It just so happened that Gu Zheng could use some of the items he had obtained from the previous mission to expand the Void Dimension.
Not wanting to surprise Huang Qi and the others, Gu Zheng had chosen only himself as the location for his cooking. Although Huang Qi and the others already knew that he had a super dimension immortal tool and could even transplant a tree as big as the Exquisite Immortal Fruit Tree into it, they would still be shocked if he took out something alive from it. After all, a super dimension immortal tool was too rare.
"For this mission, I have to sacrifice an immortal bear and a nest of immortal mushrooms. It's a pity that they're still just children!"
Gu Zheng shook his head and took out the items he needed from the Void Dimension.
"Children? You're really something!"
Gu Zheng's description amused the Artifact Spirit and made it laugh.
"I didn't say anything wrong. They haven't grown up yet. If they're not children, what are they?" Gu Zheng said with a look of pity.
Indeed, the immortal bear and immortal mushrooms hadn't grown up yet. After all, they took one year and three months to grow, respectively. Now, even after Gu Zheng had urged them to grow, they still looked very small. However, they were enough to be used in the Void Dimension's custom-made delicacies for the Ancient Giant Worm.
"A total of three immortal bear cubs and ten immortal mushroom spores were rewarded. Now that they're not fully grown yet, when they're fully grown, I'll have to leave an extra portion to be used as a primer to maintain the original amount. It feels like a loss!" Gu Zheng said.
"If you feel like you're losing out, you can ask Fang Xing and the others to reimburse you!" The weapon spirit said.
"Forget it, I'm just saying. A few high-quality ingredients are really nothing in this Quasi-Sage's treasure."
Gu Zheng smiled faintly and began to process the ingredients.
When it came to simple cooking, roasting was one of them. The cooking technique Gu Zheng was going to use was roasting.
After cleaning up the immortal bear cubs, Gu Zheng made a flower knife on them and then poured some immortal wine on the knife. He put them aside temporarily.
Although it was a simple cooking method, the processing of the ingredients wasn't simple.
The immortal mushroom used was called Spirit Snake Mushroom. This mushroom was twisted and colorful, and its cap looked like a triangular snake's head.
The Spirit Snake Mushroom was an excellent ingredient, so there was nothing to say about its taste. However, there were poisonous parts on its body. When people ate it, they had to remove the red hairs on the mushroom stem. Otherwise, even a Golden Immortal would be poisoned by it.
When Gu Zheng used the 'Spirit Snake Mushroom' this time, the most important part was that circle of poisonous red fur.
After collecting the Spirit Snake Mushroom's poisonous hair, Gu Zheng took out some other supplementary materials. There were three types of poisonous materials. Gu Zheng put them together and dried them before setting them aside for later use.
The poison provided by Fang Xing was a mixture of poisons. This kind of poison couldn't be exposed to the wind. As soon as it was exposed to the wind, it would evaporate into a highly toxic gas. It could even harm Daluo Jinxian. However, this poison called Rotten Immortal Water had a fatal flaw. When it evaporated, it would produce a strange smell. Therefore, it wasn't easy to use it to deal with cultivators.
Gu Zheng had gone through many simulations in his mind about what kind of custom-made delicacy to cook. Therefore, he knew that the smell of the Rotten Immortal Water must be removed. Otherwise, even if he could use the fragrance of the food to change the smell of the Rotten Immortal Water, the picky ancient giant insects might refuse to eat the custom-made delicacy due to the residual smell of the Rotten Immortal Water.
"It won't be easy to remove the smell of the Rotten Immortal Water, retain its toxicity, and change its nature from a volatile liquid to a real liquid!" the Artifact Spirit said.
"Rotten Immortal Water has its merits. Even if it's not easy, it still has to be done. However, once I change the Rotten Immortal Water into the way I want it, it will no longer be the traditional Rotten Immortal Water. It will only be a special poison with a stronger toxicity. "Gu Zheng said.
The things he obtained from killing the demonic cultivators came in handy at this time. Gu Zheng took out some corpse poison, ghost maggot poison, bone dissolving grass, and other materials. Then, Gu Zheng took out some of the dragon saliva's poison that he had obtained from the Immortal Trapping Formation.
