Poisonous, Definitely Poisonous

Poisonous, Definitely Poisonous

The amount of Crimson Sun Poison Dragon Saliva kept dwindling, while the area bearing Li Changshou's tracks grew ever wider.

He found nothing in the area recorded in the ancient book, and nothing in the area around the Treasure Forest of Chaotic Miasma.

Three days after casually rescuing Youqin Xuanya, Li Changshou still had not found any Immortal-Resolving Grass. Instead, as he ventured deeper into the Northern Continent of Julu, he harvested quite a few useful poisonous herbs and Spiritual Medicines.

He had even caught two precious Corpse Burning Bugs, which he could bring back and refine into Corpse Calcination Powder. His methods for disposing of corpses had now increased to twelve.

Though he felt somewhat vexed, he never forgot that he was in a dangerous place like the Northern Continent of Julu. His vigilance never waned.

Logically speaking, though Immortal-Resolving Grass was precious, it was an unusual kind of poisonous herb that few people would need.

The areas he had searched all matched the growing conditions required by Immortal-Resolving Grass, yet he could not find even a single seedling...

How strange.

Had the decades he had desperately squeezed out between cultivation sessions to study Poison Scriptures and medicinal tomes all been for nothing?

Sure enough, Master's luck is just too bad.

Li Changshou could only console himself like this, dispel the unwillingness in his heart, and begin considering when to return.

Another two hundred li west!

If he still could not find it, he would have to give up and check whether the town sold any Immortal-Resolving Grass... though the hope was even slimmer.

Striding swiftly onward, Li Changshou left afterimages in his wake as he set out to complete this final stretch of his search.

After searching fifty li, he found nothing.

After searching a hundred li, he circled through every nearby area where Immortal-Resolving Grass might grow, yet found no trace of it. He did, however, unexpectedly harvest several precious Spiritual Medicines for concocting Soft Immortal Powder...

Look at that. The poisonous herbs he used were lining up to run into his Storage Magic Tool, while he could not find so much as a hair of the poisonous herb his master needed.

That was probably the difference between character and temperament.

Without Immortal-Resolving Grass, he naturally could not refine the Melting Immortal Pill. This path was blocked.

Fortunately, he had already devised Backup Plan Two and Backup Plan Three. Though neither was as reliable as the Melting Immortal Pill, they could at least help his master somewhat.

Bzz—

The Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth fluctuated. Someone was fighting with spells.

Li Changshou immediately sent his spiritual awareness toward the source of the disturbance, but the miasma ahead was too thick, and the poisonous gas was also churning. As a result, his effective scouting range was only a little over twenty li.

The battle was taking place thirty li away. His spiritual awareness caught several figures darting and shifting...

Was he about to enter the area where those "independent cultivators" operated?

Many Qi Refiners were active along the border of the Northern Continent of Julu. They would generally venture several thousand li into the Northern Continent of Julu in search of precious exotic flowers and fruits, bartering them for cultivation resources.

For example, Ci Jiu, whom he had previously counterkilled, had already cultivated to the Dao Attainment Realm. When he did not have dirty jobs to do, he too relied on this sort of hard labor to earn cultivation resources.

Li Changshou immediately felt like retreating.

He stopped and hid behind a rock, pondering carefully.

He had already searched the area recorded in the ancient book, and Qi Refiners were fighting in the direction he intended to go. If he did not retreat now, when would he?

As the saying went, a gentleman did not stand beneath a dangerous wall. This trip to the Northern Continent of Julu could only end in regret...

Li Changshou suddenly jolted awake!

His spread-out spiritual awareness had happened to catch sight of three unremarkable little green grasses swaying gently atop a cliff twenty-three li to the northwest!

They resembled Orchid Grass, but were much shorter. Their leaves bore strange patterns, and each plant was wrapped in a faint glow.

Immortal-Resolving Grass!

Immortal-Resolving Grass that could poison a Primordial Immortal to death and grievously wound a True Immortal's primordial spirit!

And judging from the number of Demonic Markings on them, the one in the center was at least three thousand years old, while the accompanying grasses on either side were over a thousand years old as well!

Li Changshou nearly sprang out from behind the rock.

But he immediately recited the Heart Calming Incantation, rapidly calming himself down. The herbs were not in hand yet; he could not celebrate too soon.

