Chapter 427 Ruins Exploration 4
Wu Shaogan immediately recognized the Yin-Yang Pearl and was even more certain that it was this thing that had been summoning him all along.
This is an extremely rare, naturally formed treasure that can only be created under very extreme conditions. Once it appears, it is a supreme treasure for cultivators who practice Yin-Yang attribute methods.
Such a treasure is extremely rare and belongs to one of the top Yin-Yang resources.
This wasn't the first time Wu Shaogan had obtained such resources. He had previously exchanged them for a Yin-Yang Eye, which was quite similar in shape to the Yin-Yang Bead, but was still slightly inferior to it.
Previously, Wu Shaogan had already refined the Yin-Yang Eyes into the Yin-Yang Millstone. Now, this Yin-Yang Pearl can further enhance his secret technique and assist him in his future cultivation.
However……
Wu Shaogan also saw how contaminated the item was.
If he really wanted to use it, he would probably have to remove all the impurities and purify it until there was not a trace of blood in it before he could use it.
Otherwise, his body, soul, and cultivation techniques might be contaminated by this substance, and it might even contaminate A-Cai during their dual cultivation... At that point, the two of them would be in big trouble.
In a flash, Wu Shaogan looked at Zhong Cai.
Sure enough, his wife, A-Cai, was furious.
Wu Shaogan quickly grasped Zhong Cai's hand and gently stroked it, which was one of his usual ways of comforting Zhong Cai.
Zhong Cai's fingers were squeezed and kneaded for a while before he finally broke free from his intense grief and anger. He then shouted, "Old Wu! What kind of bastard did this garbage?! Such good resources ruined like this! If I find out who did it, I'll rip up their whole hideout!"
Wu Shaogan cupped Zhong Cai's face and kissed him on the lips.
For some reason, Zhong Cai's face suddenly turned red, and she stopped babbling.
He felt a little strange. They were an old married couple, so why was he a little shy just now...?
Wu Shaogan kissed Zhong Cai again, his eyes crinkling with laughter, and said, "I knew Cai loved me."
Zhong Cai: "..."
Ugh! Old Wu's suddenly being a bit cheesy today! And it's not like we're in bed!
but……
Zhong Cai blinked, then tiptoed and kissed Wu Shaogan on the lips.
Who's afraid of who! Let's be cheesy together!
Wu Shaogan, seemingly unwilling to be outdone, kissed Zhong Cai again.
Zhong Cai immediately returned the favor!
The two of them kissed each other so much that Zhong Cai's anger gradually dissipated.
At this moment, Wu Shaogan smiled and said, "I'll leave the matter of the Yin-Yang Pearl to A-Cai."
Zhong Cai wrinkled her nose and snorted, "Of course!"
Despite her anger and dissatisfaction with the evil path's waste of resources, Zhong Cai still had faith in the end.
He felt that he could gradually purify the Yin-Yang Pearl.
It might be difficult to achieve at the level of a seventh-grade alchemist, but that's alright. Old Wu is not short of resources right now. He will try his best to completely solve the problem for Old Wu at the level of an eighth-grade alchemist at most!
Thinking of this, Zhong Cai's mood calmed down a lot.
He will treat this as another major challenge and work on it step by step.
Although the process of conquering it will consume a lot of resources... but that's okay, he still has the simulation room, so he won't go bankrupt.
Seeing Zhong Cai's expression gradually relax, Wu Shaogan smiled slightly as well.
The Daoist partner before me has always looked like a young man, lively and energetic, and his personality has never changed. It's wonderful.
Wu Shaogan's fingers, which were cupping Zhong Cai's face, suddenly moved, and he pinched Zhong Cai's cheek.
Zhong Cai looked at Wu Shaogan helplessly.
Wu Shaogan pinched it again.
Zhong Cai: "..."
He stood on tiptoe again and bit Wu Shaogan's cheek.
You pinch me, I bite you, who can say that their feelings for each other aren't deep enough?
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After the two played around for a while, Zhong Cai's gloom completely dissipated.
The couple now need to figure out how to retrieve the Yin-Yang Pearl.
Zhong Cai took out a box about the size of a palm, covered with all sorts of strange patterns and many ancient characters... its level even reached the ninth level.
This is a type of confinement and isolation artifact, specifically designed to contain things containing terrifying poisons, strange energies, or anything else whose slightest leakage of power would cause great damage to lower levels.
Zhong Cai specifically chose this option from among several guaranteed rewards because she was worried that once her strength increased, she would encounter more dangerous things and wouldn't be able to properly store them away.
Looking back now, it's clear that this foresight was indeed the right thing to do.
This "Heavenly Lock Box" is indeed very suitable for storing this Yin-Yang Pearl, which has also reached the ninth level!
