After being reborn, the cannon fodder junior sister quickly left the sect.

Chapter 75 Secret Treasure

After joking around for a while, the group began to seriously explore this special "underwater world".

Su Luo finally spotted the broken compass. She quickly approached and bent down to examine it closely.

This compass, with its pale gold surface, looks very old. Because of the cracks on it, you can feel a faint trace of spiritual energy emanating from it.

Lin Ji walked behind Su Luo and said softly, "I guess it's because of this compass that this place became a no-fly barrier. When we encountered it, the compass happened to malfunction, which is why we were able to escape death and come here without being swept away by the vortex."

Su Luo nodded in agreement with his guess, "That's what I thought too. This compass was obviously placed here by some array master to set up a barrier. It must have been there for too long and has developed problems. Fortunately, we are still lucky."

If they were to be swept away by the vortex while unconscious, their chances of survival would be slim. This compass malfunctioned at the perfect time!

Chu Wenqing approached without anyone noticing. He bent down and reached out to touch the stone platform, seemingly searching for something.

Su Luo asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Chu Wenqing didn't even look up. "Haven't you read those 'Dragon Overlord' novels? Usually, there are good things or good opportunities in dangerous places like this. I want to look for them!"

Su Luo's lips twitched. "You know it's a protagonist-centric novel..."

It's a novel where the protagonist is a dragon-like hero, so only the main character can find good things and good opportunities. What can she and Chu Wenqing, two cannon fodder characters, find?

Lin Ji raised an eyebrow curiously, "What's a 'Dragon Pride' novel?"

Su Luo and Chu Wenqing were stunned for a moment. They looked at each other and realized that they had let something slip.

Yes, people in this cultivation world have no idea what "overpowered protagonist" or "novel" means...

Chu Wenqing quickly laughed to cover it up: "Hahaha...it just means 'heroic tales'! In my hometown, we usually call heroic tales 'Dragon Pride Novels,' I...I'm just used to saying it that way! Ahahaha..."

He wasn't lying; this world is his hometown!

Su Luo nodded along with the chick pecking at rice, "Yes, yes, Chu Wenqing also told me that the way of saying many things in their hometown is indeed different from other places."

Chu Wenqing chuckled awkwardly, "Yes, I did tell you a lot about my hometown. Haha..."

Su Luo: "Hehe..."

Lin Ji sensed that the two were hiding something. He didn't like Su Luo keeping things from him, so he continued to press, "But Su Luo, we've always been together. When did Chu Wenqing say these things? I've never heard of them before."

"Ah, this..."

Su Luo paused for a moment, then quickly came up with a solution: "It was when we first met! You were still recovering from your injuries then, and Chu Wenqing and I had a very pleasant conversation, so we talked a lot. It was around that time that he told me all this."

After saying that, Su Luo turned to Chu Wenqing for confirmation, "Right?"

Chu Wenqing nodded hurriedly, "Ah, yes, yes! That was it. Su Luo and I hit it off immediately, and we had so much to talk about..."

"I see..." Lin Ji murmured softly, his eyes lowered, a fleeting, almost imperceptible glint of malice flashing in the depths of his eyes.

It seems we won't get anything out of him by asking. We'll just have to wait for a chance to use the Soul Searching Technique to question Chu Wenqing later...

Seeing that Lin Ji seemed to be convinced by their explanation and stopped asking questions, Su Luo and Chu Wenqing exchanged a glance and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But the two of them, who had just relaxed, were raised again by Feng Xiyue's reply.

"Speaking of which, junior brother, you do often use words that none of us understand."

Su Luo and the other person's expressions changed slightly.

“I remember your hometown is in Black Mountain City, right? I’ve been there once. The way people talk and address each other there is pretty much the same as in other places. It’s not as strange as you.”

Chu Wenqing's face stiffened awkwardly for a moment, then he quickly waved his hand, making a "you don't understand" expression.

