"Hmm?" Little Fairy Doctor furrowed her brows upon hearing this, and after stepping past Xiao Yan, she saw a thick stone door blog their path.

  "This must be it. The room behind this door is likely that of the powerful figure," the Little Fairy Doctor said in a deep voice as she ran her hand over the stone door.

  Xiao Yaly tapped the stone door, noting that it wasn't very hard. A Dou Master should be able to break it forcefully.

  'Using the Oe Burst should break the stone door,' Xiao Yan opened his mouth and asked after making some calcutions, "Should we force it open?"

  Little Fairy Doctor pursed her lips and gave Xiao Yan a sideways gnce, "Always res to brute force. What if the tomb is rigged with a self-destruct meism that activates upon strong vibrations?"

  She gently tapped oone door and found a hidden tch. After carefully turning it, a creaking sound slowly echoed through the cave.

  Xiao Yan looked at the Little Fairy Doctor with slight surprise and gave her a thumbs up. He hadn't expected that she was not only profit in medie but also knew how to manipute meisms.

  "It's nothing special. Just follow along, Xiao-Yan-Zi."

  TL/N: Xiao-Yan-Zi is a niame, the Xiao here means "little."

  "Huh?"

  ...

  The two of them walked into the cave a little bit back to back, and inside, numerous, small special gemstoed a faint glow.

  Beyond the stone door acious stone room with a rge stone chair in the ter, upon which sat a skeleton. In front of the chair, a rather wide and long bluestoable was arrahree locked stone tainers were ly pced on it.

  Besides these, rge piles of gold and silver treasures could be seen nearby, roughly estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of gold s.

  However, what truly captured Xiao Yan's and Little Fairy Doctor's attention was not these items, but the herb garden behind them, which was filled with all kinds of preedial herbs aic flowers.

  Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Yan hurried into the garden. The former excimed, "Red Star Grass, Celestial Elephant Nine-Leaf Flower, Triple Joint Bamboo! There are many high-grade herbs here! Could this be a tomb of an alchemist?"

  Her pretty eyes widened in amazement as names representing rare and elusive high-grade medial materials tumbled out of her rosy lips.

  Xiao Yan expanded his Spiritual Strength to sense and shook his head, "This seems to be the tomb of a physi or a poison master; there are no pills here. Typically, an alchemist would have pills and recipes."

  He looked at the strange herb in the middle of the medial garden and said, "I want this Ice Spirit Bzing Grass, and you have two-thirds of the other herbs."

  It was only after hearing this that Little Fairy Doctor's face softened slightly. She nodded lightly and ceded the most precious Ice Spirit Bzing Grass to Xiao Yan.

  Then, like bandits, they scrambled for the herbs, grabbing whatever they could get their hands on first.

  "Hey! I saw that one first!"

  "Finders keepers!"

  "Are you even a man!"

  Xiao Yan quickly gathered his share of the herbs and was the first to approach the skeleton. Gng back at the Little Fairy Doctor, who was carefully pig herbs, he positioned his body to block her line of sight.

  "What's wrong?"

  Mao earing from the Acceptance Soul across the void, seemed as if it had entered an enemy. Its fur bristled as it stared ily at the skeleton.

  Meow! Suddenly, Mao Wu spat out bck fmes that instantly enveloped the entire skeleton in a terrifying bze, as if intending to reduce it to ashes.

  "Huh?!" Feeling the intense heat behind her, Little Fairy Doctor turo Xiao Yan with a wary expression and excimed, "What are you doiing a fire?!"

  Xiao Yan quickly trolled his Spiritual Strength to withdraw all the bck fmes, then picked up three keys from the ground and offered a faint smile. "I was searg for the keys to opeone boxes."

  Little Fairy Doctor was left speechless, and couldn't help but 'admire' Xiao Yan's methods; searg for keys, yet in the process redug someone's boo ashes? Wasn't that a bit too extreme?

  When Xiao Yan saw Little Fairy Doctor turn around to tihering herbs, his expression immediately turned serious. He slowly opened his palm, revealing a piece of paper about half the size of a palm!

  He had done more than just pick up the keys; he had also taken the opportunity to hide a piece of paper in his palm. The keys were merely a distra!

  Mao Wu s the strange paper while perg on Xiao Yan's wrist. It turned out that Mao Wu's hostility was not directed at the skeleton itself, but at the paper hidden within the bones!

  'What kind of paper is this that provoke such hostility from the Nihility Dev Fme's Seed Fme, a ot be burned by the bck fme?'

  Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed slightly. This small piece of paper in front of him might be the most precious treasure iomb.

