"Looks like the White Wolf Mercenary Group has converted everything into gold coins, that's really scary," Lan Ling said. A million gold coins could buy a family in a town.

"What's this?" In the middle of the pile of gold coins, there were four brocade boxes. Both their gazes almost simultaneously focused on these six brocade boxes, which perhaps held the most precious items of the treasure.

Both looked at each other, then climbed up the pile of gold coins. The six brocade boxes varied in size. Upon reaching the boxes, Lan Ling said, "Shall we open them and then split the contents?"

"Okay." Li Lin did not object. He glanced at Lan Ling and then opened the first brocade box. A faint red glow dazzled out, enveloping the space in a fiery aura.

"It's a low-level Yellow Rank fire martial technique," Lan Ling exclaimed in surprise. Being a fire martial artist herself, she could feel the aura. Inside the brocade box was a pale red jade slip, unopened and the specific martial technique unknown.

Li Lin could also sense the level of the martial technique. Even though it was a low-level Yellow Rank, it was still a treasure. In the Li family, the strongest martial technique was only Yellow Rank.

Suppressing his excitement, Li Lin opened the second brocade box. A huge blue light dazzled out, and Li Lin instantly felt an energy not inferior to the fire attribute energy spreading from the box.

"Water martial technique."

Li Lin exclaimed in amazement. Inside the brocade box was also a jade slip. Judging from the aura, it was definitely not inferior to the fire martial technique he had just seen, also a low-level Yellow Rank technique.

"Another martial technique, also Yellow Rank," Lan Ling said in surprise, watching the brocade box in Li Lin's hand. Then she opened the third brocade box herself. A vast energy emerged, revealing a earth-yellow sphere, the size of a baby's fist, wrapped in dazzling earth-yellow light.

A wild energy spread from the baby fist-sized sphere, making Li Lin's heart skip a beat. The energy was terrifying. Just looking at it made his heart race.

"A fourth-tier demon beast's demon pill," Lan Ling said. A fourth-tier demon pill was valuable, but compared to the two Yellow Rank martial techniques, it was somewhat inferior. The selling price of a fourth-tier demon pill was generally above fifty thousand gold coins, while a low-level Yellow Rank martial technique was much more expensive.

"Demon pill." Li Lin looked at the demon pill. This demon pill was very useful to him. He could directly extract and refine the energy from the demon pill. Refining a fourth-tier demon pill would surely bring tremendous benefits.

Then Li Lin opened the fourth brocade box. A dazzling light surged out, and a vast spiritual energy filled the air. This spiritual energy was wild and overwhelming. In the brocade box, a light orb the size of a baby's fist was surrounded by intersecting rays of light, dazzling and confusing, filled with wild energy that made it hard to look directly at. The energy seemed ready to explode at any moment.

"Spiritual pill, a spiritual beast's spiritual pill," Li Lin exclaimed. He hadn't expected that among the White Wolf Mercenary Group's collection there would be a spiritual pill. To become a spiritual pill, it had to be at least a fourth-tier spiritual beast. A fourth-tier spiritual beast's spiritual pill, even if it was just an early-stage fourth-tier, would be worth over a hundred thousand gold coins. And most importantly, what he needed most were demon pills and spiritual pills.

"Ah..."

Outside in the open space, several screams echoed as a number of mercenaries, attempting to leap onto a nearby stone, fell into the canyon when the stones beneath them suddenly gave way. Their screams echoed in the canyon.

Watching this scene, the faces of the giant man and the others twitched in horror. Rescuing the fallen seemed impossible, as no one had anticipated the sudden breakage of the stones.

Inside the cave, Lan Ling opened the fifth brocade box. Inside was a vermilion jade slip emitting a strange and intense aura, mixed with ferocity and violence. This aura made Li Lin's heart skip a beat, stirring a sense of awe from deep within his soul.

Seeing the jade slip and feeling its aura, Lan Ling's face briefly flashed with shock, then she quickly concealed her reaction.

"What is this?" Li Lin asked, looking at the contents of the fifth brocade box. Although he didn't know what the treasure was, he could tell from the aura that it was extraordinary.

"I don't know, but it must be remarkable," Lan Ling said with a slight smile, turning her gaze away from the fifth brocade box. She then opened the sixth brocade box, which contained a unique, round jade slip about ten centimeters tall.

A rich and comforting aura spread out from it, invigorating anyone who smelled it.

Inside the sixth brocade box was an unexpected item: an eight-centimeter-tall transparent little jade bottle filled with a pale white liquid. The bottle was unopened, but the scent was incredibly rich, suggesting that the contents were extraordinary.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Just then, a huge rumbling noise erupted outside the cave, shaking it violently. Gold coins in the cave shook and slid down, causing Li Lin and Lan Ling, who were standing on a pile of them, to fall to the ground. Coincidentally, as Li Lin fell, a shadow flashed before his eyes, and a delicate body landed on top of him.

