Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 516 The Celestial Fox Ancestor Has Been Poisoned
Red, yellow, green, blue, purple, black.

The pearl is crystal clear, like glass, with six colors shimmering and flowing inside, making it extremely beautiful.

Gu Zhao reached out and beckoned, and the pearl was taken into his palm.

With a single probe of one's divine sense, one can sense that the seemingly beautiful and magnificent pearl is actually filled with deadly poison.

Even with Gu Zhao's current cultivation and spiritual sense, it was rapidly corroded after probing into the pearl. It was weakened by half in the blink of an eye, and completely destroyed after circling inside it once.

"Impressive, this can be considered a path to enlightenment through poison, right?" Gu Zhao clicked his tongue in amazement.

No wonder the black-clad youth was so confident. Leaving aside the giant spider's true form and magical power, just the terrifying poison gas alone would be too much for most people to handle, even with just a little bit of it.

In other words, the power of thunder was fierce and violent, and Gu Zhao immediately used the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation to trap the giant spider. The poison gas released by the spider was completely destroyed by the endless thunder, which prevented it from posing a threat to them.

“This should be the inner core of the Six-Headed Divine Lord. That spider demon used it as the core of this zombie.” Gu Zhao played with the pearl. “He didn’t have the ability to refine this kind of pearl from the corpse of the Six-Headed Divine Lord.”

The poisonous gas in this pearl is so strong and concentrated that even Gu Zhao would have difficulty condensing it. How could that black-clad youth, who had only cultivated for a little over two thousand years, have refined such a pearl?
Gu Zhao activated his magic power, and the pearl revealed a six-colored mist.

Even just being bathed in this misty light made the four old Taoist priests beside them feel dizzy.

The aura released by this precious pearl was even stronger than the six-colored poisonous mist released by the giant spider just now.

With another turn of Gu Zhao's magic, the mist on the surface of the pearl completely disappeared.

At the same time, the residual poisonous gas in the lake water, which had not yet dissipated, was also absorbed by the pearl as if it were a whale sucking water.

"This pearl can not only release poisonous gas, but also absorb it." Gu Zhao nodded. "It makes you immune to all poisons!"

"Good stuff!" The four old Taoist priests' eyes lit up.

While traveling, they encountered demons who were made from poisonous insects and ghosts who were skilled in using poison, but most of them were not powerful and were easily killed by them.

But this doesn't mean they were unaware of the potency of the poison.

Some exotic toxins are either mind-devouring or bone-corroding, even more threatening than some ordinary yin energy or demonic power, and like a malignant tumor clinging to the bone, they are difficult to eradicate.

……

Originally, they only came to Poison Dragon Swamp to clean up the Demon Realm, but they unexpectedly killed the last disciple of the Six-Headed Divine Lord and obtained his last magic weapon.

Body imprint.

Gu Zhao put the seal back into the gourd, preparing to go back and see what would happen when these six magical treasures were put together.

The group returned to the stone hall, opened the sculpture's base, and a dense demonic aura swept out.

Without Gu Zhao even needing to make a move, the four old Taoists simultaneously cast spells, forming a new seal with their Taoist Qi, blocking the entrance to the demon cave and completely blocking the demonic energy.

Next, the group entered the Demon Cave and found that it was not as large as the Cloud Heaven Divine Palace, but about the same size as the Demon Cave under Black Rock Mountain of the Netherfire Sect, covering an area of ​​more than two hundred miles.

"Without the support of a demon, relying solely on self-evolution, the speed won't be very fast," Daoist Yanling analyzed.

“If the four of us work together, we can clean this place up in two months at most,” said Master Qingwei.

So the four old Taoist priests stayed in the Poison Dragon Marsh to refine demons, while Gu Zhao returned alone.

Back at Qingqiu Mountain, Gu Zhao saw from afar that some people were accompanying Ye Ruyan and Miao Yunji on a spring outing, some were drinking with Hou Hao and Yuan Lin, and others were playing with Xiu Niang and Bai Ke. Seeing Gu Zhao return, Bai Qianzhu personally greeted him, "Is everything going smoothly?"

