All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 72 Terrifying Miasma! The Secret of Black Wind Mountain!

Ordinary miasma has no effect on poisonous insects, so it cannot be used to refine gu poison.

Zhou Qing only inhaled a little of the pink miasma before feeling tightness and discomfort in his chest.

His immunity to all poisons came from Erqing. Although he was not as strong as Erqing, he believed that his resistance to toxins was no less than that of a martial artist in the Bone Refining Realm.

"Try it!"

Without further ado, Zhou Qing led Er Qing out of the cave.

Four two-winged golden silkworms trailed behind him, their crimson flames swiftly crawling up Zhou Qing's trouser leg and finally disappearing into his left sleeve.

Once outside the cave, Zhou Qing stood on the edge of the cliff and whistled.

"Wow!"

A moment later, a cry of an eagle rang out, and the tiger eagle swooped down.

"Tiger Eagle, lead the way."

Zhou Qing pointed to the miasma-filled area ahead.

Although it was still daytime, the miasma was still thick in the area near the mountaintop, and it did not decrease or increase significantly due to the difference between day and night.

Visibility was decreasing, and the chilly atmosphere in the air was growing stronger.

Before long, Zhou Qing arrived at the area he had visited before.

The miasma ahead began to stratify, with the bright yellow miasma gradually mixing with pink mist, and a sweet, cloying scent permeating the air.

"puff!"

Erqing suddenly tilted his upper body back, becoming excited.

It leaped off Zhou Qing's shoulder in a flash and plunged headfirst into the miasma area ahead.

A moment later, the miasma in front of them stirred and began to converge in one area, gradually forming a small vortex.

The pink miasma around Zhou Qing was completely absorbed, and he walked deeper into the miasma.

After walking about 300 meters, the miasma ahead had completely turned pink.

"Wow!"

The tiger eagle above provides a warning.

Zhou Qing carefully moved her feet, and saw Erqing raise its head, open its mouth, and inhale a large amount of pink miasma.

He walked less than ten meters further and came to Erqing's side.

Ahead lay a precipice.

Zhou Qing squatted on the edge of the cliff and looked down, where all he could see was pink miasma.

The deeper you go, the darker the color of the miasma becomes; at the bottom, the miasma has turned into a bright peach-red color.

The pink miasma around Zhou Qing had been sucked out by Er Qing, creating a 'vacuum zone'. However, Zhou Qing only inhaled a little of the escaped miasma before feeling a tightness in his chest, shortness of breath, and dizziness.

He immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and circulated his Azure Water True Qi. As the True Qi circulated for half a cycle, the discomfort in his body gradually subsided.

However, Zhou Qing quickly sensed something was wrong. This time, the circulation of his true energy was noticeably slower, creating a feeling of obscurity and sluggishness.

He immediately looked inward at his dantian and saw that the light green true qi in his dantian was mixed with a touch of peach pink.

Furthermore, this peach-pink hue is slowly eroding the Azure Water True Qi.

"This miasma can actually pollute true energy?!" Zhou Qing was shocked and immediately mobilized all of his Azure Water True Energy to try to expel the miasma from his body.

As the true energy in his dantian was mobilized in large quantities, the wine worm, who had been fast asleep, awoke.

After a brief moment of confusion, the wine worm inhaled the peach-pink color mixed with its true energy into its body. After several breaths to purify it, it finally diluted the peach-pink color completely.

After doing all this, the wine worm's body became much shriveled, conveying to Zhou Qing the feeling of fatigue and hunger.

"You've worked hard, take a rest first. I'll buy you some Drunken Immortal Wine after I'm done with this busy period."

The alcohol enthusiast fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

By the time Zhou Qing recovered, Er Qing had stopped absorbing the miasma.

It has absorbed all the pink miasma in the area at the edge of the cliff.

The pink miasma outside the cliff was like a piece of cotton candy with a chunk cut out. It remained tangible, retaining its original shape, and did not float over even though the miasma at the edges was absorbed.

"Pfft!"

Erqing told Zhou Qing that it wanted to go deeper into the area to continue absorbing the miasma.