In this way, the evil pollution surrounding the Yin-Yang Pearl will be sealed inside the box, waiting for Zhong Cai to try to resolve it using various methods.
Wu Shao chuckled dryly and said, "The Heavenly Lock Box is just right. But before that, the Blood Pool should be cleaned up."
Zhong Cai nodded in agreement: "Who knows if some evil sects will discover this place in the future? If they come too, this blood pool might actually be a great help to them in strengthening their forces. We absolutely cannot let it remain!"
However, this blood pool has existed for countless millennia. How should we deal with it?
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan both began to ponder.
A moment later, the two looked at each other and said almost in unison, "Snow Vine!"
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Snow Vine, a rare and precious medicinal herb of grade eight.
Strictly speaking, its name should be "Hyperth-Swallowing Vine".
It is a rare medicinal vine that has a great fondness for devouring flesh and blood. Whether it is human flesh or animal flesh, as long as it is rich in energy, it will grow continuously and bear the beautiful snow fruit as the energy of the flesh and blood it devours increases.
In fact, the couple had more than just the Snow Vine as a precious medicinal herb that blooms and bears fruit by devouring flesh and blood. However, this vine had an advantage: it could rapidly grow countless vines to increase its devouring speed, and it was not afraid of any special energy it might contain.
For example, if other precious medicines were to consume this blood pool energy, which was clearly processed by evil methods and was considered very malevolent, some subtle mutations might occur. It was also possible that the usable precious medicines obtained from its blossoming and fruiting would also be contaminated by this energy... meaning they would not be able to fully digest it.
But the snow vine would not.
Regardless of what kind of flesh and blood this precious medicine consumes, the resulting Snowflake Fruit may contain some residual energy, but the one that is ultimately obtained and truly usable as medicine is always the pure Snowflake Fruit.
In short, they are not picky eaters at all.
Such precious medicinal herbs are naturally best suited for raising in this place.
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The couple thought of Yan Xue Teng together and smiled happily at each other.
Zhong Cai said, "There's no time to lose, I'll release the Snow Vine right now!"
At this point, he suddenly looked at Wu Shaogan with a somewhat subtle expression.
Wu Shao chuckled dryly and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhong Cai said with a laugh, "I hadn't noticed before, but the Snow Vine has already started causing trouble in its valley."
Wu Shaogan raised an eyebrow and immediately smiled as well.
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To avoid being unable to enter the ancient city in time, the ancient city had already turned into dust and landed on Zhong Cai after he arrived at the ruins.
When the couple arrived here, they encountered the Blood Pool. Zhong Cai even flirted with Wu Shaogan for a while, so they didn't realize that several rare medicines in the ancient city that could devour flesh and blood were agitated because of the presence of the Blood Pool.
However, compared to the others, the Snow Vine was the most troublesome.
For other rare herbs, consuming the blood pool might cause some uncontrollable changes, so they hesitate. It is only because the blood pool itself has enormous energy that they are instinctively excited.
For Yan Xue Teng, this was nothing short of a feast!
Yan Xue Teng wished she could jump out immediately and claim the entire blood pool for herself!
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Zhong Cai rubbed her temples and couldn't help but say, "We need to feed it now."
Wu Shao chuckled dryly, "Then let them out."
Zhong Cai sensed the vibrant energy of the snow vine and sent her thoughts to the ancient city.
With Zhong Cai's permission, Yan Xue Teng almost couldn't wait to pull all its roots out of the soil!
The next moment, it burst out of the ancient city like a grotesque octopus with its claws outstretched!
Zhong Cai almost got smeared in the face—this was Yan Xue Teng expressing her joy and gratitude!
Fortunately, Wu Shaogan intervened in time and blocked the bright red snow vine with his arm.
Yan Xue Teng clung to Wu Shaogan's arm for a short while, then frantically headed towards the blood pool!
In fact, the Snow Vine itself is not very big, only about the length of an arm, and has only eight vines—so it really looked like an octopus before—now it has fallen to the edge of the blood pool, and the entire vine is really tiny compared to the blood pool.
But in the next instant, the roots of the Snow Vine stretched out rapidly and plunged directly into the blood pool!
In that instant, the Zhong and Wu couple seemed to hear Yan Xue Teng's satisfied sigh—
Of course, this is an illusion.
But the moment the roots of the Snow Vine entered the blood pool, its tendrils stretched out, appearing quite content.
It made it seem like you were hallucinating.
However, simply consuming the roots is not enough.
After the snow vines spread out their branches, each branch plunged neatly into the pool.
The next instant, fine blood streaks appeared on the originally snow-white vines, quickly forming a blood-red network within the vines, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, dyeing the entire vines red.
Meanwhile, the blood in the pool rippled slightly, but there wasn't much of a reaction.
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After witnessing this scene, Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan walked to the side and sat down against the corner of the wall.
