Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 337 - 312: Bluffing Their Way Through

Li Cunxu had originally planned to use a one-time item, the Sandman Disguise Badge, to transform into a Sandman, deceive the Sandman Pharaoh, sneak into the Pharaoh’s Pyramid, and steal the Celestial Pavilion Ring.

This method was considered the fastest and optimal strategy to obtain the Celestial Pavilion Ring by many players in his previous life. Li Cunxu himself was the inventor of this strategy and had made quite a bit of money from it back then.

This time, Li Cunxu easily found the hidden treasure room inside the Pharaoh’s Pyramid without relying on Jiang Lingyun’s luck.

Entering a dead-end passage, he turned a light stone lamp on the left wall, kicked a discreet brick, triggered a mechanism, and the wall slowly descended, revealing the door to the treasure room inside.

The door to the treasure room was magnificent, standing fifteen meters tall, flanked by two large stone sphinxes with their eyes closed, guarding the treasure room.

Both were overlord-level creatures.

Disturbing these two would mean Li Cunxu would have to resort to other methods, as relying solely on Xiaoruan and the others wouldn’t suffice; they weren’t opponents of the same level.

Li Cunxu’s plan to deal with them involved lighting two sticks of overlord-quality Hypnotic Incense. Most of the time, the stone sphinxes passed their time sleeping out of boredom, awakening only when someone opened the door or when thieves sneaked in, to attack.

The Hypnotic Incense would make the already sleeping stone sphinxes fall into an even deeper slumber.

However, Li Cunxu did not go through with this plan.

He abandoned his original method because he thought of a more cost-effective way to save two super expensive sticks of Hypnotic Incense.

Li Cunxu tugged slightly on the white hood of the Pharaoh, enough to obscure his face, then put on gloves and picked up the Desert Staff, calmly walked to the treasure room door, and pushed it open.

The door moved, and the two stone sphinxes awoke, glancing over.

Clad in the gold-fringed robe of the Pharaoh and holding the Desert Staff, it was undoubtedly the Sandman Pharaoh.

The sphinx on the left closed its eyes again, while the one on the right opened its mouth to speak.

"Why didn’t you just ask the Pharaoh what was happening above?"

The sphinx on the left yawned, "If you ask, can we go and see? We still have to stay here, might as well not ask and continue having a good sleep."

"Makes sense."

As the words fell, the sphinx on the left was already asleep, emitting faint snores.

Once inside the treasure room, Li Cunxu turned around and closed the treasure room door.

Upon turning his head, he was dazzled by the golden artifacts inside the treasure room.

The entire room was splendidly decorated, gleaming with gold, more astonishing than the treasure of dragons in the movies.

Actually, Li Cunxu knew this scene; he had seen it in a game instance in his previous life. However, the instance had a limitation - only one golden artifact could be taken at a time. Therefore, Li Cunxu wasn’t too impressed.

A bunch of unattainable golden artifacts were no different from background wallpaper, so he didn’t pay much attention.

This time, however, was different. This time, Li Cunxu could take it all.

With so much gold essence, feeding it to the Mechanical Pupil would be enough to enhance its potential to the monarch level, with extra gold essence left over to sell.

Li Cunxu summoned a group of pet beasts to help pack the golden artifacts and the Celestial Pavilion Ring hidden within.

The Mechanical Pupil grabbed a gold essence chair and started gnawing, saying, "So much gold essence, why are there so many golden artifacts here?"

Li Cunxu replied, "The Pharaoh’s Pyramid is the office area of successive Sandman Pharaohs. Many of them realized the Golden Rule during their lives. These Sandman Pharaohs, with nothing better to do, refined gold essence from the sand to create golden artifacts for entertainment."

The Hidden Small World 168 seems like a barren desert world, but in reality, it’s extremely valuable, with the yellow sand rich in gold elements.

Calling this small world a super gigantic gold mine wouldn’t be an exaggeration, as it contains more gold than the Golden Secret Realm of the Golden King.

Although the Golden Secret Realm with its golden soil and trees is impressive, it cannot compete with the vastness of Hidden Small World 168, where the gold-containing sands stretch as far as the eye can see.

After searching for most of the day, the Celestial Pavilion Ring was still not found.

Amidst a large heap of golden artifacts, locating a thumb-sized ring was very difficult.

It wasn’t just difficult; it was extremely challenging to carefully check the golden artifacts for the hidden Celestial Pavilion Ring. If you didn’t check carefully, while storing the golden artifacts with the Space Ring, you might accidentally pack the Celestial Pavilion Ring along with them.

At that point, you’d have to pour out the golden artifacts and search again.

Li Cunxu’s eyes grew tired from the search.

In this task of finding the Celestial Pavilion Ring, Li Cunxu’s past life experience was of no use.

The position of the Celestial Pavilion Ring in the game’s instances was randomly determined, and no strategy could help; players could only search painstakingly.

"I give up, all this gold is blinding me."

The black iron avatar of the Little White Spider covered its eyes, rolling on the ground to feign helplessness.

The bronze avatar of the Little White Spider also covered its eyes, complaining, "What kind of broken ring is this! Can’t even sense it with Spiritual Power or a domain. If we could sense it, we’d find it in no time."

Li Cunxu lowered his head, considering whether to use the two sticks of Hypnotic Incense to knock out the stone sphinxes and then bring Jiang Lingyun in.

With Jiang Lingyun’s luck, it probably wouldn’t take long to find the Celestial Pavilion Ring among numerous golden artifacts.

"Caw~ everyone stop searching, I found it."

The Curse Crow held a ring in its beak, and Li Cunxu saw that it was indeed the Celestial Pavilion Ring.

Since it was found, Li Cunxu had no patience to sort through the treasures any further; he collected everything. Once outside, a group of Intelligent Slimes would be assigned to sort it later.

Inside the treasure room, the harvest was not just golden artifacts but also many Overlord Body Pearls and Lord Crystals.

The Overlord Body Pearls were remnants from previous Sandman Generals, and the Lord Crystals, similar in nature, were left by lord-level Sandmen after death.

Additionally, there were some tool weapons, but they weren’t very good, quite subpar.

Finally, a few singularities remained.

All these singularities were of the same type.

They were Desert Source Stones.

Embedded within the Beast Taming Space, they could generate a desert environment.

Li Cunxu took the highest grade Desert Source Stone to embed.

Walking out of the treasure room, the stone sphinxes still did not detect Li Cunxu’s disguise.

Li Cunxu reunited with Jiang Lingyun who was waiting outside. As he expected, with Jiang Lingyun’s luck, as long as no risky actions were taken, danger would not be encountered.

Of course, Li Cunxu did not carelessly leave Jiang Lingyun alone outside; the Flame White Horse was left to protect her.

The Flame White Horse might not win against an overlord-level opponent, level nine, but it could certainly outrun them.

Even if faced with an overlord, should the Flame White Horse fail to outrun it, there’d be no issue; Li Cunxu had left it with a life-saving jade crafted during Li Shiji’s overlord period.

"Let’s go down."

After navigating through several winding passages, Li Cunxu and Jiang Lingyun arrived at the bottommost part of the Pharaoh’s Pyramid.