Qin Liuxi was very excited.

This is a Golden Rat, excellent for treasure hiding. If she could gather them all, she’d be rich, but of course, she wouldn’t take them for free. She promised it a boon, and so a boon it shall have.

But who can tell her, treasure hiding is treasure hiding, why did it have to be hidden in a cesspool? Looking at the capacity of the cesspool, what large animal made a dung pit here to fertilize the land?

Qin Liuxi’s face turned a bit green, looking at the Golden Rat, and said plaintively, "As a rat, you ought to be clean too, you can hide treasure, but why hide it in such a place?"

The Golden Rat patted its chest with a chirp, saying the most dangerous places are the safest; who would think such a filthy place would be where it hid its treasure?

It jumped into the cesspool and began digging at a certain spot, dirt and dung flying.

Qin Liuxi silently backed up two steps: "..."

Can’t bear to watch!

The Golden Rat dug quickly, soon digging out a hole big enough for a person to crawl into, chirping twice toward Qin Liuxi to signal her to crawl in.

Qin Liuxi held her breath, swallowing hard.

She wanted to say, you could take the things out, but what if it has other treasures hidden?

For treasure, she can bend low!

With mixed feelings, Qin Liuxi crawled into the hole, only to find another opening inside, making her excited again.

Following the Golden Rat into the opening, inside was a marvel, a small underground cave, with strangely shaped stalactites and water dripping down, forming even more spectacular stalactites.

Qin Liuxi glanced around, feeling a powerful aura, she couldn’t resist walking over.

The Golden Rat was a bit surprised, but it quickly zipped over, climbed onto a large rock, and chirped while pointing at a stalactite shaped like a fish intestine.

"You hid it here?" Qin Liuxi looked at the stalactite, and approached, the aura emanating from it, somewhat eerie.

But when she looked up, it was clearly a natural stalactite, with water dripping down, how could the treasure be there?

Qin Liuxi asked, "How did you put it in there?"

The Golden Rat chirped proudly, then leapt over, hugging the stalactite, mouth open, chomping away.

It actually started gnawing on the stalactite.

Qin Liuxi was dumbfounded, mumbling, "You must be hungry to eat just anything!"

The Golden Rat glared back at her, don’t provoke me, my teeth are super sharp, I can bite you to death!

The rat gnawed at the stone rapidly, and before long, had bitten a pit into the stalactite, from which the aura gushed out. Qin Liuxi saw the treasure embedded in the stone, her heart pounding like a drum.

So it’s true, searching high and low with no avail, only to find it without effort!

It turned out to be a divine weapon.

She stepped forward, her hand shocked the stalactite, stone fragments flying, the divine weapon fell into her hand.

It was a golden-red sword, its blade thin and sharp, etched with talismanic patterns, while the hilt was intricately carved with talismanic markings. Boundless power was contained within the sword, the rampant aura like invisible blades, slicing across the body, blood seeping from the skin.

Qin Liuxi hurriedly applied an Amulet for protection, but soon the talisman had combusted under the impact of the aura. She thought quickly, using a spell, Daoist intent bursting out from her, confronting the aura.

She examined the sword, meticulously observing the talismanic markings on the hilt, seeing the name Chang Jia.

Chang Jia, wasn’t that the Daoist name of the Refining Peak elder from Qingping Sect when it was founded, who according to Fei Chai was obsessed with refining artifacts, willing to sacrifice himself to become a sword soul in order to refine a world-shaking divine weapon like the Xuanyuan Sword, ultimately forging the Golden Armor Divine Sword that could vanquish demons and evil spirits.

Legend has it that when the Golden Armor Sword emerged, it drew nine Heavenly Thunder strikes for tempering, later drinking the blood of ten thousand men, vanquishing a million evil souls, rendering the sword golden-red, its aura astonishing, power boundless, though Qingping Sect fell into decline and the divine weapon’s location became unknown.

Unexpectedly, it would be in a cesspool, no, in such an underground cave, and sealed within a stalactite.

However, something’s not right!

Qin Liuxi held the divine weapon, sensing carefully, where’s the sword soul?

She was dumbfounded.

Taking the divine weapon to examine repeatedly, even using a spell to probe, but no, the sword soul had run off.

A divine weapon without a sword soul, can it still be called a divine weapon?

"Where’s the sword soul of this divine weapon?" Qin Liuxi glared at the Golden Rat, "Was it not Chang Jia who sacrificed himself to become the sword soul of this divine weapon, why is it gone?"

The Golden Rat chirped, it didn’t know, when it got the sword, it was just like this, bringing it back to the Treasure Cave, feeling it wasn’t quite safe, gnawed a pit into a stalactite to hide it, then the water dripped over time forming new stalactites to seal it, making it impossible to find.

It’s a clever rat but never arrogant.

Qin Liuxi was about to burst, without the sword soul at her side, where would she find a new sword soul to merge into it?

Heavenly Dao, you damned thing, are you playing me!

Clearly knowing what I want, yet not satisfying, is it forcing me to rebel!

The Golden Rat saw Qin Liuxi’s face change, getting irritable, its previous harmless and trustworthy Little Fairy image nowhere to be seen?

Qin Liuxi looked around the cave and said, "Is the sword soul hiding somewhere? Find it for me."

She used several acts of Daoist intent to seal the aura of the divine weapon, starting to search the cave for the soul.

However, there was nothing, not even a ghostly shadow.

Qin Liuxi held the divine weapon, somewhat frustrated, what was this, giving her a good lock but without a key?

She took a few deep breaths and recited a few lines of Heart Clarity Spell, don’t rush, there’s no sword soul, just replace it.

Qin Liuxi looked at the Golden Rat, "Alright, hand over all your treasures, then let us be on our way."

The Golden Rat: "?"

What do you mean, wasn’t this what you wanted, you still want more?

Chirp, chirp, chirp.

The Golden Rat anxiously bared its teeth, those sharp teeth glinting coldly, truly worthy of gnawing stone, very sharp.

Qin Liuxi persuaded kindly, "Following me is the only way to get a boon. But my home isn’t here, if you follow me away from Kunlun, while you’re gone, what if someone cleans out your lair?"

The Golden Rat: You’re saying, you’re already emptying my lair now!

"I’m doing this for your own good, actually, keeping these things doesn’t help you, does it? Born with nothing, die with nothing, what use is it for a rat to have such things? Why not be a good rat and donate them to me?"

The Golden Rat: In my hundreds of years as a rat, never have I seen anyone describe robbing so elegantly!

Humans are truly shameless!

A Little Ginseng squeezed in from somewhere, seeing the Golden Rat’s aggrieved yet angry expression, chuckled, finally someone follows in my thousand-year-old ginseng’s footsteps!

Back then...

Forget it, better not bring up painful experiences, just blame the ginseng for being too naive at the time.

Boom.

Qin Liuxi heard the commotion from the ground, her expression changed slightly, she spoke to the Little Ginseng, "Take the Golden Rat, empty all its treasures, and then come out."

After saying that, she swiftly exited the cave.