After spending some time to process the corpse poison, ghost maggot poison, bone dissolving grass, and dragon saliva's poison, Gu Zheng obtained a total of three different colored liquids.
Gu Zheng drew an immortal formation on the ground and turned the immortal formation into a special space where the Rotten Immortal Water could be exposed to the wind. Then, he opened the jade bottle containing the Rotten Immortal Water and used the power of his Natal True Fire to roast the jade bottle containing the Rotten Immortal Water. At the same time, he used the Water Control Art on it.
Some of the things that were useless to Gu Zheng evaporated as the Rotten Immortal Water boiled. Gu Zheng put the three liquids that he obtained from processing the materials into the Rotten Immortal Water in order.
After about half an hour, Gu Zheng finally finished processing the Rotten Immortal Water. At this time, the Rotten Immortal Water was no longer the original dark green color, but a yellow color. It looked sticky like oil. After taking out the immortal formation, it would not evaporate even if it was exposed to the wind.
After the Rotten Immortal Water was done, Gu Zheng placed the marinated immortal bear meat on the chopping board. Then, he sprinkled the seasoning powder on the immortal bear meat and repeatedly kneaded the immortal bear meat until the seasoning powder was almost completely absorbed into the meat.
The processing of the ingredients could be considered complete. The next step was to roast it.
The bear meat dripped oil on the charcoal fire, and the air was filled with the enticing smell of roasted meat. Even though Gu Zheng used the Rotten Immortal Water as roasting oil and brushed the immortal bear meat over and over again, the smell was still very pleasant.
After about ten minutes, the roasting of the immortal bear was completed. When Gu Zheng brought it to Huang Qi and the others, even though they knew that it was highly toxic, they could not help but crazily swallow their saliva.
"Fellow Daoist Bai, I have also visited the Immortal Kitchen before. Your culinary skills are really beyond my imagination. After the matter of the treasure is over, you must make a delicious meal for me!" Fang Xing pleaded.
"No problem. We can talk about this after the matter of the treasure is over," Gu Zheng said with a smile.
Carrying the immortal bear meat, Gu Zheng threw it down from the sky.
The location of the immortal bear meat was not in the open space outside the Wormhole, but far enough away from the Wormhole. Gu Zheng did not want the ancient giant worm to eat the immortal bear meat. If it was poisoned in the Wormhole, it would destroy the teleportation array that would allow them to return to the treasure trove. Then, all the gains would not make up for the losses.
Although the distance was very far, the roasted immortal bear meat that Gu Zheng had made extremely fragrant had still attracted the ancient giant worm.
When the ancient giant worm rushed out of the Wormhole, its saliva was like a waterfall, crazily gushing out from its mouth.
There was still some distance before the roasted immortal bear meat, but the ancient giant worm could not wait any longer. A huge tongue shot out from its mouth, hitting the roasted immortal bear meat on the ground. After that, it swallowed the roasted immortal bear meat, causing another round of saliva to gush out.
The immortal bear was originally not fully grown. Even if it was ten feet long, for the ancient giant worm, it was still not enough to fill the gaps between its teeth.
The ancient giant worm, who was still unsatisfied, circled around the area before returning to the Wormhole.
"Fellow Daoist Bai, according to reason, the medicine should have taken effect, right?" Fang Xing could not help but ask.
"It's too far away, I can't see what's going on inside its body."
Gu Zheng paused, then continued, "But you don't have to worry. Even if the medicine takes longer than expected to take effect, the effect won't be too different. I'll go down now to see what's going on. If I tell you to do it, then do it. "
"Fellow Daoist Bai, be careful!"
Huang Qi and Yang Jue could not help but warn as they watched Gu Zheng rush down.
After Gu Zheng flew to a certain distance, the ancient giant worm immediately sensed him. It was about to return to the Wormhole, but it immediately raised its head. Even its tail was coiled up, and it assumed a battle stance.
However, just as the ancient giant worm assumed its battle stance, its body trembled.
"Snore!"
The ancient giant worm roared, but its voice sounded a little hoarse.
"This is great. I wanted to see what the medicine was all about, but I didn't expect it to take effect now."
Gu Zheng, who was about to fly down, stopped. Since the ancient giant worm's poison had taken effect, he would just watch its performance.
