Chapter 32
Ji Tang didn't know how long she slept. She woke up slowly and found herself leaning against a thick tree.
She struggled to stand up from the tree, and before the dizziness subsided, she heard a surprised voice from not far away, "You're awake!"
Then there was the sound of jogging footsteps, and then Jitang was knocked down.
She was knocked to the grass by the oncoming person. Looking at the dark sky and fog, she realized belatedly that she was still in the misty swamp.
"Yunyun!"
A person appeared above Jitang's head, and she saw it was Jiuxiao.
Jiuxiao helped Jiujun, who was pressing on Jitang, up. At the same time, Huanyue also helped Jitang up.
Jiu Xiao brushed the dust off Jiu Yun and said, "Be careful. Are you hurt?"
Ji Tang also heard Huan Mang say, "How could he be thrown to the ground? Did he lose his concentration?"
Jitang looked over Huanyue to the side and saw Huanmang sitting on the ground, holding a large piece of pork elbow in his hand, with oil all around his mouth.
There is no harm without comparison, Jitang curled the corner of his mouth.
"How long have I been unconscious?" Ji Tang realized his voice was hoarse when he spoke.
Huanyue: "Half a day. Why did you get so close to the boat? You even dared to touch other people's level-up thunder tribulations. You are really brave!"
They thought Ji Tang fainted because of the thunder tribulation caused by Su Jinzhou's advancement.
Ji Tang: "Where is Su Jinzhou?"
Huanyue pointed behind her, "She's still dizzy."
Ji Tang looked in the direction she was looking and saw that Su Jinzhou and she were leaning against the same tree trunk, but on the other side.
She walked up to Su Jinzhou.
Huanyue: "Don't worry, he has successfully advanced to the early stage of fusion."
"That's good." Ji Tang felt relieved and focused his energy elsewhere.
Jiujun apologized repeatedly, "I saw you woke up, so I wanted to come over to see you, but I tripped and fell... I was so stupid, did I hurt you?"
Jiu Xiao comforted her, "She is in the middle stage of Heartbeat, and you have just been enlightened. It is impossible for you to hurt her. But are you okay?"
Jiujun shook his head and looked at Jitang in confusion: "Mid-stage of heartbeat?"
Jiu Xiao: "What's your reaction?"
He turned his head and just as his eyes fell on Jitang, he suddenly fell silent.
Huanyue also looked at Jitang, and then asked in shock: "Where is your cultivation level?!"
Huanyue's voice was quite loud, attracting many people's attention.
Huan Mang was one of them. He quickly came to Ji Tang, holding his elbow, and looked him up and down, astonished. "Where's your cultivation?"
Huan Mang was in no mood to eat the pork elbow. He threw it away and was about to use his spiritual power to probe into Ji Tang's body.
Ji Tang dodged in disgust, "I'm so greasy, don't touch me."
Huanmang subconsciously wiped it on the clothes behind him.
Jitang's disdain was even stronger.
Huan Mang: “…”
Huanyue's expression was solemn. "Can you still mobilize nightmare energy now?"
When they brought Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou out of the monster's body, Ji Tang didn't have many signs of being affected by the thunder except that he looked a little disheveled. However, Su Jinzhou's clothes showed signs of being burnt all over, so they thought Ji Tang was not seriously injured.
Jitang: “Not for now.”
Huanyue didn't dwell on the meaning of 'temporarily'; her focus was on 'can't'. "Let me send my spiritual power in so I can see what's going on inside you. If the lightning strike has damaged your meridians, you must leave immediately!"
Ji Tang couldn't explain it clearly for a while, so he simply let go and let Huan Yue's spiritual power in. "No meridians were damaged."
Huan Mang: "Why did you lose your cultivation?"
Jitang shook his head.
Huanmang glanced at Jiuxiao and didn't ask any more questions.
Jiujun looked at Jitang with tears in her eyes, and Jitang couldn't ignore her. "I'm fine. I felt a little dizzy when I first woke up, but I'm fine now."
Jiuyun nodded weakly.
Another hour passed like this, and Su Jinzhou also woke up.
Ji Tang was the first to notice, "Congratulations, Junior Brother, you've reached the early stages of fusion."
When Su Jinzhou woke up and heard this, he smiled in a good mood.
He observed Jitang for a moment, and his relaxed expression quickly froze.
Ji Tang whispered, "My parents left a Nightmare Card in the talisman. I just learned about this thing called a Nightmare Card. It's a carrier condensed from Nightmare Qi, a bit like a storage bag. It contains the supreme skills of my Nightmare Clan. If you want to practice these two skills, you have to abandon your previous training first."
Su Jinzhou: "Is there any harm to the body?"
"No, I just have to start all over again. I'll rely on you to protect me from now on, junior brother." Jitang said jokingly.
Su Jinzhou felt slightly relieved and followed her, saying, "Now that your cultivation level is lower than mine and you joined later than me, you should finally give up struggling and call me Senior Brother, right?"
Ji Tang smiled and called out obediently, "Senior Brother."
She called out so bluntly that Su Jinzhou felt a little uncomfortable.
He looked away and rubbed his nose and replied: "Yeah."
Jitang looked at him with interest.
Su Jinzhou changed the subject and asked in a low voice, "Did they talk about the monster?"
"No, what happened to the monster?"
Su Jinzhou: "The demon pill that is half buried in the demon beast's body."
Jitang nodded.
Su Jinzhou pointed at himself and said, "After I upgraded, it felt like there was a suction force in my body. A lot of spiritual energy from the surroundings was gathering into my body. The demon pill was closest to me, and I also sucked it into my body."
