"Junior Sister needn't worry. Although this journey is perilous, your Senior Brother still possesses the power to protect himself.
What is more, with Taoist Qianhe here, that Six-winged Centipede is merely making a dying struggle."
Regarding Partridge Whistle's words, Zhong Bai made no comment. Although Partridge Whistle had never practiced Daoist magic and supernatural powers, his fortune was something ordinary people could not compare to.
Even without himself, that Six-winged Centipede would likely still kick the bucket in the end due to various accidents.
Thinking of this, Zhong Bai looked again at the brightly smiling Hua Ling.
If Hua Ling had only been slightly intimate with him a couple of days ago, her behavior now was a bit too obvious.
Hua Ling was only sixteen years old now, still at the age of a younger sister in Zhong Bai's eyes.
Besides, how many days had the two of them even known each other?
Of course, Mount Mao belonged to the Orthodox Unity Sect; apart from the sect leader who could not marry, other disciples could normally seek dao companions.
Wealth, companion, technique, and land—the four elements of cultivation. It was hard to say whether the factor of a dao companion was important or not...
Zhong Bai did not want to entangle his mind and expend energy on such matters. As the saying went, the Dao follows nature, and through non-action everything is achieved; for such matters, one simply had to leave them to time.
"Taoist Qianhe, the Pill Palace at the bottom of Bottle Mountain Valley has already been thoroughly cleared. The day is still early, so shall we proceed together to the mouth of the bottle to eliminate that Ancient Yuan Dynasty Corpse as well?"
Partridge Whistle continued to speak, "Of course, if Taoist Qianhe feels the timing is not right, we can also come back for a trip tomorrow."
"No matter. It is nothing more than an ancient corpse turning into a zombie. Without an evil cultivator deliberately refining it, after a thousand or a hundred years it is still difficult for it to amount to much!
Right now, this poor Taoist can go and blast it to death!"
It was not that Zhong Bai looked down on this Ancient Yuan Dynasty Corpse; Bottle Mountain itself was not a corpse-nourishing ground, but simply because it gathered the five poisons, through the sedimentation of the years, the ancient corpse naturally became a poisoned corpse, which at best could not even compare to a normal hopping zombie.
Didn't Old Master Ren in Ren Family Town, after merely twenty years, manage to transform into a hopping zombie under the manipulation of a feng shui master?
Compared with Old Master Ren, the potential of the Ancient Yuan Dynasty Corpse was far too low.
Of course, a mosquito's leg was still meat, no matter how small. Zhong Bai could look down on him, but he could not let him go...
"In that case, excellent!"
Partridge Whistle smiled without dawdling. They, the Mountain Mover Taoists, possessed special grave-seeking methods. Ever since he heard Zhong Bai speak of the structure of the Bottle Mountain great tomb, Partridge Whistle was basically able to deduce the main tomb chamber.
Along the way, the four of them each harbored their own thoughts.
Zhong Bai and Hua Ling did not banter or laugh either.
Old Foreigner always felt the atmosphere was somewhat wrong. Clearly, it hadn't been like this when Zhong Bai and his own senior brother came up just now.
But now... well, Old Foreigner was happy inside, because after all, the Junior Sister wasn't chatting and laughing with Zhong Bai, was she?
As for Hua Ling, her feelings right now were very complicated. She was naive and carefree, but her own senior brother urging Zhong Bai to continue slaying that Ancient Yuan Dynasty Corpse meant that the Muchen Pearl could not possibly exist in this place.
Her own senior brother obviously wanted to end the Bottle Mountain trip sooner. Perhaps tomorrow would be the day she and her fellow senior apprentices said goodbye to Zhong Bai.
Faced with such a fact, Hua Ling only felt a trace of faint disappointment.
Yet at the same time, she was not one of those young misses who only talked about romance and love; she was also a Mountain Mover Taoist, and understood the huge gap between herself and Zhong Bai.
To love others, one must first love oneself; self-strengthening draws the fragrant bees.
At this moment, a thought called self-improvement was planted deep inside the heart of this girl, Hua Ling.
The mouth of the Bottle Mountain bottle was actually located at the waist of the peak, and the mouth was where the poisonous Qi vent was situated.
Poisonous fog swirled around, and ordinary people truly had no way to deal with the tomb chamber.
However, for Partridge Whistle, who had traveled far and wide, solving this problem was quite easy.
"The fog of the five poisons should be resolved with pure Yang."
With that, Partridge Whistle entered the dense forest. In a short while, he returned with a thoroughly soaked piece of cloth covering his mouth and nose.
Until he drew close to Zhong Bai, Zhong Bai finally understood what Partridge Whistle meant by resolving it with pure Yang—that's right, virgin boy's urine...