"Black Mountain City is very large. Every town and village has its own unique name, and many places have their own unique dialects. The village I used to live in was quite different from other places, which caused me to have some difficulty adjusting when I came here. Sometimes people couldn't understand what I was saying. This is freedom of speech, Senior Sister. You can't call me strange just because I speak differently from others. That's the biggest insult to your junior brother! I might cry, you know..."

Feng Xiyue almost got dizzy from his explanation, so she quickly interrupted, "Alright, I was just asking casually, stop talking!"

"Oh……"

Chu Wenqing then shut his mouth, and turned around to slap his own mouth hard when no one was looking.

He's such a chatterbox! He almost gave himself away!

Su Luo breathed a sigh of relief, then told herself that she needed to be more careful with her words and actions in the future, and that she would have to remind Chu Wenqing later.

In this world of cultivation, there exist advanced spells like Soul Searching that can extract memories. If someone discovers their strange behavior and learns from their memories that they are from another world and connected to the Heavenly Dao, then they will likely be the target of everyone's attention. Even if they hide on some small island in the mortal realm, no one will let them go!

Thinking of this, Su Luo couldn't help but kick Chu Wenqing hard, changing the subject and asking, "So Chu Wenqing, what exactly did you find?"

Chu Wenqing was sobbing.

Su Luo had no hope at all, but to her surprise, Chu Wenqing actually found something on the base of the stone platform.

"I found it!"

"What? It really exists?!" Su Luo was stunned for a moment, then quickly went over and squatted down to check.

The other two also joined in.

There was a small array pattern on the base of the stone platform, and around the pattern was a recessed slot, which looked like some kind of mechanism.

Chu Wenqing reached out and touched the array pattern, but there was no reaction. He stroked his chin and said seriously, "It seems that some kind of key or key is needed to open this stone platform base. I'm sure there's treasure inside!"

He's read so many novels, he knows this kind of formula by heart! It must be like that.

"real or fake?"

Feng Xiyue looked around but couldn't find anything that matched the slot, so her gaze unconsciously fell on the compass. She suggested, "Let's put the compass in and see how it goes?"

Su Luo shook her head: "I'm afraid that won't work, the sizes don't match."

The compass was only half the size of the slot, so putting it in was pointless. However, she felt the shape of the slot looked somewhat familiar…

Chu Wenqing, however, was not giving up. "It wouldn't hurt to give it a try."

He immediately got up to move the compass, but the next moment, his expression changed drastically. "I can't move it!"

"what?"

"Huh? Is it stuck inside? Why can't I move it..."

Chu Wenqing refused to believe it and tried lifting it up and turning it left and right, but the compass remained motionless. He was so angry that his face twisted in frustration. "I can't move it!"

Feng Xiyue tried, and like Chu Wenqing, even with all her strength, she couldn't move the small compass. She had no choice but to give up and said with some regret, "It seems we are not destined to have anything inside."

Chu Wenqing was also extremely frustrated, pounding the stone platform: "I finally found a mechanism, but I can't open it... really!"

Why is it that the protagonist can find all sorts of treasures when they're in danger, but cannon fodder can't? That's not fair!

Lin Ji, who was standing to the side, blinked.

Even though he concealed his cultivation level, his powerful spiritual sense quickly detected that there was indeed something hidden inside the stone platform, but he wasn't interested in those things.

He turned to Su Luo and asked, "Su Luo, do you want to see it too?"

If Su Luo also wanted to see it, he wouldn't mind finding a way to destroy the mechanism directly...

However, Su Luo did not answer. She remained squatting there, her eyes lowered, staring intently at the slot, lost in thought. Then she quickly looked up and smiled at Lin Ji, "Perhaps I can open this mechanism."

Lin Ji was taken aback.

"true and false?!"

Chu Wenqing and the other girl were stunned. Then they saw the girl suddenly take out an ancient plate from her storage bag. She turned the plate upside down over the pattern, and the edge of the plate fit perfectly into the slot.

As Su Luo gently turned the bottom of the plate, the pattern shone brightly through the plate, and with a rumbling sound, the stone platform began to open from top to bottom, revealing what was hidden inside.