Huangfu Yi immediately lit a few Fire Talismans, throwing them one by one into the cave. Using the light, he discerned the terrain, noticing the walls were heavy with yin energy, dew frozen, damp and muddy, covered in moss.
Indeed, it's not suitable for cave exploration in the dead of night. In such pitch darkness, you might twist your ankle, and who knows what ghostly things might pop up. No wonder those two from the Wang Family planned to spend the night first and come back to retrieve the treasure at dawn.
But Huangfu Yi couldn't delay because he discovered footprints at the cave entrance.
Judging from the size and depth of the footprints, the person was slender, seemingly alone, and even barefoot. It wasn't that previous pair of a man and a woman, nor the beggar. Could it be that the unowned treasure was discovered so promptly, and someone had already gotten ahead?
