Inheritance

Mu Bingyuan immediately sat down next to the stone tablet and took out some pills from her space ring.

These pills were the various healing pills she had collected over the years.

Without hesitation, she put them in her mouth and closed her eyes, circulating her Qi to digest them.

A few hours passed by before Mu Bingyuan opened her eyes again.

Feeling that her injuries had healed somewhat and there would be no hidden danger, she stood up.

Unfortunately, she knew that her injuries had not been fully healed yet and she would have to spend some more time in the future.

"Just seeing a trace of that massive tree let me suffer such serious injuries."

"Is that tree an Emperor?"

Mu Bingyuan knew that the image she had such seen was just a little trace left unintentionally by that powerful tree.

Perhaps, even the tree didn't know that it had left traces here.

It was just like the footprints that an ordinary person left or the air they breathed, completely unintentional.

Apart from the Emperor, Mu Bingyuan couldn't think of anyone else with such power.

After shaking her head and suppressing these thoughts, she turned her focus to the stone tablet.

This time, she was way more careful and slowly but surely, she covered it with her spiritual consciousness, intending to find out its secrets.

Soon, she understood the stone tablet's effects.

"Cultivators can absorb some of the remaining breath on the stone tablet and it will help them breakthrough?", she murmured.

Sadly, this breath could only be absorbed a few more times and it was useless for her breakthrough to the Soul Transformation Realm.

But Mu Bingyuan didn't care.

With this stone tablet, she was sure that her disciple would achieve a breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Nascent Soul Realm.

This would increase the future safety of both her disciple and the Snow Phoenix Sect.

With that in mind, she carefully picked the stone tablet up and put it in her space ring.

She was ready to leave when she thought of something, turned back and destroyed the traces that remained here.

After she made sure that no one would be able to find out anything, she left this place.

***

Time passed by slowly and while Li Yuan was focused on practicing, a week passed by.

Sitting on a futon inside the golden pagoda, Li Yuan had his eyes closed and used the Great Destiny Technique to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.

"Click.."

Suddenly, his eyes opened up and shone with a bright purple light.

"Pheww.", he let out a long breath.

"Middle Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.", he murmured when he felt the condition of his body.

Not only had his Qi stored inside his body increased, but he noticed that his physical strength had also increased by quite a lot.

"In one week I was able to break through the Middle Stage Qi Condensation Realm."

"It should take me about a month to reach the Peak of the Qi Condensation Realm and have the opportunity to break through the Foundation Building Realm."

Li Yuan quickly made a rough estimate based on his experience.

This rapid speed of progress was because of his qualifications, the dense spiritual energy in the Dark Mirror Forest and the pills that Xiao Huo and Mu Bingyuan had given him.

If it was any other cultivator that lacked these conditions, they would never be able to cultivate so fast, even if that cultivator was Xiao Huo.

While he was in a happy mood, Li Yuan turned his head to look at the little fox.

Sensing its aura, he found that although its realm had not improved, her strength had increased a lot.

"It deserves to be a monster with a powerful bloodline.", he sighed.

Most monsters don't have any cultivation techniques and only unconsciously absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.

This means that monsters usually cultivate way slower than human cultivators.

Of course, monsters' lifespans are also way longer than that of humans', balancing the humans' advantage out.

Only monsters with powerful bloodlines are able to get the cultivation techniques of their ancestors from their bloodline inheritance and progress as quickly as humans.

Li Yuan had investigated the Nine-Tailed Fox race before and found that it was a powerful monster clan.

Nine-Tailed Foxes are born in the Qi Condensing Realm and like the current Su Qi, they only have one tail.

Then, every time their cultivation improves by a large realm, they will grow a new tail behind their backs.

This means that a true Nine-Tailed Fox is actually a Great Saint.

When he first learned of this, Li Yuan was a little worried that a Great Saint Nine-Tailed Fox would one day knock on his door, asking who kidnapped her child.

Fortunately, Li Yuan asked the system and found that Su Qi was abandoned and there would be no hidden dangers in taking it in.

Seeing that the little fox was still working hard, Li Yuan didn't interrupt it.

Opening the door, he exited the golden pagoda.

He had just noticed a familiar aura waiting for him outside.

The moment the door closed, the little fox's eyes opened and it showed a cunning look.

Then, it curled up and fell back into sleep.

'Hmph, do you think that you force me to practice? How could you know that I'm actually genius.', it thought before its consciousness fell into darkness.

Li Yuan had just exited the pagoda when it noticed the little fox's movements.

He was secretly very speechless by this fox's laziness.

If it was any other time, he would have taken the opportunity to teach it a lesson, but now, his biggest customer had just come.

Compared to the little fox, Li Yuan felt that business was more important.

Seeing that Xiao Huo was waiting for him respectfully, Li Yuan nodded and sat down on his chair before speaking up.

"Why did you come here again? Don't you have anything else to do?"

Although Xiao Huo was his biggest customer, Li Yuan was starting to get impatient with him.

Over the past week, every now and then, Xiao Huo would come here and buy some information worth hundreds or thousands of HS Points.

While Li Yuan was happy to have such a loyal customer, he simply despised such little HS Points.

Xiao Huo heard Li Yuan's words and could hear the contempt in his tone.

He smiled awkwardly and was a little embarrassed.

But he couldn't be blamed.

If anyone else knew that there was such an easy way to get precious information, they would not be able to resist and would act exactly like him.

Thankfully, this time Xiao Huo came here for something important, so his embarrassment quickly disappeared.

"Pavilion Owner, today is different."

"I've found a secret place that contains the inheritance of ancient cultivators."

"I want to ask you to deduce whether the secret place is a trap and if there are any dangers in it."

Xiao Huo's voice couldn't hide his excitement.

Yesterday, he was chased by a powerful monster and while escaping, he was lucky to find a hidden cave.

Instantly, his intuition told him that this should be an opportunity.

In the past, he wouldn't have hesitated and would have entered it immediately, but now, he chose to come here first and buy information.

Over the past month, he had seen how important having information was.

Through the information he had bought from Li Yuan, he had been chased by powerful enemies only 5 times in the past week.

This was a massive improvement compared to the past.

"Really?", Li Yuan was surprised and became a little interested.

As one of the Seven Forbidden Areas, there are countless secret places in the Dark Mirror Forest.

Most of these places are former residences of cultivators, places of inheritance or even traps.

In fact, the vast majority of them was actually not worth much, only containing a few magic weapons.

But as a secret place found by the protagonist, Li Yuan felt that it should be different.

Either it contained powerful items and cultivation techniques, or it hid precious secrets of the past.

Nonetheless, this secret place should be very special.

'System, deduce information about the secret place that Xiao Huo is talking about.'

[Secret place containing a cultivator's inheritance. Price: 30 Million HS Points.]