The two of them stood close together, holding hands and admiring the scene before them.
...They walked this far precisely to avoid having to keep moving around later.
Sure enough, in just a few breaths, all the vines were dyed red!
Immediately afterwards, a short "poof" sound came from the Snow Vine.
With that sound, a small bud appeared on the Snow Vine, and a new, snow-white vine quickly sprouted from it.
The vine also burrowed into the pool of blood, rapidly devouring everything in its path.
Immediately afterward, just as Yanxue Teng had estimated how abundant the energy in the pool was, many buds reappeared at the base of the original vines before the new vines had even fully turned red.
A casual count reveals dozens.
New vines sprout from each bud, and all of them are submerged in the blood pool the moment they are "born".
In this extremely short time, the vines transformed from an octopus-like explosion into a dense, intricate web, frantically devouring everything.
With so many vines assisting, the blood in the pool finally showed signs of decreasing "water level".
And this is far from the end.
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The couple sat together and, while idly counting the number of vines of the beautiful snow vine, began to count them.
Zhong Cai thought for a moment and said, "Old Wu, this Snow Vine can only produce a maximum of eighty-one vines, right? It seems that they have all grown out now, and it has reached its end."
Wu Shaogan thought for a moment and replied, "When we first drew this item, it was a heavily damaged version, with only a few vines left. We've been trying to heal it. It's just that it needs too much flesh and blood, so it hasn't fully recovered yet. Now is a good opportunity, as the lost vines have all been restored."
This is actually one of the reasons why the two of them thought of Yan Xue Teng first.
Because this precious herb requires a lot of energy to heal, there's no harm in using the blood pool here.
Zhong Cai rested her chin on her hand and said, "However, I've heard that there's a very small chance that the Snow Vine can mutate towards level nine through consuming a large amount of food and some stimulation."
Wu Shaogan turned his head to look at Zhong Cai and said, "I haven't heard of that before."
Zhong Cai then explained to Wu Shaogan in detail: "The mutated level nine Snow Vine is actually called Snow Vine. There is no limit to the number of vines, the highest level of fruit can reach level nine, and the defense of the vine skin is also stronger... There are no other differences."
Wu Shaogan said, "Then let's hope that the Blood Pool can successfully assist the Snow Vine in its mutation."
Zhong Cai thought so too.
Therefore, both husband and wife cast encouraging thoughts upon Yan Xue Teng.
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The Snow Vine had been living in the valley the two had prepared for it, and since the two of them provided it with food, it naturally became quite affectionate towards them.
Now encouraged, it devours things even faster with its vines!
After all the vines turned blood red, they began to grow larger and thicker.
From being about the size of a soybean in diameter, it gradually grew to be as thick as a finger and a wrist...
Now, in just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, all the vines have grown to a diameter of more than a foot!
If the previous Snow Vine only occupied a small corner of the blood pool and kept devouring, then now, after spreading its vines, the Snow Vine is like a terrifying monster, plunging into the blood pool and frantically drawing out all the blood.
Each vine was almost as thick as a water tank!
It was so enormous that even if it were arched up, the area above the blood pool would not be able to contain it.
Therefore, the vines could only spread outwards.
It keeps spreading out...
Soon, they gradually approached the four walls.
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan had moved to the side long ago, so the spread of the vines had no effect on them.
On the contrary, when a vine came to Zhong Wufu, Zhong Cai even gave him a "good luck" gesture.
The vines couldn't understand this, but they could sense the couple's emotions.
So all the vines began to devour and dance with great joy!
Zhong Caihe and Wu Shaogan: "..."
The vines are dancing wildly, it's so cool!
And so, the two continued to watch it all unfold.
Waiting for the blood pool to completely dry up.
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Yan Xue Teng did not disappoint the two, and in just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, she swallowed all the blood in the pool.
No, perhaps it can't be said to be completely clean.
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan both discovered that several vines had cautiously emerged from the pond, and that each bud at the very tip of the vine was carefully "containing" a perfectly round drop of blood.
Each blood droplet was about the size of a pigeon egg and exuded an incredibly powerful aura.
There are nine in total.
There is only one reason why the Snow Vine has not completely devoured it.
Its level is insufficient to devour quickly.
These nine blood beads should all be level nine essence blood!
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan immediately stood up and went to the front of the bright red snow vine to carefully examine the essence blood.
Huh?
These nine drops of blood essence were mostly uncontaminated?
Zhong Cai thought about it for a moment and then realized it wasn't so strange after all.
After all, it's a level nine substance, so it's normal that it's difficult to contaminate with ordinary methods. Something must have happened here afterward, and there wasn't time to set up more methods, which is why most of this essence blood has remained clean until now.
So……
Zhong Cai raised her hand, allowing the vines to deliver the essence blood closer.
