Throughout the journey, Zhenwu Shengjun remained silent.
"Langya has been very talented since childhood. The Dao Ancestor has taken in a total of seventy-two disciples. Among our seventy-two disciples, Langya's talent is among the top. In addition, he has always worked very hard in his cultivation, so he is highly regarded by the Dao Ancestor..." After a long while, Zhenwu Saint Lord sighed slightly and said.
Lin Yun remained silent. Perhaps it was precisely because of the extraordinary nature of the Sage of Langya that he felt he had been wronged and developed such a rebellious spirit.
At this moment, he didn't know what to say. No matter how much hatred they had for the Sage of Langya, now that the Sage of Langya was dead, having died protecting them from those three Saint-level ghost cultivators, all grudges should have vanished.
Lin Yun did not believe that the Langya Saint would survive in front of three Saint-level ghost cultivators.
"True Martial Saint Lord, do you know how to neutralize the poison of the Netherworld Water?" After traveling for a while longer, Lin Yun suddenly turned to look at True Martial Saint Lord and asked.
He was still unsure when his strength could be further enhanced, when those three Saint King-level ghost cultivators would be able to find them, or even whether more powerful ghost cultivators would come from the Netherworld during this time.
If True Martial Saint King's strength could be restored, they wouldn't be as powerless as they are now, no matter what situation they encounter.
To put it bluntly, if True Martial Saint Lord recovers his strength, they will be able to escape much faster.
"I only saw the Netherworld Water once thousands of years ago and heard the Dao Ancestor talk about its effects. As for how to counteract it, I don't know. The Dao Ancestor only said that there are no rare and precious materials in this universe that can counteract it..." Zhenwu Saint Monarch frowned slightly.
"Is there any rare and precious material in this universe that can solve this problem?" Lin Yun seemed to be thinking about something, but he couldn't quite grasp it.
Does the fact that there are no rare and precious materials in this universe that can cure the poison of the Netherworld Water mean that the poison is not incurable, but rather that there are no rare and precious materials in this universe that can cure it, but there are rare and precious materials in other universes or the outside world that can cure it?
Besides rare and precious natural treasures, are there any other methods to cure this? For example, their own detoxification abilities? Experts at their level have extremely strong vitality, and ordinary poisons simply cannot reach them. Even if some powerful poisons do temporarily reach them, they will be slowly expelled by their powerful detoxification abilities!
So, can this kind of Netherworld Poison be expelled using this method? If so, how long would it take?
Lin Yun had a vague feeling that this method should work. Previously, when the Sage of Langya was dealing with the True Martial Saint, he could have waited for the poison in the True Martial Saint's body to become more and more severe before dealing with him. However, he acted very hastily, as if he was afraid that the poison in the True Martial Saint would be cured or that the effect would weaken.
Thinking this way, Lin Yun also told Zhenwu Shengjun about this series of guesses.
“What you’ve said is all possible. I should be able to expel the poison from the Netherworld Water slowly. I’ve already sensed that, but the process is extremely slow…” Zhenwu Saint Monarch nodded slightly and said.
How long has Lin Yun lived? How long has he lived? These are all things Lin Yun thought of, and he had already thought of them and analyzed them one by one!
"Very slow? How long will it take?" Lin Yun's eyes lit up as he asked.
"Completely eliminating it would probably take several thousand years!" True Martial Saint King said with a slight wry smile, which was also the biggest problem with this method.
Normally, thousands of years would be nothing to a powerhouse of their level; a short period of seclusion could even exceed that time.
However, the universe is now in a state of great crisis, and Lin Yun's cultivation speed is also very fast. If Lin Yun had cultivated for thousands of years, he might have reached a very high level. So why would he wait for thousands of years to recover his strength?
Furthermore, although his reduced strength has diminished the repulsive force generated by the laws of this universe, allowing him to remain in this universe for a short period, how long can he stay once his strength gradually recovers?
Perhaps, before his strength has fully recovered, he will have to leave this universe.
“Thousands of years…” Lin Yun choked, then shook his head.
Obviously, this long time is not feasible.
"By the way, what exactly is the Netherworld Water poison, and how is it made?" After a pause, Lin Yun thought of something and asked again.
"The Netherworld Water is not something that can be manufactured; it is a natural poison. Under normal circumstances, a single drop of it will be born every hundred million years at a spatial node that is invisibly connected to the Netherworld..." said True Martial Saint Lord. He recounted all the information about the Netherworld Water that the Dao Ancestor had told them, including the reactions to being poisoned by it.
“At a spatial node that is invisiblely connected to the universe and the Netherworld… So that’s it, could it be called the Netherworld Poison!” Lin Yun pondered, and just then, he suddenly remembered what his thought had just come to mind.