  Little Fairy Doctor wiped the sweat of hard work from her forehead with the back of her hand, then turo see Xiao Yan standing in front of the stone box. Noting that he hadn't ope himself, she pyfully chided, "I see that you still have a bit of a sce for not opening the box without me."

  Xiao Yan touched his nose, slipped the paper into his pocket without showing any blush or embarrassment, and did not bother to expin further. If that's what you want to believe, then so be it.

  When Little Fairy Doctor hurried over to the three stone boxes, Xiao Yan finally used the key to open the first oh a click.

  Just as she was about to open it, Xiao Yan quickly pulled her back a few steps, picked up a stone, and flicked it with his fihe forceful impact burst open the box, revealing an a, colorful scroll inside.

  "You are being overly cautious."

  "Better safe than sorry," Xiao Yan said with a smile, toug his nose again.

  Little Fairy Doctor rolled her eyes in resignation. If Xiao Yan was thrown into the depths of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, he'd probably be able to thrive better than the magical beasts themselves.

  Both of them leaned closer to examihe stone box and saw that the colorful a scroll was clearly titled with fe characters: "Seven Colored Poison Scripture."

  "It's just as I thought; the owner of this tomb oison master," Xiao Yan firmed upon seeing the poison scripture.

  Little Fairy Doctor said after p for a moment, "I want the Seven Colored Poison Scripture. I 't bee an alchemist, so I have to rely ohings."

  "Suit yourself. I'm already too busy with my Qi Method and Dou Teiques. But you should put away what you have in your hand first," Xiao Yan said with a grin.

  Her pretty face turned slightly red as she opened her right hand to reveal a pinch of green powder. She had discreetly prepared some sleeping powder while gathering herbs earlier, just in case Xiao Yan tried to ambush her.

  Seeing the Little Fairy Doctor at a loss for words, Xiao Yan teased, "Who was it that said I was being overly cautious?"

  Blushing even more, the Little Fairy Doctor turned her head away, uo meet Xiao Yan's gaze. That was quite a sp in the face...

  "What's wrong?" Xiao Yan noticed that her expression became a bit unnatural the moment she grasped the Seven Colored Poison Scripture.

  "It's nothing, I might just be a bit tired."

  Without giving it much thought, Xiao Yahe key to open the sed stone box. However, he was somewhat disappoio find that it tained just another scroll with the words "High Xuan Css" barely visible on it.

  For Xiao Yan, such a level ractically useless. Even the Hall of Souls might not bother to accept such a low-level thing.

  He turhe bck scroll over to check the er taking it out of the box. However, his pupils slowly dited in shock the moment he saw it, and he excimed in astonishment, "Flying Dou Teique: Eagle Wings?"

  Too soon, he realized he had spoken too fast!

  A Flying Dou Teique, as its name suggested, naturally allowed the practitioo fly. Normally, those at the Dou Spirit realm could only glide briefly, and only Dou Kings could transform their Dou Qi into wings for flight. However, the Flying Dou Teique could break this rule, allowing both Dou Masters and Dou Grandmasters to fly.

  Seeing Xiao Yan smiling at her, Little Fairy Doimicked him by toug her nose and said, "Alright, this one's yours."

  "Hehe, thanks," Xiao Yan grihe night's haul almost splitting his face with joy. He would probably sleep with a smile on his face tonight.

  "There's one more. Let's hurry up a done so we head back," Little Fairy Ded as she turned her attention to the st stone box.

  "Ke ke, Little Fairy Doctor. Thanks for showing us the way. It seems the information I received was indeed correct!" Just as Xiao Yan was about to ihe key into the lock, loud ughter erupted from outside the door.

  A rge group of people burst through the stone door and quickly surrouhe duo.

  "Mu Li! How could this be?!" The Little Fairy Domediately gritted her silver-like teeth when she heard this voice. She couldn't uand how Mu Li could have known!

  She had even drugged the meraries who had bee by Mu Li to guard her when she had left, and made them pass out!

  Little Fairy Dged at Xiao Yan, who was still fiddling with the keys, and asked anxiously, "Xiao Yan, what do we do now?"

  "I don't know. The key might have been damaged by the fire earlier; it won't turn the lock," Xiao Yan didn't seem to be aware of the danger. He tio focus on the lod didn't even spare a g Mu Li.

  Mu Li's gaze turned icy as he chuckled darkly, "Ke ke, chop off this kid's hand. Don't let him die too easily! And make sure not to hurt Little Fairy Doctor, heh heh, she's mine."

  Xiao Yan shook his head and sighed, "Little Fairy Doctor, you take over. This delicate task suits you better."

  Then, calmly fag the group of meraries surrounding them, he drew his Heavy Xuan Ruler and swung it with a whoosh of breaking wind. He said indifferently, "Leave the rough stuff to me."