Mortal: I can unlock the card pool by becoming an apprentice to him.

When Lin Mo returned to his room, it was already broad daylight outside.

After closing the door, he focused all his attention on the dusty little cloth bag in his hand.

Just as Lin Mo had guessed, the unknown key he drew from Doctor Mo's card pool was indeed used to open the mansion's secret vault.

No one expected that the Mo family's secret vault would be hidden in a seemingly abandoned storeroom.

Without a key, even if it can be forcibly opened, it will make quite a noise.

As Lin Mo thought about it, he couldn't help but show a hint of joy.

This infiltration of the secret vault was quite fruitful.

Besides a few martial arts manuals that are quite rare among ordinary people, the secret vault was also filled with all sorts of strange and wonderful "treasures".

The shelves were piled high with a dazzling array of items, including a luminous pearl the size of a pigeon egg in a brocade box, aged ginseng and herbs, dozens of exquisitely framed scrolls of calligraphy and paintings by famous artists, and so on. It was truly an eye-opening experience.

Among them was a jade-faced golden Buddha...

The storage bag in his hand was placed below the jade-faced golden Buddha, and it looked inconspicuous at all.

Lin Mo certainly wouldn't stand on ceremony with his master, and he figured Doctor Mo wouldn't have any objections.

He immediately put all the treasures into his storage bag.

These rare treasures, which are something that ordinary people can only dream of, don't have much practical significance for him, but if he could just exchange them for silver, it would be enough for him to do three or four more ten-pulls.

In this way, the process of turning herbs into money can be slowed down a bit.

He had just been in the secret vault, and the surrounding environment was dark, so he hadn't had a chance to carefully examine what was inside the storage bag.

The door was closed, and the room was quiet and undisturbed.

Lin Mo then calmed down and slowly began to check what else was in the storage bag.

After a while.

"The owner of this storage bag must be incredibly poor..."

He weighed the bag in his hand, looking at it strangely.

Besides about a hundred fist-sized spirit stones, there was only a yellowed map with some unknown markings and a jade slip with a restriction.

The restrictions on the jade slip were extremely profound, and Lin Mo dared not act rashly. He could only put it away and wait for a way to deal with it later.

As for the magical artifacts and talismans he had imagined, he didn't see any of them.

According to my master's wife, the owner of this storage bag must have encountered a powerful enemy and was being chased, which makes sense.

Lin Mo was not greedy.

For the sect leader of Changfeng Sect to be able to exchange for so many things was already an unexpected surprise for him.

He had just put the storage bag away when the knocking on the door began.

"Senior brother, are you there? We've found out everything about what you arranged last time!"

Han Li's voice came from outside the door.

"Oh? So fast."

Lin Mo casually replied, then opened the door and welcomed the two in.

He had previously instructed Han Li and Zhang Tie to inquire about Tai Nan Mountain within the city, but he did not expect that the matter would make progress so quickly.

"By the way, senior brother, where did you go yesterday? Tie Ge and I came to look for you last night, but we found no one in the house, so we went back first."

After entering the room, Han Li looked around before continuing to speak.

"Senior brother, guess what? We encountered other cultivators in the city yesterday."

Zhang Tie and Han Li must have just woken up, their faces still showing signs of fatigue, but their eyes were full of excitement.

"I had some business to attend to yesterday and went out of the city. By the way, did you meet any other cultivators? What happened?"

Lin Mo asked calmly, his gaze fixed on the two of them, waiting for them to explain in detail.

"Well, at first, Brother Tie and I gathered information at the inns in the city. Tai Nan Mountain, which you mentioned, is easy to find; it's located in the southern part of Lanzhou, about forty li west of Guanggui City. Later..."

"What happened next?"

"When my friend Tie and I were having tea at a tea stall, we happened to see a shifty-looking man sneaking into the purse of a woman buying groceries nearby, taking advantage of the crowd!"

Han Li continued vividly, "We were afraid of causing trouble, so we didn't dare to make a fuss. We used a telekinesis technique to put the purse back. Haha, senior brother, you didn't see it. The man's expression was like he had seen a ghost."

Zhang Tie, who was standing to the side, scratched his head and picked up the conversation, his face showing a hint of belated regret: "It's just that neither Xiao Lizi nor I noticed that there was a cultivator sitting by the window on the second floor of the inn, and that person witnessed everything we did."

"and then?"

Lin Mo asked subconsciously.

"The old man didn't seem like a bad person; he had a kind face. He first asked us where we were from and whether we had come with our elders. We were careful and didn't tell him. Then the old man left."

"Can you tell what level of cultivation this old man has?"

Lin Mo frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice.

"His cultivation level... he's at the same level as us, the fifth level of Qi Refining." Han Li and Zhang Tie exchanged a glance and said in unison.

"As you've just entered the world of cultivation, there are some things you must remember. The world of cultivation is full of hidden talents and all sorts of things can happen. You were lucky yesterday; if you had encountered a cultivator with malicious intentions, the consequences would have been..."

Lin Mo warned in a serious tone.

"We understand, senior brother."

Seeing Han Li and Zhang Tie nod solemnly, Lin Mo said no more and waved for them to leave.

According to the original novel, there should still be some time before the Tai Nan Small Gathering begins, so why are cultivators appearing in the city now?

He pondered for a while and concluded that since the other party's cultivation level was not high, they must have stumbled upon this matter unintentionally, so there was no need to pay attention to it.

After a moment, Lin Mo cleared his mind of distractions, sat cross-legged, and held a spirit stone he had just taken out of his storage bag in his hand.

According to the book, the reason why spirit stones can become a form of currency among cultivators is because they contain pure spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

He had previously experienced the cultivation method of using pills as an aid, and now that he had spirit stones in hand, he wanted to try using them to see what the difference was between the two methods.

Immediately, Lin Mo closed his eyes and circulated his cultivation technique, guiding the spiritual energy in the spirit stone to slowly flow into his dantian along his meridians.

The spiritual energy flowed gently and smoothly throughout my body, bringing an indescribable sense of comfort.

But before half an incense stick's time had passed, the spirit stone in his hand suddenly made a "crack" sound and then split into two pieces.

"So that's how it is... Compared to pills, spirit stones don't have the limitation of drug resistance, but their effects are far inferior to the former."

Lin Mo shook his head, already knowing the difference between the two.

Then, he took out the pills he had previously refined and put them in his mouth to continue his cultivation.

During his stay at the Mo residence, Lin Mo unknowingly slowed down his cultivation progress.

No wonder cultivators all seek a quiet place to cultivate; it turns out that worldly affairs are truly beyond one's control.