In the open space outside, almost simultaneously, explosive sounds resonated from several caves in the mountains, deafeningly loud. The blasts scattered rocks, and the entire rock wall began to crack densely.

The simultaneous explosions of these caves generated a massive force, causing the entire canyon to shake. Large rocks fell from above.

"This is bad, it's dangerous."

The axe-wielding lieutenant shouted, realizing that those who had entered the caves must have been pulverized. No one knew what had happened inside the caves to cause such explosions. They guessed it might be a trap set by the White Wolf Mercenary Group.

In the cave, still shaking violently, Li Lin regained his senses. He felt his face covered and his nose pressed by something soft, a milky fragrance filling his nostrils.

"You're despicable and shameless," Lan Ling scolded, her face turning red. Her firm chest was pressing against Li Lin's face. She felt pain in her chest, and looking down, she saw Li Lin's head buried in her bosom. She hastily got up, flustered. Although she usually dressed modestly, she had never been so intimately touched by a man, especially in such a sensitive area.

"Please, you think I wanted this? It was you who came close." Li Lin stood up, rubbing his nose that felt sore from the pressure of the soft object, and hurriedly said, "Something must have happened outside, hurry up and pack your things and go."

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As soon as he finished speaking, Li Lin quickly grabbed the second brocade box in his hand, containing water-based martial techniques, exactly what he needed.

"Half each," Lan Ling said with a firm expression, reaching without hesitation for the fifth brocade box and instantly putting it into her space bag.

"Three each," Li Lin retorted, unwilling to show weakness. The fifth brocade box was clearly extraordinary, and Lan Ling had gotten to it first. He quickly reached for two jade slips, targeting the spirit pill and the sixth brocade box. Although he did not know what was inside the sixth box, it was clearly also extraordinary.

At this moment, the first thing both of them thought of was these brocade boxes. Inside them were martial techniques, spirit pills, and two other unknown treasures, which were much more important to cultivators than gold coins. Gold coins could be earned at any time, but sometimes these treasures could not be bought even with gold coins.

"Fine, three each, so neither of us loses out," Lan Ling said, reaching for the sixth brocade box, but Li Lin was one step ahead and grabbed the sixth jade slip first.

Lan Ling's gaze flickered subtly, and she then managed to grab the fire-based, yellow-rank beginner martial technique and a fourth-stage demon pill brocade box.

Li Lin unceremoniously put the sixth brocade box and the spirit pill into his space bag and then said, "Half the gold coins each, hurry up and collect them. The cave seems to be collapsing. If we can't get out, we'll be buried here."

Li Lin formed a hand seal, and his true qi wrapped around a large pile of gold coins, continuously putting them into his space bag. With these millions of gold coins, even taking half meant five hundred thousand for him, giving him capital for future purchases of demon pills and spirit pills.

Following Li Lin's example, Lan Ling also wrapped a large pile of gold coins and kept putting them into her space bag. With these millions of gold coins, her space bag was only able to fit about two hundred thousand before it was full. The space in a space bag is limited, and it would be strange if it wasn't full with two hundred thousand gold coins.

Lan Ling then took out another space bag, which belonged to Zhao Qing. After Zhao Qing's death, she had already claimed ownership of this space bag by dripping her blood on it.

By the time this second space bag was full, all the gold coins had been completely swept up. Li Lin had already taken the majority of the gold coins. His space bag did not contain many items, so it had much more space. In this regard, Li Lin was much faster than Lan Ling.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The cave shook more violently, and small stones began to fall. Li Lin's expression changed dramatically: "Quick, get out, this cave is really going to collapse."

"Let's go!" Lan Ling, startled, dashed forward at high speed. If the cave collapsed, they would be buried alive.

Li Lin vibrated his true qi and leaped out at full speed toward the cave entrance. At the same time, his expression darkened slightly, and with a flash of light on his finger, he transferred everything he had just stored in the two storage bags into his storage ring. It was safer to keep valuable items in the storage ring. In other words, Li Lin never truly trusted Lan Ling; he found her quite dangerous.

"Bang, bang..."

Stones kept falling, but both of them had set up protective circles around themselves, so the falling stones didn't affect them much. Occasionally, stones fell from the top of the cave, but they were deflected by their protective circles.

Inside the cave, arrows embedded in the walls loosened, and as the walls cracked, the arrows fell to the ground. The cave shook violently.

"Quick, get out!" A giant rock was about to fall, and both of their faces changed color. They vibrated their true qi and rushed out at full strength. Just as Li Lin passed, the giant rock collapsed from the top of the cave.

At this moment, Li Lin did not hide his strength at all, displaying his full power. In such a situation, he dared not hide his capabilities and wished he could move even faster. Right then, Li Lin resolved to learn the "Fleeting Light and Shadow" movement technique from the Yunyang Sect. If he had such a technique, it would be useful for escaping danger.

"Bang, bang...!"

Collapsing sounds continued from behind, and the falling stones grew larger. The whole mountain shook.