Cough cough, the gaze Zhong Bai cast toward Partridge Whistle was somewhat strange. Partridge Whistle was a man of twenty or thirty, yet he was still a virgin chicken, which was truly somewhat hard to bear.
"Taoist Qianhe?"
Partridge Whistle wanted to remind Zhong Bai to learn from him like this so he could dispel the poisonous fog.
Yet Zhong Bai merely shook his head.
"Brother Partridge, what Mount Mao is also famous for is its talismanic formations. Although this poor Taoist is untalented, I still possess a few poison-dispelling talismans to keep me company. Virgin boy's urine is good, but this poor Taoist still prefers the talismans in my hand.
Many thanks for Brother Partridge's kind reminder."
Zhong Bai cupped his fists, and his evaluation of Partridge Whistle rose a notch in his gaze. Unsaid, he was resolute yet unconstrained by trivialities; truly worthy of a protagonist!
Hearing Zhong Bai's explanation, even with Partridge Whistle's steady state of mind, the corners of his mouth twitched wildly. So it turned out he had simply been making a fool of himself?
But soon a wave of melancholy washed over him. There really was a gap between disciples of major sects and outcasts like them.
They used every kind of mutual generation and restraint to the absolute limit, while a disciple of a major sect could avoid these difficult problems with just a single talisman.
Envious? It was hard for Partridge Whistle to say he wasn't envious of Zhong Bai, yet he also understood that envy was useless.
This time, heading to the tomb chamber of the Ancient Yuan Dynasty Corpse was still just the two of them, Zhong Bai and Partridge Whistle.
Originally, Zhong Bai had wanted to go alone to quickly blast it into slag and settle the matter.
However...
This fellow Partridge Whistle was extremely stubborn. Zhong Bai knew that the other party still hadn't given up on the Muchen Pearl, so he simply let him be.
The speed of the two was very fast. With the fog of the five poisons posing no threat, they quickly arrived at the cave entrance.
Looking inward through the entrance, it was pitch black, but the general structure of the tomb chamber could still be vaguely distinguished.
Partridge Whistle wasted no words, entering the tomb chamber first, and immediately pulled a fire starter from his bosom to light it up and illuminate the tomb chamber.
The location of the tomb chamber was originally modified from a natural cave, so it looked exceptionally spacious.
Zhong Bai swept his gaze across the entire tomb chamber, and his first impression was that it was poor. Logically speaking, this Ancient Yuan Dynasty Corpse, having been a general, shouldn't have been so shabby.
Arriving inside the tomb chamber, there truly were no burial objects to speak of, and only the coffin looked somewhat stylish.
The entire body was crafted from white stone, and the exterior was exquisitely carved. Even separated by dozens of meters, Zhong Bai had already smelled the corpse poison emitted by the ancient corpse inside the coffin.
"Brother Partridge, although this ancient corpse has turned into a zombie, its strength is ordinary. However, its corpse poison is still rather troublesome, so Brother Partridge only needs to watch the battle from the side in a moment."
With that, Zhong Bai walked straight up to the coffin. The Qi and blood within his body surged, and with a fierce heave of his right hand against the coffin lid, the thousand-jin heavy lid was directly blown away, landing a few meters away and shattering into countless small pieces.
And inside the coffin, the ancient corpse that had been lying there quite peacefully also sensed the arrival of danger.
Its eyes snapped open, and just as it was about to rise as a corpse, it saw a streak of lightning shoot straight into the center of its brows.
In an instant, the lightning pulverized its head, and the hands that were still raised halfway down limply.
Everything happened far too quickly. Partridge Whistle had expected a scene comparable to fighting the Six-winged Centipede, and had consciously hidden far away.
He hadn't expected that with just a single exchange, it would all be over...
Slew one poisoned corpse, acquired 50 exorcism points, current exorcism points: 300
"Brother Partridge, the ancient corpse has been destroyed. As for whether there is anything Brother Partridge needs in this tomb chamber, you will simply have to search for it yourself."
"Naturally!"
After Partridge Whistle cupped his fists, he immediately began to search carefully through the tomb chamber. Even without the Muchen Pearl, if he could find other good things, the Bottle Mountain trip would still not be considered a loss.
As for Zhong Bai himself, he pulled out a blazing flame talisman and tossed it into the coffin. In an instant, flames soared into the sky, illuminating the entire tomb chamber.
Glancing at the few burial porcelain jars beside the coffin, Zhong Bai did not disdain them either, casually taking them along and placing them inside the Cosmic Ring.
In just a dozen short minutes, Partridge Whistle, who had returned empty-handed and disappointed, came back together with Zhong Bai, who was laden with rewards.
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