After leaving Xiuyun Mountain, Wu Sheng was still trying to persuade Zhong Liying: "Brother Zhongli, where is the person the shepherd boy said is Wu Sheng? He didn't even see his face."
Zhong Liying said: "Brother Sun, that person just asked for directions and rewarded you with a black ginseng pill. Don't you think it is too generous? What kind of person would not cherish the spiritual pill so much? Only an alchemist!" As for Wu Sheng, he is not only an assassin, but also an alchemist. It is said that he is also a high-ranking disciple of the Xian family. Because of his exquisite alchemy skills, he was awarded Mangdang Mountain by Yongjun."
Wu Sheng said: "Brother Sun knows Wu Sheng so well and has done a lot of homework."
Zhong Liying said: "When we were tracking down Wu Sheng that day, Song Xingxing and I found Mangdang Mountain. At that time, I was thinking about Wu Sheng, or Shen Wu. Of course I knew enough. I'm not boasting about Haikou. After Song Xingxing, No one in the academy understands Wu Sheng better than me."
Wu Sheng nodded and said, "Then I wish Brother Zhongli that his wish will come true."
Zhong Liying was full of confidence: "This time, he can't escape... The shepherd boy said Jiulonggang is a hundred miles south. Do you know how to get there?"
Wu Sheng said: "I've been there, but it's not easy to walk. Be careful on the road."
Xiuyun Mountain, a hundred miles to the south, is almost the southern boundary of the Third True Department. Of course, there is no so-called "boundary", but it is indeed the limit of the activities of the people of the Third True Department to the south. Going further south is the real Savage.
Wu Sheng said that the road was difficult to walk, but it was not difficult to walk in general. Halfway through, the two of them encountered a dangerous situation. A clump of vines quietly came out, wrapped around their ankles, and suddenly moved towards a flat area. The grassy puddles were dragged away, but the grassy puddles could not be used at all. It was a swamp.
Demonic vines and swamps, this is one of the standard combinations in the wilderness. It has caused countless lives of monks and monsters. Wu Sheng has encountered it before and has full experience in dealing with it.
The moment he was dragged into the swamp, he shouted: "Hold your breath, don't move, wait for me to save you!"
Zhong Liying did not follow Wu Sheng's instructions at first, but cut the canes with his sword. However, those canes were not only extremely tough, but also laborious to cut. The key was to cut one and two more would be wrapped around it. If you cut two, there would be one more. No matter how hard you cut the bushes, you couldn't cut them all. On the contrary, as the real energy was consumed, the breath passed quickly, and the time you could last in the underwater swamp became shorter and shorter.
He remembered Wu Sheng's words and stopped struggling. He was entangled in the cane and did not move. He tried his best to hold on in the muddy water.
This experience is a test of the mind. The harder you struggle, the more intense the consumption of your true energy, and the longer you have to persist. If you don’t struggle and move around, you can extend the persistence time, but you can only place your hope for life on on others.
When can Sun Wu save himself?
What on earth is he doing?
Will he save himself?
Or is he already dead?
As a top monk in the senior Qi refining realm, Zhong Liying can persist at the bottom of the mud swamp for two to three moments, but while persisting, he has to endure the bites of various poisonous insects in the swamp, especially those like centipedes that bite on the tip of his nose and mouth. While crawling around, all kinds of pain and itching came from all over the body from time to time, which was really extremely frustrating.
Just when he was about to lose his hold and thought to himself that my life is over, he suddenly felt the vines tightly wrapped around him loosening, and a strong force pulled him out of the mire and threw him far away to the hard ground.
As his body shook when he landed, all the mud and mud in his ears, nose and mouth were shaken out. Zhong Liying collapsed on the ground, helplessly watching various poisonous insects crawling around in the mud, and suddenly became nauseated and vomited.
