After Defying the Villain's Fate for Nine Lifetimes, the Heroines Turn Mad! - Chapter 301

Chapter 301: Jumping Off the Cliff, All for Nothing?

Lin Feng did not fall to the bottom of the cliff but landed in the middle of the cliff face, in front of a cave just big enough for one person to stand.

He wasn’t dead, but he wasn’t happy either.

Because he was still in agony, vomiting blood frequently, and severely injured!

And he knew that surviving this time probably cost him a lot of good chunk of his luck…

“Sigh…”

After a long sigh, Lin Feng got up, sat cross-legged, and popped a healing pill into his mouth.

He sat like this for several days.

Only when his injuries had somewhat healed did he start to walk towards the cave in front of him.

The cave was narrow and long, shrouded in darkness.

Inside, there were over a hundred traps, layers of defensive arrays, maze arrays, and illusion arrays that were hard to guard against.

If not for Old Man Tianji’s keen senses and sharp eyesight, Lin Feng would have fallen for the traps several times.

Lin Feng didn’t know how long he had been walking in the cave.

Only when his body was extremely tired and his spiritual power was almost depleted did he break through the numerous arrays and traps and reach the deepest part of the cave.

Apart from the bare stone walls, there was only a corpse dressed in tattered blue clothes, sitting cross-legged in the center.

“This person’s body has not decayed after death, and the spiritual energy has not dissipated. He must have been a cultivator in the late Nirvana stage,” Old Man Tianji analyzed after a brief investigation.

Late Nirvana stage?

Lin Feng’s eyes lit up.

This was a big shot at the Central Domain’s ceiling level!

Could this be the opportunity for him?

He wanted to approach and search the corpse to see if he could find some opportunities.

But he had just taken a step when Old Man Tianji shouted.

“Be careful!”

Hearing this, Lin Feng quickly withdrew his hand.

At the same time, the corpse’s jaw opened on its own, spitting out several black needles that grazed his cheek.

Lin Feng broke out in a cold sweat.

Along the way, he had encountered too many traps and arrays, and he thought it should be over, but who knew that this lifeless corpse still had a mechanism?

“Bzzz—”

A strange noise sounded.

Lin Feng followed the sound and sweated even more.

He saw that the needles embedded in the stone wall were oozing a lot of black liquid, which was corroding the stone wall very quickly.

Clearly, it was poisoned.

Fortunately, Old Man Tianji’s timely reminder saved him, or else he would have been done for by now.

“That was close!” Lin Feng patted his chest and sighed in relief.

“This person must have been very cautious in life. This should be about it. You can go ahead and search for opportunities,” Old Man Tianji said.

Lin Feng nodded and approached again.

He first glanced at the corpse’s fingers, found no spiritual ring, then touched the clothes and found nothing.

In the end, he even moved the corpse aside and searched the cushion underneath, but… Still nothing!

“So, did I jump off the cliff for nothing?!” Lin Feng couldn’t believe it.

It reminded him of the lunatics in the Mysterious Ice Realm, and he wondered if someone had beaten him to it!

But that seemed impossible.

After all, there were no signs of disturbance on either the traps, arrays, or the appearance of the corpse.

“It must be hidden… This person was cautious, he must have hidden the spiritual ring in a place no one would think of!” Old Man Tianji speculated.

A place no one would think of?

Lin Feng frowned, picked up the corpse, and searched again.

Fingers, toes, wrists, ankles, he checked them all.

After finding nothing, he gritted his teeth, pried open the corpse’s mouth, and despite the nauseating stench, reached inside.

“Hmm? There really is something!”

Lin Feng was overjoyed, and then he pulled out a spiritual ring.

The ring was covered with a strange liquid and smelled foul, he couldn’t bear it and vomited right away.

“Is this liquid… toad pus?” Old Man Tianji exclaimed in shock.

“Ugh, is it valuable?” Lin Feng asked while vomiting.

