To be on the safe side, even though the Voodoo wasn’t found in the White Tiger Cave and should not be here, Xu Shu still turned the entire cave upside down, but came up empty-handed.

After confirming there were no traps underwater, Xu Shu thought carefully and finally decided to dig up Liu Yuan’s grave, retrieve the empty treasure box thrown inside, and pack it in the storage bag.

This left Liu Yuan’s daughter, Liu Mianmian, dumbfounded.

However, Xu Shu’s reasoning was simple: the Voodoo might never have seen the "Seven Treasures Lotus," and unknowingly missed the treasure mountain!

After completing everything, Xu Shu checked the time.

He always kept a tight schedule. Now the time reached the final point of "Encountering someone ranked fourth on the Eerie Path list, fought with all his might yet couldn’t win, battle lost being cut down."

In a few minutes, he wouldn’t know if people summoned by the Voodoo would appear here—though it was said they wouldn’t dare to confront the Judgement Department directly, he didn’t bring much back up, just in case.

To prevent any accidents, Xu Shu made a quick decision, grabbed Alice, and merged her into the tailbone.

Once united, Xu Shu reached the cave entrance of the White Tiger Cave, then twisted his waist, using "Dai Jiu Li Yi," passed through the bizarrely inscribed gold character wall.

Luckily, the professional Great God Jiu Yi didn’t encounter any surprises today.

With a swoosh, Xu Shu successfully returned to the underground palace where the dark river roared.

"Almost time to head back. With this core Voodoo, it should expedite Xiao Ya’s tracking of his true form."

Xu Shu muttered to himself, glancing back at the gold text, dispersing like the slowly closing White Tiger Cave.

"...Uh, speaking of which, isn’t this font different from when I came in?"

Xu Shu stared at the inscriptions on the inner wall, unfortunately unable to recognize them.

After some thought, he immediately activated the enhanced "Eye of No Pupil" camera, spent 10 contribution points, took a picture and sent it to Xiao Ya, requesting the "Divine Child" of stage three to translate it for him.

After a while, Xiao Ya sent back a question mark.

"What’s this? Lots of strokes ’丿’’,’ and things, is it Jia Gu script? Can’t decipher. Where are you?" Xiao Ya asked.

Could she not understand it either?

Xu Shu felt slightly surprised, speculating that he might have taken the picture too late, as the components of the golden tadpoles had already dispersed.

He didn’t think much of it, explaining, "This is called the ’Golden Tiger Formation,’ originally something about stomach and mouth."

"Ku Lou stomach Mao Bi Shen Zui?" Xiao Ya replied.

Xu Shu’s eyes lit up, "Oh right, that’s it."

"Wow, it’s the No-Life Mysterious Sect corresponding to White Tiger Lodge! Where are you, I’ll come to see! The Seven Treasures Lotus might be inside!"

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"Why refuse?"

"Speak up, Brother Xu Shu!"

"Everyone agreed on a three-seven split, are you thinking of taking it all?"

"No! You can’t do this! You fricking can’t do this ahhhh~"

Xiao Ya sent a barrage of messages, accompanied by numerous cute crying emoticons.

Nevertheless, Xu Shu had already sent another photo, which showed the previously opened grave of Liu Yuan with the treasure box beside it.

"Didn’t find anything, Voodoo was here, now suspect it might be missing."

Xu Shu explained the situation, then without further delay, chose a direction and left the underground palace.

At a neglected corner, those blood texts on the White Tiger Cave’s inner wall were slowly clustering and moving, like boiling petals drifting in from all directions toward the center of Lake Heart Island, eventually converging into a pool, revealing a strange hue.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Heartbeat-like sounds began resonating rhythmically beneath the Lake Heart Pavilion, a trace of blood tumbled around but seemed unable to find a resting point, swiftly diffusing along the ground. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

...

At this moment.

Xu Shu walked out of the Liu Family Ancestral Hall.

First inspecting around the hall to confirm no traces left, he then returned along the road to the Luling Platform station.

Interestingly, here a group of people clearly belonging to the Hong Family had already gathered.

Among them was someone with striking yellow hair and graceful figure, none other than Hong Yan.