After taking out the box, the guy immediately opened it, trying to seize the last chance to attract Meng Fan, the golden patron!
Meng Fan remained expressionless. When he saw the box, he didn't react at all.
But when the box was opened, his eyes instinctively narrowed.
Because at the moment the box was opened, he actually felt Spiritual Qi.
Anything related to Spiritual Qi no longer belonged to the mortal world but to the cultivation world, to cultivators.
However, there were indeed many special spiritual treasures in this world that had unknowingly fallen into the mortal realm.
Occasionally, some lucky cultivators would find special treasures in the mortal world.
The probability wasn't high, but it wasn't too low either!
It mainly depended on how precious those treasures were.
For instance, sometimes finding a Spirit Stone in the mortal world wasn't rare; it happened quite often.
But the chances of encountering some rare treasures in the mortal world were very low for cultivators.
With a wave of his hand, the box flew into the air and landed in Meng Fan's hand.
This scene scared the two men to the point of wetting themselves.
Making things fly in the air—what kind of supernatural ability was this?
What kind of being had they been following?
"Thud!"
"Thud!"
The two men hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Meng Fan.
"Spare us, my lord! We were blind and didn't recognize Mount Tai. Please spare us, young master!!"
***
After a long time without hearing any movement, the two tremblingly looked up.
The figure they had regarded as a supernatural being had already disappeared.
At the same time, a gold ingot was left on the ground in front of them.
No matter where these two had gotten the item from, Meng Fan disdained to take anything from ordinary mortals without compensation.
Leaving a gold ingot was already considered "fair trade."
For these two mortals, the box compared to the gold ingot was definitely worth more.
At this moment, Meng Fan had already returned to the inn.
He was quite interested in the contents of the box.
But he couldn't examine it on the street, so he immediately returned to his room at the inn.
Inside the box was a square seal made of white jade.
The seal had some special patterns on it, resembling some kind of script, but Meng Fan didn't recognize it.
Meng Fan then tried to scan the seal with his Divine Sense, but there was no reaction.
Moreover, at this moment, Meng Fan could no longer sense any Spiritual Qi from the seal.
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like an ordinary seal, nothing special.
If it weren't for the Spiritual Qi he felt when the tracker opened the box earlier, he wouldn't be able to prove that this seal was a treasure.
"Another mysterious item I can't figure out!" Meng Fan shook his head with a bitter smile.
He had tried various methods, but the seal didn't respond at all.
In the end, he could only helplessly put it back into his storage ring, planning to study it again when he became stronger.
Or perhaps, he could ask Elder Lin to take a look?
But although Elder Lin was powerful, his ability to appraise treasures wasn't great. After all, expertise has its specializations.
The jade stones he had obtained from the Demon Realm earlier, Elder Lin had studied for a long time without any results.
Now, Meng Fan had three mysterious items he couldn't figure out.
First, the two jade stones from the Demon Realm, one from the belly of a bull demon and the other from the storage bracelet of a female fox demon.
Second, the Phoenix Token from the same female fox demon's storage bracelet.
Third, the seal in front of him!
Meng Fan's intuition told him that these three items would play a significant role in the future.
***
After tidying up, Meng Fan went to Ye Qingyu's room and knocked on the door.
The two hours he had agreed to wait for Ye Qingyu had passed!
"Creak~~"
Ye Qingyu opened the door, her complexion fully restored, her face looking rosy.
"Senior Brother Meng, my body has completely recovered. We can continue our journey." She smiled faintly at Meng Fan.
This time, Meng Fan had indeed saved her. Both emotionally and logically, she was extremely grateful to Meng Fan.
"Alright, let's set off immediately," Meng Fan said to Ye Qingyu.
They had already delayed quite a bit of time in Black Bee Town.
Moreover, the demon who harmed infants was now in Xiao Qing's belly, so they could leave without worry.
The two left the inn and continued their journey to the Ye family in the carriage.
In fact, the reason Meng Fan agreed to wait for Ye Qingyu for two hours to let her heal was so that she could continue driving the carriage.
If they had left in a hurry and Ye Qingyu hadn't fully recovered, Meng Fan wouldn't have felt right making her drive, and he would have had to do it himself.
When a man starts scheming, there's no room for a woman to intervene.
Ye Qingyu drove the carriage without complaint, having no objections.
After all, Meng Fan had saved her life. What was driving a carriage compared to that?
The rest of the journey was peaceful.
***
By the following evening, Meng Fan and Ye Qingyu arrived at the Ye family in Qingyang County.
The Ye family wasn't far from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, which was why Ye Qingyu's family had chosen to send her there.
Originally, they thought the proximity would make it convenient to visit their daughter.
But in the blink of an eye, over twenty years had passed, and they had never visited Ye Qingyu at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.
Even when Ye Qingyu returned home, it always ended in unpleasantness.
The root cause was four words: favoring sons over daughters!
Ye Qingyu had a younger brother named Ye Qingshan.
Not only did her parents favor sons over daughters, but her brother Ye Qingshan also liked to cause trouble and was an outright scoundrel.
As a result, Ye Qingyu's visits home were always unhappy.
Gradually, she rarely returned home and instead considered the Shu Mountain Sword Sect her true home!
If it weren't for the inheritance of the Sword Immortal of Alchemy, she wouldn't have bothered to return this time.
"Young lady, you're back!" As soon as the carriage arrived at the Ye family's gate, an old servant sweeping the ground saw Ye Qingyu driving the carriage and exclaimed in surprise.
The surprise had two layers of meaning.
First, the young lady rarely came back, and it wasn't any festival or special day, so her sudden return was strange.
Second, seeing the young lady driving the carriage was even stranger.
Who was the young lady?
A chosen one of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, actually driving a carriage for someone else?
Who was the person in the carriage?
Thinking of this, the old servant felt a bit uneasy.
Meng Fan lifted the curtain and stepped down from the carriage.
"Senior Sister Ye, this is your family's residence? It's not as grand as I imagined!" Meng Fan said with a cheerful smile.
He had imagined the Ye family to be a magnificent place with numerous courtyards and unparalleled grandeur.
After all, it was once the family of the Sword Immortal of Alchemy!
But the Ye family before him, though not dilapidated, was far from grand.
It was just an ordinary wealthy household.
"The Ye family has long lost its former glory. I'm afraid I've made Senior Brother Meng laugh," Ye Qingyu said expressionlessly.
Meng Fan looked at Ye Qingyu in surprise.
This young lady, who had been quite amiable on the road, had turned cold and distant upon reaching her doorstep.
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