After vomiting, Zhong Liying felt hot all over and fell into a semi-conscious state. He knew that he had been bitten by poisonous insects too much, which was a sign of poisoning. He desperately summoned up his remaining consciousness and tremblingly took out an antidote rhubarb pill from his arms. , tried hard to take it, but after completing this action, he could no longer hold on and fell into a coma completely.
I don't know how long it took, but Zhong Liying was awakened by a sense of coolness. He felt a stream of true energy slowly flowing through his meridians, driving all kinds of toxins out of the body. He quickly adjusted his breath and mobilized the few remaining energy from the sea of qi. The true energy cooperates to counterattack the toxins that corrode the air sea.
After adjusting the breath for a long time, the toxins were finally removed.
A black ginseng pill was stuffed into his mouth, Zhong Liying greedily absorbed the spiritual power in it, and then another one...
When he opened his eyes, he found that it was already dark and he was huddled next to a bonfire. Wu Sheng was adding firewood to the bonfire.
Taking the meat skewer handed over by Wu Sheng, Zhong Liying swallowed it in two mouthfuls, and then ate a few more skewers before sighing with satisfaction.
"How does it taste?" Wu Sheng asked.
"It's not bad, it melts in your mouth and it's very fragrant." Zhong Liying smacked his lips.
"This is a demon vine insect. It lives under the skin of the vine. It has a nourishing effect. You don't need to clean and dissect it, just roast it." Wu Sheng told him.
Zhong Liying asked: "How long?"
Wu Sheng said: "Three days."
Feeling sleepy, Zhong Liying closed her eyes and said, "I'll take a nap."
Seeing Zhong Liying snoring lightly, Wu Sheng continued to observe the world of Qi Sea. A young demonic vine thrived beside a certain pond. This is the inner elixir that he refined from the demon elixir taken out from the root of the demon vine after imagining killing it.
Twelve spirit spiders and a demon vine are both excellent inner elixirs. They can be called two of the eight inner elixirs in Wu Sheng's Qi Sea. When combined with distractions in the future, they will become Wu Sheng's important combat power.
In addition to the inner elixir of the demon vine, there are more than 3,000 grains of spiritual sand transformed by the demon vine itself, which is quite a supplement. In addition, during these three days, more than 20 new species of animals and plants were found from the surroundings, all of which were Refined into the world of Qi Sea.
Although the wilderness is dangerous, it is also a huge treasure house. All kinds of good things that are rare in the Central Plains are readily available here. Zhong Liying was seriously injured, so Wu Sheng refined the inner elixir while Zhong Liying was recovering from practice, and gained a lot.
It wasn't until Zhong Liying recovered that the two set off again to Jiulonggang. They encountered dangers many times on the way, including a sudden poisonous miasma at night, dangerous spirits, and dense swarms of insects...
After finally getting to the foot of Jiulong Gang, Zhong Liying looked back on the way he came and sighed in his heart: "Brother Sun, today I realize what you said that day, it is really not easy to make a living in the wilderness."
Wu Sheng said: "Brother Zhongli, this is only the edge of the wilderness. If we continue to go south, there will be more deadly spiritual beasts, illusions, and evil cultivators."
Zhong Liying smiled bitterly: "I don't dare to go south now. Let's talk about it after I refine my god."
Wu Sheng pointed to the front and said: "We've arrived. Brother Zhongli, follow me closely. Don't get lost. This is what I call the wild fantasy land. It looks like just a pile of rocks, but it is divided into nine exits. You can travel through the wild wilderness. Many monks often come here to rest and exchange their gains. Remember, don't climb up the stone. There is another world on the stone. Once you go up, you can't get back down."
Zhong Liying was startled. She looked curiously at the dense forest-like boulders in front of her. She carefully followed Wu Sheng in from the two boulders. She felt the cool breeze blowing by and the cold hair on her neck.
Wu Sheng reminded: "There is something up there, don't look around..."
It's okay not to say that. When he said that, Zhong Liying subconsciously raised his head.
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