Wei Yang looked at the seemingly wooden door in front of him and reached out to touch it.
"From the surface, it looks like a wooden door, but it's actually an iron door forged from refined steel, covered with a layer of wood veneer," Wei Yang shook his head with some amusement. Then, his spiritual power surged out, penetrated inside, and opened the door from within.
Walking into the room.
This was a place that seemed quite spacious, but it was also piled up with all sorts of rubbish and miscellaneous items.
An extremely shabby old man lay on a table, sleeping soundly, occasionally making slight snoring sounds.
Wei Yang's gaze swept through the room and finally paused on some crystal covers on the counter inside, a hint of surprise flashing across his face.
"Wow, so many precious herbs," Xian'er also stopped her gaze there. She let go of Wei Yang's hand, quickly walked over, and looked excitedly at the herbs placed on the crystal platform.
"Fiery Heart Seven Leaf Flower, Blood Crystal Grass, Blue Rock Heart Stone, Purple Blood Ling Zhi..." Xian'er kept murmuring excitedly, her eyes shining.
Wei Yang also stepped over.
Looking at these herbs, each of them would be considered rare treasures in the outside world, yet they were all gathered here.
The collection here could be described as rich!
You could doubt this brother of Dan King Gu He's abilities in other aspects, but you really couldn't doubt his discernment and hobbies.
There wasn't a single herb collected here that wasn't at least a fourth-tier herb.
And they were all difficult to find in ordinary times, almost considered priceless rarities.
Here, there were as many as forty to fifty kinds, all neatly placed on the crystal platform.
The little girl was so happy she almost lost herself.
She seemed to have little natural resistance to some precious herbs.
As in the original work, in the chance encounter at the cliff cave, she, a girl who wasn't even a fighter, almost clashed with Xiao Yan for those herbs on the small flower bed.
After entering that mansion, she didn't even glance at the heap of gold coins and other treasures.
Her eyes only fixed on that small flower bed.
It was evident how obsessed she was with precious herbs.
Now that she had the foundation to become an alchemist, this obsession or hobby seemed to have an even stronger tendency to worsen.
...
"Brother Yang," Xian'er was excited for a while before coming back to her senses.
She lifted the hood covering her head, revealing a small, exquisite face.
She came over, holding Wei Yang's arm, lightly biting her red lips with her white teeth, a hint of alluring blush appearing on her face, her beautiful eyes looking tenderly at Wei Yang, and she called out softly, "Brother Yang~"
Wei Yang felt his bones go a bit soft, covering his forehead.
Alright, the girl even used the beauty tactic.
He made a big gesture, "If you like them, just take them. They're all yours."
"Yay~ Thank you, Brother Yang," Xian'er cheered, tiptoeing, and voluntarily pecked Wei Yang's lips lightly.
Then, she turned and cheerfully arrived in front of the crystal platform, carefully opening it and taking out the precious herbs protected inside jade boxes, putting them one by one into her storage ring.
"Humming..." She hummed a cheerful tune.
Watching Xian'er, who looked just like a diligent little bee, busily handling the herbs, Wei Yang shook his head with a smile.
He stepped over to the cluttered table, looking down at the shabby old man who was still soundly asleep.
Who would have thought that such a skinny and shabby old man could be the real brother of the renowned Dan King Gu He in the Jia Ma Empire?
He gently removed the storage ring from the old man's dry finger, a powerful spiritual force entering the ring and forcibly breaking open the spiritual mark and prohibition inside.
"Humph," the shabby old man, sleeping soundly, let out a muffled hum and frowned but still didn't wake up.
Wei Yang didn't care about him. Having taken the special sleeping drug prepared by Xian'er, waking up wouldn't be an easy task.
His perception swept through the inside of the storage ring.
This was a storage ring with a spacious internal space, nearly twenty square meters in size and about five meters in height.
It was filled with some miscellaneous items, books, handwritten notes, alchemy recipes, scrolls, gold coins, gold coin cards, alchemy cauldrons, bottles, and jars among many other items.
Wei Yang's perception carefully swept through it, taking out any suspicious items that might have marks left on them and throwing them on the ground.
Now wasn't the time to check the harvest inside.
Then, the robe on his body and his hair began to move without wind, and a powerful spiritual force surged out, carefully probing the room.
Soon, a concealed stone slab was opened, and the hidden objects inside flew out, hovering in front of Wei Yang.
These were thick, ancient books, four in total.
With a movement of Wei Yang's mind, these books opened in turn, and his gaze roughly swept over them.
He found that they recorded information about some rare treasures, strange occurrences, or some special environments, as well as detailed introductions of precious herbs.
"Not bad," Wei Yang nodded, putting these books away.
These books, written by predecessors with their efforts, contained numerous pieces of information on strange occurrences, rare treasures, and other details, similar to a Dou Qi Continent version of an encyclopedia. Reading them could greatly enhance one's knowledge and broaden one's horizons.
Then he continued exploring with his spiritual power, inch by inch throughout the room.
Soon, Wei Yang's mouth twitched.
His gaze fell somewhat oddly on the shabby old man still asleep in front of him.
With an effort to suppress a feeling of disgust, a ring slowly floated up from the lower part of the shabby old man.
Looking at this ring hovering in front of him, Wei Yang's face twitched. Who would have thought it was hidden in such a place... down there?
Wei Yang's intention was to have his perception sweep through quickly, just to avoid missing anything. Who knew he would actually find something!
To have it directly attached to that thing, can you believe it?!
But, it really was very effective.
Ordinary people, even when searching, would rarely explore such a place on someone else's lower body.
This old sly one.
Wei Yang took out a handkerchief from his storage ring, suppressing his disgust, and wrapped the ring in it, wiping it vigorously.
Then his spiritual power surged out again, rudely breaking the protective restrictions within the storage ring, letting his perception seep inside.
Inside was a space nearly the same size as the previous storage ring.
However, there weren't many items inside, only five.
But upon seeing these five items, Wei Yang's eyes lit up.
It was because each of these five items was an extremely valuable piece.
Among them was precisely the target that Wei Yang was looking for.
With a thought, a white jade box the size of a washbasin floated in the air in front of him.
This white jade box was sealed incredibly well; aside from the opening above, there were no gaps.
Even though there was a layer of white jade, Wei Yang could still easily sense the cold air faintly seeping from inside.
He carefully lifted the sealed lid atop the white jade box.
As he did so, a cold fog swirled up instantly.
In moments, the temperature in the room suddenly dropped.
Without caring for the sharply dropping temperature, Wei Yang quickly cast his gaze into the jade box.
Inside, a layer of thick ice was neatly stacked, and in the center of the ice, a small white jade bottle stood.
Around the jade bottle, a cold mist swirled, delivering a chill that could freeze one's heart.
Looking at the small jade bottle emanating cold air, Wei Yang inhaled lightly and smiled, "Found it, Ice Spirit Cold Spring!"
This is also an extremely precious treasure of heaven and earth, born in an extremely cold place.
It's also a treasure that aids in refining different kinds of fire.
When refining a different kind of fire, consuming the Ice Spirit Cold Spring can protect the internal meridians from being burned or destroyed by the intense heat of the different kind of fire.
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