"Snore!"
The ancient giant worm roared again, but its voice sounded even hoarser than before. Its huge body rolled back and forth on the ground, flattening out a large area of the ground.
The poison continued to take effect, and rolling could not offset the pain very well. The ancient giant worm bounced back and forth on the ground like an earthworm, creating many deep holes in the originally flat ground.
After about three minutes, the ancient giant worm stopped moving.
Gu Zheng knew that although the roasted immortal bear meat was poisonous, it was impossible for it to poison the ancient giant worm to death.
"Whoosh!"
A black saber-light descended from the sky. The immobile ancient giant worm suddenly raised its head and blew a gust of wind at the saber-light. The saber-light disappeared immediately. At the same time, the ancient giant worm's eight pairs of compound eyes shot out sixteen rays of yellow light into the sky.
Faced with the incoming rays, Gu Zheng immediately flew into the sky and dodged all sixteen rays of light.
Gu Zheng did not really want to fight the ancient giant worm. Now was not the time to fight it head-on. Hence, he controlled his flying height to the edge of the ancient giant worm's attack range. This way, the angry ancient giant worm would continue to attack him, and he would be able to quickly move to the edge of the area to neutralize the attacks.
The yellow rays of light were spectacular. They flew continuously into the void, and Gu Zheng moved to the edge of the area, causing the ancient giant worm to chase after him angrily.
Gu Zheng was kiting the ancient giant worm, draining its energy and not giving it time to slowly release the poison of the roasted immortal bear meat.
However, the ancient giant worm was not so stupid. It did not chase Gu Zheng for long before giving up. It continued to lie on the ground, motionless.
The reality was not too different from Gu Zheng's calculations. Although the ancient giant worm was still some distance away from the immortal trap, Gu Zheng believed that if he teased it one more time, the ancient giant worm would be enraged and chase him into the immortal trap.
"Lazy worm, wake up!"
Gu Zheng shouted at the ancient giant worm. The Natal Trueearth in his body vibrated, and a huge earth dragon was born from the ancient giant worm's body, sending it flying.
"Earth Dragon Technique!"
Fang Xing and the others, who were watching from afar, could not help but exclaim.
Under normal circumstances, it was already very good for a cultivator to have Natal Truefire and Natal Truewater.
Out of a hundred Jin Xian Realm cultivators, there might not even be one who could refine Natal Trueearth and Natal Truewood. At most, they would know some earth or wood elemental immortal techniques. Gu Zheng had only learned about the rarity and preciousness of the elixirs he had obtained on earth when he first came to the primeval times.
As for the Natal Truegold, cultivators who could refine it were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
The shock that the Earth Dragon Technique brought to Fang Xing and the others only lasted for a moment. When the ancient giant worm was sent flying by the earth dragon, the tip of its scorpion tail suddenly opened and shot out a beam of golden light.
The earth dragon touched by the golden light was instantly disintegrated, as if it had been hit by a spirit clone.
The ancient giant worm was truly enraged. It looked up at Gu Zheng in the air. Although it could no longer roar, its tongue shot towards Gu Zheng like lightning.
Gu Zheng was hundreds of meters above the ground, but the ancient giant worm's tongue was so long that it reached Gu Zheng in an instant.
"Slash!"
Gu Zheng swung Tang Mo and slashed at the ancient giant worm's tongue.
There was no sound. Even though Tang Mo was a top-grade immortal weapon, its blade only left a negligible cut on the ancient giant worm's tongue.
Knowing that the ancient giant worm's tongue was one of its greatest killing weapons, Gu Zheng naturally wouldn't tangle with it. Injuring it would only make the ancient giant worm angrier.
"Isn't your tongue very long? Go after it! "
A thought passed through Gu Zheng's mind as he increased the altitude of his flight. The ancient giant worm's tongue was ultimately limited. Against such a swift opponent who did not want to tangle with it, it did not have any good ideas.
As soon as the ancient giant worm retracted its tongue, Gu Zheng lowered his altitude again. Just as Gu Zheng was about to use the 'Earth Dragon Spell' again, the ancient giant worm's tail suddenly curled up again, and a face that looked very much like a human's appeared on it!
