Soon, Bao Gu heard her senior sister call out, “Bao Gu!”
The pitch was slightly high, even a bit off, but to Bao Gu, it sounded like heavenly music.
She thought, “So I’m not deaf after all!”
She then saw her senior sister holding her face, anxiously shouting, “Look at me!”
Bao Gu thought, “I’d love to keep looking at you, but senior sister, don’t you think this is a bit inappropriate right now?”
She noticed her senior sister seemed very nervous, carefully feeding her a drop of dragon marrow from a jade bottle, then pouring fifth-grade monkey wine into her mouth.
Bao Gu hurriedly exclaimed, “Hey, don’t pour the wine yet, let me taste the dragon marrow first!”
She still couldn’t hear her own voice, and her senior sister continued to pour the monkey wine into her mouth, oblivious.
Bao Gu saw the monkey wine trickling out from the corner of her mouth, and her senior sister’s face turned pale, seemingly terrified.
Bao Gu felt something was wrong; it seemed like neither she nor her senior sister could hear her speak, but she could hear her senior sister.
What was going on?
Before Bao Gu could think further, she suddenly saw her senior sister take a big gulp of fifth-grade monkey wine, then suddenly bend down and feed it to her mouth-to-mouth.
Jade Shura’s voice suddenly rang out, “Fire Dragon, step aside! You can’t save her like this.”
Bao Gu thought, “Am I really seriously injured?”
She was a bit worried about her injuries and felt a mix of joy and shyness from her senior sister feeding her monkey wine mouth-to-mouth.
She saw Jade Shura approach and examine her closely, then her head felt like it was being pierced by thousands of steel needles, making her scream, “Ah—” This time, she heard her own voice, and then she knew nothing more.
In a daze, Bao Gu felt spiritual energy flowing through her meridians, nourishing them like sweet spring water.
Her body felt full of vitality and potential for growth, like new grass sprouting in early spring.
It was a wonderful feeling, as if her life was infused with vigorous energy.
“Dragon marrow!”
The words popped into Bao Gu’s mind, and she remembered Yu Mi feeding her a drop of dragon marrow earlier.
Could dragon marrow have such an effect?
Bao Gu didn’t have time to think further and fell asleep again.
She slept deeply and sweetly, waking up feeling refreshed.
She opened her eyes to meet Yu Mi’s gaze, who was looking down at her with an unreadable expression, a mix of gentle melancholy.
She called out, “Senior sister.”
Yu Mi snapped out of her daze, expressionless, and said, “Awake? Are you okay?”
She helped Bao Gu up.
Bao Gu steadied herself on Yu Mi’s flying sword, looking at her senior sister with suspicion, feeling that she seemed a bit off, as if she had something on her mind.
Yu Mi, still expressionless, said, “Let’s go!”
and flew towards the large pit ahead with Bao Gu on the flying sword.
Bao Gu was puzzled by Yu Mi’s drastic change in attitude.
She was still a bit confused and asked, “Senior sister, what happened to me just now?”
As she asked, she noticed that the large pit they had dug hadn’t filled back up, forming a huge deep pit.
She thought, “Did Jade Shura really use a God Transformation talisman to destroy the ghostly thing below?”
Yu Mi replied, “You were injured by a God Transformation thunder talisman.”
Bao Gu thought, “I knew it,” and felt relieved that she wasn’t the only one who got hurt by talismans.
She quickly said, “Jade Shura’s talisman skills aren’t that great either.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Jade Shura’s angry voice from the bottom of the pit, “Bao Gu, come down here, I promise I won’t kill you.”
She looked down and saw Jade Shura standing on a flying sword at the bottom of the pit, holding a rake that looked like it was used for cleaning pigsties, glaring at her angrily, scaring her into silence.
Jade Shura snorted heavily and continued to use the rake to sift through the ashes, raising a lot of dust.
Yu Mi landed on the thick layer of dust, took out a shovel, and handed it to Bao Gu, saying, “Bao Gu, see if you can find anything.”
Bao Gu took the shovel from Yu Mi.
