Wet viviparity

Chapter 434: Sanzhen, Side Door Treasure
On a flying cloud, a Taoist with a black beard was sitting cross-legged.

At its side, there stood a propped-up treasure tower with two rings, the upper ring being like a cover, shaped like a lotus holding a flame bead. On top of the top bead rested a very poisonous creature - the devil poison.

This ring is a whole circle larger than the previous one, and there are six tasseled colorful banners hanging outside the edge of this circle.

At both ends of the swallowtail-like bottom of the banner, there are precious beads and jades, and on each of the six banners, there are six kinds of exotic poisonous creatures wandering around - water scorpion, fire gecko, iron-backed centipede, sand toad, golden hook spider, and green-mouthed spirit snake.

This treasure is called "Seven-Shaped Poison Yuanbao Pagoda", no, the Taoist with black beard prefers to call it a quasi-magic weapon, or a magic weapon embryo.

The Taoist with black beard was willing to come here and guard the Tuwu Pass in Gushan for three hundred days. Firstly, he was famous for being steady among the Taoist generals in Lingdong, and secondly, it was because the immortal elder helped him gather the poisonous substances to refine this treasure.

On the Seven-Shaped Poison Yuanbao Tower, six kinds of poisonous creatures have been gathered, except for the most poisonous creature, the Demonic Poison. Even though he spent sixty years searching all over Liling and even ventured deep into the Nanmu Sacred Mountain, he had never encountered it.

If it weren't for Tiannan's second battle, which caused the Panku Mountain to be in danger of collapse, I, a wandering Taoist in the mountains, would never have been able to come into contact with this evil poison, let alone obtain it.

Thinking about it now, it just feels like a dream. He, with such a scattered mind, could actually refine the embryo of a magic weapon.

He heard that Master Teng had spent 260 years refining a Five Poison Sword embryo, which had the potential to become a magical weapon, and was raised by his disciple Meng Nan. Unfortunately, Meng Nan was captured in Lingnan due to carelessness, and the sword embryo was also taken away by Taiping Mountain.

The precedent set by Master Meng made the black-bearded Taoist put away some of his pride. He was already 382 years old and felt that his life was coming to an end.

There is no way around it. The environment for practicing as a casual cultivator is harsh. If one does not commit some evil deeds that will anger God and people and shorten one's lifespan, how can one stand out from the casual cultivators, let alone refine the golden elixir in one's stomach?

Unfortunately, the "Jiangying Yang Dragon" in his three realms used the miscellaneous evil spirits gathered from the mountains and rivers.

The Yang Gang used by "Fu Yin Tiger" was also obtained from a side door god, so the Yang was impure. Fortunately, he later learned a secret technique, so that the elixir he refined would not fall into the lowest level.

The lost life span he had suffered was mostly due to his efforts to please the gods of other sects, as well as the retribution for the sins committed by the gods and ghosts in the underworld.

He is now recalling his past, not because he regrets, but if he were to live his life again, he would commit the same amount of sins, only more. Otherwise, how could he stand out from the group of casual cultivators?

Besides, the end of his life is not necessarily a bad thing. He can now concentrate on harming people and refining treasures, and concentrate on collecting rare treasures and exotic herbs to refine elixirs that can be used to transform his corpse into a calamity. His next life will definitely be better than this one.

"Xu Yanzi, you and I have nothing to do with each other. I think we can stop fighting and make peace today."

The Taoist with black beard said while sitting on a cloud.

"master!"

The old fox ghost flew up to the clouds and stood beside the black-bearded Taoist priest. He put his fingers on his chest and said, "The Taoist priest's mount, the golden-scaled carp, is good at fighting evil spirits. If you use that treasure, you must be careful."

"What golden-scaled carp? It's the Panjiang Dragon Carp, one of the dragon sons in the Thousand Sons Cave of Jiangsou Longbo."

The Taoist with black beard deliberately spoke loudly to show that he knew Xu Yanzi's background very well.

As Xu Yanzi had secretly sent his fellow apprentice to ask for reinforcements from Lingnan, he did not feel much about the Taoist black-beard's words. He was only thinking about how to deal with the future reinforcements and only responded casually to the Taoist black-beard in order to delay time.

The two chatted for a few sentences from a distance. The Taoist with black beard realized that Xu Yanzi was just trying to fool him, and his face became gloomy.