“Not particularly valuable, but even cultivators from the upper four realms would be overwhelmed by its stench and unable to bear it. This person, fearing that his possessions would be taken after death, actually swallowed this toad pus. He truly was ruthless!” Old Man Tianji remarked.

“Indeed ruthless…”

Lin Feng agreed wholeheartedly.

Just the smell was enough to make him retch repeatedly, let alone swallow it?

Fortunately, his persistence paid off, and he got the spiritual ring.

After Old Man Tianji used his divine sense to unlock the seal on the ring, Lin Feng, holding his nose, began to check the items inside.

“Third-grade pills?”

“Low-grade spiritual weapons?”

“Medium-grade techniques?”

“A few sets of clothes?”

“Is that all?!”

“And an autobiography?”

Lin Feng was stunned.

Was this the wealth of a Nirvana stage cultivator?

It seemed more like that of a lower four realms cultivator!

Unable to believe it, he opened the autobiography inside the ring to read.

After skimming through it, his expression darkened even more.

According to the autobiography, the cultivator who perished here called himself ‘Gou Daoist’.

Gou Daoist was not talented, but he had decent luck.

Worried about being robbed, he spent most of his time in this cave, ‘gou’ (hiding/laying low), and this ‘gou’ lasted for three thousand two hundred years!

He ‘gou’ his way to the late Nirvana stage!

With such cultivation, he could have roamed freely around the Central Domain, but Gou Daoist wanted to continue “gou.”

The reason was that he didn’t feel safe! The outside was too dangerous!

He wanted to ‘gou’ his way to becoming an emperor and then go out!

But in the end… he didn’t ‘gou’ his way to becoming an emperor, instead, he ‘gou’ his way to death…

Before dying, Gou Daoist was resentful and worried that his legacy would be taken after death.

These items were what he had accumulated over thousands of years with great difficulty, so how could he let others benefit easily?

But to hide them? He felt that no matter where he hid them, it wasn’t secure.

So, he simply destroyed all the valuable items!

And at the end of the autobiography, Gou Daoist also said:

“I was too hasty! The spiritual energy in the Central Domain is too shallow, so it’s impossible to ‘gou’ one’s way to becoming an emperor…”

“What kind of weird person is this?!” Lin Feng threw the autobiography on the ground and cursed.

He had gone through so much hardship and injury, thinking he would gain a significant opportunity, only to encounter an idiot!

He was so angry!

Even in death, he didn’t want to benefit others?

This Gou Daoist was not only a cheapskate but also stingy to the core!

Lin Feng was so angry he wanted to storm off.

But Old Man Tianji had a different idea: “This person was cautious by nature, proficient in the way of ‘gou,’ how could he leave an autobiography to expose his life? I think…”

“Think what?” Lin Feng asked.

“This autobiography is probably a red herring! He must have left an inheritance, but he wanted to test if the person who came was fated with the way of ‘gou’!” Old Man Tianji was certain.

(TLN: red herring = something that distracts attention from the main issue, diversion.)

“That makes sense…”

Lin Feng realized, “Then where do you think he hid his inheritance?”

“I’ve used my divine sense to check this place. There are no hidden doors or secret chambers, so the inheritance must be on this Gou Daoist’s corpse!” Old Man Tianji concluded.

“But I’ve searched everywhere I should have! Surely I can’t just cut him open, can I?”

“No, there’s one more place you haven’t searched!”

“Where?”

“…”

Old Man Tianji didn’t reply directly but floated out from Lin Feng’s ancient spirit ring.

He circled around the corpse of Gou Daoist a few times, then Old Man Tianji raised his hand and pointed.

Following the direction of his finger, at first, Lin Feng was clueless, but soon his eyes widened in disbelief.

Because Old Man Tianji was pointing at the place where waste was excreted!

“You mean, I have to…” Lin Feng’s mouth twitched.

“Dig!” Old Man Tianji continued.

“Can’t we just cut him open?”

“No, that won’t work. This person is cautious, and doing so would surely trigger an even bigger trap! Only by digging can you find the right solution!”

“…”