"Be careful," Zhou Qing cautioned.

Erqing spit out a silk thread, which entangles a lone peach tree on the edge of the cliff, and slowly descends towards the bottom.

Looking down, Zhou Qing saw Er Qing inhaling large amounts of miasma. As Er Qing continued to descend, a cylindrical vacuum zone with a diameter exceeding five meters appeared.

And so it continued down for hundreds of meters, until Erqing had fallen to the bottom of the cliff into the valley, her body turning from emerald green to pink.

“This is…” Zhou Qing’s pupils suddenly dilated.

With his powerful eagle eyesight, he could see through the vacuum of miasma into the valley at the bottom of the cliff.

In the dimly lit valley shrouded in thick miasma, figures wandered through the muddy ground.

Their steps were stiff, their faces were highly decomposed, and their eyes were empty and lifeless as they wandered silently through the valley.

In the visible area alone, there were already twenty or thirty zombies gathered.

If there are zombies in other areas covered by miasma, this
Zhou Qing's heart tightened, and she took a deep breath.

He suddenly remembered that in the past year, due to the severe flooding along the Heishui River, many displaced refugees had joined the Witch God Cult.

After these refugees entered the deep mountains, they were never seen again.

Some say they died, while others say they went deep into the Ten Thousand Mountains and returned to the embrace of the Witch God.

It seems most likely that they will become zombies.

"Puff."

Through telepathy, Erqing told Zhou Qing that there were thousands of zombies below.

A huge peach tree stands blocking the entrance to the valley, with a single fruit on its branches.

It wants to eat.

"Eat up! Leave here immediately after you finish eating." Zhou Qing felt like he had stumbled upon a shocking secret.

"Tiger Eagle, go down and meet Erqing."

Zhou Qing immediately gave orders to the tiger eagle circling above his head.

Tiger Eagle swooped down into the vacuum of miasma exhaled by Erqing.

Erqing picked a peach from the tree and jumped onto the tiger eagle's back.

"Roar~!"

Suddenly, a strange change occurred. Dense footsteps echoed through the valley, and the zombies let out deafening roars.

"Not good! Let's go!"

Zhou Qing's expression changed; he hadn't expected such a commotion to occur after Er Qing picked the peaches.

He immediately turned back the way he came and ran all the way to the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, Tiger Eagle landed carrying Erqing.

"Um?!"

Zhou Qing discovered that Erqing, after eating the fruit, had actually spun silk and formed a cocoon, turning into a pink cocoon the size of a human head.

[Refining: Green Silk Gu (Second Green)]

[Progress: Mutation and Evolution (450/800)]

[Evolutionary Direction: Peach Blossom Butterfly (The mutated Green Silk Gu absorbed the peach blossom miasma accumulated in the valley over hundreds of years and devoured century-old rotten peach blossom fruits, using the peach blossom poison miasma as nourishment for its evolution)]

"Peach Blossom Butterfly?!"

Zhou Qing was startled; he had just personally experienced the power of the miasma.

"It's not safe here either."

Zhou Qing took out the leather pouch from his chest and put the pink silkworm cocoon inside.

He had previously tested it and found that the skin bag gu could store living things for a short time; most poisonous insects could survive for about seven to ten days inside.

Next, Zhou Qing put the Crimson Flame and the Golden Silkworm Gu into the cave as well, and then left Black Wind Mountain.

Shortly after Zhou Qing left the foot of the mountain, two women dressed in colorful feathered robes appeared at the entrance of the valley.

Looking at the rotten peach tree that had been knocked down by the zombies, one of the middle-aged beauties held a small blue cauldron and released countless corpse worms from it.

The corpse worms quickly blocked the entrance to the valley.

"Greetings, Holy Maiden! Greetings, Protector Li!"

A moment later, a man shrouded in black robes appeared at the valley entrance and bowed respectfully to the two.

At this moment, swarms of corpse worms gathered towards the man in black robes.

"Your subordinate deserves to die! Your Majesty, spare my life! Spare my life!" The man in black knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)