Chapter 808 - 739: Skinning the Man, Plucking the Goose (Part 2)
Chapter 808: Chapter 739: Skinning the Man, Plucking the Goose (Part 2)
Three hundred points, almost reaching the contribution value earned from a month of labor.
Without wasting time, Shen Han continued searching.
Medicinal herbs are fragile, and using cultivation techniques to blow away the snow was easy.
But it could unintentionally harm the herbs hidden beneath.
While searching for herbs, Qilin Valley prohibited everyone from using techniques.
They could only search foolishly.
While walking in the snow, Shen Han discovered a strange place.
[Sturdy Stone Gate]
A purple entry suddenly floated before his eyes.
But in front of him was a snow-covered hillside with overgrown wild grass, completely hiding any stone gate.
This so-called stone gate had completely merged with the hillside.
No matter how carefully one looked, it was impossible to differentiate that there was a stone gate here.
Shen Han looked around, but the Southern Heaven Continent was filled with people of the new cultivation system.
If the masters of Qilin Valley’s tributor were nearby, he would not have been able to discover it.
With no one around, Shen Han then opened the stone gate and cautiously walked in.
Lighting a fire stick, he began to observe his surroundings.
If there were any hidden traps inside, he could spot them at a glance.
As expected, there were indeed traps inside.
Walking a few steps forward, he encountered a concealed trap.
Above the trap was a carved tombstone.
The inscription on the tombstone was slightly blurred, but with careful recognition, he could still read it clearly.
[Rest in peace ancestors of the Jing Family. Descendants kneel and sincerely pray for blessings, obtaining the supreme benevolence of the ancestors]
Beside the large characters was a line of small text: [Non-descendants of the Jing Family, kneel and meet death.]
The inscription’s meaning seemed to convey that if the entrant was a descendant of the Jing Family,
they could kneel and pray to receive benefits left by the ancestors.
Non-descendants of the Jing Family, those who worship will die.
Shen Han looked at the small text on the tombstone, thinking the people who built this cave were intentionally trying to trap the Jing Family...
In front of the tombstone, there was exactly a trap.
If a Jing Family descendant knelt, they would immediately fall into the trap, landing in danger.
Moreover, this senior was quite crafty, targeting only the Jing Family descendants.
The inscription used the language of a curse to deter others from bowing.
It seemed to say outsiders were not qualified to honor the Jing Family ancestors, but in reality, it was a form of protection.
Shen Han couldn’t help but smile wryly at the senior who constructed this; they truly held deep resentment towards the Jing Family.
Overcoming the trap, Shen Han continued deeper.
All along the way, there were similar traps as encountered before.
Further along were many ancestral tablets, asking descendants of various families to kneel and bow.
These families were somewhat familiar to Shen Han’s memory.
They seemed to be the rebellious families that gathered to annihilate the Qin Family.
Those forces in Qilin Valley that supported the Qin Family were also eradicated by them.
If nothing unexpected happened, this should have been constructed by the Qin Family’s descendants.
Shen Han ignored the tablets along the way until he reached the deepest part, using the extraction technique to open a sealed door.
Inside was a slightly spacious secret chamber.
And on the right of the chamber, a skeleton lay quietly.
Shen Han raised the fire stick, carefully exploring the secret chamber.
The walls of the chamber were covered with densely packed small characters.
The senior didn’t know how long it would be until this place was discovered.
So he left messages carved on the walls.
Only this way, could they last long enough for future generations to see.
Shen Han looked at the information left by the senior, and as he expected, he was indeed from the Qin Family.
According to his information, the Qin Family was an aristocratic family of medical arts, but he was somewhat ’unschooled,’ having a passion for mechanisms.
After the Qin Family was destroyed, he survived and built this mechanism-filled secret chamber.
He held the Qin Family’s Alchemy Dao techniques, hoping to pass them on to future generations.
However, the Qin Family’s elder could not allow these things to fall into the hands of the rebels.
Thus the traps were set: daring to kneel would result in falling into lethal traps.
