Chapter 221: White Jade Bones

Initial stage of the Minor Heaven rank.

This cultivation was not weak; in the past, it would have been something Lin Fan could only look up to. But now, it was somewhat insufficient.

Moreover, his own cultivation as a little chick was also at the initial stage of the Minor Heaven rank. Could it be that with two against one, they still couldn't defeat the opponent?

Lin Fan swung the Eternal Axe, loosened his body, and prepared to enter a combat state.

The chick watched Lin Fan, then imitated him, stretching its three-toed claws left and right, and shaking its proud chicken head as if warming up for a big fight.

The beast standing under the blazing waterfall like a giant suddenly stood upright on its hind legs, beat its chest with its claws, producing thunderous sounds, bared its sharp teeth, and exuded a fierce aura.

If Lin Fan hadn't used the system to check its actual strength, he might have been intimidated.

But now, the more it acted like this, the more Lin Fan saw it as a sign of weakness.

A slight smile curled at the corner of Lin Fan's mouth. His figure turned into a rainbow and appeared before the giant beast. He looked up and said, "If you want to fight, then fight. No need to dawdle."

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..." The chick flapped its wings, trying to fly high, but couldn't, so it just crowed like that.

The tall beast slowly lowered its head, looked at Lin Fan, then stood still for a moment before bending its hind legs slightly and leaping into the distance.

Lin Fan couldn't understand what the beast was trying to do. Its behavior was puzzling.

After leaping far away, the giant beast roared at Lin Fan a few times, its angry eyes full of defiance, as if it wanted to fight to the death with Lin Fan and the chick.

"Roar..."

The earth-shaking roar silenced everything. At that moment, the beast's overwhelming aura suddenly burst forth, as if it was about to fight Lin Fan to the death.

Lin Fan looked at the beast, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth. He was confident he could kill this initial-stage Minor Heaven rank beast.

"Although you might not give much experience, you're still good for practice. Come on," Lin Fan said with a smile.

The beast glanced at Lin Fan contemptuously, then, under Lin Fan's astonished gaze, pushed off with its hind legs and ran into the distance.

...

At this moment, Lin Fan looked at the chick. What was going on?

Had the beast just run away?

Lin Fan had never seen such a situation before. Beasts usually fought to the death even when outmatched, but this one knew it was outmatched and slunk away.

Lin Fan chuckled and shook his head. "Ah, beasts nowadays are something else. Their intelligence is improving."

The chick crowed loudly, then stood on Lin Fan's shoulder. The man and bird passed through the blazing waterfall and walked inside.

Once inside, Lin Fan looked around. It was a cave. The red stone walls emitted intense heat, and the cave was as large as two football fields.

It was enough for the giant beast to have stayed here.

Lin Fan walked forward until he stopped before a stone door.

The stone door was dozens of zhang high and over ten zhang wide. The patterns on it caught Lin Fan's attention.

On the stone door was a stone carving, vividly depicting seven white-bearded elders gathered together in various poses, as if discussing something.

Could it be that the legacy of the "Seven Saints Treasure Map" was left by seven people, not one?

Lin Fan had always thought the legacy was left by one person, but now, seeing the pattern on the stone door, he realized it was probably seven people.

Lin Fan touched the stone door with one hand, searching for a way to open it.

But the moment he touched it, the stone door rumbled and rose upward.

Lin Fan scratched his head. It opened that easily? Wasn't there any difficulty? This wasn't what he had imagined.

According to the usual routine, the Flame Hell was a trial, the Blazing River was a trial, the guardian beast was a trial, and at the door, there should also be a trial.

Why did it open so easily at the door? Could it be that the Seven Saints had used up all the challenges they could think of when setting up the cave and couldn't come up with anything for the stone door?

But Lin Fan's guess was actually correct.

When the Seven Saints set up the cave, they really couldn't think of a good challenge for the stone door.

Inside was not as dark as Lin Fan had imagined. Fluorescent stones on the walls illuminated the chamber brightly.

The environment inside was different from what Lin Fan had pictured.

The stone walls were uneven, with nothing particularly noteworthy. The small chamber contained only a stone bed and a round stone table.

Due to the passage of time, the stone table was covered in dust. Lin Fan examined it and found a wooden box on it. The box was made of some unknown material that had not decayed at all despite the ravages of time.

Lin Fan blew the dust off the wooden box, then opened it. Inside lay a pill, and beneath the pill was a piece of paper. The paper was golden, like the wooden box, having endured the river of time.

Through the system's identification, the wooden box was made of divine wood, and the paper was made from golden silkworm king silk.

Lin Fan had never heard of these two materials and didn't know what they were like.

Lin Fan looked at the content on the paper.

"Hunyuan Heavenly Talent Pill: After taking it, one's talent becomes boundless."

Lin Fan frowned slightly. He had thought it was a pill that could elevate one to the heavens, but it turned out to be a pill that improved talent. He was somewhat disappointed. His talent was already infinite, so this pill was useless to him.

"Ding, congratulations on discovering the Soul Annihilation Pill."

"Soul Annihilation Pill: After taking it, one's body and soul will immediately perish."

Lin Fan had only picked up the pill to look at it, but the system's prompt startled him, turning his face pale.

What was this? The paper said it was a divine pill, but the system identified it as a deadly poison.

"Ah..."

At this moment, Lin Fan sighed. It made sense that there was no trial at the stone door; dangers lurked everywhere inside. Without the system's identification, he would have been tricked to death.

When Lin Fan put the wooden box into his backpack, he saw a skeleton as white as jade sitting cross-legged on the stone bed not far away.

Lin Fan was startled and immediately approached. The white jade skeleton shimmered with flowing light, exuding an ancient aura and imposing pressure, as if even in death it carried the dignity of its former life.

Although the flesh had rotted away, the skeleton had weathered time without any change.

This must be one of the Seven Saints. In life, his cultivation must have been earth-shattering. Even after death, the white jade skeleton remained undecayed, without even a speck of dust.

Impervious to all things, eternal and indestructible.