“What?”
“Rations?”
Ye Chen glanced at the roasted meat on the ground, then at Ye Lin, and said helplessly, “Lin’er, I’m taking you away from here, not bringing you to flee famine. Why are you preparing these rations?”
Ye Lin said with a serious expression, “I’m just afraid we won’t have anything to eat when we go out!”
Ye Chen said, full of exasperation, “Lin’er, you should know that this is the Hundred Thousand Mountains!”
“Will we lack food here?”
“If you want to eat, when we get out, I’ll kill a few fresh Yao Beasts for you. Won’t that be more fragrant than this piece of roasted snake meat?”
After Ye Chen said that, Ye Lin felt there was some truth to it, but thinking of the roasted snake meat she had already prepared, she couldn't quite let go and whispered, “But I’ve already roasted them, I can’t just leave them here!”
Looking at Ye Lin’s aggrieved little face, Ye Chen smiled helplessly and said, “Since these were all prepared by Lin’er, then naturally they can’t be left here…”
As he spoke, Ye Chen shook his hand and collected the Void Gazer stones and snake meat on the ground into his Storage Ring, then said, “Lin’er, you go to the entrance of the stone chamber and wait for me. Once I’ve gotten all the remaining Void Gazer stones down, we’ll leave here.”
“Okay!” Ye Lin nodded and said, “Brother, please be careful!”
After speaking, Ye Lin scurried towards the entrance of the stone chamber.
As if she was afraid of delaying Ye Chen’s time by walking slowly.
Inside the stone chamber.
Ye Chen watched Ye Lin’s scurrying back as she left, shook his head, and smiled bitterly. Then, he pushed off the ground, rose into the air, and reached for the remaining Void Gazer stones on the wall of the stone chamber.
For Ye Lin, these Void Gazer stones were too high off the ground; she couldn’t even touch them.
But for Ye Chen, it was incredibly easy.
In just a few breaths, all the Void Gazer stones on the entire stone chamber wall were collected by Ye Chen into his Storage Ring.
Although in Ye Chen’s Storage Ring, picking out any single item would be more valuable than Void Gazer stones.
But even a mosquito is still meat.
What’s more, these were priceless Void Gazer stones.
If Ye Chen were to take out a single Void Gazer stone and auction it in Qingcheng Mountain, it would likely be hyped to an astronomical price in an instant.
And this was just one; if Ye Chen sold all the Void Gazer stones in the stone chamber.
At that time, their total value would probably not be much less than the pile of gold coins in his Storage Ring, which was as high as a small mountain.
After all, these decorative items were deeply loved by wealthy nobles and women.
As for Cultivators, very few would spend a large sum to buy them.
Of course, those Cultivators who liked to collect could not be ruled out.
As the saying goes, to each his own.
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean others don’t either.
On the ground.
Ye Chen glanced at the stone chamber, which had become pitch black due to the loss of the Void Gazer stones’ illumination. Then, he lifted his foot and walked towards Ye Lin, while taking out a Void Gazer stone from his Storage Ring to use for lighting.
At the entrance of the stone chamber.
Ye Lin looked at Ye Chen walking towards her and said with some awkwardness, “Brother, isn’t what we’re doing too ruthless?”
“At least leave a few Void Gazer stones for that Senior…”
Facing Ye Lin’s words, Ye Chen chuckled, “Lin’er, that Senior died many years ago, so what good would it do if I left a few Void Gazer stones for him?”
“Besides, since we could find this place, who can guarantee that others won’t find it…”
“If someone else comes here in the future, even if we leave a few Void Gazer stones for this Senior, wouldn’t it just benefit others then?”
“Don’t you agree?”
Ye Lin pondered for a moment and said, “What Brother said isn’t without reason. In that case, let’s go!”
For Ye Lin, although she really wanted to leave a few Void Gazer stones for the skeleton Senior in the stone chamber for illumination, just as Ye Chen said, they could come here, and in the future, others would probably come here too.
Rather than leaving a few Void Gazer stones now to benefit others, it was better to let Ye Chen take them all now.
As the saying goes: “If a man is not for himself, heaven and earth will destroy him.”
That’s exactly what it means.
“Mm…” Seeing Ye Lin had understood, Ye Chen nodded. Then, holding up the Void Gazer stone, he led Ye Lin towards the place where they had previously fallen.
Not long after.
When Ye Chen and Ye Lin emerged from the long passage, they felt the sunlight and instantly felt the air become fresher.
After all, Ye Lin had not come out for several days since she entered the passage with Ye Chen.
It was Ye Chen who had come out a few times due to his Cultivation.
Smelling the fresh air around her, Ye Lin slowly opened her eyes, looking as if she had seen the light again. She looked around and asked Ye Chen, “Brother, there are cliffs all around here. How are we going to leave this place?”
“You’re not thinking of jumping down again, are you?”
Hearing this, Ye Chen raised his hand and tapped Ye Lin’s forehead, chuckling, “Lin’er, what are you thinking?”
“Jumping down from here, aren’t we just seeking our own deaths?”
Ye Lin, whose forehead had been tapped by Ye Chen, asked in confusion, “Brother, besides these cliffs, there isn’t even a path here. Where else can we go besides jumping down?”
“We can’t possibly climb up the way we jumped down, can we?”
Ye Chen nodded slightly and said, “Exactly, I’m going to take you to climb up from here!”
What?
Climb up?
Ye Lin had only said it casually, who would have thought that Ye Chen really intended to take her to climb up.
Ye Lin looked up at the place they had jumped down from earlier and said in disbelief, “Brother, you’re not kidding me, are you?”
“Although it’s not far from where we jumped down, the mountain wall is so steep, how are we supposed to climb?”
Seeing Ye Lin’s disbelieving expression, Ye Chen raised his hand and pointed at the vines on the mountain wall, as well as the protruding stones on the wall, and said, “We’ll go up this way!”
“I tested these vines earlier, and they’re quite sturdy, strong enough to support one person’s weight!”
“I’ll go up first in a moment, and then I’ll pull you up with the vines, how about that?”
Ye Lin said with a face full of worry, “I don’t have any problem, but this mountain wall is so steep, I’m afraid…”
Before Ye Lin could finish, Ye Chen seemed to guess what she was going to say and interrupted directly, “Lin’er, don’t worry!”
“With my current strength, this height is no problem at all!”
“You don’t need to worry!”
Saying that, Ye Chen reached out and grabbed a vine, tugged it a few times, confirmed there was no problem, then pushed off with both feet, like a dragonfly skimming the water, and began to climb up the vine.
Seeing the scene before her.
Ye Lin’s little heart immediately started pounding with fright.
As if she was afraid Ye Chen would miss a step and fall down.