Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 413 A Celestial Arrives (Thanks to Amy_Liu for the donation!)

With the mindset that it wouldn't hurt to try it out, Wei Xi, who had nowhere else to turn, stretched out his flowery tail.

After all, the presence or absence of a ring makes a clear difference to the inscriptions on the wall. Given the current situation, Wei Xi has no better solution.

The two snakes' tails wrapped around the same ring. Before they could take any further action, the ring, which had been dormant for thousands of years, suddenly shone brightly, its pale green light enveloping the two young snakes.

Wei Xi's vision exploded with countless stars, as if hundreds of blacksmiths were swinging sledgehammers in front of her, and her eyes felt like they had been stung by thousands of poisonous bees. Tears immediately streamed down her face.

This dizzy feeling was unpleasant. Wei Xi bit his tongue hard, drawing blood, but it brought him back to his senses.

The pale green light paired with the bone-colored coral made Wei Xi feel as if he had stumbled into a tomb on the seabed, where will-o'-the-wisps were trapped.

This "harmonious" atmosphere was obviously not easy to observe, and even the inscription that Wei Xi had placed high hopes on became very blurry, making it impossible to discern any content.

But Wei Xi still saw it; the coral pushed the end of the passage into view. The bone-colored coral was densely packed together to form a large door, and a deeper green painted a somewhat familiar yet more peculiar pattern on it:
The medicine jar contained five flames, but the flame that the snake had formed was gone, and in its place was an ordinary flame.

But one of the five flames is made of water droplets.

Wei Xi wanted to take another look, but the pale green light quickly contracted, and in an instant, the passage returned to its original state.

The ring fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Looking down, Wei Xi noticed that the ring had turned black, and he could tell from the scrutiny that it had been overused.

"What is that medicine mortar and pestle?"

Wei Xi rolled up the ring, put it on his tail, and said bluntly, "I don't know."

Hearing this, Qin Feng said somewhat discouragedly, "It seems that this ring is also unusable. I wonder if this is its purpose."

Wei Xi closed one eye, trying to alleviate the soreness.

After a long pause, Wei Xi slowly said, "It has other uses, probably to be inlaid in a medicine jar."

"The medicine bowl? That painting from earlier?"

Wei Xi tried to draw a shape, but seeing his own colorful tail, he silently retracted it.

Qin Feng followed suit, coiling himself into a crystal-clear snake mountain. "I'm curious, just how important is this medicine jar? Why is it covered up with so many things?"

Wei Xi sneered and said mockingly, "Do you think the Everlasting Tree has a strange temper?"

"What does this have to do with that strange piece of wood?"

“‘Sea Warrior’ knew that the Longevity Wood had given me a piece of wood. I guess the two of them must know each other. That’s how he found out about the Longevity Wood’s background and blurted out his secrets.”

“That strange temper of the Everlasting Tree,” Wei Xi’s sneer was on his face, “someone who can be its equal might treasure it…”

Before Wei Xi could finish speaking, the entire corridor began to shake, dust and small pieces of coral fell, and seawater in the trenches surged into the air, first as water snakes and then as arrows, rushing towards the two men's faces.

Wei and Qin naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to take the beating, so they both dodged. Qin Feng, however, got angry, swishing his tail fiercely and saying, "What are you showing off for? Why don't you go out and have some fun?"

Qin Feng turned his head and saw that Wei Xi was unharmed and smiling happily, her eyes curving into crescents.

"Don't be angry," Wei Xi said in a gloomy yet excited tone, "You're not angry because we touched a nerve, are you?"

The second batch of water snakes froze in mid-air, then dispersed into mist and quickly vanished. "Does it really know that piece of wood?" Qin Feng asked curiously. "One lives in the sea, the other in the mountains of Nanjiang. How do these two know each other?"

“I don’t know,” Wei Xi’s smile continued to widen, his tail wagging happily, “but it’s not angry about the Everlasting Tree…we’ve finally made progress!”

Qin Feng: ?
"Its control over the sea, or more precisely, its control over the Bone Reef Sea, exceeded my expectations. But it only made a move when we started talking about that medicine bowl and our attitude wasn't respectful."

After saying that, Wei Xi glanced at the seawater in the ditch and found that there was no movement. It seemed that the "Sea Warrior" was planning to play dead.

"If this medicine bowl is very important, could it be a magical artifact? For example, could it hold back all the seawater in the world?"

“As far as I know, there is no such magical artifact,” Wei Xi paused, then continued, “a medicine mortar, perhaps medical practitioners and alchemists have such magical artifacts.”

The Qingcheng Sect has a long history of alchemists, but the quantity far exceeds the quality. In addition, due to the secrecy surrounding the routes, most of the records about these two routes are generic and unreliable. Wei Xi is genuinely unaware of them.

“This medicine bowl is very important; the ‘Sea Warrior’ will take good care of it. The ring, as part of the medicine bowl, must have been taken away by someone…”

Wei Xi didn't finish her sentence. Sensing something, she slowly turned around and muttered to herself, "She was taken away by someone..."

Qin Feng's gaze fell on the coral wall, and he asked in confusion, "That's not right. It doesn't make sense to steal only a part of something. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?"

Wei Xi, who had never been a thief, scratched his head. "Whether it's useful or not depends on the person using it. Remember that pattern from earlier? Five flames, the snake is the first, the water is the second, and there are three more waiting!"

Qin Feng put on a helpless expression.

"Remember the Everlasting Tree? That one treated me like prey, the coffin, the petrification, the bride... all to recreate the night our tribe was wiped out. Birds of a feather flock together, and this one's style is similar to the Everlasting Tree's, the difference being that the entire Bone Reef Sea is its hunting ground!"

“Flame is a symbol, I don’t know what it symbolizes yet, but this,” Wei Xi’s tail pointed vaguely to the wall in the darkness, “is probably its totem.”

"The first flame is a snake, a sea serpent that bit us; the second flame is a pattern made of water, shouldn't we be drowning?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Xi glanced at Qin Feng, then imitated the actor's actions, stretching out his snake body.

Qin Feng was puzzled, his eyes filled with confusion.

Wei Xi raised his voice slightly, "A swap! The second flame symbolizes a swap! The flame is represented by water droplets! We've swapped bodies with those colorful snakes from before!"

Qin Feng had a look on his face as if he was about to vomit, clearly remembering those disgusting oar demons from before.

"So can I get it back?" Qin Feng suppressed his nausea. "I miss the days when I had hands."

Wei Xi smiled silently and slowly climbed to the coral wall where the inscription had been restored.

Interestingly, the engraving was severely damaged just now when the Sea Warrior unleashed his lightning.

But this time luck was on Wei Xi's side: the peeling coral revealed another kind of script.

It just so happens to be the Northern Frontier script that Wei Xi can understand.

What's even more interesting is that the first inscription Wei Xi saw was:

"A celestial being descends, amidst a myriad of auspicious clouds, drawing all the water from the Pingjiang River..."

Hahaha, I don't know if you guys have ever had that feeling, it's like the atmosphere at home is tense, like the clouds overhead keep getting darker and darker, just refusing to rain, but when the rain finally pours down, you actually feel a little bit of relief.

I regret it now; I regret not flipping the table over.