"Young man, do not harm it; it is my tomb guardian beast."
Hearing this, Jun Mohan stopped what he was doing, dismounted from the Snow Flood Dragon, and the Snow Flood Dragon also became still.
"May I ask who you are, senior?" Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli asked in unison.
The King and Queen of Leng did not receive a response from the mysterious person.
The little snow fox answered on behalf of the mysterious person.
"He is my former master, the Lonely Boat Elder! He passed away over two hundred years ago. There should only be a wisp of his residual primordial spirit in the tomb," the little snow fox said with red eyes.
"Yes, the little snow fox is right. I only have a wisp of weak primordial spirit left here, waiting for a destined person to inherit my legacy. Little maiden, this destined person is you." The Lonely Boat Elder spoke slowly.
"Why do you say I am the destined person to inherit your legacy, and not him?" Leng Ruoli asked, pointing at Jun Mohan with a face full of confusion.
"Although this young man is also very good, he is not a practitioner of medicine and is not suitable to inherit my legacy," the Lonely Boat Elder explained directly.
"So, senior, you are also a medical practitioner. No wonder," Leng Ruoli said in surprise.
"The 'Compendium of Materia Medica' you carry is the book I wrote," the Lonely Boat Elder added.
"Huh? How did you know I have a copy of the 'Compendium of Materia Medica' ancient medical book?" Leng Ruoli was shocked.
"The moment you stepped into the cave, I opened my heavenly eye and saw everything in your spatial dimension. To test if you were a qualified successor, I closed your spatial dimension. Little maiden, do you think I know? Although your current abilities are relatively weak, my primordial spirit does not have much time left in this world, so I cannot be too picky about my successor. Little maiden, I choose you as my successor. Snow Flood Dragon, let them in." The Lonely Boat Elder said weakly.
Leng Ruoli was stunned after hearing the Lonely Boat Elder. This senior could not only see things in her spatial dimension but also close it. It was truly astonishing and unbelievable.
As for the Snow Flood Dragon, after hearing the Lonely Boat Elder's words, its body slowly shrank, eventually transforming into a silver-white small snake. The ice sculptures on the tomb door instantly melted, and a stone door carved with the Lonely Boat Elder's name slowly opened.
Seeing the small white snake slowly moving on the ground, the little snow fox immediately remembered who it was. Wasn't this its former master's mount, Bai Bing?
"Bai Bing, you rascal, you actually spewed fire at me just now. If I don't beat you up today, I'm not called Snow Fox." The little snow fox, with a fierce yet cute tone, stretched out its two paws, ready to tear Bai Bing apart.
"You little seductive fox, how dare you say that? We clearly agreed back then to guard the tomb in this ice palace for the master for a lifetime, yet you ran away." Bai Bing said unpleasantly.
"Who told you I ran away? I was sent out by the master using a teleportation array, okay?" the little snow fox retorted indignantly.
"You two beasts, stop arguing and follow your new master inside. I have something to tell you," the Lonely Boat Elder said to the two beasts outside the tomb door.
"Yes, Master!" Hearing this, Bai Bing and the Snow Fox replied respectfully.
Then, the two beasts followed Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan into the Lonely Boat Elder's tomb.
As the King and Queen of Leng entered the tomb, their eyes immediately lit up. The Lonely Boat Elder's tomb was like a treasure trove, filled with gold, silver, jewelry, and all sorts of valuable items. Leng Ruoli counted over a hundred chests.
The Lonely Boat Elder's corpse was in a small pavilion covered with straw. At this moment, only a dried skeleton draped in tattered clothes sat upright on a wooden chair.
As the Lonely Boat Elder knew Leng Ruoli had entered, a wisp of white smoke emerged from his skeleton. This wisp of smoke instantly transformed into an old man with white hair, white eyebrows, and a white beard, dressed in a white long robe, looking like an immortal.
"Little maiden, if you acknowledge me as your master, all this gold, silver, jewelry, and the herbs in the medicinal field outside the tomb will be yours, and all my internal energy and martial arts will be passed on to you," the Lonely Boat Elder tempted.
"Is that true? If I acknowledge you as my master, everything in this tomb will be mine?" Leng Ruoli asked, her face full of doubt.
"Yes!"
The Lonely Boat Elder nodded.
Hearing this, Leng Ruoli rejoiced in her heart. Her apricot eyes, like glazed glass, fixed on the gold and silver treasures in the tomb, her pupils darting around. This was a once-in-a-thousand-years fortuitous encounter!
However, she did not know that her small movements had completely fallen into the Lonely Boat Elder's eyes. But he just smiled and shook his head.
Alas, his little disciple was quite clever and quirky. Looking at her clear and bright big eyes, she was lovable. It seemed she was also a wise and kind-hearted little maiden. It appeared his primordial spirit had not waited in vain for over two hundred and ninety years. He, the Lonely Boat Elder, had finally found a precious disciple.
"Alright, Senior Lonely Boat, I promise you, I will acknowledge you as my master." Leng Ruoli pretended to sound very reluctant.
"Heh heh..."
The Lonely Boat Elder chuckled upon hearing Leng Ruoli's words.
"Little maiden, you won't regret acknowledging me as your master," the Lonely Boat Elder guaranteed.
"Then let's see what skills you can impart to me?" Leng Ruoli raised an eyebrow.
"Little maiden, come here and kowtow three times to my remains. I will now impart all my internal energy and martial arts to you," the Lonely Boat Elder said to Leng Ruoli with a smile.
Leng Ruoli did as the Lonely Boat Elder instructed. She walked to his remains, forcefully kowtowed three times, and then stood up.
"Little disciple, what is your name?" the Lonely Boat Elder asked.
"Master, my name is Leng Ruoli," Leng Ruoli replied.
As she finished speaking, the Lonely Boat Elder nodded.
"This jade gemstone ring in my hand, I will pass it on to you. You must take good care of it. From today onwards, you are my disciple, the disciple of the Lonely Boat Elder."
With that, the ring on the Lonely Boat Elder's remains instantly appeared on Leng Ruoli's right index finger.
Before Leng Ruoli could react, the Lonely Boat Elder's primordial spirit suddenly unleashed a force, lifting Leng Ruoli into the air in the middle of the tomb. Then, the Lonely Boat Elder continuously infused her with internal energy and martial arts.
Jun Mohan, standing by the side, watched the stream of internal energy pouring into Leng Ruoli from the Lonely Boat Elder in the air, a stream as brilliant and colorful as a rainbow. He was filled with envy.
This Lonely Boat Elder's internal energy was truly formidable. To cultivate his internal energy into a rainbow indicated that he had practiced for at least fifty years or more. This time, his Lier had truly encountered a great fortune.
Once his Lier acquired the Lonely Boat Elder's internal energy and martial power, as long as she diligently converted the internal energy passed down by the Lonely Boat Elder to her own use, her martial arts would surely surpass his, Jun Mohan's, in the future.