Wu Chao

The dwellings of the Yedie River Holy Land were built into the mountainside, using materials found on the spot.

There were stone houses and stone caves.

This kind of construction was nothing unusual; most of the palaces in the Xieluosi River Holy Land were built the same way.

But compared with the palace where the Golden Toad Dharma King lived, the stone cave before them was far more rudimentary.

Lying on a stone slab in a cave like this, Zhang Xuezhou felt certain he would wake up with an aching back the next day.

But however rudimentary it was, it was still better than sleeping outside.

In the Yedie River Holy Land, the mediums needed to cultivate Incantation Techniques varied, and the entire Sacred Mountain was filled with all sorts of strange things.

The flying insects Zhang Xuezhou needed were nothing special. Snakes, insects, rats, and ants could be seen everywhere on the Sacred Mountain, along with all kinds of soil, stones, and wood that gave off peculiar smells.

None of these things could be touched carelessly, and snakes, insects, rats, and ants could not be struck at random either. Otherwise, one might accidentally kill something a Dharma master or Daoist had painstakingly bred, and it would be no surprise to have to sign an indenture and work off the debt with one's life.

Zhang Xuezhou thought it was rather dreadful outside, so a stone cave with a door he could close counted as excellent lodging.

He found the highest stone slab and lay down.

"He clearly sensed my Snake Head Incantation, yet he isn't the least bit afraid of me!"

Inside the stone cave, the expression on the Daoist boy Wu Chao's face was rather strange.

The Snake Head Incantation was the Incantation Technique he currently cultivated as his