When a level is successfully upgraded, it will indeed absorb a large amount of surrounding spiritual energy to replenish the spiritual energy lost due to the upgrade, but I have never heard of such a thing as absorbing demon pills.
Ji Tang was stunned.
The boat was silent all night long.
Ji Tang digested it for a moment, then stumbled a little before saying, "That demon pill is at least at the Golden Core stage."
Even the boat knows it.
Jitang was frightened by his words.
A person who had just reached the early stage of fusion actually absorbed the demon core of a demon beast at least in the Jindan stage.
"You, are you feeling unwell?"
To be honest, it was a miracle among miracles that Su Jinzhou did not explode and die at that time.
Su Jinzhou: "Logically speaking, he should be dead."
Jitang: "Yes."
Su Jinzhou smiled at her, "But the power in the talisman helped me suppress the violent energy of the demon pill."
Ji Tang was surprised: "Are you talking about the nightmare left by my parents?"
"Well, you have no cultivation base, so you can't probe the nightmare energy in. The demon pill is in my dantian right now, and there's a layer of nightmare energy attached to the outside."
"Can you absorb the energy of the demon pill now?"
Su Jinzhou: "It's not working yet. The nightmare energy has completely sealed the demon pill."
Ji Tang speculated, "Then when I cultivate back some nightmare energy, can I use it as a medium to absorb the nightmare energy in your dantian? In this way, I can open a small opening and you can slowly absorb the energy of the demon pill through the small opening?"
Su Jinzhou: "I think so too."
In this way, he could avoid the violent energy of the demon pill, and he would also have a steady supply of energy for refining in the future.
This demon pill is enough to support him to continue to move up a level.
This trip to the secret realm was very rewarding, and they would return with a full load even if they went back now.
When everyone was distributing the spoils that night, they discovered that the demon pill was missing. After a lot of trouble, they still couldn't find it, so they had to give up.
The next morning, members of the two tribes left the Misty Swamp and planned to fly on their swords to the burial ground of the tribe leader deeper in the area.
Ji Tang now has no cultivation and is unable to wield a sword.
She looked at Su Jinzhou: "Senior Brother."
Su Jinzhou took out his sword consciously. He was already able to wield a sword in the fusion stage.
Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou often used this sword when sparring. "It's more useful now. Brother, why don't you get it a better scabbard?"
This sword was forged by Master Wu Shu based on Su Jinzhou's original sword. He added refining materials and had someone else make it again. However, the scabbard remains the same.
This scabbard is definitely the best in the mortal world. It was made by the royal family with the best materials and is inlaid with gorgeous gems.
But in the world of cultivation, it is a bit flashy and impractical.
Su Jinzhou: "I'll find someone to make it after we get out."
Jitang: "How about using the sea of clouds as the pattern?"
Su Jinzhou: "Same as your sword?"
Ji Tang: "Yes, this sea of clouds pattern is my own idea. It's different from the others. Do you think it looks good, Senior Brother?"
Su Jinzhou smiled: "It looks good."
Ji Tang stepped onto the flying sword.
It was Su Jinzhou's first time flying a sword, so he was inevitably unfamiliar with it. After swaying left and right a few times, Ji Tang grabbed the back of his robe and teased him, "Brother, please don't throw me down!"
Su Jinzhou was operating his sword seriously, "No."
Ji Tang didn't need to fly his sword, and his attention was on Su Jinzhou's sword. "You should give it a name. It must be unhappy if you keep calling it by the sword."
Su Jinzhou followed at the end of the group, barely keeping up. Upon hearing this, he said, "Then it should have the same surname as me."
Ji Tang couldn't help laughing, "What do you want to stay at?"
Su Jinzhou couldn't figure it out for a long time.
Ji Tang: "Let's call him Su Zhouzhou!"
The flying sword tilted and Ji Tang almost fell down.
She trembled with fear and hugged Su Jinzhou's waist, "Brother, are you trying to murder me?!"
He stayed all night on the boat without saying a word.
Where Jitang couldn't see, Su Jinzhou's cheeks were flushed.
He couldn't tell whether he was frightened by the near fall or affected by the unignorable force from his back waist.
Ji Tang was completely unaware and kept urging him from behind, "Brother, hurry up! We are about to fall behind the team!"
Su Jinzhou: "..."
There are many burial places of the former Qingmang clan leaders in the secret realm.
After each clan leader hands over the position of clan leader, he will enter the Cangxiao Realm at some point in time.
The dragon clan does not have the same funeral practices as mortals. When their lifespans come to an end, they will leave their clansmen and face death alone.
In the Cangxiao Realm, although the tribesmen knew the location of the burial ground, it was difficult to confirm which tribe leader the dragon bones came from, unless they found a representative magic weapon or skill in the burial ground.
The situation where the burial place was located on the clan land, like the previous clan leader, Huanmang's father, had never happened in the entire dragon clan.
Su Jinzhou landed on the ground with Jitang staggeringly.
Huanyue couldn't help but shake her head, "I'm really worried about you guys."
Jitang looked at the burial ground in front of him.
This burial ground was different from the one she had seen before for the previous Dragon Lord.
Half of the previous dragon master's dragon bones were buried under the rocks, so when Ji Tang walked by, he never thought that the white rocks would be dragon bones.
But the dragon bones in the burial ground are different.
The dragon's skeleton was displayed intact in front of everyone.
Although the flesh and blood had weathered over the long years, everyone could still feel the Dragon Lord's majesty and power from the skeleton.
His will has remained for hundreds and thousands of years.
They bowed to the dragon bones.
Huan Mang led the crowd: "Let's go."
Jitang followed the team to the end and walked into the burial ground.
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