Chapter 529: Young Girl Cauldron

With a "swish", a giant ape appeared in the light curtain amidst the glow, then walked a few steps to the kneeling girl and stopped.

The expressions of the middle-aged cultivator and the others changed slightly, staring at this puppet with a hint of worry.

The yellow-clothed girl opened her slightly red, clear eyes and looked at the giant ape before her with a hint of confusion.

"You are called Gongsun Xing, right? Follow this puppet of mine into the cave dwelling. Wait another two days, and I will come out of seclusion." After the man's voice appeared, it disappeared mysteriously.

At this moment, the yellow-clothed girl bit her red lips and entered behind the blue stone door.

After following the giant ape puppet and turning left and right for a while, the girl was led into a stone room several zhang in size.

This room, except for a stone bed covered with unknown animal fur and a stone table with two stone chairs, had nothing else.

The giant ape led her to the place and then left the room on its own, leaving only the girl, who was somewhat at a loss, standing in place.

The girl looked around the room and then looked outside. The stone door wasn't closed, looking like she could come and go freely.

But after thinking about it, she sat slowly on the edge of the bed and began to sit there with her hands on her cheeks, lost in thought.

Although she had long made preparations to sacrifice herself, thinking of the future dual cultivation and the life of a cauldron in the rumors, she couldn't help but feel afraid.

Moreover, now that she was alone in a strange environment, she felt even more desolate in her heart!

An hour later, the girl stopped her wild thoughts and looked at the passage outside the room. She hesitated.

After a moment, she stood up and walked out of the room quietly.

After walking out of the stone room and along the path for a distance, she turned into a hall with crisscrossing paths and several archways.

One of them was the passage she had come in through.

But what caught the girl's attention was that beside each archway stood a giant ape puppet. They were motionless, like dead objects.

The girl blinked her long eyelashes and walked tentatively towards the nearest archway. But before she could get close, the giant ape beside it flashed silently and blocked her way with an expressionless face.

The girl took a step back in fear, but the giant ape stood back in its original position coldly.

The girl's black eyes turned slightly, and she tried to move forward again, but the puppet blocked her way in the same manner.

The girl now understood that the front was not a place she could go, so she turned to another archway.

This time, the giant ape puppet beside it didn't move at all, which made the girl feel relieved in her heart, and she passed through the door directly.

After passing through a rather elegant small garden, another stone room with a tightly closed door appeared before her.

This Xing'er scanned the room with clear eyes, and everything inside was clear at a glance.

A row of stone tables piled with colorful jade slips was placed in the middle of the room, and beside it were a few low round stone stools and a few pots of light green and emerald green strange grasses, looking extremely quiet.

The girl pursed her cute little mouth and walked in without much thought.

Then she walked to the stone table, picked up a red jade slip at random, and sank her spiritual sense into it.

This was a classic book introducing formation knowledge. The girl was not interested in it, and after looking at it for a few glances, she withdrew her spiritual sense and put the jade slip back in its original place.

She picked up a white jade slip again and checked it with her spiritual sense.

This time it was a classic book introducing the way of refining artifacts. The girl naturally had no intention of looking at it carefully and withdrew her spiritual sense as well.

However, the contents of the two jade slips she got were different, which aroused a hint of curiosity in the girl. She picked up three or four more and checked them one by one.

Half a day later, the girl had looked through all the jade slips on the stone table, most of which involved miscellaneous cultivation knowledge such as pills and formations. Only a few were cultivation techniques, but every one of them was a top-tier existence.

Among them, a cultivation technique called "Entangling Jade Art" moved her the most.

The Green Spirit Sect was just a small sect in the Chaotic Star Sea, and the sect's main cultivation technique, "Green Spirit Art", was also a relatively steady cultivation technique, and its power could not be compared with this "Entangling Jade Art" at all.

The girl finished reading these jade slips and sat there in a daze for a while, only then remembering that there were other places she hadn't looked at.

So after thinking for a while, she left this stone room and returned to the hall.

