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Chapter 237 A Great Harvest! Establishing the Foundation of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect (Part Two)

Lan Canghai possessed a powerful divine soul, which is why Zhou Qing encountered strong resistance when he used his dream-entering technique.

Fortunately, he was in a near-death state with depleted life force; otherwise, his attempt to use the dream-entering technique would likely have failed.

Although the entire process did not last long, ending with Lan Canghai's death, Zhou Qing still gained some crucial information in the dream.

Lan Canghai's experiences are more exciting than those of many protagonists in novels.

He lost both his parents when he was very young and was exploited by the villagers, becoming a homeless beggar.

Later, the followers of the Witch God Cult took in orphans. After Lan Canghai was brought back to the Witch God Cult, he was found to possess a martial arts spirit body. The previous leader of the Witch God Cult adopted him as his godson and personally trained him.

However, when Lan Canghai came of age, the previous leader, while he was away, concealed his identity and used an extremely cruel secret technique called "Spirit Stealing Technique" to plunder his spirit, causing Lan Canghai to suffer severe damage to his vital energy, his physical constitution to be downgraded from a spiritual body to a superior one, and his status to plummet.

However, Lan Canghai did not succumb to despair.

On the contrary, after discovering that the mastermind was the previous leader, he remained outwardly calm and, with his superb acting skills, served the previous leader diligently for decades, finally making the previous leader lower his guard.

After regaining the other party's trust, Lan Canghai did not let his guard down at all. When the previous leader publicly announced that he was going into seclusion to break through the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, he refrained from making a move.

It wasn't until the previous leader challenged Wan Shentong, the old leader of the Five Poisons Sect, to a duel, and was defeated and wounded, that Lan Canghai delivered the fatal blow, severing his limbs and turning him into a human pig, imprisoning him in a medicine vat.

Unfortunately, cultivating the 'Spirit-Seizing Technique' takes a long time, and it can only be used once in a lifetime. When used, it cannot seize all of the opponent's innate bones.

When the previous leader seized Lan Canghai's spirit, he suffered some damage in the process and did not awaken his spirit.

When Lan Canghai used the "Spirit-Stealing Technique" on the previous leader, the opponent was already exhausted and his physical strength was further depleted during the process, which resulted in Lan Canghai's physical strength barely recovering to the super level.

As for the bronze cauldron that Lan Canghai possessed, it was called the Divine Wood King Cauldron, which was originally a third-tier divine weapon.

Back then, after Lan Canghai's spirit body was taken away and he regained the trust of the previous leader, he was attacked by a large number of water ghosts on a trip to the territory of the Giant Kun Gang. He was accidentally drifted to the mouth of the Blackwater River.

As a result, he encountered two terrifying sea beasts at the estuary, both at least at the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top stage. The two sea beasts fought fiercely for the azure pearl and unexpectedly perished together in the end.

Although one of the sea monsters fell into the deep sea, Lan Canghai obtained the remains of the other sea monster, and the azure bead also fell into his hands.

With the help of the remains of the sea beast at the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top realm, Lan Canghai not only recovered his vitality, but also made further progress in his cultivation.

Unfortunately, Lan Canghai never knew what the purpose of that azure bead was.

Later, he imprisoned the old leader and became the new leader. Naturally, the sacred weapon of the Witch God Cult, the Divine Wood King Cauldron, fell into his hands.

After Lan Canghai took control of the Divine Wood King, he discovered that the azure bead had developed a special connection with the Divine Wood King Cauldron. The two unexpectedly merged, creating a self-contained space within the Divine Wood King Cauldron, which could then absorb the power of heaven and earth.

The Divine Wood King Cauldron thus gained immense power, far surpassing third-tier divine weapons and approaching the power of legendary Xuan weapons. However, using the Divine Wood King Cauldron once consumes a huge amount of energy and requires the sacrifice of a large number of living beings, which is why Lan Canghai cannot use the Divine Wood King Cauldron frequently.

However, even so, Lan Canghai's cultivation level improved by leaps and bounds, surpassing the older generation of top experts such as Wan Shentong and Su Tiancheng.

Lan Canghai's ego gradually swelled, and he cultivated many powerful secret techniques. Among the five elements techniques, he directly cultivated four of them: metal, wood, water, and earth.

When he finally mastered the fifth fire-element technique and led the Witch God Sect to become the absolute overlord of the Southern Frontier, suppressing other forces, he realized that he was already nearly eighty years old.

In order to break through the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, he made several preparations, including cultivating the Heavenly Fiend Corpse, hoping to use it as a way to break through the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top first.

Later, when the Heavenly Fiend Corpse was about to be completed, he fought a battle with the old sect master of the Five Poisons Sect. On the surface, they fought to the death, but in reality, he only suffered minor injuries. In this battle, he found the opportunity to break through the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top.

So Lan Canghai decided to break through normally without relying on the Heavenly Fiend Corpse. As a result, the breakthrough failed, his vital energy was damaged, and he had to recuperate for several years with the help of the Divine Wood King Cauldron to recover.

