In the end, after Gu Zheng had removed all the Evil Qi from the bodies of Sora Aoi and the others, none of them asked a single word about what had happened in the stone chamber.
The others might be better off, but Xiahou Shan could be said to be the one who suffered the most. He felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles. He had already secretly looked at Gu Zheng several times, but Gu Zheng's expression remained normal, as if he had completely forgotten about the conflict between them.
However, Gu Zheng's calmness did not make Xiahou Shan feel relieved. At this moment, he would rather Gu Zheng scold him fiercely than torture him so calmly. This made him feel that the past conflict would not be forgotten so easily!
"Sect Master Gu, what should we do next?"
Master Yu Feng looked at Gu Zheng. Whether it was his voice or his eyes, they were different from before. They contained reverence.
In fact, it was not only Master Yu Feng. Even Xuan Qizi had a similar expression, not to mention the others. What had happened in the stone chamber had really shocked them too much!
"Master, you don't have to be like this!"
Gu Zheng smiled. Perhaps others liked this feeling, but he did not.
"Gu Zheng is still Gu Zheng. I won't become Gu Zheng just because my strength has increased! I still prefer us to be like before. That will make me feel that we are fellow Daoists, fellow Daoists who can say whatever they want. If you insist on being like this to feel comfortable in your hearts, then you are undoubtedly alienating me and forcing me to be in the position of a senior! "
Gu Zheng's earnest words caused the crowd to become silent. They looked at each other in dismay.
"Alright!"
Master Yu Feng smiled. Although he wanted to smile like before, everyone could still see that his smile was somewhat unnatural.
"That's right!"
Gu Zheng smiled and nodded. After what had happened in the stone chamber, it was already very good that Master Yu Feng could recover to this extent.
"Sect, Sect Master Gu, I, I'm sorry …"
"Stop!"
Gu Zheng interrupted Xiahou Shan's words.
"Some things are in the past. In the future, don't casually find trouble with others." Gu Zheng said.
"I, I, I will remember Sect Leader Gu's teachings!"
Gu Zheng's generosity made Xiahou Shan very excited, so much so that he made two mistakes.
"Alright."
Gu Zheng smiled at Xiahou Shan, and then looked at the others. "According to our previous plan, if we can kill the Blood Soul, it will be considered a victory. As for destroying the place where the evil source is born, that will be a perfect outcome. Now that Bloodsoul is dead, the matter of destroying the stone room will be left to me. All of you should immediately return to Blood Tide Island and check on the situation there! "
Gu Zheng didn't want to let Tang Mo devour Red Hair's limbs in front of everyone, so he wanted to send them away.
If it was before the battle in the stone rooms, Gu Zheng would not have made such an unreasonable request, but after the battle in the stone rooms, it was no longer an unreasonable request.
The people on Jade Peak took the lead and agreed. Then, everyone was about to leave.
"Right."
Gu Zheng spoke again, "What happened in the stone room today is only known to the few of you. As for the process of getting rid of the Blood Soul, it will be up to you to think of a way. You will work together to kill it."
Now, Gu Zheng was no longer afraid of exposing his strength, but he didn't want some people to become like the people on Jade Peak after hearing what happened in the stone rooms.
Seeing that the people on Jade Peak were stunned for a moment and then nodded one after another, Gu Zheng spoke again. "When the chaos on Blood Tide Island is settled, don't forget to take away the resources in the forbidden area. Then, you can decide how to distribute them. Emei is not needed."
The resources that Gu Zheng was talking about were those that grew in the trenches and even the core area of the forbidden area.
These resources were what Gu Zheng wanted when he first received the mission to explore the forbidden area. However, the development of things often exceeded his initial expectations. When he really entered the forbidden area, he didn't have the time to collect those resources.
Now that he let everyone leave first, the storage belts of the Blood Soul and Corpse Devil Ancestor in the stone rooms were naturally his gains. He ate some meat, but he couldn't not let others drink the soup, right?
With the pressure that Gu Zheng brought to everyone, if he didn't take the initiative to say these words, the people on Jade Peak would ask him about the distribution later. Moreover, he still had to deal with the evil energy here and didn't know how long it would take, so he might as well take the initiative to say it.