"According to the information given by the Dao Ancestor, this kind of poison is extremely rare even in the outside world. If I'm not mistaken, this poison should have infiltrated from the Netherworld. This kind of poison is extremely rare in the living universe and is also very rare in the outside world. Perhaps it is quite common in the Netherworld. The Netherworld is not an ordinary space, but a Yin attribute space that connects countless worlds. Perhaps we can start from the Netherworld..." Lin Yun said slowly.
"Start with the Netherworld?" Zhenwu Saint King's heart stirred.
“That’s right. Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for us to start from the Netherworld. But now, the spatial node between our universe and the Netherworld has been broken, and many powerful beings from the Netherworld have entered our universe. Perhaps those powerful beings from the Netherworld have the items to cure the poison of the Netherworld Water!” Lin Yun nodded heavily. As he spoke, he couldn’t help but feel a little excited. If that were the case, the Netherworld poison in True Martial Saint Monarch might be cured soon.
"Just now, I killed a low-level Saint-level ghost cultivator. I collected its crystal core and spatial items. I'll see if there's anything in that spatial item that can cure the Netherworld Water poison!" As he spoke, Lin Yun flipped his hand and took out a black bracelet from his pocket. It was the same bracelet he had collected along with the gray crystal core after killing the low-level Saint-level ghost cultivator.
Lin Yun probed into it with his spiritual power, and a vast black space immediately appeared in his perception.
"This is... pills? herbs? weapons? materials? All of them are of the Yin attribute?" Lin Yun quickly examined the items, muttering the types of each item in his head.
Zhenwu Saint Lord also searched through the spatial items of the ghost cultivators he had previously acquired. Previously, at another spatial node connecting the Netherworld and this universe, he had killed many ghost cultivators of considerable level, including several at the fourth level of the Super Realm.
Previously, he had also looked through the spatial items of those ghost cultivators, but after discovering that many of them were of the extreme yin attribute, he stopped paying attention to them. Such items could not be used by them unless they underwent special treatment or encountered special circumstances.
But now, after Lin Yun's reminder, he also realized that there might be items in those ghost cultivator's space that could cure the Netherworld Water, so he couldn't help but examine them again.
"I haven't found any information on how to neutralize the Netherworld Water, but I found a drop that seems to be the Netherworld Water. True Martial Saint Lord, can you take a look and see if this is the Netherworld Water?" Soon, Lin Yun finished checking everything in the spatial bracelet, flipped his hand, took out a black jade bottle, and handed it to True Martial Saint Lord, saying.
Just now, he noticed a drop of transparent liquid in the black jade bottle, which was very similar to the Netherworld Water that Zhenwu Saint had just described to him.
"Netherworld Water?" Zhenwu Saint King was slightly surprised. He reached out and took the black jade bottle, quickly opened the mouth of the bottle, and looked at the contents of the black jade bottle while releasing his spiritual power to sense them.
Lin Yun also looked over. He had only used his mental power to sense the liquid inside; he hadn't seen it with his naked eye.
“It is indeed the Netherworld Water! It is exactly the same as the Netherworld Water I saw thousands of years ago, in terms of color, shape, and aura!” At this moment, True Martial Saint King said with slight excitement.
The fact that Netherworld Water was found in the spatial artifact of the Saint-level Ghost Cultivator that Lin Yun killed means that Lin Yun guessed correctly. This kind of Netherworld Water is indeed not rare in the Netherworld, and the method of neutralizing it in the Netherworld may not be difficult either.
"Is it really the water of the underworld?" Lin Yun took a slight breath and quickly withdrew his probing spiritual power, as if afraid that the water of the underworld could be transmitted through his spiritual power.
He had witnessed the poisoning of the True Martial Saint King. If even the True Martial Saint King could not resist this poison, he would be even less able to resist it.
It's not that he was being cautious; there really was a poison that could infect him through his mental energy. In fact, whether it was his imagination or not, he felt a little uncomfortable with the mental energy he had withdrawn, as if he had really been contaminated by this poison.
"Don't worry, it's just a matter of sensing with your spiritual power. Although you might get some Netherworld Water toxins, the amount is too small to affect experts of our level..." Seeing Lin Yun's reaction, True Martial Saint Monarch smiled slightly and said.
"It really can spread through mental energy?" Lin Yun exclaimed in surprise.
"What's so strange about that? Let alone poison, many things have this kind of mutual invasion effect. It's just that the vast majority of them have a very small impact. Even if you release your spiritual power to sense it carefully, you can't feel it. The influence of the Netherworld Water is just a little stronger!" True Martial Saint King shook his head and said.
"I see..." Lin Yun breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slightly.
He also knew about the mutual invasion effect that Zhenwu Shengjun had mentioned, just like the principle of "one is influenced by one's surroundings," only to varying degrees.
“I haven’t found a way to neutralize the Netherworld Water here either. However, since the Netherworld Water has been found in these spatial items, then perhaps, as you said, the Netherworld Water is not uncommon in the Netherworld. In fact, these spatial items may contain something to neutralize the Netherworld Water, but we just don’t know it…” Zhenwu Saint Monarch paused and pondered.
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