svetikya Chapter 22 Stone Gall and Human Essence Fruit: Ghostly cultivators who don't play with ghosts a
Chapter 22 Stone Gall and Human Essence Fruit: Ghostly cultivators who don't play with ghosts a
Zhao Tianpeng noticed that the strange phenomenon had grown slightly larger than before.
"Can the power of an ominous curse accelerate the formation of the phenomenon?"
He looked at the remaining stone tools, leaving only two stone mills that reflected the Daoist rhythm and had a strange vitality flowing within them. He cut open the remaining stone tools one by one, and found red hairs inside many of the hollowed-out stones. He took these red hairs in his hands and absorbed all the ominous curse power within them, turning it into nourishment for the strange phenomena.
After dealing with the red-haired guy, he looked at the cut-out items in silence. Even though he knew that many of the treasures inside the stones had had their essence devoured by the Source God and Source Ghost, he still felt a pang of heartache looking at the two petrified Primordial Divine Medicines and Earth Fate Fruits. Damn it, those two bastards, Source God and Source Ghost, my Primordial Divine Medicines and Earth Fate Fruits!
The most precious parts of the stones that Master Yuan found were all ruined by these two beasts.
"Damn it, don't let me catch you two again, or I'll definitely use you two to refine a batch of Ghost Dao Pills alive!"
Zhao Tianpeng put away the petrified ancient divine medicine, the earth-life fruit, and the unknown fruit, just in case they could be saved in the future.
As for the two stone artifacts he had left, their life force was so strong that it could be seen even through the Originium skin that they were undoubtedly Stone Gall and Human Essence Fruit.
The Stone Gallbladder can be used to cultivate the Origin Heaven Divine Eye, but this particular Stone Gallbladder has not yet matured and turned golden. Although the Human Origin Fruit has matured, it can continue to be nurtured into the Earth Fate Fruit, also known as the False Dragon Pearl. That is a treasure no less valuable than the Primordial Divine Medicine. If conditions permit, it can even transform into the Heavenly God Fruit, but unfortunately, the rules of this world are insufficient to support such a transformation. To transform into the Heavenly God Fruit, one must go to the Immortal Realm.
The two stone artifacts he left behind, as long as he nourished them with divine essence, could mature the stone gall into a golden stone gall, and the human essence fruit could also be transformed into an earth life fruit. He could take out this amount of divine essence, after all, he was not a big consumer like the Ancient Sacred Body, and did not need to consume large amounts of essence.
The next day, Zhao Tianpeng stepped out of the stone house and saw Zhang Wuye bowing to a mountain thousands of meters high on the horizon as the sun rose. With his eyesight, he could clearly see that the mountain was a pure stone mountain, without soil or vegetation. The mountain was purplish-brown all over, as if it had been polished from dark purple gold, heavy and solemn. It was his destination, Purple Mountain.
"Master Zhang, I heard you are a descendant of Master Yuan. Your family should have artifacts made from the source skin passed down from Master Yuan, right?"
Master Zhang was taken aback upon hearing this: "Yes, there are some, but they're all used for tracing sources. You want to trace sources in this area?"
"To be honest, there aren't many main mineral deposits around here, just some scattered pieces, and we've already mined most of them out."
Zhao Tianpeng pointed to the mountains on the horizon: "I'm not here to find the source, I'm going to enter Purple Mountain."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Master Zhang was horrified: "You can't go! You can't go!"
"The Zhang family ancestor once said that it was an ominous place, and no one in the entire Northern Region could do anything about it."
"A thousand years ago, one of my Zhang family ancestors disobeyed the family precepts and entered that mountain. He never came out again, and even the family heirloom, the Source Book, was lost inside."
"That's a demonic mountain; we can't go in."
Zhao Tianpeng knew the situation inside, of course. He shook his head and said firmly, "I must enter Zishan."
"Please lend me the Source Stone artifact, Master Zhang."
"you....."
Seeing Zhao Tianpeng's expression, Master Zhang knew he couldn't persuade him. He could only sigh, go into the room, and drag out an old box. Inside was a set of stone clothes made of divine source stone pieces strung together. It was simple and unadorned, neatly folded, with a stone pendant, a stone knife, and an astrolabe placed underneath.
