Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Chapter 706: Chapter 706 Disappointment

“There should be no one else here.”

After Wang Chen had asked three times, Hu Jiao, who was beside him, finally couldn’t help but speak up, “I’ve just used the Heavenly Fox Spiritual Ear to listen closely, and aside from you and me, there are no more living beings in this Cave Mansion!”

The Heavenly Fox Spiritual Ear is an Innate Divine Ability of the Fox Tribe of Green Hill, possessing an incredible capacity for detection.

With Hu Jiao’s strength, even if a Nascent Soul True Immortal were to deliberately hide, she would still be able to perceive their presence in this enclosed space.

Indeed, other than plants and flowers, there were not even ants or insects in the Cave Mansion!

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One wonders how many years it has been closed off.

Wang Chen nodded, “Let’s go take a look.”

A man and a Monster came to the wooden house up ahead.

Wang Chen reached out to try and push open the tightly closed door, but before his hand even touched the door, it silently opened on its own.

Inside the room was completely empty, not a single piece of furniture in sight.

Only a dust-covered sitting mat was placed on the floor.

Is this it?

Wang Chen felt disappointed in his heart, and it would definitely be a lie to say otherwise.

After all, he had not rarely read in books about how some Cultivator stumbled upon an ancient Cave Mansion by mistake, acquiring manuals and Magical Treasures, and from then on, soared to the heavens.

In fact, such stories were widely circulated in the world of Immortal Cultivation, becoming one of the topics people delight in discussing every day.

And these stories did indeed happen, not merely fabrications by bored people.

Many Cultivators risked their lives to venture deep into mountains and marshes in the hope of finding Cave Mansions left by predecessors.

Expecting to change their fate thereby,

Although the vast majority of them died in the wilderness, the Great Marsh, or even became food for Monster Beasts and hosts for Evil Wraiths,

there were always those who were fortunate.

I guess I’m not lucky like that!

Wang Chen shook his head, not allowing disappointment to disturb his composure.

He hadn’t forgotten the true purpose of his trip to the Manglong Mountain Range, so he quickly put aside his dissatisfaction and began to search the Cave Mansion thoroughly.

But reality delivered Wang Chen another blow!

Even though this Cave Mansion had its own heaven and earth, nearly a hundred mu in size, Wang Chen had checked it all, short of digging three feet into the ground, yet he had not found even half a root of ginseng.

Not a single leaf of the legendary Seven-leaf Mysterious Ginseng was in sight!

In the end, he could only helplessly say to Hu Jiao who had been searching with him, “You were right.”

Hu Jiao pursed her lips and smiled, “Discovering an ancient Cave Mansion is not bad, and the flowers and plants here are pretty good-looking.”

And that’s all they were, good-looking. These beautiful and strange flowers contained only the slightest hint of Spiritual Energy, not even qualifying as ingredients for medicine or powder.

“Never mind.”

Wang Chen could only treat it as a sightseeing trip to gain experience, “We should rest for a bit before leaving; it has to be a full twelve hours. Let’s take a break first.”

Searching the entire Cave Mansion had taken a lot of time.

Back inside the wooden house, Wang Chen used the Cleansing Technique to remove the dust from the room, then took out wood and food supplies from the Sumeru Ring, set up a bonfire, and started preparing “breakfast.”

Considering the time, it was almost morning now.

“Eh?”

But when Wang Chen sat down, he suddenly felt something was off.

He was sitting on the very sitting mat that was already there on the floor, which after a spell of cleaning, wasn’t exactly like new, but at least clean enough to sit on.

So, Wang Chen just sat down directly on it.

The moment his buttocks touched the mat, he felt a strange energy seep into his body.

Xi Gate!

Wang Chen immediately leaped to his feet.

Hu Jiao was taken aback for a moment, “What’s wrong?”

Wang Chen silently picked up the meditation cushion from the ground and said, “This thing is quite unusual, give it a try.”

He handed the meditation cushion to Hu Jiao, letting the member of the Green Hill Fox Tribe experience it herself.

Receiving the cushion, Hu Jiao sat down, and her eyes suddenly lit up, “Interesting!”

The next moment, she closed her eyes, as if to meditate deeply, and seemed to be gathering and circulating energy.

Wang Chen didn’t disturb her but took out another cushion to sit down on.

After roughly half a stick of incense had burned, Hu Jiao reopened her eyes.

Smiling, she said, “I understand its use now.”

This ordinary-looking meditation cushion was actually a tier three Magical Treasure. Its spiritual light was hidden within and did not show outwardly, easily overlooked.

Wang Chen had stumbled upon a treasure!

The greatest use of the meditation cushion was to accelerate the speed of energy circulation and breath regulation. Moreover, it could condense energy to purify the body and nourish the Divine Soul, which was quite rare.

Simply put, it was a Magical Treasure to aid in cultivation!

Although she knew the purpose of the meditation cushion, Hu Jiao had no intention of taking it for herself. She handed the Magical Treasure back to Wang Chen, “You keep it, it’s of no use to me.”

While the cultivation methods of the Monster Race and humans were of the same origin, the hatred between the two sides had been unending for tens of thousands of years.

To this day, it was not something a few individuals or a group of people could resolve!

Furthermore, members of the Monster Race could use the Magical Treasures of the human race.

If unusable, they could also be sold or traded with their kin.

However, Hu Jiao didn’t think that far. She simply felt that she didn’t need such a thing and didn’t want it to cause any rift between her and Wang Chen.

Wang Chen had no choice but to take back the Magical Treasure.

The result was that Hu Jiao became quite happy, and she took out the wine gourd that her grandfather had given her to show off, “This is enough for me.”

Saying so, the Green Hill Fox Monster gulped down almost half a jin of Spiritual Wine in one go. Her somewhat pale cheeks quickly regained their color.

Then she passed it to Wang Chen.

Wang Chen joined her in drinking and eating roast meat and Beggar’s Chicken.

Although humans and monsters take different paths, Wang Chen, an outsider from another world, didn’t harbor the ingrained racial prejudices of the natives of this world, so he got along very well with Hu Jiao.

Midway through drinking, Hu Jiao suddenly said, “My real name is Hu Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao as in the jiao of ‘delicate maiden.'”

She was well aware that her disguise had not fooled Wang Chen.

Wang Chen was not surprised and smiled in return, “Hmm, I know now.”

Hu Jiao blinked, “Don’t you have anything you want to ask?”

Wang Chen asked in confusion, “Why do you ask that?”

“No reason.”

Hu Jiaojiao bit her lip, her eyes shimmering with brightness, “Then do you want to see my true appearance?”

Wang Chen responded frankly, “I think you’re quite fine as you are now.”

Everyone meets by chance, and with humans and monsters treading different paths, sharing a gourd of wine today does not mean they won’t drift apart tomorrow. There was no need to be overly serious.

Hearing Wang Chen’s response, a hint of disappointment flashed in the depths of Hu Jiaojiao’s eyes.

Wang Chen noticed but said nothing.

The atmosphere between them suddenly turned somewhat downcast and stifling.

At that moment, both Wang Chen and Hu Jiaojiao’s expressions changed, and they spontaneously looked toward the door.

A figure flashed past the doorway in an instant.

Despite the intruder’s extreme speed, both Wang Chen and Hu Jiaojiao caught the movement.

The human and the monster exchanged a glance and dashed out the door at the same time!

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