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Lin Feng finished speaking and continued deeper into the second floor of the Pill Hall. The girls behind him, seeing that the poison mist had been cleared, all perked up and followed after him.
"Same as before, we'll split up and search."
After stepping into the second floor, Lin Feng looked at the more spacious yet fewer rooms in the grand hall and spoke to the girls behind him.
"Alright, I want to see whether that old bastard really left anything behind in here."
With that, Zi Yan huffed angrily and darted off. Judging from her expression, she clearly still held quite a bit of resentment toward Saint Zhao Hua.
Lin Feng and the others could only shake their heads helplessly before separating to search. However, as the search went on, Lin Feng quickly realized that the items on the second floor were indeed much better than the ones below.
After a full round around the floor, he found quite a number of seventh-tier and even eighth-tier pills and pill formulas. Of course, the eighth-tier pills he found were all limited to six-colored Pill Lightning or lower.
As for eight-colored, seven-colored, or even higher eighth-tier pills, Lin Feng hadn't found any yet. Still, during his search, Lin Feng noticed that some of the rooms here looked like something had broken into them.
The rooms themselves weren't messy, but some of the jade bottles were completely empty. As for the pills originally stored inside, they had long disappeared without a trace. Seeing this, Lin Feng was startled at first, thinking someone had beaten him to it and cleaned out the good stuff.
But he immediately realized what was going on. These pills were probably eaten by the nine-colored eighth-tier pill from the original storyline. Otherwise, if a person had truly entered, there would be traces left behind—not just a few missing pills here and there.
With that understanding, he no longer bothered with the empty bottles and continued looting. Perhaps due to everyone's good harvest this time, by the time the girls returned to the staircase, each of them had excitement on their faces.
"Looks like you all found quite a bit."
Seeing their smiling expressions, Lin Feng chuckled.
"Mhm mhm, the three of us found quite a lot of seventh-tier and eighth-tier pills and pill formulas." Dan Chen quickly nodded, visibly delighted.
Feng Qing'er also nodded lightly. "Me too."
"Hehe, not only did this young lady find seventh-tier and eighth-tier pills and pill formulas, but in one of the rooms, I even found this ruins detailed map!" Zi Yan grinned triumphantly as she brushed her storage ring and pulled out a yellowed piece of parchment, waving it proudly.
Seeing this, Lin Feng's eyes lit up with joy. He took the map with a smile. He then rubbed her silky purple hair and praised, "Didn't expect you to be this useful this time. You actually found the map of this place. That really helps us a lot."
As he spoke, Lin Feng shook the map in his hand and fully unfolded it before beginning to study it. After reading through the map, he finally gained a rough understanding of the layout of this ruin. The Pill Hall they were in wasn't far from the main hall of the ruin.
Past the main hall was the Medicinal Forest. However, calling it a medicinal forest was an understatement. From the map, Lin Feng could see it was essentially a miniature Magic Beast Mountain Range.
The land it took up was… unimaginable.
"No wonder he was a Dou Sheng. To be able to create such a massive small world…"
Staring at the markings on the map, Lin Feng couldn't help clicking his tongue.
According to the original story, this Saint Zhao Hua was just an early Dou Sheng. Yet even so, he could still carve out such a large small world within the void. Who knew how enormous those Ancient Clans' small worlds—developed over ten thousand years—must be?!
"But those Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and Soul Baby Fruits should be somewhere inside that Medicinal Forest."
Thinking of those two priceless treasures, Lin Feng immediately decided to speed up the search and secure the most important items first.
After all, whether it was a Heaven Class Dou Technique, a Dou Sheng skeleton, or the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and Soul Baby Fruit, every single one of them was tremendously valuable to him. Any one of these could bring unimaginable benefits to him and the people around him.
Of course, there was still the corpse of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix. Although it had existed for an extremely long time and much of its energy had likely dissipated, it should still be enormously helpful for his wife, Feng'er.
After all, back in the original story, Qing'er had merely transplanted a portion of the bones and had directly advanced from Dou Zong to Nine-Change Dou Zun. The leap was immense beyond imagination.
If Qing'er could exclusively absorb the entire Heavenly Phoenix skeleton, the increase in strength would be downright terrifying. Naturally, once he obtained the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's corpse, he would thoroughly research the best method of using it.
He absolutely did not want Qing'er to repeat the tragedy of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan from the original story, where direct transplantation ruined their future path.
"Husband, when we were exploring earlier, we found some jade bottles in certain rooms where the pills had already been taken. Could it be that someone got here before us?"
At this moment, Cao Ying's willow brows knitted slightly. Her bewitching face carried a hint of seriousness as her beautiful eyes turned toward Lin Feng.
"I noticed the same thing. Although there weren't signs of destruction, some rooms indeed had empty jade bottles." Feng Qing'er added with a frown.
"Same here. I don't know which bastard stole some of the pills." Zi Yan immediately raised her hand after Feng Qing'er spoke.
Seeing the tense expressions on the girls' faces, Lin Feng revealed a mysterious smile: "I don't think those traces were left by a person. They look more like they were left by… a pill."
"A pill?!"
The girls' expressions changed dramatically. They stared at him in disbelief. "How is that possible?!"
But the moment their words fell, the three Pill Tower sisters abruptly seemed to recall something and blurted out, "Could it be… a Pill Beast?!"
"Pill Beast?"
Upon hearing this, Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er were instantly confused, their pretty faces full of bafflement. After all, both of them were magical beasts and rarely dealt with such knowledge.
Seeing their confusion, Cao Ying immediately explained, "Pill Beasts, as the name suggests, are a type of living creature born from pills that reach a certain level. Unlike the illusory shapes that some pills form, Pill Beasts are genuine living beings—no different from magical beasts."
After she finished, Dan Chen supplemented, "And unlike those simple, beast-shaped pill manifestations, Pill Beasts can cultivate on their own and can devour other pills to replenish their energy. When their accumulated energy reaches a certain threshold, they can even evolve into higher-level pills!"
"They can evolve? Pills can even do that?!"
Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er were utterly stunned, their expressions screaming: Are you kidding me?!
In all their years, neither of them had ever heard of pills that could cultivate on their own and eventually evolve into higher realms.
After a long while, Feng Qing'er finally came back to her senses.
She shook her head blankly and muttered, "All this time, I only knew magic beasts like us could cultivate and eventually take human form. I never expected something that looks like a dead object—like a pill—could also cultivate. Seems I should consider raising some pills from now on."
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