To reach the secret chamber, one needed to topple all tablets of the Jing Family, opening the chamber’s door.
The elder wanted to ensure that those inheriting his legacy, at least held resentment towards the Jing Family.
The hatred from the annihilation of the family, Shen Han could understand the elder.
Shen Han continued reading downwards, finding the wall-carved information detailed the secrets of pill techniques.
Consistent with the conclusions from his extraction of entries, the Qin Family’s pill books had numerous intentional errors and omitted key methods.
Here, the elder had thoroughly explained everything.
Additionally, the wall described many pill-refining techniques not mentioned by Qilin Valley.
These techniques seemed to not be intended for the disciples’ eyes.
Further on, the Qin Family elder reminisced about past events.
In those days, Qilin Valley was not the holy land for pharmacists it is now.
Qilin Valley was merely a gathering of various forces, among which was the Qin Family.
The Qin Family, having mastered medical arts through generations, was highly esteemed in Qilin Valley.
Until the Qin Family discovered a new method for pill creation, everything changed.
The pills made via this method had excellent effects, superior healing to past pills by several folds.
The emergence of these pills rapidly elevated the Qin Family’s status.
However, having risen in status, the Qin Family failed to protect its foundational legacy.
When the Qin Family became the leading family in Qilin Valley, managing its affairs, about a century later, rebellion arrived.
After recounting the history, the elder made his request.
The Jing Family and other families were already declining, and he asked the fated juniors to give one last blow.
If the Jing Family was still extremely powerful,
then please use these pill techniques and Qin Family’s pill formulas to glorify the supreme secret method.
It absolutely must not fall into the Jing Family’s hands.
With more accurate pill-refining techniques and formulas, the elder believed that the person could revive the Qin Family’s Alchemy Dao.
If it could be used to suppress the Jing Family, that would be even better.
Seeing all this, Shen Han felt the elder’s request was not harsh.
The Jing Family was overwhelmingly powerful, but he did not ask for help in exacting revenge.
Instead, he wished to use the Qin Family’s pill-refining techniques to promote the method.
Shen Han had never thought that Qilin Valley had so many hidden pasts.
The present-day Alchemy Dao of Qilin Valley was, after all, stolen and seized.
The Valley Master of Qilin Valley seemed to bear the surname Jing.
The elder’s wishes hadn’t come true; the Jing Family still thrived, truly wielding enormous power.
Shen Han noted down the pill formulas.
At the very least, he would never let them fall into the hands of the rebels.
During his time in Qilin Valley, his relations with the masters were only average.
He didn’t gain any benefits from them, owing them nothing.
As for promoting them, that was no problem.
The Yun Family excelled in Alchemy Dao, he would pass these on to his grandfather and them.
After that, Qilin Valley’s pills would no longer be a monopoly.
Also, the pills refined by the Yun Family would be superior to those by Qu Zhongjin and those so-called masters.
After recording all the pill formulas, Shen Han left this secret realm.
Before leaving, Shen Han destroyed all the engraved text.
The elder’s remains were also moved to a scenic spot, laid to rest in peace.
Entering the chamber took a considerable amount of time, and by the time he emerged, it was completely dark.
The snowfield was already difficult to search, let alone at night.
After dark, Qilin Valley wouldn’t allow disciples to continue searching in the mountains.
Damaging the remaining medicinal herbs would be a loss.
Shen Han returned to the spot where he started; the two Purple Qi Bamboos exchanged for more than three hundred contribution points altogether.
Soon, Pei Mao returned too, with a few smiles on his face.
He also had some harvest, gaining over a hundred contributions.
Upon hearing that Shen Han had garnered over three hundred, his initial excitement seemed to diminish slightly.
Indeed, happiness comes from comparison.
On the way back, the group from Gan Mansion was initially quite happy.
But as they approached Gan Mansion, many people’s expressions turned slightly ugly.
Pei Mao, next to Shen Han, also looked over: "People make money, geese get plucked.
Just wait, the Peeling King is about to show up in the next few days."