"Humph!"

The black-bearded Taoist snorted in his heart, sitting on the cloud and circulating his Qi. In the golden pill in his Dantian, a Yin spirit like a misty shadow escaped from the flesh, passed through the Niwan Palace on the top of his head, and ascended into the withered three flowers, and then used the "art of escaping and hiding", which is what mortals often call the art of invisibility.

When this technique is used on the Yin Spirit, even if a real person uses his Dharma Eyes to see, he cannot find any trace of the Yin Spirit for a while, let alone Xu Yanzi who is in front of him.

The black-bearded Taoist's Yin spirit was taught the art of escaping and disappearing, and flew out from the three withered flowers on the top of his head, and landed in the lotus ring on the top of the Seven-Shaped Poison Yuan Treasure Tower. The most poisonous spirit creature on the top of the tower looked at him in surprise.

"It's what I worked so hard for."

Just when the Taoist with black beard was about to touch the magic poison, he suddenly retracted his hand. This extremely poisonous spirit was refined into the Seven-Shaped Poison Yuanbao Tower, and its poison power was increased to a higher level. Once it was touched, even the Yin God would be infected with the poison.

"For you, it's worth it even if I have to become enemies with the Eight Great Dao Generals of Taiping Mountain. You must protect me well in the next life."

Thinking this in his mind, the black-bearded Taoist's Yin spirit suddenly turned, and he changed into a fox and flew down. This kind of change was not visible to outsiders, including Xu Yanzi who was sitting cross-legged on the back of the golden dragon carp.

When the Yin Spirit approached, Xu Yanzi felt a sudden panic for no reason. The next second, he felt a chill on his head and a sharp pain in the Yanbone in his brain. He clearly felt that a foreign object had drilled into his brain and touched the Yanbone.

"Who?"

"It's you!"

Xu Yanzi's heart was pounding as he stared at the black-bearded Taoist priest who seemed to be in a trance above the clouds.

The black-bearded Taoist suddenly opened his eyes as if awakened from a nightmare, looked back at Xu Yanzi with a look of doubt, and then said, "The immortal bone is indeed magical."

The Taoist with black beard just left his body and hid in front of Xu Yanzi, ready to destroy a small part of Xu Yanzi's brain.

For a period of time, he was obsessed with studying the human brain. He knew that if a part of the human brain was damaged, it would not affect life, but it could erase a person's spirituality and path.

But he didn't know that when his Yin Spirit just stretched out his hand and touched Xu Yanzi's head and bone, it triggered Yanzi's passive counterattack, causing his Yin Spirit to be slightly damaged.

The black-bearded Taoist didn't show any sign of being hurt by Yan Gu's attack. Instead, he looked like he was going to stop there and just wanted to show Xu Yanzi how powerful he was. He said, "Boy, are you still going to resist?"

To be honest, he was not willing to defeat Xu Yanzi, this kid. That would only attract a stronger Taiping Dao general, or even a Taiping Zhenren, which would undoubtedly make it more difficult for him to defend the mountain.

In addition, he knew that the Supreme Lord of Taiping Mountain had a magic spell that allowed the Supreme Lords to observe the battlefield from thousands of miles away.

So he only gave Xu Yanzi a lesson, a profound lesson, so that he would retreat when he saw the difficulty and cooperate with him to wait for the full three hundred days. Unfortunately, if Xu Yanzi had lost his mind just now, he would have waited for three thousand days, let alone three hundred days.

"Forget it. If you keep looking ahead and behind like this, you may end up in trouble.

Now I might as well capture Xu Yanzi and use him as a bargaining chip. When the time comes, Lingnan Dao will come to help, and I won’t have to use any extra means.”

The black-bearded Taoist had already made up his mind and immediately made some movements with his hands. He pointed at the skull containing the lamp. This other signature treasure, the Skull Ghost Lamp, along with the three white bone flowers, all pressed towards Xu Yanzi.

"Old Devil Shen Yang!"

Just as the black-bearded Taoist was urging his treasure, he saw a pink cloud pressing down on the top of Gu Mountain. Figures were scattered on the cloud, three of which were at the highest. In the middle, there was a young Taoist figure, holding a bottle in his hand, and called out indifferently.

(End of this chapter)