Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

There were more than thirty treasure beasts being raised in the Xiao Clan's beast barn. More than half of them belonged to Imperial Level warriors, though only a small part of them were good ones. Generally speaking, making a treasure beast produce treasures within a month was no easy task. It depended on what level they were mostly. The lower their level, the less time it took for them to produce treasures. Of course, low-level treasure beasts could only give birth to low-level treasures. That was why it wasn't difficult to make the beasts produce treasures with the help of some pills.

Zachary had considered all this. After all, it wouldn't help if he made more than half the treasure beasts in the beast barn produce treasures if they were all low-level ones. So, he had to carefully select the ones guaranteed to be of good stock once they produced treasures.

With his aim clear in mind, Zachary walked around the beast barn. He selected twenty treasure beasts in total. Half of them were of acceptable qualities, while the other half only served to make up the numbers.

"Do you remember them all?" Zachary turned his head to look at Jimmy.

Jimmy nodded immediately.

Right at this moment, Ryder came in with a cup of freshly brewed tea in his hand and offered it to Zachary. "Please forgive me for making you wait for so long, Manager Harley. I used my special skills as well as superior tea leaves to make you this cup. I'm sure you will like it."

"I don't want to drink tea now. Ryder, you can drink it yourself! Starting today, I will seclude myself for a period of time. During that time, Jimmy will be assisting you in managing the beast barn," Zachary informed.

"You'll seclude yourself? For how long?" Ryder asked. His eyes lit up with excitement at the thought of Zachary being away. It meant that the beast barn would be back under his control. In fact, the longer Zachary remained in seclusion, the better it was for him.

"About half a month," Zachary surmised after thinking it through. He'd estimated that it would take him at least that long to capture the first elite treasure beast.

"Only half a month!" A look of disappointment immediately marred Ryder's face. He'd been hoping for it to last at least a couple of months if not half a year.

"What? You don't think it's

Drugged one night by her ex-boyfriend, a mysterious man took advantage of her in an ecstatic night filled with sex.

To take her revenge, she married the man, and used him.

"As long as I'm alive, I'm still his legal wife, while all of you are just his mistresses."

She remained adamant even when he was involved in scandals with other women.

Eventually she stormed off after she learned that he had betrayed her again.But life brought her back to him a few years later, to his astonishment.

ren't we going to cultivate in seclusion together?" Zachary couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"I didn't mean that you'll be cultivating in the Living-dead Tomb. If you want to learn honey mixing skill, you have to go to the cave where I usually collect honey and learn from the bees," Anne said, rolling her eyes at Zachary.

"Learn from bees? Are you serious, Master Anne?" Hearing that, Zachary didn't know whether to laugh or take her seriously. Humans revolted at the idea of taking such insignificant creatures as their teachers. Nevertheless, he knew that Anne must have a good reason for saying that.

"Let's go," Anne said. She cast a quick glance at Zachary and then took the lead to leave.

Of course, Zachary followed her closely to the cave.

He had been to the cave once before, but it had been a long time ago. At that time, he'd had to overcome all kinds of difficulties for Anne to accept him as her disciple. Now, that he had returned here, he couldn't help but have mixed feelings. "I was almost killed by these bees in order to become your disciple," he said, his voice laden with emotion.

"Really? In the end, you drove them away with smoke, didn't you?" Anne responded calmly.

"What? How did you know that, Master Anne?" Zachary was stunned.

Anne didn't answer his question, but the flash of a smile on her delicate face showed she knew everything.

"Okay, you can go in now," Anne prompted.

"Alone? Won't you be going in with me?" Hearing what she'd said had given Zachary a sudden bad feeling.