บท 33: Finding A Heavenly Treasure

Don moved fast to bring the cart nearby, while the others moved to check on the two of them. It was the first time one of them got this beaten, deep injuries that made Lily's face quite pale.

"Eat, eat and regain your energy," Arthur said, as he, wearily, handed some pieces of meat to her, before stuffing more into his mouth. He was very experienced in dealing with injuries, but he usually used elixirs, not food. He swore once he went to the academy, he would search for a way to get his hand on a handful of elixirs.

If there was no such knowledge here, he would tire himself to find it. elixirs were magic solutions to many problems, injuries were one of them.

The moment the meat entered his stomach, he started to feel fine at an increasing rate, exceeding his expectations. He only found it possible due to his initial low rank, something he felt appreciated at this moment.

"Don, go and move the pythons to the other shore," Arthur said, in a stronger tone, ordering his pet, "Move all of them," he added, to include the living and the dead pythons here.

Arthur knew he got his share of luck full this time, as over one hundred pythons were gathered on the other shore, waiting for him to get better.

After the passage of ten minutes, Arthur felt quite refreshed, as his fatigue and injuries started to fade away. He stood up, checking on Lily, whose face had much gotten better, but she still felt weak.

As for the others, they stood like watchful dogs, eyeing the pythons they defeated. Arthur just laughed at them, as he was reminded by the starting up disciples back at his sect, whenever he gave them any task, they fervently tried to accomplish it more perfect than ever, in a try to win his favor.

Just as he was about to move away, his sharp senses detected something weird. When he sat foot here for the first time, he sensed quite a strong aura, something that he thought was due to the pythons living there.

But now, all the pythons were now on the other side, so there was no need for such an aura to exist. Arthur shook his head, as a tempting idea brought forth inside his mind.

Sometimes, back at his own cultivation world, monsters got the chance to evolve, and that evolution was a risky move, as they all would be much weaker than before.

Many cultivators back then were thrilled to hunt monsters amidst their evolution process, and thus monsters tried to defend themselves, shielding their growing aura by lying beside another thing with much greater aura.

A heavenly treasure!

Arthur swallowed his saliva, even for a great cultivator as him, finding a heavenly treasure was an event to celebrate. He didn't say a word, moved slowly, yet cautiously, towards the place of such treasure.

He hoped, for this time, to be like the case in his world. if there was a heavenly treasure, then these pythons must have killed its guardian, getting themselves a place as a guardian for that treasure, and after the evolution succeeded, their boss would swallow this heavenly treasure, gaining the most benefit out of it.

Arthur went towards the line of trees these pythons came from, and where he felt the source of this strong aura was. His mind didn't stop thinking about the odds. If he found the heavenly treasure, then that special python was in the middle of its evolution. That fact alone was enough to highlight its importance, escalating its value by thresholds.

Arthur passed the trees, and his actions attracted the attention of everyone, but they didn't move to follow him. they thought he was just routinely checking the pythons lair, a mission none of them was thrilled to volunteer for.

Arthur just walked for fifty meters to be welcomed by a very shocking scene. The lair, where he went to check, wasn't just as simple a lair as he thought it would be.

It was first a deep hole in the ground, roughly fifty meters in radius. The cause of this hall was discovered rapidly by Arthur, as he found an adult head sized piece of weird rock, that was still emanating a long thin thread of steam, like it was super hot.

Arthur wasn't shocked by seeing this scene, but what shocked him most was the fact he found hundreds of spherical, semi-translucent eggs, each in the side of a closed fist.

He was shocked to see this, as the whole hole wasn't in the ground as he initially thought, but it was a hole inside a dead monster, where these eggs were kept to nourish themselves here, until they would grow mature and hatch.

This wasn't a simple evolution lair, it was a place where these pythons decided to multiply!

Arthur felt a slight numbness, putting the disturbing image of hundreds of these pythons hissing around him, he moved towards the depth of this hole, carefully, in fear he might be attacked by any sudden trap.

He now understood why that python didn't order all the others to attack them in one wave, it was just warning them to leave. However when Arthur and the others defeated the warning waves, the mother python decided to act.

Arthur felt conflicted, as he always respected the motherly love of any species, but he was only feeling like this, as his initial thought of turning that monster into his inner demon didn't change.

Once he reached there, he touched, very carefully, the rock with a small tree branch. He waited for the branch to burn, but shockingly it didn't burn but it got frozen in an instant.

That piece of rock wasn't hot as he thought, it was freezingly cold, with the ability to turn anything cold in an instant.

Arthur didn't understand, the pythons all used the fire to attack him, so how come they used an ice attribute heavenly treasure as nutrients to their kids?

He knew he couldn't know the answer easily, but he was now in front of three dilemmas, the heavenly treasure in hand, the amazing eggs that didn't yet hatch, and that big body of the dead monster in front of him.

If he was still in his cultivation world, this problem would have been easily solved. There was an item, very popular, and widely recognized by almost all the cultivators, the spiritual ring.

Having a spiritual ring would solve such problems in hand, as these rings had a specific area of storage inside them, with the ability to put and extract anything there, with the condition of being not alive.

The eggs might be considered inanimate objects, though they contained life, but this life couldn't sustain itself without nutrition. As long as the eggs didn't hatch, they could be stored in that ring.

Making the ring was an easy task for him, but now he didn't know if he could do it or not. His strength wasn't that high, and he didn't know if this world could accept the concept of rings or not.

Having many unanswered questions, Arthur decided to go back and think thoroughly again. The idea of making storage spiritual rings was getting more appealing to him, as it wouldn't only solve this problem, it would solve many problems.

Take the food problem for example, right now they had to build a cart, carry it slowly during their travels. If they had rings, they could easily store the food, other supplies, without the fear of anything bad might happen to them.

The storage rings had a special condition, as they maintained the state of anything put inside them forever. that meant he didn't need to salt the meat, or ditch anything he didn't need now, but might be handy later.

The more the thought, the more he got convinced by the idea.

Once he reached the other shore, where Lily had also moved with her pet, Birdy, he looked at Madly as he asked:

"Have you ever helped grandpa Regil in his forging?"

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