Those refugees who could not survive due to natural disasters and man-made calamities were gathered by the Witch God Cult and taken into the mountains. The reason they never appeared again was that most of them were sacrificed to the Divine Wood King Cauldron, and a small portion became raw materials for refining corpses.

After this failure, Lan Canghai remembered the Heavenly Fiend Corpse. However, his subordinates reported that one of the Heavenly Fiend Corpses, the Supreme Wood Spirit Corpse, had been stolen. This enraged Lan Canghai, who immediately sent people to investigate the matter.

Later, the fragments of the spirit seed appeared in the world. Lan Canghai had not yet recovered to his peak condition. In order to avoid being besieged by Wan Shentong and Su Tiancheng, he did not go there in person, but instead let the vice sect leader Feng Xingyun handle the matter.

Although Feng Xingyun failed to obtain the spirit seed fragment from Zhou Qing due to Wanqi Zongyuan's interference, he managed to seize the spirit seed fragment from another person.

As for the Mad Lion Elder, he was captured by Lan Canghai himself.

Lan Canghai calculated that only two spirit seed fragments were needed to break through to the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, but to be on the safe side, he used three spirit seed fragments at once.

However, it was precisely because of this excessive caution that he failed to break through once again.

Although he practiced the Five Elements techniques, his main cultivation was the Metal-attribute Innate Tai Xuan Sword Qi, which clashed with the Fire attribute. The three fragments of the Spirit Seed disrupted the balance of the Five Elements True Essence within his body, causing him to fail at the crucial moment.

After this failure, Lan Canghai dared not try again and decided to first take back the Wood Spirit Corpse from Zhou Qing.

Just then, he received a message from Wan Guiliu, asking him to help deal with Zhou Qing.

Lan Canghai never imagined that doing something so casually would cost him his life.

"One cannot afford to be careless if one wants to achieve the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top."

After sorting through Lan Canghai's memories, Zhou Qing couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.

If the other party had been more cautious, Zhou Qing would have had no choice but to leave for distant lands once the breakthrough was successful.

Even if Zhou Qing successfully breaks through to the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top realm in a few years, defeating Lan Canghai, who possesses half a fourth-tier Xuan weapon, will not be an easy task.

"One wrong step leads to another; life is only once, and we cannot afford to be careless."

Zhou Qing sighed inwardly, but a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Now all these extraordinary adventures of yours belong to me!"

Zhou Qing searched Lan Canghai's corpse but found nothing resembling the leather bag gu. He thought that the Divine Wood King Cauldron had its own internal space, and that Lan might have kept his personal belongings inside.

Zhou Qing then stored Lan Canghai's body in his storage space.

The corpse of a martial artist who has reached the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top is an excellent raw material, whether for refining Gu or cultivating corpses.

After collecting Lan Canghai's body, Zhou Qing released the Ice Silkworm Gu worms to clean up the battlefield. A lot of Lan Canghai's blood had seeped into the soil, so it couldn't be wasted, since these Ice Silkworm Gu worms would eat anything.

Following the words "Ancestor of the Su Family," Zhou Qing returned to the side of the bronze cauldron, looked at Su Tiancheng, who was broken in two on the ground, and fell into deep thought.

The main credit for his ability to kill Lan Canghai this time lies with Wan Shentong and Su Tiancheng.

He naturally couldn't use Su Tiancheng's corpse to refine Gu, but he also couldn't return it to the Su family, lest it cause unnecessary trouble.

As for finding a place to bury it, that would be somewhat disrespectful.

It would be best to wait until the right time to return it to the Su family.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing used the icy energy of the Ice Soul to freeze Su Tiancheng's body and store it in his storage space. "This is the biggest gain this time."

Zhou Qing looked up at the bronze cauldron. After Lan Canghai died, the bronze cauldron had not changed at all.

As Zhou Qing focused his attention on the bronze cauldron, he vaguely heard a faint voice urging him to come closer.

"It is said that Xuanbing weapons possess extremely high intelligence and can even cultivate on their own, which is fundamentally different from other divine weapons. It seems that this divine weapon has also developed a high level of intelligence and is not far from becoming a Xuanbing weapon."

Zhou Qing felt a chill run down his spine.

At this moment, the jade tablet in his soul suddenly emitted a dazzling divine light, and lines of text appeared in Zhou Qing's vision.

You have obtained a new divine weapon – the Divine Wood King Cauldron.

[Rank: Tier 3 (Spiritual)]

[The Divine Wood Cauldron: Forged from top-grade Blood Essence Stone and a third-tier Stone Goblin Gu, it incorporates an inner core refined for a thousand years by a third-tier Wood Demon, containing the essence of wood and capable of drawing upon the power of wood-attribute heaven and earth. Later, it integrates the natal pearl of a fourth-tier unknown sea beast, possessing its own internal space capable of refining impurities from the power of heaven and earth, providing strong assistance in the cultivation of spiritual herbs and the nurturing of Gu worms.]

