Heavenly Mother Marsh was only several thousand li from the Demonic Pattern Fierce Vein.
"Kid, this vast body of water is extremely ancient. It should have existed since the heavens first came into being, and it lies so deep within the wilderness that cultivators rarely reach it. There must be plenty of aquatic demon beasts inside. Do you want to take a look while we're passing by?" the Green Robe Old Man asked as they continued toward Heavenly Mother Marsh.
"I have no intention of delivering myself to some demon beast as a snack," Wei Suo replied directly.
He had traveled day and night, crossing the wilderness to get here. Afraid of attracting some extraordinarily powerful demon beast along the way, he had done virtually no cultivation apart from refining eight Annihilation Golden Cores and studying the Earth Mother Ancient Scripture. He had not even tried cultivating the fragments of the Heavenly Emperor Starfall Chapter he had obtained from Feng Wucang—the Northern Darkness Rotation and the Burning Essence Heaven Method.
Who knew what powerful demon beasts lurked within this ancient wilderness? Besides, he had already comprehended more than half of the tens of thousands of illustrations recorded in the Earth Mother Ancient Scripture, including the annotations to the scripture.
The more he studied it, the more he felt that this scripture contained a startling Great Dao and was anything but ordinary. Yet there remained a small portion of the illustrations that he had not examined one by one. Until then, he could not combine them with the general outline and uncover the true mysteries of the entire ancient scripture.
Meanwhile, Li Xieyi had already recited more than ninety lines of scripture, nearly two thousand characters in total, along with four complete illustrations.
There seemed to be little remaining scripture from