She looked around, unable to see the rock walls due to the limited range of her divine sense, only seeing the ground covered in bone fragments blasted by the God Transformation thunder talisman.
Most of these bone fragments had turned into coarse sand-sized blackened pieces, emitting a pungent smell.
The smell reminded Bao Gu of a neighbor who used to burn garbage at the door and throw pig bones into the fire, making the whole street stink.
Although the smell was unpleasant, it was nothing compared to the previous nauseating stench of corpses.
She tried to use her divine sense to search through the ashes, but as soon as her divine sense touched the ashes, her head felt like it exploded, making her scream and hold her head in pain, taking a while to recover.
Yu Mi said, “Don’t use your divine sense! Be careful not to hurt your divine consciousness. There should be something down there, be careful.”
Bao Gu responded with an “Mm,” lowered her flying sword to the level of the bone ashes, and bent down to search with the shovel.
She knew what Yu Mi and Jade Shura were looking for—dragon bones.
She couldn’t believe that a God Transformation thunder talisman could turn dragon bones into useless ashes.
She dug the shovel into the bone ashes, finding that the ashes were two feet thick.
Buried within were many partially burned bones, some charred, some turned to ash at a touch, and some still very hard.
She roughly identified some human bones and some that looked like beast bones.
These bones, from different species, varied in sturdiness and resistance to lightning, resulting in different degrees of burning, even different colors—white, gray, black, dark green.
The owners of these bones had probably been dead for many years, or the transformation period thunder talisman had destroyed the substances within the bones, rendering them almost useless.
She discarded the pile of useless bone fragments in front of her, stood up, and looked at Yu Mi and Jade Shura, who were focused on digging through the ashes, saying, “Hey, don’t you find it dirty and troublesome to dig through the ashes like this?”
Jade Shura straightened up, glanced at Bao Gu, and said, “Bao Gu, if you find it dirty and troublesome, you can rest aside. A person who has just recovered from serious injuries needs more rest to avoid hidden ailments.”
Bao Gu pouted and said, “I don’t want to! Don’t think I don’t know you want to hog the dragon bones.”
She moved her flying sword next to Yu Mi and said, “Senior sister, you rest, I’ll do the dirty and tiring work.”
Yu Mi glanced at Bao Gu and said, “Why didn’t you say you’d do the dirty and tiring work when we were mining?”
Bao Gu embarrassedly pursed her lips, then turned around and used her mountain-moving technique to sweep all the bone ashes into her large storage bag.
Jade Shura was using the rake to dig through the bones when suddenly, it felt like a gust of wind blew over the ashes, and all the ashes in front of her disappeared, not just in front of her, but the entire pit bottom.
She turned to Bao Gu in shock and asked, “Did you do that?”
Then she smiled and said, “Good job, Bao Gu!”
She quickly started putting the exposed unburned bones into her storage bag, regardless of whether they were dragon bones or not.
Yu Mi saw Jade Shura start grabbing, and immediately used her mountain-moving technique to sweep away all the bones she could.
Jade Shura: “…”
She looked at the suddenly empty pit bottom, feeling a strong urge to go berserk!
These senior sisters really inherited the true spirit of the Duobao Spirit Monkey!
She gritted her teeth and said, “You guys—don’t go too far!”
She angrily said, “Although the sect rules prohibit Soul Chasing Pavilion disciples from stealing, if you rob my things, don’t blame me for being rude!”
Yu Mi had disliked Jade Shura from the moment she appeared.
Hearing Jade Shura’s threat, she directly summoned the Lihuo Sword, glaring at Jade Shura.
Bao Gu saw that Yu Mi and Jade Shura seemed about to fight and said, “Are you two really going to fight?”
She pointed to the top of the pit and said, “Go up and fight.”
Then she flew to the center of the pit, took out her golden core stage sword, and started prying at a black stone-like object that had melted and solidified on the ground.
Yu Mi and Jade Shura were startled by Bao Gu’s actions and quickly approached her.
