CHAPTER 459 THE UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY

After a few moments, Rocky found himself in a deserted place where an old and abandoned house

stood. He examined the exteriors of the house and found a broken window concealed by spider webs.

He peaked through the gap of the broken window and found no one inside. Quietly, he reached for the

dusty doorknob. As soon as he pushed the door open, a pile of dust was shaken off from the top of the

door as a stink wafted into his nose. He pressed his hand to his nose, proceeded inside and left his

footsteps on top of the thick dust that covered the floor. He was convinced that no one had lived there

for quite some time.

He started to investigate the inside of the house. Upon closer look, he realized that the furnishing of the

house seemed strange. There were no tables and beds, while only shabby shelves lined each side of

the wall. The shelves had bottles and jars on top of them that all looked too heavy for the old structure.

And the stove that stood in the center of the house came in a strange style that made it look like a

furnace for refining pills.

After looking around the furnace for a while, he noticed a pile of spirit-manipulated beasts' skeletons

which were broken into small pieces at the deepest part of the house. Without touching it, he left it and

proceeded to inspecting the jars on the shelves. He looked at the jars closely and noticed blurry labels

on top of them. When he opened one of them, a strong stench of smell wafted the air. When he looked

inside, he nearly dropped the jar at the sight of rotten and dried internal organs.

"Here seems to be a laboratory," Rocky said to himself. "I guess it was used to study the subject

related to the spirit-manipulated beasts." He rubbed his chin and allowed himself to go deeper into

speculation.

"The Myriad Beasts Ground is not a safe place. Someone even had the courage to set up a laboratory

here. He must be no ordinary guy," he concluded.

Seeing the house have no other special part or treasures, Rocky decided to leave. However, the

moment he turned and was about to leave, the Rainbow Glow Unicorn appeared abruptly and ran

towards the deeper part of the house. The unicorn kicked the broken skeletons away and dug hard on

the ground with its limbs as if it was searching for something.

Immediately, Rocky knew what the unicorn was trying to do. It had proven plenty of times that it could

locate rare treasures. Without further delay, he walked to its side and found that the place where it dug

just now seemed to be more protruding than other places, so he quickly pulled out his Frozen Wind

Dagger and cut through the protruding place gently by injecting his spiritual power into his dagger. In a

few seconds, the protruding ground was cracked, revealing an iron box about the size of two palms.

Rocky got the box and opened it immediately. Inside, a yellow spiritual crystal sat neatly on top of a

faded notebook.

First, he took the crystal out and kept it. Then, he went through the notebook and skimmed the first few

pages. He was surprised to find that the notebook described how to refine a spiritual crystal.

It described how the crystal could evolve using the bones of the spirit-manipulated beasts with spiritual

power. It took a long-term commitment to breed the essence of heaven and earth and be refined by a

human.

Since ancient times, the Wild Spirit Land where Rocky stayed had plenty of spirit manipulators who

used every method to try to make the spiritual crystal, but to no avail.

It seemed like the notebook that Rocky held now contained detailed knowledge on how to refine the

spiritual crystal. The methods described weren't known to Rocky until that day. He flipped to the last

page of the notebook and found a note seemingly written by its original owner. It stated that the author

himself could not refine the spiritual crystal successfully within his lifetime, so he hoped that whoever

would inherit the notebook would continue the process and see to its success.

"Perhaps the author of this notebook had long passed and left this behind," Rocky sighed. He knew

that the author of the notebook deserved to be respected. He had taken time to record the process of

refining spiritual crystals—a knowledge of extreme value to future generations.

"Today, he might be regarded as one of the greatest scientists," Rocky remarked. Rocky spent a few

moments staring in awe before he kept the crystal and the notebook. He took one more look at the

house before deciding to leave with the Rainbow Glow Unicorn.

As he stepped out, something not far away from the house caught his attention. There was a cherry

tree that stood on the right of the house and, underneath it, a stone tablet sat. He looked at the stone

tablet closer and noticed strange symbols engraved on it. The symbols looked incomprehensible to his

human eyes. A full glance of the item made him realize that it looked like a tombstone.

Looking at the tombstone and then at the house, he wondered if the tombstone was set up for the

author of the notebook. "However, who buried the man and who set up the tombstone for him?" Rocky

speculated.

He bowed three times to show some respect and then left with the unicorn.

After Rocky left, a figure appeared from behind the cherry tree. "It's him!" it whispered as it watched his

back.

Rocky was unable to see the figure and proceeded to leaving the valley. As soon as he was outside of

it, he released his four beasts from the Magic Spiritual Space and followed his original way back. He

searched for fertile flat land and set up a bonfire before it got dark. He released his three Dark Heaven

Insects and the Dark Heaven Insect Queen in turn to feed them. After that, he used his spiritual power

to stimulate the brain of his Ghostly Ice Fox-Wolf for an hour.

After all his beasts were taken care of, he sat by the bonfire and took out the notebook.

He read the process again and found there was a lot of work to be done in the early stage of refining

the spiritual crystal. He had to collect a large number of materials that came from different places and

were extremely varied, including various internal organs of spirit-manipulated beasts, as well as

flowers, herbs, and wood which were used to make a kind of special potion. Moreover, those materials

needed to be processed by complicated processes.

In the middle of the notebook, Rocky saw a hand-painted picture of a familiar object, which was also

needed for refining the spiritual crystal.

Rocky stared at the painting harder. "This must be the Beast Spiritual Pill," he muttered. He took out Content held by .

the round pill that he found in that spirit-manipulated beast at the third grade of the four-star level.

The round pill he was holding was also known as the Beast Spiritual Pill. Every time a spirit-

manipulated beast swallowed a spiritual crystal or rare treasure and absorbed its power, they had

trouble in digesting it. Thus, residues would be left behind in their stomach. After years of

accumulation, the residues would become a Beast Spiritual Pill.

Rocky read the notebook further and realized that he was correct in his assumptions. The Beast

Spiritual Pill was indeed one of the most important materials in the process.