"Everything went smoothly," Gu Zhao said with a smile. "The den of demons isn't big; it can be cleaned up in a month or two."

Bai Qianzhu's eyes flickered, her heart filled with shock.

Although there haven't been many demonic cultivators over the past ten thousand years, and they haven't amounted to much, demonic energy is notoriously difficult to deal with, often turning certain areas into dead zones that are difficult to recover from for decades or even centuries.

But if the Taoist priests of this Great Luo Palace were to take action, they could clean up a demon cave built by a powerful demon with thousands of years of cultivation in just one or two months.

"That would be wonderful." Bai Qianzhu said with a smile, "I sent invitations to a few friends, inviting them to come to Qingqiu Mountain for a meeting. If Brother Gu has the time, then please stay for a few more days."

"Qingqiu Mountain is so comfortable and pleasant, I wish I could stay longer," Gu Zhao said with a smile.

Just then, a divine thought suddenly arrived. If Gu Zhao hadn't been so skilled in cultivation, he probably wouldn't have been able to sense it.

No, or rather, Gu Zhao shouldn't have been able to sense it, but there was a faint aura within it that he had just sensed that morning, so it felt somewhat familiar.

Bai Qianzhu's eyes flickered slightly, then she said to Gu Zhao, "I have something to attend to. Brother Gu, you can go and find Xiu Niang and the others yourself."

Seeing Bai Qianzhu turn to leave, Gu Zhao stopped her, "Was that the Heavenly Fox Ancestor just now?"

Bai Qianzhu turned around in surprise, not expecting that Gu Zhao could sense the ancestor's divine sense. "That's right, it was the ancestor who was looking for me."

"When the Heavenly Fox Ancestor fought the Six-Headed Divine Lord, he went into seclusion for a hundred years and still hasn't fully recovered. I'm afraid he suffered not only internal injuries but also the Six-Headed Divine Lord's deadly poison, right?" Gu Zhao asked.

That divine thought just now, besides its faint spiritual power, also carried a faint soul-devouring poison.

This poisonous gas is one of the types found within the Six-Headed Divine Lord's Precious Pearl, specifically designed to attack the soul.

Moreover, this poisonous gas was extremely well hidden; if Gu Zhao hadn't sensed it on the six-colored pearl before, he might not have been able to detect it just now.

Therefore, Bai Qianzhu was shocked that Gu Zhao was able to discover this, because even within Qingqiu Mountain, not everyone knew about the ancestor's poisoning.

All that everyone knows is that the Ancestor suffered internal injuries in his battle with the Six-Headed Divine Lord and went into seclusion for a hundred years.

As for the extent to which his injuries have healed, no one really has a concept of it, and there is a lot of speculation from the outside world.

Some even speculate that the ancestor has already recovered and is just waiting to ascend to heaven. He is still staying in Qingqiu Mountain only because there is no one to take the lead in Qingqiu Mountain at the moment.

When Bai Qianzhu had cultivated for six or seven thousand years, and with the support of Qingqiu Mountain, she was able to protect the Heavenly Fox lineage, she ascended to heaven.

But only Bai Qianzhu knew that after the ancestor had been in seclusion for a hundred years, his injuries had not improved, but the poison had become more severe. The poison had penetrated deep into his bone marrow and soul, like a carbuncle that was difficult to remove.

Even with the Heavenly Fox Ancestor's abilities, he could only barely maintain the situation and prevent the toxins from spreading. It would be extremely difficult to remove the toxins or achieve a full recovery.

This was the biggest secret of the Qingqiu Mountain lineage, and even few people within the Heavenly Fox clan knew about it. How did Gu Zhao find out?
A wary glint flashed instinctively in Bai Qianzhu's eyes.

"Sister Zhu, please don't misunderstand." Gu Zhao also saw the wariness in Bai Qianzhu's eyes. "I just obtained the inner core of the Six-Headed Divine Lord and sensed the Soul-Devouring Poison from the same source, which is why I made this guess."

Bai Qianzhu was stunned upon hearing this, "Huh?"

(End of this chapter)