bewilderment, only to discover that before it was neither a hard stone wall nor some special metal vein.

Instead... it was a palm it knew all too well!

The vein below had been forcibly hollowed out by Lu Qingyun, all so he could imprison it in his palm!

Dense, incredibly condensed power of blood and qi coiled around that palm, leaving the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat unable to break free even after exhausting all its strength!

"Damn it! I've really fallen this time!"

After using every method at its disposal and still failing to escape, the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat finally accepted its fate.

It smoothed its fur, tidied up its final appearance, and smiled calmly.

"Do it!"

"Oh."

Lu Qingyun answered very directly.

His hand tightened slightly, just as he was about to crush it.

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat suddenly let out a hysterical scream and begged for mercy.

"Don't, don't, don't! Bro, I was just joking!"

"Pain, pain, pain! Let go already! If you don't let go, my poop's going to come out first!"

Hearing that, Lu Qingyun tossed it aside with a look of disgust.

He was not worried that it would flee again. After all, he had already thoroughly figured out exactly what this Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat was capable of.

Crack—

After setting its own broken bones back in place, the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat grimaced in pain.

It did not try to run again. Instead, it looked at Lu Qingyun with a hint of fawning in its eyes.

"What? Weren't you unafraid of death?"

Lu Qingyun teased.

"How could I not be afraid? I'm just a stinking rat in this damp cave. Better to live badly than die well! Besides, I was thinking of using these treasure-seeking abilities of mine to serve you, my lord! At first glance, you look like an old Undying—ah, no, at first glance, you look like a peerless young prodigy!"

"Your future is bound to reach godhood, and supreme heights await you. This is exactly when you need a great general like me! My death doesn't matter, but the endless treasures scattered throughout the Great Wilderness would never see the light of day again. They would be unable to serve you, my lord—that would be their tragedy! I cannot tolerate such a thing happening!"

"So... I can't die!"

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat spoke with righteous conviction and surging passion.

At the same time, it offered up its soul imprint for Lu Qingyun to control.

From this day onward, it could only obey Lu Qingyun's commands!

It had no choice. As a Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat, it had imagined this day countless times.

Originally, it had planned to pretend to be unyieldingly resolute in the face of death, to see whether both sides could take a step back and leave itself some possibility for the future.

But it had never expected this old Undying pretending to be young to be so ruthlessly vicious!

He had actually tried to kill it without a second word, as though he did not care at all about its identity as a Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat!

In truth, Lu Qingyun, whom it had mistaken for an old monster, really did not care much about this Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat.

Though Treasure Seeking Spirit Rats were considered rare throughout the Great Wilderness, the Lu Family kept quite a few of them.

If he had not been in a situation little different from exile, then with his status in the Lu Family Sequence, he could even eat Treasure Seeking Spirit Rats for all three meals every day!

So when this Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat acted as though it would rather die than submit, he could not be bothered to waste time taming it.

He had already found its nest anyway. Killing it would still bring him considerable gains!

"Enough. Take me to properly receive your family fortune."

After putting away its soul imprint, Lu Qingyun spoke without the slightest courtesy.

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat's heart bled at those words.

This was the fortune it had painstakingly accumulated after crossing countless mountains and rivers and scouring every corner of the Great Wilderness!

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"Of course! Master, come this way!"

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat wore a flattering expression as it ran ahead to lead Lu Qingyun.

People said cunning rabbits had three burrows. The same saying applied to the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat.

Within this tiny valley alone, it had a full thirteen caves for storing treasures!

This one was merely used to store Wild Stones.

Picking up a Wild Stone, Lu Qingyun could not help feeling curious.

Naturally, he knew what this was. It was a currency used for trade in the Great Wilderness, serving a purpose similar to spirit stones.

What puzzled him was that he had never seen Wild Stones of such poor quality!

Moreover, every one of them came in a different shape, bizarre and irregular.

As a member of the Lu Family Sequence, Wild Stones were naturally among the resources he used for cultivation.

However, the ones he used were all high-grade Wild Stones, each neat and uniform. They were cut and sorted by designated personnel before being delivered to his Ling Jue Hall.

That was why he found so many low-grade Wild Stones somewhat strange.

He had thought all Wild Stones were orderly and regular, brimming with refined essence!

Among the mountain-like pile of Wild Stones, there were only a few hundred high-grade ones.

The rest were all middle-grade or even low-grade Wild Stones, and there were countless of them!

Most importantly... there were so many Wild Stones, yet he had no way to carry them!

Lu Qingyun, who did not even possess half a storage ring, turned his gaze toward the Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat.

It was left completely baffled by his stare.

What? Was killing the rat not enough—did he have to destroy its heart too!?

"Put them all away."

"Huh?"

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat was first stunned, then a flash of insight struck its mind!

It finally noticed something was off. This new master of its seemed... not to be an old monster?

It probed cautiously, "Master, is your Cave Heaven Realm... inconvenient to use today? Or is it stuffed full, with no room left at all?"

Lu Qingyun's mouth twitched at that.

He always felt this Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat was making a dirty joke, yet he had no proof.

"I'm just a minor lackey in the Blood Moving Secret Realm. Where would I get something as lofty as a Cave Heaven Realm? Hurry up and move them!"

"Got it, got it!"

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat jolted, then leaped onto the mountain of Wild Stones in a few bounds. Its Cave Heaven Realm unfolded. A giant wheel-shaped Cave Heaven Realm floated in midair, empty within and forming its own space. A faint glimmer rose inside it, and a force of suction swept out, directly drawing in every Wild Stone.

Seeing this, Lu Qingyun could not help feeling envious.

Though he was powerful now, there were some functions he simply did not possess!

If given a chance to exchange his current cultivation for a Cave Heaven Realm...

Anyone who made that trade would be a damned fool!

"When you're done, squeak once. Then we'll go straight to the next one."

"Squeak squeak—!!!"

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat let out an extremely excited cry.

It had originally thought the one who caught it was some rotten old man fond of pretending to be young. Who would have thought this master was not pretending to be young—he was genuinely young!

Young was good. It liked them young!

He was actually still in the Blood Moving Secret Treasury and had not even opened a Cave Heaven Realm!

What was this? A peerless young prodigy!

Following him, its future would be boundless!

Maybe it would never have to be a stinking rat hiding in a damp valley again!

No, wait. Something seemed wrong...

How the hell had someone in the Blood Moving Secret Treasury played with it like it was just a rat!

The Treasure Seeking Spirit Rat subconsciously turned around, wanting to ask about it.

But after meeting Lu Qingyun's indifferent eyes, it quickly shrank back.

It consoled itself sheepishly:

"Reasonable. Extremely reasonable! I'm a little rat anyway."

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