Stay calm. He could only celebrate a little after obtaining the herbs and safely leaving the Northern Continent of Julu...

No, that was not right. Refining pills was also quite troublesome. At the very least, he should wait until he returned to the mountain and successfully refined the Melting Immortal Pill before being happy.

Let's do this!

Using Earth Evasion, Li Changshou headed straight for the Immortal-Resolving Grass underground. At the same time, his spiritual awareness spread through the earth as he analyzed the surroundings of the Immortal-Resolving Grass.

There was a bare Old Cypress Tree beside the Immortal-Resolving Grass... mm, he could switch from Earth Evasion to Wood Release and approach the Immortal-Resolving Grass.

But poisonous herbs several thousand years old were definitely great nourishment for poisonous beasts. There could not possibly be no guardian nearby.

Sure enough, Li Changshou quickly discovered a Three-eyed Green Wave Snake.

The snake was hiding sinisterly beneath the cliff and even knew how to conceal its aura. Its thirty-foot-long body blended into the rocks, its fine emerald scales giving off an eerie gleam.

If Li Changshou had not searched inch by inch, he would not have discovered this venomous creature that had merged with its surroundings.

A fleshy lump had already swollen in the middle of the Three-eyed Green Wave Snake's head. It looked rather indecent and easily led one toward some rather bold thoughts.

Its triangular snake head had begun to lengthen, and its body was thicker than that of an ordinary snake.

—It was clearly on the verge of Transforming into a Dragon to Ascend.

The oldest Immortal-Resolving Grass was likely the key to its transformation, but its toxic medicinal power was not potent enough yet.

It won't be easy to deal with.

Li Changshou also noticed many white bones beneath the cliff, quite a few of them human skeletons...

He could not fight head-on. He had to outwit it.

This poisonous creature on the verge of becoming immortal was extremely powerful. It was already a highly venomous demonic beast, and though he carried nine poisons with different effects that could threaten ordinary Primordial Immortals, they would all be useless against it.

With the spells he had mastered, he might not necessarily lose in a direct fight, but the surrounding environment was too dangerous, filled with unstable factors everywhere...

How could he outwit it?

Use Wood Release to get there, pull the grass, and run?

Most snake-like ferocious beasts were extremely agile. That plan was clearly no good.

As Li Changshou rapidly traveled through the earth, he fell into thought and quickly came up with more than ten plans.

As the Immortal-Resolving Grass he had dreamed of drew closer and closer, Li Changshou's spiritual awareness also detected the battle farther away. He focused his gaze, then could not help having his breath surge backward. He coughed a few times in the dirt and nearly turned around to leave immediately.

Why had he run into her again...

Was this Youqin Xuanya poisonous or something? She might as well change her name to Poisonous Xuan Ya...

He had drawn her a map and told her to head southwest. How had she ended up here?

She was a full two thousand li away from where she was supposed to be!

Li Changshou's mouth twitched a few times as he felt that, for some inexplicable reason, he had stumbled upon a blind spot in his understanding...

"Hmm? One of the people chasing her has an immortal's pressure?"

A spark of inspiration flashed through Li Changshou's mind. His spiritual awareness followed the pursuit and battle over there, and he suddenly came up with a plan to outwit the Three Immortal-Resolving Grasses.

Thinking about it carefully, if a battle had not broken out in this direction, he would never have discovered these three Immortal-Resolving Grasses.

And based on his previous route plan, he most likely would not have searched this location.

From that perspective, he really had to thank "Poisonous Xuan Ya" this time.

"I saved you last time, and I'll make a little use of you this time. That makes us even."

Li Changshou muttered, paused briefly underground, and used Earth Evasion once more.

He unleashed his full mana while desperately suppressing the fluctuations of his aura. Swiftly and soundlessly, he crept near the cliff and began observing the people pursuing Youqin Xuanya.

At this moment, flaming flying swords circled Youqin Xuanya as she floated in midair and shifted toward the cliff.

The flying swords spun rapidly around her, forming an impenetrable line of defense.

But Li Changshou could tell at a glance that Youqin Xuanya was merely putting on a strong front. She had not mastered this sword-control technique yet. She only understood fixed moves and could not adapt on the fly, unable to counterattack effectively while defending...

There were six black-clad people chasing Youqin Xuanya, two in the Dao Attainment Realm and four in the Void Returning Realm. Though they attacked with full force, none of their strikes targeted Youqin Xuanya's vital points. They clearly wanted to capture her alive.

