Chapter 243 Triple Bewitching Trap: Black Cloud Cordyceps (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
"It is a bronze snake puppet, one of the masterpieces of the senior in the Puppet Dao of this cave."
Taki was still surprised, but then offered another explanation.
Pulling Wang Yu along, they continued speeding forward. This action truly startled him; he was so close! He almost unleashed the Soul-Shattering Finger!!
They were still in the bronze passage they had just been in, as if they had jumped from one passage to another, essentially still in a maze.
There was just one more giant bronze serpent chasing after them.
The snake puppet's speed wasn't too fast. With the speed of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a slight increase in true essence would be enough to surpass the bronze snake puppet, showing that its essence was still to break the illusion.
The rumbling noise only added some extra pressure.
Wang Yu broke free from Long Yiran's hand and said softly, "Please, Fellow Daoist Long, do not touch others casually. Doing so can be fatal in Chiyuan."
Taki was still taken aback: "...I...I understand."
Obviously.
This person is also a cultivator from Taihu Lake, otherwise he wouldn't be so 'honest'. He doesn't dislike dealing with honest people.
Taki probably won't stay in Chiyuan for very long, and he'll spend most of his time in these sparsely populated places. At most, he'll stay for ten or twenty years.
Wang Yu guessed that her status was not as high as that noble lady from Taihu Lake, and she was just a rogue cultivator from Taihu Lake. She must have come to complete the inheritance, and perhaps she had some kind of story with the Ruan family of Poison Scorpion City on the way.
After all, it depends on temperament, habits, and reactions under pressure.
They are all naturally different from the native Red Kite cultivators.
Whenever this happens, Wang Yu can't help but think that if he had encountered a cultivator with this kind of temperament when he returned to Shihu City, he might not have returned to Chiyuan. This possibility is extremely high.
Unfortunately, he encountered Changxi and Lan Boting.
"Brother Wang, this should be a multi-layered maze, overlapping up to three times. We have already passed the first layer and are currently in the second. Give me some time."
"No problem."
The wide bronze passage was almost completely filled with the giant snakes chasing behind. With a wave of Wang Yu's hand, large swathes of ice crystals formed within the passage.
It quickly formed an ice wall, consuming a small amount of true essence to generate hard, cold ice barbs.
When the bronze serpent puppet caught up, it smashed the ice wall to pieces with its ferocious momentum, but its speed was inevitably slowed down considerably.
I continued gliding forward, only to get stuck again by a large number of blackened ice spikes.
After crashing through the foremost obstacle, its forward momentum almost came to a standstill.
The darker the ice crystals, the more true essence Wang Yu injected, and the harder the ice became, thanks to the double baptism of the Yellow Springs power and the Xuanbing Bed.
A newly developed technique for using True Essence perfectly utilizes the extreme cold characteristics of True Essence. When integrated into offensive techniques, its power is greatly amplified.
The same technique is more powerful in his hands than in others, which is a fundamental difference and a manifestation of the quality of his true essence.
"Click-click-click—"
After this obstruction, the bronze serpent puppet emitted the sound of its internal mechanisms turning, a rune appeared on its head, and its body began to rotate segment by segment.
Its adaptability should not be underestimated.
"Found it!"
At this moment, Taki suddenly shouted and rushed over to grab Wang Yu's wrist, but hesitated for a moment when he thought of the conversation just now.
Wang Yu quickly replied, "I'll go with you."
Taki breathed a sigh of relief: "Alright, walk the Seven Star Steps to the north, then the Yang Steps to the southwest, the Li and Xun Steps to the west, the first Yuan Begins, open!"
Wang Yu was a little confused, but he could follow along. With a small total volume, it wasn't difficult.
Just as the bronze serpent puppet broke through the black ice seal, the two of them broke through the second layer of the bewitching trap and disappeared into the wall.
The third level is no longer an endless bronze passage.
This is a bronze plaza resembling a secret chamber, square and box-like, with bronze serpent statues hanging on all four walls.
"Could those four here also be snake puppets?"
Taki quickly manipulated the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches chart in his hand and said swiftly, "Ten breaths! Ten breaths will be enough."
Mysterious characters spread out, imprinting a larger directional disk beneath their feet, and the pointers formed from true essence spun rapidly.
Wang Yu held his breath, and the eyes of the snake puppets on the four walls lit up with red light. They rumbled over, going from stillness to revival in just two breaths.
Crunch, crunch—
The black ice spread out from Wang Yu as the center. He swallowed a top-grade Rejuvenation Pill and infused the Ice Coffin Curse with his extreme cold true essence. Suddenly, the five giant walls of black ice closed in.
It was like a cage, protecting the two of them inside.
Three breaths later, the four bronze snake puppets crashed into the black ice cage simultaneously. The force of their attack was almost at the third level, and cracks immediately appeared in the cage.
It only lasted until the sixth breath, when, with the snake puppet's tail strike, all four sides of the ice wall tilted inward and eventually collapsed completely.
It didn't break, but the structural support structure seems to have a problem.
It should have been made into a triangular, sloping shape, not a square one like the Ice Coffin Curse...
At the critical moment, Wang Yu activated the Ghostly Flute's ghostly power. The moment the black ripples spread out, hundreds of Soul-Devouring Crows, transformed from human and demon souls, appeared.
They flew out with a cawing sound, and most of them possessed the aura of the second tier. Upon seeing this, Wang Yu also poured his own divine sense into the magic weapon.
