After leaving the banquet hall, Lin Fan didn’t open the box right away.
After looking around, he went by himself to a private room.
He didn’t want anyone disturbing him while he was opening up this box.
So he went all the way to the blocked room to open this box.
Only after settling down did he take a proper look at this box.
It was an ordinary box that didn’t have anything special about it.
The only thing that was special about it was…that he couldn’t find a way to open it. There weren’t any flaps or even any seams that he could use to open this box with.
He tried using his spiritual sense to check the box and even then…there was still nothing for him to open the box with.
Lin Fan’s spiritual sense wasn’t even able to enter the box.
It was like there was something that was blocking his spiritual sense from entering. Something that was much stronger than his spiritual sense that was stopping it from entering.
After staring at the box for a while, he finally gave up and tried something different.
Instead of just staring at the box in a daze, he asked the system, “How do I open this box?”
It could be considered a desperation move since he wasn’t even sure if the system would answer him. Though in the past, when he didn’t know what to do, the system would offer to help on its own.
He hoped that this would be one of those times.
“Drop a drop of blood on it.” The system said in its mechanical voice.
Lin Fan was without a doubt caught off guard since he never expected the system to reply even though he had wanted it to reply.
But even if the system had answered, he couldn’t help having his doubts.
“Are you sure about this?” He asked hesitantly in his mind.
All that he received from the system was a snort and the answer, “The host is free not to believe the system. That is within the host’s rights.”
The more time that he spent with the system, the more that he felt that the system was…alive.
“You’re speaking much more fluently than before.” Lin Fan couldn’t help saying in his mind.
“It’s just the host’s imagination.” The system calmly deflected.
Still, whether it was his imagination or not, Lin Fan didn’t have a reason to keep poking deeper.
The system had already said that it was here to assist him and doubting it anymore than this wasn’t a good idea.
So he reached out a hand and brought a finger over the box.
With a thought, he was able to use his spiritual energy to squeeze out a drop of blood that fell down right on the box.
There didn’t seem to be a reaction at first, but then…the box suddenly trembled.
There was also a glow that surrounded the box that seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
After he let that drop of blood fall into the box, there was this spiritual energy that suddenly came from it.
This was a powerful spiritual energy that put a bit of pressure on him, but it was just a box in the end. So it wasn’t able to really put that much pressure on him.
After a long while, there was a voice that suddenly said, “So someone finally found my inheritance.”
Lin Fan couldn’t help raising his guard when he heard this, but the next words made him relax that guard right away.
“If you’re hearing this now, it means that I am already dead. What this box contains is my legacy, so I hope that you will not reject it.”
Lin Fan couldn’t help knitting his brows when he heard this.
After all, this seemed like it was too good to be true.
He could tell from the spiritual energy fluctuations coming from the box that this thing definitely wasn’t a normal thing.
He could easily guess just how powerful the one this box came from was.
So how could that person give away this thing so easily?
There had to be a catch.
After a moment of silence, the voice continued by saying, “I hope that if you accept my inheritance, you will help me with one small matter.”
As expected, there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
There was something that the owner of this box wanted from him.
“If one day you become strong enough, I hope that you can take revenge on Fei Wu Qing for me. That name won’t mean anything to you now, but if you accept my inheritance and become stronger, it will mean something to you one day. When the time comes, I hope that you will help me take revenge.”
Lin Fan deeply knitted his brows after hearing this.
This seemed like a simple request, but he knew that it wouldn’t be as simple as it seemed.
After all, the way that the owner of this box had said it…
He knew that it was anything but simple from that.
In the end, he didn’t say anything in response to this.
But of course, that didn’t matter since there was no need for a response in the first place.
The message that was coming from the box was a prerecorded message, so it didn’t matter if he responded or not. The person that left this message wouldn’t be able to hear him in the first place.
After another long silence, the voice from the box gave a sigh and said, “I know that this might seem like it’s asking a lot, but I hope that you will keep this in mind.”
“Ah! Heavens, why do you treat me like this! Why did you do this to me, Feng Yu!”
Then the box went silent and the glow disappeared from the box.
Before Lin Fan could do anything, the box suddenly shattered to pieces and revealed what was inside.
What appeared on the table after the box was broken was what seemed to be a pendant and a map.
Lin Fan didn’t move forward to take these things right away and just calmly waited to see if anything else would happen.
When he saw that there was nothing else that happened with these two items, he slowly made his way over to them to see what they were.
The first one that he turned his attention to was the map.
This was a simple looking map that didn’t seem to have anything strange about it.
When he looked at it closely, he found that he didn’t recognize the area that was drawn on the map at all. But of course, that was to be expected since this was a map that had come out of a random box.
It wasn’t as if this map would be for an area nearby.
This map could be depicting a location that was anywhere on the continent.
So he turned to look at the pendant.
This was a very normal looking jade pendant that was carved in a very normal shape.
The only thing that was different about this jade pendant was that there was a large ‘Feng’ character engraved on it.
This was clearly to signify who this jade pendant belonged to.
But that didn’t give me any ideas as to what this jade pendant did.
As I looked at the two things on the table, I gave a sigh as I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do with them.
That was until the system suddenly gave me a prompt.
“Side mission activated.”
“Huh?” I said to myself before opening my eyes wide and pulling up the system panel.
I looked at the new side mission that had been registered.
[Side Mission] Find Feng Yu’s inheritance
Feng Yu has left his final inheritance in a ruins realm. Please find this ruins realm using this map and unlock it with the jade pendant.
Please be careful as there might be dangerous things inside of this ruins realm.
Reward: Contents of the ruins realm and a special reward from the system.
Failure punishment: Death.
I couldn’t help being surprised seeing that the system had suddenly released a side mission like this.
But what caught me off guard the most was how detailed the side mission was.
After all, I had no idea what the jade pendant was used for until the system told me that it was needed to open up the inheritance realm.
Was it because of the system’s upgrade that it was now telling me all of these things?
At the same time, I was a bit concerned about the failure punishment that came with this side quest.
If I had to guess what this was…it was most likely the system warning me about the danger of this ruins realm. After all, it was a failure punishment for this side mission.
The only way that I would fail this was if I didn’t get the treasures hidden in the ruins realm and the only way that was possible was if whatever was inside killed me.
After all, I could always retreat and come back if things went poorly.
The only way that didn’t happen is if I died in the ruins realm.
It seemed that I had to seriously consider this…
But there was also a part of me that couldn’t help feeling excited.
This was one of the cliches of the cultivation world, being able to explore some ruins that contained an inheritance.
As someone who came from a world where only cultivation was in novels, I was very excited about this.