—Li Changshou was lucky as well. Two Primordial Immortals from this group were currently maintaining the Dragon Trapping Formation. Some True Immortal over there was causing quite a ruckus, tying up the attention of those two Primordial Immortals.

These few people probably aren't even enough to fill that Three-eyed Green Wave Snake's teeth.

Fortunately, two other auras remained in the air without making a move, and Li Changshou was somewhat familiar with both of them—

Yuwen Ling, the Great General of the Palace Front from some kingdom.

Yuan Qing, a junior brother from Sky-Breaking Peak.

Within a radius of thirty li, Li Changshou had discovered only Yuwen Ling, one immortal. The immortal's pressure he had sensed earlier had come from him.

Li Changshou's thoughts immediately began to stir.

But then again...

Why was Yuan Qing, that big warm-hearted guy, still not striking ruthlessly? He kept dragging things out. Did he really think his Du Xian Sect had no formidable people?

Though the Du Xian Sect was only a moderately sized cultivation sect, it was still a widely recognized Three Teachings Immortal Sect. Even if Mortal World royal authority had a few immortals guarding it, the Du Xian Sect would not take them seriously.

If Martial Uncle Jiu and the five of them did not return to the sect at the agreed time, immortals would surely head north to search for them. Yuan Qing's group was dithering like this; they were practically courting death.

No matter how one put it, wasn't this fake warm-hearted guy just lusting after that fake iceberg's body?

Tch, disgusting!

In Li Changshou's eyes, everyone from Yuwen Ling, the immortal in the clouds, to the people below pursuing Youqin Xuanya had been assigned numbers as Tool Persons One, Two, Three, Four...

Locking his spiritual awareness onto Youqin Xuanya, Li Changshou activated a spell and cast the Wind Whisper Spell, transmitting sound directly into Youqin Xuanya's ear.

"Take your current facing direction as the Qian position. Retreat toward the Zhen position, eight chi."

Youqin Xuanya, who was using her flying swords to withstand the bombardment of magical treasures before her, immediately perked up.

Senior Brother Changshou!

Why was he here?

Though puzzled, Youqin Xuanya instinctively followed the guidance. Standing on her flying sword, she retreated close to the ground, and two streaks of light skimmed past the side of her sword formation!

They were a short blade and a long nail, shooting toward her at high speed, but both missed completely!

"Retreat again, six chi toward the Li position."

Li Changshou's transmitted voice grew slightly more urgent. Youqin Xuanya dodged again as instructed, and two more streaks of light fell past her from the other side.

Then Li Changshou's voice continuously entered her ears:

"Don't space out. Counterattack if you have the strength. Watch your expression, don't make them suspicious.

"A powerful poisonous creature is hiding beneath the cliff. Lure them over and use it to defeat them.

"Three chi toward the Li position, then turn five chi toward the Zhen position."

Youqin Xuanya's somewhat dim eyes swiftly regained their brightness.

She pressed her lips tightly together and gave a quiet mm in her heart as a response.

Very soon, she dodged left and right, gradually becoming composed and measured. In the eyes of the six pursuers and the two people in the sky, Youqin Xuanya suddenly became far more nimble.

A breakthrough in battle?

She consecutively evaded most of the six people's attacks. Her flying swords, which had previously only been able to defend, immediately found an opening and began counterattacking.

With one side gaining and the other losing, Youqin Xuanya's pressure abruptly lessened. She steadily retreated toward the cliff where the Three-eyed Green Wave Snake was hidden.

At the same time, Li Changshou had already reached the rock layer above the cliff, less than a hundred zhang from the Immortal-Resolving Grass.

The Three-eyed Green Wave Snake seemed to have sensed something. It poked its head out from beneath the cliff and warily observed its surroundings.

There was a grassy field before the Immortal-Resolving Grass. A sturdy Black Bark Cypress Tree stood sixteen zhang from the cliff's edge, its shade covering the Immortal-Resolving Grass.

Li Changshou found the Black Bark Cypress Tree's main root. Within the rock layer, he released Earth Evasion, forcibly endured the immense pressure squeezing in from all sides, gritted his teeth, and used Wood Release to burrow into the cypress's main root. Concealing his aura, he decisively surged upward.

Old Cypress Tree:...

Hmm?

Hmm...

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