Together with the True Essence and hundreds of Soul-Devouring Crows, it formed an extremely exaggerated Lamenting Heart-Severing Blade. If anyone were watching the battle, they would probably be overcome with grief and unable to hold back their tears.
This is what makes the Heart-Severing Blade so special—it can trigger the deepest, most painful memories of the past. Unfortunately, it's used against an ancient puppet, so you can only rely on its brute force!
A terrifying black blade nearly a kilometer long swept out, knocking away the two bronze snake puppets in front and to the right. Facing the snake puppets attacking from the rear and left, Wang Yu revealed a sinister smile.
With a wave of his hands, two enormous Xuan Yin hands attached themselves to the outside of his arms, grabbing the snake puppet's tail, and a deafening roar erupted!
The dragon spine erupted, actually flinging them away.
"Ten breaths... We're here."
"It's done!"
Taki unleashed several True Essence Finger Techniques in succession, striking various points on the ground.
Just as the snake puppets pounced, a spatial fluctuation enveloped the two of them, and their figures vanished in an instant.
"This is an ancient teleportation array. Nowadays, due to the lack of high-level spiritual objects of spatial type, it is very difficult to create a new one. Almost all of them are using the ones left over from the past."
These words were spoken by Taki Yiran.
If there is a small teleportation array, then there must be a large teleportation array.
Unfortunately, almost all the ancient teleportation arrays were destroyed during the Blood Demon Rebellion. There are some that remain from ancient times, but it is difficult to confirm their location through historical records.
Upon hearing this, Wang Yu did not reply, but instead observed the surrounding environment. This place was still underground, but not under the "White Snake Depression," indicating that it had been moved quite a distance away.
This underground space has become teeming with life, and the air is filled with a misty, spiritual atmosphere.
It seems that after surviving the three layers of bewilderment, the harvest stage has arrived. The cave owner who set up the test is quite lenient and not the kind of person who is strict.
The ground here is full of rare medicinal herbs. Although most of them are poisonous, they are still rare and valuable.
With a quick glance, he saw three kinds of third-tier spiritual herbs.
The effort was absolutely worth it.
At this moment—
Long Yiran said, "Brother Wang, the inheritance is inside the ancient stone carvings over there. Only with the 'guiding scripture' of my sect can one comprehend it. Can we share the spiritual herbs here when I return?"
Wang Yu was slightly surprised. "You're asking me this too?"
Believe it or not, once you enter a state of enlightenment, you will die.
Of course, this was just a joke; the two had signed a contract that prevented them from harming each other.
However, even if he hid a few high-grade spiritual herbs, Long Yiran might not be able to find them. Thinking of this, Wang Yu couldn't help but ask.
How long will it take you to comprehend this?
"It can take anywhere from a few months to several years."
"Tsk—"
"Brother Wang, are you in a difficult position?"
“Of course, it would take that long to wait for you. Why don’t we distribute the spiritual herbs first, and then you can go into seclusion to study them? I will go into seclusion elsewhere to wait for you.”
Taki was still somewhat troubled. At first, Wang Yu didn't understand what she was struggling with, but then he remembered the contents of the contract the two had signed.
The cooperation will only last until they leave the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest. If Wang Yu goes out and comes back during her comprehension process, and she is kept in the dark, then it will be dangerous.
It seems she is still wary of people and is not as innocent as the noble ladies of Taihu Lake.
She wanted to delay the distribution of the elixirs to ensure that Wang Yu would not leave the place casually during the process of enlightenment.
Thanks to the small teleportation array, when leaving, there's no need to walk the same path as before; you can simply use the Earth Travel Technique to ascend.
"OK."
Having figured this out, Wang Yu agreed to her request, while holding up one finger.
"I won't touch the third-tier spiritual herbs, but I'll directly pick and consume the second-tier ones to enhance my cultivation. I'll refine them for as long as you can comprehend them, how about that?"
Wang Yu has already seen it.
This underground medicinal garden is affected by the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest, and most of the spiritual herbs are poisonous. Among them are the Black Cloud Cordyceps that Wang Yu has been longing for, but there are only five of them.
It is a rare spiritual medicine that can increase true essence. It wouldn't be a loss to refine it here for a while.
As for refining it into pills before consuming it, he already has the top-grade Ice Spirit Pill, and he cannot use any more pills in combination. It would be better to refine the most original spiritual power.
It can remain unaffected.
Long Yiran had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and what was most important to her was Core Formation. Those third-tier spiritual items were the key, so she did not refuse.
A win-win situation has been achieved!
Next, Taki went to study the ancient stone carvings, and Wang Yu also picked all five Black Cordyceps. This stuff is poisonous, and only he could swallow it directly using the Immaculate Jade Toad.
Otherwise, other methods must be used to wash away the poison before it can be swallowed and refined.
The first attempt took nearly fifty days.
He successfully digested the first Black Cordyceps, increasing his true essence by eighty drops. The effect was quite powerful, comparable to his years of arduous cultivation!
"I really need to look for more of these kinds of opportunities. I simply can't buy spiritual items that are too rare, given the quantity sold by Tianbao Pavilion and Jinmanlou."
Muttering to himself, Wang Yu took out the Myriad Spirit Poison Marrow.
This magical item can be used one last time, so let's use it now.
Cultivating underground for a while wouldn't be bad.
(End of this chapter)
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