After all the teachers and students had left the school, a graceful figure slipped through the campus in the still of night, looking around as she quietly approached Great Stone Lake.
"So this is Great Stone Lake." A barely perceptible smile crossed Lian Yi's face. Relying on ordinary people being unable to see ghosts, Zhou You and Nuomi had openly discussed secrets in public, handing an outsider like her a golden opportunity.
She extended her spiritual sense into the dark water and searched it inch by inch. The lake's features unfolded before her: heaps of scattered stones, wildly growing reeds, wandering frogs, and rubbish sunk to the bottom.
Lian Yi withdrew her Divine Sense and frowned slightly. "Where's the treasure?"
Not a single thing in the lake looked like treasure.
"Could it be treasure that Divine Sense can't detect?" Thinking of the Carefree Sect's deep reserves, Lian Yi found that plausible.
"Then I'll go down and take a look."
She formed the hand seal for the Water-Avoidance Spell and jumped into the lake, searching with her head lowered as she walked along the bottom.
"Still nothing?"
Lian Yi was puzzled. Had Nuomi hidden her treasure so well that even knowing the location wasn't enough to find a trace?
"Am I missing some clue?"
Lian Yi was clever. Otherwise, she would never have reached Foundation Establishment as an unaffiliated cultivator. Not only that, she could manipulate people's hearts, toy with others, and revel in their negative emotions.
Soon, something suspicious occurred to her.
"Could it be this rubbish?"
"They say divine treasures conceal their own brilliance. Maybe a mineral water bottle is actually a Jade Purity Bottle or something?"
She picked up a mineral water bottle from the lakebed and examined it for ages, but found nothing unusual.
"Forget it. I'll