Zhao Tianpeng held the stone garment in his hand, but didn't take the rest: "I only need the stone garment."
He only wanted the stone garment for the purpose of gaining the ability to see ghosts; as for warding off evil spirits, who would avoid whom was still uncertain.
"Little girl, will you wait for me in the stone village?"
Zhao Tianpeng planned to go to Zishan alone, leaving the Purgatory Pagoda to protect the little girl. In this remote and impoverished place, it would be enough to keep her safe.
"But the little girl wants to stay with her older brother."
The little girl looked at Zhao Tianpeng with some unease, afraid that he would abandon her.
Zhao Tianpeng's heart softened when he saw the little girl's expression, so he gave up the idea of leaving her in the stone village and decided to take her into the Fire God Furnace later.
"Okay, you'll come with me."
He bid farewell to Master Zhang with his happy little girl, and set off on his divine rainbow towards the location where Zhang Jiye, the ancestor of the Zhang family, had entered Zishan.
To enter Zishan, one must go through the dragon path dug out from the nine dragon veins that guard the pearl. The tall stone ridge to the east is bare, reddish-brown, without any vegetation, and has a hint of purple, similar to Zishan.
After searching through the mountains, he discovered the ancient mine where Zhang Jiye entered the Dragon Path a thousand years ago. He immediately took Xiao Nannan and transformed into a divine rainbow to enter the mine, falling three thousand meters to reach the bottom of the mine.
He led his little girl along the mine tunnels that had been carved out hundreds of thousands of years ago. After walking for several miles, a flapping sound suddenly came from ahead. A humanoid bat, about two meters tall with a wingspan of four meters, flapped its wings and rushed from the front of the ancient mine. It was a demon bat.
As the demonic bat approached, a bright light shone from its mouth as if it were about to spew something forth.
Zhao Tianpeng neither dodged nor evaded. Holding the little girl in one hand, he raised the other hand and grabbed it. Divine power surged out and transformed into a large hand, which grabbed the demonic bat and crushed its form.
The offspring of these bats, who cultivated themselves into powerful beings, were diluted through dozens or even hundreds of generations of bloodline, and were not worthy of even a glance from him.
After venturing more than ten miles further, he encountered hundreds of demonic bats. He opened his mouth and spat out a dazzling divine light. In the blink of an eye, the swooping demonic bats continued to attack, but their bodies were broken into pieces and turned into ashes.
After traveling another thirty miles or so, the ground was covered with a thick layer of grayish-white ashes. The further they went, the heavier the yin energy became. However, this icy and bone-chilling yin energy made Zhao Tianpeng feel extremely comfortable, and even his pores opened up to breathe in and out the yin energy.
After walking several hundred meters, the ashes on the ground disappeared, replaced by a dense mass of dry bones. Zhao Tianpeng used his divine power to pick up a bone, examined it, and gently squeezed it, turning it into ashes.
"It's a pity that the essence of his bones has long been lost, otherwise he could have been a reserve of talent."
"Waaah..."
Just then, a cold wind howled, and shadowy figures appeared among the pile of bones, their forms faint and indistinct.
Zhao Tianpeng immediately saw through the true nature of these ghostly figures; they were merely remnants of spirits nourished by yin energy, and of little value.
"Splash!"
Amidst the pile of bones ahead, the sound of iron chains rang out, accompanied by a chilling aura. This piqued Zhao Tianpeng's interest. He walked forward for about a hundred feet and found a dark, deep hole in the rock wall of the mine. The sound of the iron chains swaying was coming from inside.
"Such a strong aura of malevolence."
The malevolent energy within the deep cave materialized and overflowed, creating a chilling aura. From the depths of the black hole, a barely audible roar echoed, accompanied by the rattling of iron chains, as if a ferocious creature had been imprisoned. Among the withered bones, many remnants of ghostly spirits were shattered by the roar, turning into malevolent energy that was absorbed into the black hole.
"Interesting, it's become a vengeful spirit of the climate?"
"If the quality is good, perhaps a fierce spirit can be refined. It's not quite right for a ghost cultivator not to play with ghosts."