Human Scent Is Poisonous

The sun gradually rises higher.

The scenery of the Heavenly Wolf Sect Mountains became increasingly clear in people's eyes.

This place boasts towering mountains and lofty peaks, lush forests and tall bamboos, as well as clear streams and rushing rapids that flow around it.

On this day, the sky was clear and the breeze was gentle.

Outside the mountain, a group of cultivators who intended to join the Heavenly Wolf Sect went to pay their respects to the sect during the daytime, inevitably revealing their cultivation levels.

Lifting tripods and treading water, chanting incantations in the wind, gathering energy and drawing talismans with bare hands, using talismans to heal injuries and suppress illnesses—truly a gathering of young and old, a gathering of wise men.

then----

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a loud bang erupted from the mountains, and thick smoke billowed up, resembling a dark purple column of smoke—a truly magnificent sight.

The crowd was surprised and all looked up.

An elder of the Heavenly Wolf Sect, who was entertaining Rogue Cultivator, turned around and quickly pulled his fellow disciple aside.

"Senior brother, that hilltop where the explosion happened, doesn't it look like your home?"

"No, my cave is next door."

Senior Brother Chang stared suspiciously, and because it was separated by mountains, he looked for a moment before exclaiming in surprise, "Oh no! That's the Second Sect Leader's cave!"

We're all cultivators, after all. When refining elixirs and medicines, it's perfectly normal for the furnace to explode. There's nothing to be surprised about.

This is one of the best things about spiritual practitioners: even those who have just entered the path of spiritual practice have a much sharper sense of danger.

Often, on the eve of an explosion, they can scramble and crawl far away, making it very difficult for them to be killed.

Those with deeper skills can maintain their composure when fleeing; even when they emerge from the black smoke, they remain spotless, displaying the demeanor of immortals.

However, if the alchemist's cultivation level is several notches higher, reaching the top level in the cultivation world, then the situation is different.

Medicines that can be personally refined by such a master must have extraordinary medicinal properties.

Therefore, such incidents of top-level experts causing furnace explosions are extremely rare.

But once it explodes, what you need to be wary of is not just the power of the oven.

Several elders who were still entertaining the Rogue Cultivator at the mountain gate hastily harnessed their magical artifacts and took to the air, eager to return and evacuate the disciples inside the mountain gate to assess the situation.

Unexpectedly, just as they took flight, the cave on the mountain exploded again.

The entire mountain shook slightly. The various caves on the mountain, which were not originally connected, seemed to have been opened by the series of explosions, and black smoke was billowing out from other caves.

The mountain now looks like a giant emitting smoke from its seven orifices.

On a bright, clear day, under a clear sky, such a scene is truly astonishing.

The disciples in the mountains all felt their hearts race, their pores open and radiating heat, suspecting they had been poisoned by some strange toxin, and quickly Li Mountain.

The disciples of the Heavenly Wolf Sect are already considered to be of excellent quality. The elders and disciples on each mountain peak maintain order when leaping and bounding.

However, the pace of travel varies from mountain to mountain, inevitably leading to some chaos.

It was unclear who was making the noise in the crowd.

"This is bad! The earth's energy is unstable. In all the caves, herb gardens, and warehouses, all the finished magical artifacts and spiritual herbs are showing signs of agitation. Quickly, suppress them!"

The spiritual herbs cultivated by cultivators are incredibly diverse and wondrous.

Many medicinal herbs are not actually ordinary plants, but rather half-flowers and half-beasts, more like flying insects, snakes, or small animals.

Some need to have their roots tied with red rope, while others need to have their vines secured with peach wood after they have grown.

Some elixirs resemble small rabbits but roar like thunder. To prevent them from roaring and screaming, one must use a jade ball to plug the area that looks like a beast's mouth.

As for those finished magical artifacts, although the vast majority of them do not possess spirituality, they have their own unique aura within them.

If this energy field comes into contact with other unstable energy fields, either attracting or repelling each other, it will often show signs of flying away on its own.

The moment the disciples of the Heavenly Wolf Sect shouted this, the Rogue Cultivator outside the mountain almost instantly thought of these things.

Some were worried about the Heavenly Wolf Sect, some were still in shock and confusion, and some suddenly had their eyes light up and were about to rise up.

A hundred people, a hundred faces; a thousand postures, all revealed in this moment.

In the blink of an eye, someone shouted.

"The Heavenly Wolf Sect is a pillar of the Northern Wastes. Now that they are in trouble, how can we, though we are Rogue Cultivator, stand idly by? Fellow cultivators, do not panic, we are here to help!!"

Amidst the mountains, the sounds of drums Rogue Cultivator surged in.

"Indeed, fellow Daoists of the Heavenly Wolf Sect, do not panic, I am here!"

"Me too."

"This old woman is also good at suppressing elixirs—humph, why are you looking at me? I just picked this up!"

Some independent Rogue Cultivator who were not initially enthusiastic about joining the Heavenly Wolf Sect rushed forward even faster than those who genuinely wanted to join.

