Tai Zhu Xuan Xiang: Me and My Eight Golden Gourd Sisters

Chapter 73 The Great Emperor Taixu Xinyuan's Golden Book

After finishing his hotpot, Cai Xuan leaned against the railing, looking up at the boundless night sky, watching the stars twinkling at him, motionless.

The little ones followed Cai Xuan's example, lining up against the railing, their little faces tilted up as they gazed at the starry sky, seemingly looking at something.

After observing for a while, they continued their evening's practice, cultivating the Primordial Transcending World Treasure Raft. In this world, strength is the foundation of one's survival, and it cannot be neglected.

After finishing his cultivation, Cai Xuan remembered that Xuan'er and Ling'er had not yet read the Xuanhuang Medicine Records, the General Records of the Universe Scriptures, and the Myriad Phenomena Star Martial Arts Manual, so he took them out from under his pillow and handed them to the two little ones.

Xuan'er took the Xuanhuang Medicine Record and gently turned to the first page.

Suddenly, a golden light flew out from the page of the book, like the morning sun piercing through the clouds, and shot straight into Xuan'er's brow.

Xuan'er's body trembled slightly, her eyes gently closed, and faint golden ripples appeared between her brows. A moment later, she opened her eyes, and a complete book of Xuanhuang medicinal herbs had appeared in her mind.

Ling'er took the book, opened it, and the same scene played out again. Golden light flew out and entered her brow, instantly filling her mind with the book.

Next is the "Comprehensive Record of the Universe Sutras".

Xuan'er turned the pages of the book, and its light shone brightly. Scrolls of ancient scriptures appeared and disappeared. Suddenly, a beam of clear light flew out and landed between Xuan'er's eyebrows. Xuan'er closed her eyes and meditated for a moment, obtaining a cultivation technique.

Cai Xuan was the same. A cultivation method appeared in his mind called Taixu Xinyuan, which taught how to keep a sincere heart from being deceived. It was probably because he saw that Xuan'er had the supernatural powers of seeing and hearing things from a thousand miles away, and was afraid that she would be blinded by external things, so he gave her this method of cultivating the mind.

Ling'er opened the General Record of the Universe's Scriptures, and strange phenomena arose once again.

A page of golden book emerged from it, like an imperial edict descending from the sky, landing between Ling'er's eyebrows.

Cai Xuan also obtained the Golden Book, which was actually a cultivation technique called "The Great Emperor's Golden Book." It contained no text, and everything had to be understood by the individual.

Cai Xuan nearly fainted from looking at it. How could anyone possibly understand this?

Upon opening the Myriad Stars Martial Arts Manual, Xuan'er obtained the same fist technique as Xi'er, the Demon Subduing Fist; Ling'er did the same.

Cai Xuan found it strange. Yun'er, Shu'er, and Xin'er all received different fist techniques, so why did Xuan'er and Ling'er receive the same one? He couldn't figure it out at all. After thinking for a while, he still couldn't understand it.

He never dwells on things he can't understand.

So he put the book away and told Xi'er to take her younger sisters back to sleep.

Thinking that the little ones didn't have raincoats, and to prevent them from getting wet again, Cai Xuan started looking for materials the next morning to make raincoats, rain boots, sun hats, and other things for them.

Men are just too rough around the edges; they don't consider many things until they encounter them and then they start scrambling to prepare.

The striped python and green-scaled snake skins that I had tanned before were left unused, but now I'm using them to make raincoats. There's nothing more suitable than these.

Cai Xuan was busy making raincoats and rain boots, while Xi'er took Yun'er, Shu'er, Xin'er, Xuan'er, and Ling'er out early in the morning. The six sisters went out together, and no one knew what they were going to do, but they were all very excited.

As Cai Xuan made a raincoat, he looked at the two small golden gourds hanging under the wooden frame. For some reason, he suddenly felt like an old father and his left-behind daughter were relying on each other for survival.

The mountain road was rugged, but Xi'er and the others had extraordinary stamina and ran all the way at a fast speed.

"Big sister, where are we going today?" Xuan'er asked as she ran.

"Didn't you say yesterday that there was something strange in that cave? We didn't have time yesterday, so let's go explore it today. I also think it's really strange in there," Xi'er said.

"Um."

Xuan'er nodded, and a chill ran down her spine as she recalled the mountain of white bones and the ancient palace deep within the cave.

"Everyone be careful later, don't underestimate the enemy and rush in. If you encounter danger, run away immediately, understand?" Xi'er slowed down and turned back to say to her younger sisters.

"Understood, eldest sister."

Yun'er, Shu'er, Xin'er, Xuan'er, and Ling'er responded in unison.

The six of them traversed the dense jungle and climbed over several mountain ridges, finally spotting the cave where they had taken shelter from the rain the day before.

Soon, the group arrived at the cave. Standing at the entrance and looking inside, it was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. A chilling wind blew from the depths of the cave, sending shivers down their spines. Xi'er unloaded the firewood from her back and had Xin'er light it. The intense flames immediately dispelled the chill in the cave.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Xi'er, holding a long axe, took the lead and went inside. Yun'er took out a bow and arrow from her back, nocked the arrow, and stared ahead; Shu'er's palm had already condensed a ball of water; Xin'er's fingertip flickered with a wisp of fire, ready to be released at any moment.

Xuan'er activated her supernatural powers and looked into the depths of the cave; Ling'er summoned the Netherworld Life and Death Flag, held it in her hand, and carefully looked into the distance.

The darkness inside the cave seemed to have a tangible form; the deeper one went, the more one felt that something was lurking in the shadows.

Each of them carried a bundle of firewood on their backs, and every so often they would throw down a bundle and light it, the roaring flames dispelling the cold and darkness.

Xuan'er walked in the middle of the group, using her supernatural powers to observe the terrain and occasionally guide her sisters on the way. Invisible light shone from her eyes, piercing through layers of darkness and taking in everything within dozens of feet ahead. Her ears also twitched slightly, catching every subtle sound within the cave.

"There's a turn ahead," Xuan'er reminded her.

Xi'er nodded, gripped her long axe tightly, and continued walking forward quietly.

The six of them moved forward silently, clinging to the cave wall. As they rounded a bend, the cave opened up, revealing a mountain of white bones. The children gasped in shock at the sight.

The bones on White Bone Mountain vary in size and type. Some bones are already rotten; some are broken and fragmented; and some still have dried bloodstains, suggesting that they were killed recently.

Upon this discovery, Xi'er and the others immediately became serious.

Xi'er stopped and gestured for her sisters to halt. She squinted, carefully examining the mountain of bones before her.

"These bones... some look like those of a four-horned antelope, some like those of a wild wolf, and some..." Xi'er frowned, pointing to several large skulls at the edge of the Bone Mountain, "those heads with horns look like dragons."

"It's not a dragon, it looks like a snake. Look, it doesn't even have feet," Yun'er said softly.

"It does look like it." Xi'er squatted down, picked up a scale that was scattered on the edge, and examined it in her palm for a moment. It certainly didn't look like a dragon, because it was different from what was recorded in the Xuanhuang Medicine Records.

"How do you think so many ferocious beasts died?" Shu'er asked curiously.

The six people remained silent for a moment, then their gazes all turned to the door behind the mountain of bones.