Want some pickled fish? Mine's delicious

A moment earlier.

Just as Duobao was about to leave.

He suddenly heard a sound like a plucked string.

It came from in front of the distant bamboo house.

Duobao's primordial spirit suddenly trembled for no apparent reason.

A strange, mysterious presence spread through his heart.

"This zither music..."

"It can actually interfere with my primordial spirit?"

"My cultivation has already reached the Quasi-Saint realm. To interfere with my primordial spirit, it would take a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure or a magical treasure of even higher grade."

"There's a rare treasure like that in a place like this?"

Just now, Duobao had been focused entirely on finding those three books.

After entering the courtyard, he had only glanced around.

He hadn't taken a close look at anything in it.

The moment Duobao heard the zither.

He instinctively looked toward the source of the sound.

There, beneath the threshold at the entrance to Lin Tian's courtyard.

Lay a battered-looking guqin, with quite a bit of dirt on it.

At a glance.

It looked like a perfectly ordinary guqin.

If it hadn't been giving off that faint zither music.

Even Duobao wouldn't have noticed it.

The humming notes reached his ears, making his primordial spirit tremble incessantly.

Duobao immediately gave up the idea of leaving.

Naturally, he had to take a look at a spiritual treasure capable of affecting his primordial spirit.

That was his usual habit.

His senses were keen, and he was good at finding treasures.

He could find plenty of magical treasures on his own.

But the greater reason he was called Duobao and had so many magical treasures was that he enjoyed the process of hunting for them.

And was interested in it.

Now, when he saw this guqin.

He couldn't contain his curiosity and wanted to take a look.

With that thought, Duobao glanced around.

At that moment.

Lin Tian had already gone into the bamboo house.

There was no one in the courtyard.

A little awkwardly, Duobao walked over to a spot not far from the guqin.

His gaze fixed on it.

The next moment.

Duobao locked onto it with his primordial spirit.

But.

Before Duobao's primordial spirit could reach the edge of the guqin.

All of a sudden.

A deafening explosion.

Eerily rang out from within Duobao's primordial spirit.

Boom!

In an instant.

Duobao felt an irresistible force pierce straight through his primordial spirit.

A strange, stabbing pain.

Made Duobao's primordial spirit tighten at once.

What tremendous power!

It instantly crushed my attempt to lock onto it with my divine sense.

And nearly injured my primordial spirit?

The power contained within it is at least the kind a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, or even an Innate Supreme Treasure, could possess!

Fellow Daoist Lin Tian actually left such a rare magical treasure here?

What a waste of a heavenly gift!

Just as that thought crossed Duobao's mind.

Soft footsteps came from the bamboo house ahead.

The next moment, Lin Tian walked out of the room.

Duobao froze, then hurriedly collected himself and stepped forward to greet him.

But before he could get a word out.

He was stunned by what Lin Tian did!

Lin Tian planted his foot directly on the guqin.

Hum!

The guqin once again gave off a wondrous note.

This time, the sound was even more expansive than before.

At the sight.

Duobao was dumbfounded.

His eyes widened as he stared at Lin Tian in astonishment.

He stood there for a long while, unable to recover from the shock.

He stepped on it?

Fellow Daoist Lin Tian could bring himself to step on such a rare treasure?

Just as that thought crossed Duobao's mind.

The guqin began to hum again and again.

Though the sound was utterly mournful.

When it reached Duobao's ears, it made his primordial spirit ripple ceaselessly.

A faint sense of danger.

Spread through his heart!

"Hmm? Fellow Daoist Dabao, what are you...?"

While Duobao was lost in thought.

Lin Tian's puzzled voice suddenly reached his ears.

He instinctively looked up.

And saw Lin Tian staring at him with a strange expression.

Duobao was immediately embarrassed.

He remembered that he had just been about to leave.

Yet he still hadn't gone.

So he hurriedly explained.

"Fellow Daoist, I saw this guqin lying here just now."

"I thought you had dropped it, so I came over to have a look."

"You seemed to have stepped on it by accident just now..."

"I suggest you pick it up. This is a fine..."

Duobao spoke somewhat tactfully.

But Lin Tian cut him off without mercy.

"This guqin?"

Lin Tian glanced at the filthy guqin in front of the threshold, covered in dirt, and said unconcernedly.

"It's just an ordinary thing."

"I kept it to step on at the threshold."

"Don't worry about it."

Hearing Lin Tian's words.

Duobao: "..."

To step on?!!

He used an Innate Supreme Treasure to step on?

This...

Am I the one who lacks experience, or do you simply have so many magical treasures that you don't care, fellow Daoist?

At that moment.

The way Duobao looked at Lin Tian changed completely.

This fellow Daoist Lin Tian is definitely no ordinary person!

The pet he keeps is a legitimate son of the Dragon Clan.

The treasure he uses to step on is very likely an Innate Supreme Treasure!

He also possesses secret manuals brimming with Buddhist intent.

And he didn't even pay attention to the Buddhist bead I gave him. That bead is still sitting all alone on the table.

The spiritual Qi in his Daoist sanctum is incredibly dense, too! It could even rival a Sage's Daoist sanctum!

Fellow Daoist Lin Tian really might be a Quasi-Saint expert!!

He might even be stronger than I imagined!

As these thoughts flashed through his mind.

Duobao's gaze sharpened, and his heart trembled slightly!

After connecting the many puzzling details, Duobao finally realized what was amiss!

His initial perception had been right all along!

The Heavenly Immortal realm Lin Tian appeared to be at might merely be a trick to conceal his true nature while living in seclusion!

After all, as for someone who could do all those things at once.

Never mind a Heavenly Immortal-even a Peak Daluo Golden Immortal expert might not be able to do it!

Just as he was reeling in shock.

Lin Tian's voice suddenly reached his ears.

"Forget about it. It's just a little trinket, nothing important."

Hearing Lin Tian's words, Duobao's mouth twitched.

A supreme treasure like that was just a little trinket, nothing important?

By that measure, wouldn't the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe count as an ordinary magical treasure?

As Duobao was thinking this, he saw Lin Tian carry a basin of water over to the stove at the side.

He poured the water in, then put the fish Yazi had caught into the pot.

Then he turned to Duobao and said.

"Why don't you stay and eat some fish?"

"This is the pickled fish soup I came up with. It's delicious."