For Rogue Cultivator, the hundreds of cave dwellings and courtyards within the Heavenly Wolf Sect, along with its dedicated herb gardens and warehouses, contain many valuable items.

Everyone used the guise of helping out, so they only took a small amount, or even consumed it on the spot.

Hey! As the saying goes, the law doesn't punish everyone.

The Heavenly Wolf Sect is a righteous and powerful sect. Would they really kill all their fellow practitioners who were eager to help?

As for the poisoning, the disciples of the Heavenly Wolf Sect were largely unprepared, while these Rogue Cultivator cultivators thought they had taken precautions beforehand.

Moreover, the experts of the Heavenly Wolf Sect will surely soon be casting spells on a large scale to disperse the poison and neutralize its power.

"Presumptuous!"

A loud roar suddenly erupted from the north peak of the Heavenly Wolf Sect.

Suddenly, a strange knife flew out. This knife had a hilt in the middle and blades at both ends, but one blade faced forward and the other blade faced backward.

As the strange knife flew out, it spun around its hilt, resembling a windmill or a disc.

Many Rogue Cultivator felt a jolt in their hearts, looked up, and vaguely saw a purple moon in the sky.

The strange blade transformed into a crescent moon, emitting eerie sound waves as it spun at high speed, causing everyone in its path to feel their hands and feet go numb and cold.

"Third brother, wait! We mustn't accidentally harm our fellow cultivators."

A writing brush flew into the sky and swiftly drew a talisman above the purple moon.

The talisman and the surface of the purple moon were seemingly inseparable; the purple moon rotated, but the talisman did not.

The talisman emitted golden light, and the sound waves from the purple moon diminished.

From the moment the purple moon appeared until it was blocked, it was only a matter of a moment, and most of the Rogue Cultivator were unaffected.

On the North Peak, there stood a burly Great Han with arms thicker than his calves and a head of thick, unkempt hair.

His face was flushed, and he exuded an imposing aura without being angry. He had only a short beard under his chin; he was none other than Yue Tianchi, the third leader of the Heavenly Wolf Sect.

"Third brother, why are you back so soon?"

Yue Gude personally flew to the top of the North Peak, stretched out his arm to stop him, and instructed, "Today's events were our plan; do not harm them."

Yue Tianchi asked in surprise, "I killed a big guy, so I came back early. What plans do you two brothers have?"

Yue Gude leaned close to his ear and whispered a few words, explaining things in a specific way.

Yue Tianchi's eyes flickered. "Then I'll feign anger again, just to stall Second Brother."

Having said that, he let out a wolf howl and flew away.

Yue Gude looked up and saw the purple moon flying back and forth in the sky, while his brush made random dots in mid-air.

His two younger brothers, like a red cloud and a gray cloud, moved their arms and legs below the magical artifact, engaging in a guerrilla-style fight.

Yue Gude stroked his beard and smiled, his eyes full of loving kindness.

"Third brother's skills have improved again, and second brother's move was also excellent."

Chu Tianshu, hidden deep within the main peak, sensed these movements from afar and couldn't help but chuckle.

This sect leader doesn't seem like an elder brother; he seems more like an old father.

"Grand Master."

Chu Tianshu transmitted his voice, "While your fight is beautiful, don't fight for too long, or it will seem fake."

Yue Gude nodded, observed for a moment, and then personally separated his two younger brothers.

The three brothers then traveled together, flying through the mountains to comfort the people and neutralize the poison.

Although the time was not very long, it was enough for many things to happen to the mountain hermits.

Some people saw that when the second sect leader flew out from the place where the furnace had first exploded, he was carrying a young-looking scholar with him.

The scholar had a blue Taiji mark on his forehead, and his aura was fresh and peaceful, while there were several strange emerald green flames around him.

It was clearly similar in color to the ghostly flames, but the emerald green flames possessed a powerful and agile aura, unlike anything ever heard of or seen before.

Some people also recognized that the blue Taiji seal was clearly the Taiji Profound Clear Dao.

In the first half of the day, the Heavenly Wolf Sect dealt with the aftermath, explaining that the furnace explosion was toxic and posed little threat to people, and also inventorying the sect's treasures, asking for everyone's cooperation, and so on.

A secret message, however, had already been pieced together and sorted out among the many Rogue Cultivator, and spread like wildfire.

The story begins with the Heavenly Wolf Sect recruiting Rogue Cultivator and supplying them with the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts.

The Heavenly Wolf Sect is renowned for its pharmacology, and its most prized treasure is a medicinal stone.

Their insights into medicine and poison, gained from being in the Northern Wastes, naturally stood out and took a different approach.

For example, since ancient times, a large number of demons and evil spirits have been harmful to normal humans.

Even among the Demonic Sect cultivators, at most they would forge some demonic artifacts; very few could directly consume demonic creatures as nourishment.

For righteous cultivators, the rewards for slaying demons and monsters are pitifully small, and cannot be eaten or refined; otherwise, it would be tantamount to taking poison.

Therefore, many Rogue Cultivator in the martial arts world do not slay demons out of profit or even good intentions, but simply because they have been targeted by evil spirits and are forced to retaliate.