The 'face' on the ancient giant worm's tail widened its eyes and opened its mouth wide. Gu Zheng suddenly felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him.
At the same time, a yellow smoke spewed out of the 'face''s mouth, rolling towards Gu Zheng at a speed faster than its tongue.
From the red-haired old man's memories, Gu Zheng knew that the ancient giant worm had two killing moves. The one it was using now was one of its killing moves.
Gu Zheng had always been very cautious. Even when he was teasing the ancient giant worm, he was always at the edge of its attack range. Therefore, even though the ancient giant worm's killing move was very powerful, Gu Zheng still managed to break free from the ancient giant worm's spatial restraint before the yellow smoke could reach him, and flew higher into the sky.
Although Gu Zheng had broken free from the ancient giant worm's spatial restraint, the yellow smoke that was faster than the tongue was now even closer to him.
In the red-haired old man's memories, he once had a 'refined corpse substitute'. During one of his battles with the ancient giant worm, his' refined corpse substitute 'was engulfed by the ancient giant worm's yellow smoke and turned into a pile of bones in an instant. The red-haired old man's' refined corpse substitute 'had a body that was far stronger than Jin Xian's later stage Immortal Cultivators.
Seeing that the yellow smoke was about to reach him, Gu Zheng, who had the red-haired old man's memories, knew that it would be extremely difficult for him to escape from this deadly tracking fog if he did not use any of his trump cards.
Therefore, Gu Zheng disappeared into thin air and entered the Chaos Space.
The terrifying yellow smoke kept circling around the place where Gu Zheng had disappeared. After a full five minutes, it finally disappeared.
After coming out of the Chaos Space, Gu Zheng immediately used the 'Earth Dragon Spell' to knock the ancient giant worm away.
The ancient giant worm was unprecedentedly furious. The eight pairs of compound eyes on its head were shooting out beams of light recklessly, not caring if it could hit Gu Zheng.
Gu Zheng knew that the ancient giant worm was already weak, but it still had a killer move that it had not used. This killer move was even more dangerous than the yellow smoke from before. The ancient giant worm also valued it more and would not use it easily.
In the many battles between the red-haired old man and the ancient giant worm, he had narrowly escaped death and forced the ancient giant worm to use its last killer move. Therefore, he knew that even if the ancient giant worm was at its peak, its strength would be reduced by at least sixty percent as long as it used this killer move!
Unfortunately, when the red-haired old man forced the ancient giant worm to use its last killer move, he was also heavily injured. Other than running for his life, there was no other way to get rid of the ancient giant worm.
Facing the difficult ancient giant worm, Gu Zheng did not panic. However, Fang Xing and the other two who were waiting were already anxious. With Fang Xing as their representative, they sent messages to Gu Zheng.
"Fellow Cultivator Bai, how is it? Do you want us to go over? I feel that this ancient giant worm is already at the end of its tether! "
"The situation is not bad. It's just that the ancient giant worm has not used its strongest killer move yet. It's not a suitable time for you to come over. Otherwise, you won't be able to withstand its killer move! Forget it, I'd better lure it into the Immortal-Trapping Formation first! "
Gu Zheng did not want to keep Fang Xing and the others waiting. He led the ancient giant worm to the place where the Immortal-Trapping Formation was set up.
"Right now, the ancient giant worm's strength is equivalent to sixty percent of its peak strength. If you put it into the Immortal-Trapping Formation with such strength, you have to be careful that the Immortal-Trapping Formation can't trap it and cause serious damage to the formation artifact," the artifact spirit warned.
"Of course, I know. But I can't wait any longer!"
Gu Zheng had seen the ancient giant worm with his Dao Eye. Therefore, he knew that the poison in the ancient giant worm's body was in the process of dissipating. Due to the fact that the ancient giant worm had not used its killer move yet, he did not dare to fight with all his might. At this time, other than using the Immortal-Trapping Formation to wear it down, there was no better way. Otherwise, just relying on the attacks of the Earth Dragons, which were like scratches, would not be able to keep up with the ancient giant worm's recovery speed!
The ancient giant worm had already reached the place where the Immortal-Trapping Formation was. Gu Zheng made a hand seal, and the originally huge ancient giant worm disappeared into thin air.
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