Gu Zheng's words made everyone's faces more or less happy. To them, Gu Zheng was very generous! In the unwritten rules, if a person killed a devil, all the gains of the devil would belong to the person who killed it. As for the things in the stone rooms, Gu Zheng would take them all. No one had any objections. After all, the effort they put in in the stone rooms was really insignificant. If Gu Zheng didn't kill the Heavenly Conch Ancestor, everyone would have died. As for the resources in the trench outside, under normal circumstances, all the participating sects would have a share, and it would be distributed according to how much effort they put in. Gu Zheng said that he didn't want Mount Emei, which was also to let everyone have the benefits.
After some polite and grateful words, everyone gradually disappeared from Gu Zheng's sight.
Now that the crisis had been resolved, Gu Zheng was finally in the mood to clean up the battlefield.
Before cleaning up the battlefield, Gu Zheng first took out two storage belts from the Chaos Space.
The two storage belts belonged to the Bloodthirsty Butcher and Poison Meiji respectively. However, when Gu Zheng got these two storage belts, he was worried about their situation, so he didn't open them to take a look.
As two cultivators at the peak of Void Return, the Bloodthirsty Butcher and Poison Meiji did have a lot of resources in their storage belts. However, most of these resources were related to the evil techniques they practiced for leisure, so they weren't useful to Gu Zheng. As for the things that were useful to Gu Zheng, it was worth mentioning that there were eight superior-grade ingredients, one hundred and twenty normal-grade Immortal Essence Pills, and ten middle-grade Immortal Essence Pills.
After checking the storage belts of the Bloodthirsty Butcher and Poison Meiji, Gu Zheng walked into the stone room and looked at the corpse of the Corpse Demon Patriarch.
The corpse demon patriarch's battlefield was very clean. It was obvious that the Blood Soul had cleaned it up.
On the way to the Blood Soul, Gu Zheng put away Yu Qingyan's corpse. Although the stone room was filled with evil energy, it wasn't interested in dead things, so Yu Qingyan was still edible. Gu Zheng still remembered his promise to the artifact spirit when he was in the Heavenly Snail Cave. He would stew Yu Qingyan to vent her anger.
"What a top-grade Immortal Tool!"
Looking at the shattered pieces of the Nine-Colored Illusion Sonic Conch, Gu Zheng couldn't help but sigh.
Although the Nine-Colored Illusion Sonic Conch was broken, it was still a fragment of a top-grade Immortal Tool. Gu Zheng still collected it and prepared to give it to Lian Yuxin as a gift.
The Blood Soul was smashed like a watermelon, but his storage belt was still there. Gu Zheng took it and recognized it as his master. Then, he checked the items inside.
The Blood Soul's storage belt had fewer resources. After all, he was born on Earth, a relatively barren plane.
However, when he saw a grey bamboo in the Blood Soul's storage belt, Gu Zheng couldn't help but laugh.
Although Gu Zheng didn't know what the gray bamboo was, he could tell that it was an ingredient grade. This was a genuine high-grade ingredient!
"Why are you so happy? Isn't it just a section of Primal Chaos Bamboo? Among all the high-grade ingredients, it's not even as good as your dragon horn, qilin tail, and peaches of immortality! "
The artifact spirit rolled its eyes at Gu Zheng, as if saying that he was too useless.
Gu Zheng chuckled and said, "No matter what, it's still a high-grade ingredient. I only have a few high-grade ingredients."
In addition to the high-grade ingredient, the Demon-Swallowing Jade Bottle that the Blood Soul used to store the source of evil was also in his storage belt.
Gu Zheng also took out the Corpse Demon Ancestor's storage belt from the Blood Soul's storage belt.
"I'm rich!"
When he saw the Blood Demon Ancestor's storage belt, Gu Zheng laughed loudly. There was also a high-grade ingredient in the Blood Demon Ancestor's storage belt.
"Artifact spirit, what is this?"
Gu Zheng had never seen the high-grade ingredient in the Blood Demon Ancestor's storage belt, but he could feel that it contained a terrifying amount of Celestial Core Power. Even the Peaches of Immortality given by the artifact spirit couldn't compare to it.
Moreover, this unknown fruit gave Gu Zheng a special feeling. Gu Zheng had only felt this feeling from two things before. One was the Celestial Core Power Fruit that was protected by the Xuan Yin Demonic Spider in the Shu Ruins. The other was the queen ant of the mutated Colorful Flying Ants in the Shu Ruins. These two things had a common name, and that was Heavenly Treasures.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk!"
The artifact spirit clicked its tongue. "I didn't expect that the Blood Demon Ancestor, a cultivator at the peak of the Void Return Stage, would have a Heavenly Treasure, the Mixed Yuan Immortal Fruit. This thing is born once every thousand years in the Eldritch Wilderness. When it's born, there's a huge commotion. It's something that Daluo Jinxian would fight for. I didn't expect him to have it!"