"Quick, get out." Finally, they reached the cave entrance. The light from outside shone in, and they accelerated for one last burst, rushing out of the cave. In a few leaps, they reached the rocks above the canyon wall and entered the outside space.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

At the same time, the cave completely collapsed, and giant rocks kept falling and rolling into the canyon. The collapse of the cave caused larger and longer cracks to appear on the entire mountain, tilting it and breaking the canyon apart. Dust flew up, and stones kept falling.

"It's them, the two of them," shouted the axe-wielding deputy leader in the outside space.

"It's the Raging Wolf Mercenary Group." Just as Li Lin and Lan Ling landed, they quickly spotted the members of the Raging Wolf Mercenary Group and inwardly cursed their bad luck.

"Run!"

Lan Ling shouted and, without hesitation, ran towards the vines. With no other escape route, they could only rely on the vines to climb up.

The massive, somewhat obese deputy leader moved incredibly fast, leaving a trail of afterimages. His true qi vibrated, and he extended his right hand, which then clenched into a claw. A fiery red, scorching qi surged onto his claw mark.

"Think you can escape? Leave the treasure behind." A cold glint appeared in the eyes of the massive man, who smiled and quickly clawed towards Lan Ling.

Lan Ling's expression darkened, realizing it was no longer easy to leave with the massive man blocking her path. She stood firm, extended her wrist, and with a sudden movement of her hand, a palm imprint formed, declaring, "Not so easy!"

As Lan Ling's shout ended, a fierce and scorching energy burst out from her palm, colliding heavily with the giant man's attack.

"Boom!"

A sound of air compression exploding resounded. Lan Ling's face darkened as she staggered back several steps before stabilizing herself. She was not yet a match for the massive man.

"Your strength is not enough," the giant man sneered, his true qi vibrating around him. His right arm turned a fiery red, radiating intense heat. Flames seemed to wrap around his arm, drastically increasing the surrounding temperature.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The entire canyon roared as giant rocks fell. Cracks on the steep walls of the canyon grew longer, and the space where everyone was standing began to shake, threatening to collapse. This area, connected to the canyon walls, was also starting to crack.

"If we don't climb up now, we'll all die together," Li Lin shouted.

"Hand over the treasure, or forget about climbing up," the massive man demanded coldly, his expression changing as he noticed the ground slowly shaking and stones falling into the canyon below.

"There's no treasure in that cave. If you want to die, I'll accompany you," Li Lin said indifferently, not believing these men weren't afraid of death.

"No treasure? You think I'd believe that?" the thin man with a severed arm angrily retorted, his gaze venomously fixed on Lan Ling.

"Then let's die together," Lan Ling said gravely, retreating to Li Lin's side.

"Bang, bang..."

Several giant rocks fell from above, shaking the ground even more violently. A piece of rock plummeted, signaling that the entire ground might collapse at any moment.

Seeing this scene, many members of the Raging Wolf Mercenary Group showed fear. If the ground collapsed, they would all surely perish.

"Big brother, it's dangerous here. Let's climb up first," the axe-wielding deputy leader said to the massive man.

The ground was shaking, and the massive man's body swayed, his facial expression twitching as he surveyed the surroundings. The ground could collapse at any moment, which would be a big problem.

"Let's climb up, fast," the massive man ordered, leaping towards the vines behind him. Using his true qi to gain momentum, he was the first to start climbing. There was no other way out, and he wasn't worried about Li Lin and Lan Ling escaping.

The Raging Wolf Mercenary Group members surrounded the vines, leaving no way for Li Lin and Lan Ling to climb up.

"What do we do? It's going to collapse," Lan Ling said anxiously, as the mercenaries occupied the vines, each trying to escape upwards.

"Damn it," Li Lin cursed silently, looking around. The rumbling sound of falling rocks was incessant, and the ground was shaking more violently. The lower layers of rocks seemed to be falling. "We need to figure something out. We can't hold out here much longer."

"If only I had chosen a larger flying demon beast instead of the Fiery Eagle," Lan Ling lamented. Though the Fiery Eagle was strong, it was too small to carry a person.

"Bang, bang..."

The ground below was collapsing, tilting downwards, about to completely give way. In the Raging Wolf Mercenary Group, there were still about ten people on the ground who hadn't managed to climb the vines. They were waiting for Li Lin and Lan Ling, but the ground was about to collapse.

"It's going to collapse. What do we do?" Lan Ling exclaimed in shock.

"Raging Wolf Mercenary Group, if you can't climb up, then stay down with us," Li Lin said sternly, his eyes flashing with killing intent. His right hand launched five strong, fiery finger imprints, streaking towards the vines.

"Whoosh, whoosh..."

The five fiery finger imprints shot directly towards the vines. If the vines broke, the mercenaries on them would be in trouble.

"Block him!" About ten mercenaries still on the ground naturally didn't want Li Lin to destroy the vines. Several bursts of qi converged to block his attack, while simultaneously, several more bursts of qi streaked towards Li Lin.