Chapter 414: True Inheritance

Ye Liuyun dealt with Gu Laotou'er, then began to size up the top and bottom of the cave.

"No wonder this Poison Dragon is so famous; as a bandit, he's actually skilled with traps and poison. The design here is truly clever." After surveying, Ye Liuyun couldn't help muttering to himself.

The cave floor and ground are fitted with mechanisms that block Divine Sense detection. If one forces a Divine Sense breakthrough, one will be infected with a massive Soul‑type toxin. If one uses brute force, one must find the exact breakable points, otherwise the entire cave will collapse.

Moreover, breaking this stone wall requires at least a Heavenly Gang Realm of three layers. Those of lower realms cannot break the setup.

Ye Liuyun relied on his Golden Pupil to see through the stone wall; otherwise he wouldn't have uncovered its secret.

It seems the Poison Dragon doesn't want others to easily obtain his inheritance. At minimum one must understand some traps and possess a certain realm.

Ye Liuyun looked a while longer, carefully probing whether the Poison Dragon had left any other mechanisms. Finding none, he decided to act. First he let the Skeleton Puppet attack several points on the ground.

The Skeleton Puppet is linked with his Divine Sense, finds points precisely, and following Ye Liuyun's instructions, after breaking the ground a huge deep pit appeared.

Inside were piled various treasures and Spirit Stones, all the wealth the Poison Dragon had looted in his life.

Su Miaoyin had just been silently shocked by Ye Liuyun's control of the worm and his discovery of the secret. Now seeing so many treasures, she was even more astonished, her mouth unable to close.

"How did you discover it?" she asked Ye Liuyun in amazement, while reaching to open the Golden Lotus to collect the treasures.

"Wait, don't fully open the Golden Lotus yet. I haven't confirmed there's no danger. Open just a small opening first." Saying so, Ye Liuyun took out several Storage Rings and threw them to the Skeleton Puppet through the opening Su Miaoyin made. He let the Skeleton Puppet go down to retrieve the treasures, while he and Su Miaoyin closed the Golden Lotus again and hid inside.

Fortunately Ye Liuyun and his companions were cautious. When the Skeleton Puppet went down, it spewed various toxic gases from several of the fake treasures. If a person went down, they'd be poisoned to death instantly.

The Skeleton Puppet only turned black. Ye Liuyun used his Golden Pupil to direct the Skeleton Puppet to load things into the Storage Rings. Apart from the few fake treasures that emitted toxic mist, the rest were collected. Then the Skeleton Puppet jumped out of the pit.

At this time, the poison mist was slowly dissipating. After Ye Liuyun waited for it to fully clear, he took back the Storage Rings the Skeleton Puppet had gathered, inspected each with Divine Sense, confirmed no problem, then handed them to Wu Qingcheng.

He then used Golden Crow Holy Fire and Nether Ghost Fire, twice in succession, to cleanse the Skeleton Puppet. He also added several layers of Nether Ghost Fire to its Divine Sense, boosting its defensive capability.

Then he instructed the Skeleton Puppet to continue attacking several spots on the cave ceiling.

"Boom—" after the Skeleton Puppet's attack, a large section of the ceiling collapsed, falling into the center of the cave. Above that collapsed section, the Poison Dragon's true form was seated.

"It seems the corpse we saw earlier was just a decoy. This must be the Poison Dragon's true form." Ye Liuyun opened his Golden Pupil, carefully examining the Poison Dragon.

He was a man in his forties, looking very amiable, with no trace of a bandit's ferocity on his face. Ye Liuyun even wondered if he was the Poison Dragon. This man's appearance was completely at odds with a bandit's.

He now dared not be careless at all. This Poison Dragon is truly good at setting traps. If not for the Corpse‑Eating Worm being able to burrow, the two caches would never have been discovered. And without Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil, those caches couldn't have been opened.

However, the Poison Dragon's design wasn't finished. At this moment, Ye Liuyun discovered that the Poison Dragon still had a Divine Sense fluctuation.

"This guy can't still be alive, can he?" Ye Liuyun felt startled, immediately ordered the Skeleton Puppet to prepare for battle, and also had Su Miaoyin ready defenses.

At that moment, the Poison Dragon suddenly opened his eyes, startling Su Miaoyin into a startled "Ah!" and calling out.

The Poison Dragon scanned the surroundings, then used Divine Sense to probe the Golden Lotus and the Skeleton Puppet, nodding with satisfaction.

"You are impressive, managing to break the mechanisms here. You came to claim my inheritance, right?"

While speaking, the Poison Dragon used Divine Sense to directly open the Golden Lotus. That Golden Lotus was his treasure, so he naturally knew how to open it.

Ye Liuyun hurriedly placed Su Miaoyin into a Storage Ring to keep her from being attacked.

"No need to fear, I'm only a lingering thread of Divine Sense, unable to harm you." The Poison Dragon smiled, appearing completely harmless.

"You are the Poison Dragon? How did you preserve your Divine Sense?" Ye Liuyun asked.

"Indeed, I am the Poison Dragon. My Divine Sense is hidden within a toxin that can annihilate Divine Sense. Only when this mechanism is broken will the toxin dissipate, and my Divine Sense will return to its body. It was designed to evade enemies, not targeting you." The Poison Dragon patiently explained.

In fact, Ye Liuyun wasn't really worried. Just a thread of Divine Sense. Even if it tried to possess, it couldn't overcome his Soul, let alone he also possessed the Ten Thousand Gods Command.

"Why did you leave a thread of Divine Sense?" Ye Liuyun asked curiously.

The Poison Dragon answered without hesitation: "To guard my cultivation secret technique and Primordial Power, then pass them on! Otherwise my whole cultivation would be wasted."

"Cultivation secret technique? Primordial Power? What realm are you?" Ye Liuyun thought a Heavenly Gang Realm master wouldn't hide Primordial Power. As for cultivation secret technique, it's absurd; any master of Heavenly Gang Realm wouldn't easily change his cultivation method.

"See for yourself." Saying that, the Poison Dragon actually tore open his withered corpse with both hands. Ye Liuyun then saw that his Golden Core was still present, and this Golden Core was not an ordinary one. He hadn't noticed it even with his Golden Pupil before.

At this moment the two merged Golden Cores: one larger, encasing the outside, one smaller, at its core.

"Dual Golden Cores?" Ye Liuyun also saw this for the first time.

"Indeed, this is my cultivated Dual Golden Core. The extra core lets me jump an extra realm to challenge opponents. Now, what do you think of my inheritance?"

Ye Liuyun was indeed tempted. A method that could forge a Dual Golden Core was very alluring. As for Primordial Power, he wasn't particularly impressed; this amount of Primordial Power could at most raise him one realm.

He still had half of the Primordial Power he obtained in the Spirit Clan Secret Realm unused.

Nevertheless he kept his wits. "This Poison Dragon excels at scheming people; can't trust his words lightly. He does have secret techniques, but obtaining them won't be easy."

Ye Liuyun thought to himself, and asked aloud: "What conditions do you have."

He knew the Poison Dragon deliberately left a thread of Divine Sense, definitely not to explain these things. Otherwise he wouldn't need to waste effort; just placing the Golden Core there, anyone not foolish would know the inheritance's importance.

"You're clever, not losing reason for profit," the Poison Dragon chuckled, then said: "I want you to deliver a gift to a woman for me!"