Gu Zheng laughed. "It seems that he was lucky enough to get it, but he didn't have the fortune to enjoy it! It must have been hard on him to bring it all the way from the Eldritch Wilderness to me! "
"Look at that smug face of yours!"
The artifact spirit rolled its eyes at Gu Zheng. "If it weren't for the fact that he's already at the peak of the Void Return Stage and can become a Jin Xian after eating the Mixed Yuan Immortal Fruit, he would have eaten it a long time ago. You wouldn't even have a chance!"
"That's true. Who told him to be so unlucky? The Chaos Tribulation in the Eldritch Wilderness had probably already begun when he obtained the Mixed Yuan Immortal Fruit. He was so afraid of death that he didn't dare to become a Jin Xian, "Gu Zheng lamented.
Apart from the Mixed Yuan Immortal Fruit, there were also many good things in the Corpse Demon Ancestor's storage belt. Among them, there were ten ingredients of excellent quality, a hundred Normal Quality Immortal Essence Pills, and twenty-three Medium Quality Immortal Essence Pills.
"What a pity!"
After putting the resources into the Eldritch Wilderness, Gu Zheng frowned as he looked at the Blood Soul and Corpse Demon Ancestor's demonic artifacts.
The Corpse Demon Ancestor's Ten Thousand Ghost Banner was a top-grade demonic artifact. It was also a demonic artifact among demonic artifacts.
Gu Zheng had once asked Jiao Jiao about the immortal items needed to repair the Primal Chaos Tower. Jiao Jiao had given Gu Zheng only one standard. Aside from the most ominous items for refining souls or blood, all other immortal items, demonic items, and Buddhist items could be used to repair the Primal Chaos Tower.
The Ten Thousand Ghost Banner was undoubtedly an extremely vicious weapon. This kind of demonic weapon was undoubtedly a supreme treasure in the eyes of demonic cultivators. However, Gu Zheng had obtained such a top-grade item and could only give it to Lian Yuxin. He wanted her to see how she could turn trash into treasure!
The Blood Soul's sword was very beautiful. It was covered in simple pine patterns. Although Gu Zheng didn't use much of its power during his battle with the Blood Soul, Gu Zheng knew that its special ability was very useful. It could be used to deal with Divine Sense! This was already demonstrated on Black Dragon Island when Lao Ai and the others were chasing after the demonic cultivators.
Although the Pine Pattern Ancient Sword wasn't an immortal artifact, it had been refined by the Blood Soul as his natal immortal artifact.
"Now that this sword has been damaged because of the Blood Soul's death, it can't be used without repairing it. Moreover, I don't know if it can still be a top-grade immortal artifact after repairing it. "Gu Zheng sighed.
"Even if it can't be a top-grade immortal artifact after repairing it, it's still not bad! Your Thunder Tooth Sword is still a mid-grade immortal artifact. It's time to change it. "
In fact, in the past year or so, Gu Zheng had obtained a sword immortal artifact that was better than the Thunder Tooth Sword. However, Gu Zheng was already very familiar with this flying sword that he had taken from the Hidden Sword Peak. Therefore, he had never changed it.
Gu Zheng had already cleaned up the battlefield that belonged to the Blood Soul and the Corpse Demon Ancestor. The next step was to find the red-haired head. As for the Heavenly Conch Patriarch, he didn't leave anything behind for Gu Zheng. His whole body had been melted by the Sage's handwriting, so naturally, there wouldn't be any resources left.
When Gu Zheng was fighting with the Blood Soul, the red-haired head, which was already badly injured, was severely injured by Gu Zheng. Later, when Gu Zheng was fighting with the Heavenly Conch Patriarch, the red-haired head was rolling around in the raging sea because of the great energy fluctuations. It was on the verge of death. However, when Gu Zheng came to the stone chamber again, it had disappeared without a trace.
Gu Zheng wasn't worried that he couldn't find the red-haired head at all because Tang Mo had long been thirsty for it.
In fact, Tang Mo was not only thirsty for the red-haired head, but also for the threads of evil Qi in the core of the Bloodtide Forbidden Area. All this time, Tang Mo had not reacted to the threads of evil Qi. At that time, Gu Zheng had also wondered if it felt that the threads of evil Qi were not enough to fill the gaps between its teeth. Now, it seemed that this was indeed the case. After all, the density and quality of the evil Qi in the Forbidden Area had reached a certain level.