[Conditions for Controlling the System: Ten Blood Transfusions, Superior Root Bone, One Hundred Human Sacrifices (Three-Year Minor Sacrifice), Ten Thousand Blood Sacrifice (Jiazi Major Sacrifice)]

[Control Effects: Attract Insects (Tier 3), Gather Yuan (Tier 3), Create Your Own Space (Tier 4), Water and Wood in Harmony (Tier 4)]

"Such demanding requirements!" Zhou Qing frowned as he looked at the information displayed on the Divine Wood King Cauldron.

The requirements for the cultivation level are fairly ordinary, but the requirement for superior physical constitution filters out the vast majority of martial artists.

But the subsequent human sacrifices and blood sacrifices were quite cruel.

Every three years, a hundred people are sacrificed alive; every sixty years, even more than ten thousand are sacrificed by blood. It is simply extremely bizarre.

"I just hope that the requirements for the 'Master of Weapons' profession can be lowered to control the Divine Wood Cauldron."

Zhou Qing thought to himself.

He was somewhat reluctant to give up using such a powerful divine weapon as the Divine Wood King Cauldron.

But if he were really allowed to wield the divine weapon according to these conditions, he wouldn't do something so outrageous.

He could barely manage to sacrifice a hundred people. He had an irreconcilable relationship with the Witch God Cult, and he would not feel any burden at all if he killed more than a hundred martial artists against such an evil cult.

However, a blood sacrifice of ten thousand people would be difficult to arrange, as he could not find that many mortal enemies.

Even if we used mythical beasts instead, we still couldn't find that many.

Moreover, the Divine Wood King Cauldron might not agree to use a mythical beast as a substitute.

"Have it!"

Zhou Qing suddenly realized that he could meet the conditions for the hundred-person human sacrifice, so he should first take control of the Divine Wood King Cauldron.

The grand 60th anniversary of the Jiazi Festival will be sixty years later.

At that time, the Divine Wood King Cauldron might not be of much use to him, and he could simply give it up.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing went to the side of the bronze cauldron and reached out to touch its body.

“I know you have extremely high intelligence and can understand what I am saying.”

"As long as you follow me, I will fulfill all your needs, whether it be human sacrifice or blood sacrifice, I will make you satisfied."

hum!
The Divine Wood King Cauldron emitted a faint, clear sound, and then a vortex appeared on its surface.

"Shall I come in?"

Zhou Qing was taken aback and hesitated. He had not yet fully mastered the Divine Wood King Cauldron with the help of the [Master of Weapons] profession, so he was hesitant to enter the inner space.

Whoosh!
Seeing this, Zhou Qing released his divine golden body and controlled it to enter the inner space of the Divine Wood King Cauldron through the vortex.

"so big!"

Through the perspective of the Divine Power Golden Body, Zhou Qing discovered that he was in a huge space filled with mist, as large as the Black Mountain Town. Not to mention cultivating spiritual herbs and Gu worms inside, even a group of people could live and multiply there and be self-sufficient.

At the same time, many items suddenly appeared out of thin air in the interior space, including weapons, medicinal herbs, secret manuals, silver coins, ores, pills, alchemy furnaces, array flags and other items.

Clearly, these were released by the consciousness of the Wooden King Cauldron, and they were all treasures collected by Lan Canghai.

Zhou Qing had been wanting to buy, but had never had the chance. There were over a hundred of these precious medicinal herbs, including the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, as well as countless other blood-nourishing and vital-strengthening medicines.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Qing discovered a book on alchemy called "The Way of Mending Heaven" among a pile of secret manuals. It contained more than twenty kinds of pills, ranging from first-order to third-order.

That three-legged silver beast alchemy furnace was clearly a first-tier divine weapon.

It seems that Lan Canghai has a high level of expertise in alchemy, as his alchemical texts contain many of his insights.

In addition, he also refined a number of second-tier pills.

"It seems he has placed the most precious possessions of the entire Witch God Cult on himself."

Zhou Qing couldn't help but sigh; he had only glanced at these manuals.

There are more than a dozen different external and internal martial arts techniques. Each internal martial arts technique is of the highest quality, and any one of them would make a Grand Martial Master in the Blood Exchange Realm envious.

"With such a strong foundation, it is no wonder that it is a top power that dominates the southern border."

With so many superior cultivation techniques, Zhou Qing could easily not only develop his own power, but also establish his own sect.

"Lan Canghai is dead. For me, the greatest threat has been eliminated. It seems that I can really start my own sect now!"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

They established their sect directly in the Black Wind Mountain and Yellow Dragon Mountain area, while spreading the belief in the mountain god and developing followers.

A sect that is based on poison techniques and involves martial arts, poison techniques, and the way of gods.

"How about we call it the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect!"

Zhou Qing even thought of the name of the sect at that moment.

His original martial arts techniques came from Wei Sheng, who came from the Five Poisons Sect. Now that he has left the Five Poisons Sect, it is quite reasonable for him to establish the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect in order not to forget his roots.

(End of this chapter)