The other three archways were still blocked by giant ape puppets as usual, but there was still one she could enter.

As a result, the girl passed through the archway and walked to another rather large stone hall.

This time, as soon as the girl entered the hall door, she was stunned, and she didn't move for half a day.

Before her was a hall about twenty zhang in size. In the middle of the hall was a giant formation about ten zhang in diameter, which sprayed a layer of pale red crystal-clear light, flickering and changing incessantly, looking extremely gorgeous.

Inside this light, over a dozen small swords and short daggers of various styles were flickering, some emitting faint clear sounds, some chasing and colliding with each other, each looking extremely spiritual.

Outside the light, near the surrounding walls, were several simple two-story wooden shelves, each displaying many magic artifacts of different colors.

Although these magic artifacts didn't have such full spirituality as the things in the light, they also glowed with faint light, and spiritual energy rushed towards her.

The girl hadn't seen these before, but she also knew that things with such spirituality in the light were only the legendary magic treasures.

Poor girl, although she had longed for magic treasures for a long time, the sudden appearance of so many before her eyes made her truly unable to believe it, and her pair of black eyes were full of astonishment.

After a long while, she returned to normal, looked at the many magic treasures and nearly a hundred magic artifacts in the room with strange eyes, but when she thought of her status as a cauldron, she still felt a gloom in her heart and left the room empty-handed.

Two days later, in the stone room with jade slips, the girl was sitting on a round stool, holding a jade slip in her hand, looking at something with her spiritual sense, her face full of concentration, seemingly completely attracted by the things inside the jade slip.

"This 'Entangling Jade Art' is indeed suitable for women to cultivate, although I got it from a male cultivator." A gentle man's voice suddenly came from the doorway.

Hearing this, the girl's body trembled slightly, and then she withdrew her spiritual sense and hurriedly stood up to look back.

Only to see a blue-robed, ordinary-looking young man standing outside the door, looking at her with a smile.

"You, are you the Senior?"

Gongsun Xing hesitated.

Although the voice was somewhat similar, the peaceful-looking young man before her was truly too young. There was no point of similarity with the old man she had imagined.

After experiencing the previous shocking events, the girl naturally imagined this Senior as an old man with vast supernatural powers and profound Daoist arts.

She even nervously guessed that he might be capricious and strange in temperament!

"Why, do I not look like one?" This young man was naturally Han Li who had just come out of seclusion. He smiled and walked into the stone room.

"Senior, these cultivation techniques I..." For some reason, as soon as the girl heard that Han Li was really that high-ranking person, she felt a little relieved, but still stammered as she wanted to explain the situation before her.

"It doesn't matter. Since I didn't forbid you from entering here, I allowed you to choose cultivation techniques at will." Han Li said gently.

"Then thank you, Senior!" When the girl heard this, she didn't hide the joy in her heart and showed a joyful, pretty face.

Looking at the girl's jumping appearance, a hint of unintentional tenderness flashed in Han Li's eyes.

"I haven't been out for a long time, I wonder if Gongsun Girl knows if there is any place in this sea area where things can be exchanged and traded?" Han Li smiled and asked very casually.

"If you want to trade things, there is a small deserted island half a month's journey to the south, where there is a market. Nearby cultivators all go there to exchange things. It is said that it was established by several Core Formation seniors joining forces, and it is considered relatively safe. Does Senior need a sea map of that place?" The girl remembered something, restrained her smile, and after stealing a glance at Han Li, lowered her head and said in a low voice.

"I do intend to go there. If you have a sea map, that would naturally be even better." Han Li didn't stand on ceremony and said generously.

The girl was in a flurry, finally took out a jade slip from her storage bag, and handed it to Han Li with a red face.

Han Li chuckled. While taking the jade slip, he looked at the girl's delicate, red-eared face, and a hint of strangeness flashed across his face.

Suddenly, he stretched out a palm and touched the girl's soft hair.

Gongsun Xing's body trembled slightly, feeling a bit afraid, but she didn't dodge.