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Chapter 572 - 573 Moonlight Treasure Box_1

Chapter 572: Chapter 573 Moonlight Treasure Box_1

"Brother Changlin, what kind of clue do you think Grandpa left for me inside the box?" Ye Xiyao looked at the wooden box in her hands with mixed feelings.

"I’m not sure either, let’s just open it and find out." Seeing that Ye Xiyao seemed to be struggling somewhat, Li Changlin then reached out, asking her to hand the box over to him.

"Let’s wait a bit, we’ll open it in the guest room after breakfast." Ye Xiyao didn’t linger on the matter and handed the box to Li Changlin.

At that moment, a monk entered from the door, carrying a tray with two bowls of vegetarian noodles.

"Patrons, please enjoy your breakfast." The monk’s complexion looked a bit off, clearly aware of the incident where Li Changlin had crippled Huitong and damaged Hui Jue’s dantian.

"Thank you, master." Li Changlin nodded and led Ye Xiyao to another dining table.

As they sat down, the monk placed the vegetarian noodles on the table.

He, however, did not touch the other bowl of noodles on a separate table.

The abbot had already ordered that the noodles on that table were to be preserved as evidence; once Li Changlin and Ye Xiyao finished their breakfast, he was to lock the main gate and wait for the police to take over.

Soon, Li Changlin and Ye Xiyao finished eating.

Seeing that the serving monk hadn’t left, they greeted him once more.

Afterward, they returned to their guest room.

"Brother Changlin, let’s open it quickly." By then, Ye Xiyao could hardly wait.

"Alright." Li Changlin nodded, his curiosity also piqued.

The weight of the wooden box was indeed heavy; what could possibly be inside?

So Li Changlin placed the wooden box on the coffee table and crouched down, ready to open it.

The box was extremely antique in appearance, immediately giving the impression that it was an ancient relic.

Above the front side of the box, the words "Moonlight Treasure Box" were written.

These characters were not in a modern font but were traditional, which Li Changlin himself did not recognize.

It was Ye Xiyao who had learned these characters as a child, so she recognized them at a glance.

Li Changlin felt a bit embarrassed, but without dwelling on it, he grabbed the edges of the box and pulled with force.

The box didn’t move at all, and it didn’t make a sound either.

"Huh, how strange!" Li Changlin felt a tinge of surprise. Although he hadn’t used much strength just then, he thought it should have been more than enough to open a box.

Unexpectedly, the box did not respond at all—it was truly bizarre.

"What’s wrong, Brother Changlin?" Ye Xiyao asked softly from beside him when she saw this.

"It seems a bit tight," Li Changlin said somewhat sheepishly, then continued, "No worries, maybe I didn’t use enough strength."

This time, Li Changlin applied more force, pulling and twisting the top and bottom of the box with both hands.

However, it was no use.

No way!

Li Changlin looked at it and felt some ire rising within him.

So he increased his effort once again.

But to Li Changlin’s frustration, the same thing happened.

Now, he was applying a force of about two hundred pounds, but the box remained completely immovable.

Those two hundred pounds weren’t just the strength of one hand, but both hands had the power of two hundred pounds each, and even if he were to fight with Monk Hui Jue, it would be a close match.

But to Li Changlin’s surprise, the box still didn’t open.

There really was something strange going on here.

Li Changlin was not convinced, so he increased his strength once more.

He was at the Mid-phase Hua Realm Cultivation level, with the strength of about one thousand pounds, and Li Changlin had once taken eleven Life Fruits, which also increased his strength by eleven hundred pounds.

Thus, his total body strength was about two thousand one hundred pounds, which was pretty much the peak of the Transformation Realm.

Thinking it over, Li Changlin directly increased his strength to five hundred pounds in each hand and then started to exert force again.

The box still didn’t make any movement.

Damn it, what exactly does this mean!

Li Changlin felt very frustrated, looking at Ye Xiyao’s expectant eyes, he also felt a bit embarrassed.

So he gritted his teeth and finally increased the strength in his hands to one thousand pounds each.

Crack crack crack...

This time, there were some sounds, but they didn’t come from the box—they were the cracking noises from Li Changlin’s own finger joints.

"Brother Changlin, is it not working?" Seeing Li Changlin as if straining until his face turned red, Ye Xiyao also started to feel a bit panicked.

"It’s frustrating, what on earth is this box made of? My two thousand pounds of force can’t even affect it, this is unscientific!" In his heart, Li Changlin felt somewhat disheartened, feeling like he was losing face in front of Ye Xiyao.

"Could it be that it’s not supposed to be opened with brute force?" Ye Xiyao blinked and suddenly remembered something Lame Grandpa had said to her when she was little, "Brother Changlin, could this box be some sort of treasure that requires fresh blood to acknowledge its master?"

"Uh..." Hearing this, Li Changlin didn’t know how to respond and thought she might have read too many fantasy novels.

"What’s wrong, Brother Changlin?" Ye Xiyao, oblivious to Li Changlin’s thoughts, couldn’t help but ask gently.

"No, it’s nothing." Li Changlin gave a sheepish smile, thinking it was best to keep such thoughts to himself and not voice them out.

"Oh." Ye Xiyao took his word for it and responded softly, then she started looking closely at the surface of the box.

She remembered Lame Grandpa telling her when she was young that there were many inexplicable things in the world, especially some bizarre items that could, for instance, be bonded with through the offering of fresh blood.

Back then, she was young and always treated these statements like mere stories.

But now, faced with this strange box, those words from Lame Grandpa came back to her.

"Could it really require fresh blood to acknowledge its master?" Ye Xiyao pondered to herself, her eyes intently scanning the surface of the box.

Sure enough, upon closer inspection, she found something unusual.

Ye Xiyao noticed that directly below the characters for ’Moonlight Treasure Box,’ there was a very fine line, which seemed to have a dark brown hue.

This line was so fine that one could easily miss it if they didn’t look carefully.

The line wasn’t very long, and at the end of the line, there seemed to be a tiny hole, though it was unclear if it led inside the box.

"Xi Yao, since we can’t pry it open with strength, shall we just smash the box open?" Without opening the box, they couldn’t know what was inside.

Changlin was also considering Ye Xiyao’s urgent feelings, so he came up with this idea.

"Maybe we won’t be able to break it." Ye Xiyao paused briefly, but she didn’t reject Li Changlin’s suggestion.

Whether this box was the kind of object Lame Grandpa had talked about, would be clear if Brother Changlin could smash it open or not.