Descending to the second level of the cellar.

Xu Taiping immediately caught the rich aroma of spiritual herbs and saw the Dragon’s Teeth Fruits placed on the table in the center of the cellar.

“Sigh, still too late.”

After searching around for a while, Lin Buyan, who was sent by Lin Buyu to find herbs, suddenly sighed regretfully.

“Many of these herbs are over a thousand years old. Such aged spiritual herbs are now rare in the cultivation world. But they’ve been stored for too long, either rotting or losing their potency. It’s a complete waste.”

As she spoke, she reluctantly put down a withered spiritual herb.

Hearing this, Xu Taiping also felt a deep sense of regret, thinking that if they had thousand-year-old spiritual herbs as nutrients, the Earth Fruit could surely produce even more powerful treasures.

Previously, a four to five hundred-year-old Fire Lingzhi had allowed the Earth Fruit to unearth a dragon gallstone at Yunlu Mountain. If they had thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, who knows what more valuable things could be unearthed.

But finding the Dragon’s Teeth Fruits was already a mission accomplished.

“Hmm?”

Just as Xu Taiping was about to suggest returning to Lin Buyu, he suddenly noticed the female Hairy Zombie stopping in front of a shelf, seemingly staring at something. After a long while, it finally moved away.

“Could there have been something here?”

Xu Taiping walked to the empty shelf and, as if guided by an unseen force, reached out to touch it. Before his hand could touch the shelf, it was blocked by something.

From the feel of it, it was a wooden box covered by a cloth.

Clearly, something was hidden by an invisible treasure.

“Hidden so secretly, it must be something good, right?”

His heart stirred, and he tried to remove the cloth he felt.

Immediately, a beautifully crafted box appeared on the shelf, and Xu Taiping found a piece of gray cloth in his hand.

“It really is.”

Xu Taiping was overjoyed.

“Buyu, come and take a look.”

He turned and called out to Lin Buyu.

“Did you find something?”

Lin Buyu quickly walked over to Xu Taiping.

“There’s a box hidden here.”

As Xu Taiping spoke, he placed the cloth back on the wooden box, making it invisible again.

Seeing this, Lin Buyu’s eyes lit up.

“Open it and see.” She said with a hint of curiosity.

Xu Taiping nodded and opened the unlocked wooden box.

As soon as the box was opened, an indescribable fragrance filled the cellar, and they saw two green elixirs quietly lying inside.

“Grass Returning Elixir!”

The moment the fragrance appeared, Lin Buyan jumped out and shouted in surprise.

“What is the Grass Returning Elixir?”

Xu Taiping wasn’t very familiar with elixirs.

“The Grass Returning Elixir is a very precious ancient elixir. After taking it, within half a year, not only will a cultivator’s True Qi become purer, but the speed of refining True Qi will also increase rapidly, sometimes even three to four times.”

Lin Buyu explained to Xu Taiping.

“Three… four times?!”

Xu Taiping was shocked.

Because at that speed, he might be able to break through to the Profound Realm in less than a year.

“However, after the great catastrophe in the ancient cultivation world, many elixir recipes, including the Grass Returning Elixir, were lost. Later cultivators could only occasionally find a few in the ruins of ancient immortal abodes.”

“The sect I was in before my rebirth was fortunate enough to obtain one.”

Lin Buyan spoke with rare seriousness.

“One for you and one for me.”

Xu Taiping took one elixir from the box and handed the other, along with the box, to Lin Buyu.

“This is your find, you don’t need to share…”

“Just take it.”

Before Lin Buyu could finish, Lin Buyan interrupted her.

“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have found this second level of the cellar.”

Xu Taiping directly placed the box in Lin Buyu’s hand and continued searching the cellar.

“This kid is quite generous. You have a good eye for people.”

Watching Xu Taiping search, Lin Buyan muttered softly.

“Of course.”

Lin Buyu put the Grass Returning Elixir into her sleeve and responded seriously.

As for Xu Taiping.

After another round of searching, he found a dusty pill furnace in a corner.

“You know how to refine pills?”

Seeing Xu Taiping so happy, Lin Buyan asked curiously.

“I know a bit.”

Xu Taiping nodded.

“This pill furnace is quite ordinary, barely reaching the level of a magical treasure. It’s enough for practice.”

Lin Buyan lightly tapped the pill furnace and made her judgment.

“It’s enough for me.”

Xu Taiping was very satisfied.

According to Fairy Lingyue, the elixirs he needed now could be refined with a magical treasure-level pill furnace, without the risk of it exploding like a magical tool-level furnace.

“Looks like there’s nothing else here.”

After scanning the cellar, Lin Buyan felt a bit disappointed.

She had hoped to find more spiritual herbs, but the ruins had existed far longer than she had imagined, and most of the herbs were ruined.

“These Dragon’s Teeth Fruits, some were likely picked by this Hairy Zombie during previous fruiting seasons. You and I will each take fifteen, and the rest will go to the Sixth Peak.”

Lin Buyan pointed to the pile of Dragon’s Teeth Fruits on the table.

“Agreed.” Xu Taiping had no objections.

Finding a Grass Returning Elixir and a pill furnace had already exceeded his expectations.

“What are the effects of the Dragon’s Teeth Fruits?”

Xu Taiping asked Lin Buyan curiously.

“Dragon’s Teeth Fruits are a main ingredient in refining Thunder Avoidance Elixirs. After reaching the Profound Realm, cultivators must undergo a Five Thunder Body Refinement to stabilize their realm and continue breaking through, and Thunder Avoidance Elixirs are needed for this.”

“If taken alone, it can temporarily boost your physical strength beyond its limit. For someone like you, who can punch with ten thousand pounds of force, after taking it, your punch could reach nearly twenty thousand pounds. But the backlash after the effect wears off is severe, and some cultivators have even died from their bodies exploding due to excess energy.”

“So unless you’re in a desperate situation, never use it.”

Lin Buyan warned Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping nodded.

He wasn’t looking to shorten his life, so he wouldn’t consume it raw. But after breaking through to the Profound Realm, he would be able to use the Dragon’s Teeth Fruits.

“Shhh…”

As they were about to leave the cellar with the Dragon’s Teeth Fruits to find Senior Sister Zi Yan and the others, they suddenly heard the sound of furious writing.

They turned to look.

The female Flying Zombie, after wandering around the cellar, had taken out a worn brush and started writing on a stone table.

Although the brush had no ink and the table had no paper, she had repeated the action so many times that the hard stone table was etched with lines of writing.

Lin Buyu and Xu Taiping lowered their heads curiously to read the neat lines of text on the table—”To my esteemed master.”

“Today marks the one hundred and seventh year of my confinement in this cellar.”