Wu Shaogan and Zhong Cai observed together.
Both of them were astonished to discover that among these essence bloodstains, three came from human cultivators, three from rare beasts, and three from savage beasts.
Moreover, the three that were contaminated happened to belong to the savage beasts.
this……
It goes without saying that human cultivators are even more difficult to corrupt, and many ninth-tier rare beasts have also developed intelligence.
Zhong took out several bottles and said to Yan Xue Teng, "Give me both the human and rare beast ones. You can slowly refine the three beast essence bloodstains and strive to reach the ninth level as soon as possible."
The Snow Vine, being very intelligent, carefully placed the six essence bloods that Zhong Cai wanted into different bottles upon hearing this. The remaining three essence bloods from the savage beasts were wrapped up again by its leaf buds, leaving a trace for refining.
Zhong Cai then waved to the bright red snow vine again.
The snow vine seemed to transform into a stream of light, returning to the valley of the ancient city.
Next, it will spend a lot of time in "seclusion" to strive for further progress.
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Zhong Cai put the stoppers back on all six bottles and said to Wu Shaogan, "I'm thinking of selling all this essence blood to the sect."
Wu Shaogan nodded in agreement.
Perhaps some information about ancient cultivators can be extracted from the human blood essence. It would be more appropriate to give it to the two leaders to handle, as it would be of no use to them... Perhaps that information can bring some benefits to the sect.
Based on their understanding of the Lingxian Sect and the War God Palace, the two forces would not overlook the disciples' contributions, and if there were any benefits to be gained, they would certainly share some of them.
As for the essence and blood of rare beasts...
Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan had both considered selling them in the Land of All Beings.
But on second thought, he decided to sell it to the sect.
These rare beast essences all come from scaled creatures, and neither of the two, including Wu Dongxiao, has any use for them. So it would be better for the sect to identify them, determine their species, and then put them up for sale to the talented disciples of the two forces.
The stronger the contracted beasts of the sect's geniuses, the stronger the younger generation will be and the higher their chances of survival, which will greatly benefit both factions.
With greater power, the couple's lives will be more stable.
and……
The greater their contributions, the more willing the two factions will be to resolve any future trouble caused by Dongxiao's offspring.
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Zhong Cai carefully put away the bottle of semen.
Wu Shaogan accompanied Zhong Cai back to the edge of the blood pool.
Now, they're going to put away the Yin-Yang Beads.
Zhong Cai opened the lid of the lock box and aimed it at the Yin-Yang Bead.
The next instant, the Yin-Yang Pearl seemed to be lifted up by an invisible force of attraction and disappeared directly into the box.
Zhong Cai slammed the lid of the lockbox shut.
knock off!
Everything we found in this cave has been taken care of!
The couple searched the surrounding area again and, as usual, collected a lot of research materials.
Then, the two headed out of the cave together.
On the way out, there will still be many crises, as well as attacks from ferocious beasts coming from other directions.
But still, none of them could match the two.
Zhong Cai was actually a little puzzled, so she said, "The highest-level mutated beast in this cave is only level seven, but the Yin-Yang Pearl is level nine..."
Wu Shaogan pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps the heretical sects used some kind of trick in their early years."
Zhong Cai thought about it and felt it made a lot of sense.
Neither of them bothered to get to the bottom of it.
With Zhong Cai on his back, Wu Shaogan quickly resolved all the crises and gradually approached the outside of the cave.
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Inside the ruins, outside a swamp.
A tall, thin, black-clad cultivator struggled to pull his foot out, then slapped the savage lizard that was trying to drag him into the swamp, turning it into a bloody mist.
A row of human puppets stood quietly to the side, and at this moment, as if they had smelled something particularly delicious, they quickly absorbed the blood mist.
Not far away, two other cultivators dressed similarly waited, speaking impatiently as they spoke:
"Old ghost Yin, what are you dawdling for?"
"If you don't hurry up, and things don't get done, the patriarch will blame you, and you'll be in big trouble!"
The black-clad cultivator said indignantly, "If you hadn't kicked me earlier, would I have fallen into this swamp? If the Ancestor really wants to punish someone, it will be you!"
The other two cultivators snorted and stopped arguing with him.
The group was quite unhappy, but after they reunited, they quickly fled forward.
The puppets followed at lightning speed.
As they walked, the cultivators began arguing, exchanging thoughts through their souls.
Alright, everyone behave yourselves this time. What we're going to retrieve is a treasure left behind by the Ancient Blood Sacrifice Alliance!
[Exactly! The ancestor must have gone through countless schemes to uncover the secrets of this place!]
However, I've heard that righteous cultivators have already discovered this place, so we need to hurry.
[What we need to retrieve this time is very important. Our ancestor has already made arrangements; the one we're going to assassinate is the righteous one...]
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