Jade Shura’s eyes lit up and she said, “Bao Gu, I won’t charge you for the headhunting fee, and I won’t charge you for the God Transformation thunder talisman I used. This is mine!”
Bao Gu pulled out her sword and said, “You want it? Then take it.”
Jade Shura looked at Bao Gu in surprise and asked, “Really give it to me?”
Bao Gu nodded.
Jade Shura quickly took out a curved knife and started prying at the melted crystal-like object.
Yu Mi glanced sideways at Bao Gu, almost asking, “What exactly is your relationship?”
It was the first time she saw Bao Gu being generous to someone other than her!
If it was generosity to a fellow disciple, that was understandable, but why to Jade Shura?
She asked Bao Gu, “Do you know what this is?”
Bao Gu said, “Although it’s melted on the outside, judging by the overall shape, it should be a dragon horn, right?”
Yu Mi exclaimed, “You know that!”
Bao Gu didn’t respond, silently thinking, “Senior sister, the bones you just swept away include the dragon’s spine. If you don’t give Jade Shura some benefits, she will really fight you.”
After Jade Shura dug out the dragon horn, Bao Gu said, “Jade Shura, keep digging, there’s more good stuff below.”
Jade Shura looked at Bao Gu suspiciously and asked, “Are you sure?”
Bao Gu said, “Trust me.”
Jade Shura asked, “When have I ever lied to you?”
She paused and said, “To avoid any disputes over treasures, let’s agree that whoever finds something gets it, and if we find it together, we split it equally among the four of us.”
Jade Shura exclaimed, “Four?”
Bao Gu quickly released the little Celestial Fox.
Jade Shura raised her voice and said, “A pet little demon beast counts as one?”
She laughed and said, “Bao Gu, do you believe I can release a dozen little demon pets to count as shares?”
Bao Gu hesitated, then reluctantly said, “How about this, Ling’er won’t count as a share, but anything it finds is mine.”
Jade Shura nodded in satisfaction and smiled at Bao Gu, saying, “Bao Gu, the more I see you, the more I like you. Why don’t you follow me from now on?”
Yu Mi: “…”
Jade Shura, are you trying to steal her from me?
Bao Gu smiled faintly, then suddenly seemed to remember something important and exclaimed, “Oh, Jade Shura, I forgot to tell you, Ling’er is not an ordinary little fox demon beast.”
Jade Shura looked at Ling’er and asked with a smile, “Could it be a young charm fox? Congratulations then.”
Bao Gu smiled sheepishly and said, “It’s not a young charm fox.”
Jade Shura said, “A third-grade snow fox? It’s still nice to keep as a pet.”
Bao Gu said, “It’s a young Celestial Fox.”
Jade Shura said, “Oh,” then suddenly realized, her eyes widening in disbelief, and she exclaimed, “Sky fox? Ninth-grade Celestial Fox? How is that possible?”
She looked at Ling’er again and saw it digging at the spot where she had just dug out the dragon horn.
Its sharp claws left deep marks on the hard ground but didn’t remove much rock.
Ling’er suddenly leaped back, a slit opening on its forehead to reveal a vertical eye, which shot out a white beam of light, creating a two-foot-deep pit in the ground.
Instantly, dazzling light emanated from the pit, accompanied by the sound of dripping water, misty radiance, and rich spiritual energy—there was definitely a treasure below!
Bao Gu pointed to the pit and said with a smile, “Jade Shura, the things in this hole were discovered by Ling’er, so they have nothing to do with you.”
Yu Mi glanced at Jade Shura and followed the little Celestial Fox into the treasure-filled cave.
Jade Shura felt like spitting blood, her teeth grinding, but then her expression changed, and she looked at Bao Gu with a hint of resentment, saying, “Are you playing with me?”
She stared at Bao Gu and asked, “Who exactly are you? Having a Duobao Spirit Monkey follow you is one thing, but a young Celestial Fox… and it’s blood-bonded…”
She was really a bit afraid of Bao Gu, wanting to know who was behind her.
Bao Gu smiled mysteriously and flew into the cave below.