However, if they are defeated by Demonic Dao cultivators, they are often devoured completely, with every bit of their bones, blood, and soul being used as nourishment.

The Heavenly Wolf Sect disagreed with this, and thus created a unique method for refining poisons.

Using popularity as medicine, it is refined into poison, specifically designed to kill evil spirits.

Since it is a righteous method, it is certainly not about killing people to extract their energy, as that would fall into the category of Demonic Dao methods and would not be able to specifically poison or restrain Demonic Dao.

The unique technique of the Heavenly Wolf Sect does not utilize ordinary yang energy, but rather the protective and nutritive qi within yang energy.

The effects of Ying and Wei Qi are subtle and complex, and it is too troublesome to explain them. In the simplest terms, it can be seen as a kind of spiritual quality that the human body exudes when it is in the intermediate state between digesting external substances and transforming them into its own Qi and blood.

It is not easy for an ordinary person to have enough vital energy to sustain their life.

Cultivators all know how to calm their minds and focus their thoughts, cultivate their vital energy and regulate its flow. Although their vital energy is pure, it is rarely revealed outwardly.

This aroma will only intensify and naturally arise when they are given nutritious and satisfying food.

Therefore, the reason why the Heavenly Wolf Sect supplies so much beast flesh and blood to Rogue Cultivator is actually to use their "eating" behavior to refine medicine.

The Rogue Cultivator benefited, and even their own unknowing power was used as raw material by the Heavenly Wolf Sect for forging, thus also benefiting the Heavenly Wolf Sect.

This is the progress of Daoism, leading to mutual support and benefit.

If things ended here, this "Nutrient and Defensive Hundred Refinements Poison" would probably only shine brightly on the battlefield between good and evil in the future and become known to the world.

However, because many Rogue Cultivator came, a Qingyun Sect disciple who had fled abroad also unintentionally ended up here.

When the Qingyun Sect was destroyed, this person obtained a clue to a treasure that was a secret of the sect and passed down from generation to generation. He originally intended to offer it to the Heavenly Wolf Sect to contribute to the fight against the Demonic Sect sect, and also to find a place of refuge for himself.

Unexpectedly, this clue to the treasure was closely related to the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone of the Heavenly Wolf Sect.

At that time, the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone was being used to refine the Nutrient and Defensive Hundred Refinements Poison.

When the energies from both sides mingled, the furnace exploded.

Some say that the two explosions were caused by objects that resonated with each other, including not only the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone but also the Mountain and River Dharma Stone from the Heavenly Wolf Sect's treasury.

Among the Rogue Cultivator in the world, many have inherited the legacy of ancient sects that have been lost for generations. Although their power is weak, they may possess ancient books that even the major sects do not have.

The news spread, and before long, someone found out from ancient books that there were actually Four Wondrous Stones in the world.

Before we knew it, the news had spread far and wide.

The laws of Heaven, Earth, and Man, the four stones form the elixir, the divine effect gathers at the top, transforming one into a flying immortal.

In Tianyin Temple, an old monk stroked his beard, deep in thought.

"Amitabha Buddha, disciple of the Qingyun Sect ----"

In Incense Valley, an elderly man with a white beard, wearing a golden crown and red robe, muttered to himself.

"Heavenly Fire Divine Stone?!"

In the western Great Marsh where the Demonic Sect was entrenched.

The black forest resembled a multi-armed skeleton, baring its fangs and claws, silent and still, with thick miasma rising from the swamp.

The Demonic Sect disciples sat cross-legged inside the tree trunk, their faces directly facing the hollow in the tree. Their skin was deathly pale, and their lips were black.

Regardless of gender, they all used multiple black jade hairpins of varying lengths to tie their hair into a bun.

Some black jade hairpins are half a foot long, with silver wires embedded in the jade body, sharp and long, piercing one's own body.

A person doesn't breathe, but the hairpin seems to breathe; blood runs from the wound along the hairpin, sometimes long, sometimes short, rising and falling.

Beneath the trees, all the gnarled roots formed a gigantic palace, which miraculously drained away the swampy sewage.

More members of the Demonic Sect cult moved about the palace, sometimes getting restless, and would enjoy the thin, blood-red smoke emanating from the pores of the tree roots.

Inside the main hall, a burly-looking old man in a wide robe looked at the letter in his hand with a puzzled expression.

"When the Heavenly Wolf Sect launched their large-scale beast hunt, we had already deduced that they were indeed refining a novel and rare poison. The details of the events leading up to this incident can all be traced back to us, so it should be true. But over there, the three stones are interacting, yet my Blood-Devouring Primordial Stone shows no unusual activity—"

"Oh, the Qingyun Sect disciples only possess a small spark, not the true form of the divine stone. We are too far apart, perhaps because I have already refined it into a flying sword."

The burly old man's beard twitched, and after thinking for a while, a smile appeared on his face.

"Ha, our Divine Sect is united as one, and such a major event has far-reaching implications. Of course, my lineage should not plot alone."