The lake wasn't much big however the waterfall was quite big as the water probably descended from the top of top cliff of the Dark Moon Peak, the water was probably spring water too.
As Jiang Jing neared the waterfall, the splashing sound of water falling onto the stone made splattering noise, after activating a water repelling spell, Jiang Jing Jing smoothly crossed over the waterfall with ease.
The cliff from which the water was falling came into view, it had a hallowed out entrance and was filled with water hence Jiang Jing Jing has to continue rafting inside the cave.
The cave opened inside to form a huge open area however now there were five different paths here each leading to a different cave.
After confirming the right path with the mystic key she took the second path to the right and started rowing her boat inside the cave.
She was more than two miles away from the cave entrance however the water was still not receding a bit.
After journeying for more than a mile she sent the Rusty sword to scout the area for her.
It can be said that the rusty sword was really good at scouting its annoying voice came inside Jiang Jing's head,"Master master i found the vault."
Jiang Jing Jing rowed to where the sword was waiting for her but other than a dead end she could find nothing, however the Mystic Key was pointing that the vault was here, she checked the wall however could not find any secret lever or mark to confirm that it was the vault.
The Rusty sword seeing its master's ignorance rolled its eyes,"Master how can you be so stupid, look below the water you will find the entrance there."
Sure enough just as Jiang Jing looked below she found a mar just like the shape of the mystic key glowing faintly in a blue light.
She summoned the mystic key out and the pattern on the key also started glowing faintly as if waiting for her command to be of use.
Jiang Jing Jing dived inside the water and inserted the mystic key inside the hollow space, the mystic key was shaped in a pattern of a lotus and currently it came alive its leave glowing a faint white blue color and dancing in light.
however even after glowing for a while the vault did not open, Jiang Jing Jing frowned after seeing that it really was waiting for something.
Jiang Jing Jing suddenly remembered something and with her consciousness commanded the key,"open up."
soon a rumbling sound echoed throughout the cave, even the walls and the floor below started trembling and the wall in front of them opened a passageway for one person to enter.
One person and one sword entered the passageway before it closed behind them Jiang Jing Jing summoned the mystic key back into her consciousness.
it was probably a one way route and they will have to exit through another route, the inside of the vault was surprisingly huge.
even the sword felt its jaw drop after looking at the content of the vault.
The vault was full of high quality spirit stones, some rare spiritual herbs which were growing with vibrancy, if Jiang Jing Jing was right each of these spiritual herbs were more than thousand year old and maybe older.
Suddenly Jiang Jing Jing saw the the rusty sword was looking shocked silly and when she saw what made it silly even her heart skipped a beat.
'ah ah, wasn't this a soil spirit.'
"Its a soil spirit?" she looked at the cute child who was sleeping on what appeared to be an eight colored orchid the size of a palm leaf, the child was small and wearing a white cloth all over its body, it certainly looked like a three year old little it, while the breath it emitted was so pure and refreshing as if all the cells in her body felt reinvigorated and she might sprout roots just like these millennium old plants in this vault.
certainly this was not a vault but a paradise created by this little spiritual being, the soil of this place was different, black with a dark purplish hue to it almost like a deep purple plum.
After coming out of its shock the rusty sword found its voice and said,"It is not just any soil spirit but just like the pure breath of spiritual Qi this is actually the pure breath soil, capable of growing almost anything even a common vegetable into a high quality spiritual fruit."
"Finally i saw a real pure breath soil on this lower realm, truly what an eye opener." exclaimed the sword then it looked at Jiang Jing Jing and spoke.
"If we ask this little guy to just give us a tiny clump of its soil, we can grow a lot of high quality spiritual herbs and then later you can make them into elixirs." the sword spoke with a shine in its eyes.
He knew this little girl was an alchemist the moment she came in the dark mist trade center, certainly him giving her that warm feeling was for her to choose him,'hehehe, he can be smart when the occasion arose.'
seeing that this old sword just wanted to eat through her pocked, Jiang Jing Jing ignored it and reluctantly poked the sleeping child on the cheek,'ah, so soft, so cute, this little guy felt so squishy and nice to touch, suddenly Jiang Jing Jing started pinching the little guys cheeks both both hands.
"AHH , stupid master, don't pinch it. its a pure breath soil that too in spirit form, what if it gets angry, we are in his territory, forget about getting a pinch of soil, he will turn you into fertilizer for its soil." came the horrified voice of the sword spirit.
looking at its, idiot master's antics really scared it to death, Jiang Jing Jing also stopped pinching the little guy on the cheeks, after the sudden reminder by the sword spirit, after all she knew better than other what pure breath of spiritual can do.
However the little guy already woke up from its deep slumber due to the disturbance, it was not Jiang Jing Jing's incessant pinching that woke him up but the irresistible fragrance from her that made it wake from him thousand year old deep sleep.
Yes, this little guy was sleeping here for almost a thousand years now.
He woke up and looked around in confusion, he certainly didn't remember the place as due to its presence this barren cave has now turned into a paradise, actually how he got here he didn't know but he was aware that he has been sleeping here since he remembered.
Then he focused its eye on the girl in front of her and his eye lit up,"Ya ya ya ya."
it babbled out a few words and slid down from the orchid petals to come near Jiang Jing Jing and started dancing around her.
"What is it saying." she asked the old rusty sword spirit, not understanding the language of the little guy dancing in front of her.