Imperial Treasure
Chapter 250 - 181: Underwater, Beneath the Cliff!_2

Chapter 250: Chapter 181: Underwater, Beneath the Cliff!_2

Sui Yi was already standing at the foot of the cliff, looking at the mountain base soaked one meter deep by shallow water. Not minding her wet shoes, she walked over. At first glance, the cliff seemed like the bow of a giant ship with walls like wings. Sui Yi felt around on the left wall for a while and found a keyhole covered with moss and a layer of rubbery rock sand. After searching for a while more, she found nothing under the right wing wall.

"Mao Sanqing mentioned that the key was roughly buried here, why isn’t it here, could it be..."

Sui Yi observed the walls on both sides for a while and suddenly felt a chill from the water at her feet, causing her to raise an eyebrow sharply.

"Right, Mao Sanqing probably didn’t expect that as time passed and the rain washed over it, a water pool formed here, slowly eroding the ground, maybe the key has already been dislodged from its hiding spot and fell into..."

Sui Yi turned her head to look at the shallow pool in front of her, which was at most half a meter deep and five meters in diameter.

Using the moonlight, which was somewhat dimmed by the shimmering water, and having no other choice, Sui Yi extended her Magnetic Sensation into the water...

After searching for just a minute, she felt a glimmer of light!

Sui Yi was overjoyed. Although coming at night was a huge mistake, she was fortunate to have her Magnetic Sensation.

Just as Sui Yi was wading through the water and bending over to move some sand and stones, hooking her fingers around a set of keys...

Suddenly, two other lights appeared in the water right in front of Sui Yi, and she glanced over...

Whoosh!

The dark shadow suddenly burst forth from the water...

Bursting out, leaping from the water with sparkling droplets, what should have been a beautiful scene like a lotus emerging under the moonlight was instead ferociously grotesque.

It was a Giant Fox, its fur made more eerily sinister by the water, with green pupils and black teeth...

It ferociously lunged toward Sui Yi.

In the water, where movement was already restricted, an abrupt attack came!

Sui Yi was suddenly in danger!

Such a coincidence! She had just missed searching the center of the pool; otherwise, how could she not have noticed the Giant Fox lurking underwater!

She wouldn’t have been ambushed...

In that critical moment, Sui Yi guarded herself with the Shaving Knife!

The Giant Fox pressed down on the Shaving Knife, pushing the slender Sui Yi completely into the water... Boom!

Water splashed all around!

Sui Yi, pinned in the water, but with a strong push from her legs at the waist, thrust upward!

Whoosh!

The Giant Fox was sent flying!

In an instant, Sui Yi flipped up from the water, her wrist flicking, the tip of the Shaving Knife glimmering with moonlight.

Flick!

Whirling Blade Technique!

Splurch!!!

The blade pierced into the soaring Giant Fox’s skull, penetrating its enormous head, swoosh!

The Shaving Knife stabbed into the sand at the edge of the shallow pool.

Whoosh, the Giant Fox fell into the water, cried out sharply, its body trembled a few times, blood spread out, and after a while, all was quiet.

Sui Yi stood still and took three deep breaths before she reached out to touch her shoulder, finding her clothes ripped open and her shoulder scratched. Although the injury was not severe, she was indeed hurt.

It wasn’t that the Giant Fox was too weak; she had simply been too careless.

Walking forward, Sui Yi pulled out the Shaving Knife and confirmed the Giant Fox’s death. But just as she was about to turn around, the sight of the water beneath her feet made her pause, stunned.

The blood color was disappearing rapidly.

It wasn’t just diluting, but vanishing at an eerie speed.

"This water..."

Sui Yi couldn’t concern herself with who might have soaked the Giant Fox’s corpse. She scooped up a handful with her hand and analyzed it deeply with Magnetic Sensation, her expression growing increasingly strange.

Magnetic Sensation couldn’t figure it out.

This was even more bizarre.

"Perhaps it’s related to that so-called treasure,"

Sui Yi thought for a moment, then dragged the Giant Fox’s body to an open area nearby to prevent the corpse from rotting in the water, which was becoming more disgusting, or perhaps also because she feared the water held some strange properties and might cause an incident.

After inserting the key into the lock, Sui Yi looked around... In the deep night, under the mountain valley, with a Giant Fox corpse, she stood in the water...

If it were an ordinary person, they’d have been scared to death by now, but Sui Yi herself felt nothing.

Calmly, she turned the key... click-clack. After a few turns, finally, there was a loud clank.

The sealed door of the left-wing cave opened.

Such mystery made Sui Yi marvel at the ancient, unique techniques from ages past. Unfortunately, another person capable of such feats had died decades ago, and now it was unknown how many people knew them.

With a feeling of melancholy, Sui Yi didn’t dare to let her guard down and walked slowly into the cave, holding the Shaving Knife.

The cave was not large, actually quite small; it contained only one item.

Upon seeing it, Sui Yi facepalmed.

"Not another coffin,"

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Others find treasure chests or maybe scroll paintings and jewelry.

But for her, it’s always coffins, more coffins!

She’s not a tomb raider, really, she’s not!

However, this time the coffin was clearly more upscale.

A White Unicorn Stone Coffin.

Much better than those Black Coffins, Redwood Coffins.

Naturally, nothing could compare to that Ice Jade Coffin...

Somehow, Sui Yi couldn’t stop thinking about that Ice Jade Coffin.

But it was just a thought; she suddenly arrived at the White Unicorn Stone Coffin.

This coffin, made from the exceedingly rare White Unicorn Stone, might just look like white sandstone to others, but Sui Yi knew after only a few glances that this stone was a rarity even in ancient times. Why is it rare? Because under different angles and lighting, one can see the snow-white surface intermingled with threads of silver, regal and beautiful, hence it was named after the White Unicorn Stone. However, the ancient Imperial Family, despite their preference for Han white jade, did not favor white coffins, finding them too plain and soft, lacking the majesty of a king. As for noble women, they couldn’t afford such precious stones, and since White Unicorn Stone has a cold nature, its chill is more pronounced in low temperatures, making it a major taboo for coffins. Common folk wouldn’t even consider it.