Gu Zheng took out Tang Mo. With a thought, Tang Mo, who was floating in the sea, spun around three times and then flew straight to the top of the stone chamber.
"Bang!"
Tang Mo slashed at a certain spot on the ceiling of the stone room, causing a large crack to appear there. The half-dead red-haired head then fell out of the crack.
"Eat!"
Although Tang Mo didn't have an artifact spirit, it did have a certain level of spirituality, especially after coming out of the Heavenly Conch Grotto's treasure.
"Woo woo woo woo woo …"
Tang Mo had already stabbed into the red-haired head. The originally half-dead red-haired head screamed strangely as if it had a momentary recovery of consciousness.
With Tang Mo's devouring, the red-haired head was like a broken persimmon, quickly flattening. In the process of Tang Mo devouring the red-haired head, its recovery rate, which was already 95%, continued to climb towards a tiny bit.
"Swoosh!"
Tang Mo let out a crisp whistle, and a black light burst out of it, causing the entire stone chamber to change color.
Tang Mo had advanced. It had finally completed the recovery of a high-grade immortal artifact and become a top-grade immortal artifact! However, the energy in the red-haired head was still not finished. It was still devouring.
After a while, Tang Mo finally finished devouring the red-haired head. Its top-grade recovery rate was also 15% complete.
"How is it? Did it inherit any divine ability? After Tang Mo became a top-grade immortal artifact, what is its divine ability? "
Seeing that Tang Mo had finished devouring the red-haired head, the artifact spirit couldn't help but ask. After all, she was also looking forward to Tang Mo's growth.
Faced with the artifact spirit's question, Gu Zheng frowned. "It inherited one divine ability. It's the same divine ability as the red-haired head's remnant limb, but it's more powerful. However, Tang Mo doesn't lack a top-grade immortal artifact divine ability! "
"Ah?"
The artifact spirit's eyes widened. "How can this be? Logically speaking, after completing a stage of recovery, a brand new divine ability will appear. It's been like this for the past few recoveries, but why is it different this time? "
"I feel that Tang Mo's recovery is missing something, but I don't know what it's missing. That's why such a situation has occurred."
Gu Zheng was also depressed. Tang Mo gave him this kind of feeling, but this kind of feeling made him very confused.
After listening to Gu Zheng's explanation, the artifact spirit seemed a lot more relieved. "After all, it's already a top-grade immortal artifact. Perhaps it's a bit monotonous to just rely on evil energy to repair it."
The Artifact Spirit paused for a moment before continuing, "Don't worry. Let Tang Mo absorb the evil source and the massive amount of evil energy in the core of the Forbidden Zone. Let's see if you can figure out what it needs when its recovery rate crosses the 50% threshold."
When Tang Mo's recovery was completed at 50%, a divine ability would also appear. However, this divine ability would mostly increase the power of the original inheritance, which was why the artifact spirit said so.
"That's the only way."
Gu Zheng nodded and then took out the Demon Swallowing Jade Bottle.
As soon as the bottle's stopper was opened, Tang Mo vibrated happily, expressing its desire for the evil source in the bottle.
Tang Mo began to devour the evil source, and its recovery rate continued to increase.
The higher the rate of restoration, the more evil energy it would require to upgrade it. When Tang Mo had finished devouring the entire bottle of Evil Source, its restoration rate had only reached 45%.
"Tang Mo has devoured an entire evil source, and its' Primal Chaos Recovery 'is only 45% complete. This is really shocking!"
The artifact spirit knew nothing about the immortal artifacts above the top-grade immortal artifacts, so she named Tang Mo's recovery as' Primal Chaos Recovery '.
"There's still the evil energy in the entire forbidden area waiting to be devoured by it! When it devours all the evil energy, perhaps its recovery rate can reach 50%, "the artifact spirit said.
"I think so too. After all, the forbidden area is very big, and there's a lot of evil energy."
As they spoke, Gu Zheng threw Tang Mo up, and Tang Mo immediately began to devour the evil energy in the air.
Like a whirlpool, Tang Mo slowly flew in the air, and the evil energy in the surroundings was continuously devoured by him.
After devouring all the evil energy in the stone room, Tang Mo flew into the passage.
After devouring all the evil energy in the passage, Tang Mo flew into the maze.
Gu Zheng followed behind Tang Mo, watching it devour the evil energy and its recovery rate slowly increasing.
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