In the Treasure House of the Echo Mountain Range!
"Never!"
"Because according to our agreement with the force behind us, the force behind us will come to check the Treasure House every year on the third day of March."
"There are still more than two months before the third day of March. It is not the time to hand over the treasures." He Ruyu frowned and replied.
"Ruyu, let's not touch these Spirit Stones for the time being. Let's go to the second floor of the Treasure House to have a look."
Since it was not the day of the handover, He Ruyu did not use the jade pendant to enter the Treasure House.
Then, the current situation could only explain two problems.
Either someone had a full set of keys to open the door of the Treasure House, or there was a problem with the Treasure House itself.
As for which problem, they could only continue to go deeper into the Treasure House to check.
"Okay!"
Nodding, He Ruyu quickly took Yu Haoran to the deepest part of the first floor of the Treasure House, in front of a green light curtain about three meters high and two meters wide.
"Haoran, this green light curtain is the door to the second floor of the Treasure House."
Pointing to the green light curtain in front of them, He Ruyu explained.
"Only when the green bronze door is opened and the Spirit Stones are used to open the second floor of the Treasure House, this green light curtain will appear. Otherwise, it will not appear, and you will not be able to find the passage to the second floor."
Nodding, Yu Haoran indicated that he understood, and then followed He Ruyu through the green light curtain and entered the second floor of the Treasure House.
Very similar to the decoration of the traditional Treasure House, the second floor of the Treasure House of the Echo Mountain Bandits also stored precious Spirit Medicine and countless medicinal herbs.
Unlike Spirit Stones, the quality of Spirit Stones could be roughly determined by the concentration and purity of the Spirit Qi emitted.
Spirit Medicine and medicinal herbs needed to be distinguished by the naked eye and rich experience to determine its origin, age, and effect.
Therefore, to know whether the grade of these medicinal herbs and Spirit Medicine was the same as the Spirit Stones on the first floor of the Treasure House, lacking the most precious and top Spirit Medicine and medicinal herbs, further investigation was needed.
"One thousand three hundred sets of Raindrop Flower, grade one of the eighth level!"
"One thousand five hundred years old, grade two of the eighth level, containing a huge poison, Baby Grass!"
"One thousand one hundred years old, grade seven of the eighth level, Mysterious Ginseng Grass, which can directly improve cultivation!"
"…!"
There was no need for him to get close to observe them. Relying on his cultivation and knowledge in the Dao of Alchemy, he was able to know the specific age, grade, and effects of each medicinal herb and spirit medicine just by observing and smelling them.
However, Yu Haoran couldn't help but frown after observing more than 30 medicinal herbs piled together.
"Ruyu, you're in charge of arranging and arranging these medicinal herbs!" Yu Haoran asked somewhat angrily as he pointed at the dozens of medicinal herbs that were casually piled up on the nearest wooden shelf.
"No!"
Looking at Yu Haoran's frown and the anger in his voice, He Ruyu quickly explained even though she didn't know what had happened to make him so angry.
"Haoran, as I am not proficient in the art of alchemy and know very little about identifying medicinal ingredients, the storage and organization of the medicinal ingredients on the second level of the treasury has always been personally handled by Protector Huo, who is proficient in the art of alchemy."
After explaining, He Ruyu looked at the pile of herbs that Yu Haoran had pointed out and asked in confusion.
"Haoran, are these herbs stored in the wrong place?"
"Yes!"
Nodding his head, Yu Haoran picked out a spirit medicine that was very similar to a three or four-year-old child medicine from the pile of herbs and explained.
"This is a Grade Eight, Grade Two Child Medicine that contains a huge amount of poison. The poison it contains can harm the internal organs of a peak Ninth Grade Martial King expert."
"This is a Root Ginseng that can directly increase one's cultivation to Grade Eight, Grade Seven."
"When two medicinal herbs of completely different attributes are placed together, it will cause the poison and spirituality to fuse together. In the end, not only will it destroy the two medicinal herbs that can be considered as relatively precious."
"Furthermore, if one directly uses the Root Ginseng to increase one's cultivation without knowing, it will ultimately cause the internal organs to be poisoned because the Root Ginseng's energy is mixed with the Child Medicine's poison."
"If it's light, one's cultivation will drop. If it's heavy, one will directly die!"
"It's that serious!"
After hearing Yu Haoran's explanation, He Ruyu's expression couldn't help but change.
Because the faction behind her only cared about precious medicinal herbs of Grade Six and above, after every year's handover, she and the four Protectors would sort out a portion of the precious medicinal herbs and reward them to their subordinates who had done meritorious service.
If, because they didn't store the medicinal herbs properly, they harmed their subordinates who had done meritorious service. Not only would it affect their own reputation, it would also harm their loyal subordinates.
"Damned old bitch!" Thinking of this, He Ruyu couldn't help but curse.
But immediately after, she remembered that the person she liked was right beside her and wondered if her cursing just now would make him angry. She hurriedly covered her mouth and looked up, only to discover that Yu Haoran's gaze was once again focused on the medicinal herbs.
Different from the first floor of the treasury, Yu Haoran's process of inspection was that as long as he found a medicinal herb that was relatively precious or useful to him, he would directly put it away.
After observing for nearly three hours and inspecting no less than ten thousand medicinal herbs, Yu Haoran returned to He Ruyu's side and said gloomily.
"It's exactly the same as the first floor of the treasury. All the medicinal herbs of Grade Six and above are gone!"
"Let's go to the third floor!"
The situation of the first and second floors was exactly the same. He Ruyu immediately wanted to go to the third floor of the treasury to take a look and see if the situation inside was the same as the first two floors.
"Okay!"
Nodding his head, Yu Haoran followed He Ruyu directly through the green light curtain to the third floor of the treasury.
After stepping into the third floor of the treasury, Yu Haoran discovered that the storage of the treasures on the third floor was somewhat different from the traditional treasury.
This was because the treasury on the third floor of the Xiangshan Bandits Gang was divided into three areas.
On the more than ten shelves in the eastern area, there were nearly a thousand books of mental cultivation methods and martial skills, as well as more than thirty white jade slips.
In the western area, there were all kinds of refining materials that numbered more than a hundred.
On the more than ten shelves in the middle area, there were thousands of pill bottles filled with medicinal pills.
Pointing at the different treasures placed in different areas in front of him, Yu Haoran couldn't help but ask angrily, "Ruyu, who told you to store them like this?"
"It's the request of the force behind us!" He Ruyu sighed helplessly as she replied.
Hearing that it was the force behind He Ruyu that requested this, Yu Haoran could only shake his head and take the lead to the area where the medicinal pills were placed.
Although the way the treasures were stored on the third floor of the treasury was wrong, He Ruyu and the others were still the same as the traditional treasury in some places. That was, at the bottom of each pill bottle, the name, grade, and effect of the medicinal pills in the pill bottle were marked in detail.
His gaze swept through these pill bottles one by one. Yu Haoran's gaze stopped in front of a pill bottle marked with a rank six first grade Soul Condensing Pill.
Reaching out to pick up the pill bottle placed on the wooden shelf, Yu Haoran suddenly felt that something was not right.
Because the pill bottle in his hand was too light, it was like an empty pill bottle.
Without any hesitation, he hurriedly opened the pill bottle. A very light Pill Qi of the Soul Condensing Pill let him know that the medicinal pills in the pill bottle had not been taken for a long time.
Putting the pill bottle back on the wooden shelf again, Yu Haoran sped up his footsteps and specifically searched for the bottom of the pill bottle. All the pill bottles marked rank six and above, but the final result was that all of them were empty.
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