Chapter 79

This time, Lu Buqi did not let her kneel again, but held her delicate hands: "Don't kneel so easily in the future. Also, whether in public or in private, you don't need to call me Master. Just call me Buqi."

Upon hearing this, Bu Hui looked at Long Buli somewhat at a loss. The latter smiled lightly: "Sister Bu Hui, just listen to Buqi. As long as you regard him as your master in your heart, the title doesn't matter. How about you call him Big Brother from now on? After all, our names sound like siblings."

As Lu Buqi nodded, Bu Hui smiled charmingly: "Big Brother!"

This ordinary title warmed Lu Buqi's heart. He found that Bu Hui's voice was even more melodious than Long Buli's.

"Hehe, Buqi, how about I also call you Big Brother?" Long Buli thought of it on the spot.

Lu Buqi glanced at her and smiled bitterly: "I don't mind if Bu Hui calls me Big Brother. She is a mystical beast, and compared to her long lifespan, living for a hundred years is like ten years for us humans. But you are human. If you are older than me, calling me Big Brother might shorten my life."

Long Buli was taken aback: "Buqi, you're not even nineteen yet, right?"

"Are you nineteen?" Lu Buqi pinched his nose lightly: "Then don't call me Big Brother. Even if we count in nominal years, I'm only sixteen."

"Ah?" Long Buli was clearly surprised: "I can't tell at all..."

"I just look a bit older!" Lu Buqi didn't take it to heart: "So just call me Buqi."

"Then you call me Sister, and I call you Little Brother?" Long Buli lightly brushed her peach-shaped bangs and looked at Lu Buqi seriously.

"I don't have the habit of calling people Sister!" Lu Buqi was embarrassed. Although he had only lived for fifteen and a half years in this life, he had lived for over twenty years in his previous life, which was enough to make him her uncle. Besides, calling him Little Brother? Didn't that have a very different connotation on Earth?

"Hmph, I don't care anyway!" Long Buli was somewhat displeased and pulled Bu Hui: "Bu Hui, I think it's a great fate that we met because of a treasure map, and you also transformed into a human form like me. Why don't we become sworn sisters?"

Bu Hui was a bit hesitant: "Sister Buli, what about Master?"

"Leave him out. He just wants to be your Big Brother, not my little brother." Long Buli pouted: "It's settled. You become my sworn sister, and we'll be real sisters from now on."

Bu Hui looked at Lu Buqi, clearly waiting for his agreement. The latter shrugged: "If you don't mind, I'll just be a witness."

There were no rituals like drinking chicken blood or kneeling to the heavens and earth. Long Buli and Bu Hui just hugged, and then they were sisters. Because of their extremely similar appearances, they really looked like real sisters.

"Wow... I have a super powerful mystical beast as a sister!" Long Buli looked at Lu Buqi: "Even if there's nothing in this cave, this trip is still worth it..."

Long Buli seemed to be savoring the feeling of getting a sister after a false alarm. When she looked at Lu Buqi, her eyes suddenly changed: "You're even luckier, having my sister as a slave... Hmph, you better not bully her, or else... you'll be in trouble."

A few black lines appeared on Lu Buqi's forehead. How did this sound like something a mother-in-law would say to her son-in-law? He shook his head, collected his thoughts, and looked at the cave beside him: "Bu Hui, you should be quite familiar with this cave, right?"

Bu Hui replied: "This was my cave before I transformed into a human. However, before I found this place, it was likely a hermit's cave. I discovered it by chance when the restriction was broken."

"Wow... it's really a hermit's cave. Buqi, we're rich." Long Buli was excited and had already entered the cave.

Lu Buqi was somewhat helpless and looked at Bu Hui: "Did you find any relics inside?"

Bu Hui shook her head: "This is a natural cave, but the hermit dug a stone room deep inside. The entrance was too narrow for me to enter without transforming, so I didn't explore it. I don't know if anyone else has explored it before me."

"Alright, lead the way. Let's take a look. If we find something, it will be lucky!" Lu Buqi spoke and entered the cave with Bu Hui.

As they entered the cave, a cool breeze hit them. After walking about ten meters, the light dimmed. Just as Lu Buqi was about to go out to get a torch, Bu Hui released her mystic pearl, which emitted a soft pink light, illuminating his vision.

"What a huge cave!" Lu Buqi was really surprised. He thought it was just a winding cave, but it turned out to be a vast underground world. Under the pink light of the mystic pearl, his field of vision expanded significantly. The cave was like an underground palace.

Just the spacious entrance with its rugged rocks and stalactites covered an area of several hundred square meters, and the terrain was treacherous, with the sound of water coming from the dark crevices.

Lu Buqi looked up and found that the cave was at least twenty zhang (about 60 meters) high, which did not make him feel oppressed. On the contrary, the air inside the cave was fresh, and compared to the heat outside, it was a perfect place to escape the summer heat.

"Master... Big Brother Buqi, this cave is connected to an underground river, extending over ten thousand meters. The terrain is treacherous, and the naturally formed passages are like a maze. Some of the dark channels are over a hundred meters deep, so be careful!" Bu Hui, like a professional tour guide, gave detailed reminders.

Following Bu Hui, Lu Buqi looked around and found that the cave was filled with strange rocks, stalactites, and other formations, creating a breathtaking landscape. If this were in his previous life, it would at least be a national AAAA-level scenic area. In some places, the chasms were so wide that Lu Buqi had to use a rope to jump and climb over them.

Every time, Lu Buqi couldn't help but wonder where Long Buli had gone in the dark. Had she fallen into a chasm?

After several twists and turns, as Lu Buqi's feelings grew stronger, they arrived at a stone door with obvious signs of human excavation.

The stone door emitted a gentle light, and Bu Hui retracted her mystic pearl: "Big Brother Buqi, this is it."

Lu Buqi examined the stone door and found that it was a central pivot type. Due to the passage of time, the stone door was stuck and could not be moved without great force. The gap on either side was just enough for a person to squeeze through, which explained why her original form could not enter.

"Are you just getting here?" When Lu Buqi entered the stone room and saw a large night pearl, Long Buli's voice came from inside: "Buqi, if you had come any later, I would have taken everything for myself."

Seeing Long Buli emerge from another stone room, Lu Buqi said pointedly: "You're really quick. I thought you had fallen into a chasm. This cave is full of twists and turns, and there are many forks. How did you not get lost?"

"Who do you think I am? A treasure hunter who roams the world. If I didn't have a good sense of treasure, what would I be doing?" Long Buli was proud: "What did you see outside? Apart from a broken night pearl, everything else is rotten. Come inside and take a look."

"Broken night pearl?" Lu Buqi wiped his sweat. This little treasure hunter, Long Buli, had a big heart. The night pearl was over four inches in diameter, large and bright, yet she made it sound worthless.

However, Long Buli was right about the outer stone room. It was simple, and the wooden or vine-made tools had long rotted, with signs of mold, though the mold seemed to have died out long ago.

If the outer room was considered a hall, then it was a standard three-bedroom, one-living room layout. The excavation marks were not very neat, but this did not diminish Lu Buqi's curiosity.

Lu Buqi entered the first room, where Long Buli had poked her head out and then disappeared. He was surprised to find that it was clearly the owner's bedroom.

A stone bed, a stone pillow, a stone table, and another large night pearl, that was all. Long Buli was standing by the stone table, seemingly flipping through something.